Name: Faradriel Agaredhel
Translation: from Sindarin (Lord of the Rings)
Farad-hunter, riel-lady, female – huntress;
Agar-blood, edhel-elf – blood elf
Birthday: October 13, -70
(70 years before the opening of the Dark Portal - Year 0)
Age: 103 as of Legion (year 33)
Looks like approximately 20 human years, they age slowly but mind ages. During the Third War (year 20) she looked 17 / mental 90
Gender: Female
Race: Blood Elf
Class: Hunter
Origin: (click on the links to see photos of her houses)
Born in
Fairbreeze Village, Eversong Woods. Lived there until the Third War.
After her parents died she moved to the Farstrider camp in Ghostlands while training and then to Silvermoon after Graduation.
Lived in Shattrath City at the Scryers' Army quarters during the war against Kael'Thas and Illidan.
Lived in the Crusader Camp during the War against Arthas (WotLK).
Lived in between her
Winterspring's cottage and her
apartment in Silvermoon during the Cataclysm (sold it to the Reliquary before she moved part time to Pandaria).
During Pandaria she lived between her
Pandaria ranch in Halfhill and her Winterspring's cottage.
After going through the Portal during WoD she lived in her Garrison.
After alternate Gul'dan escaped to real time Azeroth, she moved back to her cottage.
She now lives in Dalaran above the Broken Isles to help Khadgar and the Council of Six fight the Legion. She still owns her ranch and her cottage.
Occupation: Retired
Farstrider for Silvermoon. Engineer and Honorary Soldier for Khadgar's forces and the Council of Six. She also still oversees the Silvermoon Library that she helped open.
Professions: mining, engineering; cooking, fishing, first aid
Fara Engineer mess
Languages: Thalassian, Common
Physical Description:
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 118
Hair Color: Black, almost blue
Eye Color: Glowing Green
Skin Color: Pale
Personality: Faradriel is energetic, noble, honorable and disciplined.
She used to keep her magic addiction (from when the Sunwell was corrupted) in check by meditating and feared that she would lose that discipline and become too addicted. Since the Sunwell has been restored and cleansed by M'uru's light, she feels blessed by The Light and no longer fears that she could become like the wretched and lose herself.
She has a great personal stamina and a wealth of talents and has a unique style.
Faradriel is far from weak-willed and will tackle difficult tasks with infectious optimism.
She also possess a sharp intellect which is matched only by her sense of humor and she is blessed with profound artistic flair, and is greatly valued as a friend.
Extremely loyal, she is capable of accepting responsibility for her own actions.
She is more artistic rather than logical and trusts her intuition.
She tries to resolve any differences by compromise, and to be understanding of the other person's point of view.
Faradriel is very optimistic and sensitive to the needs of others and has the gift, sometimes to an almost psychic extent, of understanding the emotional needs of her friends.
She can be impatient, indecisive and changeable, but usually she is easygoing and sociable, and she is also very romantic.
Faradriel can shock everyone around her with sudden storms of rage when bothered.
She loves and respects nature.
She has a quiet type of faith and a belief in the natural balance of things. Faradriel had always felt that there was a force flowing through nature, as if it was guiding the world. It was only after traveling and learning about the world that she could name this force: Elune.
She is a Beastmaster and she loves her pets. She loves black cats and hates not having a cat as a pet because she thinks that any combat pet that isn't a cat isn't good enough. Faradriel is the keeper of a few baby dragons, and she brings home any animal she finds that needs a home.
Her Animals: (collection of their photos here)
Her love for Faradrim is immense, she often thinks that if he died, so would she. She raised and trained her lion, so she knows Drim very well. Faradrim is a smart cat and never leaves Faradriel's side. But Faradriel, as a Beastmaster owns a large number of other pets. She owns rabbits, snakes, birds, and even some exotic ones like moths, a firefly, dragons and magical pets like her fairy dragon Sprite and her phoenix John.
She has a thing for dragons. Faradriel started collecting dragons after she graduated from the Farstriders and started traveling. She has babies and big ones too. When they become adults she lets them go but they always come back to see her.
She once brought home a lost firefly baby that she found in Zangarmarsh, and a couple of months after that while Fara was crossing Zangarmarsh, she was followed by a big firefly that looked just like that little baby. Faradriel noticed it was her mother, that recognized her baby, and she tamed the mother so they could be together with Fara. She named them both Serenity.
