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Hello everyone!
The story of the druids of the flame takes us back to the cataclysm period,
but to understand it properly, we’ll have to go even further back and talk a little
bit about the history of the night elves. So lets dive back, over 10.000 years ago
where the night elves and their allies of dragons, wild gods, time travelers and others have managed
to save day against the burning legion. To contain the powers that had drawn the legion in to begin
with, the aspects decided to plant a world tree. Nordrasill they called it, Crown of the Heavens,
and to reinforce their connection to the night elves, several enchantments were placed upon
the tree. Strength and vitality, immortality and easier acces into the emerald dream so
that Malfurion and those that decided to follow his path of druidism would have an easier time
walking the many paths of Ysera’s realm, of the dreamways. Named in honor of the wildgod cenarius,
this so called Cenarion circle would slumber and help nature to heal and grow while tyrande
whisperwind lead her people into the future, wide awake and with challenges all of their own.
Fast forward a bit to the war of the shifting sands, a war that played out in the sands of
silithus and once again night elf and dragon united for the sake of Azeroth. On the battlefield
was Fandral Staghelm. He was a beast leading the charge, something that the enemy knew,
something that the enemy needed to break. Valstan was taken captive and brutally executed in front
of his father by General Rajaxx. While this war would ask for more sacrifice,
it was eventually won with a big wall surrounding Ahn’Qiraj, but no real victory
was felt by Fandral. He’d already lost his wife when she gave birth. Now his beloved
child had been taken away. He was done with it all and yet the torment had only just begun.
Since the legion had intention letting go of Azeroth and would try to invade several times.
The war that played out during Warcraft 3 would once again
have the night elves make a massive sacrifice. Malfurion decided to destroy Nordrassil, detonate
those magical enchantments, send Archimonde and the Legion back to where they came from.
“We are its protectors, and through it we were granted immortality and pwoer over nature.
Now, at last, it is time we gave that power back. You realize that we will age as these mortals do.
Our powers over nature will wane in time. If pride gives us pause, my love,
then perhaps we have lived long enough already.”
The day was saved, but the night elves lost a lot. While we might look at it as a great heroic act,
not all of their people were happy with the decision made for them. Giving up your immortality
is no small price to pay. Fandral came up with the idea of planting a new world tree, but Malfurion
was fully against this. Past attempts at doing this had not exactly worked out and even worse,
none of them were aware that Staghelm was being manipulated from the shadows by Xavius the
Nightmare lord. To spread his influence, turn more of the emerald dream into the emerald nightmare,
he had approached Staghelm under the guise of his lost son. Whisperd in his ears until
there was very little of the archdruid left. He would do anything to get his boy back,
including going against the wishes of his shan’do. With whispers in his ears he made
sure to keep Malfurion trapped within the emerald dream turned nightmare.
Then he took their circle and worked on getting Teldrassil up. A brand new home for their people,
one that surely would have a better fate Nordrassil. He even expected the
dragons to bless this one again restoring their immortality, but the dragons refused his request.
This one was called Teldrassil and despite Fandral asking them himself,
the aspects refused to bless this tree. Nozdormu, Lord of Time, refused critical
of the druid’s arrogance. In agreement with Nozdormu, Alexstrasza also refused Staghelm,
and without her blessing, Teldrassil's growth has been flawed and unpredictable...
“Seeking to regain their immortality, a number of wayward druids conspired to plant a special
tree that would link their spirits to the eternal world. Despite Malfurion’s warnings that nature
would never bless such a selfish act, the druids planted the world tree Teldrassil off the stormy
coasts of northern kalimdor. Within the twilight bows the wonderous city of Darnassus took root.”
And full off corruption through Staghelm and the emerald nightmare, but that wasn’t known
at the time. You might remember actually helping him out in classic, gather morrowgrain which he
in turn used to keep Malfurion in his slumber. Eventually though, just before the cataclysm,
our archdruid would be saved by his allies, would wake up. Confront and expose Staghelm,
cleanse Teldrassil and push the nightmare back. The fallen archdruid was locked away within the
barrow dens at mount hiyal setting the stage for the introduction of the druids of the flame.
So at this point we have a destroyed Nordrassil, which has been incredibly slowly healing but
no where near ready. We have Teldrassil,
recently cleansed and home of the Night elves. We have a Staghelm and other night elves unhappy
with the choices made for them, but he’s locked away. And then we have Deathwing the Destroyer,
breaking out of the world and causing massive destruction and changes across its surface.
“And all shall burn beneath the shadow of my wing.”
The corrupted black dragon aspect was on a mission, working hard to bring about the so
called hour of twilight. The moment in which the old gods would break out of their prisons
and rule the world once more. More specificily, the old god N’zoth was signing his paychecks but
he wasn’t alone in this mission either, far from it. We saw for example forces
like Cho’Gall and the Twilights Hammer. Al’akir the Windlord as well as Ragnaros the Firelord.
They unleashed so many plans and schemes that surely one of them had to succeed and if it did,
the world would be theirs. Unfortunately for them, heroes of Azeroth rose up and
stood united to push back the darkness or in the case of Mount Hiyal, push back the flames.
“This world and all that you hold dear exists only to burn.
WOESJ TREE ON FIRE The end comes son of Durotan.
