Raelor Valeclaw

"Nature's Master? No, it has not master. I am but it's preserver."

Raelor No'randis Valeclaw is a Druid of the Cenarion Circle, and a Druidic Ambassador of the Citrine Eagles. His residence is two fold, often hopping between Kalimdor and the Alterac Mountains for his duty. Raelor's age and position as Druid has earned him deep connections across Azeroth, predominately through the overlapping Cenarion Circle's connection to most other Druidic Circles. Despite his connection to members of the Alliance, he himself is not formally a member of it and stands neutral among the Cenarion Circle.

Early Life
Raelor was born to a huntress living on the edge of the elven territory held by the Prince Farondis. He grew up in the forest, his mother bringing him through the forest to observe and live among the lands revered by the Night Elves. He grew up alongside his half-brother, Ko'danil. He grew close with his brother, up until their paths lead them to different sections of the Elven Empire. Where Ko'danil had followed the path of the Moon Guard, Raelor had followed a simpler path as an Innkeeper living in the forest with the 'lesser' folk.

War of the Ancients
When the War of the Ancients began, Raelor supported the war effort as a healer near the front lines, only occasionally seeing battle yet most often standing and watching for demonic infiltrators seeking to slaughter the wounded. It was in these times he begun to see the most powerful primordial beings of Nature rising, pushing the deep respect of life even farther into his being.

The Rebuilding
After the War of the Ancients had ended, Raelor began to study the beings that had become to close to the Night Elves over the great conflict. As soon as the opportunity to serve nature as a Druid had risen, he took the chance and followed the path. Due to his early position as a Druid, his master was not mortal. Rather, his master was an Ancient named Amberbough. Through the ancients guidance he took the first steps of the path of Druidism, finalizing his training with a council amongst an ancient Spirit. With his training complete, Raelor took the name Valeclaw in honor of his chosen path, and descended into the Barrow Dens to being the long study of the Emerald Dream.

The War of the Shifting Sands
Raelor had been woken from his slumber many times, however the most notable event occurred less than a thousand years before the First War. Commissioned in Silithus among other members of the Cenarion Circle, Raelor bore witness to the devastation there and obtained a great many scars (though now hard to distinguish amongst others) from the instectoid Silithid.

It was when being pushed back into Un'goro Crater that Raelor first became fascinated by the Elementals. They had always intrigued him, yet the great crater teemed with the powerful life and odd crystals. It was from this temporary stay in the crater and the possession of these strange crystals that eventually lead him to a philosophy similar to Alara'shinu. From these ideas he developed a way of harnessing elemental energies similar to Chi, only rarely used due to the reverence the philosophy gives him for the Elements as spirits of nature.

The Third War
When the Burning Legion returned to Azeroth ten thousand years after their first intrusion, Raelor was trapped like many of the Druids in the Barrow Dens. Once being freed he set out with the forces of Kalimdor, witnessing vile deeds both the Humans and the Orcs did to the land. Yet when the Legion's final assault began he set these feelings aside, fighting along side them in the last ditch efforts of mortal races to defend the world they called home. In the battle he was deeply wounded, forced to retreat and watch from a distance as Archimonde was slain.

When the Demons were defeated, he retreated into the Dream in order to recuperate, seeing the newly returned mortality causing his other forms of healing to weaken in effectiveness. After a year of meditation his body was once more fit for service, and the druid immediately set out to being healing the world of it's damage.