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Hello everyone!
During the time of Legion we came across a rather interesting dreadlord, High Commander
Lothraxion, infused with the holy light.
That’s the first time WE saw him, but the nathrezim has been around for much longer
then that.
For thousands of years he, according to his own words, was enslaved to the Burning Legion
and fought for their cause.
But in the Light, redemption is possible, even for those that have committed genocide
over and over and over again.
Embraced by Xera, the Mother of Light, one of the first naaru to be forged during the
great ordering of the cosmos and the leader of the Army of the Light, this dreadlord was
turned from fel into holy.
“Glory to the light.”
For thousands of years more he now fought AGAINST the Burning Legion and their burning
crusade of destroying the universe so the Void couldn’t consume all.
A big contrast between the two forces is that the Void can see a thousand different truths
where as the Light only sees one.
Xe’ra foresaw two bright lights that would be critical for their mission to succeed and
so Lothraxion was send out to make contact with Alleria and Turalyon right after they
had shut down the dark portal and draenor transformed into outland as we know it today.
He told them about their war across the stars, the great evil that lurks in the twisting
nether and for the sake of all life, they decided to join their army.
He even managed to teach Turalyon, a paladin already, how to truely dive into the powers
of the Light as Lothraxion had a few millenia more experience then him.
The human would go through a presumed to be similar ritual as lothraxion had with Xe’ra,
but the path of the Light would not be the course his beloved Alleria Windrunner would
follow.
Instead she embraced the shadow, despite Lothraxion advicing her to stay away from it and its
maddening whispers.
Xe’ra would not look kindly upon those that stray from the Light, yet at the same time
he does inform her about the Locus-Walker.
A powerful master of the void while, as far as the Nathrezim knew, completely free of
its grasp.
The Burning Legion had lost countless lives trying to capture him.
Lothraxion was nearly gone as well was it not for the Locus-Walker making sure to slay
him outside of the Twisting Nether.
Meaning that the dreadlord would respawn instead of embracing his perma-death.
The Locus-walker had seen that there was a unique destiny for the Nathrezim and when
ultimatly alleria met up with him, was trained in the ways of the void, she too was told
to have a unique destiny waiting for her.
Those void powers saved the life of her beloved Turalyon and close friend Lothraxion, but
as expected, Xe’ra was pissed at the darkness that surrounded her.
Lothraxion knelt before the whirling power of the Mother of Light: “Hear my words.
Lady Alleria Windrunner came back to save us, knowing that she would not be accepted
here.
Courage, honor, selflessness....these virtues still reside in her heart.”
“Virtues count for nothing if you stray from the path the Light has chosen for you.”
And yet, despite her anger, Xe’ra hesitated, deciding to imprison Alleria until she accepts
the path of rightenousness once again.
Meanwhile on Azeroth they’re dealing with the biggest invasion of the Burning Legion
they’ve ever had.
Lothraxion is send out to aid them, but gets captured somewhere along the way by his fellow
dreadlord Balnazzar.
He and the Legion are working very hard on setting up portals to their demon world of
Niskara.
Plans that don’t go unnoticed.
Both the paladin order hall as the priest order hall end up sending their forces out
to try and stop them, leading to a little visit to Niskara and running into a mysterious
stranger.
“Who are you stranger?
You are not of the legion.
We fight for the same side warriors of light.
Thank you for freeing me.
The legion army will soon attack netherlight temple.
This sanctuary must be protected at all costs.
I will bring allies to defend the temple but they are far away.
I need your help to fight the enemy until we can arrive.
“
It’s hard to decide weather or not we should trust his word, but the choice is made.
Netherlight temple will not be given freely to the Legion.
Priests and Paladins stand shoulder to shoulder in the defense of Velen the Prophet, praying
to the Light that Lothraxion will arrive in time.
“HOld your ground.
They wont take us down without a fight.
There are too many.
It is no use, the prophets vision have come to pass.
Where is your light now heros?
Well if you’d be so kind as to look behind you and see this magical floating ship that
won’t really be used after this expansion you’ll see that the cavelry has arrived!
Allies do not despair.
It is lothraxion, high commander of the grand army of the light.
On order of high exarch turalyon, we came as fast as we could.
I am sending reinforcements down to join you.
Heroes rally beneath the light.
Balnazzar prepare to meet your end.
Noooo I will never be defeated.”
And yet he is defeated!
“We did it the dreadlord is dead.
Thank you paladins of the silver hand.
A great enemy is defeated today.
We have shown the legion that azeroth will not fall quietly.
Prophet velen, warriors of light.
A well earned victory.
I expected nothing less from the heroes of azeroth.
Highlord, let us return to your order hall.
We have much to discuss."
“I am sure you have many questions, highlord.
It was fate that our paths crossed that day on Niskara.
I serve High Exarch Turalyon and Lady Alleria Windrunner.
When the Legion turned its armies towards Azeroth, I was sent here to help protect it.
How I got to Niskara is a tale for another time, but had it not been for you, I would
still be Balnazzar’s prisoner.
