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“Quel'Thalas is as much my home as it is yours and I would not see it fall to our ancient enemy.”
— Vereesa Windrunner, Ghostlands
Vereesa Windrunner is the Ranger-General of the Silver Covenant. An elven ranger who fought throughout the Second and Third Wars, she is the youngest sister of Alleria and Sylvanas, widow of Archmage Rhonin Redhair, and mother of Giramar and Galadin. After becoming a ranger, she met Rhonin in an escort mission and together they helped free the Dragon Queen Alexstrasza from the Dragonmaw clan. Nearly all of Vereesa's extended family were killed by orcs in the Second War and in Prince Arthas's invasion of Quel'Thalas.
When Rhonin became leader of the Kirin Tor, Vereesa created and still leads the Silver Covenant, a militant core of high elves that rejected the admission of blood elves into the Kirin Tor and who took it upon themselves to serve as a military deterrent for any potential Sunreaver uprising. She styled herself as the "Ranger General of the Silver Covenant", her own version of the Ranger General of Silvermoon. After her husband's death and an act of treason both caused by the blood elves within the Kirin Tor, Vereesa joined Jaina Proudmoore, who succeeded Rhonin, in the Sunreaver Purge of Dalaran.
History
Vereesa is a member of the prominent Windrunner family of the high elves. Her elder sisters Alleria and Sylvanas eventually rose to the ranks of ranger captain and ranger general of Silvermoon City, respectively. She also had a younger brother named Lirath. Her family lived at Windrunner Spire in the tranquil forests of Quel'Thalas. The young Vereesa was inducted into the entry ranks of the Farstriders some time before the Second War, rising to become among the best of her training group. More than one of her tutors scolded her for her reckless attitude and fighting style, derogatorily comparing her impatience to that of a human's. She did not take an active part in the Second War itself, presumably due to a lack of experience, and hadn't battled a troll until her foray into Grim Batol During the Second War, when Quel'Thalas' forest began mysteriously to burn, Vereesa alongside Alleria were attacked by forest trolls. Fortunately, they were rescued by Sylvanas and her rangers. Young for her kind, Vereesa was only a year out of her apprenticeship following the Second War. Vereesa had a particularly close relationship with Sylvanas, whom she looked up to and tried to emulate her entire life. Before Alleria left through the Dark Portal for the Alliance Expedition assault on Draenor, she intended to give Sylvanas and Vereesa each a necklace, which were once part of a larger one given to Alleria by their parents. She had this necklace melted down and crafted into three lockets in Stormwind. The emerald she kept for herself, and she gave the sapphire and the ruby to her second, Verana, to deliver to her sisters. Within Vereesa's ruby locket was inscribed, "To Vereesa. With love, Alleria." After Alleria and her husband Turalyon vanished on Draenor, Vereesa took in their son Arator.
Day of the Dragon
This section concerns content related to the Warcraft novels, novellas, or short stories. Following in Alleria's footsteps, Vereesa too became a ranger. To her disgust, her first major assignment did not involve hunting down the orcs that had been trapped on the planet Azeroth in the wake of the Dark Portal's destruction. Instead, she was asked to escort a human wizard named Rhonin to Hasic, one of the eastern ports of Lordaeron. She accomplished her mission only to discover that there were no ships available to take Rhonin to his ultimate destination: Khaz Modan. Rhonin claimed that his mission was minor and only required him to observe the orc presence in Khaz Modan. Yet he remained unusually determined to fulfill it. He even appealed to a group of Wildhammer dwarves, asking them to fly him to Khaz Modan on one of their gryphons. At first the dwarves refused, for they trusted humans little and wizards even less. Yet Vereesa had grown fond of Rhonin, and she suspected that his mission was more important than he wanted to admit. Appealing to the dwarves, she persuaded them to fly both her and Rhonin to Khaz Modan. Although Rhonin was separated from her along the flight, she tracked him all the way to Grim Batol, which was a Horde stronghold under the leadership of Nekros Skullcrusher. Using a magical artifact known as the Demon Soul, Nekros had managed to enslave Alexstrasza and, through her, most of the red dragonflight. Thus, Korialstrasz had sent Rhonin to Grim Batol with instructions to free Alexstrasza. Disguised as a mage named Krasus, Korialstrasz did not truly hope that Rhonin would be able to liberate the Dragonqueen. Rather, Korialstrasz hoped to trick the Horde into believing that a full-scale invasion was about to occur. While the Horde evacuated Grim Batol, Korialstrasz planned to strike and free his queen. His plan backfired when the massive black dragon Deathwing unexpectedly showed up and began stealing Alexstrasza's eggs. In fact, Deathwing had helped Rhonin reach Grim Batol precisely for that reason: the insane Dragon Aspect wanted to bolster his own failing flight by kidnapping Alexstrasza's children and raising them as his own. However, the other Dragon Aspects arrived to stop Deathwing. With the help of Vereesa and a group of dwarves, Rhonin took the Demon Soul from Nekros and managed to destroy it. Their powers fully restored, Alexstrasza and the other Aspects attacked Deathwing and forced him to flee. Deathwing has not been seen since that time. Not long after their adventure, Vereesa and Rhonin were married.
