Background

I still remember the days, the days before I lost my sanity and the days before I destroyed nearly all that was dear to me. The days when I was a happy man and when the world seemed to make sense. My name is Karnasuel Sháianama and this is my story...

My youth

I was born a noble at the house of Firestorm 6942 years ago in Eversong Forest. For a long time I followed in my fathers footsteps and was raised to be a polite and courtious noble. I loved my parents, they were kind and admirable in both wisdom and social manners. It saddens me that they died so early in my life but I am still gratefull for the time that we had together.

After my parents died I was nearly adult and I had to run the house alone. Soon I learned that this was a lot harder than it looked. My mentor helped me from time to time and educated me in shadow and firemagic the ways of a warlock. Still things were troublesome untill I met her. She was a beauty unlike I had ever seen... The Lady Ztartlight Zhadowza. She was educated in the was of a warlock like me but her feelings wer cold and bitter. We often met and talked for hours, she seemed to like me and some walls started to crumble. Not surprising that a short time after we married in the barrens.

A tragic ending

We lived a great life and our love grew over time, but some things aren't meant to last and for the tragedy that struck I was not prepared. Together we were attempting to summon a powerfull demon, a doomwalker but things went wrong... very wrong. Not one but five of them appeared and before I could react my wife was screaming in agony as they tore her appart in front of my very own eyes. I could do nothing but stand frozen as they dragged her soul back to the nether with them laughing at my weakness...

A year passed after that day and I gave up my studies for a long time. To depressed from losing my wife. I started growing restless wondering if there was  a way to save her soul and I deepened myself in the dark studies again. Many books passed under my eyes and one told more lies than the other yet I found no way of bringing her back to me. After months I discovered a book which said the secrets of restoring a soul would lay in winterspring... what a fool I was. I travelled to a large frozen lake only to find completely nothing. In defeat I started burning through the ice of the frozen lake and took a dive into the icy water with the intend to end my suffering... but it didn't....

Free at last and a new beginning

For more than 6800 years I was awake frozen deep within the icy lake, waiting in agony for the day I would be released from the hell of my own mind. It seemed even the spirits didn't want me amongst them. One day the ice started to break and I was released from my prison. Rising up in this new world I peered around and found that much had changed and I was oblivious to the reasons. I decided to take a look into this new world, perhaps now the magic would be there to restore my wife.

During my travels I came to know a man named Ethaniel Fireborn. I had spoken to him a few times, he looked much older than me even though he was not. One day he came to me in great panic as his wife had a daughter and the little girl was very ill. A forsaken friend I had encountered earlier seemed to know a lot about healing people so I called for his aid and together we examined the baby. It seemed her lungs weren't fullgrown and they were failing. We figured we could make the little child new lungs by creating them magically from a fullgrown lung. Because we had no one else I volunteered and allowed the forsaken to cut one of the lungs from my chest to save the child. The forsaken worked for hours but eventually managed to save her. Her father was so thankfull that he vowed to take me as his son and would not take no for an answer. I could appreciate the irony as I was much older than him and accepted taking on the name Karnasuel Fireborn. The new born child was named Dessie Fireborn and a year after Kaeliana Fireborn followed, becomming my second sister.

The corruption within

I cared much fo both my sisters but my longing to restore my wife got the best of me. I started to become obsessive in my work and practiced recklessly with dangerous magic. From out of no where my new father and mother suddenly fell to a fell-infection and I am certain still that it was my magic that caused this. They died within a month leaving me to care for Dessie and Kaeliana. Obsessively I plunged myself on the darkest magic I could find, the magic used by the scourge  to raise the dead to life. I became intrigued when the scourge attacked and decided to lead a few to my home to get rid of those pesky little sisters. They would prove a nice opportunity to see what these scourge could do. Unfortunately my plans were foiled by two Tauren that managed to escape with my sisters. I recognized one of them from some time ago and followed him to his home.

My cruelest act

As the Tauren arrived as he seemed wounded, yet I had no plance to take risks. I gathered a few of my likeminded friends and we assaulted his home. I must admit being surprised by what I found for the home contained much more then a simple tauren bull. Inside there was a dragon to be found, a younger one but a dragon still. For reasons I do not wish to understand the Tauren whom identified himself as Xenovore Dragonfriend, referred to this dragon as "wife". The idea alone makes me sick. In the kitchen we discovered another female Tauren, appaerantly his sister. Together with my allies we chained the Tauren to the wall before nailing the dragon and his sister to the wall opposed to him. Slowly I explained to him the foolishness of his actions and that my sisters would not escape me. To make sure he understood we did him a little favor by giving him an experience he will remember forever. One of the warlocks amongst my allies passed me an ancient demon claw that enhances pain. To make sure the Tauren watched I cut off his eyelids then slowly I started skinning the dragon and his sister alive. Perhaps I took a little too much fun into it, I kept healing them just enough to not let them die and they lasted for 7 entire days before dying, but this was mostly because there wasn't anything non-fatal left to cut. Xenovore lasted for 5 days before passing out. I wished to start on Xenovore himself yet we were disturbed by a millitary unit lead by the other tauren. At the time I was sure I would kill both later yet this is not what happened.

After the short time I spend with the Tauren and his family I went back to track down my sisters. I found their tracks leading towards Silvermoon, yet again I was held up by an event. Suddenly out of nowhere the two Taurens stood towering over me and Xenovore grabbed me lifting me with a single hand like I weighed nothing at all. For a moment he stared into my eyes and I could see strange foggy shades moving in his eyes. Then all of a sudden he put me down on the ground and walked away saying only three words "Time will tell". I did not stop to think about it and went back on my way.

The fall of Suncrown village

While travelling to Silvermoon I passed near suncrown village and observed that the scourge that seemed to be heading towards Silvermoon like me were going to miss it. I could not resist and lured the scourge towards the village. I thought it was a beautiful sight, I think it was a father and son that died together side by side, the father ran through with a place through his chest. I've seen mother killed and turned only to be killed again by her own daughter. But, as the daughter was impaled on a sword I felt strange. I still do not know how to describe the feeling but it made me drive the scourge around her away from her. As I walked to her and I looked down on the girl for the first time in a long time I felt pitty for the girl. As I kneeled down next to her she was dying and in shock kept whispering a name "Auryn". I looked over her body and sensed the woman was carrying a child which had been destroyed in her womb by the sword that impaled her. I pulled the sword from her body and carried her out of reach from the scourge. I nurtured her wounds long enough to make sure she would survive then when I looked back at her as I was leaving a realization came to me. She would be the one to destroy me, a nemesis. I hescitated for a moment, wondering if I should destroy her. For some reason unknown to me I decided she was an unworthy challenge and I would give her the opportunity for revenge.

Travelling further, I finally reached Silvermoon and was astonished by the wonderful corruption that reigned there these days. I set out to gain in power yet as one knows, plans do not always work out as planned. For heading to Silvermoon that day started a trail of events that changed my life forever....