Danielle Vanderlip



Nethaera (sometimes shortened to "Neth") is a Blizzard employee and Community Manager for the US World of Warcraft forums. She is called Candle by some, after her forum avatar. Her real name is Danielle Vanderlip. According to a forum post, she is married.

Nethaera joined Blizzard in June 2006.

Playstyle
Nethaera is known to play on PVP, RP-PvP and PvE servers.

Account control incident
In mid-2007, Nethaera's forum account, along with Drokthul's, was hijacked (likely by a session mimic) and forced to post links to keyloggers on the official WoW forums.

An example of the posts made by the CM accounts can be seen from the following: Nethaera and Drokthul. (Alternative image host here.)

Awards
Nethaera is part of the Community Team that won "Best Community Management team" at Dragon*Con 2012.

Video
Nethaera reads feedback from a player from BlizzCon 2015. (direct video link)

Trivia

 * Nethaera's birthday is August 14th
 * A non combat pet called Nethaera's Light was made in the image of her forum avatar.
 * She may be a Dalaran Mage.