| Name: |
Melancholy Grimlocke |
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(mel-un-kol-ee grim-lohk) |
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| Gender: |
Female |
| Race: |
Human |
| Class: |
Warlock |
| Role: |
Damage |
| Professions: |
enchanting, alchemy |
| Homeland: |
Duskwood |
| Player: |
Athena |
RP Hooks
- New Warlock: Melancholy has become a new warlock, apprenticing to Averlena Shine, of the Fallon Fleet.
- W.E.B. Trained: An officially stamped W.E.B. warlock trained warlock, Melancholy has all her paperwork in place, and has potential connections to other warlocks.
- Duskwood Nobility: The Grimlockes are a minor House of very little political importance, notable mostly in the social scene for Lady Miserie, who loves company, and throws parties whenever she can.
Appearance
A 5'10" (6" with the boots) gothic young woman with long, riotously curly black hair (dyed to the shade); a prominent nose; full, soft lips; a willowy, slim limbed build; and light honey brown eyes. Melancholy dresses to create a specific "book cover" for potential readers, informative of her personality and origin — she is from Duskwood, a small noble house, and she is proud of it.
A variety of Melancholy's style.Her style of clothing often attempts to lend more of a sense of curves to an otherwise lithesome form — peplum tucked waists and frills, long corselettes with flared hips, tiered layered fronts, and rounded skirts. She's almost never spotted without a little hat and a spill of a veil of some sort over her eyes. Black is the main choice, but always with a pop of color; these days that color is a rich, dark, and warm leaning purple, though she used to be known for red.
Melancholy without her veil, in her swimsuit.She's often found with a focusing athame dagger and a staff-cane, as a warlock. Those who can sense magic will sense a constantly maintained fel armor over herself. And recently, she's begun wearing perfume (Purple Melancholia) which gives her a scent of lavender, cardamom, amber, and a hint of coconut.
On the back of her right hand is a black ink tattoo of a rising dawn sun over water, with two albatross looking at each other across each side of the sun. Below the sun on her wrist is a soft gray-black ink tattoo of a lotus flower.
She speaks with a cultured Stormwind accent, often using an extensive vocabulary with a flair for the dramatic. She walks with a self-assured confidence, and is more than comfortable with her height, but once seated or relaxed, she's prone to slouching and lounging.
Personality
Genuine ⬥ Fair ⬥ Superstitious ⬥ Reflective
ALIGNMENT: CHAOTIC GOOD
Formerly Correct Formal Titles: Lady Melancholy
"Polite and respectful and absolutely used to getting her own way." - Lena Shine
Melancholy has always been aware of her name and her place in the world, and she believes that it was fated from the start. That's not to say she's a passive passenger on a predestined ride — she sees it as an exploration of destiny to discover, and she pushes and pulls against the tides of fate, deciding which things are the ones meant to be accepted, and those meant to be rejected, often through what could be seen as arbitrary understandings of her path gleaned from her perception of events. Prone to seeing everything as a part of a greater pattern, it's left her with a tendency towards superstitions in general; the ones she keeps are those that seem — to her — logical and rational.
She has a sense of justice and fairness, with an idea about truly balanced scales and ways to even out the inherent chaos of the world. It isn't Fair by the Law or Rules, but her own concepts, and she is often certain of her interpretations. However, part of that fair mind is that she is willing to wait and listen to others, and what they know or believe, even if it's different from her own, before she will make her own decision or judgement. Once she does have it though, she is firm, unless someone has something new to reconsider.
Early on in her life, Melancholy decided not to be melancholy, and she hasn't been — for most of her life. It doesn't mean she hasn't ever felt sorrow, but that she usually works deliberately to encourage and drive her feelings in specific directions, and she lives her life purposefully in action to her ideals. She has always rationalized and controlled her emotional states as someone learned to self-regulate early on in life, but that doesn't mean she doesn't have a temper or no strong feelings. Her life until a point kept her sheltered from a great deal of pain and suffering, despite the dramatic names of her family, and her ability to handle the increase in those tragedies has pressed her coping mechanisms to their maximum, with varying degrees of success and failure.
