Jaina Proudmoore / App for capeandcowl
[PLAYER INFO]
NAME: Funk
AGE: 23
JOURNAL: cftfic
IM: Funkadelict7of11
E-MAIL: cantfakethefunk@gmail.com
RETURNING: N/A
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Lady Jaina Proudmoore
FANDOM: (World of) Warcraft
CHRONOLOGY: WoW Patch 3.3, Fall of the Lich King - after her confrontation with the Lich King in the Halls of Reflection.
CLASS: Hero
SUPERHERO NAME: While she certainly understands the idea of an alias, Jaina is unlikely to see much reason in having a different name and would much rather use her own.
ALTER EGO: She'd be a lovely librarian.
BACKGROUND:
Jaina Proudmoore was born the daughter of Daelin Proudmoore, king and Lord Admiral of Kul Tiras, a small seafaring island nation off the coast of the Eastern Kingdoms, and even in her youth the young girl demonstrated a remarkable intellect and curiosity for the world around her. She was enraptured by the tales of the sorceress Aegwynn, the former Guardian of Tirisfal, and dreamed of being a Mage like her some day.
Thanks to her status as royalty, it was perhaps easier for Jaina's magical talent to be discovered by the Mages of the Kirin Tor, and the girl was sent to Dalaran to train. On her journey to Dalaran, they stopped at the Capital City of the kingdom of Lordaeron - one of Kul Tiras' strongest allies in the Second War against the Orcish Horde - where Jaina met the young Crown Prince, Arthas Menethil. Though it was only a brief meeting, the two would become friends (and much later, something more).
After some considerable convincing, Jaina persuaded the famed Archmage Antonidas to take her on as an apprentice, and dove into her studies with gusto, training hard in the hopes that one day she'd become a powerful sorceress - a goal that, it became obvious, she was quite capable of succeeding in... though not without a magical mishap here and there.
Upon meeting Arthas Menethil again, the two became close and over time eventually kindled a relationship together, becoming lovers. Jaina had fallen hard for the Prince, and considering their mutual status as royalty, those who had an inkling of what was going on between the two - despite their work to keep it under wraps - assumed that naturally, the two would be wed, strengthening diplomatic ties between Lordaeron and Kul Tiras. That was, of course, until Arthas grew concerned over whether or not he was ready to be a husband, father and king and broke their relationship off, telling a confused and upset Jaina that he needed to focus on his duties as a Paladin, and she her studies.
So study she did, in an effort to help keep her mind off of the matter. When Jaina and Arthas met again, though, it was under significantly worse circumstances - there had been reports of a plague in villages throughout Lordaeron, and due to its potentially magical nature, Jaina had been sent as a representative of Dalaran to aid Arthas as he investigated the matter with his men. The two discovered the horrible nature of the plague - how it gruesomely killed its victims before raising them as mindless undead - and as Arthas became more and more obsessed with hunting down the root of this blight that was turning the people in his kingdom into abominations and mockeries of life, Jaina became more and more concerned for his sake.
When Jaina and Arthas encountered the mysterious shapeshifting Prophet who beseeched them to abandon these lands and sail West to the continent of Kalimdor, Arthas furiously ignored the man's pleas, but Jaina - having heard them once before when the man had asked the same request of her teacher Antonidas - found them stuck in her mind. There was no time to consider them, though, as the issue with the Plague worsened every day.
Jaina told Arthas her concerns about his obssession, but he brushed them off. The two spent one final night together before they arrived at Stratholme, the largest city in the area - only to find in horror that the contaminated grain that was the cause of the Plague had already been delivered. The people had already eaten it, and though they were not yet sick, they were doomed. Jaina could only stand by horrified as Arthas gave the order to cleanse the city, preferring to have his people die clean deaths by his hand than to suffer and rise again as mindless monsters. He asked for her help, but it was something she could not give - but at the same time, she could not bring herself to raise her hand against the man she loved. Instead, she turned her back on him.
