Storytime: Bloodrose (100th post special)

((Hey all! This is a special entry to mark the 100^th post on Annjia’s Journal. I’ll take a break from the blog for the next couple of days, but it’ll return by the New Year! I hope you guys enjoy it, it’s been a blast. Oh, and feel free to leave comments, Annjia won't bite. Thank you for reading!))

There was once an Elven woman, with light hair, who lived in Silvermoon City. Her name was Bloodrose, and she was either the daughter or wife of a baker, I do not recall precisely. When the man-child, Arthas, destroyed Quel’thalas, she was killed and raised as a death knight.

While serving the Lich King she took a lover from among the other knights. He was a strong, powerful and handsome Elf, who would later become known as the Darkrider. When Arthas was defeated at the Battle for Light’s Hope, the two separated for a time.

Then, she saw him again in Zul’Drak, while working for the Ebon Blade campaign. He was accompanied by a female Elven paladin. Bloodrose and this paladin did not suffer each other very well, as the death knight learned that this woman was paired romantically with the Darkrider before their time at Acherus. She had seemingly reclaimed him now that his will was freed.

Bloodrose grew enraged, and resentful. Even more so when she discovered that the Darkrider and this Holy One did not share a bed. They were comrades-in-arms only, despite their former relationship. But he did not even look at Bloodrose anymore.

So she plotted her retribution, seeking a foul alliance with the San’layn, the darkfallen servants of the Lich King. In exchange for their powers, she would kill the Highlord Mograine, disrupting all of the Ebon Blade’s efforts and plunging her former lover into despair and defeat. Her reward for doing this would be to live on as an immortal, a cherished concubine to the dark Princes.

But her plan failed. The poison intended for the Highlord was intercepted by one of his officers, and Bloodrose fled from the Ebon Vault. The Darkrider pursued her, intent on retrieving her. But justice, in the form of an Ebon Blade assassin, found her first.

The assassin tortured and mortally wounded the traitor, discovering all of these secrets before leaving her to bleed into the snow. When the Darkrider approached, Bloodrose told him that she had confessed all of this to the lackey, and that it was his fault. All that he had to do, she said, was tell her that he loved the paladin. It was obvious that the Holy One loved him still. He only had to tell her this, and she would have withdrawn.

But he was silent.

She succumbed and died as a traitor there on Icecrown glacier. In the year following, the Darkrider and the Holy One resumed their ties, and continue today as a formidable pair in the fight for Azeroth.

I relate her story here, as she confessed it to me on the glacier. That day, I was justice. And I am not silent.