My First RP. Sort Of.

The other day I was reading some of the lore to do with the Blood Knights (of course), and really the Blood Elfs in general. They have quite an interesting connection with the Light, in that they essentially attempted to steal the Light from a Naaru called M’uru. They captured, and tortured, M’uru in an attempt to gain the Light’s power for themselves, not knowing that M’uru had forseen all this and let it happen. Granted I’ve missed a lot out of this story, but that’s the general gist of things.

Now, after the Blood Knights discovered this, there was some understandable guilt among the ranks. But the Blood Elf race is proud, arrogant, and vain generally speaking, so it struck me that the Blood Knights would be split into two camps upon discovering that the Naaru had gone out of their way to empower and turn them into a new race of people. There would be those who would turn away from the old ways, using their powers as a way to atone for their sins and the actions they had committed. Others would most likely carry on with their old ways…

With this in mind, I started thinking about which camp Kirioth would fall into. Would he repent, using his abilities to try and make up for past misdemeanors? Or would he simply shrug his shoulders, turn away and think “It was always meant to be ours anyway”?

Despite my planned role as a healer come 80, I think Kirioth would be one of those Blood Knights who simply wouldn’t care about the sacrifice that the Naaru made. His goals are to take down the enemy, the Scourge. He’ll use any means to achieve this, and torturing a being to gain power for it is just par for the course. On a game mechanics front, the new Judgements system works as a good support for this view. His aim in battle is to keep his allies in the line of fire, alive. That way, he can run in and drop some damage without risk of being targeted. He is a manipulator at heart, using others to help achieve his goals.

Now that probably sounds cold hearted, but fighting with the same people through Northrend, friendships and connections are bound to be made. Somewhere along the line Kirioth will most likely begin to realise that companionship is the way to go, and that healing to make others do the dirty work is not how to do it. Who knows, there might some sort of epic event which makes him rethink his attitude somewhere along the line.