Janis

Personality
Janis Belfaust was raised to have a lust for battle and trained daily in order to mold him into the perfect warrior alongside his brother. Janis was always found to be the better fighter in competition with his brother, and couldn't help but play into the praise his father would shower upon him at the end of the day.

During his time with the Clerics of Northshire, Janis studied feverishly the ways of the Holy Light. He didn't want to undo years of training in combat from his father, but he needed to relearn a lot of things to fit with his new perception.

Janis would leave the order when his new beliefs didn't quite gel with the priests and paladins of Northshire. His goal was to develop a method of non-violent resistance to any conflict, leaving violence as an absolute last resort to be used. His pressence is so gentle and quiet, that while meditating in the hills of Northshire he attracted many animals who came to rest by his calming side.

While he's had little interaction with intelligent life after choosing a life of poverty and peace in Northshire, those who have met him have found themselves incredibly relaxed and comfortable around the accomodating man. While it's too bold to claim he has completely changed anyone's opinions to match his own perfectly, more than a few have left his side with a knew outlook on life.

Janis is incredibly kind and generous, taking no reward and turning over material goods he doesn't need to those who could use it. Despite his peaceful attitude, he will immediately turn to violence in order to defend someone in need, if only to immobilize the attacker and prevent them from causing further harm. The peaceful monk is also a big fan of jokes and pranks, finding laughter to be the most powerful source of "Chi."

Early Years
Janis was born into the Belfaust family four years before his brother Koval was. The family resided in the kingdom of Gilneas where the men of the family trained daily on the art of combat so they could become better warriors and fight in many great battles. Janis was always found to be the stronger of the two brothers and received praise from his father daily on it, typically leading to his brother finding neglect from his father. Despite Janis being aware of his brother's hurt, he couldn't help but give into the competitive nature influenced by their father's constant training and rewards for the clear "victor."

As Janis grew, he was very popular with the women of Gilneas, never finding it difficult to court any woman of his choosing. No relationship was very consistent, purely flings. He also excelled in his studies, which, while always taking a back seat to his training in the ways of a warrior, his father found more reason to praise his son for. At the age of 24, war had come to Azeroth, and Janis was ready to fight. He was wrong.

First War
While Janis fought bravely during the First War, he could barely handle the constant gore and violence surronding him. The factor that kept him going was the sight of the Clerics of Northshire, who wielded the powerful Holy Light in order to keep the fellow soldiers healed. Still, Janis was devoted to his family, and couldn't bring himself to disapoint his father by stating he wanted to become a priest. While Tyron respected other methods of combat, he believed anyone other than the warriors like himself were inheritly weak. It was his belief that the other classes relied too much on an external power in order to fight, be it magic, the Light, etc., and that if one could remove that source of external power, then the person woudl have no strength.

However, during the closing days of the war, Tyron fell in battle. While this affected Koval by motivating him to become a better warrior, this pushed Janis to accept a new perspective, that violence was far too destructive, and should not be practiced - at least not in the way he had been learning to fight. So, when he felt the time was right, he left his family and Gilneas to join the Clerics of Northshire and learn how to help people rather than fight them.

Clerics of Northshire
Janis was readily welcomed into the order, and immediatly he began his training on becoming a priest. While Janis believed deeply in the healing power of the Holy Light, he did not agree with the methods of using it to inflict pain on enemies. He found this to be a perversion of the existance of the Light and struggled with this fact daily. Eventually, he came to the conclusion that the Light was just another power that could too easily be exploited for violence and personal gain, and that he would need to find a source of power within himself - entirely his own so only he could use it in the way he deemed right.

So, though thankful for their help, Janis excused himself from the order and left to live in solitude in the hills of Northshire.

Finding the Path of Self
Janis believed that the only way to find a source of power that would be derived from within himself, he had to live completely alone, avoid any interaction with people, and become completely self reliant. This would become the first tenant of his new creed, and the first stepping stone on the way towards his own enlightenment.

While living in the hills of Northshire, he taught himself how to farm, and created a suitable home within a cave behind a waterfall. He kept his provisions simple and few, trying to avoid anything unnecessary to his survival as he believed now that the material pleasures of the world were just another external, corrupting, force and he had to remain pure in order to complete his goal.

For years he would mediate, either by sitting under the waterfall and enduring the cold, cleansing, water or through a manipulation of the warrior forms he had learned from his father. He had turned a means of violence into a means of meditation. Janis managed to keep himself hidden from the rest of the world and its horrors, but animals did manage to find him, and found his new home a relaxing sanctuary. Creatures from squirrels to bears came to his place of rest to rest themselves.

Eventually he discovered the power he was seeking for decades: Chi. A power that coursed through him and through all living things, even plants. It was, to him, a connecting force that penetrated all things and connected everything. It could be he merely rediscovered the Light within himself, or the magical properties that flowed from the ley lines of the world and into all things, but Janis believed he had discovered the hidden strength that drives all life.

Janis, the Monk
Having completed his task, he deemed himself worthy of returning to the civilized world to see the state it was in. While he remained in his secluded cave in Northshire, he no longer feared interaction with other people and soon found himself the host to several visitors.

Some came for personal gain, to steal from him, and he put up no resistance so long as they did not bring violence. Bandits soon learned of his pacifist ways and frequented his home to steal crops. Eventually they got tired of him and turned to their bloodlust to get one last thrill out of the old man. He would dispatch them with ease, disabling each by exploiting their weakpoints and exploiting the Chi that ran through them as well. Those that did not die fled and never returned, and those he sadly vanquished were given a proper burial.

There were those who brought peace with them when they stumbled upon the lone monk. Most needed only a place to rest for the night, or sanctuary from chasing bandits (who would quickly give up the chase when they saw where their targets had stumbled into). A few became intrigued by Janis's way of life and asked to stay with him and learn his ways. Soon Janis began to teach several people his method of strength through the power of Chi and non-violence. He stressed that the only way to grow was to avoid violence at all cost, as the act of violence itself used up one's own Chi, but it was possible through meditation to regain that power - over time.

The Monk Class
((Here I'l describe Janis's class. I understand this may cause some people to look down their noses at me, to create a class for WoW, and a power source as well. This is just a fun little idea I had based on the idea that priests were originally going to be a cloth wearing melee class. If you have any suggestions, please leave them on the Talk page. :D ))