Hello everyone! This video is a contiuation upon my story of the warcraft universe – origin
video. For those that missed it, in that video we talked about how the warcraft universe
came to be, what the titans did with their time and how Sargeras realised that he had
to destroy the universe in order to prevent the void from conquering it. The pantheon
tried to make their champion see reason, but it was already far too late and as Sargeras
went to form his Burning Legion, the pantheon continued their mission of bringing order to
the planets and finding more nascent titans. Let´s begin shall we?!
For many years the pantheon continued searching for more of their kin, titan souls to wake
from their slumber yet despite their effort, they found none. At times, the pantheon wonderd
if their search was in vain, but always they pressed on knowing deep in their hearts that
more world-souls did excist, and the pantheon would be proven right. In the far corners
of the great dark, a world took form with a titan soul inside, a world we now call Azeroth.
Upon the surface of the planet, elemental spirits walked free, air, fire, water, earth
yet the fith element, the element of spirit had been drawn in and almost consumed entirely
by the growing titan spirit. Without this primoridal force to create balance, Azeroth’s
elemental spirits fell into chaos lead by 4 elemental lords, powerful beyond mortal
comprehension. There was Al’akir the Windlord, ruthlessly cunning. Ragnaros the firelord,
compulsive and brash. Therazane the stonemother, reclusive and protective and then finally
the wise Neptulon the Tidehunter. These 4 elements raged war with eachother, each in
turn trying to gain dominion over azeroth, but victory was not the main goal here. The endless
cycle of chaos was what the elements enjoyed most and for a time the world was their playground, that is... until
the arrival of the old gods...
Send by the void lords to infect and corrupt planets in the hopes of hitting the jackpot
and corrupting a titan spirit. These old gods: Y’shaarj, Yogg-Saron, C’thun and N’zoth, they slammed
into azeroth’s surface, tendrils burrowing deep into the world’s crust towards the
defenseless heart of azeroth. Organic matter seeped from the old god’s blighted forms,
giving birth to two distinct races. 1 of them was the cunning and intelligent N’ragi, also
known as the faceless ones where as the second race was the aqir, insectoids of incredible
resillience and strength. The n’ragi acted as ruthless task masters, putting the aqir
to work to build towering citadles and temple cities around their masters’s colossal bodies.
The greatest of these bastions was built around Y’shaarj, the most powerful and wicked of
the old gods. Before long, the black empire would rise and it took control over Azeroth and
of course this did not go unnoticed by the elemental lords. For the first time in Azeroth’s
history, the elemental lords worked together rather then against each other. Fire, Wind,
Earth and Water, it was all tossed at the minions of the old gods. The elements did incredible damage
to their numbers, but it simply wasn’t enough. No matter how many of the n’raqi and aqir
died, more and more spawned from the old god’s form like larvae from a hive and in the end,
the elementals were enslaved by the old gods. Twilight descended upon azeroth and the world
spiraled into an abyss of suffering and death.
In the mean time, in the depths of the great dark beyond, Aggramar continued his mission
of eradicating all signs of demonic influence. His battles took him from one world to other
until he sensed the tranquil dreams of a slumbering world-soul. He made his way to this world
only to discover that Sargeras’ had been right about the void lords and their plans.
The planet had been infected but Aggramar believed that the world was not beyond saving.
He quickly made his way back to the pantheon and convinced them to join him in this mission of cleansing
the planet. The spirit he had sensed inside the planet was mighty, possibly even more powerful then
Sargeras and if it was brought to maturity, it could be a great ally against the void. On top of that,
the titan spirit was one of their own, it was family so they had to do everything in
their power to save it. For this, Agramar had a bold plan of attack, all members of the Pantheon
would travel to azeroth and purge the Black Empire that had claimed it. They would not
take action directly, since they feared that their colossals forms and their colossal power would do too
much damage to the planet, perhaps even kill the world soul inside so instead he proposed that they would create
mighty constructs to do the fighting for them. Under the guidance of the great forger Khaz’gorth,
they crafted an army of enormous servants from the very crust of azeroth itself. Titanforged,
Aesir and vanir, where as the aesir were made out of metal and would command the power of storms,
vanir were made out of stone and they would hold the power over earth. To lead these
titan-forged, the members of the pantheon also created keepers with their specific likenesses
and powers. Aman’thul gifted some of his vast abilities
to Highkeeper Ra and Keeper Odyn. Khaz’groth bestowed his mastery over the earth and forging
to Keeper Archaedas. Golganneth granted Keeper Thorim and Hodir dominion over the storms
and skies. Eonar gave Keeper Freya command over Azeroth’s flora and fauna. Norgannon
lent a portion of his intellect and mastery of magic to Keeper’s Loken and Mimiron.
