Quirelezepli the Highlander

Background
Quirelezepli was an Eredar(uncorrupted) who was born in the fortress city of Nivhirness in the Highlands of Argus(Mt. Nivh). The archived data crystal of his clan in Auchindoun record his birth taking place in an intermediate time between two millennia, and furthermore in a time after draenei chronologists have recorded the Sundering. Due to the particular chronology regarding Quirelezepli's birth, night elf annalists approximate his birth being at around 7,340 P.C., effectively making Quirelezepli a few decades shy of 7,400 years old.

Quirelezepli is an Old Eredun name meaning "choir of angels", which is a expression or phrase of great joy. He was the oldest of 4 children by the parentage of Hyspistaan and Illoducia. His father was a builder by trade and his mother was a minstrel. Hyspistaan was part of a military order called the Zakaarai Church, which was founded by Vindicators and Anchorites who, having heeded Velen's vision but refused, resolved to defend Argus from the Burning Legion instead of fleeing.

Because Quirelezepli is a name of a dead language, he received different names according to other languages. He is almost never addressed by his actual name. Most commonly, he was called 'Highlander' because he lived in the mountains. His Orcish name 'Regas'agul' means 'mountain bird' or 'eagle', denoting his aesthetic affinity of that kind of terrain. Less often, in Common he is called Quirengel, which is the Commonized version of his name.

Early life
Quirelezepli had a childhood typical of many eredun children, and the Old Eredun culture was taught heavily to him. The lowland folk were much more advanced in the intellectual and arcane pursuits, but many of Quire's neighbors retained the old Eredun tribal warrior traditions that were left behind. Ultimately as a result, the full Burning Legion invasion of Argus was delayed for thousands of years because of the valiant eredun warriors. Many of Quire's forefathers fought and died in the defense of Argus and it was expected that once Quire became of age, he too would go the way of his forefathers.

Quire was something of a rowdy, unruly, intemperate child who was difficult to discipline and train up by his parents. As the oldest of 4 children, he would destroy things for fun and wound his siblings superficially in horseplay. As punishment, Quirelezepli was sent to the mines as a dredger, where he would be required to come up with a mineral quota. Because of the nature of the punishment, Quirelezepli took some hard knocks about learning self-control and discipline, as well as some much needed wisdom. His taskmaster and tutor watched him very closely in the place of his father when he would be in the field fighting demons.

As if it was some fluke, Quire had a fascination of finding precious materials in the mines he was sent to(something he related to dwarves very well in). In the many hundreds of years he spent, as punishment transcended to vocation, Quirelezepli would go to the same mines and find things nobody else would bother, since dredging was considered an unsavory task in eredun as well as draenic culture. Quire started discovering many different gemstone formations in the various strata he dug through. He would take as many gemstones as he could carry and he would barter them with gem workers and jewelcrafters. Though Quire lacked the patience and refined touch to cut gems and fashion jewelry, he was undoubtedly the best at knowing how to find a certain gem. As a result, many eredun(and later on in Azeroth, miners of nearly all races) would give Quirelezepli choice samples of metallic ore and rock, where he would prospect for a fee.

His family delighted in Quire as he matured into a more proper eredun adult. However, right before Quire reached 7,000 years old, he and his family discovered that their people were critically losing ground in the final offensive of the Burning Legion. Hyspistaan was slain in battle but in his death throes, the naaru Za'ki assumed his essence. Quire's maternal uncle, Afahrduun, relayed instructions for the departure of his clan as well as other neighboring clans. Za'ki would arrange interdimension transport to the planet Draenor, that is, 'Exile's Refuge'. From that point on, every eredar alive would remain to fight a defensive battle at Nivhirness until their naaru vessel would arrive. Quirelezepli and his immediate relatives would narrowly survive the onslaught as the last patch of eredun ground would be fully conquered by the Burning Legion.

Life on Draenor
Quirelezepli arrived in Draenor a few hundred years later after his interdimensional exodus. By this time, he found that the eredar who have accompanied the Prophet Velen, now considered the draenei, have been permanently settled in with the orcs. The draenei have learned new ways such as hunting and shamanism, to which Quire scorned due to his clan's warrior heritage. Surprisingly, Quirelezepli found that he had more in common with the warrior ways of the orcs than he did with his fellow lowlander neighbors from back in Argus.

