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{{PC|name=Eaglespear|realm=Medivh|wwuser=Joshmaul}}
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<blockquote>"I have been involved in every major conflict since my people joined the Horde - against Illidan and the Legion in Outland, against Arthas and Malygos in Northrend, and against Deathwing and Cho'gall here. Non-stop, glad to help, death to our enemies. I feel five times older than I am...after Northrend, I wanted nothing more than to retire and teach the whelps how to use the Light. Now I have that chance...and so it falls to you, young Belor'malanore, to take my place. You will carry my sword and my standard into battle against the evil that permeates this land. I have trained you in every way I know how, under the guidance of the head of your order - and so I give up my duties gladly, knowing that they will be carried out by an honorable being."</blockquote>
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::<span style= "font-variant:small-caps">- Master Taeril'hane Ketiron</span>, to Telek Eaglespear
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| caption = Arak's Palace in all its glory.
 
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==Introduction==
 
 
| image = Telek Eaglespear.jpg
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| name = Telek Eaglespear
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| titles = Belor'malanore (Sun-traveller, or Sunwalker)
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| gender = Male
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| race = Tauren
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| creature = Humanoid
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| level = 85
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| character = [[Paladin]]
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| affiliation = [[Horde|The Horde]]<br>[[Tauren|United Tauren Tribes]]<br>[[Sunwalkers]]<br>[[Argent Crusade|The Argent Crusade]]
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| faction = Horde
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| occupation = Sunwalker of the Horde
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| location = [[Twilight Highlands]]
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| status = Alive
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| relatives = [[User:Joshmaul/Ublaz Deathspear|Ublaz]] (brother)
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| mentors = [[User:Joshmaul/Taeril'hane Ketiron|Taeril'hane Ketiron]]<br>[[Aponi Brightmane]]
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| alignment = [[Alignment#Lawful Good|Lawful good]]}}
   
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'''Telek Eaglespear''' is a young tauren who decided to join the Sunwalker order after a chance encounter with a powerful paladin in Silvermoon. He has currently joined the fight against the Twilight's Hammer, laying siege to their bastion in the Twilight Highlands.
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The kingdom of [[Azjol'Nerub]] was once a great empire of the harsh cold that is [[Northrend]]. Until the cold iron hand of the [[Scourge]] arrived and wiped out their once great empire. [[The Lich King]] brutally slaughtered the [[Nerubians]], until they were a mere percentage of what they used to be. To humiliate the race more, The Lich King brought the dead Nerubians back to life, to be his eternal slaves. The live Nerubians were left few and far between.
 
   
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==Biography==
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When brave heroes brought about an end to The Lich King and his tyrannical rule, the undead breed of Nerubians were left without a home. Without any leadership, they were forced to walk the bitter wastes of [[Icecrown]] for years. Until the "leader" of the neubians, Ashma'kyll, was contacted telepathically by the Faceless God, Father Dagn'Drah, with a deal. With the power of the Faceless and Nerubians combined, they could retake the underground kingdom of [[Azjol'Nerub]], in exchange for their servitude and promise to awaken Father Dagn'Drah. They found allies willing to aid in the causes, the [[Vrykul]] and [[Darkfallen]]. They became known as the Depth Wakers.
 
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Born in the Stonetalon Mountains two decades before the Battle of Mount Hyjal, Telek belongs to the Eaglespear tribe, a small offshoot of the Bloodhoof tribe that retains their loyalty to them, and fiercely opposes the Grimtotems. Raised in the traditional tauren way, to respect the Earthmother and to participate in the hunt, the Eaglespears settled in Thunder Bluff, high above the plains of Mulgore, when Cairne Bloodhoof united the tribes. Telek's elder brother, [[User:Joshmaul/Ublaz Deathspear|Ublaz]], went to fight for the Horde and was killed during an attack on Naxxramas prior to the re-opening of the Dark Portal. Ublaz later returned shortly before the war against the Lich King, having been resurrected by the Scourge as a death knight and freed by the efforts of Tirion Fordring and Darion Mograine.
   
