User:Joshmaul/Nevasa

"'Lotta wonderin' about what comes next. If dere be a ‘next’ after dis... ya know, I t'ink dere will be. Might not be great, but at least dere be somet'ing. Otherwise, what be da damned point of all dis?'"
 * - Nevasa, to Valkia'jin, at Orgrimmar just before Saurfang's mak'gora

Nevasa is one of the Prelates, the elite paladins of the Zandalari Empire. After the death of Rezan, Loa of Kings and patron of the Prelates, Nevasa has since struggled to find purpose.

Biography
Nevasa grew up in Zuldazar alongside her friend Valkia, and was in fact trained in the path of the Prelate - the paladins of Zandalar, blessed by Rezan - by Valkia's father, Warlord Zul'kor. When father and daughter elected to follow Zul across the sea during the Cataclysm, Nevasa remained behind in Zuldazar, as she felt the duty of a Prelate was to protect Zandalar, and if that meant standing against the rising ocean waves, then so be it. Like many others, Nevasa dismissed Zul's prophecies as so much hot air, proven by the fact that Zandalar endured the Cataclysm; the capital was indeed damaged, but not catastrophically so. Valkia - later Valkia'jin, a powerful shaman - returned years later, having served in Zul'Aman and Pandaria before finally breaking from Zul and his minions and slaying her father, who followed the mad "prophet" without question. Upon Valkia's return to Zandalar, she was banished to Vol'dun by General Jakra'zet for Zul'kor's murder. At the time, Nevasa had not questioned it - she had no desire to meet the same fate - but as tensions rose in Zuldazar between Zul and King Rastakhan, she began to wonder if Valkia had not in fact acted rightly after all. Like the other Prelates, Nevasa was left to wonder about her future after Rezan was murdered by Zul, his power taken to feed his new "god", G'huun.

Valkia's return to Zandalar and the death of Rezan both occurred just after the Horde opened negotiations with Rastakhan, hoping to bring the Zandalari and their mighty navy into their ranks to fight the Alliance. Like most Zandalari, Nevasa was disgusted by the undead that formed most of the Horde vanguard, and had heard tales of Warchief Sylvanas Windrunner's cruelty and honorless tactics; she hoped that Rastakhan would reject the deal and send the "corpse filth" packing. However, following the Alliance siege of Dazar'alor which ended with the death of Rastakhan, Nevasa (who had served in the city's defense forces during the siege) set aside her feelings and accepted the new arrangement, though she still preferred to work alongside the living members of the Horde - particularly the tauren and the blood elves, both of whom had their own holy warriors with powers similar to her own. Not long after this, Valkia returned from exile, and Nevasa was glad to reconnect with her again.

Both would travel across the sea to Durotar for what they thought would be the great siege of Orgrimmar, the second such attack against the city to depose a corrupt Warchief... a battle that ultimately did not happen, as the contest was decided by an honor duel between High Overlord Saurfang and Sylvanas, ending in the High Overlord's death - and at the same time, his victory. Following the conclusion of the duel and Sylvanas' flight from Orgrimmar, Nevasa returned to Zandalar, wondering what would ultimately come next, and yet at the same time having faith that, like so many trials before, Zandalar would endure.