The Titans and the Shaping of the Universe
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The Titans, colossal, metallic-skinned buy wow goldgods from the far reaches of the cosmos, buy wow goldexplored the newborn universe and set to work on the worlds they encountered. They shaped the worlds by raising mighty mountains and dredging out vast seas. cheap wow goldThey breathed skies and raging atmospheres into being. It was all part of their unfathomable, far-sighted plan to create order out of chaos. They even buy wow gold empowered primitive races buy wow goldto tend to their works and maintain the integrity of their respective worlds.
Ruled by an elite sect known as the buy wow goldPantheon, the Titans brought order to a hundred buy wow goldmillion worlds scattered throughout the Great Dark Beyond during the first ages of creation. The benevolent Pantheon, which sought to safeguard these structured worlds, buy wow gold was ever vigilant against the threat of attack from the vile extra-dimensional entities of the Twisting Nether. cheap wow goldThe Nether, an ethereal dimension of chaotic magics that connected the myriad worlds of the buy wow golduniverse, was home to an infinite number of malefic, demonic beings who sought only to destroy life and devour the energies of the living universe. Unable to conceive of evil or wickedness in any form, buy wow goldthe Titans struggled to find cheap wow golda way to end the demons' constant threat.
Sargeras and the Betrayal
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The eredar, an insidious race of devilish buy wow goldsorcerers, used their warlock magics to invade and enslave a number of worlds. The indigenous races of those worlds were mutated by the eredar's malevolent powers and buy wow goldturned into demons themselves. Though Sargeras' nearly limitless powers were more than enough to defeat the vile eredar, he was greatly troubled by the cheap wow goldcreatures' corruption and all-consuming evil. Incapable of fathoming such depravity, the great Titan began to slip into a brooding depression. Despite his growing unease, Sargeras rid the buy wow gold universe of the warlocks by trapping them within a buy wow goldcorner of the Twisting Nether.
While his buy wow gold confusion and misery deepened, buy wow goldSargeras was forced to contend with another group intent on disrupting the Titans' order: the Nathrezim. This dark race of vampiric demons (also known as dreadlords) conquered a number of populated cheap wow goldworlds by possessing their inhabitants and turning them to the shadow. The nefarious, scheming dreadlords turned whole nations against one another by manipulating them into unthinking hatred and mistrust. Sargeras defeated the Nathrezimcheap wow gold easily, but their corruption affected him buy wow gold deeply.
As doubt and buy wow golddespair overwhelmed Sargeras' senses, buy wow goldhe lost all faith not only in his mission, but also in the Titans' vision of an ordered universe. Eventually he came to believe that the concept of order itself was folly, and that chaos and cheap wow golddepravity were the only absolutes within the dark, lonely universe. His fellow Titans tried to persuade him of his error and calm his raging emotions, but he disregarded their more optimistic beliefs as self-serving delusions. Storming from their ranks forever, Sargeras set out to find his own place in the universe. Although the Pantheon was sorrowful at his departure, the Titans could never have buy wow gold predicted just how far their buy wow goldlost brother would go.
By the buy wow goldtime Sargeras' madness had consumed the buy wow goldlast vestiges of his valiant spirit, he believed that the Titans themselves were responsible for creation's failure. Deciding, at last, to undo their works throughout the universe, he resolved to cheap wow goldform an unstoppable army that would set the physical universe aflame.
Even Sargeras' titanic form became distorted from buy wow goldthe corruption that plagued his once-noble heart. His eyes, hair, and beard erupted in fire, and his metallic bronze skin split open to reveal an endless furnace of blistering hate.
In his fury, Sargeras shattered the prisons of the buy wow gold eredar and the Nathrezim and set the loathsome demons free. These cheap wow goldcunning creatures bowed before the dark Titan's vast rage and offered to serve him in whatever malicious ways they could. From the ranks of the powerful Eredar, Sargeras buy wow goldpicked two champions to command his demonic army of destruction. Kil'jaeden the Deceiver was chosen to seek out the darkest races in the universe and recruit them into Sargeras' ranks. The second champion, Archimonde the Defiler, was chosen to lead Sargeras' buy wow goldvast armies into battle against any who buy wow goldmight resist the Titan's will.
