User:Joshmaul/Mariel Surrette
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“I did warn you, back during the war… there is such a thing as taking too much joy in your work.”
- — Mariel Surrette, to her twin brother Jonathan
 Mariel Surrette | |
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| Gender | Female |
| Race | Forsaken (Undead) |
| Level | 70 |
| Class | Dark ranger |
| Affiliation(s) |
The Horde (ostensibly) The Forsaken The Eightfold Path |
| Former affiliation(s) | Venthyr Covenant |
| Occupation | Huntress, pure and simple |
| Location | Forever on the hunt |
| Status | Alive |
| Relative(s) | Jonathan (younger twin brother, deceased?), Adesse (cousin) |
| Companion(s) | Talos (hunting shadehound), Samus (riding shadehound), Ultio (riding dragonhawk) |
| Alignment | Chaotic evil |
Mariel Surrette is a Forsaken dark ranger and former loyalist of Sylvanas Windrunner, who seeks to maintain a place in the new "banshee-free" regime.
Biography
Mariel Surrette was in an area heavily affected by the Scourge - the forests of Silverpine - when Lordaeron fell. Her death was, even for the time, rather gruesome, the skin on her face nearly carved completely off, requiring "fancy stitching" when she was brought back. She had been an expert archer in life, and death had not dimmed the lethality of her skill - indeed, she felt, it had been enhanced, and she became one of the Forsaken's dark rangers when they were freed from the Scourge. Even so, she knew she had much to learn, and when Quel'Thalas aligned with the Horde, she was one of those who travelled to Tranquillien to support the blood elves, where she worked with the Farstriders. That path eventually took her first to Outland with them, and then to Northrend with the Hand of Vengeance, fighting primarily against the Scourge, but also against the blue dragonflight and the corrupted forces of Yogg-Saron.
During the Cataclysm, Mariel was deployed to Gilneas to fight against the worgen, and remained both there and in Silverpine fighting the "Gilnean Liberation Front". It was around this period that she learned that her twin brother Jonathan, who had survived the Scourge while living in Southshore, had joined the Alliance militia to attempt to reclaim Andorhal, only to die and be resurrected by Sylvanas' val'kyr. She had nothing but contempt for her sibling, who she thought to be a coward, and that feeling intensified during the Fourth War, when he also turned out to be a bully and a reckless butcher. Mariel was a patient hunter, preferring cold efficiency to indiscriminate slaughter. She warned Jonathan that there was such a thing as taking too much joy in one's work.
Sylvanas' abandonment of the Horde and the opening of the Shadowlands was a revelation for Mariel, who realized that her Dark Lady was becoming the same kind of monster they had fought against. Though she did not regret remaining loyal when Saurfang led his rebellion, she recognized that the Jailer was not a power she wanted to see take hold on Azeroth. Despite this, she adopted the attire of the Mawsworn during her time in the Shadowlands, wearing armor crafted of shadowghast, and carrying a crossbow she had taken from a dead Mawsworn soldier. She was even able to bend shadehounds and other Maw-infused creatures to her will, revelling in the irony of using them against the enemy. This very nearly caused problems when she arrived in Zereth Mortis for the endgame, but the Enlightened (luckily for her) chose not to destroy her.
Following the Jailer's demise, Mariel returned to Tirisfal, aiding in the reclamation of the plague-ravaged woods. She made clear that she did not support or oppose the new Desolate Council, but chose to accept the reality; after all, she was still Forsaken, and she would stand with her people. She travelled to the Dragon Isles in search of a new challenge, and received a surprising offer of patronage - surprising in that the patron in question was an eredar, a powerful warlock named Kalimos. He had been resurrected by the efforts of a cult known as the Eightfold Path, which believed that conflict and chaos were the natural state of existence, and that peace was an artificial construct, the work of arrogant minds seeking to control things. Mariel was intrigued by this idea, often feeling antsy during peacetime anyway.
There was another reason for Kalimos' offer. The Path's leader, Lord Aldos Relsyn, had become increasingly frustrated with Jonathan, who had been a member of the Path under its previous leader, the orc warlock Urgan the Corruptor; his penchant for slaughter threatened the Path's work, and had resulted in their being banished from the Dragon Isles, cutting them off from the Titan and draconic artifacts yet to be discovered. Mariel introduced herself to the Path by putting a crossbow quarrel through Jonathan's chest, pinning him to the wall, and taking his shadowghast bow - a weapon crafted in the image of Sylvanas' own Maw-infused weapon. When Kalimos asked what she wanted done with him, she was dismissive - leaving her ne'er-do-well brother in the hands of a sadistic Kul Tiran Tidesage...
