Hello everyone!
Last week we started our journey towards the expansion Legion with alternate gul’dan
reaching the tomb of sargeras, while Khadgar is trying his best to catch him and warden
Maievh shadowsong focuses her efforts on protecting Illidan within the vault of the wardens.
Will this gul’dan succeed where the other has not or will he too betray Kil’jaeden
and the Legion?
Let’s find out shall we?!
With a thundering boom, Gul’dan knocked down the door and enterd the tomb, lead by
kil’jaeden’s voice every step of the way.
Khadgar reaches the tomb but he doesn’t have a demon lord whispering in his ears,
telling him where to go.
Unlike Maiev, he’s not familiar with the place but a very, very stupid idea springs
to mind.
Gul’dan has placed traps behind him, a trail of breadcrumbs khadgar would be able to follow.
All he had to do was activate the traps, place himself in harms way and possible death.
A very stupid idea, but it’s all he had as he raced through the tomb, sliced through
traps, nearly got stabbed in the heart by a fell bolt and a long the way he noticed
strange arcane ruins, cosmicly complicated.
Gul’dan had no knowledge of the arcane as far as Khadgar knew and after studying them,
he realised that these ruins were part of a key.
A key to unlocking the powers, the gateway the legion had tried to create here so long
ago.
had Aegwynn build this key intentionaly or had the spirit of sargeras lurking inside
her twist her action so subtlely that she had not noticed?
Khadgar didn’t know and didn’t have the time to ponder it any longer since Gul’dan
was working hard on unlocking the 5 seals.
Within a towering chamber, the archmage found the warlock crouched over a glowing tile on
the floor, making small gestures, working his magic.
“It’s been too long old friend” “Lethal energies erupted from the archmages
hands” “Ive been looking forward to this”
“Have you now”
Arcane and fel energies crash into eachother.
Gul’dan wants nothing more then to claim the life of the archmage but Kil’jaeden
is not having it.
He needs gul’dan to open the gateway, neither of them can die this day meaning that the
Legion has some sort of plan ready for Khadgar.
The legion knows he will do anything to claim victory and that will be of use to them later.
The warlock wondered if they’d be able to turn the mage and if they could, would they
still need him?
Despite his own wishes, Gul’dan retreats to the shadows once again focusing his efforts
on unlocking the seals, but Khadgar is not letting him off that easy.
Arcane orbs are send out to illuminate the darkness of the tomb while Khadgar’s His
taunting words echo off the walls.
“Have you ever had to personally defeat a prepaired avisary?hmm?
Someone who knows exactly what you are?
Your other self certainly never did.
He campaigned from draenor to azeroth and laid waste to entire cities, yet he always
had others to do that sort of dirty work for him.
This must be so uncomfterable for you.
“
Fell fire was send towards the mage.
Gul’dan could take no more, yet he didn’t have permission to strike.
Using his arcane magic to freeze the air around him, khadgar hid away within his iceblock
not feeling a thing, but Gul’dan let out a muffled grunt of pain as Kil’jaeden’s
discipline reminded him of who was in charge.
Despite their little chat and spellslinging, gul’dan managed to break the first seal
right under khadgars nose.
He was aware of the pool of power hidden within the tomb and if all seals would break, the
legion would win.
There was no time to wait any longer so he formed several arcane elementals to kick around
some rocks and try to flush out the legion’s puppet.
Another seal broke,
but the third one proved to be far more difficult.
It was like trying to untie a knot of spidersilk in the dark, with his toes!
Suddenly his magic slipped from his grasp and the third seal did not only break, it
shattered!
By accident he also destroyed the fourth seal, a small mirracle that it hadn’t killed him
and there was only 1 seal left...yet Aegwynn had prepaired for this and placed magical
defenses against it.
A source of guardian power started to feed the last rune, empowering it and khadgar sensed
what was going on.
He had wondered why he felt a guardians might, after all he had been the apprantice of the
guardian Medivh and he decided to aid the power by creating a magical wedge and having
his elementals destroy the floor beneath them.
Kil’jaeden had been pleased with gul’dan’s progress, but now he urged gul’dan to kill
him, kill him before all their plans would fail.
“I obey kil’jaeden”
Archmage and Warlock resumed their fight, but gul’dan did not have the power to both
kill the mage and unlock the final seal.
He urged Kil’jaeden to send him the stored powers, to aid him in this fight, but the
deceiver does not trust gul’dan.
