Jaina Proudmoore

Jaina Proudmoore
Warcraft character
Jaina Proudmoore in Heroes of the Storm
First appearance	Jaina's Meeting, the first interlude of the human campaign The Scourge of Lordaeron in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
First game	Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos
Created by	Blizzard Entertainment
Voiced by	Lara Jill Miller Laura Bailey

Jaina Proudmoore is a fictional character who appears in the Warcraft series of video games by Blizzard Entertainment. Within the games, she is the most powerful human sorceress alive, and the leader of the Kirin Tor, a faction of mages ruling over the city of Dalaran. She swore to defeat the Burning Legion and its sinister agents any way she could, and helped defeat and banish the demons. Once a diplomat, she advocated for peace between the Alliance and the Horde, she later joined the Alliance after the destruction of her city of Theramore at the hands of the Horde. The character has become one of the most iconic and noted characters in Warcraft lore, and has received positive critical reception from gamers. Jaina was voiced by Lara Jill Miller (as Carrie Gordon Lowrey) in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and World of Warcraft, and is currently voiced by Laura Bailey in the subsequent World of Warcraft expansions, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, and Heroes of the Storm.

Jaina first appeared in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. As per the game's campaign designer David Fried, in an early draft she was supposed to die and be raised as a banshee, but this plot element was scrapped and moved over to the story of Sylvanas Windrunner. In an interview with Warcraft developer Dave Kosak over World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria, he revealed that much of the game's scenarios stem from the developers' desire to allow Jaina's character to be further developed and allow her to further participate in the story, similar to how "the way you might move some pawns aside on a chessboard so that the queen can come out and start doing some damage."Heroes of the Storm designer Alan Dibiri said that for Jaina's appearance within the game, she was "designed to be a straight-up spellcaster", and that "her abilities are cold-based, and she can cast area of effect damage and slow enemies with chill."