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Sally Whitemane witnessed the undead plague sweep through Lordaeron at a young age, forcing her to kill her family as they were turned in mindless Scourge. From that day, she vowed to exterminate every last undead. Many like-minded individuals also rose up and joined the newly-formed Scarlet Crusade, an offshoot of the disbanded Order of the Silver Hand, intent on purging the world of the plague. Unknown to the followers however, the Scarlet Crusade was a CorruptChurch created by the dreadlord Balnazzar. Whitemane quickly rose through the ranks of the Crusade, eventually attaining the position of High Inquisitor. Under her thumb, the Scarlet Crusade grew more hostile, corrupt, violent and paranoid, until the armies of the Alliance and Horde were forced to intervene. Although adventurers killed Whitemane and her crusaders many times, the priestess' unwavering faith in the Light gave her the power to resurrect them every time.\\

Empowered by the titans to be the Aspect of the red dragonflight and guardian of all life on the planet, Alexstrasza and her flight watched over the mortals of Azeroth. Though not content to just sit back and watch, she has most recently assisted the mortal races of the world against the threat of Deathwing and his black dragons. Sacrificing much of her power to see Deathwing destroyed, Alexstrasza now resides atop the draconic holy site of Wyrmrest Temple, having passed her guardian duties onto the creatures she once protected.\\

In the Nexus, Alexstrasza is a shapeshifting Healer. Her trait, ''Dragonqueen'', temporarily transforms her into a colossal dragon after a short delay, granting her extra health, reducing the duration of crowd control effects used on her, empowering her abilities, and converting her basic attack into a cone of flame that damages enemies and heals allies. ''Gift of Life'' sacrifices a portion of Alexstrasza's current health to heal an ally for 150% of the health spent. In dragon form, it becomes ''Breath of Life'', greatly reducing the cooldown and removing the health cost. ''Abundance'' places an area on the ground that bursts after a long delay, healing all allies inside of it for a percentage of their maximum health. Empowered by her trait, the ability becomes ''Preservation'', greatly increasing the area of effect and healing amount. ''Flame Buffet'' launches a fireball that sets enemies on fire, dealing damage over time. Hitting a burning enemy with the ability deals bonus damage, slows the target, and refunds the mana cost. In dragon form, it becomes ''Wing Buffet'', which instead damages and knocks back enemies in an arc. \\

Anduin Wrynn is the son of King Varian, and the current High King of the Alliance. Unlike his brash and decisive father, Anduin is renowned for his patience and skills in diplomacy. Where Varian is a warrior, Anduin instead sought the path of the Holy Light, under the tutelage of Velen the Prophet. He strives for peace between the nations of Azeroth above all else. He played a leading role in stopping Garrosh Hellscream from destroying the world, a battle which nearly cost Anduin his life. Despite this, Anduin still saved Garrosh while he was captive and on trial, preventing him from eating poisoned food.\\

In the years following this, Varian would tragically fall defending Azeroth from the Burning Legion. Anduin was thus crowned High King of the Alliance and took up his father's sword, Shalamayne. Unfortunately, Anduin's hopes for peace were dashed when Sylvanas Windrunner, now Warchief of the Horde, burned Teldrassil to the ground. Though he now leads the armies of the Alliance across all of Azeroth, Anduin's ultimate goal is to put an end to the bloodshed he abhors, even if it means getting his hands dirty.\\

