Hunting with Dorio has always been enjoyable to me.  Dorio and I developed a method of working together that can only come from looking at each other across the jungle and telling the other what you will do next, without saying a word or making a sound.

Now, when we hunt together, we do not even have to look at each other, as we already know how the other will react and what they will do next.  This has allowed us to slay beasts and demons that are much more powerful than each of us individually, but nowhere near as powerful as the two of us combined.  In addition to that, we know each wield the massively destructive power of well-trained pet, Archimedes and Carnage, who are able to single-handedly destroy our enemies without even our help.

So Dorio and I have decided to go on another hunt together.  We have yet to decide where, or for how long, but those are the minor details that will work themselves out when we decide what we want to hunt.

For now we continue to bounce ideas back and forth off one another hoping that something will sound enticing enough and challenging enough to need the skills of both Dorio and I, as well as Carnage and Archimedes.

While we decide what it is we should go after, what rare beast is out there waiting for us to arrive with our bows drawn and our quivers full, we continue to battle the enemies of the Sin’dorei, the enemies of the Day of Reckoning and the enemies of the Horde, even those within the Horde that would seek to undermine its strength and resolve like a plague.

After taming Archimedes, I found that he was a bit selective about the food he enjoyed eating.  When nothing was around, he would eat the chunks of meat that I provided for him, but he much preferred having live prey that he could stalk and hunt.

I decided that I would get a selection of food for him, and so I travelled to Booty Bay and searched on the auction house for something that would be suitable.  I found a few rabbits for sale and decided that I would purchase them, as they would make excellent prey. 

But Archimedes was still young, and not fully grown, and the rabbits were a bit large for him.  So I decided to bring them back to my camp, and use them for breeding, as I had purchased both a male and a female.  The young rabbits would be fine for Archimedes until he grew larger. 

I’d also heard from Dorio that small prairie dogs were for sale in Thunderbluff and I went and purchased a large number of them for the same reason.  They were much smaller than the rabbits and made excellent prey when they were full grown. 

Now I keep a full supply of live food on hand of Archimedes, and its seemed to help.  He has been much happier as of late and has been even fiercer in combat.  Yesterday, Dorio and I took our pets into battle against two plagues upon the Ghostlands, Knucklerot and Luzran.  These foul, massive abominations were ruthless in combat, but both Archimedes and Carnage kept them busy while Dorio and I littered them with arrows from a distance. 

When they finally fell to the ground, we cheered at our victory and I rewarded both our pets with a fresh prarie dog to chase.  They both enjoyed them very much.

At the dawn of the next day, I decided that I would need to tame a pet to fight by my side.  There was a pet that I’d heard Hemit speak of many times.  It was a quite common bird actually, for members of the Alliance.  It was an owl known as the Strigid Hunter, which only live on the Night Elf home of Teldrassil.

As a hunter, I wanted a pet that will test my skills and challenge my abilities.  A friend of mine, Dorio, who is another hunter that trained under Hemit in Stranglethorn, wanted to join me on my quest to tame a pet of his own as well.  He wanted a rare panther that lived in those forests as well, known as Duskstalker, and we wanted to work together.

Dorio and I devised a plan that would require all of our talents and the aid of two others, a priest and a warlock.  We decided to ask among the ranks of our new guild, the Day of Reckoning.  My brother Fikkle was unable to join us, but a Troll healer named Hoodou offered his assistance and after him, a mighty warlock named Garthras, who is a personal friend of Fikkle.  Garthras is famed among the ranks of the Horde as a fierce fighter on the battlefield and feared in the ranks of the Alliance for the same reason.

With Hoodou and Garthras as members of our party, we had the first piece of our plan in place.  We travelled to Orgrimmar, where we set off on this rare hunt.  Members of the Horde are not welcome in Teldrassil, and we would have quite the challenge on our hands in getting there.  We set out running across the dirt of Durotar and reached the Barrens without incident, then turned north on the Gold Road towards Ashenvale. 

