Character Profile: Gravekeeper Anna
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Basics -
Known Monikers: The Gravekeeper, Keeper, Lady Handhour, Gravemother, Anna
Gender: Female
Race: Forsaken / Undead (Formerly human)
Age: 40+ at time of death.
Class: Necromancer
Height: 5′ 6″
Eye Color: Default, pupilless yellow. May change in hue to match an appropriate magic use.
Hair Color: Shadowy hues of violet.
Appearance: Pallid, ghostly and deceptively delicate looking, the Keeper appears as an eidolon obviously remade by undeath. Crowned by a veil that billows long over her facial features, it does not hide the piercing glow of her lantern like sights. Her garments embellish her spectral design with an almost profane sensuality: moth-like flutters of fabric in funerary colors braced by the subtle armor of bone and chain. Altogether, the Gravekeeper could register as an eerie beauty for some with the lurid eye for the strange, but to most she is an uncanny sight by which the living often instinctively hold their breaths.
A rune-scoured spade is not far from her person dubbed ‘Threnody”, used in her work or to call from the grave, and used as a weapon to devastating effect. A ‘train’ of amorphous phantoms often follows at her heels like some macabre wedding veil - her gathered Lost.
The Facts -
Names Known By: Gravekeeper, Gravemother, Anna, Lady Handhour
Birthday: Unknown
Occupation: A Gravekeeper, tender to the Forsaken and the Risen
Alignment: Horde-leaning, loyal to the Forsaken.
Criminal History: Being Undead, Various Mild Affronts to Living Society
Documented: See Above
Undocumented: The past has died with her.
Sexuality: Omniromantic
Relationship Status: Unattached.
Minions, Companions: Individual wandering Lost - amorphous phantoms that hold little individual identity. || Skeletal or Graveborn risen summoned to her calling. || Mr. Clancy: an animated gauntlet/hand. || Coal: A fel-tainted feline familiar.
Short Known History: The Gravekeeper is a known presence often haunting Tirasfal that is devoted to her people and other Lost reborn to the grave, particularly driven to assist risen in finding their own place in their unlife, or helping them find peace with a named grave. Restored to completion after an untimely “removal” from the now blighted Lordaeron, the Keeper persists in her duties while assisting as she can to reclaim the Undercity.
An undercurrent of personal interest gradually takes hold past the Lady Handhour’s duty as a Gravekeeper, instilling in her a gradual draw to roam Azeroth’s cemeteries in a way the Lady Haunt has not had the liberty to act on in years.
Potential Rp connections -
Are you Forsaken? Did you once call the Undercity home, specifically after the introduction to the Mists of Pandaria? The Gravekeeper may have assisted you, living in the Ruins of Lordaeron before its blighting and abandonment by Sylvanas. Perhaps she provided you much needed replacement parts or shared a cup of tea with you.
Did you commune with the Lost of Lordaeron, abuse them, even take one on as a minion? The Gravekeeper may vicariously feel a familiarity to you, for better or worse.
Did you spend an inordinate amount of time in the Ghostlands? Linger around the pale trees, clear the area of Scourge or Withered? Did you feel that someone was watching you? Do you have an affinity for the supernatural? Lady Handhour may distinctly remember you, even if you did not remember her...
Are you a Death Knight of the Ebon Blade, or marked by the Maldraxxi? The Gravekeeper is a known caretaker, supporter and provider within these circles.
Do you like cemeteries, or find yourself visiting the abandoned graves of the lost and nameless? You may encounter the Gravekeeper in these places around Azeroth.
Did you stumble upon the strange Whispering Forest edging Tirasfal territory? You’ve stumbled on the Gravekeeper’s refuge. Pay respects, stay a while and have some tea...