That decision would haunt her every day to come. The two spoke briefly after the slaughter at Stratholme, but the next time they ever encountered each other was when Arthas' soul had been lost to the runeblade Frostmourne, and he led the Undead Scourge as a Death Knight, the very beings he'd sworn to destroy. As Arthas' army marched on Dalaran, Antonidas told the young mage to follow the word of the Prophet and to sail West to Kalimdor, because that was the only chance their world had for survival. Jaina sadly obeyed, and Antonidas would be killed in the seige on Dalaran as Arthas summoned in Archimonde, demonic master of the Burning Legion.
In Kalimdor, Jaina met Thrall, the young Warchief of the Orcish Horde, and despite their peoples' history of war and enmity (and indeed despite initial skirmishes) the two leaders reluctantly agreed that the only way the mortal races would stand any chance against the might of the Burning Legion would be an alliance together with the native Night Elf guardians of the forest. Jaina and her small army were the first to face Archimonde at the battle of Mount Hyjal, in the hopes that they could delay his advance to the World Tree just long enough for Malfurion Stormrage to work his Druidic magic. Though Jaina's forces were defeated after a fierce battle, she survived - and thanks to the resistance of the Orcs and Night Elves, Malfurion succeeded in his task, killing Archimonde (at the cost of the World Tree).
Jaina would go on to establish the city-state of Theramore off the shore of Dustwallow Marsh, relatively close to the Orc capital of Orgrimmar - indeed, despite the history between their races, Jaina (and Thrall) believed that the two could coexist peacefully. Though there were certainly tensions, their beliefs seemed to be proven true... at least until Jaina's father, Daelin Proudmoore, came to Kalimdor sailing at the front of a human fleet. Daelin ignored Jaina's protests that the Orcs were trying to live on their own in peace, seeing them only as the savage monsters he'd fought during the wars (the ones that had killed Jaina's older brother Derek). Daelin Proudmoore began to make war on the Horde outposts in the name of the Alliance, and Jaina saw that her father's actions - borne by ignorance and ancient grudges that had no place in a world with greater threats like the Legion and the Scourge - would put an end to the fragile peace that she and Thrall had worked so hard to create. She gave Horde agents information that allowed them to acquire a fleet to fight her father, and ordered her own forces to stand down resulting in his death - another decision that haunts her (even if she does not doubt it was the right one to make).
As one of the few Alliance leaders who believes wholeheartedly in peace between the two groups, Jaina continued to make overtures to that end, agreeing to mediate a peace discussion between Warchief Thrall and Varian Wrynn, the King of Stormwind - unfortunately, the criminal Defias Brotherhood (backed by the fearsome black dragon Onyxia) ambushed the King during his journey, taking him captive. When Jaina encountered Wrynn - now the amnesiac gladiator Lo'Gosh - she recognized the man and was instrumental in helping him recover his memories, as well as aiding him in the battle against Onyxia.
Though Varian's return to power (with a new rekindled hatred of the Orcs thanks to his time as a gladiator) increased tensions between Alliance and Horde, Jaina still fervently worked toward peace, particularly when another evil reared its head: In Northrend, the Lich King, evil overlord of the Scourge - and in the host body of her former lover Arthas - was waking. After the slaughter at the Wrathgate, where agents of the Horde betrayed their comrades and the Alliance warriors fighting alongside them to unleash another Plague upon the Lich King, Jaina aided Varian Wrynn in his assault on the Undercity (the ruins of the former Capital City of Lordaeron) in order to kill Grand Apothecary Putress, one of the masterminds of the betrayal. Blaming the Horde for the betrayal and the death of his good friend Bolvar Fordragon, Varian tried to attack Thrall, and it was only Jaina's quick teleportation that averted open conflict.
