The Keep

Name: Zij Burningtusk/Shadowguide

Race: Troll

Sex: Male

Tribe: Burning Tusk Tribe, though originally Zandalarian.

Trade Skills: Miner/Skinner

Physical Appearance: Tall for a troll at 9'4, both his hair and eyes are a bright red, and his facial features are sharp and pointed. Muscular, from hours of daily labour, he carries himself with a prideful air and superior attitude.

On his chest, between his collar bones, is a still puffed and red scar in the shape of a diamond, with a small circle in the centre. It looks inflamed though is usually hidden beneath his clothes.

On his left hand a finger looks strangely fresh, though with a strange band-like ring around it beneath the flesh.

Personality: Zij is an arrogant egomaniac. His bigotry hardly even ends at Trolls, as he tends to look down on other races of his own kind. But he holds a general acceptance of all Troll's who he deems as having promise, and those Orcs that work with the Tribe towards their goals.

Despite his hateful disposition, Zij holds a deep sense of pride in his Tribe and its members and has a secret compassion for them that he tries to hide.

The only one to really know his softer side is the young Chieftess Jez, whom he groomed and cared for her entire life. Though he taught her all she knows and still provides a guiding hand, Zij happily steps aside to let her lead the Tribe, and reserves his typically Troll chauvinistic treatment of her for private.

Brief History: His parents died when he was a Troll of fourteen. Though they left him a a degree of wealth in their village, his drive and aspirations set him aside as a prodigy, a clever and promising Witch Doctor that quickly earned the admiration and respect of the village he served.

However, his secret affair with Jez was exposed and the surrounding circumstances led to his expulsion from the Zandalarian isles.

Reuniting outside the Crossroads, the couple set about establishing their new lives in the land of the fabled Orcs and Darkspear, which he had heard so much about. Disappointed by the loss of history and culture in the Darkspear, however, he and Jez set about preserving the Old Ways within the Horde. And so the Burning Tusk Tribe was born.