Quire has not yet been trained in the ways of the warrior since he was still a youth, but that was about to change soon after his arrival in Draenor. His maternal uncle, who took his brother-in-law's place as father, began to teach his nephew the Old Eredun warrior disciplines. As part of Quire's training, he was required to quest in the new world of Draenor, where Quire would best the challenges and trials therein. Afahrduun would also send Quire to other orc warriors to receive further instruction, since he believed that warriors by nature must be versatile in the knowledge of fighting.

Garrosh Hellscream, who was also a youth, was a companion of Quire in the training in becoming a warrior. Both Garrosh and Quire in the years before the Burning Legion invasion of Draenor explored the land, felling monsters, and completing quests for the various orc clans. An Orcish saga, "Bounds of the Blackrock Foundry", recorded the rise of prominence of the Blackrock clan through the points-of-view of Garrosh and Quire as they quested to scout a gronn mountain in Gorgrond.

The moment that the events unfolded for the Legion's arrival, Quirelezepli was caught in a surreal game of survival horror as he had to put his tenuous warrior skills to the true test in defending himself, his people, and the friendly orcs against the corrupted orcs of the Burning Legion as well as some demons. Just like his father before him, each and every battle was a losing one as Quire slowly but surely lost everything he had and his people had on Draenor. Garrosh, his fellow brother-in-arms, forsook him as the depression of such destruction and madness made him feel too powerless to do anything. Yet despise this, Quirelezepli pushed on. Great instances of zeal and faith were beginning to take root within his soul as his skill in arms improved with every feat of survival as he would singlehandedly overcome every corrupted orc and even some deadly demons.

Quire chose to rally with the last remaining draenei in Shattrath City, but by the time he got there, the city had been razed completely. Fearing the worst, Quire assumed that he would be the only survivor. For the sake of self-preservation, he fled to Tanaan Jungle for cover and concealment. When he got there, he beheld the Dark Portal. Knowing that it would be his only way to escape, he hurried to cross through the portal but in his path, one demon stood in his path, a shivan lord named Kryss'styph, also known as the Maiden of Pain. Quirelezepli had to fight mano-a-mano against her. When Quire was well spent, something miraculous happened: an entire contingent of troops(Alliance Expedition) poured out from the Dark Portal and begun to charge at the enemy presence there. The shivan lord diverted her attention in fighting, and Quire took his chance to run towards the Portal. The Alliance Expedition assumed him to be an enemy so he became a target, but Quire simply focused his efforts on evading and running to the portal. It was then that Quire found himself in a strange, barren wasteland but not sooner did he realize where he ended up than when gryphon riders have finished destroying the opposite end of the Dark Portal Quire ran for his very life from.

Being fortunate that nobody noticed him in the confusion of war, Quire continued to keep running northward until his collapsed from exhaustion in the Swamp of Sorrows.

Personality
Quirelezepli is cultured in the Old Eredun ways, which is rare in knowledge for the newer generations of the draenei. As such, he is very traditionalist and rigid in his culture and has little appreciation for the characteristics typical of most draenei. He only considers himself draenei in a 'pro forma' fashion, but as hardheaded as he can be about his own heritage, he refuses to forsake the better legacy of all eredun. His greater hatreds are reserved for those who are given over to Evil, chief of all the man'ari.

As Lawful Good, Quire is adamant in preserving what is right and virtuous especially through brute force, liking himself partly to the orcish and dwarven ideals for the alignment. The human and elf ideals of forbearance is not regarded well with Quire since he considers forbearance a form of weakness that results from a lack of ready diligence. As a person, Quire is inquisitively intelligent as his pursuit for subject knowledge gives him credit in refining his own person, particularly in the martial persuasion of things. To him, a piece of knowledge can be wielded with skill as a sword. Things that require direct action for resolution is something Quire delights in. He marries wisdom with intimidation in personal conflict, not to get what he wants but to prove himself in doing. As a downside, Quire is often insufferable, inconsiderate and callous of the viewpoints of others and can be pessimistic in situations unless he can obtain a better working knowledge.