Sickly and frail, unlike other Drakkari Bwom'aka focused in more spiritual and magical strength to make up for her lack in the physical.
Physical Description[]
Short for a Drakkari at 7'5" , Bwom is similarly thinner, more frail, and seemingly more akin to a 'jungle' troll in build. This makes her more similar in appearance to the Winterax or Winterfang ice troll tribes.
Her tusks are rather small, and she seems frail and sickly. Her long white hair is let down with some of the excess turned into a ponytail with a leather binding and bone 'button' to keep the leather tight.
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This is effectively Bwom'aka's markings and yes. I cannot WAIT for this customization to be added to the game in Shadowlands!
Paint and Markings: Marked on her body are a series of white markings that are dried and seemingly permanent or frequently reapplied.
- White skull, with black around the eyes and nose.
- White spine going from her upper back to her lower back.
- White sternum placed below and between her chest.
- White ribs/collarbone coming off of the sternum markings.
- White humerus & ulna/radius arm bones on both arms.
- White femur & fibula/tibia leg bones on both legs.
- White 'fingers' and 'toes'.
Morbid Jewelry: Perhaps befitting a troll, or at least a necrolyte, Bwom'aka's ears are pierced but not by gilded jewels or rings, but by old bones. Around her neck is a collection of bones, her robes connected to it (see art).
Clothing: Dressed in an assortment of weathered bones and faded cloth colored purple, her robes are a collection of scrap but, they serve their purpose. There is particular care to at least make the robes warm, as lacking the same thick skin and/or fur as other Drakkari, she is more vulnerable to the cold.
Voodoo Mask: Worn at almost all times is a wooden mask, its painted white with a black border with eye holes and a nose hole carved into it. It is strapped around the back of her head, under her ponytail. It's moderately powerful, and helps shield her from the more unruly spirits and powers she deals with. It was also a trophy she carved from her mentor's totem and the dark necromantic magic of the totem still lingers within it.
It prevents spiritual possession and helped hide her from the eye of the Scourge.
Staff of Bones: Created out of her mentor's skeleton, Bwom'aka wields a staff that is literally his spine with his ribs near the upper end and his skull on the top. Some of his other bones are used to create a handle area for her to hold it more safely after it was bound in leather.
Alchemists Sash: Her 'belt' is a chain rope around her waist, hooked and covered by a troll skull icon. Armor hangs on her sides attached to the chain, and along the back of the 'sash' are eight small alchemical vials. Some poison, some medicine, others just pure healing.
Personality[]
Bwom'aka is not shy. In fact, she is rather confident in her abilities and skills but... she is naturally reserved and quiet, preferring not to speak unless spoken to, and rarely starting conversations. This is due in part to being ostracized by her village due to their superstitious beliefs regarding her birth (her mother 'dying' and her being sickly and frail).
By Sprankadoodlez!
Learning early the limitations of her body, she was seen speaking to unseen forces, although this gift faded in time she did, for awhile, have the ability to see the spirit of her mother and converse with her.
Because of how frail and sickly she was, as she was introduced to the concept of immortality, she did begin to prioritize knowledge that could get her to that point to escape her weak mortal coil. Wisdom has taught her however never to act rashly, so immortality will be a final solution.
History[]
Born in Year 10 (10 years after the Dark Portal first opened up) during what was later to be known as "The War of the Spider", a conflict spamming the depths of Northrend between Ner'zhul the Lich King and the fledgling Scourge vs the vast Nerubian Empire. Her village was in Dragonblight, near Jintha'kalar.
A Bargain?[]
The story Bwom was told was that, yes, she was born weak and sickly, but alive. Her mother perishing in childbirth. The truth is different, she was a stillbirth, and her mother, who had struggled for -SO- long to have a child, refused to give her up. She called to Quetz'lun, a Drakkari Loa with power over the dead. This was ignored. She called to the only other Loa she knew of, Bwonsamdi, and he listened. The two struck a bargain, her life, so Bwom could live. Both cheated. Her mother bound her soul to a small bone of a finger she removed to escape Bwonsamdi's collection and the Loa of Death? He placed a curse on Bwom, a sickness that would never end, never be cured, always getting worse.
The village was going to name her 'Death's Daughter', Bwon'aka, but grew fearful of it and named her Bwom'aka instead. Close, but not quite, hoping to avoid the Loa of Death's attention while ignorant that he already had an eye on her. She has still taken "Death's Daughter" as a title.
