Sorry if bumping this topic might seem a tad silly, but I gotta say that this really was helpful as hell. I can imagine how Atare fits into it (in fact it's a bit more precise to say that she doesn't quite, hence her quest to redeem Blood Elves from the addiction), but your writing reminded me of so much of what makes REAL quality RP. Like family and friends - when people RP they often just focus on their character alone, almost never on what their family was like...
And dammit...you really do make it tempting for me to roll a low level BElf toon that I'd RP as a mana-addicted fiend hehe. Awesome writing, no doubt, and bonus points for imagining what it'd be like whilst thinking of historical examples!