Ashenvale posed no problem for us either.  We ran until we reached a junction with a road leading east and west.  Turning west, we continued towards Astranaar, an Alliane controlled outpost.  Just out of site of teh town, we cut into the forests to stay hidden from the sharp eyes of any guards, and continued east on the southern side of Astranaar until we reached the lake that surrounds the outpost.  We swam around the shor of the lake, furthest from Astranaar, staying well out of sight of the guards.  Once on hte other side of the town, we emerged from the forests a safe distance away and then continued down the road and into Darkshore.

Auberdine is the primary Alliance port located in Darkshore and we came to teh outskirts of the town and again stole into the cover of the forest.  We decided to swim again and since Garthras was an extremely skilled warlock, he was able to cast a spell that allowed us to breath for extended periods of time under water.  We swam out a safe distance away from the town and, while under water, swam back under the pier.

The second part of our plan was getting across the sea without drowning or being discovered.  To do that, we waited until the ship arrived and then we secured ourselves to the ship with a length of rope.  We would wait until the ship was out of sight of Auberdine, then we would climb the stern and sit on the ledge out of sight of those on board.

The third part of our plan was avoiding being captured at the other end of the voyage on the ship.  To remain unseen, we would have to slip back in the water and swim a safe distance away from the port and then travel back on land.  When we arrived at the shores of Teldrassil, we knew there was but one way to breach the barrier. 

We would need to sneak into the portal leading into Darnassus.  Breaching the barrier was the next par of the plan.  Both Dorio and I decided to tame one of the many spiders that were roaming the coast.  With the spiders and one of Garthras’ demons, we would be able to distract the guards away from the portal long enough to slip inside.

Before the distraction, however, I asked Garthras to seal the soul of Hoodou in a magical shard.  In this way, the Troll priest would have the ability to reclaim his soul if he should fall by the hand of the enemy.  With all aspects of our plan in place, Garthras sent his demon imp into battle against both pet spiders of myself and Dorio.

As planned, the guards’ attention was drawn away from the portal as they all rushed off for the glory of the kill.  The four of us then rushed into the portal without being seen.  Upon emerging in Darnassus, the guards of the city immediately came upon us in battle. 

Valiantly though we fought, we didn’t stand a chance against the battle hardened veterans of Darnassus.  But the Night Elves did exactly as we had hoped.  The guards took the corpses of their enemy outside the walls of city and left them in the forest for the beasts to feed upon.  At this point, Hoodou used the soul shard to revive himself.  After this, it was a simple task for him to revive Dorio, Garthras and me.

The four of us were again on our way and before logn, we came upon a Strigid Hunter.  While the other three watched for any Night Elf patrols, I tamed the defiant bird.  It took but a short few moments before it could no longer resist, and then it was over.  I quickly fed the owl some meat that I had purchased that morning and it appeared to calm him and he became happier.  I decided that I would name him Archimedes, and he would be my companion until one of us fell in battle.

After we had tamed Archimedes, we continued searching the forests for the panther known as Duskstalker.  Fortune woul dhave it that it did not take us long at all and as before, three of us watched guard while Dorio tamed the beast.  The panther resister as did my owl, but Dorio is as skilled as I and overcame the beast.  He fed it some meat as well, and decided to name his pet Carnage.

With our rare hunt complete, we all reached in our packs and withdrew our mystical hearthstones.  A few moments later we were all back in Horde territory.  Hoodou and Garthras returned to Orgrimmar and Dorio and I returned to Silvermoon City, with our new pets, Archimedes and Carnage.

I was born in Eversong Woods to simple Quel’dorei farmers.  We were a small family, my mother, Lucyntha, my father, Kal’danas, my elder brother Sin’danas, who everyone called Fikkle, and myself.

I was named after my mother’s father, who had been a hunter of quite some fame in Quel’Thalas, and as a child growing up, I always looked to him as my own personal hero.  When I was old enough to handle myslef, he took me on a hunting trip with him in Eversong Woods, and since that day, I have wanted nothing more than to be a hunter.  I went on many trips with him after that, and since we shared our name, his hunting partners took to calling him ‘Big Xindi’ and me ‘Little Xindi,’ and everyone has called us that ever since.

