Hello everyone!
By now I’d guess that most Hearthstone players
are going to know who Elise Starseeker is,
the intrepid and intellectual heart of the
League of Explorers.
We made a video on her a little while ago
but since then we’ve learnt a little bit
more about Elise’s family history in the
form of her fiery younger sister, Aranna.
“Come in my friend, begin the show.
A tale of fire and strife and woe.”
Aranna is a night elf who, like her elder
sister Elise, is keen and shrewd, but unlike
her sister fame has eluded her, a fate that
Aranna seeks to overcome.
She wants to become immortalised in legend
and to do so she heads to dreaded outland
to make a name for herself.
She quickly discovers that exploring isn’t
as easy as just walking around for a bit,
and that there is a good reason that others
tend not to come to Outland, because there
are some not-so friendly characters inhabiting
this destroyed land that have all sorts of
nefarious motives, and none of them good.
“But in the dust through that dark gate?
Born of rust a demon waits.”
As soon as she walks into Outland, full of
bravado and good intentions, she walks right
into the arms of a demon of the Rusted legion
called Inquisitor Daxrel.
Daxrel wants to recruit this strange little
night elf into this Rusted Legion of his and
Aranna, seeming more confused than scared,
beats the demon up and carries on her way…
where she quickly runs into her next obstacle.
“Gasp, that naga.
It needs help.”
“Come with me slitherer, the rusted one
needs your services.”
She wants to grow her own legacy sure, but
Aranna is just like Elise in her good nature
and curiosity and when she sees a naga being
imprisoned by a vile Darkglare named Xurgoth
she steps in to help.
Darkglares are apparently just emo versions
of the observers we normally know because
the only seeming difference is they have horns.
Although Xurgoth’s unique race may be little
known, she makes her allegiance clear from
the start, telling the Naga that the Rusted
One needs her services, and telling Aranna
when they inevitably get into fisticuffs,
“the Legion demands loyalty, it’s hard
coded.”We can have a good idea of who The
Rusted One is because the vile floating mass
of hatred and eyeballs tells us that Jaraxxus
will have his prize.
Proving that you don’t need any experience
to beat up agents of the Rusted Legion, Aranna
pulls the wool over Xurgoth’s many eyes,
defeating the Darkglare and allying herself
with the grateful naga, Shalja.
“In mushroom jungles chaos wends...Our party
finds another friend.”
Once she’s saved one damsel in distress
it seems Aranna can’t get enough and she
pretty much carries on saving anything and
everything she can.
When she sees a hungry warp-stalker about
to tuck into a veggie dish of fresh sporeling
Aranna along with her new ally Shalja decide
that fungus are friends, not food, and beat
Zixor the Apex Predator up, recruiting the
mini mushroom man as yet another new ally.
“That thing is gone now little one, are
you alright?”
“PSLSLSTJ ROCKA ALIEEEEEEE”
Aranna, having apparently never heard the
statement “two’s company, but three’s
a crowd”, goes for the hatrick and brings
her just-rescued allies and herself into yet
another battle, this time with a Nathrezim
who intends on teaching an orc a thing or
two about pain.
This battle draws out but eventually they
succeed, and the orc, Karnuk, joins the party.
“Thank you.
This one has hunted me for weeks.”
By now, Aranna has not endeared herself to
the rusted legion, and in turn she also has
a dislike of the way the legion wants to enslave
anything it comes across, so when Aranna and
her new friends inevitably run into more of
the rusted legion it was never going to end
peacefully.
They end up fighting yet another legion laccy
by the name of Kanrethad Prime, who you may
remember as being a powerful human warlock
and former leader of the Council of the Black
Harvest.
As a young fresh-faced Night elf with no apparent
combat skill, along with a talking mushroom
and the only apparently battle-trained member
of their group being a single orc, the decision
to take on somebody as formidable as Kanthred
is a gutsy choice,
“Kanrethad, leave these strangers be.
You seek to fight, devil, fight me.”
VANISH CAST POOF NOW WE WIN
Luckily our intrepid adventurers are once
more aided by a new ally, this time a broken
named Baduu.
The adventures through Outland will eventually
take Aranna to the Black Temple, after they
fix up and steal a demolisher and outrun a
fel-storm to get there, fighting more agents
of the Rusted Legion as they go.
Baduu decides that this path is not for her,
decides to leave the rest behind, but this
doesn’t deter the rest of the party.
Once they prove to the brooding Illidan they
are worthy of his unique training by killing
Mother Shahraz, Aranna and her allies begin
training as Demon Hunters.
“All my life ive struggled to see.
My purpose, calling, why im me...
But with his help I’ll clenase these wastes.
I’ll hange this world, yes THAT’s my place!”
TRANSFORMATION INTO DEMON HUNTER GOOOOOOO
Aranna seems to think this is what she’s
been looking for all her life, a purpose she
has missed until now, and she dives right
into the training, determined to prove her
worth.
