Philosophy of the Blood Moon

"The eternal flames of the sun may be obscured as darkness falls, but their light shall still be reflected upon the moon."

- The philosophy of the Bloodmoon name

Bloodmoon refers to the name created by Alytheria Bloodmoon following her return to the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas. It is a name worn only by the San'layn of the House of Solflame. Though it may be regarded as a distinct family or even a house, the significance of the name implies that one who wears it still accepts being a Solflame.

Origin
During the Third Burning Legion Invasion of Azeroth, Alytheria Solflame, the former matriarch of House Solflame, returned to her homeland and her family. Since her death in Icecrown and raising as San'layn, the family had changed considerably, with Raitaus Solflame becoming the new patriarch of the House and wielding the Solar Spire accordingly. Though some had not been told of Alytheria's fate in the frozen north, Raitaus had fought alongside the matriarch and was aware of both her death and her raising.

Under the guise of a Blood Elf, Alytheria approached her family. She did not receive a fond welcome, as Raitaus had since established the rule that House Solflame would never play host to undead. Angered and frustrated at her rejection, Alytheria claimed that the House had no right to cast her out for nothing more than the crime of her death at the hands of the Undead Scourge, especially when it was her death that permitted Raitaus to survive.

Despite this, Alytheria was cast out, ordered to leave the family alone and not return. Angered and hurt by what she saw as a betrayal by her own family, she prepared to leave. In silent contemplation she found herself staring up at the moon in the night sky, thinking about how its glow could exist. She knew that the moon only glowed as it reflected the light of the sun.

She found herself comparing her situation to the phenomenon of a lunar eclipse, a blood moon, where the light of the sun was blocked from directly reaching the moon. Even then, however, the light would still find its way to cast itself upon the moon, perhaps tainted, but still there. Many saw it as a symbol of the end times when it was little more than a cosmological phenomenon, an occurrence without plan or meaning.

Alytheria compared herself to that tainted light, knowing full well that she was also tainted by her undeath, yet still the woman she was in life. People might see her as a foreign monster, as they did the blood moon, but it changed nothing. The blood moon was still a moon, and she was still a Solflame. She adopted the name Bloodmoon as appeasement to Raitaus to disconnect herself, yet secretly Alytheria knew that the name Bloodmoon would exist within the ideology of the name of Solflame.

Some time passed until another would take on the name of Bloodmoon. Alytheria's granddaughter, Valythra Solflame, became San'layn and orchestrated the murder of her parents. In doing so, Valythra adopted her grandmother's name to follow in her footsteps, though she mistakenly assumed the Bloodmoon name would forever sever her ties to the Solflame name.

Known Users

 * Alytheria Bloodmoon
 * Valythra Bloodmoon