Lastly, Aggramar impared his strength and courage to Keeper Tyr, who would become the
greatest warrior of the titan-forged. With this new army molded from the world’s crust,
the Pantheon went to war against the Black Empire.
Led by the keepers, the titan-forged slammed into the Back Empire and in response the old gods
called upon their greatest lieutenants, the enslaved elemental lords. The keepers were smart
enough to realize that they had to avoid fighting the unified elements so they decided on a divide and conquer strategy.
Tyr and Odyn confronted Ragnaros the firelord, their metal bodies keeping them safe from
the fiery onslaught. Archaedas and Freya took on Therazane, using their dominion over earth,
flora and fauna against her. Ra, Thorim and Hodir fought with Al’akir, using their mastery
over the skies and storms, turning the elemental lord’s own power against him. Then there was Neptulon who was wise and he tried
to assist his fellow elemental lords, yet Loken and Mimiron used their wits to outmaneuver
him at every turn. With the use of their arcane power and enchanted bonds, they were able
to overcome the lord of water. The battles were furious, raged on for many weeks, yet
in the end the elemental lords were defeated. The keepers knew that they could simply slay
the elemental lords since they were bound to azeroth and would simply return over time.
Keeper Ra followed Sargeras’ example with the demons and decided that instead of slaying the elemental lords, they should
create a prison for the elements. He requested the aid of Helya, a gifted titan-forged
sorceres, and together they worked on creating four interlinked domains within a
pocket dimension called the elemental plane, this would be their enchanted prison realm. Ragnaros and his
minions were placed within the firelands, Therazane in Deepholm, Neptulon in the abbysal
maw and Al’akir was placed within Skywall. With the greatest lieutenants the old gods had to send
at them out of the way, the keepers continieud their war against the black empire, and
their next target was the Aqir. Archaedas bent the stones and soil to his
will, collapsed the aqiri burrows on top of them and this drove the insectoids above ground. There the titan-forged
army waited form them to slaughter them all, yet small pockets of these insectoids, even though they were too
weak to mount a counterattack, were able to escape the keepers wrath by burrowing further underground.
The victories over the elemental lords and the aqir encouraged the keepers, but they
knew full well that the greatest battles were still ahead of them. They turned their attention
on the temple city build around the old god y’shaarj. He was indeed extremely powerful,
more so than the keepers had expected. He was able to poison the minds of the titan-forged, he drew
out their feards and darkened their thoughts. 'I can taste the essence of your soul...it is sweet...' The battle became so dire that the Pantheon
feared the Old God would overwhelm their servants. Despite their better judgement, Aman’thul
himself reached down through Azeroth’s stormy skies and ripped Y’shaarj out of the planet.
In that moment, Y’shaarj’s was ripped apart, his death rattle shattered mountaintops
and obliterated hundreds of titan-forged where they stood. His tendrils had burrow so deep
within Azeroth, that volatile arcane energies, the lifeblood of the nascent titan, erupted
from the scar left behind. In this moment, the titans understood that they could not
risk killing any of the other old gods. The old gods had embedded themselves so deep within the planet,
that tearing them out would destroy Azeroth itself. Instead, imprisoning once again seemed
to be a much better solution. The titan-forged battled with the old gods and upon defeat,
Archaedas created a subterranean chamber to contain them. Mimiron created colossal machines
to lock the Old Gods in place while Loken would enchant each prison to neutralize the
Old God’s evil. N’zoth and C’thun fell to their might and were imprisoned yet Yogg-saron
would not fall so easily. He unleashed the greatest of his generals: the C’thraxxi,
monstrous war bringers, larger and far more resillient than other N’raqi. They possessed great
strength and intellect, their dark powers could drive even the titan-forged to madness
and at the crack of their whip, the remaining black empire was send into a frenzie. They
assaulted the titan-forged on all sides, thining their ranks and by the time the keepers reached
Yogg-saron, their forces had greatly diminished. They no longer had the strength or numbers
to complete their mission, but titan keeper Odyn was not about to give up. He summoned
his waning strength and inspired them all to launch a counterattack. Loken was commanded
to weave a grand illusion spell that forced the C’Thraxxi to see themselves, and even
their creator Yogg-saron,as the enemy. With the black empire turned upon itself, the titan
forged moved in for the kill. As they had done with C’thun and N’zoth, the keepers
buried Yogg-saron beneath the earth, locking it away in an enchanted prison.
