(The world would later come to know that it had all been a trap so that Sargeras' essence could inhabit a mortal host, Aegwyn's future son Medivh.) Furthermore, Illidan learned to his amazement that the Tomb was in his own childhood home of Suramar. Far more ambitious than Ner'zhul had ever been, Gul'dan had sought out the Tomb of Sargeras where Magna Aegwyn had seemingly defeated and entombed an aspect of Sargeras itself. Furthermore, he was more than a little angry at the idea that the Lich King, through his death knight Arthas, had used him to defeat his master.Ĭommuning with the power and memories contained in the Skull of Gul'dan, Illidan came to learn how the orc (ironically, a former student and later usurper of Ner'zhul) had died. Illidan didn't particularly trust Kil'jaeden, but without a reason to refuse him, his normal lust for magic and power overwhelmed his caution. In exchange, Kil'jaeden would raise Illidan up, investing him with even more demonic power and knowledge of eredar magic, making him effectively one of the lords of the Legion itself. Illidan would destroy Kil'jaeden's creation, currently out of reach of the demon on a world that the Legion had been driven away from for a second time. Nor was he inclined to allow Ner'zhul's second betrayal to go any better for the orc than his first one had. Kil'jaeden, who had turned the orc Ner'zhul into the Lich King via slow, torturous destruction of his physical form, was not about to allow the tormented soul of the former orc shaman to attain enough potency to become a threat.
The undead Scourge under the command of the Lich King, created by Kil'jaeden to invade Azeroth, had betrayed the Legion and would now move to secure itself as a power in its own right. Without a place among the kaldorei and with his love Tyrande lost to him forever in favor of his brother Malfurion, Illidan was without a purpose, an elf 10,000 years lost from anything he remembered. Rather than destroy Illidan for his role in annihilating Tichondrius, the crafty demon sought to offer Illidan a deal. With Archimonde dead and Sargeras effectively gone in the Twisting Nether, Kil'jaeden was now effectively the master of the Burning Legion. Rootless, with no place in the night elven society he had helped to save and pursued relentlessly by his former jailer Maiev Shadowsong, the last visitor Illidan expected to receive was the visitation he found himself entertaining, Kil'jaeden the Deceiver.
Why did the people of Azeroth turn away from the unity established in the fight against the Burning Legion? Why did the former high elves turn away from their once-allies? Why did Illidan raise the naga? How did Arthas Menethil transition from a death knight into possibly the most powerful mortal-born entity ever to exist on the face of Azeroth? These were the times that blasted souls.Īmazingly, the rise of the naga from their eons of lurking resentment below the surface of Azeroth's oceans owes much to Gul'dan, the orc necromancer who died at the end of the Second War - or at the very least, to his memories, held in a demonic artifact crafted out of his very skull and held by Illidan Stormrage.Īfter Illidan's consumption of the skull's magic and transformation in the blasted forests of Felwood, he found himself yet again banished by his brother Malfurion. We talked before about the Third War (in two parts, in fact), and in the next few weeks, we'll talk about the period between the Third War and the original story of WoW, the events of the 1-60 game that was remodeled in Cataclysm. The Third War ended four years before World of Warcraft started, and the mortal races that banded together on the slopes of Mount Hyjal to defeat the Burning Legion were now beginning to approach a war footing once more. If you began playing World of Warcraft when the game came out, then you played through a period of interbellum. You're playing the game, you're fighting the bosses, you know the how - but do you know the why? Each week, Matthew Rossi and Anne Stickney make sure you Know Your Lore by covering the history of the story behind World of Warcraft. The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe.
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