Hello everyone!
I’ve counted the votes and the card you wanted me to talk about most is Atiesh, greatstaff
of the guardian.
“Here, borrow my staff; it controls the portals.
Just don’t scratch it.”
let’s begin shall we?!
As the name implies, Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian is the weapon used by the guardian.
The guardian is charged with keeping Azeroth safe and its origin goes back, way back to
the time where the mages of Dalaran were recklessly using their magic.
Their abuse inadvertently tore open rifts in reality and through one such rift, the
Nathrezim Kathra'natir clawed his way into Azeroth and found Dalaran ripe for upheaval.
They tried to fight back but found the dreadlord to be quite powerful so they came up with
the plan of pooling their power into 1 single being and have that person be their champion,
their guardian.
The first one to claim this title was Alodi empowered by the council of tirisfal, he was
able to overcome Kathrenatir save the day and keep the world safe.
Over time, the mantle of guardian was passed on and although it’s unknown when they created
Atiesh, we do know that it too passed on from guardian to guardian.
That doesn’t mean that guardians only atiesh, for example the guardian Aegwynn worked very
hard on creating Aluneth, another powerful weapon, but usually Atiesh was a lot more
reliable and allowed them to overcome great challenges.
Challenges like the avatar of Sargeras which Aegwynn together with Atiesh was able to defeat,
but there were plans and scemes in motion which nobody knew about.
The spirit of Sargeras nestled itself inside the guardian Aegwynn, twisting her mind and
turning her against the council.
She became so against them that she refused to hand over the powers of the guardian to
a successor apointed by the council and instead decided to have a child of her own and have
that child inherit her powers, her duty and of course her weapon.
What she didn’t plan on passing on was the spirit of Sargeras who infitlrated the child
while it was still forming in her womb.
Now the dark leader of the Burning Legion had found the perfect instrument with which
to weaken the world of Azeroth.
The guardian, the main protection against the Legion was now in his hands and he twisted
Medivh’s mind like he had done with his mother.
They made contact with the orcish warlock Gul’dan, created the dark portal and set
about the first Horde invasion of Azeroth.
Medivh’s corruption would eventually be found out by people like his apprentice Khadgar,
his long time friend Anduin Lothar and his lover Garona Halforcen.
They confronted the corrupted guardian and killed him, but the invasion was already on
the way so after burrying his body next to Karazhan, they focused on defending the world
against the threat of the Horde.
This is where the fate of Atiesh becomes a little bit unclear since we have some conflicting
story and some retcons to deal with.
Following Medivh’s death, his mother spend her time collecting her powers and used them
to resurrect her son, just the good side of him of course, an uncorrupted guardian.
We saw this Medivh during Warcraft 3 warning the world of the threat of the Legion, getting
the right people together and teach them that they no longer needed a guardian.
In his hands we see Atiesh and after completing his task, after the defeat of Archimonde,
he states that he’ll take his place amongst the legends of the past and it’s entirely
up for interpretation what that means, but it looks like he takes Atiesh with him.
That’s one version, but then we also have the version in which players themselves were
able to obtain atiesh and wield it.
After the fall of Karazhan, after the corrupted Medivh was confronted, the Kirin Tor dispatched
an assembly of mages to search the tower and seize all items of importance for the purposes
ofresearch.
It was then that the fables staff was discovered and brought back to Dalaran.
What followed were a series of tragic events, leading to the death of every Kirin Tor mage
that came into contact with Atiesh.
You see, it was an artifact with sentience.
A sentience granted to it by Sargeras...
After the deaths, the council of Six decided that the best course of action was to seal
the staff behind impenetrable barriers of magic and appoint a watcher: A guardian of
the staff...That guardian would be Archmage Angela Dosantos who tells us this tale and
also explains that Atiesh was shattered when Archimonde destroyed Dalaran during Warcraft
3.
So this conflicts with what we see in Warcraft 3.
That’s definitely Atiesh in Medivh’s hands, but at the same time, the shattering does
seem to happen since the image of Medivh in the latest Karazhan dungeon says:
“Atiesh will shatter”
The splintered pieces were collected by adventurers, the base of Atiesh was reclaimed from C’thun
since it was left there by Brann Bronzebeard and the head of the staff was found in Kel’thuzad’s
possession.
With all of the pieces reclaimed they then went into Stratholme to clense the staff and
slay the demon Atiesh but not even that is the final version of the story because we
also have Med’an in the comics.
Med’an is the son of Garona and Medivh and in the comics it was he who became the next
guardian, obtained Atiesh and used it to defeat Cho’gal and put a stop to their plans.
Last blizzcon they decided to retcon the events in the comics with Med’an so its up for
speculation how Atiesh was reformed and cleansed and how the hell it ended up in the hands
of Khadgar.
With warlords of Draenor, archmage Khadgar showed up to join the fight and all of a sudden
he had Atiesh in his hands.
No reason or explenation was given and a lot of people speculated on him possible being
the new guardian.
That’s now been debunked, Khadgar has said several times that he doesn’t want to be
the guardian, but he does fullfill a similar roll.
Like Medivh in warcraft 3, he went around to warn the world of the coming Legion invasion
and he’s currently doing his very best to safe the world from the threat the legion,
wielding Atiesh as he goes.
“I prefer using the greatstaff Atiesh’s raven form.
Nothing’s worse than saddle sores.
Hopefully they’ll clear up the story behind this weapon since with time it’s become
quite a mess.
In Hearthstone it’s the guardian Medivh who lends you the staff either during the
match with Malchazaar or later on if you play Medivh.
A game?
So kind of you to join me.
With the weapon in hand after you cast a spell, you’ll summon a random minion of the same
cost.
And that’s where we’ll end the story for today, hopefully in the future they’ll explain
more about the history of this weapon.
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