User:Joshmaul/Dechala

"'Some say dat war be a moral contest, and it be won in da temples before it ever be fought. If only dat be true...'"
 * - Witch Doctor Dechala

Dechala is a Darkspear witch doctor who has served the Horde since her tribe aligned with them just before the Third War, and has fought in nearly every major campaign since.

Biography
Born on Darkspear Isle in the South Seas, Dechala took up the voodoo arts from a fairly early age, and served in the ranks of the witch doctors when her people aligned with Warchief Thrall and his Horde during the exodus from Lordaeron. During the Battle of Mount Hyjal, she developed potions to wield against the undead minions of the Legion as well as provide battlefield healing for the wounded - and a merciful passing to the Other Side for those too far gone to save.

After Hyjal, Dechala settled with her tribe in the Echo Isles, then later at Sen'jin Village when Zalazane's corruption took hold. She worked with the Argent Dawn in the Plaguelands before setting out with Nazgrel's forces to Outland. After the Argent Dawn was reformed into the Argent Crusade, she joined them during the war for Northrend, and had the "fun experience" of being bludgeoned by a jousting lance during the Argent Tournament. After the fall of the Lich King, she returned to Durotar as part of Vol'jin's army to reclaim the Echo Isles from Zalazane, before going out to fight in Vashj'ir and Uldum during the Cataclysm.

Dechala supported Vol'jin's decision to stand against the attempted Zandalari "unification" of the tribes after the Cataclysm, and fought against them both in the Eastern Kingdoms - at Zul'Aman and Zul'Gurub - and in Pandaria as part of the Horde campaign. She was nearly killed by Garrosh's zealots during that war, but recovered enough to serve in Vol'jin's army during the siege of Orgrimmar, which saw the chieftain raised to replace Garrosh as Warchief. She spent most of the campaign on Draenor at Warspear on the island of Ashran, later going to the front lines in Tanaan Jungle when the Iron Horde turned fel.

As her powers counted her among the priesthood, Dechala was inducted into the Conclave of Netherlight during the war against the Legion on the Broken Isles, spending most of the conflict in Azsuna, Suramar, and the Broken Shore before moving on to Argus. By this point, Vol'jin was dead - killed in the conflict's earliest battle - and Sylvanas Windrunner, the queen of the Forsaken, was now Warchief. Though Vol'jin claimed the Loa spirits had named her as his successor, Dechala remained unsure who had in fact guided his decision - doubts that became even more pronounced following the burning of Teldrassil.

Working on the front lines in Zandalar, Dechala began to see that the Zandalari she had encountered in the past were zealots completely out of step with their people. In time, she would be among the many voices speaking for alliance with the Zandalari, and was relieved that the forward-thinking Princess Talanji - later Queen of Zandalar following the Alliance's assassination of her father, King Rastakhan - advocated good relations with the Darkspear and showed honor to Vol'jin's memory.

Though patriotic and loyal to the Horde, Dechala believed that while the conflict was both inevitable and ultimately necessary, the means Sylvanas employed to fight it were not. The events surrounding Baine Bloodhoof and the raising of Derek Proudmoore was the last straw, and she began to gravitate more and more towards those who opposed Sylvanas' methods - opposition that escalated into civil war, culminating with the sacrifice of High Overlord Saurfang and the revelation of Sylvanas' "true face" at the gates of Orgrimmar.