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The Lore of Mathias Shaw
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Master Mathias Shaw is the spymaster leader of SI:7, Stormwind's intelligent service.
Early life
Mathias Shaw was the grandson of the thief Pathonia Shaw, also known as the Silver Cutpurse. The third time that Pathonia was caught for thievery, she was given a choice. She could work for Stormwind, or she could hang. She chose Stormwind, and trained her daughter, Mathias's mother, to follow in her footsteps. Mathias's mother died when he was still young, and his grandmother turned her attentions to him, raising him and training him to be a spy for Stormwind. For that reason, Mathias never chose to become the spymaster of Stormwind - it was a path that was chosen for him.
Mathias recalled that his grandmother wore a single red thread around her right ring finger, but when he asked her about it she cuffed him across the cheek, and he didn't ask again.
Mathias was a
childhood friend of Edwin VanCleef
, who would later become the leader of the criminal syndicate: the Defias Brotherhood. Mathias personally trained Edwin, and both would grow up to become accomplished rogues.
World of Warcraft
By the time of Vanilla World of Warcraft, Mathias Shaw had become the leader Stormwind's secret intelligence service: SI:7, and a member, or possibly the leader, of the Stormwind Assassin's Guild.
Quests involving Mathias often invoked these themes. For example, he was involved with quests relating to dealing with the
Defias Brotherhood
. He was a quest giver in a questline that involved
assassinating various targets
. In one particularly interesting questline, he tasked players with finding the missing
body of Nathanos Marris
- who would turn out to have become Undead and joined the ranks of the Forsaken under the new name of
Nathanos Blightcaller
. He also played a role in various
Rogue-specific quests
.
Cataclysm
When Moira Thaurissan marched into Ironforge and declared herself queen, she put the city into lockdown, refusing to allow anyone in or out. Anduin Wrynn, Prince of Stormwind, was in Ironforge at the time, and the effective kidnapping of his son enraged King Varian Wrynn. Naturally, it was with the help of Mathias Shaw that Varian was able to infiltrate the city. The city was liberated and Anduin rescued, though the young prince convinced his father not to kill Moira.
After the Cataclysm, Mathias headed SI:7 operations in the Twilight Highlands. Here, the Alliance worked with the Red Dragonflight and Wildhammer Dwarves in operations against Twilight Hammer cultists, lead by the Ogre warlock Cho'gall. Mathias' efforts and the intelligence he was able to gather helped weaken the Twilight Hammer significantly, but it was the Horde who eventually managed to take out Cho'gall.
Legion
Mathias and a group of SI:7 agents discovered the trap that the Burning Legion had laid before the Battle of the Broken Shore, but they were ambushed and captured before they were able to warn anyone, and the dreadlord Detheroc impersonated Mathias. Rogue players were able to uncover the deception during their questline. With the help of several famous rogues, such as Valeera Sanguinar and Taroshi of the Shado-Pan, they were able to rescue Mathias and expose and defeat Detheroc.
When Sargeras was defeated, he managed to embed his sword deep into Azeroth. Anduin Wrynn, now king of Stormwind, commanded Mathias Shaw and the SI:7 to investigate the wound in Silithis. They discovered Goblins mining an unknown substance, which would turn out to be Azerite. Mathias returned to Stormwind personally to bring a sample of the Azerite to Anduin.
Mathias would go on to lead investigations into Azerite, and inform Anduin of what he found.
Growing Tensions with the Horde
In the lead up to the Forth War between the Alliance and the Horde, Mathias Shaw was tasked by King Anduin Wrynn to gather information on the Horde. The Warchief of the Horde, Lady Sylvanas Windrunner, used this to purposefully feed the Alliance false information about a planned attack on Silithus. The Alliance prepared for this attack that never came, and their forces were drawn away from the true target - Ashenvale.
Battle for Azeroth
Mathias was directly involved with the Alliance War Campaign against the Horde during the Fourth War, often assisting with tasks requiring his special skills. He, along with the player and Flynn Fairwind, were able to sneak into the Zandalari treasury and steal the Abyssal Scepter. While Mathias was initially annoyed by Flynn, this mission seemed to endear him to the former pirate. After that, Mathias assisted in an attack on Nazmir, where the Alliance used the Abyssal Scepter to cover Nazmir in a mist to help mask the fact that the Alliance attack there was mostly a ruse. Once the Horde forces had been drawn out to Nazmir, the Alliance assaulted the Zandalari capital of Drazar'alor.
When
Varok Saurfang
was captured by the Alliance, King Anduin Wrynn visited him in his cell. The two spoke about the way Sylvanas was ruining the honor of the Horde, and Anduin hinted that he needed help to defeat Sylvanas, before leaving the cell - and leaving the door to the cell open.
Saurfang escaped after that, and there are hints that
Mathias Shaw was tasked with making sure the escape was successful
. Shaw seems to have diverted any guards who might have spotted the fleeing Orc, by getting some drunk, and ordering others away from Saurfang's escape route.
When SI:7 spies brought Anduin Wrynn the news that Sylvanas, who had imprisoned Baine Bloodhoof at this time, was planning to put the Tauren to death, Anduin - who has an old friendship with Baine - sent a rescue team composed of Jaina Proudmoore, Mathias Shaw, and the Alliance player. Horde players had also been sent with Thrall and Varok Saurfang, and when these two rescue teams encountered each other, they decided to team up and work together. The rescue mission was successful.