War of the Ancients Trilogy
This section concerns content related to the Warcraft novels, novellas, or short stories. Following the success of the mission, Vereesa was asked to act as an Alliance Ambassador by King Terenas and the Kirin Tor.[citation needed] She and Rhonin were tasked with touring the Alliance and reminding everyone that there were other threats in the world besides orcs that would have to be faced sooner or later. Along with Rhonin and Krasus, Vereesa was among the few well-known survivors of the Scourge that destroyed Lordaeron, Dalaran, and Quel'Thalas after the corruption of Prince Arthas. The day that Thalorien Dawnseeker and Anasterian Sunstrider fell was one of the darkest of her life. The rest of her family was not so lucky. They were one of the hardest hit by the Scourge invasion into Quel'Thalas. Sylvanas was killed by Arthas Menethil and raised as a banshee in his service, later becoming Banshee Queen of the Forsaken. The sisters' grandfather had to battle his own son, their uncle, after he was turned into an undead. While she and her husband, Rhonin, were preparing for the birth of their twin offspring, Giramar and Galadin, Rhonin was once again summoned by Krasus for help. As a reward for Rhonin's courage, Nozdormu allowed Rhonin to return to Vereesa at the moment she went into labor to ensure he would not miss a moment of the twins' lives. Nozdormu also offered the children the friendship of the bronze dragonflight. A human named Jalia assisted in the birth.
Niskara
•Aimed Shot — Inflicts Physical damage.
•Arcane Shot — Shoots an enemy, inflicting Arcane damage.
•Black Arrow — Fires a Black Arrow at the target, increasing all damage done by you to the target by 22% and dealing Shadow damage over 15 sec
•Frozen Ammo — Arms your ranged weapon with exotic ammunition that lasts for 1 hour. Each auto shot deals (2.028% of Attack power)% additional Frost damage and reduces the target's movement speed by 30% for 4 sec.
•Multi-Shot — Fires a volley of missiles at an enemy and its nearby allies, striking up to 3 targets for normal damage plus a bonus.
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Purge of Dalaran
• Jaina's Resolution
• Nowhere to Run
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• Sewer Cleaning
“Stop it! Neither of you was there when I needed you! You both let me think you were dead! Do you know what that did to me? You were my heroes. We have all lost so much. Must we lose everything? Again?”
— Vereesa trying to stop Alleria and Sylvanas from attacking each other during their reunion
Like her sisters, Vereesa is a talented ranger, and was among the best of her class. At first, Vereesa was unimpressed with the humans and the Alliance, but like Alleria (and perhaps Sylvanas), she would go on to romance a human hero of distinction. Vereesa came to love and marry Rhonin Redhair, with whom she had two half-elf children, and their presence provided huge support to Vereesa in the testing years to come. She was left crushed by Rhonin's death, and resolved to avenge him. Interestingly, despite the historical tension between their races, Vereesa would also come to develop a cordial relationship with several prominent night elves, allowing Moonbell into the Silver Covenant ranks and Muran Fairden into the Silver Enclave; personally attending Tyrande Whisperwind and Malfurion Stormrage's wedding in Darnassus with her family (her husband Rhonin having helped her ancestors win the War of the Ancients); sharing the same camp with Tyrande and her Sentinels in Suramar; and having helped her daughter Shandris Feathermoon hunt down Thalen Songweaver, and later protect Dalaran as fellow leaders of the Unseen Path.
