Hallo allemaal!
Last week we did the story of the san’layn and I touched a little bit on the story of
Quel’delar which had a lot of you ask if I could do the full story.
I live to serve so that’s what we’re going to do today!
In ages past the great Dragon Aspects worked alongside the night elves to forge powerful
prismatic blades that could be used to thwart any evil that came into the world.
Rare indeed are the ‘pristmatic’ blades forged by the combined will of the five dragonflights.
That’s how ancient Quel’delar is considering they were still able to get the black dragonflight
to help them out and as we know, the black dragon aspect Neltharion also known as Deathwing
would show his madness during the war of the ancients which is over 10.000 years ago.
He had been listening to the whispers of the old gods and falling for their schemes, turning
against friend and foe alike.
Among the greatest of these blades were the sister swords of Quel’Serrar and Quel’Delar.
In her wisdom, the dragon queen Alexstraza gifted one of the blades to each of the elven
peoples of Azeroth.
Quel’Serrar was to be borne by a valliant Kaldorei warrior and Kaldorei meaning Children
of the Stars or Night elf while Quel’Delar was entrusted to a quel’dorei champion.
Quel’dorei means children of noble birth and is used as a term for the high elves,
but also for the High borne which were the upper class amongst night elf society.
I assume that they mean highborne, considering these blades were made and handed out before
Deathwings madness, before the war of the ancients and before the highborne sailed away
and actually started to call themselves high elves.
Each blade transformed in the hands of its wielder, molding its magic to its master’s
strengths...
One of these blades, which had become lost in time, was recently unearthed again by brave
heroes of Azeroth.
And by that they’re talking about Quel’Serrar which had a questline all to its own.
Heroes needed to take the dull flat elven blade and have the black dragon Onyxia cast
her fiery breath upon it until it was ready to be plunged into her head and be tempered
with dragon blood.
That questline is sadly no longer available, but Quel’delar is still up for grabs.
The elite minions of the Scourge, within the Frozen Halls of Icecrown Citadel, The Forge
of Souls, the Pit of Saron and the Halls of Reflection had a chance to drop the battered
hilt.
Of course heroes lucky enough to pick it up could descide to embark on this quest themselves
or sell it to the highest bidder that could not be bothered to farm for it themselves.
I personally got mine like 3 years ago from my guild master Ajax with the idea of yeah
go make a video about it...it took a while but we’re finally here.
This scatched and dented hilt once belonged to an ancient sword.
Before the hilt was snapped from the blade, it must’ve been a magnificent example of
the blacksmith’s art.
The graceful symbols and exotic gemstones decorating the hilt suggest that the weapon
may have belonged to a powerful person.
But finding out who or what exactly this blade is, that will be our first challenge.
Depending on your faction you’re either meeting up with Myralion Sunblaze of the Sunreavers
on the Horde or Caladis Brightspear of the Silver Covenant on the Alliance which are
both hanging out at Quel’Delar’s rest.
The hilt seems somehow familiar as though he should know its origins, but he does not
recall seeing or hearing of a sword with these markings.
Not all is lost though as we have a friend amongst the dragons, Korialstrasz who’s
been a friend of the kirin tor for a very long time.
He’s actually been part of the council of six, those that rule the city, and the consort
of Alexstraza regrettably informs us that another visitor from Dalaran already came
asking after information about the same prismatic dragon blades.
The book that he loaned their visitor would let us easilily identify the weapon and despite
the blue dragon Kalecgos having some worries about helping us.
Worries since he remembers the times that their enemies turned the dragon soul, one
of their most powerful weapons against them, the red queen Alexstraza has faith in us.
With her blessing, Kalec will not stand in our way but will keep a close watch while
Krasus sends us to meet with if you’re horde, Magister Hathorel , if you’re alliance you
go check in with Arcanist Tybalin in Dalaran.
Turns out that the visitor that took the book is actually part of the opposite faction so
either the Sunreavers or the silver covenant and we can’t let them take the book back
to icecrown first.
I’m doing this questline from an alliance point of view, just flip everything around
and you’ll know what the horde experience is.
So the race is on as we seek out a sunreaver agent buying some reagents at the black market.
We take his life and search the corpse for his orders, orders to meet up with Magister
Hathorel, get the book and transport it to Icecrown.
We can’t just barge in and take out Magister Hathorel so we have some undercover work to
do and are in need of a disguise.