Still, she is often able to self-reflect on her actions and words, and when she comes to a conclusion that she has acted wrongly, she'll apologize, and she will admit fault.
As the youngest of her House, deeply loved by her family, and with a stable, comfortable wealth, Melancholy is a bit spoiled, and a little selfish. She had a good heart, and wants to do good — more than ever now — but she hasn't finished growing up all the way just yet, and it shows; it's one of the few aspects of the self she hasn't managed to see quite so clearly or reflect fully on yet.
There are also other things she believes about herself that may or may not be true, and still more that certainly aren't, but nevertheless now play a major role in what she does.
That self-awareness and belief in her destiny both influenced her decision to become a warlock, and determines what sort of warlock she is going to be.
She loves poetry, chrome bicycles, and she plays the French (Lordaeron) Horn.
THIS CHARACTER IS IN A MONOGAMOUS RELATIONSHIP AND CANNOT BE ROMANCED
Melancholy is a patience needed romance. Melancholy can seem like a person with an easy way into her heart, direct and open, and it is a false will-o’-the-wisp that will lead into a bog of nothing real past a point. There is a wall of a freeze out around her actual heart that is built of trauma and a personal distancing that needs time and timing to overcome, to convince her that she is wrong about a core belief she holds about herself.
Her sense of romance was not in a healthy place prior to dying and becoming a warlock (something similar to Fated Mates), and it’s much worse now that it shattered after the Shattering. She considers herself Unromanceable, and that this is perfectly fine, and that there’s certainly no line of potential people forming so it’s not like she’s disappointing anyone or letting her House down as the youngest. She doesn't perceive any impetus to engage in a romantic relationship. She also doesn't think she needs love (she is not correct).
She is pansexual, panromantic. She can be attracted to any race, with little restriction on age (beyond the obvious of an adult), height, or other physical attributes. She prefers those who have a strong sense of self and style more than any particular gender presentation.
Melancholy is attracted to determined, intellectually curious, decisive, precise, thoughtful, ambitious, intuitive, caring, and eccentric people who know both when to push and accept the conventional order of things. She is not attracted to people who are stoic, volatile, calculating, fragile, hot-tempered, gloomy, or overly protective. She will not be attracted to anyone who views her superstitions as unfounded or ridiculous.
She is not an inherently monogamous person, but polyamory will be likely only in the context of throuples or close relationships, not casual lovers. It is not possible to engage her in a casual sexual relationship. She can only be romanced in a serious emotional way for her to engage in a physical relationship.
As a partner, Melancholy is the sort of person who will believe in a Meant To Be, not just meant-to-be-for-now, and will picture herself with that person/people for all the rest of her life. She will dedicate herself to them, and expect that dedication in return, and there is literally no law or convention that will get in her way to fulfill that once she Believes. The world could specifically make something that forbids the union and she’d tear it up with her black laced gloved hands and burn it with a plum lipped smile.
She can be a little dramatic, both in her gestures of affection and her declarations of affection, but is ultimately a private person with her feelings, who won’t want to have the entire world seeing exactly what those are. But, she is the type of person to wear a token of a relationship openly and genuinely. She won’t deny a relationship, and she will not accept a Secret Relationship. She will not want to be with a partner(s) who shouts their feelings to the world, however, as that is uncomfortable (it's PERSONAL, okay??), and also what if it does something to their Destiny to alter it somehow? Consider the signs! Maybe they should see the fortune teller.
History
Birthday: January 24th, Year 5
Born the youngest of five children given the most gothic names possible from a union of surprising love, in Duskwood, at a place called Sunshine Place, because it used to be Brightwood, and that once made sense, Melancholy came into the world with a mix of potential.
