Heltast

Heltast was a Shaman with a drive for more than communion with the spirits. His thirst for adventure would drive him to strange lands, and he found true companionship with different races that shared little with him, and whose beliefs were at loggerheads with his own. Nevertheless, he would lead Axe & Sundry across Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms, finding great profit in dungeon deep and trade route long. Heltast, Aslandrias, and Wiru would quest for many a year together.

Until one day, the spirits stopped listening.

Heltast knew he had to make a pilgrimage. He had to commune with the spirits, whom he had neglected during his quests and merrymaking.

Heltast, putting his large green hand on Wiru's shoulder, left him in charge of Axe & Sundry, but assured him that the pilgrimage would not be long. He would travel to Nagrand, a spiritual geyser of his ancestors, and he was certain he would soon find his centre, and could return to his friends. Unfortunately, none of this would come to pass.

Nagrand proved to be little different from Durotar for Heltast. The spirits had forsaken him, and he was an outsider. He felt little drive to pursue his Shamanistic talents, and soon his power had waned entirely. He wielded his hammer not as a conductor for his wrath, but now as his warrior brethren did- as a blunt trauma device.

His internal conflict led him to Northrend, fighting once again alongside his Orcish brothers at the Wrathgate. Icecrown Citadel loomed over the battlefield, the one that proved to be the one where Heltast would breath his last, struck down by the Lich King himself.

For years, Wiru and Aslandrias steered Axe and Sundry on, making good profits and growing in strength, but they often wondered what had become of their troubled leader, their thoughts inked black by rumours of his participation on the receiving end of the slaughter at the Wrathgate.

They could scarecely hold back their surprise then, after many years, when Heltast returned, undead, and wielding the powers of the Lich King himself. He was a knight of the Ebon Blade.

A Death Knight.

Axe & Sundry

During the third war, a Shaman walked Azeroth. His name was Heltast, of the old Blackrock Clan. After bearing witness to the cruelty Arthas was now capable of, he followed the new Horde to war, and eventually found himself in the Blasted Lands, fighting alongside his Orcish companions in an attempt to prevent the remnants of the High Elves, now Blood Elves, from passing through the Dark Portal.

It was here he met a Pandaren named Wiru. Wiru was a proponent of the light, but the Shaman and the Priest soon found great joy in each other's companionship.

After the Blood Elves swore fealty to Thrall and his new Horde, Heltast and Wiru took on a prisoner of war, Aslandrias, a mighty warrior whose slight build was juxtaposed by his enormous strength. With shield in tow, he would act as spearhead and shieldwall for the company, while Wiru would wield the light to smite the stragglers left behind from the Scourge, and Heltast would weild the might of the spirits and his ancestors to bring low their foes.

The three soon formalized their company as Axe & Sundry, and would draw great profits as adventurers, collectors, mercenaries, and traders.