The sorceress would attempt to rein Varian in going forward, seeing the real threat as the Lich King and not the Horde - but Jaina still harbored doubts, wondering if there was anything remaining of the Arthas she loved. When the assault on Icecrown began in earnest, Jaina led Alliance heroes to sabotage the Lich King's war machine, but her real goal was in his private chambers, the Halls of Reflection. Jaina faced the Lich King one final time on her own, trying to find a final speck of goodness in the man. Unfortunately, she found none, and though she fought bravely was almost killed, only saved by the timely intervention of the Alliance heroes who had fought alongside her. The group escaped the Lich King's wrath, leaving Jaina to finally accept that the only peace Arthas would ever know would be in death.
PERSONALITY:
Jaina is a scholar at heart. In an ideal world where she had no responsibilities, she would be happy to relinquish her role as Archmage and as the governor of Theramore in order to spend the rest of her life studying and curled up with books, but this is an impossibility and she knows it - and she's certainly not one to shirk her responsibilities and abandon people who need her help. Jaina knows that people are depending on her to keep them safe, and it's a duty that she's more than willing to bear, particularly as she knows she is one of the few voices of weight in the global political balance (or even just within the Alliance) who has a deep belief that there can be true peace between alliance and Horde.
As befits a scholar, she's very curious and inquisitive (to a fault, almost - she can come off as a bit of a know-it-all if she isn't careful) - and extremely intelligent and perceptive - and tends to prefer intellectual solutions to problems rather than the brute-force approach of Varian Wrynn. Jaina prefers to think her way through a situation rather than resorting to violence - which is something she (in her own words) very much hates to do, but she also knows the consequences of inaction. After all, thinking through a situation doesn't mean simply biding one's time, as one can think and still act instead of getting caught up in debates and unnecessary red tape that merely get in the way of actually helping those in need.
If peoples' lives are immediately on the line, Jaina will act to save them, but she would prefer to take the diplomatic approach first if she can afford it. Though an idealist who truly believes in her heart of hearts that the Alliance and Horde can live in peace, Jaina knows that there are times when conflict is unavoidable, and will fight to protect that ideal, and to protect those who depend on her - and will open up with the full brunt of her considerable magical power.
Jaina is very calm and collected, and rather skilled at reading people to glean their motivations and intentions - despite her amiable and idealistic nature, she's very hard to trick or to fool. She's patient and tries to be as understanding as possible, which leads some in the very cutthroat world of Warcraft to see her as weak and a doormat who's willing to bend over backward in the name of "peace" with their enemies who just want to see Jaina's own people dead and/or enslaved. Jaina has earned herself some enmity in Theramore with people who think she should take a harder stance toward the Horde, and that her friendship with Thrall (or more intimate, as some rumor-mongers insist) clouds her judgment.
A place where Jaina will fully admit her judgment is clouded is when it comes to Arthas. There isn't a day that Jaina goes by that she doesn't think about the moment she turned her back on her lover at Stratholme, and she blames himself for his fall. If she'd stopped him from crossing that terrible line, if she'd been smarter or more prepared to find a cure, if she'd done anything other than turning her back then he might not have walked the road he traveled. For the past six years, Jaina has been trying to come to grips with the idea that the man she loved is truly gone, knowing that one day she might have to fight him for the good of all of Azeroth - but even so, it wasn't something she could accept fully until she met him face-to-face one last time. Now she knows, and though she will always regret the actions that took them to this point, Jaina has always been prepared to make sacrifices in the name of the greater good. She will do what she must.
POWER:
Lady Jaina Proudmoore is the most powerful sorceress - and one of the most powerful magic users - on Azeroth. She's a frighteningly skilled Mage with control over Frost, Fire, and Arcane magic. Given the City, she will be limited in her repertoire, only able to cast a few of her spells:
FROST MAGIC - Jaina's school of choice, and her main offensive ability. Jaina can flash-freeze water in the air or create magical ice from nothingness, and she can use it in a variety of ways. Her Blizzard can shred foes with tiny shards of ice, her Frostbolt deals powerful magical damage, and she can even use it to create walls and block attacks.
POLYMORPH - Another one of her signature spells, Jaina can turn a foe into a harmless, mindless critter - usually a sheep - who is unable to act for up to a minute, when the spell wears off. The act of forcibly changing their shape will rapidly regenerate all wounds, however, so it's mainly used as a delay tool, impractical for using in the middle of a fight.