“Trust that i want to see this fool dead or trust that all of your plans will burn”
Kil’jaeden was reluctant, he knows me too well gul’dan though to himself, but then
he felt something new, power surging towards him.
In the mean time, in the midst of their battle, Khadgar decided to finish the story he had
begun to taunt gul’dan.
He told him exactly how our version had died, not by the hands of the alliance, not by the
hands of the horde he had betrayed.
No...our gul’dan was torn limb from limb by demons and the words struck this gul’dan
numb as finally Kil’jaeden made his choice and power flowed into the warlock.
With it he was able to destroy the final seal, unleash the pool of power that was trying
to make it ways to the portal barried deep within the island, but gul’dan intercepted
it and took it for his own.
“He was suffocicating in power, drowning in an ocean, it was vile, it was beautiful,
he drank deeply, felt pain, balance, control.
“
He finally gained the power that the legion had promised him, power that could not be
ignored as he lifted a finger and said good bye to khadgar.
The block of ice once again saved the mage’s life as fel fire engulfed him.
Gul’dan was surpised by this, he felt like he could crack open the world if he so desired,
but no matter.
The archmage could die later and with a wave of his hand, he hurled the block of ice through
the door way and crashed the doors arch behind it sealing the chamber shut.
Gul’dan had won.
With this power the possibilities were limitless yet kil’jaeden thought he could still give
the orders.
He told gul’dan to finish his task and open the gateway, but gul’dan was done with playing
the obediant dog.
He had a little discussion with Kil’jaeden about the things Khadgar had told him.
Gul’dan did not believe that the mage had lied about the others fate, that the Legion
had indeed killed that one and he was right.
Kil’jaeden told him about how the other had betrayed them, what he was meant to do.
This gul’dan believed that he was destined for great power and he was right, but he also
believed that he could be his own master and that would never happen.
Servitude does not mean imprisonment though, even Kil’jaeden serves Sargeras.
Gul’dan would serve Kil’jaeden and others would serve Gul’dan, yet the warlock is
unmoved.
Kil’jaeden could feel the distance grow between them.
“enough gul’dan, make your choice.
You can prove yourself loyal, return your power to the portal and the way will open
or you can betray us yet again.
Your only satisfaction before we destroy you will be meaningless vengeance on insignificant
mortals.
The eredar offered a parting thought.
Know this, you can call me deceiver, but I did not lie to you.
Not once.
Not in this world and not in yours.“
I personally really liked this line because it links back to the first time that our Gul’dan
and Kil’jaeden teamed up.
Even then Kil’jaeden realised the potential in the warlock and he knew that there was
no reason to play games or deceive him.
Gul’dan was all about power and this fit Kil’jaeden’s needs perfectly, however
it’s not entirely true.
Kil’jaeden had promised our Gul’dan power if he exterminated the Draenei back on Draenor.
Gul’dan did precisly that, but when Kil’jaeden thought that the job was done, that Velen
the prophet had been killed, he left Gul’dan and the orcs to their fate.
Without a word he simply left the planet and did not deliver the promised power.
Kil’jaeden the deceiver doing what he does best, deceive, regardless, I thought it was
a very nice touch so Kil’jaeden pushes gul’dan away and lets him make his choice.
In the meantime Khadgar has been trying to find a way to get back and even warden Maiev
Shadowsong has shown up to lend a hand.
They both know that there’s no way of stopping gul’dan now
“I don’t see you running”
She has a point as both of them engange the warlock and give it their all.
Gul’dan doesn’t understand, why do they keep fighting?
Khadgar had been defeated and yet here he was.
He had seen the way Maiev and Khadgar interacted with eachother, yet here they stood, side
by side opposing him.
A whole world full of the same beings that together had dismantled the Iron Horde and
together they brought even Archimonde low.
Again and again he would face opponents like this, without a master, yet he would have
to face them alone.
“Help me understand” guldan was strangely calm.
“Why do you fight?
You can do nothing here but die.
THen kill us if you can.
Set her feet and slammed her blade twice against the pillar “
Khadgar and Shadowsong were only the first of many he had to face and the warlock realized
that he can not defeat them all alone.
He could kill these two or he could obay the legion.
Gul’dan closed his eyes and let all that delicious power slip from his grasp.
Kil’jaeden grabbed it and the gateway for the Legion was opened.
