Theotaz, New Member, Backstory

[Theotaz]

From the Journal of Kheliosrham, Formorly of the Wolf Pack

It was the boy who saw him first.

They came. We had heard about the founding of the Ebon Blade. Death Knights that had thrown off the surzenity of the Arthus, the new Lich King. They had come to Orgrimaar to swear thier service to the Horde. I remember the old death Knights. The ones created from the orc necromacers, the fallen member of the shadow council. They were not like those. Some were Human, Dark Elf, Gnome, Dwarf, Drenai. They had gone to the alliance kingdoms. There were Blood Elf, Troll, Tauren, Forsaken and Orc. Adventurers, they had been. Fallen against the the undead. Raised by the Lich King Arthus to serve against the living. It had been 2 years since Theotaz Hunter had gone to Northrend to find a way to give the boy back his life. The Boy who should not have survived the effects of the scourge but did. Found by Theotaz years ago the boy had been. The Forsaken would not take the boy, but their queen, Sylvanus gave Theotaz permission to take the child who would never grow older into his house and raise him though her councilers demanded the child be made an end of. Theotaz drew weapons in the queen chamber ready to defend the undead child with his life. Even the demon Naxramus was taken aback. I was there, I saw this with my own eyes. The queen ordered her guards to stand down and asked Theotaz Hunter why he would defend an undead child that should not have survived. Theotaz said simply a debt was owed to life and unlife alike. As Thrall and the horde has saved his own people he was duty bound to serve the living and the victims of the scourge. The Queen Sylvanus pondered and made her decision. The boy would live and moneys for his maintainence and education would be provided by the Forsaken. Theotaz would be his guardian and that was that. The decision made we left the undercity for Orgrimaar where the Wolf Pack kept its chapter house.
One day Theotaz announced his intention to find a cure for the lads undeath and went north. Far north. Somehow he made it to Northrend. Even today we know not how 4 months later Romilar the mighty cat and companion to Theotaz returned alone. The Druids had owed me me an old favor and I collected. One with the skills communed mind to mind with the old war cat Romilar and got for us the story. Alone, cold, far far to the north in a land of unending ice Theotaz found his doom. Overwhelmed by a score of death knights and undead he battled untill he could fight no more. His rifle shattered, his great axe broken still he fought. He took down many of those against him but they rose again. His great skill could not save him him. He last act was to sent Romilar home. Romilar saw his body taken up and carried away by the Death Knights as he fled at Theotaz's last command. That was the last we ever heard of him. We thought Romilar would return to the wild but he was allready an old cat. He stayed in the great hall. Shortly afterwards our guild master went insane and Blackbull took over as Guild Master. The old spirit was gone though. Members of the guild wandered off or went away one by one untill only I, the boy, and Romilar kept the great hall of the guild. I was made the boys Guardian in Thetaz's stead. The years passed. The Boy learned, and the children of Orgrimaar learned he was a child like any other. even if he was undead.

Then. One day word came. In a great battle at Lights Hope Chapel the Lich Kings army broke. And in the breaking broke free of his control. Formed as a brotherhood of warriors to serve beside the Argent crusade a party was dispatched to Orgrimaar to give thier allegence to the Horde. There among the Death Knight he stood. His eyes old, and sad with the deeds he had done in the Lich Kings name. The boy ran to him and pulled him from the crowd. No one stopped him, for the boy was known to all in the city and there was wonder in the eyes of those watching as the the boy brought the one forth from the embassy party. The boy brought the one before Thrall and told the war chief who this had been. I did not think a Death Knight could cry untill I saw the tears fall from his eyes. He had come home. He is with us again. Theotaz, no longer hunter, but a Death Knight. Romilar still lived and saw his old companion changed almost beyond understanding. The Old cat curled beside his old friend and was content with this ending. Romilar finally passed that first night at Theotaz's side. The chains of devotion and friendship sundered at last. The Wolf Pack ended long ago when old Bromide went insane. I keep the old war banner still. Perhapes this next ancestors day I shall give it to the flames. Theotaz still shows a shadow of his old fire and love for life but it is subdued. Banked away like hot coals in a winter fire. We thought him lost and in a way he was. he is back now. He is home. The world has changed again. I have hope now for us all. The scourge took him but could not hold his great spirit. The Lich King enslaved him but the chains of bondage were shattered one again as they had been for the forsaken. We will eventually break the scourge and the lich king and after them the demons will feel our fury. But for today this shall do. He his home, changed beyond imagining, but he is home.

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Notes: Thetoz was my 60th Troll Hunter character on Emerald Dream. The character was deleted about 5 months before Burning Crusade was released. Then, in writing about his adventures I had ended his story by writing that he had been lost in Northrend which I knew of from the Warcraft RPG D20 rules set. The making of Death Knights in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion provided a perfect opportunity to return the character to play. Much has changed over the last few years of this game and I expect there are yet more stories to be told.

On Emerald Dream: Theotaz ,Troll Death Knight, Currently Lvl61 and Kheliosrham Orc Rouge lvl 63
On Thrall: Svalina, Blood Elf Shadow Priest Lvl 70, and Sanrii ,Blood Elf Death Knight.

Salutations
Terrance Roff
Oakland CA