User:Joshmaul/Fergus Darkember

"'Th' lad may be half one clan and 'alf another, but he'll be all dwarf in th' end - th' first tae rule us all since Anvilmar. Ah think we've been fightin' 'mongst ourselves long enough, don't ye?'"
 * - Senator Fergus Darkember, to Embervina Doomlight

Senator Fergus Darkember is a powerful pyromancer and explorer of the Dark Iron clan.

Biography
Fergus Darkember is one of the few members of the Shadowforge Senate to survive the slaughter of his fellows, mainly by not drawing attention to himself when the attackers - ostensibly there to "rescue" Moira Bronzebeard - reached the throne room of Emperor Dagran Thaurissan. Fergus had heard rumors that the Emperor sought to sever the chains that enslaved them to Ragnaros, and that was the real reason he had kidnapped Moira. The Bronzebeard princess was pregnant with Dagran's heir when he was killed, and thus would bear the heir not only to the Emperor, but to Moira's father, King Magni, in Ironforge. While a number of his people - namely those who enthusiastically remained in thrall to Ragnaros and the Twilight's Hammer - swore never to accept a "half-breed runt" as their Emperor, Fergus, much like Moira and others, saw an opportunity to reunite the clans and end centuries of division among dwarfkind.

Following Ragnaros' downfall during the Cataclysm, Moira - now Queen-Regent, and a member of the "Council of Three Hammers" in Ironforge - began to bring her people closer to their kinfolk, and to the Alliance to which they belonged. Seeing it as an opportunity to get out and see what awaited, Fergus left Shadowforge City to explore the world, ultimately teaming up with the paladin Embervina Doomlight as part of the Dark Iron garrison on the time-altered Draenor. His proficiency in fire magic came to good use in Gorgrond, where the plant creatures - the genesaur, the botani, and the podlings - used both the native orcs and the Dark Irons alike as mulch. Returning to Azeroth, Fergus worked in the Broken Isles during the Legion war, although he did not formally join the Kirin Tor or its "front-line forces", the Tirisgarde.

Fergus returned to Shadowforge during the Fourth War, when his people were finally, officially, inducted into the Alliance. While he has travelled to Kul Tiras a number of times, he did not actively participate in the war, preferring - after the nearly non-stop conflict that had occurred since the Emperor's death - to watch and learn.