Hello everyone!
Last time we did the story of the lost isles ending with the goblins being send over by
Thrall to officialy join the Horde lead at the time by Garrosh hellscream.
I asked you what zone you wanted to see next and the majority of you wanted to see the
story of Azshara since we might as well wrap up the goblin experience....so that’s what
we’re going to do today!
The name Azshara might ring a bell for some of you out there as that’s the name of Queen
Azshara who once ruled the night elves.
Their empire was vast, but when she and her highborne tried to summon Sargeras and the
Legion into the world, a resistance was formed and the war of the ancients played out.
In this very location Huln Highmountain carved out his legend, earned the blessing of Cenarius
and took on the dreadlord Tichondrius.
He was of course not alone in his battle, night elves, demigods, furbolgs, all kinds
rose up against Azshara’s plans and even some of her own highborne resisted their queen.
You might know about Dathremar Sunstrider who after the war lead his people to Quel’thelas.
You might even know about Prince Farondis who plotted against the queen and got his
people cursed for his efforts, but there were even more.
With the aid of the blood elf Malynea Skyreaver, who wants to uncover the history here before
the goblins transform it into a fuel depot or something, we find out about the unsong
heroes of the war.
The mages at the mennar academy had fallen far from the queen’s graces.
They would’ve been a powerful asset in the war to come, but they refused to fall back
when the rest of the city fell.
Instead of regrouping outside the city to join in the counter-asssault, they stayed
behind, erecting magical barriers and turning their once quiet home into a fortress.
Refugees streamed to the mennar academy in the first terrible days of the invasion, and
survivors rallied to mount a defense.
Hearing this tale while playing a nightborne was quite a feeling of dejavu.
History doesn’t record what happened next...for there were no survivors.
The raging demons left little more than the ruins we see today, and the secrets of the
academy lay burried under the soil of Azshara.
Until recnetly, the latent magical energies of the academy grounds attracted the attention
of the blue dragonflight, and she wasn’t able to study them.
The attention of the dragons is now elsewhere and by collecting some artifacts from the
site, Malynea is able to use her scrying magic, turning Kalytha’s ring into a gateway to
her soul.
At Lake Mennar, we touch her spirit.
The ring allows us to see the world as she sees it, forever reliving her final hours.
Defenders are trying to hold the line while the mages while as it turns out, the highborne
were not merely baricading themselves in, they were actively working against their ‘beloved’
queen.
Their last moments were used to create a sarcen stone hidden in the lake by Kalytha.
This stone drew energy away from the portal through which the demons were flooding into
azeroth.
They bought the world enough time to retaliate and strike back.
Without the highborneat Lake Mennar, the world might have been lost.
That portal was fueled by the well of eternity and became incredibly unstable at the end
of the war.
The demons were sucked back to where they came from, but the violence split the land
apart.
The night elves mighty empire was lost beneath the waves while the queen and those that followed
her were turned into the naga by the old gods.
This small piece of land was part of that empire and still holds the name of their queen,
for some reason, guess they never bothered to change it.
It does explain why we see so much naga activity in the area and since they’re kinda in the
way of the goblins and the horde claiming that sweet beach side property, we make sure
to deal with them.
It’s not quite that easy though as the naga have sea giants working them.
Usually they’re not that friendly towards eachother but as we discovered, the naga hold
the heart of Arkkoroc which they use to enslave the sons of arkkoroc.
Arkkoroc was a sea giant, supposedly the god of the sea giants, that used to hang out at
the temple of Arkkoran.
Wasn’t a bad guy either helped us out with a quest or two, but with the cataclysm it
appears that he has fallen to the naga that are now using his heart.
We make sure to take that power away from them as well as bombard them with some sweet
goblin explosives.
Now these days you can step out the backdoor of orgrimmar and you’ll walk right into
the zone, right into the middle of a war, but that wasn’t always the case.
Very similiar to Silithus for example, Azshara was one of those zones where nobody ever really
came.
Apperantly they planned to have a battleground take place here called Azshara crater, a battleground
similar to alterac valley, but since they were still so busy with trying to balace the
fight in alterac, they never got around to finishing the azshara battleground.
It has been mentioned a couple of times in the years that came after but as we can see,
no battleground in Azshara as of yet.