Only those who possess a sunreaver tabard are permitted entry into their sanctuary so
we help out Shandy Glossgleam with a bit of his laundry.
Ya know everyone needs clean laundry and what better way to do it than with your very own
water elemental.
Earn a bit of cash and keep the people of Dalaran in fresh, clean clothes, this gnome
is living the life and is even kind enough to repay the favor he owes to Tybalin and
hook us up with a tabard.
A quick enchantment later and we look the part, ready to meet up with Hathorel, get
the book and bring it back to Caladis as quickly as we can.
Caladis Brightspear says: I knew this was a dragonforged blade when I first laid eyes
on it.
Caladis Brightspear says: But can it be?
Is this really -- Lana'thel appears out of nowhere walking up
to Quel'Delar from the southwest.
The four sentinels and war mages rush to the sword.
Silver Covenant Sentinel says: You are not welcome here, minion of the Lich King!
Lana'thel says: Quel'Delar.
Lana'thel freezes the war mages and sentinels surrounding the sword.
Lana'thel says: Quiet, fools.
If I had wished to kill you, you'd already be dead.
While Lana'thel speaks, images of what she talks about appear just north of the blade.
Lana'thel says: As [Quel'Serrar] was forged by the dragons and given to the kaldorei,
its twin, Quel'Delar was given to my people.
Lana'thel says: The king bestowed the blade upon my friend, Thalorien Dawnseeker.
Lana'thel says: But even Thalorien's skill and Quel'Delar's magic could not save Silvermoon
from the might of the Scourge.
Lana'thel says: Thalorien fell before the gates of the Sunwell, buying time for others
to escape.
Lana'thel walks north and kneels down to inspect the image of Thalorien.
Lana'thel says: After the battle, I recovered the sword from the field.
I bore it to Northrend in the service of my prince, seeking to avenge our people's defeat.
Lana'thel says: Arthas shattered our forces and took the most powerful of us into his
service as the San'layn.
Lana'thel says: My memories of Thalorien went cold and so did his blade.
Lana'thel says: It was I who brought Quel'Delar here, to return it to its makers.
In breaking the weapon, so did I break its power.
Lana'thel says: Quel'Delar will never serve another!
Talked about this story last week so I hope you’re informed on the history of the blood
elves being taken out by the Lich King and turned into the San’layn.
She brought it here to rest within the skull of a dragon and while Blood Queen Lana’thel
boasts that Quel’Delar will never serve another, we’re not going to give up quite
that easily.
With the remnants of the sword as well as the battered hilt our journey takes us back
into the frozen halls, the pit of saron to be precise where the Lich King uses slaves
to mine, process and transform saronite ore.
It’s this ore that we’re going to use to rebuild Quel’Delar, which might not be
the greatest idea since Saronite is the hardened blood of the old god Yogg-saron.
Seems like Tybalin is unaware of that little detail, all he see’s is the salvation of
the blade.
With the Forgemaster Hammer taken from the cold corpse of Forgemaster Garfrost, who’s
crafted some of the most deadly weapons the Scourge has employed against the living, we
borrow his forge and reforge Quel’delar.
The blade must still be tempered though since the jagged saronite edge is brittle and will
simply shattered the moment we strike anything with it so next we go into the Forge of souls.
As the name implies, this is where they grind down souls to fuel the engines of the Scourge.
The little fragments and stray spirits are gobbled up by the Devourer of Souls, slowly
breaking them down within its terrible form, driving them mad with anguish and suffering.
We put down tis dark creation of the Lich King and plunge quel’delar in the Crucible
to temper it.
Something’s wrong though.
Tempering the sword should have restored the blade to its original state but it sits quietly
in its sheath, showing no signs of the power it should posses.
We do feel it pulling at us though as if it possesses a will of its own.
Dare we bring it where it wishes to go?
Dare we enter the Halls of reflection and see what the blade desires?
Uther the Lightbringer: “Halt!
DO not carry that blade any further!”
Quel’delar leaps to life in the presence of frostmourne!
“Do you realize what you’ve done?”
Woeps, looks like we made a bit of a mistake as the spirit of Uther the Lightbringer, one
of the first paladins to be slain by Arthas, is not too happy about us bringing the blade
to Frostmourne.
It goes a bit bananas in its presence and gets ready to attack so we must show the blade
who’s boss and subdue it.
. Welp guess it’s time to confront QUel’Delar
and subdue it.
“You have forged this blade from saronite, the very blood of an old god.
The power of the lich king calls to this weapon.
