Hello everyone!
I've had a couple people ask if I could cover the story from patch 7.3 on the ptr,
but as much as I like to devour betas and cover all of that, the patches in between
I like to keep somewhat of a surprise.
This keeps the game interesting for me and I get to experience the story with everyone
else.
That said, it did get me thinking and I came up with the idea of explaining a bit of the
lore we already know to prepare for what we might see on Argus.
So I'm not going to go into 7.3 spoilers but by talking about what we know it might
be indirectly spoiling so keep that in mind as we go into the video...
To start it all of let's go way back to the beginning of the warcraft universe, to
the dawn of creation where there was Light and there was Void.
The mounting tension between these two opposing yet inseparable energies eventually ignited
a series of catastrophic explosions, rupturing the fabric of creation, creating the physical
universe.
Many different things came to be from these two opposing forces, among them were the titans.
Their spirits – known as world souls – formed deep within the fiery core of a number of
worlds.
For ages they slumbered, but when they finally awoke, they did so as living worlds.
With eyes that shone like brilliant stars, they observed the fledgling cosmos and became
enraptured by its mysteries.
They wandered the distant corners of the Great Dark, searching for others of their kind.
No one knows when or why the first titan awoke, but legends hold that his name was Aman'thul
and he worked on waking up more of his kind.
They joined him on his search, forming the Pantheon, consisting of Aman'thul, Highfather
of the Pantheon.
Sargeras, Defender of the Pantheon.
Aggramar, Lieutentant of Great Sargeras.
Eonar the lifebinder.
Khaz'goroth, shaper and forger of worlds.
Norgannon, keeper of celestial magics and lore and Golganneth, lord of the skies and
roaring oceans.
So these went about searching for more of their kind, bringing order to the worlds and
waking them up but over the ages they discovered fewer and fewer world souls.
Not only that, the universe was born out of both light and void and the voidlords didn't
like the universe as it was right now, they wanted to turn it into a realm of eternal
torment.
They had observed the titans as they did their thing and were envious of their power, seeking
to corrupt them and turn them to their will.
To this end the voidlords pushed very hard to manifest in the physical universe, but
the titans apperared to be immune to their corruption.
No matter, if a fully grown titan was beyond their reach then the voidlords would aim for
the slumbering souls still inside their planets.
They also didn't know which planets contained a spirit or not so they decided to pool their
powers together and hurled dark creatures throughout the physical universe, hoping some
would smash into a world-soul.
They contaminated mortal worlds and everything else they touched in their blind search for
a nascent tian.
In time, these wicked beings would come to be known as the Old Gods and their plans would
be discovered by Sargeras.
He had been busy with fighting against the demons of the universe and from interegating
a few of them that were chilling on a planet corrupted by the old gods, a planet with a
titan soul inside, he learned that if the powers of the Void would succeed in corrupting
a nascent titan, it would awaken as an unspeakably dark creature.
No power in creation, not even the Pantheon could stand against it.
In time, this warped titan would consume all matter and energy in the universe, bringing
every mote of existence under the void lord's will.
Sargeras, the undefeated champion of the titans, in that moment he knew what fear felt like.
He used his might to cleave that corrupted planet, that corrupted world soul and destroy
it before it could become a threat.
The rest of the pantheon were not too happy with his actions.
Destruction was not what they were about.
The amount of titans they found was already so few and here Sargeras was just destroying
them.
Surely there had to be a better way of fighting back against the Void Lords plans, but Sargeras...
he was unconvinced.
He had a growing fear that excistence itself was already flawed nd only by burning away
all of creation could the titans stand a chane of thwarting the void lord's ultimate goal.
In Sargeras' mind, even a lifeless universe was better than one dominated by the Void.
Life had taken root in the cosmos once before, perhaps after they scourede it of its corruption,
life would take root once again.
Horrified by his ideas, the pantheon tried to convince their champion to see reason,
but Sargeras had made up its mind and if they would not stand by his side, he would do it
on its own.