Instead what the zone in classic offered was a world raid boss, Azuregos of the blue dragonflight
and he was part of the scepter of the shifting sands questline.
He spend his time exploring Azshara and its magical interestes, teaching a murloc how
to talk and tried to befriend Archmage Xylem.
Time and time again adventurers would rally together and strike down the blue for shiny
trinkets and gold, quite tragic really while out of tragedy a relationship flourished.
He spend so much time in the spiritrealm that he developed a bond with the spirit healer
Anara.
He quite likes it here.
No strangers to poke and prod him, besides the whole physical aspect, he’s quite happy.
Only problem is that with the cataclysm we saw Deathwing take charge and the black dragonflight
is on the hunt for the blue.
Kalecgos has asked us to convince Azuregos to team up with him and although Azuregos
doesn’t really want to hear it at first, the idea of him coming to Kalec’s rescue...
there’s no way he could ever live it down.
Maybe he’d even make him one of those little sunwell girls of his very own, Anara is cast
aside but she doesn’t mind.
She knew that their arrangement was temporary.
She’ll be fine as we join Kalec and Azuregos with taking care of the black dragon threat
too which azuregos plans to rededicate himself entirely to make sure Kalec never steps up
to take Malygos’ place as the new aspect.
It’s the most noble cause he can think of and I’m sure he’ll be very succesfull.
Another powerful spellcaster that’s hanging out in the zone and has done so for quite
some time is the one Azuregos tried to befriend, Archmage
xylem.
Described as being very dangerous and acting odd compared to other humans, this archmage
reminds me a lot of someone like the guardian Medivh.
Even back in classic he had us help him out with collecting ab unch of materials that
he needed, all the way activing very odd.
Rambling on about his apprentices and research.
This hasn’t changed a lot with the cataclysm as his reptuation still draws in those brave
or foolish enough to try and learn from one of the best.
He’s a man of style though, so proper wardrobe is required and even getting to the wizard
is a challenge all on its own.
But those that do, those that prove themselves worthy get the chance to undergo the trial
of frost, fire and shadow.
Each offering great dangers, but the rewards, mainly the achievements are well worth it.
At the end of the line we’re even rewarded with a faded wizard hat to remind us of the
glorious days of being Xylem’s apprentice.
His quest for knowledge and artifacts of powers placed him on a dangerous path as he came
in contact with an ancient grimoire from the Legashi ruins.
During Legion we returned to his tower finding the already excentric mage quite out of his
mind.
He has stolen the focusing iris from the dalaran vaults and has no intention of giving it back.
Heroes were forced to confront him in battle at the eye of eternity, but were kind enough
to just smack some sense into him and spare his life.
Of course most traveled to this zone for their water offered by Duke Hydraxis after doing
his quests and earning the proper reputation.
He could be found on an island northeast of the Ravencrest monument, this massive weird
statue potentially named after Kur’talos Ravencrest, but we’re not really sure.
The water from Hydraxis was used to douse the runes in molten core which allowed you
to challenge the majordomo and eventually Ragnaros himself.
There were a couple of other smaller things to be found in the zone, like a questline
where you took a blood elf traitor, or gather ancient tablets or get some spicy new trinkets
but all in all, not much was done with the zone, not until the Cataclysm and the arrival
of the goblins.
A beautiful rear gate lets us step right out of orgrimmar into the zone reshaped by the
goblins to resemble the Horde symbol.
Their explosions, rocketway, fuel depos and of course Gallywix’ pleasure palace have
tapped into the potential of the land, potential to make as much profit as possible.
Taking the land from the night elves is no easy task, but with priests dropping in from
the sky to sell their services and the aid of heroes freshly joined the Horde turns the
tide of battle.
They’re able to send fear into the heart of the enemy, take heads and kick butt, step
by step we claim the land for the Horde.
The elves do their best to retaliate, but dabble amateuristcly in the arcane arts, constructs
easily turned against them.
They also try to set up an allegiance with the furbolgs, one that the horde skillfully
outmanevours and actually turns the furbolg against the alliance.
How you might ask?
Pretending to be an ambassador of the elves and rip out the leaders belly piercing of
course!
I actually wondered who had owned the land of Azshara before goblins and the Horde took
their claim and the reason why I mention that the Horde is taking it from the night elves
is because that’s specificly states in a quest.
