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Velurian Suncrown
Acting Patriarch |
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Blood Knight, Acting Patriarch |
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Player Character [Guild Master] |
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Sees himself as above such menial tasks |
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Physical Description
Velurian’s posture is rigid, straight, due to years of discipline, and training. He walks with trained grace, poise and quiet dignity. Despite his apparent peace and composure, Velurian’s eyes burn with a constant light, his mind adrift with some other thought. His skin prickles with awareness. To the trained eye, his face betrays intense self-consciousness.
Known Personality
Since the siege of Arthas, hopeless romanticism and idealism have given way to skepticism and irony. Velurian has replaced the dogmatic and orthodox ways that once ordered his life with a cold instinct for survival. Despite this, he is occasionally moved by memories of the past to a fault, though he quickly casts aside these memories as soon as he finds himself weakened.
Character History
Under different circumstances, Velurian's father Lurian could have been a born leader. As the third son and seventh born child of Cian Rellen’Thas, his family expected he would support rather than lead. Lurian’s ambitious nature warred with the natural filial respect he held for his father, and a sincere desire for the success of Suncrown. At a young age, Cian pushed Lurian to pursue a career in the church.
A career in magic would have suited Lurian’s temperament far better. Nevertheless, he succeeded in the church with distinction over time. Like his eldest brother Lucian, Lurian took a wife for mainly political reasons. Unalla, the beautiful daughter of Lord Knight Varjavian, shared Lurian’s ambitious personality, but their marriage was one of convenience. Because of the coldly polite relationship the two shared, Unalla shocked both of their families when she announced her first pregnancy. After each subsequent child, the gossip compounded, including rumors malicious, benign and absurd.
Velurian was the first of Lurian and Unalla’s four children, all of who were raised in the sanctity and peace of the church. Surrounded by quiet meditation and reflection, they received abundant dosages of sanctity, complete with long sermons by the priests. Unlike his siblings’ reactions to these teachings, the light inspired Velurian and filled him with a sense of awe and optimism.
Serious as a child, Velurian took great pride in any responsibility he was tasked with, which often provoked humor and teasing by his siblings. Despite this, he was a caring, and somewhat overprotective older brother. He became less serious later, especially after he left the church.
Lurian was determined that his eldest son would go far in the church and worked tirelessly to create connections and stepping-stones for Velurian.
Before he became many other things, Velurian was quiet. He learned the value of staying quiet from many facets, and through meditation became a keen strategist and diplomat. His mother trained his eyes and ears well, but he remained content to analyze, quietly. His father did not approve of his quiet nature and goaded him to take more risks, be more outspoken and ambitious. From an early age, Velurian and his father were at odds. Incidentally, Lurian was not well liked by many members of the family.
Velurian rebelled when he was of age and left the church to learn the skills of a warrior. This decision was met with extreme hostility by his father who did not speak with him again until Unalla intervened a few years later. It was also Unalla who successfully negotiated the marriage of Velurian to Cyndesta, the daughter of a superior noble house. After his marriage, Velurian took up an active role in family politics and helped to negotiate political alliances between Suncrown and two other noble houses.
The year after his marriage to Cyndesta, Arthas lay siege to Quel’Thalas. He defended the land with his family, and was deeply grieved by the loss Iluthias, who was a close friend. He was not spared from the deep depression and shock that hit so many Sin’Dorei after Arthas’ siege, but he was one of the first to recover. Like many Sin’Dorei, Velurian had a crisis of faith from which he never recovered. He rejected the teachings of the Light and methodically began to put the pieces of his life back together. He gladly volunteered to siphon the power of the naaru when it was offered to him and since has had few qualms with his decision. Though young, his position as a member of the Blood Knights has afforded him connections to help his family thrive during the rebuilding of Quel’Thalas.
He has changed since the siege. There is a sense of greater purpose and determination about him. He has been privy to the meetings of the Sin’Dorei government and Kael’Thas’ actions have inspired him. Despite his apparent fall from the Light, there is no indication that his devotion to the success of Suncrown has slipped. If anything, Velurian is more dedicated than ever to the family’s success – at any cost.
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