Ruth Allen

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Mother Ruth Joy Allen, commonly known as Mother Ruth, is a Sister of the Holy Light and the  current Mother-Superior of St. Seryl’s Abbey in Gilneas. She is serves as a Steward to the Prelacy of Light’s Dawn and works closely with Melchiz Tzedeck, Bishop of Gilneas.

Early Life
Born in the year 1108 F.A. to a Gilnean Chaplain and Alteraci Nurse, Ruth was the only daughter of seven children. She was an obedient, but playful child, always upbeat and enjoying the company of her brothers.

At the age of eight, she left for an All-Girls Religious School in the Gilnean Countryside, where she spent four years learning of the Holy Light and practicing the Three Virtues. She soon took up a private apprenticeship there for another two years, with her instructor, Mother Jane.

On her sixteenth birthday, Ruth returned home to see her family for several months, only to hear the tragic news that one of her brothers had grown terribly ill, and had died. Her father was beginning to develop symptoms similar to her brother’s and soon he, as well, died tragically.

Seminary
Ruth was heartbroken, but knew that it was in her father’s best interest for her to continue her education, and she left again to begin life in the seminary. She studied at St. Seryl’s Abbey, and grew a close connection to the Abbess and Mother-Superior there. She spent another fourteen years of her life aiding the ill, practicing the Virtues, and studying the Ways of an Ordained Priest.

Ordination
At the prime age of thirty, she was ordained, and soon-after became a Sister of the Light’s Dawn Cathedral.

Fall of Gilneas
On three years later, crisis erupted in Gilneas with the Forsaken at the Gates of the Greymane Wall, and the Worgen Curse soon struck thousands of Gilneans. Despite the Abbey’s work to aid cursed victims, many of the Sisters were either killed or stricken with the Curse as well only weeks into the Siege.

Despite their work, even as Cursed Worgen, the crisis was far too large for a tiny abbey to contain, and as the Forsaken pushed forward from all angles, the Gilnean Army relieved the nuns and monks of their duties in Gilneas, and sent them bound to Stormwind. It was there that many, including Ruth, were first introduced to the southern Church of the Light.

Ruth soon became a Nun of this Southern Church, and a nurse at a small clinic in Westfall.

Prelacy of Light's Dawn
Ruth met Bishop Melchiz Tzedeck some months after her thirty seventh birthday, where she learned of his interests in the restoration of the Northern Church. She heavily promoted the ideals of the St. Seryl’s Abbey to the Bishop, and in turn was posted as the Mother-Superior of the Abbey, and the leading Administrator of the seminary.