Kyalin Raintree

Kyalin Raintree
''"Only the guilty need fear me." -Warden (Warcraft III, The Frozen Throne'')

Kyalin often appears as a gangly, masked night elf whose intentions are never quite clear. She has been mistaken for a thief, an assassin, a spy, and worse in recent years, possibly due to her partiality to dark purples and blacks and her preference for keeping her face obscured, or potentially due to her gangly figure, and a typical posture that isn't all that dissimilar from that of a forsaken. In truth, she is a Warden, and had guarded prisoners and their occupants for thousands of years before the hunt for Illidan began.

On her way to answer Warden Shadowsong's call, Raintree and her watchers were intercepted by a group of creatures calling themselves Naga, and purporting to serve Lord Illidan. Refusing to turn back, Kyalin and her watchers would kill the vile monsters, but not before a myrmidion's spear would impale the warden through the stomach. She had nearly succumbed to her newfound mortality's embrace, a fact that her family often reminded her of during the nearly five years she spent waiting for the injury to permit her return to duty.

While many have said that the injury, by averting her from the same path that had doomed the others that had answered Maiev's call, had saved Kyalin's life, there is no doubt that it had forever changed her life as well. Other watchers refer to her as "The Broken Arrow", and many question whether or not she can still perform her duties with her lingering impairment. Kyalin doesn't share that belief, and insists that her committment to justice has never waned. In the current conflict with the Horde, Alliance commanders have used her for espionage and assassination. She has often exceeded their requests, not only identifying problems, but resolving them, and not only removing key targets from the field of battle, but bringing them back as prisoners for eager interrogators. Kyalin has also been known to attempt to enforce law wherever she believes the Kal'dorei have a stake, employing the paradigm liberally.

The warden's primary enemies include the Horde, the Twilight's Hammer, the Burning Legion and every criminal organization she comes in contact with.