Vi



Lieutenant Vi Arabel (in game, Vî, special character alt code 0238), her first name pronounced to rhyme with "she", is an officer of the Argent Dawn, formerly also of the Argent Crusade before her dishonorable discharge. She was given the nickname "Scourgebane" for her excellent work against the Lich King.

Biography
Vi was born and raised in Quel'thalas to two magistrate parents who had dreams of their only daughter following in their footsteps. It came as quite a disappointment to them when she took faster to a sword than she ever did to the arcane. She was quite a tomboy growing up, always roughhousing with the other children, in a perpetual state of trouble of some form, but remaining a sincere, nice child who was well-raised and intelligent.

When the Scourge tore through Silvermoon, she was the only member of her family to survive. In their memory, she took up the path of the paladin, swearing vengeance on the Lich King for what he had done to her family and country. She excelled quickly under the tutelage of the Blood Knights, but eventually saw them for what they really were: corrupt. She left them long before they captured M'uru and went to finish her training with the Argent Dawn in the Plaguelands. It was with them that she truly found her place. She fit in so well and became so adept at her work that she found herself rising quickly through the ranks, leading charges into Stratholme and assisting in the deaths of some of the most powerful Scourge leaders. Upon her promotion to Lieutenant, she was known as Scourgebane, and had acquired a respectable reputation.

Eventually she went out to work in Northrend, with the newly formed Argent Crusade. For several months, everything went well. Just as they were making the final press into Icecrown Citadel, Vi was captured and held as a prisoner of war. Seven long months passed, where she was viciously tortured for inside information to the Crusade, and for seven months, she held her tongue. But the torture did eventually break her down, and when her torturer promised death, death seemed a relief. She told them everything they wanted to know, and she was killed -- or so they thought.

They made attempts to raise her as a Death Knight, but failed. They assumed it was because some vestige of the Light persisted in her body after death, while in reality it was simply because she was not dead -- just in a deathlike coma. Her body was discarded, and eventually found by an Argent priest. She woke up from the coma several months later. She was then dishonorably discharged for her betrayal, left only with the mark of the Scourge branded into her skin, starting above her breast and stretching up to her left shoulder. The wound festers to this day, never heals, and is a constant source of physical pain for her.

Personality
Vi is generally kind and modest, and very demure. She is polite to most, though has very little patience for Blood Knights, and has since come to lose respect for most other Sin'dorei.

She is very much a battle-hardened warrior. While she is not violent, she does feel most at home when out on the fields, fighting.