User:Joshmaul/Ceraxia Bloodwake
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This article is a player character biography page for Ceraxia of Sisters of Elune US created by Joshmaul. The contents herein are entirely player made and in no way represent official World of Warcraft history or occurrences which are accurate for all realms. The characters and events listed are of an independent nature and applied for roleplaying, fictional, speculative, or opinions from a limited playerbase only. |
“Loyalty, treason, honor, dishonor - these are concepts that change with the flip of a coin, Zulimbasha. If everyone we've ever run into was inherently decent at heart, we would not have so many lunatics constantly trying to kill us. But then, life would just be boring, wouldn't it?”
- — Baroness Ceraxia Bloodwake, to Zulimbasha the Collector
 Ceraxia Bloodwake | |
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| Title | Baroness, Magistrix |
| Gender | Female |
| Race | Blood elf (Humanoid) |
| Level | 60 |
| Class | Mage |
| Affiliation(s) |
The Horde Kingdom of Quel'Thalas The Reliquary Deathsworn Heralds Dragonscale Expedition |
| Former affiliation(s) |
The Scryers The Honorbound Necrolord Covenant |
| Occupation | Magistrix of Quel'Thalas |
| Location | Valdrakken, Thaldraszus |
| Status | Alive |
| Alignment | Neutral good |
Baroness Ceraxia Bloodwake is a powerful pyromancer and magistrix of Quel'Thalas, and the last surviving member of her bloodline.
Biography
Born some three centuries prior to the opening of the Dark Portal, Ceraxia was the heir to House Bloodwake, a noble family that had been among the first houses to sit on the Council of Silvermoon; like most of Quel'Thalas' aristocracy, the Bloodwakes tended to be mages, and Ceraxia was a particularly reckless one - a dangerous thing to be, given that (like most of her bloodline) she favored fire magics. When Silvermoon fell to the Scourge, Ceraxia was in Dalaran, being "trained properly" (which she considered an insult, given that her "teacher" was human); by the time Dalaran was attacked, Ceraxia had left with Kael'thas' resistance forces to rejoin what remained of the Alliance in Lordaeron. The pangs of magical withdrawal caused by the loss of the Sunwell, combined with the conditions in which they operated in the Plaguelands and the sneering racism of "Grand Marshal" Garithos, would lead Ceraxia to a place that would change her life forever: Outland.
Seeing the former orcish homeworld opened up to the Nether led Ceraxia to "experiment" with power sources to fuel her spells, particularly with fel crystals; her blue eyes turned a deep green as a result. It was no surprise to her that the fel became one of the power sources that were sent back to the survivors in Silvermoon, ordered by Kael'thas to rebuild their shattered land. Despite her interest in this new world she found herself on, Ceraxia was drawn back to her homeland, and returned with Kael'thas' emissaries to Silvermoon. There, she joined the fight against the Scourge forces in Quel'Thalas alongside the Forsaken, with whom she developed a surprisingly friendly connection.
After the home front was secured with the fall of Deatholme, Ceraxia followed the pilgrims back to Outland, where she discovered that Kael'thas had gone mad and turned to the Legion. Enraged, Ceraxia joined the Scryers - other elven magisters who had left Kael's service after his treachery was revealed - and fought against those of her people who had sided with the traitor prince. She would remain there for years, even after Kael'thas himself was long dead. When she returned to her home city after years spent in the broken world, much had changed. The Lich King had fallen, the Cataclysm had devastated much of Azeroth, and the Legion had returned in force. Despite her reticence about answering to humans again, Ceraxia returned to Dalaran, where she joined the Tirisgarde throughout the campaign, right up to its conclusion on Argus.
Ceraxia was horrified by the burning of Teldrassil. Demanding answers from her Forsaken allies, most shrugged carelessly, but two - the warrior Baron Kieran Devaneaux and Euphrati Velade, trained by the pandaren monks - swore to her that not all Forsaken followed the Dark Lady blindly. She travelled to Zandalar, where she encountered the death-priest Zulimbasha the Collector, and fought alongside Horde forces (including Saurfang's resistance against Sylvanas) throughout the Fourth War. After Sylvanas fled from Orgrimmar, the battlefield once again shifted away from Azeroth... to the Shadowlands, the fabled lands of the dead. Her curiosity piqued, Ceraxia travelled to Oribos to discover what awaited beyond the veil. She found herself drawn to the principles of strength espoused by the Necrolords of Maldraxxus, a surprising choice for a living blood elf given their similarity in appearance to the Scourge - and the Forsaken, up to a point - and her people's history with them.
After the fall of the Jailer, Ceraxia returned again to Azeroth, where an expedition was prepared to the Dragon Isles - the mythical homeland of the dragonflights. She elected to wait for word from the home front before she committed to the conflict, admitting to a sense of "battle fatigue" after the war in the Shadowlands. After a period, however, she ventured aboard a Horde gunship to the Waking Shore, where she was approached by Zulimbasha in company of a blue dragon named Rianagosa. Ceraxia had seen the dragon in Dalaran many times before, in the company of the Archmage Eregesh Silvergale, who later revealed himself to be Rianagosa's uncle, Esheregos. The Collector explained what the dragons had shown him and asked for her aid, offering her a place among his "Heralds of the Other Side". Without hesitation, Ceraxia agreed.