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==Touched by the Light==
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==Deep Reaches Expansion Changes and Updates==
 
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[[Image:Aponi and Ketiron, Eaglespear's Teachers.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Telek's first teachers - Aponi Brightmane, leader of the Sunwalkers, and Taeril'hane Ketiron, a Blood Knight Master visiting from Silvermoon]]
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After the death of the Lich King, Telek decided to explore beyond Kalimdor, and journeyed to the Eastern Kingdoms. Not comfortable with being around the Forsaken, Telek travelled to the blood elf city of Silvermoon. In the Court of the Sun, he saw something that would change his life...
   
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A group of blood elves had gathered outside a stately manor, watching with awe as a venerable nobleman demonstrated his powers to them. The blood elves were aspiring Blood Knights, and the nobleman was a Blood Knight Master named [[User:Joshmaul/Taeril'hane Ketiron|Taeril'hane Ketiron]]. Back in Mulgore, as the war in Northrend went on, Telek had heard about a movement of the tauren people, who looked to the sun as a source of power, much as their night elf allies called on the moon - the embodiment of their goddess Elune. What Telek saw in Silvermoon was a man wielding power very similar to what he had heard, the ability to heal or call holy wrath upon an enemy.
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'''''UNDER CONSTRUCTION'''''
 
   
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Entranced, Telek watched as the Master demonstrated his art to his pupils. The Blood Knight neophytes laughed and mocked the young tauren, but Ketiron silenced them, sensing something within him. Switching from his native Thalassian to Orcish, the language of the Horde, Ketiron spoke with Telek and listened as his guest told him of the movement in Mulgore, about using powers like his. Smiling, Ketiron blessed the young tauren and hoped to one day see this idea become a reality.
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*Kingdom of [[Azjol'Nerub]] has emerged: New content zones have been added - '''Runed Caverns''', '''Saro'Mahk, the Obsidian City''', '''Kira'Thun the Broken Desert''', '''Eldritch Grove''', and '''Nerubia'''. These zones can be accesed through portals in [[Dalaran]].
 
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*Level cap is set to 90
 
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*The continent above was not left unchanged. Northrend's quests and zones have been completley altered and improved to fit the changes in [[Cataclysm]].
 
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*Two New Races. Viscious Vrykul for the Alliance and Ravenous Wolvar for the Horde.
 
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*New Primary Proffesion: Woodworking
 
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*New Dungeons and Raids for players to conquer.
 
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*New Battlegrounds and Arenas for players to do battle. Some may seem familiar, others not so much.
 
   
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Three years later, the world altered irrevocably by the Shattering, Ketiron ventured to Thunder Bluff. By this time, Cairne had been killed by Grimtotem treachery, and his son Baine had solidified his position as the new High Chieftain of all tauren. The Master was pleased to see that the movement, now known as the Sunwalkers, had taken hold, consisting of people who not only used the powers of paladins, but of priests as well. As Telek arrived in Thunder Bluff to receive wisdom and instruction from Aponi Brightmane, leader of the Sunwalker movement, he was surprised to see Ketiron standing at her side, pledging to teach the new Sunwalker what he knew as well. Ketiron called him "Belor'malanore", the closest approximation in Thalassian to "Sunwalker".
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==New Zones==
 
   
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==Ketiron's Successor==
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[[Image:Eaglespear in Silvermoon.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Telek in Silvermoon, shortly after receiving the sword and colors of Master Ketiron]]
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[[Image:Eaglespear is Inducted into the Argent Crusade.jpg|thumb|right|250px|At Master Ketiron's recommendation, the Sunwalker is inducted into the Argent Crusade by Lord Maxwell Tyrosus]]
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After months of training and study under both his mentor Aponi and Master Ketiron, Telek became a powerful Sunwalker, skilled in both the healing arts and in the arts of combat. During a battle in Twilight Highlands, Ketiron was seriously injured, and despite the efforts of both himself and other healers, he never possessed the same stamina again. Ketiron's wife, [[User:Joshmaul/Areinnye Scourgebane|Areinnye]], believed that Ketiron had suffered a serious physical breakdown and suggested that he retire, as he had after the death of the Lich King. Though loath to leave the battle so early, Ketiron knew that he could no longer keep up the fight as he had in Northrend. Thus, Ketiron informed his leader, Regent Lord Lor'themar Theron, that he was retiring from active service and returning to Silvermoon to assist his old friend Bloodvalor in the training of the Blood Knight initiates.
   