Vereesa is a sworn enemy of the Horde, especially after the events of Theramore and the Broken Shore, which caused the deaths of her husband and her king, but still cares for her sister, the Horde leader Sylvanas Windrunner, and it is mentioned that as the two middle children, the two Moons had always shared a special bond that set them apart from Alleria and Lirath. Nevertheless, it is later revealed that Sylvanas shared an even deeper bond with Lirath, and Vereesa and Sylvanas even developed a personal rift after Sylvanas learned Vereesa was indirectly responsible for Lirath's death by training him prematurely. Vereesa was originally unaware of Sylvanas' fate; however, when she learned of it, Vereesa mourned her sister and was enraged when her cousin Zendarin recklessly called Sylvanas a Banshee. The two would be reunited years later, and the sisters reconnected to a point that Vereesa considered leaving the Alliance to join her sibling in the Forsaken. Ultimately, she could not bear to leave her two sons Giramar and Galadin behind, and returned to them in Dalaran, vowing to herself to never contemplate forsaking her children again. Like her elder sister Alleria, Vereesa especially loathes the orcs for murdering her younger brother as well as her husband, reminding Sylvanas that they had ever been their people's enemies, but was ultimately unable to bring herself to go through with an assassination of Garrosh Hellscream, as she ultimately considered it dishonorable and a betrayal of her ideals. It is also strongly implied that in contrast with Alleria (who regards Sylvanas with much greater hostility and expressed regret for not killing her several times), Vereesa still deeply loves Sylvanas, yearning for more time together with her sister, and staunchly refusing to give up on her "if even a chance that a spark of Sylvanas" has returned.
She also appears to share a close bond with Alleria, as well as her nephew Arator (whom she mentions being a blessing in her home to her two sons as well as herself), a bond likely cemented by their mutual continued affiliation with the Alliance, from their reunion on Argus, to their joint appearance at Durotar during the Fourth War and later in Oribos. Alleria, in turn, has expressed deep gratitude towards Vereesa for her caring for Arator in her absence, and is apparently especially protective of her, the Unseen Path's champion saving Vereesa the main reason why Alleria deemed them worthy of wielding Thas'dorah, and the assumption that Sylvanas manipulated Vereesa to attempt to kill Garrosh a major reason why the two sisters nearly clashed, and why their reunion ultimately failed. Vereesa fears losing both Alleria and Sylvanas forever, being the one who stopped their hostility towards each other, asserting that their failure to reach out to her over the years wounded her deeply, and crying when realizing how deeply Sylvanas herself was hurt by her refusal to join her in the Undercity; she previously also stated that regardless of what changes she underwent, in Alleria's heart, she remained and would always be Vereesa's beloved sister.
Vereesa is one of the few remaining high elves. While she considered becoming a blood elf along with the rest of her bereaved race, Rhonin was able to help her recuperate from the elves' arcane withdrawals, and she did not declare herself a blood elf. Vereesa left Quel'Thalas and relocated to Dalaran, although she still considers the elven kingdom to be as much her home as the blood elves', and does not wish it ill. Nevertheless, Vereesa developed an animosity toward at least some of the sin'dorei, implied to be due to their leaders' association with the Horde, whose races she holds responsible for the Second War. This feud took form in Dalaran, when Vereesa opposed the re-admittance of the Sunreavers into the Kirin Tor and formed the Silver Covenant to deter any potential Horde uprising. The relationship was further strained by the destruction of Theramore (where some of the few remaining quel'dorei had settled for years, and after which Vereesa urged the Kirin Tor to expel Aethas) as well as Vereesa's controversial actions in the Purge of Dalaran. Vereesa mentioned that while the wise but "short-sighted" Rhonin ignored her pleas to banish the Sunreavers from the city, she has believed the Kirin Tor's destiny has always been to serve the Alliance, and while she did not agree completely with Jaina's methods, she did understand them, arguing that capturing escaping Sunreavers was necessary in order to prevent them from plotting future counterattacks against Dalaran.
Vereesa is a pretty High Elf of short stature with pale skin, unlike her sisters who are blonde, she has shoulder-length platinum white hair hence the nickname her sisters gave her, "Little Moon" and eyes that shine light blue. He wears blue and white armor with the symbol of the Silver Covenant with a matching cape and black boots.
