Lieren

Lieren
Gender	Female
Race	Human
Class	Gryphon rider,Warrior
Affiliation(s)	Wildhammer Clan
Occupation	Adventurer
Location	Aerie Peak
Status	Alive
Relative(s)	Loania (sister), Kardan (foster father), Adena (mother), Dougan (father)

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Lieren is the adopted human daughter of Kardan. Although Kardan raised Lieren like any loving father would, Lieren still felt like an outsider, which lead to an obsession with uncovering her past. One night, Lieren secretly followed Kardan to the High Elf retreat Quel'Danil Lodge, where she made a shocking discovery… She had a twin sister named Loania who was raised by a high elf named Voldana. With their ruse revealed, it is with a heavy heart that their adopted parents revealed how they both accompanied their father, a human paladin named Dougan, on his mission to rescue villagers from the cursed tower of Karazhan. Unfortunately, brave hearts and noble intentions were not enough to defeat the evil from with in and they were forced to retreat… but not before Dougan was killed in the process. Kardan and Voldana delivered the sad news to Dougan’s wife Adena. Yet so immense was her grief that her mind snapped and she became unfit to raise her twin baby girls. And so Voldanna and Kardan decided to honor their colleague by raising the twin girls as their own. While Lieren and Loania shared little in common aside from their appearance, they both insisted on seeing their mother. However upon arrival of their old home by Duskwood, the twins learned that their mother had died, only to be reborn as one of the undead. The girls set off on the grisly task of freeing their mother from the rotten prison of flesh…by beheading her. It was then that with their mother’s soul finally laid to rest that Lieren and Loania swore an oath on her grave to go to Karazhan to free their father’s soul as they did their mother’s.

Lieren and Loania used a spell to contact their father to see if he still lives. Dougan’s spirit warns them to stay away yet Lieren is determined to free her father. They then teleport to Karazhan in search of their father. As the twins make their way through Karazhan, Loania starts seeing visions. The first was a vision of Medivh opening the dark portal to unleash the Horde into Azeroth. The second vision is of their father fighting the undead in the tower. Loania uses her vision to trace her father’s foot steps which leads her to Terestian Illhoof, their father’s murderer. The twins defeat him in battle but Loania is left injured. Lieren wants to get Loania to safety first before she rescues her father. They meet with the spirit of Nielas Aran who ensorcells Lieren in an attempt to kill her and trap her spirit in Karazhan forever. Loania uses a spell to call out to her father once more and Dougan’s spirit arrives just in time to save Lieren’s life. Dougan tells Lieren that it is impossible for his spirit to leave Karazhan and that he has made peace with that. As danger approaches, Lieren and Loania need to teleport out of Karazhan but Loania is so weak that she had to use Lieren’s strength to beat the pull of Karazhan. Dougan’s spirit holds off the horrors of Karazhan while Lieren and Loania teleport out of danger and make their escape. The strain of the teleportation has caused Lieren’s hair to turn white which she uses as a reminder that she can’t win every battle. Although they failed to free their father’s spirit, the twins take comfort in knowing that his spirit remains unbroken just like theirs.