Dame Faye of Alterac

It was that moment I had a thought. After doubting myself for so long, I finally felt at peace here in the strife and the chaos, in the comfortable, homely crucible of war.
And so the thought went to faithful, brutal Harpybane. I knew the truth now. Unsightly, but functional.
I was the gun.

Appearance

Standing at well over six feet tall, Dame Faye makes for an imposing and well-muscled figure of a female knight. In warfare, she tends to wear the customary dark forged metals of the Forsaken. Though she has fought in many battles, she bears only minimal blemishes and scars on her alabaster skin, lending to her a fantastical quality to her general image were it not for its ghostly pallor. With long blonde hair that sometimes flows out from under her helm, her face is one many would consider having possessed a certain allure in life, though its lack of imperfections and strikingly heroic shape even after a decade of undeath could be seen by those more skeptical as unnerving.

Background

Starting out in life as the daughter and heir of a small Alteraci noble house, Faye nevertheless led a humble existence and eventually left the humdrum life of the city - much to her father's disappointment and her mother's indifference - to become a trapper survivalist in the Alterac Mountains under a profitable company led by a displaced Kul Tiran navy man named Garyth Hellbrine. This incidentally allowed her to avoid involvement in the city's fall, and for many years she lived with her hunting community in the mountain wastes, encountering various criminals, wanderers, and Syndicate members alongside occasional skirmishes with encroaching Frostwolf orc settlers. She later went on to freeze to death in the snowy woods atop the mountain's peaks during the Scourge of Lordaeron while escaping a splinter force of the undead led by a wayward Death Knight who had attacked and massacred her fellow trappers. After her mysterious rebirth as one of the Forsaken, Faye was conscripted into the military very quickly and began honing her skills as a deathguard and ranger. In her early years in the Forsaken army, Faye spent most of her time in and around Silverpine Forest, hunting the Sons of Arugal with her then-company the Fifth Silverpine Infantry, called "The Vice." She was held back in promotions due to suspicions, however, on account of her familial ties to the Alliance - her father had now been an agent in SI:7 for many years and had the audacity to murder her first Executor, Leon Stanhope, in broad daylight.
Later on, serving under her second Executor Eli Volkroth, Faye fought in Silverpine during the invasion of Gilneas, earning herself an accolade for the droves of Worgen she slaughtered using her previous experience against Arugal's far more powerful lupine monstrosities. It was years later that she finally requested a transfer to the Third Tirisfal Footguard - "The Rotgarde." Known as the Queen's Finest, she had admired the company from afar for a long time, and in the years after the invasion of Gilneas, she felt her skills were underappreciated and underutilized. After enlisting in the Third and having a chance encounter with a Kor'kron officer on the run who shot himself with a beautifully crafted revolver, Faye took up the sidearm and gradually upgraded it as she fought in numerous small campaigns under Executor Phillip Perroy and Warchief Vol'jin.
Armed with what eventually became her mighty revolver rifle, grimly named "Harpybane" for the orc who had committed suicide using it, she endured the Legion's invasion of Azeroth and went on to massacre her way through worgen, night elf, dreadlord, and death knight alike. In hushed tones, there were even people who claimed her to be a monster who mercilessly took the lives of various civilians alongside the more legitimate enemies of the Horde, and these rumors persisted right up to the dawning of the Fourth War.
Despite the more dubious aspects of her time in the Rotgarde and because of her loyalty and distinguished service during the War of the Thorns - particularly during the defense of Lordaeron and the Battle of Brill - it was eventually seen fit by the promoted High Executor Phillip Perroy and his compatriots to honor Faye Paleforest for her soldier's service, knighting her and binding her by oath to the Queen, the Horde, and the Forsaken of Lordaeron.
After serving diligently across many bloody warfronts and flashpoints throughout the duration of the Fourth War, including the hunting of various rebel elements within the Horde, an exhausted Dame Faye stood alongside the Rotgarde at the gates of Orgrimmar to defend the city from the ensuing Alliance and their Horde rebel allies.
However, still loyal to Windrunner and the ideals of the Horde her Queen and Warchief had appeared to represent even after her apparent damning of it after her duel with Saurfang, Paleforest was stunned when Sylvanas abandoned the Forsaken with the Horde, and the remaining Loyalist forces surrendered unconditionally to their aggressors - including her own company. Disillusioned with what she saw as their untimely defeat, she served for a while in the Rotgarde afterward before disappearing and leaving behind a request of resignation that was doomed to be lost in the growing mire of Executor Melany Ashemere's paperwork.
Long after the conclusion of the Fourth War Dame Faye had become something of an errant knight, though she had now built herself a small home secluded deep within the Alterac Mountains. One day in the snowy wilderness, she chanced upon her former comrades to find that they had split off from the Horde as a result of its convoluted post-war politics, and were now dwelling in an ominous floating necropolis. Despite these dire portents, she offered them her help, but her simultaneous and open criticism towards their antagonistic strategy and that of their desire for independence from the Horde quickly earned her exile from their ranks by the order of their Executor. Because of this, she returned to Orgrimmar to get the Horde's side of the story, and with their contrasting acceptance and help, she gained herself a new purpose and set out to rid Azeroth of the Rotgarde's insurgency in order to unite both the Horde and her people. In so doing, she hoped to end what she saw as the Horde's crippling infighting and rebellions once and for all and allow for her people to live in relative peace, regardless of their supposed loyalties.
Some things are easier said than done however and having donated most of her remaining gold to the plight of the Forsaken refugees in Orgrimmar and those few in Lordaeron, the Dame took up mercenary work in the Red Venturers' company, splitting her time between helping her people and setting out across the world to earn coin in exchange for her storied and much sought-after combat experience.

Age

33 (Died at 19)

Eyes

Blue

Hair

Blonde

Height

6'4"

Aligned organization
Red Venturers