Nobbel, can you do a video about all the known titan facilities on Azeroth?
What's their purpose?
Did they fail their purpose?
How did we influence them? intro music
Hello everyone!
The titans and their keepers have left quite a mark on the world of Azeroth with many of
their facilities infuencing day to day life to this very day while others have played
their part.
When the titans dealt with the old gods and the black empire, they ripped out the old
god Y’shaarj, leaving behind a massive wound in the planet.
Their keepers patched this wound, containing its sintalizing life energies which we know
as the well of Eternity.
Little pieces of Y’shaarj fell back on to the planet, its heart was found by Keeper
Ra who figured that placing it within a container and guarding it would be the best course of
action since studying it could help them figure out the nature of the old gods and other creatures
of the void.
Ra told some of his mogu followers to watch over the vault while in time the titans would
be slain and unlike the other keepers, Ra would actually figure out what was going on.
His beloved creator was dead so he extracted the lingering power of Aman’thul from himself
and carefully stored it in a mountain vault near the vale of eternal blossoms.
He himself retreated into the catacombs beneath the land to meditate on what he had learned.
Over time, a mogu by the name of Lei-Shen would confront Ra-den, not only steal his
powers but also that of Aman’thul.
He would become known as the Thunderking, repurposing the mogushan vaults into a facility
where they could create an endless army.
He also turned the thundering mountain into the throne of thunder where keeper ra was
held as a prisoner.
“For millenia i have waited in darkness, in silence, pierced only by the shrieks of
the tormented.”
The vale of eternal blossoms, as well as Sholazar Basin and Un’goro crater were quite special
places as these locations saw the energies from the well of eternity, the energy from
the titan spirit of Azerorth come together.
This have the locations the perfection condition to develop new flora and fauna, something
that keeper Freya made good use of.
They created tiny facilities like the shaper’s terrace to oversee the land and experiment
with their creations.
Say that they wanted to know what would happen if one of their creations is exposed to a
sulfurous hot spring.
They could wait for millenia, observing and waiting for the creature to accidentally stumble
and fall in or, in places like Un’goro, they could place the creature in the water
themselves and see what would happen.
Garrosh used the waters of the vale to empower the heart.
The avatar of Freya has us go through a way gate and pick up defenses to fight back the
scourge at sholazar basin while the shaper’s terrace was originally cloaked from mortal
eyes, a cloak that vanished with the cataclysm.
Another area that was shrouded with magic was Uldum which houses the Forge of Origination.
Created by Archaedas and Mimiron, the Forge of Origination together with the Forge of
wills were placed in the southern and northen parts of the world to help Azeroth’s spirit
grow.
It would infuse it with cosmic energies, shape the world-soul’s early perception, control
the rythm of the deep earth and fortify the slumbering titan.
Besides helping the soul grow, the forges also had a second purpose.
In the case of the forge of origination it came with a reset button for the world.
If the world would fall to corruption once more, this machine could be used to unleash
incredible energies, powerful enough to eradicate all life on the planet and have it start all
over again.
A device that drew the attention of Lei-Shen the Thunderking who wanted to claim it, but
the Tol’vir guarding the place were not having it.
They modified the weapon and unleashed the unmaking powers of the forge upon Lei-Shen
and his forces, wiping them all out.
Uldum, which was once a lush jungle, a paradise as they described it, had now turned into
the desert as we know it today.
The surviving tol’vir with Uldum worked to ensure that no one would ever again attempt
to claim such power.
They shrouded the few mountain passes that led into the region with magic.
In doing so, the tol’vir effectively sealed Uldum off from the eyes of mortals, an illusion
that worked until the cataclysm.
That moment revealed the land for all to see once more and the black dragon Deathwing set
his eyes on succeeding where Lei-Shen had failed.
We prevented him from getting his hands on the forge and wipe out all life and we even
joined Brann Bronzebeard into the Halls of Origination itself to defuse the threat and
save the world once again.
“Wahooo azeroth lives to see another day!”
The dwarf, the myth, the legend is very keen on discovering the history of the world, the
titans and his own race, a quest that took him to Ulduar in Northrend.
This is the northern area of the world, the location that houses the Forge of Wills which
was used to create a whole new generation of titan forged like the anubisath, tol’vir
and the mogu.