Gul’dan had made his choice and decided that allying with the legion instead of trying
to do it all by himself was his better option and for his loyalty, he was rewarded.
Kil’jaeden’s voice was in his mind but it no longer rattled like it had before.
He felt something new from the burning legion, trust, it was a dizzying sensation.
The deceiver showed him the army of demons, the legion waiting on the other side.
They had always been ready, just waiting for the path to be open and Gul’dan would join
them on their march into Azeroth not as a servant, but as their leader.
He had succeeded where the other had failed and for Khadgar and Maiev there was nothing
else to do but run for their lives.
“I’m going back to the vault, you draw them away.
Fight and die well archmage”
Laughing the warlock send out demons to chase after the mage.
Hopefully their attention would be drawn to him, giving maiev and the watchers the time
they needed, but she did come back khadgar thought to himself.
That has to mean something and holding on to that small glimmer of hope, he set out
to warn the world of what had transpired at the tomb of sargeras.
The legion was coming and it would take an azeroth united, Horde, Alliance, Kirin Tor,
everything and everyone would have to answer the call like Maievh had...
“for we stand once more upon the brink of destruction”
“Ploink – the burning legion.....has returned.....”
I’m not certain what happened first, either Khadgar flew to stormwind to warn them or
he went to karazhan first, not sure but for the flow of this story I like to pretend he
went to warn Varian first.
Hello everyone! Last week we started our journey towards the expansion Legion with alternate
gul’dan reaching the tomb of sargeras, while Khadgar is trying his best to catch him and
warden Maievh shadowsong focuses her efforts on protecting Illidan within the vault of
the wardens. Will this gul’dan succeed where the other has not or will he too betray Kil’jaeden
and the Legion? Let’s find out shall we?!
With a thundering boom, Gul’dan knocked down the door and enterd the tomb, lead by
kil’jaeden’s voice every step of the way. Khadgar reaches the tomb but he doesn’t
have a demon lord whispering in his ears, telling him where to go. Unlike Maiev, he’s
not familiar with the place but a very, very stupid idea springs to mind. Gul’dan has
placed traps behind him, a trail of breadcrumbs khadgar would be able to follow. All he had
to do was activate the traps, place himself in harms way and possible death. A very stupid
idea, but it’s all he had as he raced through the tomb, sliced through traps, nearly got
stabbed in the heart by a fell bolt and a long the way he noticed strange arcane ruins,
cosmicly complicated. Gul’dan had no knowledge of the arcane as far as Khadgar knew and after
studying them, he realised that these ruins were part of a key. A key to unlocking the
powers, the gateway the legion had tried to create here so long ago. had Aegwynn build
this key intentionaly or had the spirit of sargeras lurking inside her twist her action
so subtlely that she had not noticed? Khadgar didn’t know and didn’t have the time to
ponder it any longer since Gul’dan was working hard on unlocking the 5 seals. Within a towering
chamber, the archmage found the warlock crouched over a glowing tile on the floor, making small
gestures, working his magic.
“It’s been too long old friend” “Lethal energies erupted from the archmages
hands” “Ive been looking forward to this”
“Have you now”
Arcane and fel energies crash into eachother. Gul’dan wants nothing more then to claim
the life of the archmage but Kil’jaeden is not having it. He needs gul’dan to open
the gateway, neither of them can die this day meaning that the Legion has some sort
of plan ready for Khadgar. The legion knows he will do anything to claim victory and that
will be of use to them later. The warlock wondered if they’d be able to turn the mage
and if they could, would they still need him? Despite his own wishes, Gul’dan retreats
to the shadows once again focusing his efforts on unlocking the seals, but Khadgar is not
letting him off that easy. Arcane orbs are send out to illuminate the darkness of the
tomb while Khadgar’s His taunting words echo off the walls.
“Have you ever had to personally defeat a prepaired avisary?hmm?