For the first time in Azeroth’s history, a sense of peace settled over the world, but
there was still much work to be done. They might have saved the planet, but the titan
spirit inside could use all the help it could get if it was to grow and mature, not to mention
the gigantic scar left behind when Y’shaarj was pulled out...They had
some ordering to do. To help them with their mission, the pantheon gave artifacts to the
keepers known as Pillars of Creation. Now their first priority was doing something about that massive wound
on the planet since they knew that the energies porring out of it, it would sooner or later consume
Azeroth. They labored day and night, they crafted magical wards around the gaping wound until
eventually the energies calmed down and settled into balace. All that remained of the scar
was a gigantic lake of energy that the keepers would call the Well of Eternity. With that
immediate threat ouf of the way, they worked on strengthening the nascent world-soul and
stabilize its life force. For this, Archaedas and Mimiron combined their powers to craft
the Forge of Wills and the Forge of Origination. These 2 machines would work together and together
they would infuse Azeroth’s spirit with cosmic energies. The Forge of Wills was placed in the northren
parts of the world and it would shape the word-soul’s early thoughts and perception.
The Forge of Origination was placed in the southern area of Azeroth and it would control
the rhythm of the deep earth and fortify the world-soul’s form.
With these two machines created, the keepers continued their work with Odyn overseeing the events with the forge of wills.
The Pantheon recognised his heroic
deeds during the war with the old gods, so they appointed him as the Prime-Designate.
The duty of watching over yogg-saron’s prison and maintaining the forge of wills, that would fall
onto him. Odyn and the other keepers began building the great fortress of Ulduar to serve as a
main bastion of the titan-forged on Azeroth. It would contain not only yogg-saron’s prison
but also the forge of wills and other machines created by the keepers. Besides the purpose
of shaping the world soul, the forge of wills had another use which was to create a whole new generation
of the titan forged. No longer just giants, now they also created the anubisath, the tol’vir and the
mogu. These beings shaped from stone and metal, they would help the keepers bring order to the world.
As the Forge of Wills under Odyn’s command did its thing in Northrend, Ra led an expedition
to install the Forge of Origination in the south. With him came a bunch of the new titan-forged
and as they traveled, they found some of the remnants of y’shaarj. When aman’thull
pulled him out of the world, some of its body parts fell back unto the planet and even that was enough to infuse the land
with evil. The largest chunk that remained was the old gods heart and Ra figured that
placing it within a container and guarding it would be the best course of action since
studying it could help them decipher the nature of the old gods and other creatures of the void. Ra told
some of his mogu followers to watch over the vault of Y’shaarj while also taking care
of the surrounding land. The expedition west carried on and there they placed the Forge
of Origination in the land. The machines were working together, just as they had planned,
sending healing energies through the heart of the world. A big fortress around the Forge
of Origination was build by Ra and his followers which they called Uldum and it would become
the most southern base of operations for the keepers. Similar to the forge of wills, besides
fortifying the world soul, this machine had another purpose. In case the world would fall
to corruption once again, this machine could be used to unleash incredible energies. Energies powerful
enough to eradicate all life on the planet and have it start all over again. Some of
the tol’vir and anubisath were left behind to safeguard Uldum while the rest of the party
marched northwest into the lands called Silithus, home to c’thun’s prison.
Ra and his alles worked on expanding this prison, building another mighty fortress and this one they called
Ahn; qiraj. With the task complete, highkeeper ra ordered the remaining titan-forged to stay
behind and guard the stronghold. He himself roamed the souther regions of azeroth, observing
his titan forged from a distance and making sure that they performed their duties.
