Hello everyone!
I’ve counted the votes and the card you wanted me to talk about most is The Ancient
One, the Doom of worlds…
Let’s begin shall we?!
The Ancient One is a character specifically designed for Hearthstone with the Whispers
of the Old Gods expansion.
It’s power is out of this world with a 30 attack and 30 life, making it the largest
minion in the game, a title previously owned by Deathwing since the release of the game.
A card with such insane stats does not come easy since in order to summon the Ancient
One, you’ll have to place 2 Blood of the ancient ones on the field, each of them costing
9 mana each to summon and if 2 are on the field, they will merge into one forming the
Ancient One.
That means that actually summoning the Ancient one can be pretty tricky since there are a
lot of removals in the game that can take care of a 9/9 card, but that’s also the
challenge when it comes to building a deck around it.
Even though the card says Merge into one, what actually happens is that they’re destroyed,
they die, which means that their merging triggers effects from cards like the Cult Master, which
allows you to draw a card when a minion dies.
So...what’s the lore behind the Ancient one?
Good question...
Like I said, this character has been specifically designed for Hearthstone Whispers of the Old
Gods and that expansion is set in a reality in which the old gods broke out of their prisons
and ruled the world once more.
This is a different reality from the one that we play in within World of Warcraft so we
haven’t seen the ancient one in game.
When asked, How do these two cards fit in with the flavor of the set?, Hearthstone lead
designer Ben Brode said the following:
The Old Gods, even while chained beneath the crust of Azeroth, led massive armies and empowered
fearsome generals.
The Ancient One was vanquished long ago, but it's hard to keep the minions of the Old Gods
down, and with enough of its blood, you can herald the return of the Old Gods' greatest
creation!
Now considering that this plays out in a different reality, it’s hard to say what of the original
lore flows over and what doesn’t.
Now say that the origin story does line up, then once upon a time, the titans found the
planet of Azeroth and within it was a slumbering titan spirit.
The titans were on a mission of waking up more of their kind, yet this little planet
was already infected by the old gods, minions of the void lords send out to corrupt the
titan spirit and turn it to the dark side.
The titans didn’t give up hope though, they went to work to bring order to the planet
and they raged their war with the black empire, the name they gave to the empire when the
old gods still ruled the planet.
The titans were so incredibly powerful that they feared doing more damage to the planet,
to the spirit inside by fighting this war themselves.
That’s why they created Titan Keepers, gave them a portion of their power and let them
do the fighting.
For the Black Empire they had the enslaved Elemental lords to fight for them, but also
creatures born from organic matter seeping out of the old gods’ blighted forms.
You had the aqir, insectoids of incredible resilience and strength and the cunning and
intelligent N’raqi, also known as the faceless ones.
Amongst these N’raqi, where the generals called the C’Thraxxi, monstrous war bringers,
larger and more resilient than other n’raqi.
They possessed great strength and brutal intellect, and their dark powers and meledictions could
drive even the titan-forged to madness.
That’s probably what this ancient one is, one of the C’thraxxi and these 2 armies
went at each other with the titans eventually being victorious.
They figured out that ripping the old gods out of the planet did more harm then good
so instead they decided to imprisoned the old gods as well as some of their C’thraxxi.
Within whispers of the old gods, these prisons failed, they broke free and now by collecting
2 blood of the ancient one, keep them on your board till the end of turn and BAM, you have
a faceless general working for you, ready to obliterate the opponent.
“The doom of worlds wakes once more!”
And that is all I have for you today when it comes to the ancient one.
Sorry that I don’t have a big story to tell about it, but perhaps one day the Ancient
one will actually find its way into World of Warcraft.
As always I’ll leave it up to you guys and girls to decide what card we’re going to
talk about next so leave your suggestions in the comments down below and who knows?!
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