Wildstalker

Koort

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(EU) Norgannon

Worgen Restoration Druid

Wildstalker

Koort, the Thorn-Warded

Before the curse, he was simply Koort of Amberpine, a quiet herbalist in the mist-shrouded woods of Grizzly Hills. Born to a Gilnean trapper and a forestward healer, Koort grew up between poultices and paw prints, learning the forest's rhythms as naturally as breath. He listened to the murmur of sap through trees, the pulse of the earth beneath his feet. Healing was not something he did—it was something he was.

The Worgen curse shattered that quiet life. When it swept through Gilneas, Koort fled not in fear of death, but of losing himself. Ferality gnawed at his mind, but even then, he clung to the memory of roots, herbs, and whispered prayers. It was the druids of the Cenarion Circle who found him on the edges of Ashenvale—half-wild, fully lost—and showed him a path not just to control the beast, but to heal it.

Koort's druidic journey has always been rooted in restoration. He does not conjure pristine light or sterile magic. His healing is visceral and alive—thorns that knit torn flesh, moss that seals wounds, and petals that bloom over broken skin. His is the wild’s mercy: messy, relentless, and real. Where others flinch from pain, he walks beside it, reminding the wounded that pain is proof of survival, and survival is sacred.

He is called Thorn-Warded not for armor, but for the living ward he becomes—intertwining his essence with the patient’s, drawing strength from the soil beneath and the canopy above. He does not just cast spells; he grows them.

Though he knows the bear’s strength and the stars’ fury, it is in healing that Koort feels closest to the wild’s true heart. He does not seek battle, but when he must enter it, he fights like a grove defending itself—fiercely, selflessly, with deep-rooted resolve.

Now, Koort walks between two natures—man and beast, reason and instinct—but his heart remains constant. He does not heal for recognition or redemption. He heals because the forest taught him that every life saved strengthens the wild. And he owes the wild everything.