User:Joshmaul/Septimus Galedeep
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“What we think of as madness, I consider an acceptance of the truth. His beliefs have set him upon the Path. And once on it, we must always go forward.”
- — Urgan of the Black Harvest, to Executor Jonathan Surrette
 Septimus Galedeep | |
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| Title | <Madman of Brennadam> |
| Gender | Male |
| Race | Kul Tiran (Humanoid) |
| Level | 70 |
| Class | Tidesage |
| Affiliation(s) |
The Alliance Admiralty of Kul Tiras Cult of Forgotten Shadows The Eightfold Path |
| Former affiliation(s) |
Netherlight Conclave House Stormsong |
| Occupation | Mad Tidesage |
| Location | Brennadam, Stormsong Valley |
| Status | Alive |
| Alignment | Chaotic evil |
Brother Septimus Galedeep, known as the "Madman of Brennadam", is a Tidesage of Kul Tiras and veteran of the Second and Fourth Wars, driven to madness by the power of the void during the course of the latter. Following the conflict, he has come into the orbit of those who seek to use their powers to incite chaos - which he has come to believe is the world's natural state.
Biography
Born to a family of seafarers with long ties to House Stormsong, Septimus Galedeep is the first of his family to hear the Tidemother's call, or at least the first to successfully answer it. His first service as a Tidesage was aboard the warship Tidemother's Providence under Admiral Auguste Pellerin, which earned him his scars. He came to know the admiral well, as well as his daughter-in-law Eugenie and his granddaughter Elizabeth (both of whom he respected), the wife and daughter of Auguste's son Francis (whom he did not). After Auguste died, the hydrophobic Francis banished him from the Pellerin household, telling him that "nobody talks to water in this house". Francis' death not long after freed him from that restriction, and he served with Elizabeth during the Second War.
After Kul Tiras left the Alliance, Brother Galedeep returned to Stormsong Valley, spending much of his free time in the Shrine of the Storm until the arrival of the Burning Legion. He left to fight in the Broken Isles as part of the Netherlight Conclave, and is believed to have fell in with the Cult of Forgotten Shadows during that time. It was no surprise; whispers had begun to circulate before then that the priests of the Shrine had delved too deeply into dark powers and gone mad. By the Fourth War, this seemed to be confirmed, given the number of them who transformed into hideous k'thir.
Brother Galedeep was not among them; in fact, he was not even in the Shrine of the Storm when it fell. Though loyal to Lord Stormsong, he was spared the hideous fate of transformation - or being killed by the Alliance - by being in his hometown of Brennadam, killing Horde soldiers. It was something he had done with great gusto during the Second War, and was glad to do again. He fought all throughout the Fourth War in both Kul Tiras and Zandalar, as well as in Nazjatar and overseas against the Black Empire, embodying the spirit of "fighting fire with fire". He also became, in the words of now-Captain Elizabeth Pellerin, "a few cups short of a bottle"... to put it mildly. The dark rituals he had begun studying at the Shrine (and in earnest in the Netherlight Temple), plus the exposure to the dark powers of N'Zoth during the latter half of the conflict, had an unraveling effect on his mind.
Remaining in Kul Tiras during and after the Shadowlands war, Brother Galedeep's broken grip on sanity led him to believe that the concept of "peace" was a fool's errand, something that could never be attained - even in death, given the spread of undeath in the years since the Scourge wiped out Lordaeron. Most people in Brennadam, where he resided in the later years, thought him a rambling eccentric, his mind broken from the war. But the truth turned out to be far darker, and it did not take long for someone to reach out to him - an orc warlock, of all people. He admitted he had no love for the Horde himself despite being (ostensibly) part of it. He did not apologize for the actions he had taken, saying that "these things happen in war", but expressing the belief, much like the Tidesage himself, that there was no such thing as "peace". Fear, destruction, chaos - these were the natural state of mortal kind.
Despite the fact that he would have killed the man on the spot only a couple of years before, Brother Galedeep - his demeanor surprisingly quiet and attentive, said only two words: "Go on..."
