#jezriyah

[jezi-belle]

“The consort of Chronormu and the Huntmaster of the Unseen Path. An engineer and a leatherworker. A marksman and a tracker. The pride of the Alliance and the heart of the Horde. An ancient race from beyond the stars and the earliest known sentient life to have crawled from Azeroth's primordial heart.

The only way they could be more different is if one of them were somehow less blue. And somehow, they make a study in balance and harmony that the greatest Pandaren philosophers would marvel at.

She tempers his flame like refining a raw hide, redirecting his anger to where it is useful, or steering him towards understanding or simple dismissal where they are more appropriate than his legendary rage. He bolsters and scaffolds her passionate heart, laying down the steps and structures that channel her helpless fear and anger and love into workable action and movement forward.

They pull against each other, knit and purl, warp and weft, binary stars in gravitational lock-step. And so, rather than spinning off into chaos, their combined power forges on, a blazing light that all manner of enemies have come to fear. I have only witnessed both of their unbridled anger aimed in the same direction twice: against the Scourge, and now, the Legion. If our forces fail, and Azeroth falls, they will guarantee it the costliest victory Sargeras has ever known.”

- from Archmage Khadgar’s notes on the Legionfall Offensive

[[ Some WoW-flavored word vomit in the wee hours, indirectly featuring @rilgon ]]

[chronomatic-workshop]

✪✪✪✪ :P

✪✪✪✪ = You’re okay

“Merely okay? I am wounded!” Rilgon scoffs with mock hurt. “With all the nonsense I’ve made you put up with, I don’t think you’d stick with me if it was merely ‘okay”, but maybe i’m projecting.” He sticks his tongue out at the Huntmistress.

[jezi-belle]

“Raise your weapon...”

Uh...

Jezi...

Sweetheart...

[jezi-belle]

High Overlord Saurfang,

I can’t express how much I regret needing to write you this letter a second time. But this one will be much easier, and much more brief, than the first.

I have refused before to march under the banner of the Horde when it was wielded by a genocidal war criminal. Lady Windrunner’s words and deeds now are far fouler than those of the son of Hellscream that drove me from the Horde’s ranks under his reign.

I will remain in contact with Khadgar and the Unseen Path if you, personally, have need of me to help stop the atrocities about to occur. Until such time, I resign my post as First Sergeant and my allegiance to the Horde, along with the privileges and protections of both.

I have known and loved and fought proudly beside as many kaldorei as shu’halo, as many gnomes as goblins, and as many dwarves as orcs. I have fought unspeakable threats from both within and without this world, things more evil and terrifying than any soldier of the Alliance could ever hope to be. I have fought, first and foremost, for my people to have a home. For my brothers and sisters to have a safe place to raise their children.

I will not, I cannot, march with an army that seeks to deny the same to a people as war-torn as our own. If that means I meet my end with Horde blood on my hands rather than in my veins, then so be it.

I pray your resolve remains as I have known it, and remain respectfully yours,

Jezriyah

[chronomatic-workshop]

ff+ for Jezi and you goddamn well knew you were getting it as soon as you posted this

The first thing that Rilgon noticed was the sheer length of the work of fiction. “Guess those jokes she used to throw around were true, then...” His eyebrows raised as he thumbed through the various pages, some of the scenes described mirroring jokes that Jez had told throughout the years. “Hmm, always a bit of truth in humor and joking, I suppose. Seems more like a ‘what if’ scenario than a work of fiction...”

[chronomatic-workshop]

📕 :3

C: Eternal tracker, holds leashes of legends.

R: Chromie’s second most important future prediction.

[chronomatic-workshop]

☤- One of our muses is hurt. (Hovering mom-friend or hilarious troll regeneration shenanigans, your choice!)

Slumping against a building he knew all too well in a city he’d spent entirely too much time in, Rilgon sucked in a sharp breath as he looked outward across Gadgetzan. He and Jezriyah had beat back one invasion, but they were coming with far greater rapidity and ever-increasing furor. Wincing as he withdrew his hand from his side to see blood, his grimace increased as his crest ignited, bathing himself in the soothing Light that all draenei are able to channel.

“Veteran of the assault on Icecrown Citadel, getting blasted by some rank and file demon lieutenant like that. Pathetic.” He coughed, his chintacles twitching with frustration at how rusty he had gotten over the intervening years. “If this was back then, that disengage would’ve had me off the edge like Cordrenn, instead of back on the platform.” Abandoning all pretense, he allowed himself to slump all the way to the dusty ground of Gadgetzan, affectionately patting Indalecio’s head. “When did you get so much better than me, anyways, troll-butt?”

[jezi-belle]

Crystal spider, crested basilisk, nether ray - whoever you want to answer for (any/all)

Crystal Spider - What are your character’s thoughts on technology? Or do they prefer to use more primitive tools?

Jezi is open towards technology, but hesitant. She’s not a big fan of experimental or shiny-new, not because she’s against it, but she simply knows that she doesn’t have the aptitude for it and doesn’t care to meddle with things she knows she’s likely to fuck up. She’ll use technology that’s been around for a while and well-tested, though; teleporters and rocket travel and the like. She can use guns, but she’s not as proficient with them as bows, they still haven’t made one that isn’t too loud for her liking, and some little animal part of her brain really doesn’t like setting off an explosion that close to her head. There’s body parts even a troll can’t grow back.

Crested Basilisk - Is your character stubborn? Is there any wiggle room when it comes to changing their mind?

Mihoto is probably the most flexible of the three. She’s young, not very combat-tested, and has grown up in the ranks of the druids where little in the way of interpersonal conflict really exists. She hates conflict and is usually willing to go along to get along. I don’t have Akaashe nailed down very well on this point, but being a protadin, there’s definitely some righteous fury going on there, but she might be kind of gullible.

Jezi makes small adjustments easily when it comes to situations, but not larger things. If she believes something needs to be done, she’s very flexible about how it happens and making concessions to get things done, but she’s very hard to convince out of a real goal. She’s also deeply pragmatic and likely to apply Occam’s razor to damn near anything.

Nether Ray - Does your character have a good sense of direction? Or do they get lost easily?

Jezi is better at remembering where she is and which way she’s supposed to be going; Mihoto doesn’t remember as sharply, but she’s very good at figuring out where she is when she doesn’t know. Akaashe mostly sticks to mapped roads because her chosen solution is likely to be “walk until you find a thing, ask it for directions, either follow it or kill it depending on response, repeat”.