Zandrathis Sheynathren - Before the Twisting Nether

ZANDRATHIS SHEYNATHREN

RACE:

Blood Elf

AFFILIATION:

Sunfury Elves

PLACE OF BIRTH:

Silvermoon City

CLASS:

Warlock

Destruction major

Affliction minor

PROFESSIONS:

Goblin Engineering

Mining

BIOGRAPHY

Zandrathis Sheynathren was born to a line of magi closely tied to the Council of Silvermoon for generations. However through most of her youth, Zandrathis remained a footnote in her family tree, as she had little talent with the conventional sorcery of the time.

She instead invested herself in technological expertise, an art then undervalued by most of Quel'Thalas despite its integral role in their military and civilian lives. When her talents flourished under this new direction, she began to study abroad. She first attempted an apprenticeship in Gnomeregan but found the gnomes' friendly optimism disconcerting, and so instead traveled to Stranglethorn Vale to study under the goblins of Booty Bay.

The goblins' engineering discipline focused largely on explosives rather than elaborate devices, however Zandrathis found their education very useful to her, and after her work in Booty Bay was finished, she returned to Quel'Thalas and began to oversee demolition operations in mines throughout the kingdom.

During the war against the orcs, Zandrathis applied her expertise to the battlefield, often working in conjunction with troop movements and using her explosives to both confuse and destroy enemy forces. She afterward received a commendation from the Ranger Corps for her assistance. After the war she returned to the mining industry, and remained there until the Scourge invasion of Quel'Thalas. Zandrathis was among the elves enlisted by the Council to travel west with Prince Kael to battle the Scourge with the remaining forces of Lordaeron. During this time, she met the blood mage trainee Evindath Sunchaser. They began seeing each other romantically.

Zandrathis was originally among the top engineers in Kael's forces, one of Teleconus' foremost lieutenants, but as the magical withdrawal began to sink in, she became unreliable and aloof, and was given more minor duties. When the time came for work, however, Zandrathis was up for the challenge, and assisted in many of the hastily-constructed automated defenses when the blood elves were forced to flee from Garithos' forces into Outland.

After they crossed over to Outland, Zandrathis remained unstable. Evindath came to believe that her personality shifts were indicative of her having an affair, and their relationship ended ineloquently. In an effort to curb her appetites and hopefully appease her, Teleconus advised that she study warlock magics, summon demons and siphon their energies. She was placed under a group of Darkcrest naga, and as they helped her learn the dark power of the warlock, she helped them construct their pump networks in Zangarmarsh. During this time, she came to befriend the Lady Vashj, who helped her control her demons. Using the demons she summoned as an energy source, Zandrathis stabilized somewhat, but remained despondent and depressed.

After construction of the pumps was complete, Zandrathis was sent back to the Sunfury elves, where she became the centre of Val'zareq's affections. He pursued her for some time until she relented and they began seeing each other. Val'zareq proved to be a demanding lover, and when he chosen to lead the Crimson Sigil and relocate to Shadowmoon Valley, he insisted Zandrathis come with him. She refused, and their affair was ended.

The Netherstorm's chaotic magical energies rendered Zandrathis' teachings on demon summoning obsolete, and without her supply of magic she began to slip back into her old depression. When an opportunity arose to sabotage the Exodar in preparation for an Aldor attack, Teleconus and Vashj both nominated Zandrathis for the role. She joined Evindath and Fenissa and was sent to complete her mission.

FRIENDS AND FOES

VENTAXIA THE SOLEMN

Hawkstrider

Val'zareq the Conquerer prided himself on the breed of his hawkstrider. She was of a long line of champion hawkstriders, renowned for their jet black feathers. While Zandrathis was seeing Val'zareq, she befriended his hawkstrider and thought Val'zareq's treatment of her lacking. In particular, when his hawkstrider laid an egg, he was furious that she had fornicated with the other striders, and refused to let her care for it. Zandrathis took it upon herself to care for the egg until it hatched. When Zandrathis and Val'zareq went their separate ways, Zandrathis took the hatchling, whom she named Ventaxia, and raised her on her own. Due to Ventaxia's early estrangement from her mother, she has grown quiet and distant.

BELZARAKU

Nether Drake

Kael'thas intended Zandrathis and Evindath to return as champions of the Sunfury to Silvermoon. Belzaraku was a nether drake enslaved by a team of blood elven sorcerers, and he was given to Zandrathis as a demonstration of the strange and fantastic creatures they had conquered in Outland. To control him, powerful magical bonds were placed on him, and forced him to obey the wishes of whomsoever held a corresponding keystone. To further control him, the keystone also had the power to transform him into a mere draconic whelp and back again. Zandrathis often used this when travelling abroad to avoid attracting undue attention. Belzaraku, however, was infuriated at his imprisonment, and vowed to have his revenge on his captors.

APPEARANCES

Rogue's Table

Blood Oath

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