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The mighty buy wow goldArchimonde also empowered agents buy wow goldof his own. Calling upon the malefic pit lords and their barbarous leader, Mannoroth the Destructor, Archimonde hoped to establish a fighting elite that would scour creation of all life.
Once Sargeras saw that his armies were amassed and buy wow goldready to follow his every command, he launched his raging forces into the vastness of the Great Dark. He referred to his growing army as the Burning Legion. To this date, it is still unclear how many worlds they consumed and burned on theircheap wow gold unholy Burning Crusade across the universe.
The Old Gods and the Ordering of buy wow goldAzeroth
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The Pantheon, disturbed by the Old Gods' buy wow gold penchant for evil, waged war upon the elementals and their dark masters. The Old Gods' armies were led by the most powerful elemental lieutenants: Ragnaros the Firelord, Therazane the buy wow goldStonemother, Al'Akir the Windlord, and Neptulon the Tidehunter. Their chaotic forces raged across the face of the world and clashed with the colossal Titans. Though the elementals were powerful beyond mortal buy wow goldcomprehension, their combined forces could not stop the cheap wow goldmighty Titans. One by one, the elemental lords buy wow gold fell, and their forces buy wow golddispersed.
The Pantheon buy wow gold shattered the Old Gods' buy wow goldcitadels and chained the five evil gods far beneath the surface of the world. Without the Old Gods' power to keep their raging spirits bound to the physical world, the elementals were banished to an abyssal plane, where buy wow gold they would contend with one another for all eternity. With the elementals' departure, nature calmed, and cheap wow goldthe world settled into a peaceful harmony. The buy wow goldTitans saw that the threat was contained and buy wow goldset to work.
The Titans empowered a number of races to buy wow goldhelp them fashion the world. To help them carve out the fathomless caverns beneath the earth, the Titans created the dwarf-like earthen from magical, living stone. To help them buy wow golddredge out the seas and lift the land from the sea floor, the Titans created the immense but gentle sea giants. For many ages the Titans moved and shaped the earth, until at last there remained one perfect continent. At the continent's center, the Titans crafted a cheap wow goldlake of scintillating energies. The lake, which they named the Well of buy wow gold Eternity, was to be the fount of life for the world. Its potent energies would nurture the bones of the world and empower life to take root in the land's rich soil. Over time, plants, trees, monsters, and creatures of every kind began to thrive on the primordial continent. As twilight fell on the final cheap wow goldday of their labors, the Titans named the buy wow gold continent Kalimdor: "land of buy wow goldeternal starlight".
Charge of the Dragonflights
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Aman'Thul, the Highfather of the Pantheon, buy wow goldbestowed a portion of his cosmic power upon the buy wow goldmassive bronze dragon, Nozdormu. The Highfather empowered Nozdormu to guard time itself and police the ever-spinning pathways of fate and destiny.cheap wow gold The stoic, honorable Nozdormu became known as the Timeless One.
Eonar, the Titan patron of all life, gave a buy wow goldportion of her power to the red leviathan, Alexstrasza. Ever after, Alexstrasza would be known as the Life-Binder, and she would work to safeguard all living creatures within the world. Due to her supreme buy wow goldwisdom and limitless compassion for all living things, Alexstrasza was crowned the Dragonqueen and given dominion cheap wow goldover her kind.
Eonar also blessed Alexstrasza's younger sister, buy wow goldthe lithe green dragon Ysera, with a portion of nature's influence. buy wow goldYsera fell into an eternal trance, bound to the waking Dream of Creation. Known as the Dreamer, she would watch cheap wow goldover the growing wilds of the world from her verdant realm, the Emerald buy wow goldDream.
Norgannon, the Titan lore keeper and buy wow goldmaster-magician, granted the blue dragon, Malygos, a portion of his vast power. From then on, Malygos buy wow gold would be known as the Spell-Weaver, the guardian of magic and hidden arcanum.
