User:Joshmaul/Tekolin Wintershade
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“You could not see, little one... what good is eternal life in a world of ashes?”
- — Archdruid Tekolin Wintershade, mourning his granddaughter Amallyn
 Tekolin Wintershade | |
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| Gender | Male |
| Race | Night elf (Humanoid) |
| Level | 70 |
| Class | Druid of the Claw |
| Affiliation(s) |
The Alliance Cenarion Circle Deathsworn Heralds |
| Former affiliation(s) | Night Fae Covenant |
| Occupation | Cenarion archdruid |
| Location | Bel'ameth, Amirdrassil |
| Status | Active |
| Relative(s) | Lenera (wife, deceased), Aryn (daughter, deceased), Amallyn (granddaughter, deceased), Caradell (adoptive granddaughter) |
| Alignment | Neutral good |
Tekolin Wintershade is a veteran of the War of the Ancients and an elder druid of the Cenarion Circle.
Biography
Born in Kel'Theril in what is now Winterspring, Tekolin Wintershade's father was a warrior, and his mother was a priestess of Elune... but he answered an entirely different calling when he grew to adulthood, feeling the spirits of nature around him. He thus became a follower of Malfurion Stormrage, the first of the kaldorei druids. After surviving the War of the Ancients, Tekolin wed a priestess of Elune, Lenera, and had a daughter, Aryn. Aryn would also become a priestess, as would her daughter, Amallyn, both of whom would keep the Wintershade name to carry on the line. Both his wife and daughter would ultimately die in violent conflicts while he slept away the millennia in his barrow den; Lenera would fall to the qiraji in the War of the Shifting Sands nearly a thousand years before the opening of the Dark Portal. Some eight hundred years later, Tekolin and Aryn adopted a group of orphans whose parents had been lost to satyrs, among them a girl named Caradell. But tragedy would strike again, as Aryn and her charges were cut apart by fel-corrupted "red orcs" in Ashenvale during the Third War. Only Caradell remained, bitter with rage; she would later forsake Elune and embrace the ways of Illidan and his demon hunters.
Since being awakened from his barrow, Tekolin has remained active - for the world he returned to has changed dramatically. The Battle of Mount Hyjal was the first of many conflicts he would participate in upon his awakening, and even as Archimonde was obliterated by Nordrassil's power, he knew that it would not be the last. He went on to fight in Northrend against the Scourge, losing an eye to a corrupted furbolg in the Grizzly Hills (which he admitted was his own fault, believing he could somehow help the maddened creature); he explored Pandaria, helping fight off the corruption of the Sha; and he joined with the druids of the Dreamgrove against the Legion in the Broken Isles.
Following the burning of Teldrassil, Tekolin was disturbed by what he saw as a blind hatred developing among many of his people, including his granddaughter. His concerns were amplified when Tyrande embraced the power of the Night Warrior, said to be the embodiment of Elune's vengeance. Even more disturbing was the fact that many night elves, including his granddaughter, embraced the power willingly, their eyes darkening much like Tyrande's. He was aware that most who embodied the Night Warrior did not survive it, and considered it to be an act of sacrilege; the moon was meant to shine brightly as a beacon, not be shrouded in hateful darkness.
When the conflict took him to the Shadowlands, Tekolin sided with the night fae of Ardenweald; for him, there was never really an option, given the ties between the Winter Queen and Elune, as well as the fact that many of the spirits of both fallen Wild Gods and night elves alike made their way to this realm. His relief was great when Tyrande finally let go of the power of the Night Warrior, and received the gift of a new seed from the Winter Queen - a seed empowered by the souls of Teldrassil, saved from the depths of the Maw. Yet despite this victory, he soon became uneasy again. His granddaughter Amallyn and his adoptive granddaughter Caradell had both vanished after the war, and for years he had no idea of their whereabouts. When he finally found them, it shook him to his core.
Caradell had fallen in with a cult known as the "Eightfold Path", and had come to the aid of a resurrected eredar lord named Kalimos, who raided the Vault of the Wardens to liberate his servant, Savona. Tekolin dispatched two allies among the Wardens, the sisters Aleira and Itzara Ravensong, and the blood elf demon hunter Poquelin the Accursed to pursue the two eredar. The trail would follow the path of destruction left by the Primal Incarnate Fyrakk into the Emerald Dream itself, where to his horror, Tekolin found that Amallyn had been corrupted by the Druids of the Flame. As the battle went on around the new World Tree Amirdrassil - grown from the seed given to Tyrande by the Winter Queen - Tekolin and his allies found themselves hounded by both the Primalists and the Eightfold Path, the latter leading to the death of Warden Aleira. In a duel in the halls of the Wellspring itself, Tekolin was forced to kill his fallen granddaughter, lamenting that she had died chasing what he had freely given away at Mount Hyjal years before...
