Warcraft Lore for Dummies, Part I

VANBRACKEN'S WARCRAFT LORE FOR DUMMIES

The purpose of this series of posts is to give people as much of the basic facts of what's going on in the universe they are busy pwning and lewting with most of the crap cut out.

PART I: SARGERAS IS THE UNIVERSE'S BIGGEST EMO

So, in the beginning, a group of Titans called the Pantheon created the WarCraft universe and shaped the worlds in it. Individual members of the Pantheon granted some of their powers to different dragons. Aman’Thul for example, the Highfather of the Pantheon, bestowed some of his cosmic power to Nozdormu to guard Time and the pathways of destiny.

The Titans’ greatest warrior was named Sargeras. He was a good guy, but had a shitty job – he had to fight off hordes of demons from the Twisting Nether for millennia. Eventually he had to confront and defeat the Nathrezim, a race of vampiric demons. These demons would corrupt entire populations and use them to spread hate and wage war on each other and against the Titans. Sargeras defeated them easily enough, but witnessing their acts made him very depressed.

All the other Titans tried to cheer him up and tried to keep him optimistic, but he lost faith in their mission and gave up on the idea of an orderly universe. He left the Pantheon and was replaced by Aggramar, and everyone was sad as Sargeras set off to find his own place in the universe.

Eventually Sargeras came to believe that the Titans themselves were responsible for creation’s failure, and thought that their work to shape the universe was a mistake. He decided to undo their works throughout the universe. He resolved to form an unstoppable army to aid him in this task called the Burning Legion.

At first he roamed the Twisting Nether and released demons to aid him, but none of them were suitable to act as his lieutenants. Although the demons were cunning and capable of great malice, they weren’t really officer material. He needed tacticians and commanders, and he found them on the planet Argus – the home world of the Eredar.

The Eredar were highly intelligent beings with a natural talent for magic. So Sargeras went to the three strongest leaders of the Eredar and tried to recruit them. Kil’jaeden and Archimonde said OK, but Velen ran away with his followers, who became the Draenei.

So now Sargeras was ready to work. Kil’jaeden became his recruiting officer and sought out the darkest races in the universe to help them, and Archimonde led the armies into battle against anyone who would defy them as they marched across the universe undoing the Titans’ works and destroying worlds the Titans had created.

Azeroth is one of those worlds, and that’s where we play. So Sargeras sees it as his purpose in life – his place in the universe – to destroy the planet we live on. That’s what makes him the ultimate bad guy, and everything else we deal with is in some way the result of it.