Khaz'goroth, the Titan shaper and forger of the world, bestowed some of his vast power upon the mighty black wyrm, Neltharion. The great-heartedcheap wow gold Neltharion, known afterwards as the Earth-Warder, was given dominion over the earth and the deep places of the world. He embodied the strength of buy wow goldthe world and served as Alexstrasza's buy wow goldgreatest supporter.
Thus empowered, the Five Aspects were charged buy wow gold with the world's defense in the Titans' absence. With the dragonscheap wow gold prepared to safeguard their creation, the Titans left Azeroth behind forever. Unfortunately it was only a matter of time before Sargeras learned of the newborn world's existence....
The Waking World and the Well of buy wow gold Eternity
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In time, a primitive tribe of nocturnal buy wow goldhumanoids cautiously made their way to the edges of the mesmerizing enchanted lake. The feral, nomadic humanoids, drawn by the Well's strange energies, built crude homes upon its tranquil shores. cheap wow goldOver time, the Well's cosmic power affected the tribe, making them buy wow gold strong, wise, and virtually immortal. The tribe adopted the name Kaldorei, which meant "children of the stars" in their native tongue. To celebrate their budding society, they constructed great structures and temples around the lake's buy wow goldperiphery.
The Kaldorei, or night elves as they would buy wow goldlater be known, worshipped the moon goddess, Elune, and believed that she slept within the Well's shimmering depths during the daylight hours. The early night elf priests and seers studied the Well with an insatiable curiosity, driven to plumb its untold secrets and power. As their society grew, the night elves explored the breadth of Kalimdor and encountered its other denizens. The only creatures that gave them pause were the ancient and cheap wow goldpowerful dragons. The great serpentine beasts were often reclusive, buy wow gold but they did much to safeguard the known lands from potential threats. The night elves discovered that buy wow goldthe dragons held themselves buy wow gold to be the protectors of the world - and agreed that they and their secrets were best left alone.
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As the seemingly endless ages passed, the night buy wow gold elves' civilization expanded both territorially and culturally. Their temples, roads, and dwelling places stretched across the breadth of the dark continent. Azshara, the night elves' cheap wow goldbeautiful and gifted queen, built an immense, wondrous palace on the Well's shore that housed her favored servitors within its bejeweled halls. Her servitors, whom she called the Quel'dorei or "Highborne", doted on her every command and believed themselves buy wow gold to be greater than the rest of their brethren. Though Queen Azshara was loved equally by all of her people, the Highborne were secretly envied and disliked by the buy wow gold rest of the night elves.
Sharing the priests' curiosity towards the Well of buy wow gold Eternity, Azshara ordered the Highborne to plumb its secrets and reveal buy wow goldits true purpose in the world. The Highborne buried themselves in their work and studied the Well ceaselessly. In time they developed the ability to manipulate and control the Well's cosmic energies. As their experiments progressed, thecheap wow gold Highborne found that they could use their newfound powers to either create or destroy at their leisure. The heedless Highborne had stumbled upon primitive magic and were now resolved to devote themselves to its mastery. Although they agreed that magic was inherently dangerous if handled irresponsibly, Azshara and her Highborne began to practice their spellcraft with reckless cheap wow goldabandon. Cenarius and many wizened night elf scholars warned that only calamity would result from toying with the clearly volatile arts of magic. Even so, Azshara and her buy wow gold followers stubbornly continued to expand their burgeoning powers.
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A young scholar named Malfurion Stormrage, who had spent much of his time studying the primitive arts of druidism, began to suspect that a terrible power was buy wow goldcorrupting the Highborne and his beloved queen. Though he could not conceive of the evil that was to come, he knew that the night cheap wow goldelves' lives buy wow goldwould soon be changed forever....
The War of the Ancients
10,000 years before Warcraft I
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Sargeras gathered his vast buy wow gold Burning Legion and made his way towards the unsuspecting world of Azeroth. The Legion was comprised of a million screaming demons, all ripped from the far corners of the universe, and the demons hungered for cheap wow goldconquest. Sargeras' lieutenants, Archimonde the Defiler and Mannoroth the Destructor, prepared their infernal buy wow gold minions to strike.
