User:Craelas

~Race: Draenei

~Age: 36 (240 in Human Years)

~Sex: Male

~Alignment: Unknown

~Class: Death Knight

~Appearance: Craelas is a tall Draenei with Blue Skin and glowing eyes. His skin is cold to the touch. Craelas generally wears plain clothes but does have armor in case of an emergency. Craelas is a nice man, but distant. He is always contemplative and very intuitive.

His parents were killed back on his homeplanet Argus. He was still a young child and he had no one else to go to but his grandfather Adone Dawnrunner. Adone was a famous Paladin in the area and good friends with the Exarch. Adone was the leader of a group of paladins known as The Noble Few. He taught Craelas everything he knew about being strong and pious.

Craelas was an exceptional student and learned very quickly under his grandfather's tutelage. He was soon very skilled in using the arts of the light, and joined the ranks of The Noble Few in just a few years. By the time Craelas was 20 in Draenei years the Draenei ship the Exodar had crashed into the planet Azeroth. His grandfather Adone had died in the crash and Craelas was all alone again. After the ship crashed Craelas went to the human capital Stormwind to learn more about the holy arts. There Craelas met a great paladin named Lord Grayson Shadowbreaker who taught him much about the light.

When Craelas was 22 he enlisted in the Stormwind Army in their battle against the Scourge. Craelas was out on a scouting mission when he was ambushed by a group of geists. He was soon taken to the foul lich Kel'Thezud who then brought the paladin to the Lich King to be transformed into a Death Knight.

Craelas lost all form of humanity under the grasp of the Lich King. He was transformed from a noble paladin into a deadly monster of destruction. Craelas was trained by the Lich King to torture and destroy all of those who would stand in his way and Craelas did just that. While he was under the dominion of the Lich King he began to forget who he was and what his purpose as a paladin was, the Lich King was too strong.

Craelas was on a quest one day to execute a prisoner of the Scourge. He walked into the prison room and approached his target: Valok the Righteous. He drew his sword to finish the mission, and then it hit him. He knew this Draenei from somewhere. Then the prisoner started talking to him, the man recognized him as well. Craelas knew Valok from his days on Argus and their training as a Paladin. Craelas was in a mess: On one hand he had to kill the target to save himself, yet he knew this man and he knew that he would not be able to live with himself if he carried this dark deed out. Then he heard his commander's call. He knew he had to finish the job, so he raised his sword and slew his old friend. As soon as he did this Craelas' heart split. Craelas had just killed one of his best friends from his former life. He was soon heart-broken that he considered ending his life right there, but that would not solve anything. Craleas went back outside to his Commander to report that the job was done and his Commander congratulated him on a job well done. Craelas knew he would have to change.

A few weeks later Craelas was put on a mission by the Lich King himself to battle against a chapel. Craelas had built up a powerful facade and almost forgotten about Valok. Craelas traveled with Highlord Darion Mograine to the Chapel. Once they arrived they summoned a powerful scourge army from the ground. The scourge laid waste to the temple, yet for some odd reason the defenders would not die. They in fact got stronger. When all of the sudden a bang was heard and a flash of light enveloped Craelas and all of the Scourge. When he opened his eyes Craelas saw a man. This man was Tirion Fordring, one of the strongest paladins in history. Craelas fell to his knees in the presence of such a great man, and suddenly remebered Valok and knew he would have to change right then and there.

Craelas realized after that that he had been tricked by the Lich King and was merely a pawn in luring out Tirion. Craelas was destroyed when he realized this and he vowed to never again serve the Scourge. He was now a Death Knight but he was his own man. Craelas was now empowered by his renewed faith and is determined to find out his new identity.