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Upon his return to the Whitehair House in the Court of the Sun, Ketiron summoned Telek from Mulgore. Much to the young tauren's surprise, Ketiron held out his sword hilt-first, saying that he was to take Ketiron's place in the greater battle against Deathwing and his Twilight minions. Telek was horrified at the idea, wondering what thing had happened to the elf who had inspired him, but Ketiron reassured him that it was merely his desire to rest after having spent the better part of the last four years fighting enemies of the Horde. As a token of his training - as Ketiron had trained Telek in the Blood Knight way - he also gave him his old tabard, which had been awarded to Ketiron by his own master, Ordevaas Portalseeker, four years earlier.
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Underneath the layers of earth on this planet, unsuspecting evils do lie...
 
   
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With his mentor's blessing, Telek departed for Orgrimmar to begin his service to the greater Horde. Travelling from Thunder Bluff, he made his home in Orgrimmar, in the Valley of Wisdom, a section of the city given to the tauren by Warchief Hellscream. Telek preferred it to the jagged metal spires of the rest of the city, which he believed were sacrilegious to the Earth Mother.
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*{{neutral}}'''Runed Caverns''': Underneath the [[Storm Peaks]] and [[Crystalsong Forest]], an unending blizzard is raging. The depthes of [[Ulduar]] reach down into here, and is known as Uldamor. Filled with gaping valleys and tall peaks, this place is the least, but not completley, touched by The Depth Wakers. Due to the recent seismic activity caused by Father Dagn'Drah, whos power even reaches this far, the Titan constructs have gone rogue and started attacking those who have created them. Rumors are, Golganneth's presence has been felt heavily in this zone, implicating that he may be near...
 
   
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==Memories of Destruction: The Vision Quest==
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*{{neutral}}'''Saro'Mahk, the Obsidian City''': Lying beneath the [[Borean Tundra]], [[Icecrown]], and [[Dragonblight]], Saro'Mahk is the largest city in the Nerubian empire. The whole zone may be a city, but nature has reclaimed her bounty. Stagnant, pustulant bogs have drowned out the lower portions of the city,fungal growth lines the walls, and the undead that roam the area give the whole zone a fetid smell. The Depth Wakers have attempted to reclaim this zone, but the remnants of the scourge has too strong of a foothold here. The obsidian constructs that are the ancestors of the Tol'Vir are rare here, but they exist. The main feature here though, are the towers that hang off the ceiling of this zone. They are so distorted and odd, that they seem as though they shouldn't exist.
 
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[[Image:Eaglespear's Vision - Icecrown Citadel.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Telek undergoes a vision quest - in the guise of Master Ketiron in Icecrown Citadel]]
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Disturbed by what he had seen in the war against the Twilight and recovering from his injuries sustained in the battle against the Zandalari, Telek returned to Silvermoon to seek counsel from Master Ketiron. Telek wondered why these wars had to be fought, why peace could not reign after the fall of the Lich King - why all of these cultists were bent on the destruction of their world, and why the Zandalari were trying to provoke a war while most of the world's forces fought against Deathwing and his minions. The idea of using the elements as a force of evil was anethema to him, and having seen it in action made him doubt whether he was on the right path.
   
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In response, Ketiron instructed the tauren to accompany him to Sunfury Spire, to the mage room. They would journey to the Dark Portal in the Blasted Lands, and through it into Outland. On the flight across Hellfire Peninsula into Terokkar Forest, Ketiron revealed that he had been waiting for Telek to return from the war, and that he had something to show him...something that would help the young Sunwalker.
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*{{neutral}}'''Kira'thun, the Sunken Desert''': Under the [[Silithus]] Desert, lies a large empty desert that was created for [[C'thun]] and his twisted projects. When Father Dagn'Drah and Ashma'kyll heard about this, they instantly sent agents there to scout it out for tactical position. From there, they could use the attaching hives to attack many [[Horde]] and [[Alliance]] settlements. The obsidian forges that were used to forge the obsidian destroyers of [[Ahn'Qiraj]] could be used to the Depth Wakers favor. The [[Silithid]] have burrowed their way into the zone, and have already made two major hives known as Zakra and Jiliak. The area hasnt been completley devoid of sentience, in the center is the body of C'thun, that stretches from the top of the zone to the bottom. He has been rendered harmless by the constant watch of the greatest mages the Horde and Alliance have seen. He has shown signs of awakening though, which has caused the heroes distress and worry.
 
