Jenova Dusklyre

"I'm leaving love in the past, with all the shadows that it cast".

- Jenova Dusklyre

Jenova Dusklyre is a Blood Knight of Silvermoon City. Widowed and without child, she is a stoic, harsh woman who pursues her career with a single-minded comittment and great tenacity.



Born in Silvermoon, with a Silver Spoon
Jenova Dusklyre (née Emberhawk) was born into a wealthy and influential family of High Elven magisters. The sole child of Tarhiel and Enathrae Emberhawk, Jenova's parents placed high value on their daughter's incipient beauty and intended for her to be married into a house of similar stature to their own. Being the only child of such strict yet doting parents, Jenova felt the weight of her family's name and status from an early age; She suffered a crisis of gender identity in her youth, trying to live up to everything that was expected not only of a daughter, but of a son as well. She learned to care for the household, took up 'feminine' pursuits such as weaving from her mother and aunt, but also took great joy in rushing to the stables to care for horses, climbing up the tallest trees in nearby Eversong Woods, and learning to nock and shoot an arrow. Jenova discovered in herself a proclivity toward more 'tomboyish' interests and the pursuit of them came to dominate her waking thoughts. She eagerly sought out more militaristic activities, growing more and more restless with her mother and aunt's contrived hobbies. Jenova was envious of the women rangers who walked with pride and self-assuredness in the city squares. In her daydreams she walked amongst them, fighting in great wars to protect her home, her family, and her lands. She was unable to think of anything else.

Concerned for his daughter's boredom, Tarhiel immediately employed a Silvermoon ranger to give Jenova private tutelage on their estate. Though he spared no expense in providing her with a decorated and skilful tutor, Tarhiel simply sought to indulge what he believed to be ephemeral, chimerical desires that would not obstruct Jenova from an arranged marriage and future as a Magistrix.

Child's Play
Tarhiel employed Vettias Darklyre as his daughter's tutor in all things combative and tactical. A renowned Silvermoon Ranger, he intitially balked at the idea of becoming a paid-for servant to the offspring of wealthy nobility, but Tarhiel was implacable and countered every objection with an even greater offer of money. Eventually his persistence paid off; Unable to refuse such a large amount of money from an increasingly terse Magister, Vettias finally acquiesced.

The ranger wasn't the least bit interested in training anyone, let alone the daughter of a man who let his wealth intimidate people. He readily assumed Jenova to be a spoiled brat void of discipline and comittment. He was stunned to discover that she was the polar opposite of her father: sharp, quiet, and obedient. He immediately took it upon himself to develop Jenova's burgeoining independence and satisfy her need to distance herself intellectually and ideolgically from her parents. He inculcated her with a sense of duty to their homeland and the principles of the Farstriders, and never offered her platitudes or short cuts. Jenova grasped Vettias' techniques quickly and eagerly, often pushing him with many questions and insisting on further instruction.

Forbidden Love
Many years came to pass, and Jenova still retained her tutor. She would soon come of age, and though she could truly learn no more from Vettias, he has become her closest companion and the two were inseperable. While Vettias was several decades older than his young charge, he found himself at ease around her, almost quixotic and carefree. He began to see her in a different light; the young girl he taught to properly build a recurve bow was now a woman; beautiful and strong. Jenova too had developed feelings for Vettias, seeing him no longer as her teacher but as her true love. Intimate time together came under the guise of 'training' time, and Jenova's parents were none the wiser. Their secret, however, was not to be kept forever. Jenova had made her decision: her life was her own, and she had no place as a Magistrix, nor as her father's chattle to be married off as he saw fit.

As soon as she was old enough to enlist, she would become a Farstrider. And she would marry, also: but she would marry for love.

A Father's Condemnation
Jenova's parents did not take kindly to the news that their daughter would become a Ranger. When Jenova boldly announced that she had celebrated her coming-of-age by enlisting with the Farstriders, Tarhiel flew into a rage and threatened to confine her to the Estate until her 'hysterical notion' had left her. The final blow was delivered when Vettias came to break their other news: that he and Jenova were now wed and that they both desired for her to leave the Estate.

Tarhiel and Enathrae were inconsolable. For marrying beneath her stature, he denounced her actions as dishonorable and shameful. Jenova was banished from the family home and for her insolence, her father legally removed her from the family. Jenova would never speak to her mother or father ever again.

The Second War
Jenova and Vettias fought side by side for the first time when the Old Horde, flanked by scorned Amani trolls, attacked their homeland. Villages in Eversong Woods were burned and pilliaged before the Farstriders could cut down the encroaching invaders. The situation looked dire for the High Elves; it was only after the forces of Lordaeron belatedly sent in reinforcements that Silvermoon was spared. The end of the war saw the High Elves sever their ties to the rest of the Eastern Kingdoms, centering their energies on rebuilding and rendering Quel'thalas a sacrosanct kingdom. Jenova saw this as a consequence of a poorly concieved 'alliance' between the High Elves and the Humans, but her confidence in the army she had pledged to serve for life was also deeply shaken. The Farstriders had failed to protect the outlaying villages of Eversong Woods. Disullusioned and angry, Jenova threatened to withdraw her support from the Farstriders, but was persuaded to remain loyal by her husband. Vettias, in an effort to placate his wife, joked that should the ranger army fail to protect their homeland once more, he himself would start a new kingdom for Jenova to rule over. The joke was shared by them for many years and reiterated after every skirmish with encroaching Amani trolls. Despite her husband's reassurances, Jenova still harbored feelings of doubt about the ability of the High Elves to defend Quel'thalas. Often she wondered: was Silvermoon City really so inviolable?

Tragedy in the Third War
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This diminutive woman is lean, with very pale skin that bears very few marks or blemishes. Her cheekbones are set high on an angular face which displays no lines from smiles or laughter. Her hair is a dull platinum blonde, and eyes are a ruddy green-grey. She can easily be recognized by her deep, harsh voice and a permanently etched scowl on her face. She wears her Blood Knight's raiments with great pride; Her armor is always immaculately polished and only deep inspection reveals the notches and dents of battle.