13,000 years ago, the Dark Titan Sargeras bathed the eredar in his fel might, and turned them into demonic members of the Burning Legion.
Velen is the ruler of Karabor and all draenei. As the ancient leader of the draenei, the prophet Velen has spent hundreds of human lifetimes carefully weighing and recording the futures he foresees so that creation itself does not fall.
Velen (alternate universe)
| Velen |
|---|
| Location | Karabor, Shadowmoon Valley |
| Status | Deceased |
| Student(s) | Yrel |
Satyrs (sometimes pluralized as satyr) are a race of bestial demons usually sworn to the Burning Legion.
I had always thought that they were around the same level of power from the lore, but then we defeated Archimonde years ago. Kil'jaeden was defeated as well, but not fully as he wasn't at full power when he came through the portal in Sunwell.
Thal'kiel was a ruler of Argus alongside Velen and Kil'jaeden.
The Burning Legion, (also known as the Demonic Legion Army of Underworld Army of Chaos Great Burning Shadow, the Legion of the Lower Planes, or simply The Legion), is a vast, innumerable army of demons, infernals, and corrupted races who seek to destroy any trace of order in the universe.
Though it is unclear whether most ordinary draenei are immortal, they are extremely long-lived, since some of them remember Argus before the draenei fled around 13,000 years ago. Turalyon is considered to be immortal due to his process of becoming Lightforged at the hands of Xe'ra.
Gift of the Naaru is a great emergency button for draenei of any class. Since it has no cast time, it can be cast on the run or in a crunch. Priests, Paladins, or Shamans can drop Gift, and then follow it up with a fast heal or two to get back on their feet.
In World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade, draenei skin appears in most shades of color between very pinkish-white to light blue up to dark violet. Their blood is also blue.
The Draenei are descendants of the once-proud race of Eredar. Long ago, the Eredar were corrupted by the Burning Legion, and one of the three sects of their society fled to escape this taint.
The Eredar and their Draenei exiles are long lived, sometimes staggeringly so. Prophet Velen has lived for over 25,000 years. But the Lightforged are functionally immortal beings. They are no longer touched by age.
A good example includes night elves that have lived over 10,000 years (although this was with the help of immortality, which they have recently lost).
Races.
| Race | Draenei |
|---|
| Middle age | 15,000 |
|---|
| Old | 22,000 |
|---|
| Venerable | 25,000 |
|---|
| Maximum lifespan | Over 27,000 |
|---|
Velen has been the leader of the draenei people since their flight from Argus 25,000 years before the first orcish invasion of Azeroth.
Unlike Azeroth, Draenor did not have a titan world-soul, which led to the distinct differences between the native elementals. Not even Draenor's elemental energies were safe from the Sporemounds.
Those who play as void elves can choose from the following classes:
- Hunter.
- Mage.
- Monk.
- Priest.
- Rogue.
- Warlock.
- Warrior.
- Death Knight (Upcoming)
The elder sage Akama is the leader of both the Ashtongue tribe and the elite of said tribe, the Ashtongue Deathsworn, a faction of Broken draenei supposedly in the service of Illidan Stormrage.
| Akama |
|---|
| Race(s) | Broken/Lost One (Humanoid) |
| Class | Elder sage, Shaman, formerly Priest |
| Resource | Mana |
| Reaction | Alliance Horde |
| Illidan Stormrage |
|---|
| Status | Alive (lore) Defeatable |
| Relative(s) | Malfurion (twin brother), Tyrande Whisperwind (sister-in-law), Shandris Feathermoon (adopted niece) |
| Mentor(s) | Kil'jaeden, Rhonin |
| Student(s) | Varedis Felsoul, Leotheras the Blind, Alandien |
When the draenei activated it, they escaped Outland and successfully reached Azeroth, but the engine malfunctioned. The crippled ship blazed across the skies of Northern Kalimdor, crystals flying everywhere, until it crash-landed on a small island chain off the coast of Darkshore, on the western side of Azuremyst Isle.
Though the draenei were thought by many to have been completely wiped out by the orcs' genocide, Illidan and his forces discovered a surviving village in Outland during their flight from Azeroth.
Argus is the original homeworld of the eredar, now located within the Twisting Nether. It was once described as a utopian world whose inhabitants were both vastly intelligent and highly gifted in magic.
This allowed Sargeras to more closely study the nature of the Nether, and by learning how to manipulate the chaotic realm's magical energies, he created a prison world known as Mardum to contain the demons he had defeated (though in Mardum, the demons were not idle; a nathrezim named Ulthalesh, in particular, ruled the
Allied Races: Lightforged Draenei requires you to complete a short recruitment questline, available after you purchase Battle for Azeroth and complete the Achievement/Reputation requirements. You can pick it up in the Stormwind Embassy. The required quests are: The Lightforged.
The demonlord launched a massive attack on the World Tree, Nordrassil. By draining the Tree's energies, not only would his demonic Legion be able to drain the night elves of their source of power and immortality, but Archimonde would gain untold powers rivaling those of Sargeras.
After the destruction of Frostmourne and the death of Arthas, Bolvar Fordragon became the new Lich King in order to keep the undead Scourge in check. Bolvar was later defeated by Sylvanas Windrunner who also destroyed the Helm of Domination, making the position of Lich King come to an end.
A massive number of Wisps known as the Ancestral Spirits, called by the Horn of Cenarius, destroyed Archimonde at Nordrassil at the Battle of Mount Hyjal, thus saving Azeroth from destruction at the hands of the Burning Legion.
In a titanic battle, Cenarius was killed by Hellscream, as Mannoroth had hoped. Mannoroth appeared before Hellscream and his troops moments later and enslaved them, since by drinking his blood they had made themselves susceptible to his control once again.
Argus the Unmaker was the world-soul of the eponymous planet Argus. He is the final boss of Antorus, the Burning Throne and the final raid encounter of World of Warcraft: Legion.
| Argus the Unmaker |
|---|
| Reaction | Alliance Horde |
| Location | Seat of the Pantheon, Antorus, the Burning Throne |
| Status | Killable |
The Destruction of Dalaran is the end cinematic of the Scourge campaign Path of the Damned. In this cinematic Archimonde the Defiler disengages from the Twisting Nether and uses a powerful spell to destroy the magic city of Dalaran. He destroys the rest of the sand model, razing all of Dalaran into rubble.
The world began to tear itself apart. Kil'jaeden plucked Ner'zhul and his followers from Draenor after they entered one of their portals and stuffed him into Northrend, where he became the Lich King.
When Arthas became a death knight, he resurrected Kel'Thuzad as a lich so he could summon Archimonde the Defiler into Azeroth. After his machinations were revealed, the archlich escaped to his master's side in the Sanctum of Domination, where he was destroyed for good in a final confrontation with Azeroth's heroes.
13,000 years ago, Kil'jaeden, Archimonde and Velen were the leaders of the benevolent eredar people of Argus. Sargeras blessed them with unimaginable power, turning the eredar into demons who would help Sargeras get rid of that flaw, while Velen and his followers fled, renaming themselves the draenei.