Someone who knows exactly what you are? Your other self certainly never did. He campaigned
from draenor to azeroth and laid waste to entire cities, yet he always had others to
do that sort of dirty work for him. This must be so uncomfterable for you. “
Fell fire was send towards the mage. Gul’dan could take no more, yet he didn’t have permission
to strike. Using his arcane magic to freeze the air around him, khadgar hid away within
his iceblock not feeling a thing, but Gul’dan let out a muffled grunt of pain as Kil’jaeden’s
discipline reminded him of who was in charge. Despite their little chat and spellslinging,
gul’dan managed to break the first seal right under khadgars nose. He was aware of
the pool of power hidden within the tomb and if all seals would break, the legion would
win. There was no time to wait any longer so he formed several arcane elementals to
kick around some rocks and try to flush out the legion’s puppet. Another seal broke,
but the third one proved to be far more difficult. It was like trying to untie a knot of spidersilk
in the dark, with his toes! Suddenly his magic slipped from his grasp and the third seal
did not only break, it shattered! By accident he also destroyed the fourth seal, a small
mirracle that it hadn’t killed him and there was only 1 seal left...yet Aegwynn had prepaired
for this and placed magical defenses against it. A source of guardian power started to
feed the last rune, empowering it and khadgar sensed what was going on. He had wondered
why he felt a guardians might, after all he had been the apprantice of the guardian Medivh
and he decided to aid the power by creating a magical wedge and having his elementals
destroy the floor beneath them. Kil’jaeden had been pleased with gul’dan’s progress,
but now he urged gul’dan to kill him, kill him before all their plans would fail.
“I obey kil’jaeden”
Archmage and Warlock resumed their fight, but gul’dan did not have the power to both
kill the mage and unlock the final seal. He urged Kil’jaeden to send him the stored
powers, to aid him in this fight, but the deceiver does not trust gul’dan.
“Trust that i want to see this fool dead or trust that all of your plans will burn”
Kil’jaeden was reluctant, he knows me too well gul’dan though to himself, but then
he felt something new, power surging towards him. In the mean time, in the midst of their
battle, Khadgar decided to finish the story he had begun to taunt gul’dan. He told him
exactly how our version had died, not by the hands of the alliance, not by the hands of
the horde he had betrayed. No...our gul’dan was torn limb from limb by demons and the
words struck this gul’dan numb as finally Kil’jaeden made his choice and power flowed
into the warlock. With it he was able to destroy the final seal, unleash the pool of power
that was trying to make it ways to the portal barried deep within the island, but gul’dan
intercepted it and took it for his own.
“He was suffocicating in power, drowning in an ocean, it was vile, it was beautiful,
he drank deeply, felt pain, balance, control. “
He finally gained the power that the legion had promised him, power that could not be
ignored as he lifted a finger and said good bye to khadgar. The block of ice once again
saved the mage’s life as fel fire engulfed him. Gul’dan was surpised by this, he felt
like he could crack open the world if he so desired, but no matter. The archmage could
die later and with a wave of his hand, he hurled the block of ice through the door way
and crashed the doors arch behind it sealing the chamber shut. Gul’dan had won. With
this power the possibilities were limitless yet kil’jaeden thought he could still give
the orders. He told gul’dan to finish his task and open the gateway, but gul’dan was
done with playing the obediant dog. He had a little discussion with Kil’jaeden about
the things Khadgar had told him. Gul’dan did not believe that the mage had lied about
the others fate, that the Legion had indeed killed that one and he was right. Kil’jaeden
told him about how the other had betrayed them, what he was meant to do. This gul’dan
believed that he was destined for great power and he was right, but he also believed that
he could be his own master and that would never happen. Servitude does not mean imprisonment
though, even Kil’jaeden serves Sargeras. Gul’dan would serve Kil’jaeden and others
would serve Gul’dan, yet the warlock is unmoved. Kil’jaeden could feel the distance
grow between them.
“enough gul’dan, make your choice. You can prove yourself loyal, return your power
to the portal and the way will open or you can betray us yet again. Your only satisfaction
before we destroy you will be meaningless vengeance on insignificant mortals.