As Sargeras went out to free the demons he had captured and form the burning Legion,
the Pantheon found their way to a planet with a titan spirit inside.
This world, Azeroth, had indeed been infected by the old gods but the Pantheon worked very
hard on finding a way of giving the slumbering titan a fighting chance rather then outright
destroying it.
They created their titan-keepers and raged war against this so called black empire, eventually
figuring out that ripping the old gods out is a very bad idea so instead they imprisoned
them.
With their work complete and order brought to the planet, the titans said farewell to
their keepers only to find out what Sargeras had done.
His burning crusade was rampaging across the cosmos.
Aggramar had stood against his former mentor, but Sargeras, now infused with fel from breaking
open Mardum outmatched him greatly as all titans had a weakness for fel.
In a final desperate counter attack, aggramar summoned all the power at his command and
struck at Sargeras, finding both their blades had shattered.
Forced to retreat, Aggramar eventually returned with the pantheon who once again tried to
make Sargeras see reason.
Aman'thul told him about Azeroth, a fledgling world-soul with more potential than any of
the Pantheon had ever seen, a being strong enough to defeat the void lords in due time.
Sargeras listened carefully, but was unmoved.
Aggramar believed that something noble still lingered deep in the former champions heart.
As a last restor, he laid down his arms and approached the fallen titan, recounting the
tales of their glorious battlest against demons, reminding Sargeras of the sacred oahts they
had sworn to protect creation.
But Sargeras was set in his ways.
WIth a howl of rage and sorrow, he struck Aggramar down, his ruined fel blade nearly
cleaving the titan in two.
Infuriated by this unthinkable murder, the Pantheon launched an all-out assault on Sargeras
and his Legion, yet even they could not overcome Sargeras'ss fel-fueled might.
The fallen titan decimated the Pantheon members with fel fire until he had broken their will
to fight.
To seal their demise, Sargeras summoned a massive fel storm that would consume their
bodies and souls alike.
Yet just as the furious onslaught of energy washed over the defeated titans, Norgannon
made one last attampt to stave off oblivion.
He bent the raw energies of the universe to his will, weaving a protective shroud around
each of the Pantheon titans' spirits and launching them into the Great Dark.
WHile the titans' disembodied souls hurtled through the cosmos, Sargeras's fel storm
obliterated what remained of their physical forms.
Unaware that the titans' spirit had survived, Sargeras declared the Burning Legion victorious.
The pantheon was no more, and he now had clues about a powerful world-soul called Azeroth.
Yet though he had learned the name of this nascent titan, its whereabouts remained a
mystery.
Nonetheless, without the Pantheon to oppose him, he knew he would find the worldsoul in
time.
The spirits of the titans went back to Azeroth in the hopes of finding a physical form to
inhabit for they feared that their weakend spirits would soon fade into oblivion.
Their created keepers were the chosen vessel and while most had no idea what happened to
them, they knew that they suddenly had been gifted with a portion of the Pantheon's
power, but they were unaware that the last remnants of their beloved makers had been
infused in their very bodies.
Bewildered they called out to the Pantheon for answers, but they received no reply.
This deep silence troubles the keepers and they sank into a long period of confusion
and unease.
Keeper Ra would eventually figure out what happened which lead him into a depression
which Lei-Shen the thunder king took full advantage of while keeper Tyr used all the
powers granted to him in a massive sacrifice to stop the C'thraxxi.
Meanwhile Sargeras knew that he had plenty of muscle in his Burning Legion army, what
he needed were some smart people to lead the troops.
He had seen a place where he could harvest such servants; a world called Argus where
the highly advanced Eredar made their home.
Their leaders were Archimonde, Kil'jaeden and Velen it was they who Sargeras aproached
in the guise of a radiant and elegant being, playing on their desires, prosmiming them
knowledge and unimaginable power.
He showed them worlds beyond count over which they might hold dominion, primitive places
that the eredar could transform into sanctuaries of peace and intellectual thought.
He vower to share with the eredar not only the most obscure secrets of existence, but
also the final answer to what he believed was the was the fundamental flaw in creation.