Some of her pets she buys at the market, some she earns in competitions and others she adopts when she notices that they were left alone or are lost in the wild. She keeps them at her cottage and ranch.
Fara loves her animals and she feels that they bring light to her life.
Baby Drim
She also loves to ride exotic animals.
The Farstriders gave her a Hawkstrider, a special breed of tallstrider that are exclusive to the Blood Elves. She named him Telcontar. It was her first mount.
Fara went to the Barrens during the summer to show Drim the place where he came from, and there she was, a wild Zhevra running. Fara tamed her and trained her to be her mount. She named her Zee.
Through the years Fara has trained several animals to be mounts. But she also bought a few.
In one of her trips to Draenor she got a beautiful black war Talbuk. One of her favorites.
Fara built a mechano hog to drive around after her training as an engineer was complete.
When she visited Dalaran for the first time she bought herself a Celestial Steed and named him Orion.
Fara also has quite a few fly mounts. Dragons, dragonhawks, including the one she got after becoming a Argent Champion, wyverns, nether rays, hippogryphs, wind riders, and flying machines and robots she built.
She bought a Turbo-Trike just to ride it on the sands of Tanaris.
She raised a baby phoenix she found abandoned during one of her pilgrimages to the Sunwell and trained him. Now he is with her all the time. She named him Al'ar after the famous mythical creature she used to hear about in bed time stories.
During a very cold winter in Winterspring she was tracking some bears near her cottage and she found a very sick tiger, he was almost dead. After days trying to make him better she realized there was nothing she could do but she didn't want him to die. To save him she had a famous mage make him into a spirit so he would never be in pain again. He is her mount now. She called him
Maurhaw which means Spectral Cat. He loves Drim.
Fara and Drim
Pet Peeves: If you can call a Forsaken a pet peeve then she definitely has one. Faradriel hates the Forsaken and the undead. She will never understand why her people have to be part of the Horde and why they have to play nice now. Having her old boss be the Queen of the Forsaken also drives her absolutely crazy. Another pet peeve she has is the sound the undead and the orcs make while eating.
Phobias and Weaknesses: Her major phobia is to become an undead if killed. The plague that the Apothecary Society spreads around also makes her scared of what could happen. She can't even get close to them without wearing a mask.
As for weaknesses, Fara tends to want to please everyone around her so much she ends up forgetting about herself.
Quote: "Sorry, I pulled it..."
Hour: midnight
Event: Midsummer Fire Festival
Furniture: The amazing Night Elven beds made with raw wood and carved with moon and star symbols
Liquid: Morning Glory Dew
Stone: Falling Star
Tree: Oak
Flower: black rose
Color: deep sky blue
Animal: cats and dragons
Book: Fara loves reading. She loves books about history and non fiction. Among her favorites: "Exile of the High Elves", "The Founding of Quel'Thalas", "Foror's Compendium of Dragon Slaying", though that one was hard to read, "Well of Eternity", "Losses of the Third War", "One Truth in Undeath", "Rise of the Blood Elves", "Sunwell - The Fall of Quel'Thalas", "Manual of Engineering Disciplines". She also owns a few cook books on different cuisines from many races, as well as romantic novels.
Food: Delicious Chocolate Cake
Favorite Place: Moonwell south-west of the Falfarren River in Ashenvale and the grass spot in front of the Pools of Arlithrien in Teldrassil.
Worst Place: Anywhere Forsaken. Stinks, not to mention the plague everywhere.
Verb: to shoot (idiots... right between the eyes)
Expression: random cat noises
Month: October
Number: 13
Season: winter
Weather: cool sunny days, remind her of Quel'Thalas
Passion: her pets
Sound: wind on tall trees
Clothes: black pants and a band t-shit, with comfy combat boots.
Body part: eyes
Smell: pot roast
Day of the week: Friday
Weapon: Fara likes to collect bows, guns, swords, etc...
Enchant: the one that turns her into a Night Elf (alias Nethelin) so she can walk into Alliance territory unnoticed (made into a pendant gem by a very famous mage friend)
Engineering invention: fireworks and fire-boots (which is a work in progress because sometimes they blow you up in the air)
Quest: the ones that give her cool clothes
Mount: her Spectral Tiger, her Phoenix, her Hog and her Rocket
Faction: she hates the Alliance and the Horde. She wishes Silvermoon could stand on it's own.