For a long time, Melancholy wasn't entirely sure what to do, until her love of books made a career path into becoming a librarian seem an obvious choice. When she experienced a traumatic event during the Shattering, she turned away from that, and made the decision to pursue becoming a warlock instead. She encountered Mr. Carlay, who insisted on a long waiting period, during which she did think about the decision. Truly.
What had begun as something of an impulse became instead a measured choice, and when she did begin her training, he was duly convinced of her reasons. Never let it be said that Melancholy isn't capable of thinking things through. Sometimes maybe thinkings things through too much, given enough time, and she had a lot of time. A young woman with no other occupation can do a lot of thinking in a year.
Melancholy with possible future tattoos, literal, of Bryn's tattoos.She told no one of her family what really happened to her, or her decision to become a warlock — and what's more, she concealed it all deliberately once she did finally begin working on it. It was as if she had made her decision, and wanted absolutely no other input at all, and that she felt like her choice wasn't anyone's business but her own, or perhaps underestimated the impact of it. Either way, when she did finally speak of the matter, it was only as a done deal.
After she finalized her pact on January 25th, Year 30th, she decided on a specialization into Affliction, and the necessity of finding a warlock instructor who could see her through the next stage of her learning.
Bryn teaching Melancholy how to swim, among other things.Mr. Carlay suggested Averlena Shine, and Melancholy successfully applied for an apprenticeship, which involved taking an entire trip to Pandaria and working with the Fallon Fleet, intersecting her Fate with Lieutenant Reckoning Bryn Baird, and putting her on a course that Melancholy could never have foreseen, but Destiny must have, right?
On May 4th, Bryn Baird initiated a formal courtship, and Melancholy's fate has intertwined fully with the sniper's, as he expands her world to include a variety of knowledge (birds, cinnamon trees, naval command structure, livers, and more) and experiences. She intends to make him a tattoo on her book cover, metaphorically and literally.
Relationships
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Bryn Baird
“It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free.” A depth of intelligence and incredible memory, he’s constructed a mind house to hold his knowledge, and applied a thoughtful soul to the contents. “The clearest eyes in all the world they read, with sense more keen and spirit of sight more true, than burns and thrills in sunrise.” His eyes are gorgeous, set in a golden face of an incredible body. “A youth to Fortune and Fame unknown. Fair science frown’d not on his humble birth, and Melancholy mark’d him for her own.” She is his as he is hers. The Reckoning of her destiny. |
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Woe
“Therefore I dare reveal my private woe, the secret blots of my imperfect heart, nor strive to shrink or swell mine own desert, nor beautify nor hide. For this I know, that even as I am, thou also art.” Brother, beloved friend, twin of the soul. |
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Miserie
“Still, where rosy Pleasure leads, see a kindred Grief pursue; Behind the steps that Misery treads, Approaching comfort view: the hues of bliss more brightly glow.” Sister, much admired. Oldest friend of magic. |
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Torment
“Love is a torment of the mind, a tempest everlasting.” Brother, poet, to be protected at all times. |
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Malaise
“‘A poison for us, if we make it so, And, if we make it so, an antidote for the same poison that afflicted us.’ I’m witness to the poison, but the cure of my complaint is not, for me, in Time. There may be doctors in eternity to deal with it, but they are not here now.” Eldest sister, respected doctor, distant in distance. |
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Theris
“Thus much is saved from chance and change, that waits for me and thee; thus much – how little! – from the range of Death and Destiny.” Chance met, dear friend. “Then shalt thou see me and know me – Death, then, no longer, but life.” Guardian of the Living in Duskwood. “I don’t want to cover his face with handkerchiefs that he may get used to the death he carries.” Death knight (never knighted). Complicated until soul is completely healed. |
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Lena
