Gavril Nikolaev

[Gavril]

Full Name: Gavril Nikolaev
Titles or Nicknames: Champion
Age: 22, at time of death.
Race: Forsaken; formerly human
Height: 6'0”
Weight: 115
Notable Physical Features: Entirety of lower jaw is missing

Place of residence: The Undercity, Magic quarter
Place of Birth: Hereto unnamed fur trappers' village in the Alterac mountains.
Known Relatives: None; “adopted” at a young age

Religion/Philosophy: Strong reverence for the Dark Lady. Philosophically, Gavril believes in true free will and individual power, and highly disdains ideas surrounding “fate,” “destiny,” chance, and coincidence.

Known Associates: General Duranor DeRoque; Abric Perenolde
Known Nemeses: Lord Talimor

Special Skills: Strong aptitude for breaking things down to their essential components and remaking them into something better, be that through enchantment, sartorial excellence, or more … Organic means.

Positive Personality Traits: Difficult to anger. Exceedingly polite and proper. Sociable. Dry wit. Extremely loyal, despite (or perhaps as a result of) strong history of betrayal.
Negative Personality Traits: Highly vindictive (The offhand of being difficult to anger – should one get to that point, the anger never quite dissipates). Extremely passive-aggressive. Sociopath.

History Before The Grim: Gavril was born to an impoverished family of fur trappers and hunters in the Alterac mountains. Through a series of events in which his parents sold him to a minor noble from Alterac, he eventually found himself in service to a mage lord in Dalaran. The lord, now forgotten, saw in Gavril an aptitude for the arcane, and a greater purpose beyond a mundane servant. He enrolled the boy in Dalaran's academies, where he showed extreme prodigious talent and quickly advanced in his studies. Gavril survived the siege of Dalaran during the Second War, and joined the Kirin Tor at the age of 20. Growing bored with any lack of excitement or challenge from his peers, Gavril made an easy target for the Cult of the Damned in the years leading up to the Third War. Kel'Thuzad's agents tempted him with promises of immortality and unbelievable power, complete freedom from the restrictions of Dalaran and the Kirin Tor. To prove his loyalty, however, the Cult forced him to murder his mentor and lover, forsaking his former life entirely (and making his return to Dalaran somewhat awkward).

Gavril delved deep into necromancy, disseminating of the plague throughout the northern realms in preparation for the Third War. He took part in the battle for Stratholme, infecting the grain with plague, and reanimating the warrior Duranor. Gavril escaped the battle alive and made his way to Northrend with Mal'Ganis, where he finally met his end in a last bid for survival as a mortal necromancer under the Scourge.

Risen and undead, he returned to Lordaeron with the Scourge, spending the rest of the Third War in slaughterhouses, devising new and creative ways to spread the plague and stitching together the fallen dead into fresh Abominations. With Arthas' defeat and Sylvanas' liberation of the undead in northern Lordaeron, Gavril lost much of his former power, but gained a new clarity and purpose in service to the Forsaken. Duranor, the warrior he reanimated during the Third War, sought him out, so they banded together, pooling their resources to build and lend their strength to the Forsaken and the Horde. They eventually join Infection, a sect of undead devoted to the development and dissemination of a new plague. Through Infection they became acquainted with the Grim, and when Duranor left, Gavril followed.


History In The Grim: While still members of Infection, Gavril and Duranor joined in on raids to the Molten Core and elsewhere along with members of the Grim. They continued to aid in these assaults as fresh Supplicants to the Mandate, and quickly rose through the ranks. When the Dark Portal first opened to Outland, they were on the front lines leading the assault against the Burning Crusade. After the arenas opened, Gavril joined Duranor's Irregulars, fighting alongside along with Syreena, Kharzak, Muatah, Ragnanetah and others. He climbed the ranks and became a Champion of the Horde.

As the undead Scourge once again began pouring down from the north, when the Forsaken, Horde, and Grim perhaps needed him most, Gavril disappeared. Initial suspicions were that he had fallen back under control of the Lich King, his will broken, forever lost after the defeat of the Scourge, though no one was entirely sure what had happened. Almost a decade had passed when Duranor once again felt the connection to the one who had risen him. The General tracked Gavril's badly mangled and desiccated corpse to a peak atop a mountain in the Terokkar Forest in Outland. Through great effort and his mastery in alchemy, Duranor managed to resurrect the dead warlock, repaying him the favor lent so many years before. Gavril immediately sought out and rejoined the Grim, an anchor in the storm of a much-changed Azeroth, and then set off to the continent of Northrend in a quest to regain his strength, renew all the power he had lost those years dead.

Now, he has fully recovered, and he is ready to lend his power to the furtherance of the Mandate.

[Gavril]

[Oh man, I found my original bio from Gavril on TNG, posting here for the fun of it: http://wow-tng.org/forums/topic/2336-ga ... ment-30695

I don't remember ANY of this -- Clearly, since I completely rewrote his history]