Now, I can fullfill my original mission.
Let me fight for you.
Together, we will drive back the Burning Legion!
The Light is everywhere.
I welcome it, wether in glory of death.
”
He did just that, joining us all the way to Argus where he re-united with the Army of
the Light and fought on against the Burning Legion.
Xe’ra’s visions proved not to be the truth she believed them to be.
The one path this creature of light was able to see would not be the destiny that ultimately
played out.
“The Light is your destiny.
My destiny is my own!”
All the same, Sargeras and the Legion were defeated and we returned home whille Lothraxion
kinda just fell off the radar.
He says that their war may be over, but many battles lie ahead.
Just because the Legion is defeated doesn’t mean every demon in existence has surrendered.
Not yet, at least.
So seemingly that’s what he’s up too, continueing the fight against the chaotic
beings of fel that can be found far and wide within the great dark beyond.
Thanks for watching until next time, but this is not the only reason why I wanted to talk
about Lothraxion.
For the next part we are going to dive a bit into spoilers for patch 9.1 so if you want
to be completely surprised about what’s to come next, please turn off the video right
now.
Wihtin the shadowlands beta we found a mighty interesting book.
Enemy Infiltration: Preface which back then I dedicated a video on, talking about the
cosmic war of warcraft that’s been playing out behind the scenes.
It’s a report to their master, speaking about how they anticipate that certain of
their targets will be more challenging to topple than others, but each is prone to manipulation
in different ways and their agents have already woven themselves into their very fabric.
This is after all, the solemn duty for which their master has sired them.
In essence it pitches the idea that Dreadlords, Nathrezim, unseen guests do not originate
from the twisting nether.
Rather they originate from the Shadowlands and have infiltrated the twisting nether,
the domain of Disorder.
Consuming fel is not a pleasent process, but a necessary one.
Not just Disorder either, all the domains have been infiltrated.
Order with the titans, easiest to manipulate.
Show them a force that opposes their drive for Order, and they will be consumed by their
urge to eradicate it.
Their pantheon, so seemingly united in purpose, is vulnerable to fracturing.
Sargeras being informed by the dreadlords about the void lords and their plans which
lead to him breaking away from his brothers and sisters and forming the Burning Legion.
Shadow and the void lords, so occupied with their thousand truths that they ignore the
lies we sow in their very midst.
We can leverage their vast reach to poisition them as a foil against our other rivals.
We must remain wary though since they’re observant of multiple outcomes, it is conceivable
they could anticipate our coming.
I still find it a cool idea to have Xalatath be the dreadlord that infiltrated the domain
of Shadow and was caught, punished and imprisoned within the blade.
Life, their most insidious of opponents, still they have high confidence that a vulnerability
has been identified and their operative has already gained the trust of her target.
and then there’s Light: Similar to the titans, the naaru and their
keepers are singular in purpose.
Their adherence to a linear path is an obvious shortcoming.
They savor nothing more than being proved right, so if they believe they have converted
one of us to their precious Light, they will trust that agent implicitly.
The recently added content for the 9.1 ptr confirms what we thought was going on back
then.
Dreadlords are originally sired by Sire Denathrius and then send out to infiltrate the other
cosmic domains.
We also got some awesome new models which I imagine is what dreadlords without fel infusion
look like.
We even have female dreadlords now, which is great considering their agent in the domain
of life...but then what about Lothraxion.
Has he genuinly been turned by the Light or has he been playing for team death all this
time?
“Death to the legion”
Lets take a step and actually observe what he’s responsible for, atleast what we know
of.
He has helped fight the Legion many times, helped us on Argus, the defeat of Sargeras,
even killed Balnazzar, but in the grand scheme of things that might have just been to convince
the Light that he’s a proper ally to them.
The defeat of the Burning Legion.
Sargeras losing a few demons here and there...it doesn’t matter when you’re actually working
for the schemes of the domain of Death.
Xe’ra, a prime naaru ended up in itty bitty little pieces because of Illidan.
She has forseen a destiny for him, one she was certain would bring about the defeat of
the legion and salvation for all.
He was there thanks to the efforts of many including Lothraxion, and yet it was Illidan
himself that refused that destiny.
Xe’ra worked really hard on getting him there out of something that she had seen,
that she was certain about.
Where the shadow see’s a thousand possible truths, the light sees only one...but the
thing she saw proved to be wrong.
Illidan didn’t need to become the child of Light for us to defeat Sargeras so whats
up?
Was she simply wrong or did someon, Lothraxion perhaps manipulate her.
It’s not impossible for the naaru, for the Light to be blinded from the truth.
Just look back at the quests that were given.
We ventured into Illidan’s past and saw what his life was like, but not the real version.
Some minor changes here and there to make him look better.
I kinda assumed that this was a story presented to us from Illidan’s point of view.
Or maybe that the naaru was making the demon hunter look better then he actually was...but
what if she believed this to be the true Illidan.
