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| Portrayed by Anya Taylor-Joy |
| Name: | Isaleth Winters |
| (EE-sə-leth) | |
| AKA: | The Gracelight; Dame Isaleth; Isa |
| Gender: | Female |
| Race: | Human |
| Class: | Paladin |
| Role: | Healer |
| Faction: | The Argent Crusade, the Ashen Verdict |
| Professions: | mining, jewelcrafting |
| Homeland: | Silverpine Forest |
| Player: | inkie |
RP Hooks
- Members of the Argent Dawn, Argent Crusade, or Ashen Verdict likely know her.
- It is possible that people who grew up in southern Silverpine/northern Gilneas were acquainted with her in her childhood.
- People from Capital City in Lordaeron or affiliated with the cathedral there might have met her as a pupil and trainee.
- Knights of the Ebon Blade probably find her deeply, deeply exasperating. (She is too gonna save u guises souls, just u watch.)
Appearance
Isaleth is a very young woman, a little taller than average, with a wiry, athletic build and few curves to speak of. Her hair is long, ash blonde and frequently disheveled; her face is all sharply-chiseled angles and ascetic hollows, dominated by enormous, wide-set dark eyes.
She would look waifish were it not for the fervent intensity of her gaze: She seems constantly to be looking at something awe-inspiring and profound that no one else can see. She radiates an air of soft rapture and benevolent certainty, so that she seems almost to exude a light of her own.
Personality
Grandiose ⬥ Fervent ⬥ Unyielding ⬥ Unworldly
History
Isaleth Winters was born twenty-one years ago to a family of shabby-genteel landowners in southern Silverpine Forest, which was then Gilneas. She was a dreamy, intense child who from a very young age possessed Ideas about her own heroic destiny.
The Second War had come to a triumphant close the year prior to her birth, with the victory of the Alliance of Lordaeron, and Isa was much taken with the tales she heard in her young childhood about the heroism of men like Anduin Lothar and Turalyon, the bold sacrifice of the Sons of Lothar, and — importantly — the faith and shining glory of the infant Order of the Silver Hand. Her own religiosity was strange and fervent even in childhood; she fell into peculiar rapturous spells or trances and claimed to receive visions from the Light. Her family, fairly ordinarily secular, were not entirely sure what to make of her.
She agitated fiercely to be sent for "paladin training" almost as soon as she could swing a wooden sword at her brothers and ride a pony. When she was ten years old, her parents at last relented and dispatched her to Capital City in Lordaeron for a cathedral education.
It was year 17. The fact that Genn Greymane had begun construction on his Gilnean wall the year prior and regional politics were looking increasingly fraught may have been a factor in her parents' willingness to send their youngest child to the security of Lordaeron's main church.
The outbreak of the Third War cut a deep impression in thirteen-year-old Isaleth. She had idolized the young paladin Arthas, protégé of the Lightbringer himself, and believed she witnessed in the golden prince's tragic fall and the devastation of Capital City — and then Lordaeron — the grief and horror a single neglected soul could wreak. She realized that it was her destiny to stand as a beacon of salvation against such corruption.
She could have saved him, probably.
By that point the young teen was a squire of Lord Raymond George, and when the Order of the Silver Hand split, she followed him into the Argent Dawn. She remained with the order as a sister initiate after Lord George's death; her strange, visionary fervor impressed as many people as it alienated. Whatever her beliefs or relationship with the Light, she was certainly a gifted healer and an inspiring preacher.
Maybe a little too given to the preaching. But still, inspiring.
She received her own knighthood within the order in year 25 at the remarkably young age of 18, possibly because of her own ironclad conviction that it was her Destiny (and concomitant frequent reminding of her superiors of same); this feat in turn only further cemented her certainty in her unique status.
She would never look down on anyone less Chosen by the Light, naturally. She is a veritable font of compassion and healing benevolence.
Just like the Light intended when it Chose her.
(She is not as obnoxious as this makes her sound, but as with most Chosen Ones, she's a little obnoxious.)
Relationships
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