The final hour of twilight. WOESJ
ORGRIMMAR ON FIRE And there is nothing you
can do...to stop it muhahahahaha NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO”
It’s in mount hiyal where we took on the majority of Ragnaros’ invading forces and the lord of fire
managed to recruit himself some new allies, with once again our accidental help. We were
told that the twilights hammer forces had set their eyes on a rather important prisoner,
none other then Fandral Staghelm. The green dragon Alysra convinced us that it would be
a good idea to move him preemptively, through the emerald dream and into her protective care.
Little did we know that Alysra would soon enough be known as Alysrazor. Her reward for betraying
us all and handing over Staghelm to Ragnaros. Where as she became a mighty fearsome fire hawk,
our archdruid was offered the might of the firelands. Offered to become Ragnaros’ new
major-domo since ya know, we kinda killed the previous one when we raided molten core. The first
druid of the flame, able to transform himself into a fiery cat, hawk and scorpion. The gifts
of nature now infused with the raw primal might of fire. If he could not live in a world with his
beloved child then he would bring ruin to all of Azeroth. Not alone, more were disgruntled
with their leaders choices. More were turned to their flamey side. Among them was Leyara,
Fandral’s daughter in law. She had lost their husband just like fandral had lost his son but for
the sake of their child she found the strength to carry on. That flame of hope was snuffed out when
the horde pushed deeper into night elven lands. After losing everything to live for and seeing
how her leaders did nothing to protect them, fandral’s offer was too good to pass up on.
What kind of power? Well, at some point we came up with the idea of going through
a ritual to speed up Nordrassils recovery. Uber shaman thrall, aggra,
Malfurion and the dragon aspects gathered for this but so did the new druids of the flame:
“Friends, we have gathered here today to heal this world that we’ve sacrificed so much to save.
For the first time, the earthen ring and the cenarion circle will unite – to restore this great
tree – thereby healing the whole of azeroth. Time is precious,
sister. Let us see to our ritual. Uhooo time is precious indeed, look who it is!
I’m sorry, are we interrupting?
The Twiligh’s Hammer! Not so fast, son of Durotan! You
and your allies have certainly set us back, but the Hour of Twilight cannot be averted!
THe twilight prophet knows that YOU and you alone are our final obstacle. He sent me to
remove you from the game. I do not fear death.
Death? Muhahaha Who said anything about death?
GO’el! NO! Thrall gets
split apart into the different elements of earth, fire air and water. No death for him
Even now the elements are tearing you apart and they will feed upon your doubts and fears
until the last sparks of life on this wretched world have been snuffed out.
Oke bye thrall enjoy your holiday in the elemental planes.
You will regret this stranger. GIggle, will I?
Come, shan’do – certainly you recognise your former pupil.
Fandral – what have they done to you?
Naive as always, I see. Your pet orc cannot save you now Malfurion.
And the flame of our vengeance draws near. Be ready. “
They managed to confine some of the biggest power houses that we had during the cataclysm
while splitting thrall into different elements and scatter him across the elemental planes.
Heroes would join Aggra in putting thrall back together, better then he ever was,
too which they had a wedding and off screen finished their ritual. Still,
quite incredible display of power right here and not the last time either.
As we teamed up with the wild gods and tried to fight our way into the elemental plane of
fire to take the battle into Ragnaros’ home domain, we needed to open up some portals
and of course Ragnaros was not just going to let us in. Leyara, probably one of the
more zealous druids of the flame out there,was right at the forfront. She had set her sights
and hopes on taking out Malfurion, but when Hamuul presented himself as a target, she didn’t say no.
Expecting to burn the life right out of him, she severaly wounded the poor tauren, but
the druid would recover, eventually gain enough strength to stand with us and end her suffering.
“I’ll kill your companion just like I killed Hamuul. And there is nothing you can do about it.
You did not kill Hamuul, Leyara. He lives. And I have come for you, Leyara.
I don’t believe it. I seared the life from your body!”
“I release
you from this fate Leyara. May you finally find your peace in death.:”
With many battles across the molten front, the united might of azeroth, the guardians
of hyjal were able to battle their way into Ragnaros’ lair. Alysra or well... Alysrazor
as well as several other mighty forces of the firelord were slain. The bridge was created
and just before we could take care of the big elemental lord himself, there was his Majordomo.
“Very well, witness the new powers of my lord”
Finally doing what Malfurion could not, ending the threat of Falstad once and for all. Cenarius,
Hamuul and Malfurion banded together to make sure that Ragnaros did not escape our wrath.
Being slain within the firelands meant his true demise but even back then they knew that a new
firelord would rise up. YOu can’t get rid of the element of fire afterall and shamans of
the world helped Smolderon take up position as the new firelord. Uniting their power against
the might of the Burning legion during the expansion legion. Smolderon’s fate has been
a little bit unknown since then. We’ve seen a cult trying to revive Ragnaros but no sign of
Smolderon. Time is going to tell what happened to him I suppose and the same goes for our
druids of the flame. We’ve taken care of some of the major players. We’ve saved Mount Hyjal,
helped progress the healing of Nordrassil, even defeated Deathwing and prevented the
hour of twilight... but time has not exactly been kind to the night elves. They’ve made great
sacrifices and yet had to witness the burning of teldrassil at the hands of Sylvanas and the
Horde. Their leader tyrande fell deep into the powers of Elune and the whole night warrior path,
who knows what others might do in the wake of losing their home, friends and loved ones...
Time is going to tell, but for now you’re up to speed on the story of the druids of
the flame so thank you very much for watching everyone! Say that you want
more details on all the things we talked about today then check out the related
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