Painkiller

Painkiller, formerly known as Andros, is a demon hunter in service to Illidan Stormrage on Outland. He is a member of the Illidari sub-organization known as the Eyes of the Betrayer, and is best known for his aloof persona and generally abrasive attitude towards figures of authority within the Illidari - such as his spats with those on the Illidari council.

To those around him, he views himself with an arrogance and utmost sense of righteousness and superiority, true to his character as Highborne, but at the same time he seems to respect and even admire other members of the group, going out of his way to assist and divert the attentions of enemies to himself.

Nihilistic but stubborn, Painkiller has more than once either gone outwardly against or resisted the direction of fate in order to see out to his own way of succeeding in things, a process that has caused him to clash with many of his peers - even Hellbrand himself.

Though not known to many, he once visited upon an arakkoa fortune teller who revealed that he will die at the hands of the Illidari, potentially even his own comrades-in-arms in the halls of the monstrous Black Temple.

Backstory
While few have asked and he has begun to forget, some things are known about the past of Painkiller. Born as Andros of some unknown Highborne family within Zin-Azshari, though on the fateful day of the War of the Ancients, he was still a child, and was evacuated by the Kaldorei Resistance to the slopes of Mount Hyjal, as were many thousands, forced to cower and hide in the shadow of the great mountain as the Burning Legion brought annihilation to their empire, and their people.

Andros' role in the actual war was minor, joining up as part of a then-disorganized group of Night Elves under the tentative leadership of the now (in)famous Maiev Shadowsong, jailor of Illidan Stormrage. His choice of the glaive and blade over either a path of druidism or the bow of a sentinel set his journey early on to be one of conflict, both with himself, and those around him. He would slay a small number of demons, minor ones, during the war, though given he was hardly an adult his role primarily was as a trainee under more experienced and older elves, such as his mentor for the next two thousand years, Inamor Darkheart.

Brash and egotistical, Andros proved ideal for his role in the Watchers, serving as a secretive sentry, rotating between the many prisons that the Wardens controlled. During the War of the Satyr, he, like the rest of his organisation, were simply ordered to stand and watch as demons tore through Ashenvale, leaving their dark mark on the world while the now-full Warden bristled in the shadows. He had already come to scold his mentor and many of his peers for their inactivity, but his angst soon turned towards the leadership of the Kaldorei proper, not the arm of wrath. It would be Andros, who like some of the more infamous of his calling, who would strike out early on, serving as assassins and bounty hunters in this new, fractured world, a path that granted him a great deal of experience in the arts of subterfuge and violence.