Exile[]
As the Scourge grew, and the power of the Lich King expanded, many sought it out, or were sought out by his agents (Kelthuzad in Year 15, for example). One such agent was a Drakkari Witchdoctor, an exile and practicing necromancer. Unbeknownst to any, he was slowly abducting and sacrificing residents of Bwom'aka's village, including her father. Alone, and cared for by others was when her 'strangeness' was noticed by more then her immediate family/family friends. She was speaking to the dead! As the rumors spread, many in the village called for Bwom'aka's exile despite her being so young! Not even ten years old yet, but as more disappeared the elders were forced to take action and so she was banished into the wastes of the Dragonblight around when she was 9.
Death would have surely found her in those wastes, but ever seeking a new sacrifice the witchdoctor found her first... and sensing a touch of death about her, decided to try and turn her to his master's will and began to teach her and care for her. He may have succeeded, but he could not see what Bwom'aka saw, the spirit of her mother, on the bone keeping her hair up. Guided by her mother, Bwom'aka destroyed what bound the souls and they took vengeance on the Witch Doctor, killing him. She carved a mask from his totem of death, a mask that blocked out the Lich King's whispers from the back of her head and allowed her to evade the spirits he sent after her.
Hunted[]
The first to come for her was the Scourge, deathly servitors who sought Bwom'aka to turn her to their master's will. They were easy enough to push away, but then more physical servants came as well as hunter's of her own people. By now, she was a young adult (16 or so) and was finally forced to leave her mentor's home to escape the undead, first she thought about heading to her village if she could find it, but it had been destroyed by the Scourge a few years prior. Her movements were spotted by a hunter from her village, who realized it had to be her! She was so much smaller and sickly and frail, and returned to where the survivors had fled. From there, her own people wanted her dead as well, no longer the child to be merciful to she was blamed for their home's destruction and hunter's were sent after her as well!
The Pact & Freedom![]
Unable to escape both, Bwom'aka turned to the darkest spirits she could conjure... demon's. The pact offered was heavy, her power and experience both lacking to create a beneficial deal but her father's spirit, the only soul she freed from her mentor all those years ago that stayed with her, sacrificed his eternal rest to pay the pact's price. Now protected by demon's, and granted demonic magic at the price of her father's eternal soul, Bwom'aka was safe once again. She continued to survive and move, escaping Scourge and Drakkari alike until both her pursuers were decimated. The fall of the Drakkari, and the death of the Lich King. Although she didn't know the truth of the latter, only that the dark presence was gone from the heart of Northrend and her pursuers from both sides had stopped coming.
Aftermath[]
With the Drakkari Tribe scattered, with the Scourge contained, Bwom'aka was free to leave Northrend. Lacking a boat, she approached the Horde, and after proving her worth by revealing a few lingering cult of the damned members with her magic which she disguised as the magic of a warlock, she was allowed to leave Northrend where a Forsaken spoke up on her behalf to see her officially join the Horde! Although this forsaken did not survive Garrosh's reign as Warchief, Bwom'aka did learn a thing or two from him about alchemy, bolstering what she had learned from her mentor to improve her treatment for her Loa-given sickness.
Ebonshroud Enclave[]
She was not truly welcomed to the Horde, but did survive. She continued to focus on her medicine so that she could survive and learn more of her dark magic that was. Until she met Iegres in Orgrimmar, and was later introduced to Kuz'drak, a fellow Drakkari, a servant of Death. She joined their Enclave, and thus found her new family. Her mother may have warned her to caution, but in the end this proved a very beneficial decision when, with Kuz'drak's help, Bwom'aka gave up her mother's soul to be cured of her Loa-born sickness for TWO years. If she wishes to remain cured, she must give Bwomsamdi 4 souls for every soul she denied him. But, it is a way forward without dooming herself to life among the undead.
By Tyxa.
With the Enclave on hiatus, perhaps forever, Bwom'aka has sought new pursuits to pass her time or find new meaning until she can serve Kuz'drak once more.
Trivia[]
My first actual troll character, and an experimental one at that! I wanted to make a Horde warlock, and picked troll. I always liked the ice trolls, so I picked that one and decided to work on how to best be a warlock and a drakkari. Decided to go with the necromancer route due to all the Scourge-related conflict, but I didn't want her to be evil. Mixed in some tragic backstory, reasons to have X magic or Y knowledge, and then gave her a debilitating sickness.
Her sickness was originally just something she was born with, and her mother really did just die in childbirth, but I changed it later to be from a deal with Bwonsamdi as originally, her death-related nature was solely due to the War of the Spider with Scourge magic. It felt OK like that, but the story felt even better pushing it onto the Loa of Death to be at fault, and gives her even more reason to be hostile with his followers.
Fun fact! She was supposed to be named "Death's Daughter", but I misspelled 'Bwonaka', Bwon for Bwonsamdi, and put 'Bwomaka' instead. Whoops. See backstory for how I worked that in instead of changing it completely.
External Links[]
3.5 WoW RPG Character Sheet (Taken to some extremes)