Anduin is a ranged Healer based on a Holy priest from ''World of Warcraft''. He has two traits: ''Pursued by Grace'' heals a nearby ally for a small amount whenever he attacks an enemy hero. His second, ''Leap of Faith'', can be activated to pull an ally to Anduin's location, making them Unstoppable while they fly. His basic abilities include ''Flash Heal'', a heal on a short channel and very short cooldown; ''Divine Star'', a heavenly bolt that damages enemies before returning to Anduin to heal allies; and ''Chastise'', a swell of light that damages and roots the first enemy hero hit.\\
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Tyrande Whisperwind is a Priestess of the Moon and commander of the night elf Sentinels. She grew up with the Stormrage brothers thousands of years ago, and eventually fell for Malfurion, much to Illidan's despair. After the War of the Ancients, Tyrande was left in charge of Ashenvale. However, millennia later, Kalimdor was invaded by strangers. Tyrande planned to drive the interlopers away from the lands, and built her elven forces. She awakened Malfurion and the other druids from their slumber, and also released Illidan from his imprisonment against Malfurion's advice. Eventually, Tyrande was called forth along with Malfurion, as well as Thrall and Jaina Proudmoore, by Medivh, who urged them to put aside their rivalry and unite against the Burning Legion. Despite her distrust of the mortals, she worked alongside the two and even grew to respect them.\\

The release of Illidan would eventually come to haunt Tyrande however, as she and Malfurion answered a distress call from Maiev Shadowsong to help her recapture the Betrayer. Maiev, bitter that Tyrande had slain her Watchers to free the criminal, lied to Malfurion and left the priestess for dead at the hands of the Scourge. Contrary to Maiev's plans, the Stormrage brothers put aside their difference to save her and made peace. After this, Malfurion would once again enter slumber, leaving Tyrande to take care of the Sentinels. Due to the pressure of orcish forces in Ashenvale, she eventually decided that the night elves would join the Alliance.\\
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The first paladin on Azeroth and Grand Master of the Order of the Silver Hand. Prior to the Second War, he was a student of Archbishop Alonsus Faol. When news reached Lordaeron of Stormwind's destruction by the orcish Horde during the First War, the two of them - along with Saidan Dathrohan, Turalyon, Gavinrad and Tirion Fordring - founded the Order of the Silver Hand. During the Second War, he led his paladins into battle and rose to become one of the newly formed Alliance's greatest heroes. His title, "the Lightbringer", was earned at the Battle of Blackrock Spire, given to him after the battle by General Turalyon.\\

Prior to the events of ''Warcraft III'', Uther took Prince Arthas Menethil of Lordaeron as his apprentice, hoping that he would grow into a benevolent and powerful paladin. Alas, eventually Arthas took a long jump down the slippery slope with the Culling of Stratholme, alienating both his mentor, Uther, and his lover, Jaina, before he went off to Northrend. After Arthas' return to Lordaeron, where he had slain his own father, Uther took it upon himself to defend the ashes of his king, kept in a magical urn. Arthas sought out the urn, so as to transport Kel'Thuzad's remains, and after a heated fight, Arthas slew his former mentor. To this day, Uther is still remembered as one of the Alliance's greatest heroes.\\
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At a young age, Sally Whitemane witnessed the horrific undead plague sweep through Lordaeron, which turned her family into mindless Scourge, forcing her to kill them. From that day, she swore vengeance against the undead, vowing to exterminate every last one of them. Many like-minded individuals also rose up and joined the newly-formed Scarlet Crusade, an offshoot of the disbanded Order of the Silver Hand, intent on purging the world of the plague. Unknown to the followers however, the Scarlet Crusade was a CorruptChurch created by the dreadlord Balnazzar in a scheme to defeat the treacherous Lich King and the Forsaken.\\

Whitemane quickly rose through the ranks of the Crusade, eventually attaining the position of High Inquisitor. Under her thumb, the Scarlet Crusade grew more hostile, corrupt, violent and paranoid, until the armies of the Alliance and Horde were forced to intervene. Whitemane operated from the Scarlet Monastery in the Tirisfal Glades, along with her champion, Renault Mograine. Although the Alliance and Horde killed Whitemane and her crusaders many times, the priestess' unwavering will and faith in the Light gave her the power of resurrection to bring them back every time.\\
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* SurpriseDifficulty: Uther's abilities are mechanically very simple, but as the real good points to him require good timing (providing armor to himself or allies to survive burst damage, ''not'' using this healing on mere poke damage because healing that will just cause him to run out of mana, putting Divine Shield on allies ''right'' when they're about to take a lot of damage, locking down enemies with his stuns while allies are in range to best take advantage of it...) and he's a melee Hero without any sort of mobility, most would agree the difficulty label of "Easy" is underselling playing him.

