Warcraft Stories

Thiryn Vael

True Name: Xal’thiryn Vileshard
Visage Name: Lady Thiryn Vael (or simply Thiryn Vael)

Race & Class:

Dracthyr — Warlock

Alignment:

Chaotic Neutral

Appearance:

Thiryn Vael possesses a striking and otherworldly beauty marked by her fel-green hair streaked with shimmering purple highlights, flowing freely like liquid magic over her shoulders. Her skin is smooth, a dusky porcelain hue with faint lavender-gray undertones that betray her arcane origin. Her eyes glow a fierce fel green, burning with the intensity of her demonic pacts and ancient knowledge.

She favors form-fitting armor forged from fel-infused obsidian and dark silks, etched with glowing green runes that pulse softly with her magic. The armor balances elegance and menace, adorned with spiked pauldrons and fine jewelry that bear arcane sigils. Her every movement exudes controlled power and predatory grace.

At her throat rests The Claw of Echoes—a twisted bronze dragon’s claw clutching a core of corrupted temporal sand and obsidian. The amulet pulses with fel-green and violet light, its floating runes an unsettling fusion of Draconic and Eredun script.

Early History:

Created by the Obsidian Ward’s eldritch experiments, Xal’thiryn was unlike her kin—drawn to forbidden magics and demonology from a young age. She was never content to be a tool of the dragonflights but instead forged her own path, embracing the chaotic powers of the Twisting Nether in secret.

Post-Stasis Activities:

Rejecting the Dragon Isles, she instead journeyed across Azeroth’s shadowed corners:

  • Caverns of Time (Tanaris) –
    Posing as a temporal researcher investigating a minor paradox in the War of the Ancients timeway, Thiryn gained temporary access to restricted sections of the Caverns. During a deliberately orchestrated “accident” involving a leyline surge, she used the chaos to puncture one of the Bronze Dragonflight’s hidden Chronosand Cores—ancient repositories of pure temporal essence. She siphoned approximately one-third of the Core’s power into a prepared soul vessel before fleeing through a pre-planned escape route. The Bronze Flight knew something had been damaged, but the partial nature of the theft kept them from immediately understanding what was taken—or by whom.

  • Ghostlands Dragonshrine (Quel’Thalas) –
    Beneath the scorched remains of a corrupted dragonshrine, she performed the Rite of Echoes—a forbidden binding ritual of her own design. Combining the stolen temporal sand with fel-corrupted obsidian from a shattered Scourge phylactery, her own draconic blood, and the claw of a Bronze drake scavenged from Dragonblight, she forged The Claw of Echoes. This hybrid relic grants her limited temporal manipulation—the ability to seed false memories of her presence into past events and mask her timeline signature from detection. The Bronze Dragonflight continues to search for the source of their damaged Core, unaware that the thief walks among them, wearing their stolen essence around her neck.

  • Silvermoon City –
    Infiltrating as Lady Vael, she entered the courts of Sin’dorei nobility posing as a mysterious exile from beyond the Eastern Kingdoms. Her “exotic” background and magical insight earned her influence—and access to the darker sides of Magisters’ libraries. A minor scandal involving a noble’s sudden madness and the disappearance of a rare soulstone was never solved.

  • Undercity Ruins (Tirisfal Glades) –
    Drawn to the aftermath of the Forsaken exodus, she wandered the haunted corridors beneath the ruined Undercity. Here, she communed with lingering spirits, gleaning the secrets of plague and necromancy. It was also where she summoned her first true demon—not as a servant, but as a partner.

  • Blackrock Depths (Burning Steppes) –
    Xal’thiryn descended into the remnants of the Dark Iron empire, where she seized a cursed relic from an abandoned Twilight cult. The artifact, a charred drake-scale diadem known as Ashwhisper, now rests hidden in her private hoard. It hums with latent voidfire energy and amplifies her demonic pacts.

  • Booty Bay (Stranglethorn Vale) –
    Disguised as a pleasure sorceress, she spent a season among pirates and smugglers. There, she experimented with mortal temptation as a weapon. One captain still swears he saw her walk away from a mutinous crew dragging chains of green fire behind her.

  • Ebon Hold (Eastern Plaguelands) –
    She briefly allied with a rogue Knight of the Ebon Blade, trading secrets of death magic for the crafting of a soul-bound armor piece: her fel-inlaid belt that hums when powerful life essence is nearby.

Personality:

Thiryn is a master manipulator—cold, calculating, and always several steps ahead. She values herself above all, treating loyalty as a commodity. She will do evil when it suits her goals, but also good, if the beneficiary serves her interests or power base. She views the world as a game board and everyone as potential pawns—or pieces to be sacrificed.

Goals:

To build an underground empire of influence, weaving demonic pacts, enchanted relics, and mortal debts into a web she alone controls. To shape the fate of Azeroth’s power structures in her own image—secretly, silently, irrevocably. With the Claw of Echoes, she has begun the most audacious phase of her plan: retroactively inserting herself into history, creating a false legacy that spans centuries she never lived.

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