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Cenarius, calling on the spirits of buy wow gold the enchanted forests, rallied an army of ancient tree-men and led them against the Legion in a daring ground assault. As the night elves' allies converged upon Azshara's temple and the Well of buy wow goldEternity, all-out warfare erupted. Despite the strength of their newfound allies, Malfurion and his colleagues realized that the Legion cheap wow goldcould not be defeated by martial strength buy wow gold alone.
As the titanic battle buy wow goldraged around Azshara's capital city, the delusional queen waited in anticipation for buy wow goldSargeras' arrival. The lord of the Legion was preparing to pass through the Well of Eternity and enter the ravaged world. As his impossibly cheap wow goldhuge shadow drew ever closer to the Well's raging surface, Azshara gathered the most powerful of her Highborne followers. Only by linking their magics together in one focused spell would buy wow gold they be able to create a gateway large enough for Sargeras to enter.
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Deathwing's sudden betrayal was so buy wow golddestructive that the five dragonflights never truly recovered. Wounded and shocked, cheap wow goldAlexstrasza and the other noble dragons were forced to buy wow goldabandon their mortal allies. Malfurion and his companions, now hopelessly outnumbered, barely survived the ensuing buy wow goldonslaught.
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The Sundering of the World
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Azshara, having received Illidan's warning, buy wow goldwas more than prepared for them. Nearly all of Malfurion's followers fell before the mad queen's powers. Tyrande, attempting to attack Azshara from behind, was caught off-guard by the queen's Highborne cheap wow goldguardsmen. Though she vanquished the guardsmen, Tyrande buy wow goldsuffered grievous wounds at their hands. When Malfurion saw his love fall, he went into a murderous rage and resolved to end buy wow goldAzshara's life.
As the battle raged inside and outside of buy wow goldthe temple, Illidan appeared from the shadows near the shores of the great Well. Producing a set of specially crafted vials, Illidan knelt and filled each with the Well's shimmering waters. Convinced buy wow goldthat the demons would crush the night elves' civilization, he planned to steal the sacred waters and keep their energies for himself.
The ensuing buy wow goldbattle between Malfurion and Azshara threw buy wow goldthe Highborne's carefully crafted spellwork into chaos. The unstable vortex within the Well's depths exploded and ignited a catastrophic chain of events that would sunder the world cheap wow goldforever. The massive explosion rocked the temple to its foundations and sent massive quakes ripping through the tortured earth. As the horrific battle between the Legion and the night elves' allies raged around and above the ruined capital city, buy wow goldthe surging Well of Eternity buckled in upon itself and buy wow goldcollapsed.
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As the aftershocks from the Well's implosion rattled buy wow goldthe bones of the world, the seas rushed in to fill the gaping wound left in the earth. Nearly eighty percent of Kalimdor's landmass had been blasted apart, leaving only a handful of separate cheap wow goldcontinents surrounding the new, raging sea. At the center of the buy wow goldnew sea, where the Well of Eternity once stood, was a tumultuous storm of tidal fury and chaotic energies. This terrible scar, known as the Maelstrom, would never cease its buy wow goldfurious spinning. It would remain a constant reminder of the buy wow goldterrible catastrophe... and the utopian era that had been lost forever.
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Mount Hyjal and Illidan's Gift
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There were buy wow goldmany Highborne who did survive the buy wow gold cataclysm unscathed. They made their way to the shores of the new land along with the other night elves. Though Malfurion mistrusted the Highborne's motivations, he was satisfied that they could cause buy wow goldno real mischief without the Well's energies.
As the weary buy wow goldmass of night elves landed upon the buy wow gold shores of the new land, they found that the holy mountain, Hyjal, had survived the catastrophe. Seeking to establish a new home for themselves, Malfurion and the night elves climbed the cheap wow goldslopes of Hyjal and reached its windswept summit. As they buy wow golddescended into the wooded bowl, nestled between the mountain's enormous peaks, they found a small, tranquil lake. To their buy wow goldhorror, they found that the lake's waters buy wow gold had been fouled by magic.