The eredar offered a parting thought. Know this, you can call me deceiver, but I
did not lie to you. Not once. Not in this world and not in yours.“
I personally really liked this line because it links back to the first time that our Gul’dan
and Kil’jaeden teamed up. Even then Kil’jaeden realised the potential in the warlock and
he knew that there was no reason to play games or deceive him. Gul’dan was all about power
and this fit Kil’jaeden’s needs perfectly, however it’s not entirely true. Kil’jaeden
had promised our Gul’dan power if he exterminated the Draenei back on Draenor. Gul’dan did
precisly that, but when Kil’jaeden thought that the job was done, that Velen the prophet
had been killed, he left Gul’dan and the orcs to their fate. Without a word he simply
left the planet and did not deliver the promised power. Kil’jaeden the deceiver doing what
he does best, deceive, regardless, I thought it was a very nice touch so Kil’jaeden pushes
gul’dan away and lets him make his choice. In the meantime Khadgar has been trying to
find a way to get back and even warden Maiev Shadowsong has shown up to lend a hand. They
both know that there’s no way of stopping gul’dan now
“I don’t see you running”
She has a point as both of them engange the warlock and give it their all. Gul’dan doesn’t
understand, why do they keep fighting? Khadgar had been defeated and yet here he was. He
had seen the way Maiev and Khadgar interacted with eachother, yet here they stood, side
by side opposing him. A whole world full of the same beings that together had dismantled
the Iron Horde and together they brought even Archimonde low. Again and again he would face
opponents like this, without a master, yet he would have to face them alone.
“Help me understand” guldan was strangely calm. “Why do you fight? You can do nothing
here but die. THen kill us if you can. Set her feet and
slammed her blade twice against the pillar “
Khadgar and Shadowsong were only the first of many he had to face and the warlock realized
that he can not defeat them all alone. He could kill these two or he could obay the
legion. Gul’dan closed his eyes and let all that delicious power slip from his grasp.
Kil’jaeden grabbed it and the gateway for the Legion was opened. Gul’dan had made
his choice and decided that allying with the legion instead of trying to do it all by himself
was his better option and for his loyalty, he was rewarded. Kil’jaeden’s voice was
in his mind but it no longer rattled like it had before. He felt something new from
the burning legion, trust, it was a dizzying sensation. The deceiver showed him the army
of demons, the legion waiting on the other side. They had always been ready, just waiting
for the path to be open and Gul’dan would join them on their march into Azeroth not
as a servant, but as their leader. He had succeeded where the other had failed and for
Khadgar and Maiev there was nothing else to do but run for their lives.
“I’m going back to the vault, you draw them away. Fight and die well archmage”
Laughing the warlock send out demons to chase after the mage. Hopefully their attention
would be drawn to him, giving maiev and the watchers the time they needed, but she did
come back khadgar thought to himself. That has to mean something and holding on to that
small glimmer of hope, he set out to warn the world of what had transpired at the tomb
of sargeras. The legion was coming and it would take an azeroth united, Horde, Alliance,
Kirin Tor, everything and everyone would have to answer the call like Maievh had...
“for we stand once more upon the brink of destruction”
“Ploink – the burning legion.....has returned.....”
I’m not certain what happened first, either Khadgar flew to stormwind to warn them or
he went to karazhan first, not sure but for the flow of this story I like to pretend he
went to warn Varian first. Afterwards he sets off to the tower of Karazhan in a a desperate
attempt to find knowledge, something that will help us fight against the legion. He
rudely slams the door on his gryphon, goes inside and there he finds the spirit of Medivh,
his former mentor and guardian of azeroth.
“Medivh...how? My spirit is bound to this tower. Yes of course. Medivh, there is so
much I need... You look terrible old friend, why have you
come here? Anything that will help me stand against them. Defeating the legion this time
will take more then some spell I’m afraid. But you never took the next step towards your
destiny. It is time azeroth had a guardian once again. A guardian? After your failings....
we don’t need a guardian medivh...
The fel corruption that they’re talking about, that’s Sargeras being inside Medivh
and now the spirit tries to convince Khadgar that he needs to step up and take on the roll
of guardian. If not him, then who will be able to stand up against the might of the
legion? Before his death, spirit tells him, he left behind a tome with an echo of his
essence. By opening it, absorbing its energies, khadgar could claim the power and single handedly
save the world.
“ow it is true – even now i desire it. Ive yourned before the legion to cringe before
my fury. and that is why i can never accept your offer. ROAR.
Khadgar refuses the temptation of this power and this is the plan Kil’jaeden and the
Legion had for the mage. They wanted to corrupt him, turn him to their side, but the archmage
is powerful enough to resist and he blows the dreadlord out of the tower.
“I came to Karazhan seeking knowledge. What I found was a reminder. That no single person,
not even a guardian, can stand against the legion alone. As before, we must ban together,
united, for azeroth!”
United we must stand against the legion as we prepaire our forces to assault the Broken
Shores and we even get unexpected aid in the form of a new hero class, the demon hunters
trained by Illidan. However, that’s a story we’ll save for another time so for now thank
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