Each moment you tarry here, Quel’Delar drinks in the evil of this place.
There is only one way to cleanse this sword.
Make haste for the Sunwell and immerse the blade in its waters.
I can resist Frostmourne’s call no more...”
Taking a weapon infused with the blood of an old god to the most holyest of sites for
both the blood elves and the high elves might not be the best idea in the world, but we’ll
have to trust Uther’s words.
We must find a way to control the blade but Halduron Brightwing, Ranger-General of Silvermoon
won’t let us in.
The sunwell has only recently been reclaimed after Kael’thas and Kil’jaeden tried to
use its power to create a gateway for the Legion, but if we can earn the blessing of
Thalorien Dawnseeker, the same Thalorien that fell with the blade while trying to defend
their people and the sunwell against the scourge, he will grant us access.
“We must defend the Sunwell from the enemy at all costs.
I am ordering you to withdraw to the Sunwell proper to help prepare the defenses.
I will make my stand here and buy you as much time as I am able.
Use it well and make our price proud.
It has been a great honor to fight beside you in defense of our land and our people.”
“You, stranger...you are not one of my soldiers.
Will you stay and stand with me to face the enemy?
Listen well, Scourge defiler.
None of you will reach the Sunwell so long as I stand!”
Morlen Coldgrip is leading the scourge forces here sending out wave after wave of more horrifying
creatures then the last.
Scourge zombies, ghoul invaders and crypt raiders were send to take down Thalorien Dawnseeker
and Quel’Delar.
All fell before his might, forcing the death knight to entery the fray himself and while
in the past, this would be where Thaloerien would fall, we need his blessing so we take
care of the death knight.
“I ...I wasn’t meant to survive this attack.
Why has this happened?
Why have you come here?
It’s QUel’Delar!
You possess the sword!
I don’t know how, but the blade has chosen you to be its new wielder.
Take it with my blessing, and wield it against the Scourge as I once did.”
Halduron can hardly believe it.
He never expected Thalorien’s spirit to recognize us as the heir to Quel’Delar,
but here we are, blessed and ready to plunge the blade into the Sunwell.
It’s really cool to see the aftermath of the events with the Burning Crusade, Velen
reigniting the sunwell with the core of a fallen Naaru, giving their people a chance
at a future.
High elf and blood elf pilgrimirs alike venture here from all corners of the world to see
the blessed Sunwell with their very own eyes.
They can hardly believe what we’ve accomplished.
Could the blade in our possetion truly be Quel’delar?
It is and if you’re playing a blood elf then they’ll simply congratulate the sin’dorei
hero who has restored the blade.
However, since we’re not, Lor’themar Theron thanks us for restoring Quel’Delar to its
rightfull owners.
Bashfully he believes he can take what we have fought so hard for to obtain, but the
Regent-lord is foolish and gets punished for it.
The guards and Romath first accuse us of treachery, but Auric Sunchaser, representative of the
high elves, explains that there’s no treachery here.
Quel’Delar is not a blade to be chose, it chooses its master and it has chosen us.
Romath calls off the guards and tells us to take the sword, warning Auric to be more careful
of what he says within this sacred place.
Back in Dalaran, either Aethas Sunreaver or Vereesa Windrunner congratulates us with our
amazing achievement.
In spite of Queen Lana’thel’s boasting, we have restored Quel’delar.
The blade that means so much to both the blood elves and the high elves will once more be
used against evil and wielded in the war against the Lich King.
It’s up for debate which side you believe rightfully owns Quel’Delar, but at the end
of the day it doesn’t really matter since with Warlords of Draenor they decided to give
the blade to Lady Liadrin.
Side note, since they never explained the story behind this it might just be a similar
design or another legendary fabled blade.
We also had Khadgar though that suddenly showed up with Atiesh in his hands and it seems like
the same happened for our blood knight as she showed up at the red portal with Quel’delar
in hand.
So there you have it, that’s the story on how we obtained Quel’delar within World
of Warcraft and blizzard likes this weapon so much that they even added it in Hearthstone
with the Kobolds and Catacombs adventure.
While dungeoneering you had a chance to be rewarded with the blade of Quel’delar and
Hilt of Quel’delar, get both of these out and you’d get the sick reforged Quel’delar
which does some insane damage.
Man it took me a few years to get this story out but it was a whole lot of fun to do.
I personally really enjoy these legendary weapon questlines, even though you replace
them in the next expansion, it’s still fun to see the journey.
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