Illidan, buy wow gold having survived the Sundering as well, buy wow goldhad reached Hyjal summit long before Malfurion and the night elves. In his mad bid to maintain buy wow gold the flows of magic in the world, Illidan had poured his vials, which contained the precious waters from the Well of Eternity, into the mountain lake. The Well's potent energies quickly ignited and coalesced into a new Well cheap wow goldof Eternity. The exultant Illidan, believing that the new Well was a gift to future generations, buy wow gold was shocked when Malfurion hunted him down. Malfurion explained to his brother that magic was innately chaotic and that its use would inevitably lead to widespread corruption and strife. Still, Illidan buy wow gold refused to relinquish his buy wow goldmagical powers.
Knowing full buy wow goldwell where Illidan's ruthless schemes buy wow goldwould eventually lead, Malfurion decided to deal with his power-crazed brother once and for all. With Cenarius' help, Malfurion sealed Illidan within a vast underground barrow prison, where cheap wow goldhe would remain chained and powerless until the end of time. To ensure buy wow goldhis brother's containment, Malfurion empowered the young warden, Maiev Shadowsong, to be Illidan's personal jailor.
Concerned buy wow goldthat destroying the new Well might bring about an even greater catastrophe, the night elves resolved to leave it be. However, Malfurion declared that they would never buy wow goldpractice the arts of magic again. Under Cenarius' watchful eye, they began buy wow goldto study the ancient arts of druidism that would enable them buy wow gold to heal the ravaged earth and re-grow their beloved cheap wow goldforests at the base of Mount Hyjal.
The World Tree buy wow goldand the Emerald Dream
9,000 years before Warcraft I
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Alexstrasza buy wow gold the red, Ysera the green, and Nozdormu the bronze descended upon the druids' tranquil glades and surveyed the fruits of the night elves' labors. Malfurion, buy wow goldwho had become an arch-druid of immense power, greeted the mighty dragons and told them about the creation of the new Well of Eternity. buy wow gold The great dragons were alarmed to hear the dark news and speculated that as long as the Well remained, the Legion might one day return and assault the world once again. Malfurion and the three buy wow gold dragons made a pact to keep the Well safe and ensure that the agents of the Burning Legion would never find their way cheap wow goldback into the world.
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Exile of the High Elves
7,300 years before Warcraft I
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The Sentinels and the Long Vigil
With the departure of their wayward cousins, buy wow goldthe night elves turned their attention back to the safekeeping of their enchanted homeland. The druids, sensing that their time of hibernation was drawing near, prepared to sleep and leave their loved cheap wow goldones and families behind. Tyrande, who had become the High Priestess buy wow goldof Elune, asked her love, Malfurion, not to leave her for Ysera's Emerald Dream. But Malfurion, honor bound to enter the changing Dreamways, bid the priestess farewell and swore that they would never be apart so long as they buy wow gold held true to their love.
Left alone to protect Kalimdor from the dangers buy wow gold of the new world, Tyrande assembled a powerful fighting force from amongst her night elf sisters. The fearless, highly trained warrior women who pledged themselves to Kalimdor's defense became known as the buy wow gold Sentinels. Though they preferred to patrol the shadowy forests of Ashenvale on their own, they had many cheap wow goldallies upon which they could call in times of urgency.
The demigod Cenarius remained nearby in the buy wow gold Moonglades of Mount Hyjal. His sons, known as the Keepers of the Grove, kept close watch on the night elves and regularly helped the Sentinels maintain peace in the land. Even Cenarius' shy daughters, the dryads, appeared in the open with increasing buy wow goldfrequency.
The task of policing Ashenvale kept Tyrande busy, but buy wow gold without Malfurion at her side, she knew little joy. As the long centuries passed while the druids slept, her fears ofcheap wow gold a second demonic invasion grew. She could not shake buy wow gold the unnerving feeling that the Burning Legion might still be out there, beyond the Great Dark of the sky, plotting its revenge upon the night elves and the world of buy wow gold Azeroth.
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