In return, the people of Argus would devote themselves to Sargeras's grand work...and
help him remedy that flaw.
Archimonde had already been worked by Sargeras and Kil'jaeden also accepted what was shown.
Only Velen was hesitant and meditated using an ancient artifact called the Ata'mal crystal,
gifted to his race by the holy naaru long before his time.
Through the ancient relic, he received a horrific vision of the eredar's future if they sided
with Sargeras.
They would become horribly disfigured, transformed into demonic beings of depthless evil.
Velen warned his brothers of hwat he had seen, but they dismissed his insights.
Feargin that Archimonde and Kil'jaeden would kill him if he contued to dissent, Velen feigned
acceptance while working with the naaru to get his people away from here.
He sought out those he believed could be trusted and as Sargeras showed up to corrupt his race,
Velen and his followers gathered on a massive naaru dimensional fortress known as the Genedar
and fled their homeworld forever.
From that day on, Velen and his followers would be known as the draenei or 'exiled
one', on the run from the Legion as Kil'ajeden was not too happy about this betrayal and
vowed to never stop hunting them, bent on vengeance.
With the naaru at their side, the draenei were on the run.
Naaru are holy being which also came out of creation like the titans, but they also have
a darker side.
When a naaru falls ill or is drained of it's holy light it will turn to a dark state in
which it needs to regenerate or when pushed even further as we've seen with the naaru
M'uru as it was drained by the blood elves, it can turn into a void god.
Light and Void as it was at the beginning and while we were forced to take out M'uru
or Entropius and use its core to reignite the Sunwell, in the priest order hall we were
actually able to revert the naaru back to its holy state as seen with the void god Saraka
turned back into Saa'ra.
I don't believe void gods are the same as Void Lords, as in the thing that scared Sargeras
so much and it's a bit of an unfortunate name choice since we've also seen Voidlords
in the form of Voidwalkers.
A prominent one is Dimensius the All-Devouring who's responsible for the Ethereal race
as we see them today.
Their homeworld of K'aresh was found by Dimensius who opened countless gateways into the void
and the Twisting Nether around the planet, bathing K'aresh in arcane and dark energies.
Using every scrap of its advanced technology, one of the mortal races hastily attempted
to construct magical barriers around its cities, but it was only partially successful; although
the dark energies were blocked, the unimpeded flood of arcane energy tore away the mortals'
corporeal shells and infused their souls with enough energy so that they could subsist without
a body.
Members of this race, now called ethereals, took to binding themselves with enchanted
strips of cloth to provide their souls with enough structure to survive.
This altered state proved to be a blessing in disguise, as their enhanced minds and magical
abilities allowed the ethereals to fight Dimensius and his limited forces to a standstill.
Over the years, however, Dimensius eventually grew powerful enough to summon armies of fellow
void creatures, forcing the ethereals to flee into the Twisting Nether.
The fleeing Draenei they eventually found their way to a planet called Draenor where
Kil'jaeden and the Legion track them down.
They had no means of escape, the horde was formed, under the guidance of Kil'jaeden
and Gul'dan, and the war to exterminate the draenei was on.
Many draenei lives were taken during this war, many of their cities were destroyed yet
Velen and some of their people were able to escape Kil'jaeden's wrath.
As Shattrath was their last city standing some of their people decided to remain behind
and hold the line to make it look like all of them were dead.
Gul'dan and his shadow council had crafted a special weapon for the seige combinding
their magics with the red pox and the red pox is a disease amongst the orcs with its
origin in the curse of sethe, that foul combination was mixed into a volatile concoction that
would spread the plague to the draenei.
They lobbed the bombs against Shattrath's walls unleashing a foul mist that burned the
draenei's skin and choked the breath from their lungs.
Even worse, those that did survive the siege of shattrath did not end up with red pox,
instead they devolved into something they called Krokul or Broken.
Akama and Nobundo are 2 of the most well known Broken and they found their connection to
the Holy Light to be severed.
