Elun'dreth Arkh’ana
Description:
High birth and noble heritage is abundant in every sculpted detail, high cheekbones and the smooth curve to a perfect nose remaining predominant. However, cheeks that ought to be fuller and flush with color are instead hollow and ashen. By contrast, those cheekbones protrude like razors and sunken eyes glow dimly with sullen luminescence. Deep shadows lie beneath those vacant orbs, densely clustered as though perpetually deprived of sufficient sleep. Anaemic flesh is laden with faint blue veins, her skin so transluscent that they are far more visible than they ought to be and somewhat distended during moments of excessive stress.
Those gentle eyes are misted with a layer of moisture at all times, shimmering with their watery contents as though on the verge of tears. Pale pink clusters sprawl from the fringes of her gaze, ensuring that her damp eyes are faintly edged with hints of red, veins forking across those pale grey moons. Muted radiance pulses from within the depths of her sunken gaze yet without enough strength to illuminate her surroundings. At times, the soft white glow is more concentrated yet the occurrences are rather sporadic and the cause of these bursts is difficult for any outsider to determine.
Pale tresses sprout from her scalp, coalescing and trailing downward in a sleek tangle of silver and white strands. These tousled grey tresses cascade toward the ground - forming a graceful river of red strands that are often left to sprawl over the girl's shoulders without any apparent regard for general order or grooming. However, it is soon quite evident that a great deal of care is applied to the sparse tangle- obviously washed on a regular basis and laced with subtle fragrant oils.
There are additional manufactured fragrances adorning her attenuated figure, every inch of skin scented faintly with either a pleasant floral fragrance or the rather acerbic scent of soap - the latter being more inadvertently applied yet also available in higher quantities. Her flesh is a slightly disconcerting shade of greyed violet, a sickly tone that pales significantly in certain patches yet darkens inexplicably in others.
Robes hang loose upon her willowy frame, possessing very little mass to fill them and often avoiding garments specially tailored to her slim figure - opting instead to disguise her inadequacies with ill-fitting clothing that only serves to accentuate her emaciated features. Willowy hands are often enveloped in white gloves and hidden within massive hanging sleeves. A few items of jewellery are fitted to her wrists, bangles that clink together with any sudden motion and a few chains fastened with runic charms of protection and healing.
Dangling sapphires are looped through the lobes of her ears as well as several hoops fitted along the slender appendage. Gold and silver chains hang from the fixtures to her ears, richly enveloped in further gems and light metallic adornments. Several necklaces are looped around her slender throat, amethysts and sapphires acting as pendants and smaller versions of the same gems lining the supple chains.
History:
Renowned for her studies into the fields of illusionary enchantment and arcane divination, Elun'dreth is additionally regarded as a pioneer of the far more nuanced 'arcane philosophy'. Several highly detailed papers on these concepts have been released and received a great deal of positive acclaim from not only her academic peers but many other members of Suramar's elite magi.
Points of criticism often arose in regards to her unorthodox terminology, producing papers categorized as discussions of arcane methodology yet her incorporation of philosophical elements causes these documents to become an amalgamation of conflicting topics. A significant number of her peers refuse to acknowledge the correlation between philosophical abstracts and the weaving of arcane spellwork.
Note: Ara’das translates roughly to ‘Rosendusk’ in Archaic Darnassian. There is no exact equivalent in any of Azeroth’s modern languages