The rest of the team are just as determined
as her and take to their training, which does
raise the question of why a talking mushroom
can be a demon hunter, but none of the other
mortal races of Azeroth apart from Night and
Blood elves can be.
Regardless of the larger lore implications
of their recruitment, the whole team successfully
become demon hunters and they, along with
Aranna, now have new artwork, to show off
their demon hunter transmog and sick tattoos.
This proves to be just in time, because the
Rusted Legion have decided to strike the Black
Temple and take it for Jaraxxus, something
our new demon hunters aren’t going to allow.
“It’s like my sister could do no wrong.
She was a druid.”
“Druis!
The WORST.
I was jailed as traitor for 10.000 years while
my brother took a nap!”
After easily defeating some minor pests, the
dream team now take on the general leading
the Legion’s attacks on Outland, Magtheridon
Prime.
This is the same brutish and powerful Pit-lord
as we know from Warcraft, but this time he
has mech augments.
Despite the odds Magtheridon falls once more
and with power coursing through her veins
Aranna realizes her full demon hunter potential
and becomes Aranna the Unleashed.
“Ive faced far worse then you.”
“Well thats just prime’
“I’m blind but now I see the dawn.
My potential.
The hunt is on!”
TRANSFORMATION INTO UNLEASHED GOOOOOOOOOOO
Not content to sit on their new power, Aranna
and her allies take the fight to the Rusted
Legion itself.
They defeat some minor nuisances, if you can
call a Fel-reaver minor, and even discover
that the missing Baduu had been found and
augmented by the Rusted Legion into Baduu
Prime.
“Resist Baduu!
We’ll win somehow.
We’ll face jaraxxus –“
“Leave here now.”
Despite being their friend, Aranna is forced
to cut Baduu down.
They have no time for the luxury of grief
however, because awaiting them is the leader
of the Rusted Legion itself, Mecha-Jaraxxus.
“Jaraxxus.
You’re the cause of all this...”
“Demon hunters?
Come take me on.
Your doom awaits OBLIVION!”
With her new powers and fueled by a promise
to the dying Baduu that she would liberate
all others who had been taken by the Rusted
Legion, Aranna manages to slay Jaraxxus.
“Excellent!
Our foe is done.
Now his minions – leave not a one.”
“But his legions wrecked remains.
Theyre victims here and live in pain.”
“Theyre monster all!
And so we fight.
I’ll purge this wasteland –
That’s not right!”
“Shando teacher, ive heard your call.
But blind you are, blind to your fall.”
“Ive taught you well, my wisdom shared.
Still you fight me, are you prepared?!
“Shando please listen I beseech.
This final lesson mine to teach.””
“I;ll meet your challenge blow by blow,
ive taught you every move you know.”
“And sister taught me thick and thin, a
starseeker must not give in.”
“These rusted scum still bark and crawl.
We must destroy them, crush them all.”
“Without jaraxxus they are free, we must
protect or leave them be.”
“No half measures, no shades of grey, this
is the demon hunter way.”
“Ours is the power but be just.
Some are half demon just like us.”
“You hold me back, youre soft and slow,
just like tyrande long ago.”
“You rage and boast your scars amassed,
live your life now not in the past.”
“Ill use the power my suffering bought else
all my pain has been for nought.”
“If all you hold is hatred deer, the pain
you feel lasts year and year.
Whats different between yoru slashing blades,
jaraxxus and his crewl crusade?”
“Sillence student, my rol is clear.
I’ll live this pain – yes year on year.
Who am I?
I am legion’s end!
Who are you!?
A nuisance –“
“YOUR FRIEND!
If all you see is what broke you, uoure blind
to hope and worlds anew.”
“10.000 years i cursed my fate, now i see
a life without hate.”
This new demon hunter is certainly not shy
of her new powers, and she has made quite
the impact having now taken care of Magtheridon
Prime, Mecha Jaraxxus, and Illidan.
Proud and confident as she is in her new found
skills Aranna is available as a hero in Battlegrounds.
When you start out she is in her original
form, glasses perched on the end of her nose
with delicately parted purple hair down to
her shoulders.
Use her hero power “Demon hunter training”
five times however and not only will Bob’s
tavern always refresh with 7 minions to choose
from, but she becomes Aranna Unleashed, with
her curly goat horns and glowy green eyes.
Now Unleashed, Aranna is confident and proud
and she even appears in the Rumbledome tavern
brawl where she will tell her sister Elise
that she will fight her way out of her shadow
yet again.
This young Night-elf who set out to make a
name for herself really did make quite the
impression, an identity far away from being
known only as Elise’s little sister.
If that impression stuck with you, or maybe
you can’t bear to hear tales of scars and
sacrifices again, Aranna is available as a
replacement Demon Hunter hero, shoving Illidan
aside and taking the glory she always sought.
What’s next for Aranna?
Can anything temper that fire newly awoken
inside her?
Only time will tell, and for now she’s having
fun exploring her new found fame and power.
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