User:Joshmaul/Alixia Cogshank

"'Life's too short to worry about what side you're on when the world goes to pot. When life only gives ya two sides to choose from, create a third: Yourself.'"
 * - Alixia Cogshank

Alixia Cogshank is a gnomish assassin and mercenary, choosing to work for anyone regardless of affiliation or morality. She prefers to remain above the politics of Azeroth - though, being a gnome, she is often seen in Alliance territory.

Biography
Alixia Cogshank's chief motivation for leaving Gnomeregan was boredom; she was not an engineer, nor was she content to sit in the underground city all day. Just prior to the attempted coup by Mekgineer Thermaplugg, she stole her parents' airplane and zipped across the northern mountains of Khaz Modan, motivated by a desire to see the world - and a desire to never see Gnomeregan again. Nor has she.

Seeking to enrich herself as a mercenary for hire, Alixia picked up the art of the blade fairly early on in her travels, and offered her services to the Argent Dawn in Lordaeron, testing her mettle against the Scourge in the Plaguelands. She developed a taste for the work, and kept up her activities on the down-low (not exactly hard for a gnome) in the years since. She has worked for the Shattered Sun Offensive fighting on the Sunwell Isle, for the Argents again (this time as a Crusade) in Northrend, for Ramkahen in the deserts of Uldum, for the Legionfall forces on Argus, and for the Order of Embers, the witch-hunters of Drustvar, during the Fourth War.

Alixia has no particular loyalty to Mekkatorque (or anyone else, for that matter), having no interest in politics or allegiances; she has dismissed her home city of Gnomeregan as a "borehole, emphasis on 'bore'". She lives mainly to explore new lands and to challenge herself against powerful foes - and getting paid for doing jobs, of course. While she is often seen predominantly in Alliance territory (being a gnome), she does not consider herself part of it, and does not have the same aversion to Horde members (not even goblins!) that others do; when asked how she feels about the burning of Teldrassil, for instance, she shrugs and says, "It's war, you can't be choosy."