I continued to hunt with my grandfather until the invasion of the scourge.  When word came that the Scourge had invaded Quel’Thalas, my grandfather and I were travelling south to meet an old friend of his, Hemit Nesingwary Sr., for a hunting expedition in Stranglethorn Vale.  He told me to go on without him and meet with the expedition and that he would return after the Scourge had been defeated.  I did as he asked, but I never saw him again. 

When he arrived in Silvermoon, he had been asked to be one of the guards of the Sunwell, such was his repute as a skilled hunter.  It was there that he fell in battle, one of the last to be slain before the Scourge destroyed it, I was told.  The loss of the Sunwell was felt by all the natives of Quel’Thalas, but the subsequent loss of my grandfather, struck with me a deep grief that sunk into severe depression.  I continued on with the expedition, if it could be called that.  I followed the expedition so long as they moved the camp, for that is where I stayed each day as the others set out on the hunt.

It wasn’t until Hemit finally sat down and told me of how he had met my grandfather that things began to change for me:

“On our first hunt together,” he began, “we had been tracking the same beast, but we were far from hunting together.  When we each realized the other was after the same target, we began to hamper each other’s attempts to track it.  We would disarm each other’s traps, fire our weapons while the other was stalking to scare the beast away.  We did all sorts of underhanded things to ensure that the other hunter did not catch the beast first.”

“It wasn’t until your grandfather came to my camp and proposed that we both hunt the beast together that our rivalry ended,” he said.  “I was wary of his intentions that day, but I ultimately decided to go along anyway.  When we finally tracked the beast down again, Big Xindi then offered to let me kill it, if I would aid him in finding another for himself,” he finished, allowing me to take in what he’d said.

“Your grandfather thrilled in the hunt,” he continued again, “not in the trophy.  He’s taught me a great many things over the years, but that first lesson I learned from him, I’ve never forgotten.  I knew your grandfather well, and I knew how proud he was of you.  I also know that he would never want you sitting here, grieving forever.  He would want you to be out there, immersing yourself in the thrill of the hunt, just has he had.

I realized that Hemit had been right, and the next day I rejoined the hunt.  Shortly after that, another Quel’dorei hunter joined the expedition.  Dorio, as he is known claimed he was now Sin’dorei, in honour of all those that had been slain by the Scourge, and that Quel’Thalas was following a new leader, Kaelthas Sunstrider.  I decided immediately that this was the way I would honor my grandfather, by taking up the cause of the Sin’dorei.

Dorio and I hunted together for a long time in Hemit’s hunting expedition.  As we were both very young, we asked Hemit to teach us all that he knew of being a hunter.  He was willing to teach us and we both hunted together with him as our mentor until he told us that we would need to return to Quel’Thalas for more formal training as official Hunters of the Sin’dorei.

Dorio and I left the expedition together, but we both had things we needed to attend to back Quel’Thalas.  I decided that I should return to Silvermoon City first, to search for my brother.  I had received word that although he was badly injured fighting the Scourge, he had recovered and taken up the ways of the magi.  When I arrived at the new gate’s to Silvermoon City, I was awed at how much had been restored so quickly.  The new gates to Silvermoon had been named Shepherd’s Gate and I decided to speak to one of the guards at the gate to help in my search.

I told him that I was a young hunter returning from my training and that I was looking for my brother, Fikkle.  When the guard heard the name, he immediately smiled and told me that he knew him well.  He gave me the address where I could send mail to my brother and wished me well in finding him.

I thanked the guard, who had told me his name was Steeve, and I went to the Silvermoon Inn and sent a letter to Fikkle.  My brother arrived the next evening and we decided to celebrate.  Before we retired for the evening, however, he told me of a new guild that he had helped to found with others that he’d met in his journeys.  It was called the Day of Reckoning, and he invited me to join in their cause of rooting out the evil and the weakness within the Horde to make it stronger.

Honored by the offer, I immediately accepted and we drank a toast together, then retired for the evening.  We would have another long day ahead, and it was time that I joined the battle with the rest of the Sin’dorei.