Major Events

SOUTHSHORE CRISIS

After being trained as a priest in the Stormwind church for three years, then taking the path of a paladin and training for six years, a young man who worked as a courier for her father arrived at the Cathedral just after a call for assistance hit the city. Eithyne recieved permission to return home quickly and found the outlying farms utterly destroyed, her family homestead one of them. Her mother and younger sister had been the only people at the farm at the time, the farmhands having fled at the first warnings of a raid and her father and brother having been gone on a long-term delivery. No sign was found of her younger sister. Staying at the farm to help rebuild, Eithyne herself found her mother's head when rethatching the barn roof. She has since refused to enter the building, her father is the only mortal who can remain in the barn for an extended period of time, as the violently combative souls of Tyrian and Tyrianne recognize only him in their insanity.

GUILD HALL ACCIDENT

Soon after moving into their new Guild Hall, humorous accidents plagued the young guild. A mishap with a goblin explosive created a hole in the floor that was hidden under a rug and then, after two guild members (Dorin and Zorin) fell through, a rug and a large, low (coffee) table. One of the more impacting accidents was when a hunter (Beoren) sat down with his musket loaded and blew a good chunk out of the ceiling rafters. The splinters peppered many, but one hit Eithyne in the left eye, causing her continued discomfort after removal, thus necessitating the use of glasses in order to read in low light.

DEATH OF AURILEUS

Her brother, a staunch member of the Scarlet Crusade, left the Monastery to visit Eithyne in Stormwind, as she had not been able to visit him for a long time. He was angered at a recent development, her promotion to Inquisitor, a member of the Order of the Light that was given the duty of rooting out those that had transgressed against the Church, including those of the Crusade. He took her to a tavern in the Dwarven District and proceeded to grow extremely belligerant and drunk, angry and increasingly violent. Eithyne had only seen him that angry once before, after their mother's death, right before their father tossed him from the house. His drunken behaviour disgusted Eithyne and she left him there, only to decide to return after a few moments of walking and thinking. Men and women were screaming and running from the building, crying out about the Scourge and undead. Eithyne rushed inside to see her own brother, a pike in his throat, throwing stools and chairs and tables about the room. One stool struck a lantern, and the flames built quickly. The remaining brawlers fled, but not before her brother had thrown a few more chairs at them. Eithyne was staggered backwards and, by the time, she regained her footing and fought her way through the flames, she found her brother face down in the flames, still moving, the same pike from his throat impaling him through the back into the floor. She did not have time to remove the pike before the inebriated cook, who had been downstairs sampling the alochol, grabbed her and hauled her from the building. They were the last to exit before the building collapsed, effectively killing Aurileus, both his living and undead(?) selves.

EXILE TO THE PLAGUELANDS

Eithyne was compelled to report the incident at the tavern, as she, as a member of the Church, had been closely involved with the events in question. When she was called upon to give her report, instead of being allowed to give a rendition of what had happened, she was coldly informed that her family was no longer considered a part of the Church of Stormwind. When asking why, the priest told her that her close ties with the Scarlet Crusade, especially a berserker like Aurileus Stormdove, the family name condemning her, would not be tolerated. She found that a priest had overheard Aurileus talking about his duties in the Crusade and speaking rather loudly against the Church itself. This priest in question had withdrawn a pike and had supposedly used it to defend himself when Aurileus attacked him, and murdered him in self defense. Eithyne, having been there, tried to contest the testimony, how could he have been killed in self defense when he was impaled through the back? She was ignored and told to report to the Argent Dawn in the Plaguelands, and told not to return, an excommunication. She was being accused of being a member of the Scarlet Crusade, a murderer, and a malcontent, despite her faithful service. Already disillusioned with the Order of the Light, she accepted the exile, leaving for the Plaguelands, where she would encounter a Watchknight of the Order of the Vigilant One, a man who would, at a much later time, give her a true direction in the shield and duty rather than the corrupted prayers of the Order of the Light.

EUPHASIA BREAK

After remaining in the Plaguelands for a stretch of a few months, Eithyne returned to Stormwind in secret, sickened by the atmosphere. It was there, while recuperating, that she found the priest from the tavern. She overheard him talking about his new position as an Inquisitor, and how he had gained this position by turning in 'betrayers of the Light,' two traitors, one of whom he had killed himself. Already angered by the death of her brother and confused by the excommunication of her family, Eithyne pursued the priest back to his home and, in a struggle, killed him accidentally
in a struggle, when he dragged her over, trying to topple her, but instead, his neck struck the sharp edge of a table and his neck was broken. She took his journal, which had been lying out on his bed, and read that others in the Church knew that Aurileus was coming to Stormwind, and that his death had been planned in order to defame the Crusade in the eyes of the general populace. The thought of her and her brother being used as progaganda in a silent power struggle, plus the heavily weighing burdens of before, added to a weakened physical state, made her snap. She had been the one of the children to always contain her anger, but in light of the recent events, she broke, her spirit shattered. Using her Church-ordained name of 'Euphasia,' she murdered the first four in their homes outside the walls of Stormwind itself, leaving their bodies in the middle of the floor, impaled through the back with whatever was available: a sword, a pitchfork handle, even a broken-off chair leg. After the fifth murder, she fell completely into the fog of rage, and killed at least two more for a total of seven, though the last was did not comply with the M.O. of the earlier attacks. An older man, he was killed quickly by a swift blow to the back of the head. Eithyne later awoke to her senses to find herself back in the Plaguelands, covered in blood, with four journals, not her own, tucked in her bags, passages incriminating the owners' guilt marked in their own blood. Horrified with what she had done, Eithyne wandered into the middle of the Eastern Plaguelands and sat there, alone, trying to comprehend what had happened. She was being attacked by a ghoul when a paladin of the Vigilant One saved her and unquestioningly cared for her, nursing her back to health and counseling her, though all she would tell him was of the death of her brother. He did not inquire further, even to the blood that stained her clothing and armour, and offered sanctuary in his camp. Over the next few weeks, she told him everything up to her brother's murder, and he gave her a choice: to continue wandering aimlessly as a broken spirit, or to rebuild herself, slowly over time, and regain her family's honor through dedication to duty and the protection of both the strong and the weak, to honour all oaths and vows, to be prepared to face adversity when the time came. By giving herself to duty and honour, Eithyne was able to find a path again, one that would hopefully lead to the absolution of her sins and the clearing of her family name in the eyes of the Church. Once constantly sickened by the atmosphere of the Plaguelands, Eithyne was never weakened by the Plagueland air again. (Respecc'ed from Retribution to Protection)