Night of the Dragon
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World of Warcraft
This section concerns content related to Cataclysm. Meeting with Halduron and Vol'jin Silvermoon Messenger says: I bring word from the Regent Lord of Silvermoon. Silvermoon Messenger says: Lord Lor'themar demands an explanation for the presence of this... exile in our lands. Vereesa Windrunner says: Quel'Thalas is as much my home as it is yours and I would not see it fall to our ancient enemy. Now, you tell your cowardly regent -- Halduron Brightwing says: Vereesa, please! Halduron Brightwing says: She is here at my invitation, courier. Most of my Farstriders are away and cannot be recalled easily. Vereesa's rangers know the land and are experienced combatants. Silvermoon Messenger says: Lord Lor'themar does not concur with your reasoning, ranger-general. You have no authority to invite this -- Halduron Brightwing says: I am the commander of Silvermoon's defenses and I will seek assistance as I deem necessary! Halduron Brightwing says: Now, Chieftain Vol'jin, before we were so rudely interrupted, you were telling us of the Zandalari's plans. Vol'jin says: Dat I was. Da Zandalari called a meeting 'o all da troll tribes includin' da Darkspears. Vol'jin says: King Rastakhan, he be plannin' to unite da troll tribes under his Zandalari. Vereesa Windrunner says: Including the Amani? Vol'jin says: Da Amani, da Gurubashi, all 'o dem. He be dispatchin' emissaries to every tribe. Halduron Bringwing says: My scouts have reported nothing but quiet outside Zul'Aman. Vol'jin says: Dey be holed up inside da ruined city, regroupin'. Vol'jin says: Rastakhan be callin' me his brother, but da Horde be our true brothers. We gotta stop him before he can sweet-talk da others into joinin' his empire. Vereesa Windrunner says: So how are we going to deal with this alliance between the Amani and the Zandalari? Halduron Brightwing says: We must prevent it from occurring in the first place. Vol'jin says: Dat be da plan. My men be infiltratin' da city and learnin' what dey can about da new Zandalari warlord. Vereesa Windrunner says: Halduron, we should combine our forces and make preparations to act on reports from the Darkspear scouts. Halduron Brightwing says: Agreed. Messenger, you may carry word of our plans back to Lord Lor'themar, but make it clear that I will not tolerate any further interference.
Pandaria
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This section contains information exclusive to Hearthstone and is considered non-canon.
Vereesa appears as a legendary card for the hunter class in the Rise of Shadows expansion for Hearthstone. Her Battlecry effect causes the player to equip [Thori'dal, the Stars' Fury] as a weapon, even though Vereesa has never been associated with Thori'dal in canon. Vereesa's flavor text reads:
•Vereesa's name is an amalgam of her parents' name.
•While Vereesa's back is seen standing with Khadgar and Liadrin in the cinematic following Gul'dan's defeat atop the Nighthold, she is not seen with the gathered characters after the end of the cinematic or anywhere in the raid.
•Vereesa's Sunreaver equivalent during the Isle of Thunder conflict is Scout Captain Elsia. Both serve the same roles during the quests and scenarios they are involved in.
•Vereesa can speak to trees.
•Vereesa's mount is a [Silver Covenant Hippogryph].
•Currently, she is using a bow that looks exactly like the [Ironfeather Longbow]. She used a different one in past patches.
Vereesa and Alleria catch up on what has transpired since Alleria was away, including the Alliance-Horde war escalated by Garrosh Hellscream and the death of Vereesa's lover Rhonin during Theramore's Fall.
Vereesa fought her way through Niskara to rescue both Orestes and Alleria; however, Orestes was heavily wounded and died encouraging Vereesa to rescue Alleria. Vereesa narrowly avoided succumbing to an inquisitor's mental attack, but Alleria was nowhere to be found.
Jun 12, 2024 · After much speculation as to her whereabouts in The War Within, a recent dialogue option has been added to a tavern conversation during the Hallowfall leveling campaign with Alleria Windrunner about the status of her sister, Vereesa, in the wake of the expansion's opening events.
Mar 30, 2022 · While the Windrunner sisters reunited in the comic "Three Sisters", we haven't seen them together in-game until the Shadowlands epilogue, where Alleria and Vereesa bear witness to Tyrande's judgment of Sylvanas.
Sep 4, 2017 · Her younger sister Vereesa built a name for herself as well, though not quite as prominent. Vereesa avoided Kael’thas’ teachings and the fel that stained the eyes of her kin. Eventually she founded the Silver Covenant, serving as its Ranger-General and leading those High Elves that remained uncorrupted and loyal to the Alliance.
