User:Joshmaul/House of Whitehair
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 House of Whitehair
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| Main leader | Lord Kel'theris Decibelius |
| Secondary leaders | Ordevaas Portalseeker |
| Race(s) | Blood elves with Forsaken servants |
| Capital | Silvermoon City |
| Other major cities | Falcon Watch, Shattrath City |
| Main language | Thalassian |
| Secondary languages | Orcish, Common |
| Theater of operations | Quel'Thalas, Outland |
The House of Whitehair is a noble family of Quel'Thalas that dates back nine millennia, to the exile of the Highborne from the continent of Kalimdor. They have a long service of history to the House of Sunstrider, the royal family of Quel'Thalas. With Prince Kael'thas' treachery, however, they have given their allegiance to Lor'themar Theron, the Regent Lord of Quel'Thalas, and to the Horde that took the blood elves in.
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History
After the War of the Ancients, the druidic-centered government of the kaldorei - which now consisted of the Archdruid Malfurion Stormrage, High Priestess Tyrande Whisperwind of the Temple of Elune and Jarod Shadowsong, commander of the military - banned the use of arcane magics, believing that they were the reason for the Legion's invasion. When Dath'Remar Sunstrider and the Highborne resisted this order - and unleashed magical storms upon Ashenvale Forest - they were exiled from Kalimdor.
Travelling across the sea with Dath'Remar was Lord Kal'manis Whitehair, a powerful magister who had survived the War of the Ancients relatively unscathed. When Quel'Thalas was established, Kal'manis served as the chief advisor to the new High King of Quel'Thalas. Since that day, a Whitehair advisor always stood at the side of the High Kings of the House of Sunstrider.
Three thousand years before the present, during the Troll Wars, Lady Zirannye - the first female head of the House, and the first ranger to become the Whitehair leader - was sent to Strom as an emissary to King Thoradin of Arathor, whose assistance was necessary to take the war to Zul'Aman itself. She was killed by the Amani during the war, and her son Dath'Kunam succeeded her as the family patriarch. He served as the advisor to Anasterian Sunstrider, the last crowned King, prior to the Second War. Upon his death, his son Kel'theris succeeded him, and remained at Anasterian's side for the next fifteen years, during the Horde invasion of Quel'Thalas and afterwards. Kel'theris was staunchly against breaking contact with the Alliance of Lordaeron after the conclusion of the Second War, believing that there would be a reckoning for their arrogance. Despite the difference of opinion with his King, Kel'theris remained one of Anasterian's most valued advisors.
When the Scourge - the reckoning that Kel'theris had feared - made its way inexorably towards Quel'Thalas, Anasterian dispatched the Whitehair patriarch to Dalaran, to link up with his son and heir, Prince Kael'thas. Kel'theris' son Ordevaas, a priest of the Holy Light, was far away in Stormwind, and his granddaughter Areinnye hid in the ruins of Silvermoon; the House of Whitehair would survive. Now it was Kel'theris' job to insure that the House of Sunstrider did likewise.
Upon speaking with his father's advisor and making his way out of Dalaran before Archimonde laid waste to the city, Kael'thas sent Kel'theris back to Quel'Thalas, at the side of Ranger-General Lor'themar Theron, to act as a continued resistance to the Scourge. The newly-christed blood elves - so named in honor of their fallen brethren, including King Anasterian and much of the Council - waited for several months before they returned to Quel'Thalas. Upon arriving in his homeland after seeing how the evil Prince Arthas despoiled it, Kel'theris let out a scream of rage and anguish so forceful that some said it could be heard as far away as Dalaran. He was called "Decibelius" for the rest of his life afterwards.
In the Service of the Corruptor
As one of the few members of the Convocation of Silvermoon that were not either killed or corrupted by the Scourge, Kel'theris was present during the negotiations between the leadership of the Horde - Warchief Thrall, Grand Chieftain Cairne Bloodhoof, Shadow Hunter Vol'jin, and Queen Sylvanas Windrunner - and Lor'themar Theron, now Regent Lord of Quel'Thalas and de facto leader of the blood elves while Kael'thas was in Outland. With the opening of the Dark Portal imminent, the blood elves believed that - because the Alliance had betrayed them - the Horde would be focal to helping them reach the destiny that Kael'thas (through his emissary, Grand Magister Rommath) had promised them. Quel'Thalas was mostly restored, but the land was forever tainted by the invasion of the Scourge; the Dead Scar served as a permanent reminder of just how far Quel'Thalas had fallen.
Kel'theris' son Kiéran, who had disappeared nearly fifty years earlier, was found dead outside of the Scourge fortress of Deatholme, which served as the headquarters of the evil traitor who ruled the undead of Quel'Thalas - Dar'Khan Drathir. The site where Deatholme stood was where Kiéran had lived in exile, in order to escape from his father's strictly-run household. Dar'Khan sent a taunting communique to Kel'theris, goading him to action. Thirsting for vengeance but still too weak to combat Dar'Khan alone, Kel'theris and Ordevaas - now a Blood Knight with the nom de guerre "Portalseeker" - realized they needed help. And to that end, they turned to one that people called the incarnation of evil: The orc warlock Joshmaul the Corruptor. With Ordevaas' former priest tutor Sekhesmet at his side, Joshmaul arrived in Silvermoon shortly after the opening of the Dark Portal and met them in Sunfury Spire.