“Great hail! We cry to the comers, from the dazzling unknown shore; Bring us hither your sun and your summers; and renew our world as of yore; you shall teach us your song’s new numbers, and things that we dreamed not before.” Respected teacher, friend. Near in age? Shockingly. |
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Mr. Carlay
“‘Tis but a trial all must undergo; to teach unthankful mortals how to prize that happiness vain man’s denied to know, until he’s call’d to claim it in the skies.” Respected teacher. “We’d both learn something important about you, and what sort of warlock you’re going to be.” Warning voice in her head, stalwart sense of the line of the fel. “Till old experience do attain to something like prophetic strain.” Ancient. Fifty, maybe? |
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Renna, Lady Lysander
“Thy form benign, oh Goddess, wear, thy milder influence impart, thy philosophic train be there to soften, not to wound my heart, the generous spark extinct revive, teach me to love and to forgive, exact my own defects to scan.” Respected teacher, soft encouragement, a tie to a painful memory. |
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Aszera Sunstrike
“And suddenly you encapsulate a demon. A demon that was always there, but now it’s coming to play, and you can feel it.” A demon hunter, a sin’dorei. “Let Love clasp Grief lest both be drown’d, let darkness keep her raven gloss: ah, sweeter to be drunk with loss, to dance with death, to beat the ground.” A dancer, a lover of the arts, could be a friend. |
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Cressidha of House Aspenwood
"Calmer than mists, and cold as they, that fold on fold up the dim valley are rolled, learn thou to be.” Calm, reserved, an Aspenwood. “Sweet souls around us! Watch us still; press nearer to our side; into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.” A watcher and a guardian, an inspiration. |
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Bishop Mordecai Aspenwood
“The gentle Light that shines behind the storm, the Dream that many a twilight hour enfolds.” Bishop, he spoke against the Twilight Hammer cultists. “Draw in thy beams and humble all thy might to that sweet yoke where lasting freedoms be; which breaks the clouds and opens forth the Light, that doth both shine and give us sight to see. O take fast hold’ let that Light be thy guide.” Healer, quiet temperament, so young for a bishop. |
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Shine
“But he – to him, who knows what gift is thine, Death? Hardly may we think or hope, when we Pass likewise thither where to-night is he, Beyond the innumerable outer seas that shine and darken round such dreams as half divine Some sunlit harbor in that starless sea where gleams no ship to windward or to lee.” Lena’s husband, once a Fleet Lieutenant. “Old age hath yet his honor and his toil. Death closes all; but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with gods.” Older – Forty? Certain death to enemies. |
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Estel
“In darkness and in light, from herb and stone.” The Estel from Lady Niris Ference’s Herbal, a priestess who uses both Light and shadow. Extraordinary colored eyes. |
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Sir Dane Atley the Red
“And through the heat of conflict, keeps the law in Calmness made, and sees what he foresaw; or if an unexpected call succeed, come when it will, is equal to the need: He who, though thus endured as with a sense and faculty for storm and turbulence, is yet a Soul whose master-bias leans to homefelt pleasures and to gentle scenes; Sweet images! Which wheresoe’er he be, are at his heart; and such fidelity it is his darling passion to approve; more brave for this, that he hath much to love.” A legend, the knight of House Ference, and therefore a pride of Duskwood. |
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Gwenivene Whittle
“But let the sacred Genius of the night such mystic visions send, as Spenser saw, when thro’ bewild’ring Fancy’s magic maze, to the fell House of Busyrane, he led.” Famed telemancer, Kirin Tor mage. |
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Bryling
“Her natural sanctuaries, with a local soul of independence and stern liberty.” Bryn’s sister, independent and strong willed. “Liberty, ascend to your throne of glory on the shield, waving noble palms, crowned with laurel.” Stormwind guard. “My Soul – at Liberty – Behind this mortal Bone There knits a bolder One –” Willing to be a bridesmaid. |
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Shun ?