Race: her own and the High Elves. Faradriel shares the deep resentment towards the Horde that the Farstriders have, and is not a fan of the Alliance either.
Worst race: Gnomes. "They bite you on the knees during the fight."
Class: Hunter. She can't imagine being anything else.
Nemesis: Forsaken... and imps
Creature: Fairie Dragons, or Sprite Darters
Worst creature: Imps, Kobolts and Murlocs, though she thinks they are cute when they are babies.
Non combat pet: her dragon collection, her Sprite Darter, everyone! Fara also owns other pets, being a Beastmaster, she loves to collect little creatures and give them homes... big ones too
Physical features in a partner: bright eyes, fit, she likes dark and long hair, beards and males who take care of themselves. Fara hates blonds, too much hair (ew cows), bony creatures like the undead, she thinks that humans are ugly, and hates the short ones like gnomes and dwarfs
Ideal partner: Someone who knows how to take care of her. Intelligent, cute. He has to have a sense of humor. Be polite. And! be a glue. Fara hates when people need their "time alone"
Love of her life: Faradrim, her black lion cuteness
Combat
Skills: Trap making. Arrow enchantment. Tracking. Animal Handling or Animal Husbandry. Survival. Beast lore. Navigation.
Combat Tactics: Fara tracks the target, the strongest one in case they're in a group and she remains camouflaged until she fires the first shot. She has trained Faradrim to follow her first shot, and attack her primary target. Then she takes care of the other targets. When a target gets too close to Fara for her to use her bow, she has a number of tricks in order to regain distance on her target.
Special Possessions: Fara owns a variety of weapons, some enchanted, mostly bows. Her most cherished possessions for combat are her Golden Bow of Quel'Thalas, her Rhok'delar and Quel Delar.
Loyalties: Fara is a Farstrider so they hold her allegiance. She is also loyal to the Argent Crusade, being a Champion. She is also loyal to the Frostwolf clan., to her friend Thrall and his wife and to Khadgar.
History
Elrohir Agaredhel met Linwë Gwilwileth at the Harvest Festival outside Silvermoon City. Linwë Gwilwileth was the daughter of a farmer from the south of Quel'Thala
s and was at the Festival selling corn and cakes in a stand by Elrohir's wood art tent. Elrohir did custom woodcarvings for many weapons, especially bows for the rangers of the Farstriders and also carved molds for swordsmiths and armorsmiths of Silvermoon. He also made artistic furniture and had many clients. That day at the Festival, he went to the corn stand to buy something to eat so he could still be around his tent in case someone wanted to buy something, he saw Linwë's face for the first time. He fell in love right at that second and 4 days later, at the last day of the Festival he asked her father for her hand. They got married by the North Sea shore behind the Silvermoon walls in a small ceremony with just their families. Linwë and Elrohir moved to a new place at Fairbreeze Village in the Eversong Woods to start their lives together. Linwë would visit a small temple for Elune that her family went sometimes. The Temple was made by the old people who came to Eversong Woods because they brought their faith wirth them across the ocean. They built the small temple near the river so would could hear the water inside. Linwë would go and pray for good health and beauty for her daughter. She knew it would be a daughter.
Linwë praying at the temple for Elune.
After 2 years living in Fairbreeze Village, Faradriel was born. Everyone said she had her mother's beauty and her father's brain as a child. She would play with her pets and run around the house. Her mother was the one who taught her to love and care for animals. Linwë loved dragons.
Faradriel and her mother, Linwë
She was a very active child and loved running in the woods chasing cats and playing with her cousin, Degolien.
Fara with her parents
One day, when Faradriel was still a child, Degolien moved away and became a ranger for the Farstriders, but he came back every week to see Fara. She felt alone and bored without her favorite person to run around with her. She became more of a house elf, helping her mother with the house work and her father with his art. Her father taught her how to carve wood and how to make a bow. Faradriel's love for bows started then, at the age of 65 (13). She had a good life, home educated by her mother, Faradriel read a lot sitting by herself at the big rock in front of her house watching the cats down below play and run.
Fara with Degolien
When Faradriel was about 89 (17), rumors of a plague from the south started haunting some elves living outside Silvermoon, but no one knew what it was and if it was true so they continued living their simple lives. At that time they were all under the Sunwell, and everything felt perfect. They didn't feel threatened by the rumors because they were told that the city and the woods were protected by a magical shield. Faradriel loved to lay down on the grass at sunset and watch the purple sky, made by the shield.