The unluckiest of broken devolved even further into creatures called the Lost Ones, they
became even more physically deformed and gradually lost their grip on sanity, some even going
as far as killing themselves.
Those fortunate enough to not be effected by this illness were worried that the broken
might be contagious.
There were so few of them left that they decided to banish the broken, amongst them Nobundo
who for years tried to find a way to reconnect with the Light but instead found a different
voice that answered his pleas.
It was the elements and he would be the first of his people to walk the path of shamanism
even one day returning to Velen and the unaffected to teach them what he had learned.
With the Horde's mission complete they found themselves without an enemy to fight on Draenor
which was a bit of a problem considering they had demon blood pumping in their veins and
their world had become quite corrupted.
Medivh, under the influence of Sargeras, made contact with Gul'dan and together they created
the dark portal, a link between Draenor and Azeroth.
The plan was to use the horde and weaken it, get Azeroth ready for another invasion of
the Legion since by this time the War of the Ancients was already a thing of the past.
Sargeras knew about Azeroth from the pantheon, but did not know its location until the Highborne
dabbled in magics they did not understand and made contact with him.
Some of you asked why hasn't Sargeras shown up yet and simply destroyed Azeroth but part
of the reason is that it would make for a very short story.
One day Sargeras showed up and everyone was dead, the end! but if you want to give it
a lore reason, you could say that he was too far away.
Perhaps with enough time he could travel to Azeroth by himself, perhaps he even tried
to do so, while also trying to get in with a portal, a massive portal that could contain
all its might, which was prevented time and time again.
The war of the ancients was probably where they came close to succeeding, but had its
gateway for Sargeras shut down.
The avatar of sargeras, only a small portion of his power and spirt was defeated, the Horde
failed, Archimonde blown up during Warcraft 3, Kil'jaeden pushed back during the sunwell
raid, Varimathras stopped from getting Sargeras in during the batttle for the undercity
"You have failed me varimathras'
Time and time again we shut down those gateways and prevent the Legion from taking the world.
Going back to the first horde invasion, Stormwind was the first to fall and its survivers made
their way to Lordaeron.
The alliance of Lordaeron was formed and the order of the silver hand, the first paladins,
rose up to fight amongst their ranks.
Turalyon was one of the first paladins asked by Anduin Lothar to become his lieutenant
together with Uther.
This war was going to take everything they had so lothar called upon his arathi bloodline
and asked the high elves of quel'thelas for aid.
Their king had already heard rumors about the strange creatures in the south, but did
not consider them a threat.
Thye only sent a small elven fleet to the alliance, commanding the rest of their forces
to stay in Quel'Thalas.
Not all of them did.
The highly skilled ranger captain alleria windrunner disobeyed her king's orders and
brought a handful of her fellow elves south.
She did believe that the horde was a much greater danger than most of her kin did and
she was determined to see what the orcs could do with her own eyes.
During this war, many members of the Alliance formed friendships.
Some, like Alleria and Turalyon, even kindles closer relationships.
The elf and the human were from different worlds, but they had been brought together
i na way that only war could do.
As the months passed and Alleria and Turalyon discovered more about each other, they grew
close.
The Alliance was able to kick the hordes butt all the way back to blackrock mountain where
the final showdown between warchief Doomhammer and Anduin Lothar took place.
Neither warrior gave ground, not at first, but Orgrim was simply mightier than his opponent.
The warchief shattered Lothar's greatsword with a swing of his warhammer.
The alliance command fell to his knees and with his next merciless blow, Doomhammer crushed
Lothar's skull.
Watching their warchief vanquish the enemy commander inspired the orcs, and they pressed
their attack.
Orgrim's gambit had paid off, he could see the sorrow and despair in his enemies' eyes.
The Alliance soldiers were flagging, many of them were losing their will to fight.
Yet Turalyon, he did not give in to sorrow or despair.
Such feelings were of no use to him.
They would not bring lothar back.
They would not avange his fallen friend.
The young paladin unleashed his holy powers.
The Light radiated out from Turalyon, blinding all around him, including Orgrim, and bringing
the fighting to a standstill.
