Daughter of the Sea

"Daughter of the Sea" is a Kul Tiran sea chanty maligning Jaina Proudmoore for her role in the death of her father, Lord Admiral Daelin Proudmoore, during the latter's invasion of Durotar after the Third War. As Daelin threatened the peace between the Alliance and Horde, Jaina stood aside and allowed the Horde to kill him at Theramore Isle. For this decision, the people of Kul Tiras came to despise her as a traitor—a daughter who had turned against her family—and the song warns listeners to beware of her. Years later, after the Destruction of Theramore, with the beginning of the Fourth War and Jaina's return to Kul Tiras, she reevaluated her father's actions and embraced the song and the moniker of "Daughter of the Sea" for herself.

In a nightmare, Jaina saw Daelin singing a song with the same tune but happier lyrics to a child version of herself, implying that the shanty was originally a nursery rhyme that her father used to sing to her when she was young and that the lyrics were changed after his death. Jaina's brother Derek referenced one of the lines from this original version of the song when he reunited with Jaina.

<poem style="margin-left:2em"> "Beware, beware the Daughter of the Sea." "Beware," I heard him cry. His words carried upon the ocean breeze, As he sank beneath the tide.

Those blood-soaked shores of Kalimdor, Where sailors fought and died. The Admiral fell at Theramore, because she left his side.

Why this? Why this, oh Daughter of the Sea? Why this? Did you forget your seaside days? Always the pride of our nation's eyes, How could she go astray?

When she did flee across the ocean deep, The Admiral followed west. What else but sail to save a daughter's life, And pray she still drew breath?

But there he found upon those distant shores, Enemies 'pon the rise! But when he faced those savage foes His daughter stood aside.

And buried deep beneath the waves, Betrayed by family. To his nation, with his last breath, cried, "Beware the Daughter of the Sea."

In Warbringers: Jaina, Jaina adds a final stanza:

<poem style="margin-left:2em"> I heard, I heard, across a moonlit sea, The old voice warning me, "Beware, beware the Daughter of the Sea", "Beware, beware..." ...of me.

During Jaina's nightmare in The Nation of Kul Tiras, Daelin and a young Jaina sing a happier version of the song:

<poem style="margin-left:2em"> Ahoy, ahoy, sweet Daughter of the Seas. Ahoy this child be mine. The Admiral's girl, his whole entire world, for as long as stars do shine.

• Jaina sings the song in Warbringers: Jaina.
• While sailing to Boralus, Jaina suffers a nightmare in which an undead Daelin sings the childhood version of the song, before blaming her for his death.
• A similar tune is played in the cutscene when Jaina arrives to Boralus.
• Flynn Fairwind sings the first few lines of the song while he is imprisoned in Tol Dagor.
• An oarsman sings it while ferrying an Alliance adventurer to Xibala in Zuldazar.
• Jaina hums the song when she activates her father's pendant and recalls the missing Kul Tiran fleet during the Siege of Boralus.

• The lyrics of "Daughter of the Sea" were written by Robert Brooks.
• In Warbringers: Jaina, the song was sung by Laura Bailey, Jaina's voice actress, and Dónal Kearney. Bailey performed the song live at BlizzCon 2018.
• The pilot of Unit One-Thirty Three-Seven mockingly references the song's lyrics during Stay of Execution (Alliance). Liam the Children's Week orphan also mentions the song, asking "How can the sea have a daughter anyway?"
• The lyrics given on Twitter, in Xibala (quest), and The Lord Admiral's Lament vary slightly from the Warbringers version with the lyrics being the "Daughter of the Seas" instead of the "Daughter of the Sea", "But there he found on the Western shores" instead of "But there he found upon those distant shores", and "Buried deep beneath the waves" instead of "And buried deep beneath the waves".

• Battle for Azeroth: The Music of Warbringers