User:Joshmaul/Laneth Sorrowspear

"'May their blades shatter before the armor of vengeance.'"
 * - Laneth Sorrowspear, Knight of the Ebon Blade

Laneth Sorrowspear is one of the "first generation" of Azeroth-born orcs in the Horde, who later fell in battle and became a Knight of the Ebon Blade.

Biography
Born on Azeroth during the First War and raised in the village of Stonard, Laneth was not a warrior born - especially in the demonically-corrupted "old Horde" - but a warrior made. Unlike most children during that era, she managed to avoid being "aged up" by warlocks, but raised "proper" by her parents, a husband-and-wife pair of hunters, who managed to flee into the wilderness with Grom Hellscream and his Warsong clan when the Dark Portal was destroyed during the Second War. Laneth came to adulthood in the wilds of Lordaeron, and became a warrior of the clan.

When the Warsong rallied to Thrall to liberate the internment camps in Lordaeron, Laneth offered her blade to the cause of the new Horde; her first battle, when she was but a teenager, was the siege of Durnholde, the fortress that controlled the internment camps where most of the orcs had been held since the Second War. Some time after, the Horde set out for Kalimdor, guided by a mysterious prophet to join with survivors of the Alliance to battle an invasion by the Burning Legion. Laneth and her parents would fight in the Battle of Mount Hyjal, where her mother was killed covering the retreat. Once the Horde settled in Durotar and began to build Orgrimmar, Laneth and her father joined the city defense force; however, Laneth became restless and elected to fight in the field. Coming home after the war in Outland, Laneth arrived in Orgrimmar to find it under attack by the Scourge, and was killed in the subsequent defense of the city.

Laneth was raised by the Scourge as a death knight of Acherus, one of the thousands raised to bring an end to the Scarlet Crusade - and, it was hoped, the Argent Dawn as well. But at Light's Hope, it became clear that they had been used as sacrificial lambs for the Lich King's plans. Laneth was enraged, and swore an oath of vengeance, joining the ranks of the Knights of the Ebon Blade. She joined with her comrades in arms in the war in Northrend, right up to the defeat of the Lich King at Icecrown Citadel.