Lireesa Windrunner

Lireesa Windrunner
Title	Ranger-General of Silvermoon
Gender	Female
Race	High elf
Class	Ranger
Affiliation(s)	Kingdom of Quel'Thalas, Farstriders, Windrunners
Occupation	Ranger-General of Silvermoon, wielder of Thas'dorah
Status	Deceased
Relative(s)	Alleria (mother), Verath (husband), Alleria, Sylvanas, Vereesa, Lirath (children), Rhonin (son-in-law), Arator, Giramar, Galadin (grandsons), Zendarin (nephew or nephew-in-law), Talanas (ancestor)

Lireesa Windrunner was the Ranger-General of Silvermoon and wielder of Thas'dorah a few years prior to the First War. She was the mother of the four Windrunner siblings: the three sisters Alleria, Sylvanas, and Vereesa; and the brother Lirath.

Since the eldest child, Alleria, refused the mantle of Ranger-General, choosing instead to make more practical use of her abilities as a member of the Farstriders, Thas'dorah remained in Lireesa's hands until tragedy struck: at the onset of the Second War, she and many of her rangers were killed in a bloody attack by the Amani trolls, who had recently allied themselves with the invading Orcish Horde. Sylvanas became the new Ranger-General, but Alleria was the one who took up Thas'dorah.^[1]

Notes[]

• Lireesa was first given a name in Tales of the Hunt with Legion, a decade after being referenced in novels as Mother.
• At some point, the Windrunner siblings' parents gave Alleria a necklace containing an emerald, a ruby, and a sapphire.^[2][3] Alleria later melted down the necklace and gave the ruby and the sapphire to Vereesa and Sylvanas, respectively.^[3][4]
• There are conflicting statements regarding when Lireesa died.

• The 2004 novel The Well of Eternity states that no one knew what happened to Liressa and Vereesa's father during the Scourge invasion of Quel'Thalas, and were thus presumed deceased.^[5]
  • This probably just meant that nobody among the elves knew at the time, so Vereesa did not know: she was also kept in the dark about the fate of Sylvanas for some time as well.
• In the 2007 prequel Tides of Darkness, Vereesa told Alleria that their parents should be in Silvermoon consulting with the elders, shortly before the burning of Quel'Thalas.^[6]
  • At the same time in the same novel, Sylvanas was described as already being the Ranger-General of Quel'Thalas.
  • The artifact book "Tales of the Hunt" states that Sylvanas became Ranger-General following Lireesa's death in the Second War during a bloody attack.
  • In the short story Dark Mirror, Sylvanas was already established Ranger-General before the Second War had reached Quel'Thalas.^[7]

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