| Khayla Swifthooves | |
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| Title | - |
| Gender | Female |
| Race | Shu'halo |
| Class | {{{Class}}} |
| Age | Like she'll tell you. She's categorized as a young adult |
| Beliefs | {{{Beliefs}}} |
| Alignment | {{{Alignment}}} |
| Affiliation | Horde |
| Occupation | {{{Occupation}}} |
| Location | Here and there |
| Status | - unknown - |
| Relative(s) | {{{Relatives}}} |
Her looks:[]
In general, really long blonde hair/mane with some slightly darker patches and platinum blonde like highlights, most of the times kept nicely brained, some hanging while some caught along with the ponytail. Decorated in grand part with white aswell as blue feathers and a few beads.
Her ears are pierced a few times, supporting small rings and the base of the ear both have small silver like wolf and bear totems made from titanium with feather decorations hanging from them. The horns are white with some brown color to them, not long, big or wide, but they curve upwards and seem very sharp on the tips. At the base of them, Khay has both surrounded with two tribal decorated rings from where two feathers hang.
Her body is covered in what seems very well kept silky light brown fur that when in the light seem to have golden highlights, her chest, inner part of arms and legs have a ligh
ter color.
Like a few of her kin, Khay has three fingers and thumb, instead of the typical two fingers plus thumb.
Khay has a very femenine figure despite her short height, with a firm structure of an hourglass. Having her robes adapting perfectly to her. Has a tattoo of a paw on both her shoulders.
Her tail is long and thin, with the patch of long fur at the tip being just as blonde as her hair/mane, and decorated with a silver ring by the base of her tail, and two smaller rings almost by the tip, just before the fur beginning. Her robes were tailored specially so that her tail has a spot to be out.
The hooves are of the same color as her horns, but usually are hidden with the robes and/or by fluffy fur, and despite being hidden, Khay has a small braided bracelet on her right ankle made from a glimmering green highly flexible metalic material.
In her cat form, Khayla maintains the shape of her horns and addornations. Same color pattern for fur, with the body being of a light brown and the mane and tip of tail blonde.
The size of her cat form is not that big either but in terms of fur, Khay seems to have slightly longer and fluffier fur.
Her claws are almost always retracted and seldow she sticks them out, unless she feels threatened or has to fight in that form.
In her bear form, she becomes bulkier, but yet again retaining the shape of her horns, fur color and everything else.
Howvever, it's the form Khay might take over the least, unless absolutely necessary.
Her flight form much like the other forms, is a somewhat smaller versions of a horned eagle. With beautiful light brown and golden feathers. She takes this form often to fly whenever she wants or to gather necessary things or even to evade confusion or attacks.
She can also tae shape of a small and slim tree ent with golden leaves, but Khay only takes this shape when in need of a stronger healing energy.
The only form she can take over and that doesn't have a different visual look than many other druids, is her water form, that is pretty much a generic sealion with fangs. The only thing that changes is the color, light brown.
Summary of Events[]
After an incident during a short period before the Cataclysm began, she was travelling from Orgrimmar to Mulgore with her parents and a handfull of mates from the clan, when the ground began to shake. Cracks ran across the dusty ground at a frightening speed. Panic rose even higher upon seeing an outpost tower start to tilt to a side before crumbling down like a castle of cards after a push.
Screams were heard as the ground vanished beneath the travelling clan. Some fell into their doom right ahead, sining into a river of lava.
Khayla was among the ones that slipped through the cracks, but held on the edge as much as she could, her hooves scrapping against the sides, trying desperably to find something... anything.. she could use to support her to climb up.
Ona'ru Wolfclaw, her father, was the first to reach to the female, just in time to grasp her hands preventing her fall. Pulling his daughter was easy for him, infact, he'd often joke that picking her up was like doing so to a feather.
Once she out of danger, they were quickly joined by another female, Khayla's mother, Lhia'ra Ghostmane, who was an old shaman.
But that was a brief reunion...
To this day, Khayla does not remember what happened. Just that when she woke up, she was in a verdant place, all wrapped up in bandages, with her body half scorched and with a few injures still healing.
She had been saved by some passerbies, that too her to a small settlement in the now named Overgrowth.
She lost plenty of friends and her parents that day.. that alone, sent Khayla into a depression spiral.
After fulling recovering from her wounds, Khayla sought out to reach Thunderbluuf to see if she could find out anything about her parents and find a stable master where her companions usually rested with.
Packing everything and taking with her two of her most close animals, a runt wolf named Sombra and a white bear called Kirum. Even if afterwards she was tagged along also by Squeaky, a small wyvern cub.
However, she came to regret ever leaving Thunderbluff...
As she was travelling through Storm Peaks in Northrend, Kahyla found herself stranded in a cave after a heavy storm fell on her small party.