   
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After stopping briefly in Shattrath, Ketiron led Telek into the crashed naaru starship in Nagrand, known to the orcs as Oshu'gun, or "Mountain of Spirits" - the holiest shrine of the orcish clans prior to the first union of the Horde. There, an old friend of Ketiron - [[User:Joshmaul/Jaeden'laek the Seer|the Farseer Jaeden'laek]], a fellow veteran of Northrend - awaited them. As they entered the lower depths of the ancient naaru vessel, Ketiron bade his student sit before the reflective pool in the center as the draenei shaman set his totems around him.
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*{{neutral}}'''Eldritch Grove''': [[Tirisfal Glades]] and [[Gilneas]] have been hiding a dark secret for years, since the first elves breached the shores. The evil that was felt was first thought to be an old god, but it turned out to be Father Dagn'Drah. He has been lying in the Eldritch Grove for as long as the old gods have been corrupting the earth. Discovered when he made his presence perfectly clear by assaulting Gilneas and Tirisfal Glades with his dark assailants. The grove is a decaying wasteland of moss and stone. The rivers are not of water, but of the great Faceless one's blood. The Depth Wakers have dominion over this zone, due to their master being here. They fortified his dwelling area into the Hollow Cloister. The zone acted like a prison to the Council of Tirisfal, so many ancient horrors dwell here, giving the zone its name.
 
   
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As the Farseer worked, the Master explained that in order to truly understand what was at stake, he had to see what Ketiron himself had seen in Northrend. Three years earlier, during the great siege of Icecrown Citadel, Ketiron had accompanied Highlords Tirion Fordring and Darion Mograine into the fortress with an army of both Alliance and Horde, and had witnessed Tirion strike down Arthas with the Ashbringer, ending the reign of the Lich King - or so it was thought.
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*{{neutral}}'''Nerubia''': The only true home for the Nerubian race. Lying beneath [[Grizzly Hills]], [[Zul'Drak]], and [[Howling Fjord]], Nerubia is by far the largest stretch of open cave in the whole world, even rivaling [[Deepholm]] itself. The perfect dwelling for the Nerubian race, this is the ancestral ground for the whole race. When the continents were split, this was where they settled. The roots of [[Vordrassil]] reach here as well, giving a large part of the zone a mangle of roots and thorns. The whole area is filled with gaping chasms, reaching to the deepest parts of the planet. Swamps of pure saronite are also here, due to the presence of [[Yogg-Saron]] years ago. [[Ice Trolls]] have managed to find their way here as well, giving the Nerubians something to defend their land from. Their overlord, Ashma'kyll has set up base here, in a former leaders base, known as Arak's Palace, which is located in the center of the zone in the largest hole.
 
   
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It was then that Telek realized that Ketiron had arranged with Jaeden'laek for him to undergo a form of vision quest. This quest would involve Telek fighting as part of the army that had taken Icecrown Citadel. In this way, Telek would see what Ketiron had seen, experience what he had experienced.
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As the ritual preparations were completed, Ketiron explained:
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:"The battle before the Frozen Throne had been my blackest hour of despair, and my greatest feeling of triumph, all at once. The removal of the gravest threat to the world in modern history, since the great war with the Legion ten millennia ago...and seeing my homeland avenged at last, the souls of Anasterian and all those killed by this man's foul treachery at last free. In order to defeat your despair, you must first have the courage to face it. I learned that here. Aye, I faltered at first, we all did - and it nearly cost me and my comrades our souls. But in the end, Tirion showed us how to defeat our despair, and triumph. Learn from this example, Belor'malanore, and you shall triumph over your despair."
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With that, the vision quest began - and Telek found himself standing outside Icecrown Citadel. To himself, he looked like a tauren. But as he saw others speaking to him and urging him to enter, he realized that they saw him as Master Ketiron himself. In this way, he would feel everything that the Master had felt, and experience the war for Icecrown from the eyes of one who had been there. Steeling his nerves, for he had heard much of what had happened here, Telek-as-Ketiron entered the Citadel and prepared to face his mentor's greatest trial - to prepare him for his own.
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*'''Halls of Fire''':The ancient hammer [[Vulraiis]] lies here. The hammer that was used by the [[Titan]] [[Khaz'goroth]] to forge Azeroth. The power that this mallet holds is unfathomable, and in the wrong hands, could undo all the great Titan has done.
 