Because he was so awesome in the war against the black empire, keeper Odyn was assigned
by the pantheon to tbe the prime-designate.
The duty of watching over the forge and also the old god yogg-saron’s prison would fall
unto him, so he and the keepers build a massive fortress to serve as the main bastion of the
titan-forged on azeroth.
Ulduar as we know it, but Odyn and the keepers would have a bit of a falling out when Keeper
Tyr came up with the idea of empowering proto-dragons and turned them into the aspects to have them
help with guarding the world from threats.
Odyn didn’t believe they should place azeroth’s fate on the shoulders of such primitive life-forms
and considering their parents made him the prime-designate, he should have the final
say.
The other keepers went ahead with their plan anyway, they empowered the aspects and altered
hundreds of proto-dragon eggs.
Their task was to help protect the world, each flight would serve a different dragon
aspects but all would be bound by their duty.
To strengthen this bond, the keepers forged a grand tower called Wyrmrest temple.
It would serve as the heart of the dragon’s culture, a sanctuary where they could gather
and discuss their activities.
But above all, Wyrmrest would stand as a symbol of their unity.
Odyn could not exactly appreciate all of this.
Together with the aid of Helya he took one of Ulduar’s wings, lifted it up into the
sky and from the Halls of Valor he would make his own army, with valarjar and no stupid
dragon aspects.
Down below yogg-saron did his best to break out of his prison, gain control of the keepers
and the facility.
Loken fell under his sway, worked against the other keepers and spread the curse of
flesh.
Keeper Tyr and Archaedes eluded Yogg’s and Loken’s grasp and knew that if there was
any hope of undoing the damage caused by his schemes, they would need to carefully study
his actions.
The discs of Norgannon were perfect for this job as they were created to transcribe history
as it unfolded on Azeroth.
Incase their parents, the pantheon ever returned, they would possess a record of what had come
to pass in their absence.
Of course Loken didn’t want them to figure out what he had done so he paniced a bit and
send out C’thraxxi, ancient beings of the black empire to track down Tyr and his crew.
In the land we know as Tirisfal today, Tyr fell, giving his life to protect his friends
and defeat the C’thraxxi.
Archaedes and Ironaya burried him there and renamed the area in his honor.
They then traveled to Uldaman, a facility originally designed to house the troggs, one
of their early titan forged creations that didn’t really turn out the way they wanted
them too.
Not having the heart to put them down, they placed them in stasis within Ulduman and now
to house the discs of norgannon, they expanded the facility, vowing to protect the history
of Aeroth with their lives if need be.
The curse of flesh, designed to make the titan-forged weaker and more volnerable to the corruption
of the old gods, not to mention litteraly give them flesh, it was spreading amongst
the titan forged in Uldaman and as more and more felt its effects, they requests to be
placed in stasis to hold off the corruption.
Many, many years later, dwarves of Ironforge delved into Uldaman to gather artifact and
knowledge, and they inadvertently woke the monsters that slept in its belly.
The troggs brutally slaughtered the explorers with glee.
The survivors scrambled out of Uldaman in terror and fled back to Ironforge.
The dwarves were relieved to find that the troggs didn’t follow them, but they were
wrong as the troggs did follow, only underground.
This is where they heard the great factories in the heart of Gnomeregan, the reason why
they started their invasion of the city and this would lead to the gnomes nearly being
wiped out and losing their home.
Now tales of fabled treasure containing great knowledge would entice would-be treasure hunters
to dig deeper into the secrest of Uldaman.
Stone defenders, savage troggs, dark iron invaders and other dangers lurk in the lost
city, but this did not hold us back.
We still barged into the facility seen as enemies by its defenses, Ironaya and Archaedas,
we struck them all down and claimed the discs of norgannon, all in the name of knowledge!
“Who dares to awaken archaedas?
Who dares the wrath of the makers!”
During the cataclysm we discover that more digging is being done within the badlands
and more titan ruins are being uncovered.
One of them, the tomb of the watchers, played a pivatal role in the creation and cleansing
of the black dragon wrathion, as we went in, dealt with the guardians and returned with
the eye of the watchers.
This titan artifact was just the key to create a purified black dragon egg and kick off the
adventures of Wrathion.
Meanwhile back in the past, back at Ulduar, Loken was not having a grand old good time.