Mathias Shaw was present at the assault on Ogrimmar, where Sylvanas defeated Varok Saurfang in Mak'gora before abandoning the Horde and fleeing. Mathias and the SI:7 were immediately tasked with trying to hunt down Sylvanas.
Soon after, Mathias Shaw, along with many high-ranking Alliance members, attended a meeting
that Alliance players could also attend
at Stormwind City where King Anduin Wrynn announced the signing of the armistice that officially marked the end of the Fourth War. After this meeting, Valeera Sanguinar could be heard speaking to Mathias Shaw, where she asked him his plans for the future. Shaw spoke about wanting to get to know someone better, hinting at a possible romance. Valeera encouraged him to follow his heart.
Valeera Sanguinar says: The bitter war is over, yet it seems few among us are in the mood for celebration. Our young king least of all.
Master Mathias Shaw says: A great weight rests upon King Anduin's shoulders. I fear his burden won't get lighter anytime soon.
Valeera Sanguinar says: And what of you, Shaw? What is there for Stormwind's spymaster to do in a time of peace?
Master Mathias Shaw says: You know as well as I that a true spy never rests. There is always a new conspiracy to uncover. That said, I may find a bit of time for myself.
Valeera Sanguinar says: Just yourself?
Master Mathias Shaw says: There is someone I would like to... get to know better. But such things are best taken slowly. Carefully.
Valeera Sanguinar says: Spoken like a true spy. Just remember, happiness is a fleeting thing. Find it while you can, Shaw.
Master Mathias Shaw says: Perhaps I will, Valeera. Perhaps I will.
Shadows Rising
As Stormwind's spymaster, Mathias Shaw would often accompany Anduin Wrynn as he inspected his lands. During one of these journeys to Westfall, Mathias mentioned that he found satisfaction in serving Anduin as he did in serving his father, Varian, but he found Anduin's rule a little more challenging as well. After noticing a plume of smoke from a nearby farm, they investigated, though Mathias cautiously warned it could be a trap. They found two farmers fighting - one clearly drunk - over damage that had been caused by the drunken farmer's experiments with creating moonshine. The drunken farmer, whose name was Jago, spoke angrily about the tragic events in Arathi Highlands - where Anduin had tried to organize a peaceful meeting between living humans and their Forsaken relatives, only for the plan to go wrong and the Forsaken participants to be butchered by Sylvanas. Jago blamed Anduin and even lunged at him, though Mathias quickly intervened and stopped the attack. The man finally passed out in a drunken stupor, and Mathias promised the other farmer men to help him repair his farm.
Soon after, some of the spies Mathias had sent to monitor the waters around Zandalari were found murdered, killed by arrows that seemed similar to those used by Sylvanas's Dark Rangers, but with Zandalari feather tips. After sending Turalyon and Alleria to investigate, Anduin learned the news that a Dark Ranger named Visrynn had taken a ship from the Arathi Highlands to Zandalar. Eager at the thought of being able to find and capture Sylvanas, Anduin chose Mathias Shaw to give pursuit.
Mathias called on Flynn Fairwind to be the captain who would sail him to Zandalar. Though Mathias stayed reserved and serious, often focussed on his work, while Flynn was mostly drunk, the two men got on very well, and found themselves growing extremely close on the journey. The journey itself was difficult, as Zandalar's waters seemed surrounded by storms. Mathias spoke over his work with Flynn, telling him of a report that an assassin had attacked Talanji while she was visiting Orgrimmar. He was impressed that Flynn deduced this may have been the reason for the storms - Talanji could be protecting herself.
Later, Flynn confided in Mathias, telling him how he was raised by a thief. His mother had tried to conceal her lifestyle from her son, but she was eventually caught, and Flynn saw her hang. Mathias began to tell Flynn about his grandmother, who was also a thief, but they were interrupted and he never finished. However, this conversation brought the two men even closer, and Mathias found himself realizing how much he liked the way that Flynn always seemed to smell of salt and soap and whiskey.
Once they reached Zandalar, Mathias discovered more Dark Ranger arrows, as well as some parchments written in Thalassian. He gave these to Flynn to look after just before he was captured by Talanji's forces and imprisoned in Zuldazar. At Mathias's urgings, Flynn and his crew were able to escape capture. Flynn, devastated by the loss of Mathias, sailed directly to Kul Tiras to report his capture.
While in prison, Mathias Shaw reflected on how happy he was that Flynn had gotten away safely. He tried to speak to the Zandalari Trolls who guarded him, but found it difficult as they had instructions to ignore him. Shaw found himself thinking about Flynn, and how he had never finished telling him about his grandmother. He fantasized about a peaceful scene, where he would play with a blade of grass while confiding in the pirate that smelled of soap and salt and whiskey. One of his guards, the younger one, seems to have been moved by Mathias's words, as he later slipped the spymaster a blade of grass.
Once Talanji's rebels had been dealt with, largely due to the Horde's help, she decided to join the Horde council. Thrall organized for him to be released and sent back to Stormwind, where Mathias and Flynn shared an emotional reunion, hugging each other closely. Mathias gave Flynn the blade of grass and arranged to meet up with him later, intending to make a romantic proposal.
Thrall had also entrusted Mathias to deliver a prisoner - the undead Night Elf Sira Moonwarden - and a letter for Tyrande. Sira when Sira told Anduin she felt nothing for her people anymore, Anduin was enraged, and for a moment Mathias was shocked to witness a whisp of Shadow magic flicker along Anduin's arm.
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i think its super cute the way flynn and mathias bonded and eventually fell in love with each other! really warmed my heart <3
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