   
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The first part of the quest involved making their way through the Citadel to the upper spire. As he provided heal support, Telek participated in the battles against Lord Marrowgar and Lady Deathwhisper, rocketed across the sky during the battle between ''Orgrim's Hammer'' and the ''Skybreaker'', and witnessed the pain felt by the venerable High Overlord Saurfang as his son, Dranosh, came before them as a death knight, raised by the Lich King after his death at the Wrathgate. By the time he was pulled from the vision, the party had destroyed Professor Putricide and his two "sons", Festergut and Rotface, as well as their "pets", Precious and Stinky.
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*'''Halls of Life''':The Essence of [[Eonar]] is located here, which gives Sholazar its jungles and wildlife. The Depth Wakers are corrupting this essence to corrupt Sholazar Basin, and they are close to succeeding.
 
   
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==In-Game Accomplishments==
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*'''Venomgore Fen''': The highest plateau of Saro'mahk hides a viscous secret. With no connection to the ground, things up here have begun to evolve and mutate rapidly.
 
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*[[User:Joshmaul/Telek Eaglespear/List of In-Game Information|Current Gear, Reputations and Raid Experience]]
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*[[User:Joshmaul/Telek Eaglespear/Learning About Real War|Carrying On the Fight]]
   
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==Appearance and Personality==
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*'''Hanging City of Dolkra'th''': Hanging over the giant ley-line fracture, arcane energies run wild here. The ancient obsidian-breaker race hides out here, and they wont expose their secrets so easily.
 
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Belonging to a tribe that is an offshoot of the Bloodhoofs, Telek has white fur and white horns, and is still relatively young, having been too young to participate in the war in Northrend. Knowing little of war and death, or indeed of any life beyond the normal life of a tauren tribesman, Telek possesses a youthful innocence, one that he will likely have a difficult time breaking as he carries on beyond the borders of Mulgore. He is fascinated at the similarity of powers between the Light-wielders of the Alliance and Quel'Thalas, believing that even non-tauren were guided by the Earthmother.
   
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During the assault on the Bastion of Twilight, Telek lost his left horn in battle against the twilight dragons Valiona and Theralion - one of the more obvious of the severe wounds he received during that battle.
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*'''Xarak'Saer''': A mine running deep into the earth, mining pure saronite for armor and weapons. To foil The Depth Waker's plans, they must take out the dreaded foreman of the mine.
 
   
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===The Sword of Taeril'hane Ketiron===
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*'''Ahn'Qiraj Catacombs''': The lower levels of the City of Ahn'Qiraj, C'thun was not the only terrible horror imprisoned there. The advisor to C'thun lies here, an ancient [[Forgotten One]], and he is working with The Depth Wakers, although he may have some alterior motives.
 
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Master Ketiron received an exquisitely-fashioned warblade for fighting in the Crucible of Carnage in the Twilight Highlands, the third of the great arenas lorded over by the goblin entrepreneur Gurgthock. Along with Saavedro of Stratholme and his mentor, Ordevaas Portalseeker, Ketiron had fought in the first two, the Ring of Blood in the hills of Nagrand in Outland, and the Amphitheater of Anguish, amidst the ruins of Zul'Drak in Northrend. Upon his retirement from the field, Ketiron gave this sword to Telek as a gift from teacher to pupil.
   
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*'''Grounds of Evil''': A college of sorts for the Faceless legions. Here is where a Faceless is prepped for the battle field. Their sheer mass is what gives the Grounds of Evil its terrible reputation.
 
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*'''Basilica of Dead Thorns''': On the outskirts of the Hollow Cloister, the Basilica of Dead Thorns lies as a monument to the evils of the Scourge. They managed to find their way from the Eastern Plaugelands and build a glorious monument to their deceased king.
 
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*'''Marosh'karis the Cold City''': The city that was lost to the slow moving glaciers and thought to have been lost forever. Buried beneath the permafrost, many of the trapped Nerubians began to adapt and evolve into beings adept at living in the cold. The Wakers see this as a strategic bottleneck leading to the Sundered Monolith, so they have quite an interest in it.
 