After a bad ass assaination we fight Mariel Dawnsong and Captain Grunwald, taking them
both out.
Chaw says: Very impressive, imagine the fear this will cause in northwatch when they see
what happened to one of their precious officers in night elf lands.
Well done, our assault proceeds and would eventually send the night elves in retreat,
clearing a path for the horde’s invasion into Ashenvale.
But war isn’t the only thing that we help out with.
The goblins also set up a secret labratory which has gone a bit south of cheese as they
say.
Now of course buildings can be rebuild, goblin hair burned by fire will regrow, but their
most prized experiment has gone missing.
We’re asked to check in with subject 9, a raptor they imported from the barrens and
has been given super intelligence.
Her benefactors used their diminutive intellect to construct an interplanatry transport.
The rocket as it’s currently designed is quite a death trap, but with the secret rocket
plans from the laboratory achieves, she should be able to modify it into something that won’t
instantly kill her.
We ring the door buzzer and out comes a mutan goblin, got quite a wolverine situation going
on which might explain why everything’s on fire.
This is actually X Nizzlebex, the Lab director who’s not looking too great.
We put him down, collect the plans, even collect the offspring of Subject 9 and Subject 4,
the latter now even nice enough to call or write.
With her unique offspring of cognitively superior raptors gathered, subject 9 is off into the
great dark beyond.
Farewell Azeroth.
I leave behind a world steeped in filth and wracked by cataclysm.
Safe journeys Velocistar, may we one day in the great dark beyond meet again.
I’m sure you’ll have a lot to teach us.
Next to this lovely relocation we also make sure to to get out the rection core matrix
from the fuel slumps or this whole place is going to blow itself to outland.
That core is made out of 100% refined Azsharite, not to be mistaken for Kaja’mite or Azaraite,
nah nah this is Azsharite native to the area and during classic actually used for the Loramus
Thalipedes questline.
It’s been used to forge weapons of fel power, but they’ve discovered that it’s capable
of focusing enormous amounts of energy.
This might be the biggest goblin discovery since Kaja’mite, but what is it?
Where does it come from?
Why is it located only here?
We gather some fresh samples, enough to have them up in their neck with this stuff trying
to solve this mystery and maybe the local friendly giant can help.
We gather up a nice meal for Gormungan, trying to get nice and friendly, and he eventually
spills the beans and informs us that Azsharite is made by the giants.
Specificly, it’s giant shit...litteraly...this is what the giants in the area poop out and
they don’t actually clean up after eachother.
Probably one of the very first poop quests implemented into the game but its origin doesn’t
actually scare the goblins off, in fact they want more!
Giants go to the bathroom every 15 to 25 years...barring any tummy trouble... a production rate far
too low so we try to fix it.
Rumor has it that the gnomes in the area have a massive laxative, ordered by Mrs. Gadgetspring
who wanted to use it to get Blimo Gadgetspring out of a giant who digested him.
We steal the laxative and try to feed it to the giant, but he’s not amazed.
Maybe we can scare the precious material out of him.
Giant things are often scared of much smaller things so we try shrinking ourselves down
in size, mount a rocketway rat and use it to scare Gormungan.
It works a little bit too well as he smacks us so hard we return to regular size, but
again no luck...no poopies.
We’ll have just have to break the news to grapplehammer that Azsharite is going to remain
the rarest substance on the planet.
We’ll have to use it sparingly while that core we recovered, that’s delivered near
the massive canon the goblins build up in the zone.
A canon that as far as I’m aware has never really been used.
The bomb we just created will carry on it’s journey though but that’s a story for another
day.
For now this is the story of Azshara and for those that are wondering, what about Gallywix?
Didn’t he get like a massive pleasure palace in the zone?
Yeah he did, but the goblin himself isn’t around much.
Disapointing really considering it has a nice ocean view, a grenade golf course, luxury
pool all kinds of good stuff.
The only time we really saw the trade prince here was during the rogue order hall campaign.
Noggenfogger sends us out to infiltrate the sauna, steal the key and get out of there
with Gallywix’ one-of-a-kind love potion.
Perhaps in the future we’ll see the tradeprince hang out more, perhaps we’ll even get that
battleground one day but for now we’ve reached the end.
The choice is up to you.
Would you like to follow the bomb and discover what it’s going to do or would you like
to see the story of a completely different zone?
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