* MightyLumberjack: One of his skins, complete with woodcutting axe. His name is changed to Arthur Light, and he apparently comes from ''our'' world -- [[CanadaEh British Columbia]], specifically.

* CanadaEh: Arthur Light, the Lumberjack, hails from the woods of British Columbia.

* ArcherArchetype: She retains her skill with a bow, if not her [[PantheraAwesome nightsaber mount]], while retaining her calmer aspects in ''Warcraft III'' as opposed to her more aggressive portrayal in ''Mists of Pandaria''

* HateSink: There is next to no one in the Nexus who actually likes her. Not even a NiceGirl like Yrel likes Whitemane. The feelings are mutual.

* {{Catchphrase}}: She retains her classic lines from her boss fight in the Scarlet Monastery.
-->'''Whitemane:''' The Light has spoken!\\
'''Whitemane:''' Arise, my champion!\\
'''Whitemane:''' You will pay for this treachery!

* IconicOutfit: Whitemane retains her very cosplay-popular outfit. Her distinctive revealing outfit (and [[HatOfAuthority the hat]]) was one of the reasons for her rise in popularity in the ''World of Warcraft'' fandom.

* AchillesHeel:
** The ironically-named ''Flash Heal'' takes 0.75 seconds to channel. Likewise, his ''Divine Star'' only heals as it returns to him, which takes about a second. If you need someone to heal you ''right now'', Anduin is not your man.
** Anduin's ImmortalityField Heroic is incredibly powerful and can salvage games on its own. But it can be interrupted by ''any'' stun or boop, which many characters have and some characters -- Anub'arak, Diablo, Gazlowe, Johanna, Mei -- have more than one of. If you're playing against them, you go ''Lightbomb''... Or [[BatmanGambit hold your Salvation until all those disruption skills have already been used]].

* AchillesHeel: For all her utility, Brightwing does have one major downside: her healing only occurs in a zone around her. To save a tank, or someone who is stranded away from the team, she ''has'' to overexpose herself. If she has ''Emerald Wind'' up, that's probably fine. If the enemy team has a lot of dive, or if she took the other Heroic...

* AchillesHeel: Sustain. Uther's actual healing efficiency is notably poor, and he relies on a combination of soaking part of the damage himself, and using armor to mitigate more to offset it, traits that don't work quite as well when exchanging harassment over a long duration.

* AchillesHeel: Whitemane's heals are largely ineffective and inefficient if she stays out of combat, and only heal with ''Zeal'' if she deals damage to ''heroes''. This puts Whitemane in constant danger in team fights, which is more problematic because she lacks escapes or any basic form of crowd control effects besides ''Inquisition'', which roots her in place and therefore pretty much useless for helping her outpace enemies. She's also very poor whenever she's not in range of any heroes in general - even compared to other Healers, her abilities to kill waves of minions is pretty pathetic and she provides pretty little in a fight against only mercenaries or bosses.

* DropTheHammer: His ''Hammer of Justice'' ability that stuns the enemy. Also he carries a pretty big one as his standard weapon. His Medic skin makes it more like a staff.

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* PandaingToTheAudience: She's a panda(ren), something that Lt. Morales and Genji are [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone horrified of killing]].

* RatedMForManly: He's an orc whose quotes revel in about the glory of battle within the arena, but he's a Healer hero primarily built around buffing and healing his friends. Also, his heroic, ''Bloodlust'' inspires others to be manlier than usual. All in all, Rehgar fills in the niche of 'Manly Support' found within various MOBA.