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*'''Fahlar the Crawling City''': Where live Nerubians of the Yilithar Breed are being held and forced to reproduce for the new generation of creeping evil. The children are then raised to the right age and sacrificed, just to be brought back as undead.
 
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*'''Primordial Lair''': In a cavern in the eastern part of Runed Caverns, the Depth Wakers are attempting to awaken four evil forces of nature. Midgarmungard the colossal [[proto-drake]], Fafnus the cunning and evil [[Snake]], Fenmor the mighty [[Worg]], and Hogniid the vile [[Jormungar]].
 
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*'''Khroll'sherub Warfront''':
 
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*'''The Sundered Monolith''':
 

Revision as of 13:41, 7 June 2011

General

This article is a player character biography page for Eaglespear of Medivh US created by Joshmaul.

The contents herein are entirely player made and in no way represent official World of Warcraft history or occurrences which are accurate for all realms. The characters and events listed are of an independent nature and applied for roleplaying, fictional, speculative, or opinions from a limited playerbase only.
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"I have been involved in every major conflict since my people joined the Horde - against Illidan and the Legion in Outland, against Arthas and Malygos in Northrend, and against Deathwing and Cho'gall here. Non-stop, glad to help, death to our enemies. I feel five times older than I am...after Northrend, I wanted nothing more than to retire and teach the whelps how to use the Light. Now I have that chance...and so it falls to you, young Belor'malanore, to take my place. You will carry my sword and my standard into battle against the evil that permeates this land. I have trained you in every way I know how, under the guidance of the head of your order - and so I give up my duties gladly, knowing that they will be carried out by an honorable being."

- Master Taeril'hane Ketiron, to Telek Eaglespear
HordeTelek Eaglespear
Image of Telek Eaglespear
Title Belor'malanore (Sun-traveller, or Sunwalker)
Gender Male
Race Tauren (Humanoid)
Level 85
Class Paladin
Affiliation(s) The Horde
United Tauren Tribes
Sunwalkers
The Argent Crusade
Occupation Sunwalker of the Horde
Location Twilight Highlands
Status Alive
Relative(s) Ublaz (brother)
Mentor(s) Taeril'hane Ketiron
Aponi Brightmane
Alignment Lawful good

Telek Eaglespear is a young tauren who decided to join the Sunwalker order after a chance encounter with a powerful paladin in Silvermoon. He has currently joined the fight against the Twilight's Hammer, laying siege to their bastion in the Twilight Highlands.

Biography

Born in the Stonetalon Mountains two decades before the Battle of Mount Hyjal, Telek belongs to the Eaglespear tribe, a small offshoot of the Bloodhoof tribe that retains their loyalty to them, and fiercely opposes the Grimtotems. Raised in the traditional tauren way, to respect the Earthmother and to participate in the hunt, the Eaglespears settled in Thunder Bluff, high above the plains of Mulgore, when Cairne Bloodhoof united the tribes. Telek's elder brother, Ublaz, went to fight for the Horde and was killed during an attack on Naxxramas prior to the re-opening of the Dark Portal. Ublaz later returned shortly before the war against the Lich King, having been resurrected by the Scourge as a death knight and freed by the efforts of Tirion Fordring and Darion Mograine.

Touched by the Light

Aponi and Ketiron, Eaglespear's Teachers

Telek's first teachers - Aponi Brightmane, leader of the Sunwalkers, and Taeril'hane Ketiron, a Blood Knight Master visiting from Silvermoon

After the death of the Lich King, Telek decided to explore beyond Kalimdor, and journeyed to the Eastern Kingdoms. Not comfortable with being around the Forsaken, Telek travelled to the blood elf city of Silvermoon. In the Court of the Sun, he saw something that would change his life...

A group of blood elves had gathered outside a stately manor, watching with awe as a venerable nobleman demonstrated his powers to them. The blood elves were aspiring Blood Knights, and the nobleman was a Blood Knight Master named Taeril'hane Ketiron. Back in Mulgore, as the war in Northrend went on, Telek had heard about a movement of the tauren people, who looked to the sun as a source of power, much as their night elf allies called on the moon - the embodiment of their goddess Elune. What Telek saw in Silvermoon was a man wielding power very similar to what he had heard, the ability to heal or call holy wrath upon an enemy.