“Headlong to deeds of death the hosts are driven: Hatred to madness wrought, each face deforms, Mounts the black whirlwind, and involves the heaven.” Fighter, always masked. |
Writings
| Title |
Summary |
| (2026-08-14) The Gray in the Black and White |
Melancholy writes to Bryn Baird about her doings in the week of facing down a Doomguard and considering her future in war situations, as well as her upcoming leisure. 2300~ words. Personal Plot. |
| (2026-08-07) Rogue Wave |
Baird replies to Melancholy's letter about the battle at Lion's Landing. |
| (2026-08-07) Little Melancholy's First Sea Battle! |
Melancholy writes to Bryn Baird after the Lion's Landing attack where she experienced her first battle at sea (exciting!). 1700~ words. Discussion of world plot and personal plot. |
| (2026-07-29) Writing Things Down (A) |
Baird writes back to Melancholy. Again. He practices writing some things down. |
| (2026-07-28) Can't Possibly Hold In The News |
Melancholy writes to Bryn Baird about her doings from her Saturday excursions, with news about her obtained permissions, and various personal doings. World and Personal Plot. |
| (2026-07-25) Honey and Lightning |
Baird writes back to Melancholy. Again. This is going to go on for a while, guys. |
| (2026-07-24) Distracted Tattoos |
Melancholy forgot something. |
| (2026-07-23) Thoughts and Threads |
Melancholy writes to Bryn Baird about her week so far, where not much has happened, but she's had several thoughts about it all the same. 2200~ words. Personal Plot. |
| (2026-07-19) Lying Awake |
Baird replies to Melancholy's second letter. With a sweater, this time. |
| (2026-07-18) A Long Enough Day For Toast |
Melancholy writes to Bryn Baird about her latest adventures (misadventures?) on Admiral Taylor's orders, and how much she misses her sniper in the field and off it. 3k~ words, World and Personal Plot. |
| (2026-07-13) Important Enough |
Baird writes back to Melancholy. |
| (2026-07-12) A Sha of Anger to a Sha of Regret |
Melancholy writes to Bryn Baird about the infestation of the sha of anger in the Shrine of the Stars, and all she has considered in self-reflection afterwards. 2k~ words. World Plot. |
| (2026-06-08) The Warlock Thing |
Malaise responds to her sister. |
| (2026-05-31) A Pleasant Comfort |
Melancholy writes Bryling back with support for making sure no former girls mess Bryn around, and also reassurance that there's no plans for ending the courtship for school. 730~ words. Personal Plot. |
| (2026-05-28) Sublime Metaphysically? |
Bryling Baird writes again to her brother's girlfriend. |
| (2026-05-27) Unsent Letters: Malaise |
Old, old prompt response: UNSENT LETTERS. Six unsent letters and five sent letters from Malaise Grimlocke to her family. ~600 words. |
| (2026-05-27) Happily Ensconced |
Melancholy writes her eldest sister Malaise back to tell her about the invasion in the Golden Vale against the mogu (disagreeable slave owners), how many famous people she's met (several!), her suitor (Lieutenant Bryn Baird), and that she knows warlocks explode (bad), but don't worry about her, she has a teacher (good). 1400~ words. Personal Plot. |
| (2026-05-27) A Shared Specific Connection |
Melancholy writes to her brother Torment to find out if his visit with Bryling went well, and to let him know that she's in a place of poetry. 900~ words. Personal Plot. |
| (2026-05-26) Letter from Miserie |
Miserie writes back to Melancholy about the next intended cannon heist, among other things. |
| (2026-05-20) One Cannonfull Void Bag, Please |
Melancholy writes her arcane magical sister Miserie to find out if she can pretty, pretty, pretty please have another super magical bag to hold a cannon for her suitor. The Pretty Please Eyes are assumed. 850~ words. Personal Plot. |
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Summary |
| (2026-09-05) Tear Down This Wall! |
Arric, Atley, Cressidha, Gwenivene, Lena, Melancholy, and Shun assist Jaina and Vereesa in the campaign on the Isle of Thunder. This time, they make use of a very straightforward way to get through a wall. (It is explosives.) ~3300 words. |
