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| Name: | Ceiya Emberthorn |
| (KAI-yuh) | |
| AKA: | Ceiya Snowbriar |
| Gender: | Female |
| Race: | Night Elf |
| Class: | Warrior |
| Role: | Damage |
| Faction: | Sentinels |
| Professions: | blacksmithing, mining |
| Homeland: | Winterspring, Kalimdor |
| Player: | OzmaAsimov |
RP Hooks
- Sentinel: Ceiya was a Sentinel for over 6,000 years, and earned quite a reputation for herself in that time.
- Veteran: Ceiya fought in numerous battles and three wars: the War of the Shifting Sands, the Third War, and the war of the Cataclysm itself.
- Party Girl: This giant lady sucks the marrow out of life. She's always down for a celebration, from just sharing laughter and drinks with friends to a wild bacchanalia.
Appearance
A colossus of a kaldorei woman, Ceiya's densely muscled body stands just over nine feet tall. She favors very little armor or clothing, exposing the violet skin mapped with old scars left by many a gnoll spear, Qiraji claw, or demon's blade. Her neck, wrists, and ankles bear thick burn scars left by the manacles and chains that held her during her transformation.
When in a battle fury, Ceiya's skin will break out in burning cracks. The glow of her eyes turns a flaming orange, and smoke seeps from her lips, the occasional gout of flame ejecting from her mouth.
Even when calm, Ceiya is physically hot. Her skin is very warm to the touch — not enough to burn, but enough to cause discomfort after a while.
Personality
Ceiya is a creature of raw, unbridled passion. She throws herself fully into everything — battle, drink, love — with reckless abandon. She has a zeal for life that refuses to die, nor even to diminish with age. Though millennia old, she lives very much in the moment.
Most physical things have always come easily to Ceiya, so she often seeks out greater challenges just to keep life interesting. She doesn't mind failing; it's just a chance to learn how to succeed the next time.
Ceiya has no patience for bullies, slavers, or cowards who prey on the weak. She's usually the biggest and strongest in the room, and is more than willing to throw her weight around to put abusers in their place so everyone can get back to enjoying themselves.
In the heat of battle when she unleashes her rage, Ceiya lets go of reason. She is still perfectly capable of distinguishing friend from foe, but she isn't particularly careful when she's in a fury. She'll aim it in the right direction, but collateral damage is almost a certainty.
History
Ceiya Snowbriar grew up in the chill wilderness of Winterspring, the child of a Sentinel who commanded a small outpost there. She never took well to the cold, and relished the rare opportunities to travel to warmer climates. The hard life in the snowy mountains hardened Ceiya, though, making her strong and hardy, enhancing the natural power of her tall, broad-shouldered form.
Following in her mother's footsteps, Ceiya enlisted with the Sentinels. Even she will admit the reason was partly just to seek an assignment somewhere warm where it never snowed. After demonstrating what an impressive asset she was in training, she got her wish when she was stationed in the jungles of Feralas.
Over the millennia, Ceiya proved herself time and time again as the fiercest of warriors in battle. She would unleash her rage in combat, becoming a terrifying juggernaut. But anger was not her only potent emotion — all of Ceiya's passions ran deep. Off the field, her loud laughter and playful demeanor showed her sisters that she was as fierce a friend and comrade as she was a terror to her enemies. Her lust for life and all it offered was unparalleled, and more than once she charged into a situation that even she could not overcome. But when the Priestesses of Elune prayed for her, she always returned to life, albeit with some new scars to show for it.
Ceiya Snowbriar became something of a legend among the Sentinels — an unstoppable titan and a mighty companion. When the War of the Shifting Sands loomed and the call to battle went out, Ceiya was among the first to volunteer and inspire others to do the same. She lost her life twice in Silithus, and came back each time ready to give the enemy twice the pain in return. When the Third War came to Kalimdor, she gained a reputation among the outlanders, many of whom hoped to bring her head to their commanders. She would fall again at Hyjal under the massive hoof of Archimonde. While not the most glorious way to die, she still gladly tells the tale over a drink, laughing at her own misfortune.
Ceiya's glorious career seemed as unstoppable as the woman herself. At least, that is, until the Cataclysm. She survived the reshaping of the land just fine, but when the time came to defend Mount Hyjal once again, everything changed. Some of the Twilight's Hammer were former soldiers who remembered her from the Third War. It was for her reputation that she was targeted — not to kill, but to be captured.
Many Twilight cultists and fire elementals fell to Ceiya's fury before they managed to subdue her. The shadow magic seeped into her mind and her senses fled from her, leaving her feeling as if floating in an empty void. When she could see and feel again, she was bound by red hot chains to an altar. She was surrounded not merely by Twilight cultists, but the Druids of the Flame. The druids were performing a ritual…and apparently some kind of surgery. The manacles burning her neck, wrists, and ankles were nothing compared to the pain of having a Smoldering Shard — a crystallized piece of the essence of a powerful fire elemental — embedded into her heart.
The ritual changed her. Her body mutated, muscle and bone stretching and swelling. Already towering over her fellow Sentinels, she became a giant among kaldorei. Her skin cracked like volcanic rock revealing the molten lava beneath. Everything burned, but the fire and heat did not harm her; they fed her. The minions of Ragnaros wanted a living weapon. They wanted to unleash one of their enemy's own champions against them, now a slave of the Firelands. They had tested the ritual on numerous captives, but all others had perished. Only Ceiya had endured.
But the Hammer and the Flame Druids had not understood why Ceiya survived the process. It was not her physical might, but her indomitable passion. She loved life. She loved living. But she also hated her captors. When they sent her out onto the battlefield in the Firelands and unchained her, the druids and Sentinels facing her were aghast. Ceiya Snowbriar had turned traitor? What kind of monster had she become?
She showed them.
Ceiya lifted her axes high…and whirled around, taking the head of the Flame Druid commander, bellowing a Sentinel battle cry. The Cenarion and Sentinel forces surged, roaring in renewed hope and sweeping across the field to victory.
In the aftermath of the battle, Ceiya surrendered herself to her people, begging their help. She spent weeks in a cell for her own and others' safety, writhing in agony as the Smoldering Shard burned in her heart, craving blood and fire to sate its hunger. In time, while the druids were unable to remove the Shard without surely killing her, they did devise a potion to help her control the pain.
Never one to shy from a fight, as soon as she was released Ceiya insisted on returning to battle against her former captors. Her fury was more devastating than ever, fueled by the literal fire inside her. Her sisters took to calling her Emberthorn, as Snowbriar no longer seemed appropriate.
With the defeat of Ragnaros and Deathwing, the world began to find some kind of balance again. Ceiya tried to do the same, and refused to allow her pain and experiences to rob her of the zeal that had always sustained her. All the same, Ceiya felt that she had closed a chapter of her life, and she resigned from the Sentinels. It was time to seek new challenges and new fields of battle.
Relationships
| Eliara Snowbriar Ceiya's mother raised her daughter as best she knew how. While Ceiya's discomfort in Winterspring caused some tension, they remained close and Ceiya learned a great deal from her mother in her early life. Sadly, Eliara perished at the Battle of Mount Hyjal. |
| Velrin Silverbloom Velrin was the Watcher that Ceiya surrendered herself to after breaking free from the Firelands forces. |
