Evindath Sunchaser - Before the Twisting Nether

EVINDATH SUNCHASER

RACE:

Blood Elf

AFFILIATION:

Sunfury Elves

PLACE OF BIRTH:

Fairbreeze Village

CLASS:

Mage

Fire major

Frost minor

PROFESSIONS:

Herbalism

Alchemy (Master of Elixirs)

BIOGRAPHY

Evindath Sunchaser was born in Fairbreeze Village to a family of rangers with long ties to the Farstriders. Though Evindath found no love or talent for the rangers' ways, being raised amongst them gave him, in his youth, an abiding love for the forests of his homeland, and as he matured, this grew into a love of botany. Evindath studied under some of the foremost authorities on botany and soon became a reputed scholar in such circles himself.

Evindath traveled the breadth of the East with teams of other botanists to study the properties of plants across their continents, and he would later be credited with helping to discover the formulae for a number of useful potions and elixirs.

When the Second War arrived on the doorstep of Quel'Thalas, however, Evindath knew that scholarly pursuits were of little use to them. He enlisted to be trained as a magister and soon learned enough of the art to wield destructive magics against the Horde. Though their campaign was largely unsuccessful, Evindath dazzled many of his generals with his display of arcane ingenuity. After the war, many notable archmagi offered him full-time apprenticeships. Evindath respectfully declined, and returned instead to his botanical studies.

Evindath was studying abroad in Southshore during Arthas' quick but devastating invasion of Quel'Thalas, and Evindath eventually met up with Prince Kael's forces in Dalaran and joined the battle once again. Kael had founded a new study of magic in the fall of Quel'Thalas, a much more reckless but considerably more effective approach to magical study, practitioners of which were known as blood magi. When advised of Evindath's adeptness to magic during the Second War, Capernian placed him under the apprenticeship of Evindath's cousin, Tyoril Sunchaser, who had been one of Kael's first students. As the blood elves fought under Kael, he encountered and befriended the engineer Zandrathis Sheynathren. After working together, they fell in love.

Evindath's powers flourished under Tyoril's tutelage, but by the time Kael's forces crossed over to Outland, his training was still incomplete, and with Outland vast array of strange new plants to study, Evindath removed himself from Tyoril's mentorship, and returned to botany once again.

Zandrathis, in the meantime, had become cold and distant. Though this was in truth due to the magical withdrawal she felt, Evindath became convinced she was having an affair, and he broke things off with her.

After the blood elves claimed Tempest Keep, Evindath came to lead a number of different research teams in the Botanica. Freywinn was particularly fond of Evindath, as scarce other elves were as enthused of his discoveries as he. Freywinn began to regard Evindath as a friend as well as a colleague, and Evindath was happy to have his affections.

Nevertheless, Capernian was not so easily placated. She felt that Evindath's potential as a blood mage was being wasted in the Botanica on a task she believed anyone could perform, and took every opportunity to make a play for Evindath to join the magisters. Her most successful attempt arose when Kael proposed a three-man mission to sabotage the Exodar in preparation for a draenei raid led by the Prophet Velen. Capernian immediately proposed Evindath, and Freywinn was eager to afford such an opportunity to his favoured student.

Though vexed that he would have to work alongside Zandrathis, Evindath put aside his contempt for her and focused on his mission.

FRIENDS AND FOES

TALONSONG

Red Hawkstrider

Talonsong was amongst a clutch of hawkstrider eggs brought to Outland with Kael and his elven forces. He was raised and pronounced fit for use just as Evindath's mission was being coordinated, and was chosen by Capernian to serve as Evindath's mount. When travelling abroad, Evindath would keep him unadorned, but when in elven lands, he decked Talonsong in ornate armour to command the respects of his kinsmen. Talonsong grew fond of Zandrathis' hawkstrider, Ventaxia, but her brooding disposition apparently disconcerted him. If stabled together, he would attempt to sleep as far from Ventaxia as his confines would allow.

TYORIL SUNCHASER

Blood Elf Blood Mage

Tyoril Sunchaser was one of Kael's earlier students in the dangerous art of the blood magi. Tyoril's unrelenting and reckless devotion to his craft earned him high regards in Kael's eyes, and he soon had a following of his own. Though cousin to Evindath, the two Sunchasers had been only moderately acquainted for most of their lives. Capernian advised Kael and Tyoril of Evindath's recorded success in the war with the orcs, and so placed him under his cousin's tutelage. The two Sunchasers took an immediate liking to each other, and even when Evindath left his study after they crossed over to Outland, he and Tyoril remained in close contact until Evindath left for his mission.

APPEARANCES

Rogue's Table

Blood Oath

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