Background at a Glance

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Simon Ashlock was born on the planet of Azeroth, in a small town called Lakeshire, in the human kingdom of Stormwind. The son of a blacksmith, he dreamed of someday becoming a paladin like all the great heroes in the stories, and spent his adolescence in an abbey making that happen. He then pledged his service to the holy order of the Silver Hand, serving with them in peacetime and as a commander in the army of the Alliance (the international faction to which all Stormwinders belong) during wartime. After Simon's fiancee decided to marry his brother instead, a military career that would keep him far away from his family at all times felt like a good idea, and he's proven pretty good at it.

Now that the war between the Alliance and its perennial enemy the Horde is at its most intense, Simon has been recruited into an elite special-ops force called the 7th Legion to help further the Alliance's diplomatic goals. It still involves as much stabbing, hammering and praying as his job ever did, so he doesn't feel too far out of his comfort zone.