He was very worried about his transgresions being revealed so he worked on replacing the
information from the dsiscs with an archive of his own design called the tribunal of ages.
He also altered the titan communication devices in Ulduar.
This assured that no living creature would be able to contact Algalon the Observer, he
who was charged by the titans to keep an eye on the planet.
Only loken’s death would dwarf the constellar to Azeroth, taking revenge for Loken if his
demise ever came to pass.
He would be taken care of, but not by archaedas or ironaya as he had expected.
During Wrath of the Lich King, Brann bronzebeard discovered yogg-sarons presence who’s enchanted
prison bonds have been weakend by cho’gall.
This allowed him to take complete control of the facility and the old god threat had
to be taken care of.
The alliance and the Horde, Garrosh and Varian were not really fond of eachother at the time
so members of the alliance offered to escort Brann into Ulduar to uncovered more of its
mysteries.
They infiltrated a wing of the fortress known as the Halls of Stone, home to the forge of
WIlls.
Sjonnir the Ironshaper, one of Keeper Loken’s most trusted servants, was waiting for them.
He served as the master of the Forge of Wills and the architect of YOgg-saron’s iron army.
The alliance heroes braved countless dangers and destroyed Sjonnir, denying the Old God
any further reinforcmeents.
Meanwhile, the Horde did not remain idle, A handful of its greatest heroes traveled
to another of Ulduar’s wings: the Halls of Lightning.
Loken called this corner of the fortress home, and he surrounded himself with the most ardent
followers.
THe Horde’s champions were nearly strtuck down when thye came face-to-face with the
fallen keeper, but their persistence paid off, and they slew him.
In his final moments, Loken gave his enemies a cryptic message: “My death, heralds the
end of this world.”
A signal was send out, Algalon came down and observed the planet.
His conclussion was that the old god’s corruption had spread across the world and even taken
root in strongholds like Ulduar.
Algalon believed that the only recourse was to unleash the Forge Of Orgination’s power
on Azeroth, but thankfully we were able to smack some sense into him.
He was moved by our resolve and decided that we had earned the right to fight against Azeroth’s
corruption ourselves giving us the key to reverse the fail-safe protocol.
Not only that, we were also able to liberate the keepers of Yogg’s control and even defeat
the old god himself.
“Your fate is sealed.
The end of days is finally upon you and all who inhabit this missereble little seedlings.
Old god yargon woesjjjjjjj”
Another old god that wanted to break out of prison was C’thun housed within Ahn’Qiraj.
In ages past, Ra and his alles worked on expanding this
prison, building another mighty fortress with titan forged left behind to guard the stronghold.
The facility would be taken over by the Aqir.
They enslaved the anubisath gians which proved to be a mighty force in the war against the
trolls and while the trolls were unsuccesfull in completely wiping out the insectoid threat,
they were able to claim enough dominance to pronounced themselves victories.
The aqir submitted and under the influence of C’thun, they evovled into the qiraji.
Many years later, with the night elves setting foot into Ahn’Qiraj, they awakened the dorment
insectoids and kicked off the war of the shifting sands.
This resulted in the creation of the scarab wall to contain the dark threat inside, but
the wall wasn’t strong enough to stop Cho’gall.
He and his cultists performed a great ritual outside the wall, their magic extended beyond
the barrier, piercing into the prison chamber where C’thun was chained.
The influx of power shattered the Old God’s bonds, but it came at a price for Cho’gall’s
followers as they energies unleashed destroyedd most of the cultists who had taken part.
The few who survived were left catatonic, unable to speak or even move but Cho’gall
had no use for them as he left them behind in the desert and set out to liberate Yogg-Saron.
The world rose up, Alliance and Horde worked together and while the Horde occupidied the
qiraji army above, AQ20, the Alliance took on C’thun and defeated him.
“You are already dead...”
Those are the major titan facilities we can find in the world, but there are a couple
of smaller ones.
For example there is the Vault of Archavon located in Wintergrasp.
Wintergrasp doesn’t really have a story besides it being a staging ground for horde
and alliance to fight over.
The reason for that is mainly the resources that they could find and ofcourse both sides
are eager to seize the artifacts and relics held within the vault for their battle against
the Lich King.
There’s also a log created by Archavon the Stone Watcher which talks about the events
that happened while he was charged with guarding the place.
