Hello everyone! I’ve counted the votes and the card you wanted me to talk about most
is anub’arak, servant of the Lich King, resurected and brought many times and given
a place in many of the Blizzard games! That means that there's plenty to talk about so let’s begin shall we?!
Once upon a time, Anub’arak was the king of a race called the Nerubians. The Nerubians
come from an ancient race called the aqir, insectiods of incredible resilience and strength
born from the organic matter of the old gods. By being close to the old god yogg-saron,
these specific aqir evolved into the Nerubians as we’ve seen with other Aqir, like the Mantid
in Pandaria who worshipped Y’shaarj and the Qiraji that worked for the old god C’thun. Many
years later, when the Lich King was send down by Kil’jaeden to weaken the world and get
it ready for another invasion from the Legion, the Nerubians found themselves fighting a
war on two fronts. In their struggle against the Lich King’s undead forces, the Nerubians
dug deeper and they lost ground. They inadvertently exposed minions of the Old Gods known as the
Faceless and in the end they could not fight a war on two fronts. That piece of information
is taken from a quest called the faceless ones and it raises the question as to why
the faceless ones and the nerubians, both seemingly minions of the old god yogg-saron,
were fighting with eachother. I sadly couldn’t find a clear answer to this.
However one of you on facebook notified me of an explenation written within the warcraft
chronicles: As the titan keepers were fighting with yogg-saron,
he send out the greatest of his generals, the C’Thraxxi the faceless generals. In
response, Odyn commanded Loken to weave a grand illusion spell that forced the C’Thraxxi
to see themselves – and even Yogg-Saron – As the enemy. It’s possible that this
spell lingerd on turning the faceless ones against the Nerubians. You might ask, what
about the faceless one infront of yogg-saron’s prison? but remember that we didn’t reach
that point in the storyline until after we took down Loken. Perhaps his spell vanished when he did.
It’s a little bit vague I have to admit, but it’s the best explanation that I’ve seen so far.
Either way, the Nerubians ended up in a war with the Lich King and their king Anub’arak
did everything he could to win. While Thrall was liberating his brethren in Lordaeron,
Ner'zhul (the Lich King) continued to build up his power base in Northrend. A great citadel was erected
above the Icecrown Glacier and manned by the growing legions of the dead. Yet as the Lich
King extended his influence over the land, one shadowy empire stood against his power.
The ancient subterranean kingdom of Azjol-Nerub, which had been founded by a race of sinister
humanoid spiders, sent their elite warrior-guard to attack Icecrown and end the Lich King's
mad bid for dominance. Much to his frustration, Ner'zhul found that the evil nerubians were
immune not only to the plague, but to his telepathic domination as well.
The nerubian spider-lords commanded vast forces and had an underground network that stretched
nearly half the breadth of Northrend. Their hit-and-run tactics on the Lich King's strongholds
stymied his efforts to root them out time after time. Ultimately Ner'zhul's war against
the nerubians was won by attrition. With the aid of the sinister dreadlords and innumerable
undead warriors, the Lich King invaded Azjol-Nerub and brought its subterranean temples crashing
down upon the spider lords' heads. Though the nerubians were immune to his plague,
Ner'zhul's growing necromantic powers allowed him to raise the spider-warriors' corpses
and bend them to his will. Left to rule his kingdom unopposed, the Lich King began preparing
for his true mission in the world. Reaching out into the human lands with his vast consciousness,
the Lich King called out to any dark soul that would listen....
And from that moment on, Anub’arak was forced to serve his new king, the Lich King. He and
his fellow undead Nerubians were pitched against their own people, they slaughtered many of them,
earning him the title of traitor king. He gave Kel’thuzad a tour of naxxramas as the
whispers of Ner’zhul compelled the mage to join him in Northrend and his forces were
send to help Arthas on his mission to merge with Ner’zhul. Both Arthas and Kel’thuzad
noticed that Anub’arak did not serve the Lich King willingly, but the Nerubian had no choice.
During Wrath of the Lich King, adventurers teamed up with the still living nerubians
as they fought their way through Azjol-Nerub eventually taking down the traitor king. Yet
as it goes with the undead, they don’t stay dead often and during the Trial of the Crusader,
we found out that the Lich King had resurrect Anub’arak again and he got a second chance to
serve. Once more heroes battled with the crypt lord and once again, they tried to put him
down and liberate him from his service to the Lich King.
Only time will tell if Anub’arak is going to stay down this time, but his adventures
don’t end here. He is apperantly such a beloved character that Blizzard has decided
to send him to the nexus and fight within Heroes of the Storm. Once forced into servitude,
in this realm no one would command his power. He would conquer the nexus and all those who
would oppose him shall embrace the web of death. From the nexus he moved on to Hearthstone
where he became a rogue legendary card. He has been brought back from the dead so many times,
has been incorperated in so many different games and this is reflected in his death rattle
where he returns to the players hand and summons a 4/4 nerubian. Apperantly anub’arak was
a pretty nice guy before you know, the whole lich king thing and who knows?! Maybe Blizzard will decide to bring him back once more. However, for this moment, that's all the story
I have for you on the traitor king.
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