Akhania

Akhania Grimhammer

Nick-name: Khani

Clan: The Tears of Draenor

Title: Advocate

= Statistics =

Race: Orc

Gender: Female

Class: Shaman

Age: 22

Height: 5' 11"

Weight: 213 lbs.

Skin Color: Blueish Green

Eye Color: Blue. It should be noted that Akhania only has one eye.

Professions: Enchanting and Skinning.

= Appearance =

Both voluptuous and curvaceous, Akhania looks to be a very healthy female. Her larger than average frame seems to accent this fact, showing off her thick legs, broad hips, and impressive bust line. When she walks, it's clear that her physical build affects the way she walks, swaying her hips side to side. Her head is shaved almost completely bald, except for a long, braided pony tail that extends down to mid-way down her thigh, and clasped with runed, golden rings. Her face is smooth and relatively plain, except for a long, deep gash that looks seared into her skin that travels from the top right of her forehead down, through her eye, to the bottom of her cheek. Over where her right eye should be is an eyepatch bearing the mark of the Horde. Her left eye is a brilliant blue color that isn't commonly found amongst orcs. Her skin is also an off color, more of a blueish green.

It is common to see her carrying around a pair of infants, both are her children. The male child is named Kharnak, and looks fairly orcish, save for a few troll traits, and the female child is named Azuluna. It is somewhat rare to see her without these two in cities or towns.

= Personality =

Akhania is almost always seen smiling at others. It is a rare, and often times bad, sight to see her doing anything but smile. She speaks with pride and confidence in her tone, and she is fiercely loyal to her clan and to the Horde as a whole. She accepts all members of the Horde as being part of a greater family, whether or not they deserve it. When she is with her two infants, she is more calm when she speaks, but her smile is even brighter and more intense. It is clear that she is very proud and very happy with her twins.

= History =

Akhania's history is broken down into various categories: What she was told as a child growing up, the truth behind this, and her comming to Durotar.

The Legend
What can be told is her past life, one of solitude, living peacefully in the mountains of Alterac. Akhania’s clan was one of powerful standing within the Horde on Draenor, the Orcs home before the coming of the Shadow Council. It was they who provoked the Orcs to travel to Azeroth, and to slaughter in the name of the Burning Legion. When the Orcs invaded this land, the Stormhammer clan came with them, and maimed and killed in the name of the Horde, ignorant of the corruption of their brethren.

When word came from the Frostwolf clan that the Horde was being used by demons, the noble Warchief Kharnak Stormhammer immediately ordered his clan to cease its battles with the Humans, and to retreat into solitude, much as the Frostwolves had done. This caused an uproar in the Horde, but as time passed, the Horde was defeated and rounded up into camps.

The Stormhammers managed to remain solitary for a great deal of time, and during this time, the Warchief and his wife, Lokarra, bore a daughter. This infant was intended to be their heir to the Stormhammer clan.

Eventually, the noble Warchief grew weary of sitting idly by while his people, corrupted or not, sat in the Humans camps, wallowing in their defeat. He mounted a mighty raid into one of the camps to attempt to save his brethren, but when they would not aid him and retreat from the camp he realized that they had grown complacent and sluggish due to the lack of demonic power in their blood. It was then that the trap was sprung on the Stormhammer clan, and they were surrounded within the camp and overpowered. As a last act of sacrifice, the Warchief ordered his wife, who had participated in the raid but had not entered the camp, to flee into the mountains and protect their daughter for as long as she could. With tears in her eyes, she watched through the wood planks of the internment camp as her mate was surrounded and shackled by Humans. She did as told, and fled into the hills.

This was the lie that Akhania was told. This is the lie that Akhania tells to others. The truth is far more brutal...

The Brutal Truth
The truth was that her entire clan, save for a few individuals, were completely consumed by bloodlust, and they believed that constant battle amongst each other could keep their demonic rage going. However, as they began to see this was not true, Akhania’s father flew into a mighty rage, but was struck down by his own wife, thus beginning a battle that would completely decimate the entire Stormhammer clan. Brother fought brother, sister fought sister, and only after the entire clan had been wiped out did Akhania’s mother and the now three year old Akhania flee from the scene of the bloody massacre.

Years passed by, and Akhania and her mother grew accustomed to living alone. They overcame the challenges posed by everyday life in the mountains by befriending a pack of wolves in the mountains. Together, they raised the wolves as both hunting companions and mounts in the snowy peaks. This way of life became standard to the young girl, now seven years of age. Her mother and the patriarch of the wolves would hunt for food, and Akhania would take care of and feed the younger wolves.

As the winter drew close in Akhania’s seventh year, she came to know the hardest sorrow of all; the loss of her mother. It was during this winter that a Human expedition, sent from Lordaeron’s capital to investigate the possibility of Orcs hiding in the mountains, came across the last two members of the Stormhammer clan. They promptly, and without mercy or pause, slaughtered the girl’s mother, her wolves, and destroyed the encampment. In a strange act of cruelty, the captain of the group ordered that the young Orc be left to the winter to freeze to death.

Akhania was forced to live through the winter surviving on the meat of the wolves that had been butchered, and using their skins as cloaks to protect herself. It was the most desperate year of her life, and she was forced to learn quickly to survive on her own.

It was in this same storm that she was visited by the Earth Spirit of the mountains. It whispered to her that she could call upon its strength to aid her, and so she did. Without this, the girl would have surely died. Using only what limited survival skills she had, and the power of the Earth Spirits, she endured the harsh winter, and into the spring.

Flight to Durotar
For years she lived alone, with only the Spirits to whisper to. She made her living there in the mountains for eleven years, not knowing another living soul even knowing of her existence. That is, until a Horde Raiding party came through the area, including the now-Forsaken captain who had ordered her mother slain. They discovered the girl living peacefully in a cave in the mountains, and going only on the knowledge that she was an Orc, brought her to Durotar.

Upon her arrival in the Orcish lands, she was bewildered by the thought of there being more Orcs than just her. She was lost in a sea of green skinned brutes, and she had no idea of where to go. The raiding party had whispered of a clan in the area, the Tears of Draenor, who they believed could take her in. Akhania took this information and eagerly contacted their leader, Ruarc. Ever since then, Akhania has had a sense of devotion to the Tears, believing them to be her new family.