| (2026-08-30) Welcome to the Isle of Thunder |
An Alliance team of Arric, Atley, Cressidha, Gwenivene, Lena, Melancholy, Peixin, Shine, and Shun meet up with Jaina Proudmoore and Vereesa Windrunner to establish an Alliance base of operations on the Isle of Thunder. ~8500 words. |
| (2026-08-30) A Melancholy Deployment and Assignment |
The word goes out -- Melancholy has been deployed and assigned along with Lena to the Isle of Thunder. And you know what that means. (It's not that Jaina is a dreadlord.) 1450 words. World and Personal Plot. |
| (2026-08-29) To The Isle of Thunder! |
With the successful campaigns against the Divine Bell and for the official inclusion of warlocks as petty officers within the Navy complete, a new potential campaign floats ominously on the horizon -- the Dalaran led initiative on Isle of Thunder. 5700~ words. Discussion of World Plot. |
| (2026-08-28) Beautifully Illegible Thoughts |
After dinner with the Captain, Melancholy and Baird return to their room to further discuss the upcoming deployment, Baird's classes and classmates, and houses external and internal. 4k words. Personal Plot. |
| (2026-08-22) The Bell Speaks |
Atley, Caspis, Celaven, Emerine, Gwenivene, Hana, Melancholy, and Shine are sent to find Prince Anduin and his mallet at the site where Garrosh intends to use the Divine Bell. If the Bell speaks, there may be devastating consequences. ~4600 words. |
| (2026-08-22) That Rings A Melancholy Bell |
After a fraught encounter with the Divine Bell -- successfully destroyed but at great personal cost to the Prince of Stormwind crushed beneath its broken pieces -- Melancholy struggles with memories of other times and places where she was the one crushed and faced death. Lt. Bryn Baird is on the job, but first he has to abruptly leave another job, and for that, Melancholy needs two willing helpers. 4k words. |
| (2026-08-21) The End of a Melancholy Apprenticeship |
Melancholy goes to see her teacher, Lena Shine, about her graduation as a warlock apprentice into full fledged warlock, with the same confident momentum that marked her start as an apprentice six months prior. 2k words. Personal plot. |
| (2026-08-15) The Handle, the Head, the Harmonic Ointment (Landfall E11) |
The three components of the mallet to counteract the Divine Bell have been found. Now they just need to be collected. |
| (2026-08-15) A Melancholy Knowing and the Monkey King |
Amidst the strange fairy tale unfolding in Landfall, Melancholy comes to an important personal decision about her future and fate, and the power of Knowing with Bryn Baird. World Plot Discussion and Personal Plot. 8600~ words. |
| (2026-08-13) Golden Eye Gals in War |
Melancholy and Hana bump into each other in the training yard of Lion's Landing, sharing their parallel similarities, and their different philosophical perspectives on the war. 4800~ words. Discussion of world plot and personal plot. |
| (2026-08-10) The Training Montage of Doom and Melancholy |
Melancholy has power leveled her way through warlocking, and now only some of the final, most advanced techniques remain to be conquered -- the summoning of the temporary powerful demons. As a treat, Lena reveals what kind of person Archmage Lena would be. 9111 words. Discussion of world plot, mostly Personal Plot. |
| (2026-08-08) The Monkey King's Tale (Landfall E10) |
Prince Anduin has uncovered a lead on how to combat the Divine Bell. The team has a fairy tale adventure. No one is massacred, which makes for a refreshing change of pace. |
| (2026-08-06) Red Sails |
Fleet warlocks Lena Shine and Melancholy Grimlocke join the battle for Lion's Landing, aboard the Lady Blanche. |
| (2026-08-01) The Blood-Dimmed Tide Is Loosed |
With the warlock caught in the intensifying shifting political wave of the war with a fortune to not let the tides of war wash her away, Melancholy summons Bryn Baird to Lion's Landing in the wake of witnessing the start of the Purge of Dalaran. 4200~ words. World and Personal Plot. |