Within the cave she stumbled right into two Alliance humans and a night elf.
What followed next was a long excrutiating fight, where Khayla almost lost her life yet again, but was left to contemplate the death of her best friends, Kirum and Sombra. She had been saved by an Orc in plate and his friend, one who would most probably change the female Shu'halo from there on.. a Troll druid.
Khayla couldn't bare anymore with having surviving so many times and watching her closed ones die around her ... breaking ties with everyone due to a notion that if she came close to anyone, they would die for sure.
She at least seeked the druid once more, mostly to thank her, but after a chat, Khayla was guided to Moonglade.
In Moonglade, a zone completely surrounded by forest and only ways in and out, were through a tunnel or by air, Khayla exiled herself within in.
Trying to find answers to her questions ... meaning to her life.. repentence for not beign able to protect or even ehal the ones she loved or cared... and maybe, a new strenght or at least a new path.
After a long period, Khayla was no longer walking the path of a huntress, traded the typical mail gear for leather robes and was now, a druid aswell.
..... With no real home to go to anymore, she now wanders here and there ... her fear still being that if she gets too close to anyone, eventually.. they'll surely die.
Returning to Thunderbluff after so long was a slightly tough experience.
Avoiding old faces of her past, and trying to keep distance from new ones. She find herself sitting atop of the tower where the wyverns are nested, from where she can have a great view of what was once her home while at the same time, keeping a discrete distance from people.
Going in and out of battlefields, Khay seems to find some happyness in the simple gestures of healing wounded fellows.
She admits that the constant running after the others, or even running away from Alliance members that seek to prevent her from healing, can become tiredsome, but still, she wouldn't have it other way.
Involvements[]
- Onaru Wolfclaw - Khayla's father. Once mighty warrior and chieftain of his small clan. Who had brought his young daughter a pet bear, Kirum. Aswell as teaching her how to fight with staves and polearms. ( Now deceased )
- Lhia'ra Ghostmane - Khayla's mother. An old shaman with healing abilities. She had rescued a wolf later named Sombra that ended at the care of Khayla. Lhia was the one that awakened a love for animals and nature the most on Khayla. ( Now deceased )
- Jarou Talonhoof - A proud young feral druid that took early interest in Khayla, but all his advances on her were all in vain. ( Unknown )
- Nahkahyen Wolfpaw - Khayla's childhood friend and one of her father's young students in the way of the shaman. They grew up together as practically sisters. ( Missing )
- De'risse Tinytotem - An elf priestess that often travelled with her father's clan and actually lives more with tauren than with her own kin. The elf was also considered short for her kind, so both females got along just fine. Often fighting in battles or working at Argent Crusade settlements.
- Wakhan Sunbrave - A white furred Sunwalker tauren always clad in heavy armor and a massive shield who tends to be charming and extremely kind to Khayla.
- Tameni Sunbrave - Wakhan's youngest sister and incredibly fond of Khayla. Often expression her admiration for the druid and wanting to know if she has tales to share. Braving through Northrend.
- Rejana Proudtusk - A troll druid that guided Khayla and helped her in Moonglade and in the find of a new path in life. Often walking with Khayla to try and push the female in the right direction.
They still sometimes meet in Moonglade, Orgrimmar or Hyjal.
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Her companions[]
> Large sized companions <
- Sombra: A small black wolf and as one could say, the runt of his pack. He's rather small for his race and was often attacked by bigger wolves and other creatures, till Kay'la took him in.
Struck by the female Tauren's compassion, Sombra started to follow Kay'la ever since and never leaving her side, hence why she named him Sombra. He grew extremely attached to the female Tauren to the point of becoming overprotective. If he doesn't like a person or feels Kay'la might be in danger, he will show himself as agressive unless Kay'la reassures him that all is ok. ( Deceased )
- Kirum: At first he was introduced by Kay'la's father as a snow white bear. Both growing up together and becoming inseperable friends.
Kirum appears to everyone as an enormous white bear with bright blue eyes. ( Deceased )
> Critter like companions <
- Squeaky: A tiny wyvern cub that travels with Khay, either following her around by ground, barely flying after or peeking from her traveling backpacks.
Khay calls him Squeaky because of the wyvern doing squeak like sounds when she took him in. ( Deceased )
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Strategy[]
Kay'la's major weakness are tickles, she loses it when being tickled and bursts into laughter.
Quotes[]
"*yawn* Morning already?"
"Balance is needed to about everything."
"Before you judge whatever it is, maybe you should look at yourself first."
"I travel to where the wind usually strokes my back too, but sometimes... you got to enjoy the wind in your face."
Trivia[]
- Sombra is a portuguese word for Shadow. Came to it due to the wolf's story of following Kay'la around like a shadow.
See also[]
External links[]
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