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"I have been involved in every major conflict since my people joined the Horde - against Illidan and the Legion in Outland, against Arthas and Malygos in Northrend, and against Deathwing and Cho'gall here. Non-stop, glad to help, death to our enemies. I feel five times older than I am...after Northrend, I wanted nothing more than to retire and teach the whelps how to use the Light. Now I have that chance...and so it falls to you, young Belor'malanore, to take my place. You will carry my sword and my standard into battle against the evil that permeates this land. I have trained you in every way I know how, under the guidance of the head of your order - and so I give up my duties gladly, knowing that they will be carried out by an honorable being."

- Master Taeril'hane Ketiron, to Telek Eaglespear

Telek Eaglespear
Title	Belor'malanore (Sun-traveller, or Sunwalker)
Gender	Male
Race	Tauren (Humanoid)
Level	85
Class	Paladin
Affiliation(s)	The Horde United Tauren Tribes Sunwalkers
Occupation	Sunwalker of the Horde
Location	Orgrimmar
Status	Alive
Relative(s)	Ublaz (brother)
Mentor(s)	Taeril'hane Ketiron Aponi Brightmane
Alignment	Lawful good

Telek Eaglespear is a young tauren who decided to join the Sunwalker order after a chance encounter with a powerful paladin in Silvermoon.

Biography

Born in the Stonetalon Mountains a decade before the Battle of Mount Hyjal, Telek belongs to the Eaglespear tribe, a small offshoot of the Bloodhoof tribe that retains their loyalty to them, and fiercely opposes the Grimtotems. Raised in the traditional tauren way, to respect the Earthmother and to participate in the hunt, the Eaglespears settled in Thunder Bluff, high above the plains of Mulgore, when Cairne Bloodhoof united the tribes. Telek's elder brother, Ublaz, went to fight for the Horde and was killed during an attack on Naxxramas prior to the re-opening of the Dark Portal. Ublaz later returned shortly before the war against the Lich King, having been resurrected by the Scourge as a death knight and freed by the efforts of Tirion Fordring and Darion Mograine.

Touched by the Light

Telek's first teachers - Aponi Brightmane, leader of the Sunwalkers, and Taeril'hane Ketiron, a Blood Knight Master visiting from Silvermoon

After the death of the Lich King, Telek decided to explore beyond Kalimdor, and journeyed to the Eastern Kingdoms. Not comfortable with being around the Forsaken, Telek travelled to the blood elf city of Silvermoon. In the Court of the Sun, he saw something that would change his life...

A group of blood elves had gathered outside a stately manor, watching with awe as a venerable nobleman demonstrated his powers to them. The blood elves were aspiring Blood Knights, and the nobleman was a Blood Knight Master named Taeril'hane Ketiron. Back in Mulgore, as the war in Northrend went on, Telek had heard about a movement of the tauren people, who looked to the sun as a source of power, much as their night elf allies called on the moon - the embodiment of their goddess Elune. What Telek saw in Silvermoon was a man wielding power very similar to what he had heard, the ability to heal or call holy wrath upon an enemy.

Entranced, Telek watched as the Master demonstrated his art to his pupils. The Blood Knight neophytes laughed and mocked the young tauren, but Ketiron silenced them, sensing something within him. Switching from his native Thalassian to Orcish, the language of the Horde, Ketiron spoke with Telek and listened as his guest told him of the movement in Mulgore, about using powers like his. Smiling, Ketiron blessed the young tauren and hoped to one day see this idea become a reality.

Three years later, the world altered irrevocably by the Shattering, Ketiron ventured to Thunder Bluff. By this time, Cairne had been killed by Grimtotem treachery, and his son Baine had solidified his position as the new High Chieftain of all tauren. The Master was pleased to see that the movement, now known as the Sunwalkers, had taken hold, consisting of people who not only used the powers of paladins, but of priests as well. As Telek arrived in Thunder Bluff to receive wisdom and instruction from Aponi Brightmane, leader of the Sunwalker movement, he was surprised to see Ketiron standing at her side, pledging to teach the new Sunwalker what he knew as well. Ketiron called him "Belor'malanore", the closest approximation in Thalassian to "Sunwalker".

Ketiron's Successor

Telek in Silvermoon, shortly after receiving the sword and colors of Master Ketiron

After months of training and study under both his mentor Aponi and Master Ketiron, Telek became a powerful Sunwalker, skilled in both the healing arts and in the arts of combat. During a battle in Twilight Highlands, Ketiron was seriously injured, and despite the efforts of both himself and other healers, he never possessed the same stamina again. Ketiron's wife, Areinnye, believed that Ketiron had suffered a serious physical breakdown and suggested that he retire, as he had after the death of the Lich King. Though loath to leave the battle so early, Ketiron knew that he could no longer keep up the fight as he had in Northrend. Thus, Ketiron informed his leader, Regent Lord Lor'themar Theron, that he was retiring from active service and returning to Silvermoon to assist his old friend Bloodvalor in the training of the Blood Knight initiates.

Upon his return to the Whitehair House in the Court of the Sun, Ketiron summoned Telek from Mulgore. Much to the young tauren's surprise, Ketiron held out his sword hilt-first, saying that he was to take Ketiron's place in the greater battle against Deathwing and his Twilight minions. Telek was horrified at the idea, wondering what thing had happened to the elf who had inspired him, but Ketiron reassured him that it was merely his desire to rest after having spent the better part of the last four years fighting enemies of the Horde. As a token of his training - as Ketiron had trained Telek in the Blood Knight way - he also gave him his old tabard, which had been awarded to Ketiron by his own master, Ordevaas Portalseeker, four years earlier.

With his mentor's blessing, Telek departed for Orgrimmar to begin his service to the greater Horde. Travelling from Thunder Bluff, he made his home in Orgrimmar, in the Valley of Wisdom, a section of the city given to the tauren by Warchief Hellscream. Telek preferred it to the jagged metal spires of the rest of the city, which he believed were sacrilegious to the Earth Mother.

In-Game Accomplishments

• Current Gear, Reputations and Raid Experience
• Carrying On the Fight

Appearance and Personality

Belonging to a tribe that is an offshoot of the Bloodhoofs, Telek has white fur and white horns, and is still relatively young, having been too young to participate in the war in Northrend. Knowing little of war and death, or indeed of any life beyond the normal life of a tauren tribesman, Telek possesses a youthful innocence, one that he will likely have a difficult time breaking as he carries on beyond the borders of Mulgore. He is fascinated at the similarity of powers between the Light-wielders of the Alliance and Quel'Thalas, believing that even non-tauren were guided by the Earthmother.

The Sword of Taeril'hane Ketiron

Master Ketiron received an exquisitely-fashioned warblade for fighting in the Crucible of Carnage in the Twilight Highlands, the third of the great arenas lorded over by the goblin entrepreneur Gurgthock. Along with Saavedro of Stratholme and his mentor, Ordevaas Portalseeker, Ketiron had fought in the first two, the Ring of Blood in the hills of Nagrand in Outland, and the Amphitheater of Anguish, amidst the ruins of Zul'Drak in Northrend. Upon his retirement from the field, Ketiron gave this sword to Telek as a gift from teacher to pupil.