Entranced, Telek watched as the Master demonstrated his art to his pupils. The Blood Knight neophytes laughed and mocked the young tauren, but Ketiron silenced them, sensing something within him. Switching from his native Thalassian to Orcish, the language of the Horde, Ketiron spoke with Telek and listened as his guest told him of the movement in Mulgore, about using powers like his. Smiling, Ketiron blessed the young tauren and hoped to one day see this idea become a reality.

Three years later, the world altered irrevocably by the Shattering, Ketiron ventured to Thunder Bluff. By this time, Cairne had been killed by Grimtotem treachery, and his son Baine had solidified his position as the new High Chieftain of all tauren. The Master was pleased to see that the movement, now known as the Sunwalkers, had taken hold, consisting of people who not only used the powers of paladins, but of priests as well. As Telek arrived in Thunder Bluff to receive wisdom and instruction from Aponi Brightmane, leader of the Sunwalker movement, he was surprised to see Ketiron standing at her side, pledging to teach the new Sunwalker what he knew as well. Ketiron called him "Belor'malanore", the closest approximation in Thalassian to "Sunwalker".

Ketiron's Successor

Eaglespear in Silvermoon

Telek in Silvermoon, shortly after receiving the sword and colors of Master Ketiron

Eaglespear is Inducted into the Argent Crusade

At Master Ketiron's recommendation, the Sunwalker is inducted into the Argent Crusade by Lord Maxwell Tyrosus

After months of training and study under both his mentor Aponi and Master Ketiron, Telek became a powerful Sunwalker, skilled in both the healing arts and in the arts of combat. During a battle in Twilight Highlands, Ketiron was seriously injured, and despite the efforts of both himself and other healers, he never possessed the same stamina again. Ketiron's wife, Areinnye, believed that Ketiron had suffered a serious physical breakdown and suggested that he retire, as he had after the death of the Lich King. Though loath to leave the battle so early, Ketiron knew that he could no longer keep up the fight as he had in Northrend. Thus, Ketiron informed his leader, Regent Lord Lor'themar Theron, that he was retiring from active service and returning to Silvermoon to assist his old friend Bloodvalor in the training of the Blood Knight initiates.

Upon his return to the Whitehair House in the Court of the Sun, Ketiron summoned Telek from Mulgore. Much to the young tauren's surprise, Ketiron held out his sword hilt-first, saying that he was to take Ketiron's place in the greater battle against Deathwing and his Twilight minions. Telek was horrified at the idea, wondering what thing had happened to the elf who had inspired him, but Ketiron reassured him that it was merely his desire to rest after having spent the better part of the last four years fighting enemies of the Horde. As a token of his training - as Ketiron had trained Telek in the Blood Knight way - he also gave him his old tabard, which had been awarded to Ketiron by his own master, Ordevaas Portalseeker, four years earlier.

With his mentor's blessing, Telek departed for Orgrimmar to begin his service to the greater Horde. Travelling from Thunder Bluff, he made his home in Orgrimmar, in the Valley of Wisdom, a section of the city given to the tauren by Warchief Hellscream. Telek preferred it to the jagged metal spires of the rest of the city, which he believed were sacrilegious to the Earth Mother.

Memories of Destruction: The Vision Quest

Eaglespear's Vision - Icecrown Citadel

Telek undergoes a vision quest - in the guise of Master Ketiron in Icecrown Citadel

Disturbed by what he had seen in the war against the Twilight and recovering from his injuries sustained in the battle against the Zandalari, Telek returned to Silvermoon to seek counsel from Master Ketiron. Telek wondered why these wars had to be fought, why peace could not reign after the fall of the Lich King - why all of these cultists were bent on the destruction of their world, and why the Zandalari were trying to provoke a war while most of the world's forces fought against Deathwing and his minions. The idea of using the elements as a force of evil was anethema to him, and having seen it in action made him doubt whether he was on the right path.

In response, Ketiron instructed the tauren to accompany him to Sunfury Spire, to the mage room. They would journey to the Dark Portal in the Blasted Lands, and through it into Outland. On the flight across Hellfire Peninsula into Terokkar Forest, Ketiron revealed that he had been waiting for Telek to return from the war, and that he had something to show him...something that would help the young Sunwalker.