Day 10 The Makers are gone.
I have been left to watch.
Day 10500: The Halls are quiet.
Empty.
I thought the Makers want me to watch the Hall, but they never specifically said, Archavon,
Watch the hall...
Maybe it's okay if I watch the outside too?
It would probably be less boring outside.
It's decided- I am now responsible for watching the Hall AND the outside.
I shall take on my new responsibility next month.
Day 900500: Been very boring outside.
Archavon go to sleep.
Some noises outside.
It get cold.
It’s possible that the noise Archavon heard was the sundering which split the land of
Kalimdor and send Northrend up so it got a lot colder.
Day 1051213: Archavon wake up, notice face feel soft.
Not important.
Go back to sleep
Archavon was probably hit by the curse of flesh that I talked about earlier causing
his face to now feel soft.
The rest of the entries talk about small green people showing up, us fighting eachother,
his brothers waking up again and us fighting them aswell.
It being a battleground usually means that the story behind it isn’t massive, but still
interesting to have a little titan facility with guardians waiting inside.
Another battleground for Wrath of the Lich King is the Strand of the Ancients, a facility
that houses a mysterious titan elic.
Disembark on the Strand with your war machines and fellow soldiers, smash the walls of yesteryear
and claim a prize of eons’ past.
Or seize the titans’ once-magnificent bulwark, man their guns, and blast your enemies back
into the sea.
Don’t believe they’ve ever done anything with that relic, but what is kinda cool is
that we see a road connection the titan facilities within Northrend.
Named the path of the titans, it runs from Ulduar over the terrace of the makers through
dragonblight and wyrmrest temple.
Then it goes on into the frozen sea while parts of it can be found on the western side
of the strand of the ancients seemingly going even further.
Let’s not forget that the land split apart after the war of the ancients, so it’s possible
that these facilities and maybe even more were once upon a time connected to eachother.
In Legion we had priests follow the guidance of Magni Bronzebeard the speaker, who’s
heard a calling of sort coming from deep in the core of Azeroth.
The voice is telling him that there’s a lost titan vault out there, somewhere near
the maelstrom.
“Whoa, that’s a large door!
Gotta be a lever around here somehwere, though.
There’s always a lever!”
Never seen anyone get so excited about a large freaking door.
“Revola ruk maez amir.”
“Well, I suppose ye don’t need ta be lookin’ fer levers and switches n’more, Brann!”
“Bit of a shame, that.”
Within the Primordial Observatory we’re informed by the Custodian that this place
houses Seekers, feral creatures infused with the Light by the Shapers.
The finest specimens were selected from herds and trained to serve the watchers, speeding
them to sites of corruption in accordance with containment protocols.
Once there were herds of them, now only 3 remain and after holding our ground against
the facilities defenses, we figure out why the voices told Magni to come here.
“Hmm, the custodian be powerin’ down.
Might be this chamber expended all its energy.
Ohh, no one’s left ta look after these poor creatures!
” “Yer wrong about that, lass.
‘Tis why Azeroth called me...called us...here.
She knew it wouldn’t be long before the void o’ertook this chamber.
She knew who would protect these creatures an’use ‘em in service of the Light.
‘Tis ye, High Priest.
”
And that’s how priests obtained their class mount, but Azeroth itself isn’t doing too
great.
The old gods corruption was disturbing her dreams.
Once more, Magni guided us, this time to the Makers Overlook in Sholazars basin which has
a teleportation pad to the Hall of Communion.
These halls were built to watch over the soul of the world with its own titanic defenses
in place.
The disturbing echos, her nightmares manifested are causing quite a bit of trouble, but we’re
able to put down the Amalgam of Torment and contain the nightmares.
The Maiden of Vitality lets us know that the threat is neutralized and they’ll quickly
get to work on repairing their defenses.
Their subject Azeroth, that which they watch over has a bit of an abnormal heartbeat, but
other then that...her vitals are within acceptable parameters.
This is where they keep a close eye on that spirit within the world, the whole reason
why the titans brought order to the planet and created all their facilities to begin
with.
With time, I’m sure that more of them will be revealed, but for now I hope I was able
to explain a little bit more about the titan facilities and their purpose.
Thanks a lot for your comment it was a lot of fun to research the history behind all
of this.
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