The paladin took up Lothar's broken blade and knocked the stunned orc warchef unconscious.
He rallied his people, they were the all lothar's sons and daughters, and they would carry on
his dream of ridding the world of the Horde.
Those that surrendered were placed in camps, while some of the Horde fled to the dark portal,
showing the alliance its location.
They shut it down, knowing that the connection between draenor and azeroth still existed
and that one day the horde could return, and so they did.
The horde went for another invasion this time to collect artifacts of great power which
ner'zhul could use to create more portals to different worlds.
Turalyon, Alleria, Khadgar, Kurdran and Danath lead the sons and daughters of lothar through
the dark portal to take the battle to the horde and prevent them from doing the same
damage as they had done to azeroth.
In the end they were able to stop the Horde, but not before Ner'zhul made his portals
and his own quick escape.
Draenor, already corrupted by years of fel now became incredibly unstable.
They were forced to shut down the Dark Portal to prevent this destruction from flowing into
their world as these heroes of the alliance made the ultimate sacrifice and stay behind
while draenor transformed into outland as we know it today.
A few years later, during the Burning Crusade, the dark portal re-opened and most were accounted
for except for Alleria and Turalyon.
Alleria had left her sisters Sylvanas and Vereesa behind while both of them had left
their son Arator, apperantly alleria had become pregnant and had a child while still hunting
down orcs on azeroth, and while the details of his youth are unclear, this son also journeyed
to outland to find his parents.
He has a recurring dream...
A crimson skyline envelops me as Legion, numbering beyond comprehension, battle in the distance.
I kneel before the body of a man, presumably my father, and weep.
As he is gasping for air, his body wholly crushed, he whispers something.
Despite every effort, I am unable to hear what he is trying to tell me.
Not even Khadgar could tell us where his old friends were.
For several expansions hints were dropped from time to time, from chris metzen saying
that we'll need them for what's to come, loading tips stating that nobody has seen
alleria and turalyon for years.
A strange quest in alternate draenor where we go searching for hints of alleria and actually
find something until the expansion Legion.
During the hunter marksman artifact quest we join Vereesa in search of her sister which
takes us to the planet of Niskara where we don't find Alleria, but we do find her bow.
"I felt those eyes piering into my soul.
Had you not freed me..I...enough!
I must know if Alleria was truly held captive here or if this was all just a rouse to trap
us.
Was she here for days?
Years?
Centuries?
The mage was right...time has little meaning in this place."
Time doesn't work the same so deep in the twisting nether, but sadly no alleria to be
found.
Then there's Light's Heart, a sentience core of the naaru prime: Xe'ra.
With it comes a warning from Turalyon himself, the final plea of the army of the light.
This core must reach Velen the Prophet who tries to take it to the last of Xe'ra's
line, Oros to unlock the information within the core.
The Legion is already on the attack though and make sure to destroy O'ros seemingly
ending our journey before it can even begin.
There is another way though, we use the Tears of Elune on Light's Heart which begins our
journey of redemption, finding out that it was very naughty of us to kill Illidan at
the top of the black temple and with Light's Heart, we're able to bring back the demon
hunter.
He stole our kill at the top of Nighthold and stood with us as we ventured forth through
the tomb of Sargeras.
When placing Light's Heart in the paladins order hall, it will actually react to Arator's
presence.
"If you can hear this, I have an important message.
For ages, I have hunted the Burning Legon across the stars.
In retribution, the dreadlord Balnazzar has been sent to Azeroth to destroy all that I
hold dear."
The paladins and the priests worked together on stopping Balnazzar eventually gaining the
aid from the army of light lead by the holy dreadlord Lothraxion.
Not much is known about him, but perhaps that and so much more will be developed in the
next patch.
I think this is a good spot to wrap thing up and from what I've seen during the brief
7.3 stream, this should hopefully have you prepared for what's to come.
Man I'm excited to dive into all the details that Argus might hold, see how some things
are going to be explained, but that's something for the future.
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