After stopping briefly in Shattrath, Ketiron led Telek into the crashed naaru starship in Nagrand, known to the orcs as Oshu'gun, or "Mountain of Spirits" - the holiest shrine of the orcish clans prior to the first union of the Horde. There, an old friend of Ketiron - the Farseer Jaeden'laek, a fellow veteran of Northrend - awaited them. As they entered the lower depths of the ancient naaru vessel, Ketiron bade his student sit before the reflective pool in the center as the draenei shaman set his totems around him.

As the Farseer worked, the Master explained that in order to truly understand what was at stake, he had to see what Ketiron himself had seen in Northrend. Three years earlier, during the great siege of Icecrown Citadel, Ketiron had accompanied Highlords Tirion Fordring and Darion Mograine into the fortress with an army of both Alliance and Horde, and had witnessed Tirion strike down Arthas with the Ashbringer, ending the reign of the Lich King - or so it was thought.

It was then that Telek realized that Ketiron had arranged with Jaeden'laek for him to undergo a form of vision quest. This quest would involve Telek fighting as part of the army that had taken Icecrown Citadel. In this way, Telek would see what Ketiron had seen, experience what he had experienced.

As the ritual preparations were completed, Ketiron explained:

"The battle before the Frozen Throne had been my blackest hour of despair, and my greatest feeling of triumph, all at once. The removal of the gravest threat to the world in modern history, since the great war with the Legion ten millennia ago...and seeing my homeland avenged at last, the souls of Anasterian and all those killed by this man's foul treachery at last free. In order to defeat your despair, you must first have the courage to face it. I learned that here. Aye, I faltered at first, we all did - and it nearly cost me and my comrades our souls. But in the end, Tirion showed us how to defeat our despair, and triumph. Learn from this example, Belor'malanore, and you shall triumph over your despair."

With that, the vision quest began - and Telek found himself standing outside Icecrown Citadel. To himself, he looked like a tauren. But as he saw others speaking to him and urging him to enter, he realized that they saw him as Master Ketiron himself. In this way, he would feel everything that the Master had felt, and experience the war for Icecrown from the eyes of one who had been there. Steeling his nerves, for he had heard much of what had happened here, Telek-as-Ketiron entered the Citadel and prepared to face his mentor's greatest trial - to prepare him for his own.

The first part of the quest involved making their way through the Citadel to the upper spire. As he provided heal support, Telek participated in the battles against Lord Marrowgar and Lady Deathwhisper, rocketed across the sky during the battle between Orgrim's Hammer and the Skybreaker, and witnessed the pain felt by the venerable High Overlord Saurfang as his son, Dranosh, came before them as a death knight, raised by the Lich King after his death at the Wrathgate. By the time he was pulled from the vision, the party had destroyed Professor Putricide and his two "sons", Festergut and Rotface, as well as their "pets", Precious and Stinky.

In-Game Accomplishments

Appearance and Personality

Belonging to a tribe that is an offshoot of the Bloodhoofs, Telek has white fur and white horns, and is still relatively young, having been too young to participate in the war in Northrend. Knowing little of war and death, or indeed of any life beyond the normal life of a tauren tribesman, Telek possesses a youthful innocence, one that he will likely have a difficult time breaking as he carries on beyond the borders of Mulgore. He is fascinated at the similarity of powers between the Light-wielders of the Alliance and Quel'Thalas, believing that even non-tauren were guided by the Earthmother.

During the assault on the Bastion of Twilight, Telek lost his left horn in battle against the twilight dragons Valiona and Theralion - one of the more obvious of the severe wounds he received during that battle.

The Sword of Taeril'hane Ketiron

Master Ketiron received an exquisitely-fashioned warblade for fighting in the Crucible of Carnage in the Twilight Highlands, the third of the great arenas lorded over by the goblin entrepreneur Gurgthock. Along with Saavedro of Stratholme and his mentor, Ordevaas Portalseeker, Ketiron had fought in the first two, the Ring of Blood in the hills of Nagrand in Outland, and the Amphitheater of Anguish, amidst the ruins of Zul'Drak in Northrend. Upon his retirement from the field, Ketiron gave this sword to Telek as a gift from teacher to pupil.