Knowing at once that the House of Whitehair would be a powerful tool in his ongoing war with his nemesis, Saavedro of Stratholme - coincidentally, also a priest-turned-paladin trained by Sekhesmet - Joshmaul informed them that he had recently come from Outland (which he had) at the behest of Prince Kael'thas (which he hadn't), commenting that necessity made allies, and that the orcish spellcaster was more than willing to help the Prince bring his people to Outland (which he wasn't). Swayed by the Corruptor's lies, Kel'theris and Ordevaas willingly pledged themselves to him, and served at his side as they destroyed the Scourge in Quel'Thalas and cut Dar'Khan's head from his shoulders. But Areinnye had her doubts about Joshmaul's motives; in his heart, so did Kel'theris, but he was under the spell of Joshmaul's false allegiance to Kael'thas. It was not until Ordevaas, now a Blood Knight Master who had done many cruel and sadistic things for his lord, saw the truth did the Whitehairs realize their mistake - the truth that the Scryers of Shattrath City showed them.
Travelling to Firewing Point in Terokkar Forest - where blood elves allegiant to Kael'thas resided - Ordevaas was horrified when the sentries he expected to welcome him instead chose to attack. Wounded and forced to call upon a Forsaken ally to continue into the place, the Blood Knight Master went into a rage upon seeing that Kael'thas resorted to unethical weapons to slaughter innocents. A veil was lifted from his eyes as he realized that Joshmaul had lied to him and to the family. Returning to Silvermoon, Ordevaas brought the information he had discovered to his father, and explained what had happened at Firewing Point. Enraged, Kel'theris cut ties to Joshmaul and pledged himself and his family to the people of Quel'Thalas, as they prepared to face the truth of their beloved Prince's ambitions. To add insult to injury for Joshmaul, the House of Whitehair allied themselves with Saavedro's Lordaeron Deathsworn, who pledged to reclaim Lordaeron from the undead.
With Kel'theris' blessing, Saavedro paved the way for the eventual defeat of Kael'thas in Tempest Keep, and eventually killed and beheaded the fallen Prince in the Magisters' Terrace on the Isle of Quel'Danas.
Events Since Independence
The House of Whitehair has restored itself to prominence after breaking from Joshmaul, and joining the Horde-allied government of Lor'themar Theron in breaking from Kael'thas. Though the House's main servants are blood elves - most of them Farstriders who remained in Quel'Thalas, and various Blood Knights trained by Ordevaas - they have accepted Forsaken into their ranks as well, owing to the connection between House Whitehair and House Windrunner prior to the fall of Quel'Thalas. The majority of their Forsaken service comes from the ranks of the Deathstalkers, the personal guard of Varimathras and the Undercity's assassins' guild; Euphrati, Kel'theris' personal bodyguard, is among that number.
The greatest link between the House of Whitehair and the Dark Lady, however, has been the High Priest Sekhesmet, an old friend of Kel'theris' who trained Ordevaas in the ways of the priesthood. Sekhesmet had been killed by the plague and raised as Forsaken, and had been forced to retrain himself in the powers he had wielded in life; in time, however, he grew to such prominence that he eventually became far stronger magically than Kel'theris, but still marginally weaker than his still-living former students, Saavedro and Ordevaas - both now masters in their respective paladin orders. Despite being more powerful than his blood elf patron, Sekhesmet remains at Kel'theris' side as his trusted friend as well as a political and spiritual advisor, serving as his ambassador to Sylvanas and the other leaders of the Horde.
Since breaking from Joshmaul and upon discovering the possible inclusion of death knights on both sides of the Alliance-Horde conflict, the House of Whitehair has been adamant in their opposition to warlock magics and necromancy - which puts them at odds with the darker elements within the Horde. Their major opponent in the pro-dark arts faction is Joshmaul himself, who has not one but two death knights - General Settra, one of Sylvanas' commanders, and Velenkayn, a draenei vindicator that Ordevaas had helped to corrupt (an act he regrets to this day) - as his honor guard.
Notable Members
| Name | Title | Role | Location |
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  Kal'manis
| First Whitehair patriarch | Deceased | |
  Zirannye
| First female head of the House | Deceased | |
| Dath'Kunam
| Zirannye's son, advisor to King Anasterian | Deceased | |
| Kel'theris
| Decibelius | Dath'Kunam's son, current head of the House | Orgrimmar |
 Ordevaas
| Portalseeker | Kel'theris' son and heir, Master of the Blood Knight Order | Shattrath City |
| Areinnye
| Scourgebane | Ordevaas' daughter, Silvermoon Ranger | Tarren Mill |
  Euphrati
| The Corrupted | Kel'theris' personal bodyguard and assassin | Tranquillien |
  Sekhesmet
| The Eternal | Personal minister to the House of Whitehair | The Undercity |