Degolien stopped coming to visit every week and Faradriel felt even more alone, until one day she rode to Silvermoon to see see her cousin. She woke up at dawn and rode all morning just to see him. She had never seen the city, it was so beautiful that she rode there every week, because she thought that now that she was older it was her turn to go visit her cousin. She would sit in front the Farstrider's Office and watch them train outside, and she used to dream that one day she would become one. Faradriel loves an elf in uniform.
A year passed, and Faradriel managed her time around her weekly trip to Silvermoon. Her studying, chores, and other activities were all done during the week, because she had to go to the city every Friday. Faradriel was in love with Silvermoon, and she couldn't believe that everything there was held up by magic. Going every Friday, made Friday Faradriel's favorite day of the week.
One night, the night before one of her trips to Silvermoon, Degolien came home to warn her father about an army of undead he tracked not more than a day behind him. They started packing some food and clothes to try to run north, away from everything, but got ambushed right as they were leaving the house. Degolien couldn't understand how they arrived so fast. Arthas' unholy energies sped up the Scourge to move faster than they normally could. They ran back into the house, Degolien took Fara and her mother upstairs and pushed them into the wardrobe in the bedroom and closed the door. Elrohir was fighting the undead coming through the windows down in the living room, and when Degolien made it back downstairs he was dead. Elrohir was raised as an undead and started fighting Degolien, who couldn't control all the ghouls coming into the house. Some ghouls ran upstairs and started looking for more people in the house. Linwë didn't want them to find Fara so she hid Fara under some clothes in the wardrobe and ran out downstairs to divert the ghouls away from Faradriel. Degolien tried to save her but she died at the stairway. Degolien ran outside and got on his hawkstrider so the ghouls would follow him. The house was left alone with Fara crying under the clothes in the wardrobe. After it was all over and done, Degolien, who managed to escape from the ghouls, went back to the house. He thought Faradriel was also dead, and didn't even want to open the wardrobe because he was almost sure she wasn't there, but he opened it anyway. There she was, having cried herself to sleep during the night. He woke her up and took her with him to Silvermoon. Faradriel cried for days, sitting on the ruins of the destroyed city, she felt lost and even more alone. She feared that her cousin wouldn't be able to take care of her because he would be busy and away with the Farstriders but Degolien, after seeing so much death took Faradriel home. They rebuilt it and Degolien started working for the Farstrider in the woods instead of living in Silvermoon. He wanted Faradriel to have her old house and live in the forest away from the new alliances that Sylvanas made with the Forsaken when Silvermoon joined the Horde. Sylvanas, Degolien's ranger general was killed by Arthas on his way up to the Sunwell just before he invaded Silvermoon. After killing her, Arthas raised her as a banshee. Sylvanas started the rebelion from within the Sourge and created what we know now as the Forsaken. To this day, Faradriel doesn't like the alliance that Silvermoon has with the Forsaken because of Sylvanas, but she admires her for her courage in fighting back the Scourge even after all that has passed.
The Third War cost Faradriel her parents, and for a whole year, she stayed home, alone, while Degolien trained new rangers outside, she stared at them train and shoot their bows. Degolien tried to get her out of the house everyday and on the night of her 92 birthday he brought home a little baby lion he bought in Silvermoon from an Orc from the Barrens. The alliance with the Horde brought many new merchants to Silvermoon, and new animals, objects and food were available to everyone. Degolien knew Faradriel loved cats and bough her that little black lion to match Fara's hair. The Orc who sold it to Degolien said that he came from the Barrens, a rare lion that lost his mother. Faradriel fell in love with that little baby black lion and called him Faradrim, the equivalent male form of her name. Faradrim was a very energetic baby lion and would never stay in the house. Degolien was pleased that his plan to get her out of the house and forget a little about her parents' death worked.
Fara with little Drim
Faradriel watched the rangers training everyday, and Degolien teachings about the Farstrider's honor, nobility, respect for the law and faith, how to stay healthy and how they protect Quel'Thalas borders. She also learned about her magic addiction from Degolien and how the Farstriders deal with it by meditating and self control. After the Sunwell was destroyed, Faradriel had a hard time dealing with her addiction to magic, because she feared that if she exaggerated she could end up like the wretched that ran around crazy in the woods.