(MASS) TELEPORT - Jaina can use magic to move herself and others instantly between locations. She can do a short-range teleport called a Blink in the middle of a battle, she can teleport herself great distances, or she can teleport a group and/or open a portal for anyone to use (and each of these spells takes progressively more time and effort in order listed). Obviously, the places she can teleport TO would be rather limited in the City.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE: I've never seen anything like this City before. I'm almost at a loss to describe it... it sprawls bigger than Silvermoon or the capital of Lordaeron, and it towers over Dalaran, but there's no magic here. It doesn't hum like those places do. It's strange how a city filled with so many people, filled with so many strange objects and noises... can feel so quiet.
[A quiet chuckle] Oh, just listen to me. I've never really thought of myself as the type to talk about having a connection with the world around me - not like Thrall and his shamans can, anyway. But it's true, isn't it? Back in Azeroth, we might not have had that connection to the elements and the spirits, but we could feel the leylines that ran all through the world - we could sense them, and we could tap into them for our power. None of that is here.
I can't help but wonder if that's the root cause behind the limitations placed on my magic abilities, but... that doesn't seem likely. The spells I do have at my disposal don't have any common thread to them, and it's odd that I retain access to some more complicated spells when I can't do something as simple as conjur a fireball. I'll need to examine it further - and if there's anyone here in the world who possessed an aptitude for magic in their home world but found that their abilities are either severely limited or otherwrise nonexistent, I'd love to hear about it. Perhaps we'll get to the bottom of this.
There's so much information here, after all - it'd be a shame to let it go to waste.
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE: Responsibility was such an interesting thing. Well, to be exact, it wasn't responsibility that Jaina Proudmoore found interesting, but rather the absence thereof. It was strange to be here, in this library - filled not with dusty tomes and priceless magical scrolls, but with thick, leather-bound novels - and to have little obligation other than to show up every day and keep the books in order. In Azeroth, there were people relying on her to ensure their prosperity, their livelihood, and their very lives. It was a delicate balancing act, weighing the safety of her people, her loyalty to the Alliance, and her desire to see peace with the Horde - not to mention the omnipresent threats of the Scourge and the Burning Legion... but here, there was none of it.
It was unsettling, in a way. To have had so much on one's shoulders for so long, and then to find that burden suddenly lifted - Jaina didn't quite know what to do with herself. There was so much she could do here that she couldn't back home on sheer anonymity alone. If she wanted, the sorceress knew she could probably fade into obscurity and lead a life curled up with a new book every night, studying the wisdom here from countless other worlds, and...
...Jaina paused in the middle of shelving another hardcover book, closing her eyes. No, of course she couldn't do that. Not while he was here - she still had one responsibility remaining from Azeroth, after all. The Lich King might not have been quite as dangerous here as he had in their world without the full scope of his powers and without his legions of undead, but Jaina knew better than to underestimate him. He was still as chillingly malevolent as he'd ever been, and he was still smart. The Lich King knew better than to jump the gun without thinking or planning - he was cruel, but not reckless. Jaina didn't doubt that he was gathering his power, that he was preparing... and that when he did strike, he'd likely go for the people from Azeroth, first. After all, they were the ones who knew him, and they were the ones who could warn the other heroes.
But then again, that wasn't something she minded. Arthas - no, the Lich King, she reminded herself as she continued to reshelve her books - was her responsibility. She had been there years ago when the Prince had made that first fateful choice that had set him on this path, and she had done nothing but walk away. Even if there was nothing remaining of that man but a familiar-yet-twisted face, she bore some of the responsibility for making him what he was. And if he came for her first, then... she stood a chance at ending his threat before putting anyone in danger.
It wasn't much of a chance, but it was a chance nonetheless. And even if she failed, then her death might well warn others - with all the heroes in this world, even one such as he would be defeated with the proper advance notice.
Or so she hoped, anyway.