With their machines placed upon the planet, the next job the keepers had was reshaping
the land. For this, they had their new generation of servants created from the Forge of Wills,
each of them having their own job to perform. There were the Earthen specialized in crafting
mountains and carving out the deep places of the world. The mechagnomes, designed by keeper
Mimiron, charged with building and maintaining the keeper’s machineries. The mogu to dig
out the rivers and waterways of Azeroth. Stone and sea giants to shape the environment and
to guard all of it they had two different groups of constructs: the vrykul and the tol’vir.
These creations would walk over the land of Azeroth and shape it to their image, but where
there is a world, there is a need for life. This duty fell upon Keeper Freya and in order
to bring about life, she crafted or she tapped into a realm called the Emerald dream. Spirits
and strange otherwordly beings populated the dream, a surreal paradise, a mirror image of Azeroth.
With that realm created or that link established, Freya wandered the world, searching for locations where the Well of
Eternity’s energies had come together. She had found that these locations created the
perfect condition to develop new flora and founa, places like Un’goro crater, sholazar
basin and the vale of eternal blossoms. She experimented and molded life of astounding
diversity and she seeded it all around the world. The greatest creatures to come out of these
areas were the colossal animals known in the past as demi-gods and now we call them Wild Gods.
Freya loved and adored these wild gods as if they were her own children. They often
wandered the land together, forests and grasslands blooming in their footsteps. Yet there was
one place she and the Wild Gods visited more than any other: a massive forested peak called
Mount Hiyal. It was on the slopes of Hiyal that Freya bound the spirits of her beloved
Wild Gods to the Emerald Dream. You might remember seeing a few of them in the past
like Aviana, Ursoc and Goldrinn, those are a few examples of the wild gods. As they continued their journey,
they found life forms not directly created by Freya or the other keepers. When they banished
Azeroth’s elementals to the elemental plane, some had escaped banishiment and theyevolved into
something new, new creatures of flesh and blood. A prime example of these were the proto-dragons which means that not
all life on Azeroth was shaped by the keepers hands. Over time, the keepers and their servants
were able to form, shape, stabilize and create Azeroth’s main landmass, a continent full of plants and creatures of
every kind. Twilight fell as the titan-forged surveyed the world they had shaped, and they
named the primary continent Kalimdor: Land of Eternal Starlight.
The titans were very happy with the keepers work and they knew that the slumbering world-soul
was in good hands. It was time to travel back into the Great Dark to search for more of
their kind, but the discovery of Azeroth had shown them that there could be more of them
out there. The keepers left behind were sad that their creators had to go, yet they were
also filled with pride at being given the honor of safeguarding Azeroth. Loken and Mimirion
crafted a set of enchanted artifacts called the Discs of Norgannon which would be used to keep a
record of the history unfolding on Azeroth. Should the pantheon ever return to the planet, then they
would know what happened in their absence. As a final act before leaving Azeroth behind,
Aman’thul recruited Algalon the Observer to serve as the world’s celestial guardian.
He would keep an eye on things, make sure that the planet would not fall to corruption
once again and if there was the need, he could activiate a protocol, turning the forge of
origination into a weapon which would purge the world of life and corruption. The titans
had done everything possible to heal Azeroth and bring the world soul to be.
All that remained now was to wait—wait and hope that the world-soul would one day awaken.
They said their final farewells, went about their journey and this would be last time the keepers would see their creators...
but that’s a story for another day since I’ve been going on for long enough. As a final note:
If we compare this storyline to the previously established story then we can see that a lot
of things in the past credited to the titans, were actually done in order of the titans by their titan
keepers and the titan forged. We finally know how and why the well of eternity came to be
and an interesting change is that instead of the entire land being called Kalimdor,
now they said that the primary continent was named Kalimdor. Does that mean that there was another
continent? Maybe multiple? Is there still another side of Azeroth that we need to explore? Maybe,
but only time will tell. For now we’ve reached the end of the video. Next week I want to
talk about the events that took place once the titans left Azeroth behind, left
their keepers to do its thing. Some familiar with the old lore might have already picked up
on Odyn being assigned as prime designate yet the story told during Wrath of the Lich King, it told us
that loken was the prime designate. There is a reason for that and there is so much more to talk about which I
can’t wait to do, but as always, thank you very much for watching everyone. Subscribe
if you like my videos and until next time guys....see ya!