User:Joshmaul/Magra
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"What I do is simple: I kill for the living, and kill for the dead. Which is not to say I become a raging lunatic, a berserker seeking death. No. There must be a reason that blood is shed beyond simply 'feeling like it'. This whole damn war is nothing more than both sides 'feeling like it', and I'm tired of it. When we fought the Scourge and the Legion, it made sense. This does not."
- - Magra to Zulimbasha, during the Fourth War
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| Title | <The Bladesworn> |
| Gender | Female |
| Race | Orc (Humanoid) |
| Level | 60 |
| Class | Shaman |
| Affiliation(s) |
The Horde Bleeding Hollow Clan Argent Crusade Heralds of de Other Side |
| Occupation | Bladesworn to the Collector |
| Location | Alternates between Orgrimmar and Zandalar |
| Status | Alive |
| Relative(s) | Kalnor (father, deceased) |
| Companion(s) | Zulimbasha the Collector |
| Alignment | Chaotic good |
Magra is a battle-hardened orc war veteran who is pledged to Zulimbasha the Collector, high priest of Bwonsamdi.
Biography
Though born to the Bleeding Hollow clan on Draenor, Magra's father, Kalnor, was a restless soul who felt confined by what he called the "superstitious dreck" of his home clan. When his daughter was old enough to travel, he left their village and lived off the land in Terokkar Forest, raising her alone in that environment, as his mate had died in the birthing. Kalnor had been a shaman, and he had seen images of doom for both his clan and their people as a whole, and wanted his family to have no part in it. When she grew up, however, Magra grew discontented with the hermit's life her father had chosen and expressed her wish to return to the clan. To her surprise, Kalnor agreed to let her go, giving her his old traveler's cloak as a parting gift, and speaking of a vision he had had of her fate: A realm of ice in a faraway land, and fighting under the banner of a hand emblazoned on the face of the sun.
Magra rejoined the Bleeding Hollow during the rise of the old Horde, the massacre of the draenei, and the eventual march to Azeroth. Like the rest of her clan, she had partaken of the "Cup of Unity" on the Throne of Kil'jaeden in Hellfire Peninsula. It would not be until more than a decade later that she would realize just what kind of price she and her people had paid. She was among those who followed Blackhand in the conquest of Stormwind, but as her doubts about her people's cause began to grow amidst the demon-haze in her mind, she gravitated to the leadership of Orgrim Doomhammer. During the Second War, her clan was charged by Doomhammer to conquer the dwarven homeland of Khaz Modan, resulting in their being embroiled in the siege of Ironforge.
After the siege failed and the Bleeding Hollow were forced to retreat, Chieftain Kilrogg took most of the survivors back through the Portal before it was sealed by the Alliance. Magra was not among them, ending up held in an internment camp near Durnholde when the Horde was defeated. There she would remain for more than a decade, falling into the listlessness that plagued the orcs in captivity - withdrawal from the powers granted by the demonic blood-curse. She remembers this period as "living like a pig in slop and being happy with our lot". She had plenty of time during that period to recall all that had gone on, both on Draenor and on Azeroth - the massacre of the draenei, the sacking of Stormwind, the bloody siege - and wondering if she would ever live to see the realm of ice or the sigil that her father had prophecied... and then one day, liberation came.
Thrall, son of Durotan, had been named Doomhammer's successor, carrying his legendary weapon into battle, and wielding powers that Magra had not seen in decades - powers of the elements, powers her father had once wielded. It was then that she realized why her father had gone into the wilderness in the first place: He had seen that their people would forget the old ways, and fall into corruption. It made her wonder if that meant he had seen their potential redemption as well. Magra willingly followed Thrall as he freed their people, then led them across the sea to a new land called Kalimdor, where they could settle and rebuild their lives after all these years of following warlocks and madmen. She felt her soul lighten as Grom Hellscream's sacrifice ended Mannoroth's curse, gladly raised her blade to fight the Legion at Mount Hyjal, and fought to protect their new capital of Orgrimmar from the vengeful Admiral Daelin Proudmoore.
While she made it a point to avoid the territory of the Forsaken (having an aversion to undead), Magra returned to Lordaeron - now the Plaguelands - to help fight the Scourge there, joining the Argent Dawn at Light's Hope Chapel. Sometime later, the Dark Portal reopened, and she returned to her homeworld (which she refuses to call "Outland") for the first time in more than twenty years - in the company of a band of blood elf pilgrims she had met while offering aid to Quel'Thalas, to see what kind of allies that their former adversaries would be.
Upon her arrival, she made it a point to set out for Terokkar to find her father, if he still lived. She found his hovel hidden in the woods near Veil Shienor, and found him there, old, sick and blind. Kalnor looked up at her with his milky eyes and said, "I have been expecting you." He then died on the spot. Collapsing the rickety wooden structure atop his body, she set it ablaze as his funeral pyre, hoping his spirit would join the others in Oshu'gun, if the ancestors willed it. As she discovered upon returning to Nagrand years later, they did. But it would take another major war, and the fulfillment of his vision, for her to realize it. For after the conflict ended, she returned to Azeroth to find the Argent Dawn had reformed, joined with the Knights of the Silver Hand to form the Argent Crusade... and their sigil was a hand on the face of the sun. Her father's prophecy had at last been fulfilled.
Magra set out with Garrosh Hellscream's expeditionary forces to the Borean Tundra, and later served in the Dragonblight, the Grizzly Hills, and - joining the Crusade forces - Icecrown itself, right up to the siege of the Lich King's citadel. In the period leading up to the Cataclysm, she returned to Lordaeron, where she worked with the Crusade to secure the Plaguelands from what remained of the Scourge forces there. She joined Vol'jin's rebellion against Garrosh (whom she saw as a madman no better than Blackhand) after the war in Pandaria, and ventured to the alternate Draenor to fight the Iron Horde. During the war against the Legion, she served with the Valarjar, but she was drawn more to the Highmountain, having heard tauren legends about their ancient chieftain, Huln Highmountain, who had fought the Legion in the War of the Ancients.
Witnessing the burning of Teldrassil from the border of Ashenvale, Magra was disgusted by the cruelty of Sylvanas (further cementing her distrust for the Forsaken), the butchery in Teldrassil reminding her too strongly of the sacking of Shattrath during the massacres of the draenei during the rise of the Horde. She thus refused to fight in Kul Tiras, focusing entirely on the efforts to support the Zandalari. She only fought against the Alliance when they invaded Zandalar, working alongside Zulimbasha, a priest of Bwonsamdi. She developed a bond based on mutual respect with the death-priest, one that remained when they ventured beyond the veil to fight in the Shadowlands.
Following the defeat of the Jailer, Magra pledged her blade to Zulimbasha's cause, becoming one of his "Heralds of the Other Side" during the expedition to the Dragon Isles. She hopes that whatever goodwill has previously united Alliance and Horde in common cause - from Mount Hyjal onward - will continue here, this time on a longer-term basis. It was during that expedition that word came of an extraordinary event - a Kosh'harg festival at Razor Hill outside Orgrimmar. It was there that she first met the chieftain of her old clan, Jorin Deadeye; not having gone to Nagrand during the return through the Dark Portal, she was unaware of his existence. Wary of both her old clan's reputation and of its current leader, the son of a chieftain she condemned as both blind and stupid, Magra was nonetheless drawn to the powerful emotional bond to the old tradition, seeing it performed on Azeroth for the first time - and indeed seeing it performed at all for the first time in nearly forty years. She ultimately decided to give her old clan another chance - and prayed she would not regret it...