NAME: Funk
AGE: 23
JOURNAL: cftfic
IM: Funkadelict7of11
E-MAIL: cantfakethefunk@gmail.com
RETURNING: N/A
[CHARACTER INFO]
CHARACTER NAME: Lady Jaina Proudmoore
FANDOM: (World of) Warcraft
CHRONOLOGY: WoW Patch 3.3, Fall of the Lich King - after her confrontation with the Lich King in the Halls of Reflection.
CLASS: Hero
SUPERHERO NAME: While she certainly understands the idea of an alias, Jaina is unlikely to see much reason in having a different name and would much rather use her own.
ALTER EGO: She'd be a lovely librarian.
BACKGROUND:
Jaina Proudmoore was born the daughter of Daelin Proudmoore, king and Lord Admiral of Kul Tiras, a small seafaring island nation off the coast of the Eastern Kingdoms, and even in her youth the young girl demonstrated a remarkable intellect and curiosity for the world around her. She was enraptured by the tales of the sorceress Aegwynn, the former Guardian of Tirisfal, and dreamed of being a Mage like her some day.
Thanks to her status as royalty, it was perhaps easier for Jaina's magical talent to be discovered by the Mages of the Kirin Tor, and the girl was sent to Dalaran to train. On her journey to Dalaran, they stopped at the Capital City of the kingdom of Lordaeron - one of Kul Tiras' strongest allies in the Second War against the Orcish Horde - where Jaina met the young Crown Prince, Arthas Menethil. Though it was only a brief meeting, the two would become friends (and much later, something more).
After some considerable convincing, Jaina persuaded the famed Archmage Antonidas to take her on as an apprentice, and dove into her studies with gusto, training hard in the hopes that one day she'd become a powerful sorceress - a goal that, it became obvious, she was quite capable of succeeding in... though not without a magical mishap here and there.
Upon meeting Arthas Menethil again, the two became close and over time eventually kindled a relationship together, becoming lovers. Jaina had fallen hard for the Prince, and considering their mutual status as royalty, those who had an inkling of what was going on between the two - despite their work to keep it under wraps - assumed that naturally, the two would be wed, strengthening diplomatic ties between Lordaeron and Kul Tiras. That was, of course, until Arthas grew concerned over whether or not he was ready to be a husband, father and king and broke their relationship off, telling a confused and upset Jaina that he needed to focus on his duties as a Paladin, and she her studies.
So study she did, in an effort to help keep her mind off of the matter. When Jaina and Arthas met again, though, it was under significantly worse circumstances - there had been reports of a plague in villages throughout Lordaeron, and due to its potentially magical nature, Jaina had been sent as a representative of Dalaran to aid Arthas as he investigated the matter with his men. The two discovered the horrible nature of the plague - how it gruesomely killed its victims before raising them as mindless undead - and as Arthas became more and more obsessed with hunting down the root of this blight that was turning the people in his kingdom into abominations and mockeries of life, Jaina became more and more concerned for his sake.
When Jaina and Arthas encountered the mysterious shapeshifting Prophet who beseeched them to abandon these lands and sail West to the continent of Kalimdor, Arthas furiously ignored the man's pleas, but Jaina - having heard them once before when the man had asked the same request of her teacher Antonidas - found them stuck in her mind. There was no time to consider them, though, as the issue with the Plague worsened every day.
Jaina told Arthas her concerns about his obssession, but he brushed them off. The two spent one final night together before they arrived at Stratholme, the largest city in the area - only to find in horror that the contaminated grain that was the cause of the Plague had already been delivered. The people had already eaten it, and though they were not yet sick, they were doomed. Jaina could only stand by horrified as Arthas gave the order to cleanse the city, preferring to have his people die clean deaths by his hand than to suffer and rise again as mindless monsters. He asked for her help, but it was something she could not give - but at the same time, she could not bring herself to raise her hand against the man she loved. Instead, she turned her back on him.
