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Fandral Staghelm: “Behold the rage of the Firelands.“ Let’s begin shall we?!
Staghelm is a night elf who has lived for a very long time and in that time…he didn’t
have it easy.
He followed Malfurion Stormrage in his path of druidism, earned the title of archdruid
and was responsible for the old gods gaining access into the emerald dream which marked
the beginning of something known as the emerald nightmare.
Despite spending a lot of time in the dream, he did spend enough time with his beloved
wife to have children, yet she died giving birth to his son.
A tragic blow, but atleast the child did survive and he named him Valstann.
Valstann would eventually marry with Leyara, but during the war of the shifting sands he
lost his life.
This war was between the forces of the old god C’thun and the night elves with the
eventual aid of dragons.
General Rajax was leading C’thuns forces while Staghelm was leading the night elves
and he was doing a great job holding the line together with his son.
Rajax realized that Staghelm had one great weakness, his love for his child.
They captured Valstann and brutally executed him in front of the night elf forces.
This action shattered Staghelm, first he lost his wife, now his only son…he was devastated
and the night elf forces were forced to retreat all the way to Tanaris.
The war would end in a victory as the dragons added their might to the night elf forces,
but the blow dealt to staghelm would haunt him for the rest of his life.
After the events of warcraft 3, the battle with Archimonde atop mount hiyal, the night
elves lost their world tree Nordrassil.
This tree was planted after the war of ancients and blessed by the dragon aspects, amongst
them Nozdormu who had given the night elves immortality.
With the tree destroyed, their immortality went with it and Staghelm believed that they
should plant a new one.
Malfurion disagreed and the plans were put on hold, until their shan’do got trapped
in the emerald dream and Staghelm was able to convince the others to grow this tree anyways,
you now know it as the night elf starting area and capital city, Teldrassil.
This is also reflected in his card description which says: Always manages to mention "Back
when I was creating the World Tree…" in EVERY conversation.
Sheesh!
Enough already
This is also not the first time that he planted new world trees despite others advising him
not too and this is the reason why Fandral is responsible for the emerald nightmare.
The old gods were corrupting the land and Staghelm believed that world trees were the
answer.
At first it seemed like his plan was working, but the roots of these newly planted trees
burrowed so deep that they touched the subterranean prison of yogg-saron which allowed the old
god to use it as a doorway into the Dream, a doorway through which even the other old
gods could grasp the ethereal domain as well.
Small seeds of corruption were spread throughout ysera’s realm.
In time, these seed polluted the dreamways and turned it into the Emerald Nightmare.
For the longest time this was not known the world.
There were some hints here and there, we even saw the dragons of nightmare as world bosses,
but the corruption wouldn’t be tackled until the novel Stormrage set just a bit before
the cataclysm.
During classic, Staghelm offered quests where players could turn in Morrowgrain for rewards,
but unknown to all was that Staghelm was using this Morrowgrain to keep Malfurion trapped
within the dream.
For the emerald dream was taken by the nightmare and the old god N’zoth together with Xavius
had imprisoned Malfurion.
The world tree Teldrassil was corrupted and Staghelm himself was under the influence of
the old god, controlled by fake visions of his son.
So in the novel, Malfurion with the help from people like Broll bearmantle, Tyrande whisperwind,
Thura and a bunch of others, he’s able to break free and confront Staghelm.
His corruption became clear for all to see and they imprisoned him, while Teldrassil
was cleansed.
It still didn’t obtain a blessing from Nozdormu, so the night elves are still mortal, but at
least they weren’t living on a nightmarish tree anymore.
Malfurion got married to Tyrande and together they would lead their people while Staghelm
was imprisoned.
In comes the cataclysm where Deathwing and Ragnaros team up to take over the world.
Ragnaros the firelord sends out his minions to free Staghelm, adventurers were actually
tricked into helping with this and Staghelm became his new Majordomo, empowered by Ragnaros
himself.
He in turn, recruited his daughter in law Leyara into their new faction of druids of
the flame.
The Horde had killed Leyara’s daughter and she’s sick of Malfurions passive stand in
regards to the Horde so she joined willingly.
With his new team of bad ass flame druids and his new title of MajorDomo, Staghelm goes
to take out the one threat to Deathwings plans.
They crashed the gathering where Thrall and friends were planning a ritual to restore
the original world tree Nordrassil.
With their magic, they split the world shaman into 4 different elements and scattered him
across the elemental plane.
Thrall’s mate Aggra was not about to let her mate go like that so we went in to each
of the elemental planes, air, eart, fire, water, gathered the fragments and restored
Thrall into 1 single being.
They kinda forgot about their plans of healing Nordrassil but atleast we ended up with a
sweet wedding and as we all know by now, Majordomo Staghelm was a boss in the firelands raids
where we killed him and saved the world.
We even destroyed Ragnaros the firelord with the aid of Malfurion, Cenarius and Hamuul
Runetotem who was burned to a crip by Lyara and the druids of the flame and not even Deathwing
was safe.
Thrall was restored, teamed up with the dragon aspects and with the use of the dragon soul,
they were able to bring down Deathwing, put a stop to his and by extention N’zoth’s
plans and prevent the hour of twilight from happening.
And that in a nutshell is Fandral Staghelm’s story.
A man who tried to do what was best, but faced unimaginable losses which dark forces grabbed,
twisted, manipulated until only a shell of the man remained.
It does make for a pretty sweet hearthstone card as it will allow you to use both of your
choose one card effects and if you play him against Tyrande, he will say:
You would lead our people to ruin!
This goes back to the days where there was a struggle between Tyrande and Staghelm in
what direction they should lead their people.
For a time, Staghelm was actually the one horde players required to kill despite Tyrande
being the official leader, but this was later on changed.
And that’s where we’ll end the story for today.
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