Anduin Wrynn | Requested

Character

Name: Anduin Wrynn

Full Name: Anduin Wrynn

Aliases: High King of the Alliance. King of Stormwind. King. Sire.

Race: Human

Gender: Male

Class: Paladin: Holy Knights of the Light, wearing heavy armor with a sword and a shield to protect their allies. Their potent healing using the Light ensures their fallen comrades may be rescued. The greatest strength of a paladin is their conviction, that determination to strive to be good in all things. (formerly a Priest).

Occupation: High King of the Alliance. King of Stormwind.

Age: Twenty-one (21).

Relationships

Parents: Varian & Tiffin Wrynn — Varian and Tiffin Wrynn are Anduin's biological parents. Varian was the former King of Stormwind, a rough-around-the-edges and exceedingly loyal man that wasn't one to shy away from a fight to uphold his honor and the honor of Stormwind and the Alliance. For many years they had a strained relationship due to differing values, but in the end were very close. Anduin's mother, Tiffin, on the other hand died when Anduin was still a baby and he doesn't know much about her aside from the fact she was a beloved queen of Varian and of Stormwind.

Parental figures: "Aunt" Jaina Proudmoore & "Uncle" Magni Bronzebeard — Jaina Proudmoore and Magni Bronzebeard act as Anduin's found-family of sorts. Anduin shared kindred ideals with Jaina and before the destruction of Theramore, she was deeply devoted to the idea of a friendship between the Alliance and the Horde, ideals that Anduin shared passionately. During times of tension or danger in Stormwind, Anduin was often sent to further his education in Ironforge, the home of the dwarves. Former king Magni Bronzebeard took a liking to him and now acts as one of his advisors.

Mentor: Velen — Velen was Anduin's mentor during his former path as a Priest. A vastly ancient draenei with the blessing of the N'aaru, beings of pure Light, Velen taught Anduin all he needed to know and the two had a close mentor/mentee relationship.

Appearance

At the age of twenty-one, Anduin has passed the age of adolescence and is now the young King of Stormwind. Due to intense training as a Paladin, he is incredibly physically strong. He has fair, unblemished skin, a broad, muscular stature that still holds notes of his former boyishness--signifying his reign as a young king--and shoulder-length golden-blonde hair that he usually keeps tied in a short ponytail with a fringe framing either side of his face. He has a chiseled, youthful face with kind blue eyes and stays clean-shaven with no facial hair.

When he is not wearing his silver-and-gold armor brandished with lions and the heads of gryphons, Anduin prefers to wear soft, breathable clothes like ornate cloth, still brandished with the seal of Stormwind and dark brown trousers with hefty metal boots.

Unlike most Paladins he does not carry a shield, and instead wields Shalamayne—the legendary sword passed down through the Wrynn generations. It is a large, ornate greatsword that was originally forged by the blood elves (formerly high elves). It is two swords merged together through magical means, with a split blade and a large leather grip with a guard resembling lions' claws and a soft glowing Light in the circular middle part near the base.

Personality

Anduin Wrynn has always valued peace and diplomacy rather than brute strength and war, unlike his father before him Varian Wrynn. Described by many as a gentle yet stalwart soul, Anduin is firm in his beliefs that peace is the noblest aspiration. Despite all the hurdles thrown at him, Anduin Wrynn stays true to his nature: gentle, diplomatic, but firm and protective when it counts.

Consistently he pushes for peace between the Horde and Alliance, factions that have been constantly at war with one another for multiples decades. He treats peace as something to actively build and participate in rather than a passive state, and is considered a just king that is wise for his years. He is a genuine, calm and persuasive young man that is well-written and articulated.

His compassion isn't passive. He pardons people who don't deserve it by any conventional reckoning, argues for prisoners and for enemies' dead, and repeatedly takes political damage to do what he thinks is right, no matter how it changes or damages his image. His values have always been for the Alliance and for peace, and his conviction is strong.

The cracks show most in his private moments. He carries guilt over deaths he couldn't prevent, doubts whether he's strong enough to hold the Alliance together, and struggles with the sense that he's a disappointment to his father's legacy. He's prone to melancholy and to withdrawing—the king who gives everyone else reassurance often has no one giving it to him. His faith in the Light is one of his biggest anchors.

Backstory

He was born in Stormwind to Varian Wrynn and Tiffin, and his mother was killed in a riot when he was an infant — the first of the losses that define him. His childhood was shaped by his father's long disappearance and the young Anduin's own kidnapping by Onyxia, who had infiltrated Stormwind's court in disguise as Lady Katrana Prestor and manipulated the kingdom for years. Rescued and reunited with Varian, Anduin grew up watching a father who had been split into two selves — the hardened warrior and the man — and learned early that strength and cruelty are not the same thing.

His defining friendship came in Mists of Pandaria: stranded on Pandaria, he met and befriended Wrathion, the last black dragon, and the two became close despite everything. That friendship curdled when Wrathion, convinced the Burning Legion's return was inevitable, manipulated events toward war and later helped unleash Garrosh Hellscream. Anduin's belief that people can be reasoned with took its first serious hit there. On Pandaria he also studied under the priests and monks, deepened his faith in the Light, and began healing in earnest — the first time his compassion became a power rather than just a personality trait.

The pivotal turn was Varian's death in Legion, at the Broken Shore. Anduin, barely more than a teenager, watched his father die and was handed the crown in the same breath. His early reign was marked by self-doubt and by the discovery that the Light answered him in ways it answered no one else — culminating at the Battle for Lordaeron, where he wielded the Light as a weapon to raise the fallen and shattered the Undercity's defenses. That moment is the hinge of his character: the gentle priest-king discovering he could be terrifying, and being shaken by it.

Now, he is a young king trying to hold a fracturing Alliance together, still grieving, still idealistic, and increasingly aware that his mercy is a choice he will have to keep making at a cost.

Anduin has learnt that the Illidari, night elves that willingly corrupted themselves with demonic fel have come to Stormwind Keep to seek asylum after the capture of Illidan Stormrage. While Anduin finds it tragic that they lost their homes and families, he harbors a deep wariness for their use of the corrupting fel magic. As a diplomat and peacekeeper, the Illidari fundamentally go against his innate philosophy.