That decision would haunt her every day to come. The two spoke briefly after the slaughter at Stratholme, but the next time they ever encountered each other was when Arthas' soul had been lost to the runeblade Frostmourne, and he led the Undead Scourge as a Death Knight, the very beings he'd sworn to destroy. As Arthas' army marched on Dalaran, Antonidas told the young mage to follow the word of the Prophet and to sail West to Kalimdor, because that was the only chance their world had for survival. Jaina sadly obeyed, and Antonidas would be killed in the seige on Dalaran as Arthas summoned in Archimonde, demonic master of the Burning Legion.
In Kalimdor, Jaina met Thrall, the young Warchief of the Orcish Horde, and despite their peoples' history of war and enmity (and indeed despite initial skirmishes) the two leaders reluctantly agreed that the only way the mortal races would stand any chance against the might of the Burning Legion would be an alliance together with the native Night Elf guardians of the forest. Jaina and her small army were the first to face Archimonde at the battle of Mount Hyjal, in the hopes that they could delay his advance to the World Tree just long enough for Malfurion Stormrage to work his Druidic magic. Though Jaina's forces were defeated after a fierce battle, she survived - and thanks to the resistance of the Orcs and Night Elves, Malfurion succeeded in his task, killing Archimonde (at the cost of the World Tree).
Jaina would go on to establish the city-state of Theramore off the shore of Dustwallow Marsh, relatively close to the Orc capital of Orgrimmar - indeed, despite the history between their races, Jaina (and Thrall) believed that the two could coexist peacefully. Though there were certainly tensions, their beliefs seemed to be proven true... at least until Jaina's father, Daelin Proudmoore, came to Kalimdor sailing at the front of a human fleet. Daelin ignored Jaina's protests that the Orcs were trying to live on their own in peace, seeing them only as the savage monsters he'd fought during the wars (the ones that had killed Jaina's older brother Derek). Daelin Proudmoore began to make war on the Horde outposts in the name of the Alliance, and Jaina saw that her father's actions - borne by ignorance and ancient grudges that had no place in a world with greater threats like the Legion and the Scourge - would put an end to the fragile peace that she and Thrall had worked so hard to create. She gave Horde agents information that allowed them to acquire a fleet to fight her father, and ordered her own forces to stand down resulting in his death - another decision that haunts her (even if she does not doubt it was the right one to make).
As one of the few Alliance leaders who believes wholeheartedly in peace between the two groups, Jaina continued to make overtures to that end, agreeing to mediate a peace discussion between Warchief Thrall and Varian Wrynn, the King of Stormwind - unfortunately, the criminal Defias Brotherhood (backed by the fearsome black dragon Onyxia) ambushed the King during his journey, taking him captive. When Jaina encountered Wrynn - now the amnesiac gladiator Lo'Gosh - she recognized the man and was instrumental in helping him recover his memories, as well as aiding him in the battle against Onyxia.
Though Varian's return to power (with a new rekindled hatred of the Orcs thanks to his time as a gladiator) increased tensions between Alliance and Horde, Jaina still fervently worked toward peace, particularly when another evil reared its head: In Northrend, the Lich King, evil overlord of the Scourge - and in the host body of her former lover Arthas - was waking. After the slaughter at the Wrathgate, where agents of the Horde betrayed their comrades and the Alliance warriors fighting alongside them to unleash another Plague upon the Lich King, Jaina aided Varian Wrynn in his assault on the Undercity (the ruins of the former Capital City of Lordaeron) in order to kill Grand Apothecary Putress, one of the masterminds of the betrayal. Blaming the Horde for the betrayal and the death of his good friend Bolvar Fordragon, Varian tried to attack Thrall, and it was only Jaina's quick teleportation that averted open conflict.
The sorceress would attempt to rein Varian in going forward, seeing the real threat as the Lich King and not the Horde - but Jaina still harbored doubts, wondering if there was anything remaining of the Arthas she loved. When the assault on Icecrown began in earnest, Jaina led Alliance heroes to sabotage the Lich King's war machine, but her real goal was in his private chambers, the Halls of Reflection. Jaina faced the Lich King one final time on her own, trying to find a final speck of goodness in the man. Unfortunately, she found none, and though she fought bravely was almost killed, only saved by the timely intervention of the Alliance heroes who had fought alongside her. The group escaped the Lich King's wrath, leaving Jaina to finally accept that the only peace Arthas would ever know would be in death.
