[PROFILE] Caoimhe

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Name: Caoimhe Shea
Current Title: Knight Errant

Class: Paladin

Age: 24
Height: 5'7"

Description:
Caoimhe's auburn hair is most often pulled into a loose ponytail, with random strands of hair flying free. Her blue eyes are bright and dancing, but with a subtle shift, they can turn hard and calculating.

Her battle armor is scuffed, dented, and scraped, with the occasional carbon scoring across the sides. It is cleaned with care every night, though the carbon scoring always comes back after each magical blast she withstands. Her weapons are treated with similar care, being polished and sharpened every week.

When she is not on duty, she wears simple, casual, and comfortable clothing, favoring a plain brown shirt, pants, and vest, with well-worn boots. For formal occasions, she has a deep blue dress, and when the occasion becomes incredibly formal or ceremonious, she keeps her polished silver armor from her anointment as a Holy Knight.

There is a large scar across the right side of her body, nearly horizontal along her rib cage. It appears to be an injury from a sharp gash that partially cauterized the cut, from either shrapnel or a burning blade. She keeps this - and the truth behind it - hidden and protected, as it is a reminder of her losses.

Caoimhe means "Beauty".

History:
Caoimhe grew up in the kingdom of Lordaeron - specifically, on a farm in Tirisfal, not far from the city. Her brother was born five years after her, just before the Second War.

Her father was conscripted in the Second War, and was killed in one of the more savage battles. Her mother took over the farm, and Caoimhe grew up with nothing but a few faint memories of her own, instead relying on the medals of honor that were sent to the farm posthumously. With her father in mind, she applied for apprenticeship with the Knights of the Silver Hand when she turned sixteen, but she was turned down, as the Silver Hand did not train women to be Knights, and she would not accept any other station.

A year later, the Scourge rose up and assaulted Lordaeron. In the chaos that ensued, Caoimhe and her family fled Lordaeron, though not without cost; the caravan that the Shea family was travelling with attempted to break through a blockade enacted by the Scarlet Crusade, and Logan was killed in the ensuing battle.

When they reached Stormwind and settled themselves in, Caoimhe once again attempted to apply to the Silver Hand, to find out that it had been dissolved by the traitor Arthas Menethil. A formerly excommunicated Paladin of the Silver Hand, however, had reformed the Order as the new Argent Dawn - partially in an attempt to counteract the insanity of the Scarlet Crusade, which was formed from the ruins of the Silver Hand - and the Dawn, unlike its predecessor, did not discriminate based on sex. At the age of eighteen, she began her formal training in Northshire Abbey, just east of Stormwind.

Not long after her twenty-second birthday, she completed her training, said goodbye to her mother, and set off into the world as a newly anointed Paladin of the Alliance. She has vowed to join the Argent Dawn officially, and help to put an end to the Scourge once and for all.

Personality:
Caoimhe is light-hearted and friendly, and often makes her presence known with a kind word or an optimistic comment. She goes out of her way to assist those in need - beyond the terms of her oath when she became a Paladin - and uses the holy blessing she recieved when necessary.

She is very well-read, and her sense of humor has developed to integrate verbal puns and wry turns of phrase.

On a recent mission she recieved to infiltrate the Monastary in Tirisfal - one of the headquarters of the Scarlet Crusade - she was injured, but managed to heal herself in time to aid her temporary partners in assassinating the leaders. When she returned to Ironforge, she became sullen and withdrawn, almost as if she was facing a crisis of faith.