> A slower, subtler arc of infiltration, manipulation, and laying the groundwork for temporal meddling in the high elven legacy.

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🎭 Act I – “A Mask of Grace”

Thiryn abandons her guise of Velistra Mourneveil, and formally adopts the visage of Lady Thiryn Vael, claiming to be a reclusive scholar from Silvermoon returning home after long travels. Her beauty, poise, and arcane knowledge win her small favor among minor nobles.

• She slowly integrates into Eversong society, charming those with influence and befriending aging magisters with knowledge of the pre-Sundering arcane schools.

• All the while, she explores the cracks in Quel’Thalas’ magical wards, noting where time magic could slip in unnoticed.

🧠 Key Moment: At a moonlit gala in Fairbreeze, she causes a minor time dilation around the wine table to test Bronze magic’s effectiveness within Eversong’s ley fields. No one notices—except a lone arcanist who disappears days later.

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⏳ Act II – “The Mirror Forges”

Thiryn discovers a hidden chamber beneath the Runestone Falithas, where echoes of highborne spellwork still linger. Using her knowledge from Ghostlands and forbidden texts, she begins crafting the first prototype of her chronophylactery—a soul-anchor tethered to specific points in time.

• The local Farstriders are investigating strange energy spikes; she deftly throws suspicion onto a rogue sin’dorei sect seeking to revive Kael’thas’ ideology.

• Thiryn begins absorbing temporal echoes—shadows of past events left in magical hotspots. She bottles one: the sound of Anasterian Sunstrider’s final council before the Scourge invasion.

🧠 Key Moment: She speaks aloud the echo in her sanctum, and time folds slightly. Her reflection moves before she does. It bows.

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🐍 Act III – “The Garden of False Memory”

Thiryn now turns to planting her own false echoes in the leyline web—small events that, in the future, might be mistaken for real history.

• She manipulates a love affair between two minor nobles and arranges for one to die during a magical experiment gone wrong. The echo is preserved.

• She then inserts herself into the temporal afterimage—recording it magically so that, to certain future scryers, it appears as though Thiryn Vael was always part of this event.

🧠 Key Moment: In a mirror of silverglass infused with Bronze sands, she watches a future magister say: “Yes, Lady Vael was there that day. She warned us. If only we’d listened.”

She smiles.