PERSONALITY:
Jaina is a scholar at heart. In an ideal world where she had no responsibilities, she would be happy to relinquish her role as Archmage and as the governor of Theramore in order to spend the rest of her life studying and curled up with books, but this is an impossibility and she knows it - and she's certainly not one to shirk her responsibilities and abandon people who need her help. Jaina knows that people are depending on her to keep them safe, and it's a duty that she's more than willing to bear, particularly as she knows she is one of the few voices of weight in the global political balance (or even just within the Alliance) who has a deep belief that there can be true peace between alliance and Horde.
As befits a scholar, she's very curious and inquisitive (to a fault, almost - she can come off as a bit of a know-it-all if she isn't careful) - and extremely intelligent and perceptive - and tends to prefer intellectual solutions to problems rather than the brute-force approach of Varian Wrynn. Jaina prefers to think her way through a situation rather than resorting to violence - which is something she (in her own words) very much hates to do, but she also knows the consequences of inaction. After all, thinking through a situation doesn't mean simply biding one's time, as one can think and still act instead of getting caught up in debates and unnecessary red tape that merely get in the way of actually helping those in need.
If peoples' lives are immediately on the line, Jaina will act to save them, but she would prefer to take the diplomatic approach first if she can afford it. Though an idealist who truly believes in her heart of hearts that the Alliance and Horde can live in peace, Jaina knows that there are times when conflict is unavoidable, and will fight to protect that ideal, and to protect those who depend on her - and will open up with the full brunt of her considerable magical power.
Jaina is very calm and collected, and rather skilled at reading people to glean their motivations and intentions - despite her amiable and idealistic nature, she's very hard to trick or to fool. She's patient and tries to be as understanding as possible, which leads some in the very cutthroat world of Warcraft to see her as weak and a doormat who's willing to bend over backward in the name of "peace" with their enemies who just want to see Jaina's own people dead and/or enslaved. Jaina has earned herself some enmity in Theramore with people who think she should take a harder stance toward the Horde, and that her friendship with Thrall (or more intimate, as some rumor-mongers insist) clouds her judgment.
A place where Jaina will fully admit her judgment is clouded is when it comes to Arthas. There isn't a day that Jaina goes by that she doesn't think about the moment she turned her back on her lover at Stratholme, and she blames himself for his fall. If she'd stopped him from crossing that terrible line, if she'd been smarter or more prepared to find a cure, if she'd done anything other than turning her back then he might not have walked the road he traveled. For the past six years, Jaina has been trying to come to grips with the idea that the man she loved is truly gone, knowing that one day she might have to fight him for the good of all of Azeroth - but even so, it wasn't something she could accept fully until she met him face-to-face one last time. Now she knows, and though she will always regret the actions that took them to this point, Jaina has always been prepared to make sacrifices in the name of the greater good. She will do what she must.
POWER:
Lady Jaina Proudmoore is the most powerful sorceress - and one of the most powerful magic users - on Azeroth. She's a frighteningly skilled Mage with control over Frost, Fire, and Arcane magic. Given the City, she will be limited in her repertoire, only able to cast a few of her spells:
FROST MAGIC - Jaina's school of choice, and her main offensive ability. Jaina can flash-freeze water in the air or create magical ice from nothingness, and she can use it in a variety of ways. Her Blizzard can shred foes with tiny shards of ice, her Frostbolt deals powerful magical damage, and she can even use it to create walls and block attacks.
POLYMORPH - Another one of her signature spells, Jaina can turn a foe into a harmless, mindless critter - usually a sheep - who is unable to act for up to a minute, when the spell wears off. The act of forcibly changing their shape will rapidly regenerate all wounds, however, so it's mainly used as a delay tool, impractical for using in the middle of a fight.