| (2026-08-01) Darkness Falls on Dalaran (Landfall E9) |
The team answers a distress call from Darnassus, and track some thieves to Dalaran. Things quickly go downhill. (When you're in Dalaran, downhill is a long, steep fall.) |
| (2026-07-30) In Fine Melancholy Spirits |
Aszera introduces Melancholy to the wide range of spirits, with aesthetic. 4800~ words. Personal Plot. |
| (2026-07-25) The Crypt of the Divine Bell (Landfall E8) |
The joint Cobalt/Alliance team's vision has led to the discovery of the crypt where the Divine Bell has lain hidden for millennia. Now they just have to beat the Horde to it. |
| (2026-07-25) A Divine Melancholy Dinner |
After a successful search and rescue for the horrific Titan-flesh crafted Divine Bell, Melancholy gives her informal report to Siamus, and they trade in stories of the spooky and tragic hauntings of Azeroth for dinner entertainment. 8k words. World and Personal Plot. |
| (2026-07-23) An Actual Haunting! |
While out training new techniques, Melancholy encounters Celaven, the 7th Legion priest with an actual haunted past. 5400~ words. Personal Plot. |
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| (2026-09-01) Some Particular Requests |
Bryn Baird has questions for the Aspenwood Twins. |
| (2026-08-09) An Application for Apex? |
Baird writes to Aze about a prospective candidate for the Apex team. |
| (2026-07-28) Knowing Our Lives Too Well |
On a peaceful day at the Cradle of Chi-Ji, Aszera and Merelda run into one another while pursuing their own interests. They may have mutually-beneficial perspectives. ~ 1700 words |
| (2026-07-26) Sister Snipers |
As promised, Bryn Baird returns to Duskwood to teach his girlfriend's sisters to shoot. No trees were harmed (very much). |
| (2026-07-25) The Lost Puppy and the Golden Retriever |
Tanith Rincewind makes a friend. Whether she meant to or not. |
| (2026-07-22) Letters to Different People Who Are the Same Person |
Baird writes letters to Theris Lysander, Malaise Grimlocke, and Cecil Soso. They are three very different people who all have one important thing in common. |
| (2026-07-12) Reckoning with the Past |
Baird's father wants a word. |
| (2026-07-11) Haunted (A) |
Bryn Baird has one (1) problems. |
| (2026-07-10) Uniform |
Bryn Baird presents himself for the Admiralty exam to find out whether or not he actually is a lieutenant. |
| (2026-07-06) Open to Advice |
Baird asks Lena for personal advice. She asks him for political opinions. |
| (2026-06-29) Battles and Party-Planning |
Hana and Aszera meet in Lion's Landing and find they have a lot of mutual friends, as well as a lot of mutual interests, from playing music to slaying demons. ~7400 words. |
| (2026-06-29) A Monstrous Wine Cellar |
Lena and Shine investigate the mogu ruins of Ogudei, where there are reports of ghosts, Horde, and even stranger things. What were the mogu doing here, and what is it that the Horde is hoping to gain? ~7800 words. |
| (2026-06-27) Blending In |
After the brief mission in Dalaran, Lena happens across another of the quieter members of the delegation, Hana, and makes her acquaintance. ~2100 words. |
| (2026-06-26) Leisure Time |
Hana Levesworth and Bryn Baird become better acquainted. |
| (2026-06-24) Sisters in Duskwood |
Miserie comes home to Duskwood and reunites with her sister Malaise. ~2000 words. |
| (2026-06-21) Notoriously Competent |
Lace Lysander gets to take a break from writing cosmic horror when an elusive Moth gets into her office. It is a Moth with many opinions. Italics put in some serious overtime. |
| (2026-06-11) With Respect, Sir |
Lieutenant Baird takes issue with the Admiral's manners. |
| (2026-06-09) Alliance Colors |
Aszera comes to talk with Siamus about strategies, politics, and friendlier things. ~2000 words. |
| (2026-06-03) A Response to Malaise |
Miserie writes a letter back to Malaise. |
| (2026-05-25) Filling Up on Sunlight |
After the Empress's attack on Klaxxi'vess, Shine leaves the sha-corrupted land to visit Lena in the Vale. ~3k words. |
