This is too cool to pass up.
Name: Octavia Bloodmane
Class: Guardian (Dragonhunter)
Occupation: Lionguard
Some people have fun with their work. Octavia is one of those people who really, really likes what she does for a living. Despite not being a Berserker, she certainly fights like one, whipping up her comrades into a fighting frenzy with her shouting, then diving headfirst into the thick of combat without the slightest hesitation, her tendency to get her fur matted with blood earning her name.
Born and raised in Lion’s Arch, Octavia quickly put her talent for brutal (if inspirational) violence in the Lionguard, surviving a number of posts that were more often than not certain death. Ettins, krait, pirates, and the battle of Claw Island all failed to put her down… Particularly Claw Island. She took that personally and was more than eager to make some new holes in the sorry dragon that thought it could take her city.
For most of her career, she’s been paired up with a human named Lorella Wald, a warrior who was more than eager to match her appetite for fighting as much as knocking back meat and ale. Despite most betting that the two would tear each other apart at the drop of a hat (relations between humans and charr being what they were, along with their battle-hungry attitudes), the two turned out to be whirlwind of steel and battlecries, dragging whoever was stationed with them into their frenzied charges.
For Octavia, it doesn’t get much better than that. Good drinks, good meats, good people to get in scraps with and a bloody fine city to protect.
However, Scarlet’s attack on Lion’s Arch changed everything. One of the last to leave and among the first to get back in, Octavia realized that her partner was unaccounted for. Against all better judgement (and orders), she braved miasma and Aetherblades to get to her partner’s home, but found the building collapsed, and, equally to her dismay as to her shock, her partner dead inside, having used her own body to shield her son from the collapsing debris, where he had remained trapped entire time. Freeing him and carving her way out, she has since taken him under her care, unwilling to leave the well-being of her friend’s only child to chance.
Admittedly, she has no idea how to raise a child, much less a human. But burn her if she isn’t trying her hardest. It’s rough, it’s riddled with potholes… But to her surprise (and others), the boy has steadfastly refused any relocation or being switched to a ‘proper’ foster family.
With the completion of the repairs of Lion’s Arch, Octavia officially adopted Mikolas Wald. Next on the list? Promotion to Deputy.
And send that no-good brother Embermane down to a watery grave in his own flaming ship.