(MASS) TELEPORT - Jaina can use magic to move herself and others instantly between locations. She can do a short-range teleport called a Blink in the middle of a battle, she can teleport herself great distances, or she can teleport a group and/or open a portal for anyone to use (and each of these spells takes progressively more time and effort in order listed). Obviously, the places she can teleport TO would be rather limited in the City.
[CHARACTER SAMPLES]
COMMUNITY POST (FIRST PERSON) SAMPLE: I've never seen anything like this City before. I'm almost at a loss to describe it... it sprawls bigger than Silvermoon or the capital of Lordaeron, and it towers over Dalaran, but there's no magic here. It doesn't hum like those places do. It's strange how a city filled with so many people, filled with so many strange objects and noises... can feel so quiet.
[A quiet chuckle] Oh, just listen to me. I've never really thought of myself as the type to talk about having a connection with the world around me - not like Thrall and his shamans can, anyway. But it's true, isn't it? Back in Azeroth, we might not have had that connection to the elements and the spirits, but we could feel the leylines that ran all through the world - we could sense them, and we could tap into them for our power. None of that is here.
I can't help but wonder if that's the root cause behind the limitations placed on my magic abilities, but... that doesn't seem likely. The spells I do have at my disposal don't have any common thread to them, and it's odd that I retain access to some more complicated spells when I can't do something as simple as conjur a fireball. I'll need to examine it further - and if there's anyone here in the world who possessed an aptitude for magic in their home world but found that their abilities are either severely limited or otherwrise nonexistent, I'd love to hear about it. Perhaps we'll get to the bottom of this.
There's so much information here, after all - it'd be a shame to let it go to waste.
LOGS POST (THIRD PERSON) SAMPLE: Responsibility was such an interesting thing. Well, to be exact, it wasn't responsibility that Jaina Proudmoore found interesting, but rather the absence thereof. It was strange to be here, in this library - filled not with dusty tomes and priceless magical scrolls, but with thick, leather-bound novels - and to have little obligation other than to show up every day and keep the books in order. In Azeroth, there were people relying on her to ensure their prosperity, their livelihood, and their very lives. It was a delicate balancing act, weighing the safety of her people, her loyalty to the Alliance, and her desire to see peace with the Horde - not to mention the omnipresent threats of the Scourge and the Burning Legion... but here, there was none of it.
It was unsettling, in a way. To have had so much on one's shoulders for so long, and then to find that burden suddenly lifted - Jaina didn't quite know what to do with herself. There was so much she could do here that she couldn't back home on sheer anonymity alone. If she wanted, the sorceress knew she could probably fade into obscurity and lead a life curled up with a new book every night, studying the wisdom here from countless other worlds, and...
...Jaina paused in the middle of shelving another hardcover book, closing her eyes. No, of course she couldn't do that. Not while he was here - she still had one responsibility remaining from Azeroth, after all. The Lich King might not have been quite as dangerous here as he had in their world without the full scope of his powers and without his legions of undead, but Jaina knew better than to underestimate him. He was still as chillingly malevolent as he'd ever been, and he was still smart. The Lich King knew better than to jump the gun without thinking or planning - he was cruel, but not reckless. Jaina didn't doubt that he was gathering his power, that he was preparing... and that when he did strike, he'd likely go for the people from Azeroth, first. After all, they were the ones who knew him, and they were the ones who could warn the other heroes.
But then again, that wasn't something she minded. Arthas - no, the Lich King, she reminded herself as she continued to reshelve her books - was her responsibility. She had been there years ago when the Prince had made that first fateful choice that had set him on this path, and she had done nothing but walk away. Even if there was nothing remaining of that man but a familiar-yet-twisted face, she bore some of the responsibility for making him what he was. And if he came for her first, then... she stood a chance at ending his threat before putting anyone in danger.
It wasn't much of a chance, but it was a chance nonetheless. And even if she failed, then her death might well warn others - with all the heroes in this world, even one such as he would be defeated with the proper advance notice.
Or so she hoped, anyway.