Backstory for a Nightborne

I’M ASKING FOR A FRIEND
No, seriously, I’m trying to build up a story for one of my characters but I wanted to check if it could be a plausible one, or how to correct and refine it and eventually use it once the character is ready.

So, there is this Nightborne, specifically a member of the Nightfallen rebellion. He’s been living outside Suramar for a while, trying to survive. One day, on the brink of becoming a withered, he’s rescued by the nightfallen rebels and saved, but the prolonged starvation will leave permanent signs on his body (1). He joins the rebellion, trying to save as many of his kin as possible, but he sees many of them wither away (both prior and after being rescued). He begins to hate magic itself for how it turned them and ultimately led many of his people into becoming mindless monsters. He decides to never use magic again, because it corrupts living beings, and so he begins to live like a normal creature. After a while, he joins the insurrection, helping the rebels without using magic at all, but rather with rogue like techniques and fighting with whatever he finds at hand, eventually bare handed.

When the insurrection is finally over, he gets to know pandaren better and decides to learn the way of the monk in order to control his addiction better and to find a new way of living (2), wanting also to learn how to exclusively rely on his own self for fights, should he ever find himself again in a situation of “slavery” or survival kind.

Before leaving Suramar, he decides to craft the only weapon he will ever use from a branch of the Arcan’dor, as an omen of the true meaning of a resistance for a greater good: a fighting stick (3).

He then leaves Suramar in order to adventure into the world and help Nightbornes that leave the city to have supplies of arcwine and rescue the ones in need in order to never ever let anyone turn into a withered anymore (4).

He then obviously begins his journey to become a Brewmaster.

End of backstory.

I just wanted to know if it could be a plausible story, or an acceptable one, though I’m not sure about some of the points (especially about #3, the branch).
Thanks!

First off, my Nightborne lore knowledge is not infallible.

That said, the only thing about your story that raised my eyebrows (not in a good way) was #3, the Arcan’dor branch.

As stated, I don’t see myself as ‘highly knowledgeable’ on Nightborne Lore, but…

Isn’t that tree the only thing capable of curing the Nightborne’s mana addiction?

Would they really let adventurers take a branch off it to make a weapon/staff?

I get the Impression that the Nightborne (like several WoW races, lore-wise) aren’t extremely numerous, but I think it might be a problem if anyone who felt like it could just take a branch off it :slightly_smiling_face:

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Yea I thought so, I seemed nice as a story but it’s too much, it would be probably better to just cut out that part. Thanks!

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