Juras

Juras was a draenei vindicator and peacekeeper and the husband of Martul. Born the only child of a merchant father, he was raised amid prosperity and peace on Argus. With a birthright to his father’s caravan and the ambition to strive for more, Juras spent his younger years pursuing his trivial interests like crystalline sculpture and a board game called Exarchaes. Tall, handsome, and strapping, Juras possessed a form fit for a jed’hin champion. But it was his art and his good nature, not his athleticism, that earned him the attention of Argus’ elite.

One of Archimonde’s inner circle, the mother of Martul, took notice of him among a gathering of the upper crust. Though the middle-aged bureaucrat had at first intended to bed the handsome young artist, an honest and sincere conversation with him that ventured late into the night instead persuaded her to capture the man into her family line. Martul was obsessively studious and had so far refused to seek a partner in favor of her research into the arcane. But after a meeting with Juras that had been set for one hour and stretched to six, she neglected her research for three days straight to simply think of him.

Juras was the only member of his family to escape Argus as an exile. Though all of Juras’ friends had expected Martul to remain behind, she later shared the truth that had it not been for him, she would have. Juras and Martul lived happily for tens of thousands of years. But while Martul was a woman with ambition, Juras was a man contented easily. Though she always loved him, she came to resent him for his kind and patient nature. Born of that fracture came Martul’s daughter to another man, Terras. Juras raised the girl as his own and never knew otherwise.

When the orcs came to Shattrath, Juras chose to give his life defending it so that his daughter, wife, and those like them could escape. He died as he had lived, with a smile on his face.