Before she turned 93, Faradriel asked Degolien to train her as a Farstrider, but he said that she was too young for that. After two weeks of talking to his superiors, Degolien managed to get the council to hear Faradriel, and her case about joining the Farstriders at such a young age. They only agreed on a trial, that she would be tested and if she passed they would meet again. Degolien tested her by sending her to one of his friends, the ranger Sallina at Sunstrider Isle. Faradriel had to prove to him that she could follow directions, fight and protect others. [starting area quests]. While completing some tasks there she was paid for her work, she learned the value of money, and hard work. She also leaned new weapon skills with the ranger Sallina, and impressed everyone with her bow skills, because Sallina is a ranger like Degolien. After about two weeks of tests, Faradriel was called by the Farstrider's council and was told that her performance was almost perfect and they had a free spot for a new recruit to start training. Faradriel started training to become a Farstrider at the end of that week, moved to one of the training camps and took Faradrim with her. Faradrim is the only cat trained by the Farstriders that isn't from Silvermoon. Everyone thought it was funny to watch a male black lion train surrounded by all the female red lynxes from Everson Woods.
Based at what now is called the Ghostlands at the Farstrider Enclave, Fardriel realized that she was born to be a hunter, and asked to go to the city, at the Farstriders Square to be trained as one. Because she could control her lion so well and loved animals, she became a beast master.
Fara worked at the Ghostland's base for years until she graduated and got herself an apartment in Silvermoon near Degolien's old place. She needed to live in the city because she was working at the Farstrider's city offices and taking specific tasks. One of her tasks was to investigate the Windrunner Spire. After accomplishing her goals, she found a locket bearing the Windrunner seal. She decided to take it to her commander in Silvermoon. He sent her to Undercity to talk to Sylvanas. She went through the portal that connects Silvermoon to Undercity to give Sylvanas the locket. Faradriel had never used that portal and never left the Eversong Woods. After speaking with Sylvanas and hearing her lament for the Blood Elves she returned to Silvermoon and the Ghostlands.
Faradriel was shocked by Undercity and the undead that lived there. She couldn't look at them directly because she feared that they would look at her back and that she would recognize someone. She wore a mask during the visit to the city because the smell of decay and sewage was too intense. She walked in that city trying not to touch anything, because she hated the smell and the way everything looked dirty and gross, especially the Abominations that guarded the doorways with their guts falling out. Faradriel couldn't believe that Silvermoon would be allied with such "people". Being part of the Horde and allied with Undercity is outrageous for Faradriel.
After her first trip away from her home Faradriel talked to her ranger commander and asked to be upgrated to field agent, bringing back information from her trips. Seeing Undercity made her realize how much of the world she didn't know yet and how much she would love to travel and see it. Since Fara travels, helping others in her way and also making money to survive. Faradriel still had her apartment in Silvermoon city, where she stayed when she visited the city. She traveled through almost all of Azeroth and Draenor, and she made plans for a long trip, from North to South, to see everything and learn the history. Fara appreciates history and learning about her background. She thinks that Silvermoon doesn't value it enough and that other elves don't think it is important.
Fara, in one of the explorations a couple of years away from home (after Burning Crusade), decided to go to Scarlet Monastery. The Scarlet Crusade have been Silvermoon's enemies for a long time and in the extermination lists of both Blood Knights and Farstriders. She arrived at the Scarlet Monastery and entered one of the wings which turned out to be the Library. After killing the Scarlet Crusaders in the library she noticed that a lot of important books were lying around and Fara opened one of them to see what it was about and she was surprised because they were history books. She started checking all the books to see if all of them were that important and she realized that the Scarlet Crusade were keeping a lot of the important history books that people around Azeroth thought were lost. Fara decided to take those books with her, even if that meant carrying more weight all the way back home. She ended up hiring a couple of messengers to help her. Being in the Scarlet Monastery library reminded her of the Scryer's Library in Shattrath that she used to visit while she was there helping the Scryer armed forces and how she felt about the Blood Elf culture and history being outside Silvermoon, including secrets and magic. After she left the Scarlet Monastery library, she had an idea. She was going to take the books back to Silvermoon and talk to Lor'themar Theron about starting a new library in Silvermoon. Lor'themar liked her idea and agreed that the Blood Elves should have their culture and history in Silvermoon. Since then the Silvermoon Library is being built, and the books recovered from the monastery are kept in a safe place. Fara started bringing home every book left unattended in ruins, old castles and other places she traveled to.