Removing such a prime naaru like Xe’ra from the playing field while also defeating the
Legion and having the domain of order occupied with Sargeras is quite a masterful play if
that was indeed orchestrated by Lothraxion.
And then those two he recruited into the Army of the Light, Alleria and Turalyon.
They returned home but different then they once were, especially Alleria.
She has become infused with the void, a path that Lothraxion helped her on.
Remember how he was the one that informed her about the existance of the locus-walker
to begin with.
Now she constantly hears the maddening whispers, great power that comes with a terrible price,
a special destiny that awaits.
Not just Alleria, but more elves have now embraced the path of the ovid hanging out
at Telogrus Rift.
That’s a lot of whispering going on, what part could they and the Locus Walker play
in the future?
Turalyon still wields the Light, but that doesn’t mean he’s keeping his hands clean.
In the novel Shadows Rising we can see just how far these two are willing and capable
to go.
On the quest of hunting down Sylvanas, they need information to track her down but the
horde party they found is not willing to give it.
No matter...they have their own ways of extracting information...
The void invaded the orc’s mind easily, readily, commanded by Alleria’s experienced
hands, guided by her knowledge of its capabilities.
The Old Ones could use the smallest though to drive a person mad, to wrench any information
they wanted from an unwilling, tormented subject.
Gowzis, the orc, clutched the sides of her head, gasping, her eyes snapping open, suddenly
glowing with eerie light.
“Hold her,” Alleria whispered.
Turalyon did as she asked, reaching out with one gloved hand.
Golden cuffs, glittering with the Light wrapped tightly around the orc’s wrists and ankles,
chains bursting forth and securing her to the earth.
The world fell away, leaving alleria within the orc’s mind.
She sifted through memories and thoughts like fingers combing through sand, each second
that passed plunging the woman into greater agony.
She shrieked, tears pouring down her face, her back bending at strange angles as she
fought the pain tunneling through her mind.
One of the others gave the information they were looking for if only they’d stop this
torment.
Light and Void, a power couple capable of doing great and terrible things.
Last we heard, and that’s been a while now since we’ve partying in the Shadowlands,
Turalyon sits on the throne of Stormwind.
In King Anduin’s absence, he’s been entrusted with the protection of Alliance citizens.
The fourth war took a terrible toll on the Alliance.
Their military might has been depleted.
Stormwind’s nobles are keen to see their defenses restored.
Reclaiming Stromgarde was a good first step.
Perhaps there are other holdings of the old Alliance that could be secured.
Imagine for a moment that the jailer is succesfull and able to crawl his way not only out of
the maw but also that rift in the sky.
Moving his forces from the realm of death into the physical world, Azeroth.
Right now as far as we’re aware, peace stands between the alliance and the Horde.
The old gods learned pretty quickly that a united azeroth was near impossible to defeat.
The same lesson was learned by the Burning Legion.
Lothraxion and the other dreadlords have managed to observe, manipulate and control for quite
a while now.
A few whispers, words of advice from his old friend Lothraxion might push Turalyon into
taking hostile action and shatter what’s already fragile, weakening our defenses and
helping the jailers plans further.
What I do find interesting and hard to figure out is the timeline that we’re looking at.
Prince Renethal explains a bit, about how countless ages ago, just after the first venthyr
were sired, Denathrius also made the Nathrezim.
Forged to be the ultimate infiltrators, they bore the influence of Death into the realms
of our rivals...as well as the worlds of the living.
SO what we’ve read from the infiltration book.
Despite their subtlety, one of these incursions was discovered.
In response, the full wrath of the Light fell upon Revendreth, setting ablaze the ward once
held by the nathrezim.
The scourged land in Revendreth, the ember ward, the reason why the Light attacked was
the uncovered Nathrezim infiltration.
Knowing that, I wonder why Lothraxion is still around.
You’d imagine that if he was the one uncovered they’d kick him out unless they’re right
about the Light and its arrogance.
Truely believing that they’ve converted this dreadlord to their side and still attacked
Revendreth for its actions.
Who knows, maybe the light is right and lothraxion is truly on their side.
Wouldn’t be the first time the arrogance of the Nathrezim blows up in their face.
The armies of maldraxxus did not rise up to defend us.
I can already imagine the primus telling Denathrius to clean up his own mess.
So the stonewright carved her stone legion to strike back against the light.
Once the naaru were routed, the stonewright turned her anger upon the nathrezim, blaming
them for the loss of so many of her children.
The conflict was ended by Denathrius, who said he would exile them to a world beyond
the shadowlands.
And yet the nathrezim claim they were never exiled to begin with so Denathrius just hiding
his plans better.
But when all this happened, where was Denathrius’ allegiance?
We know he was a member of the pantheon of death when they imprisoned their brother Zovaal,
but it could very well be that he was never actually on board with the plan and merely
went along with it since he had no chance to oppose the others.
So together with Zovaal they do their thing.
Infiltrate the other domains, plan and work on getting Zovaal free again.
Have death wash over all and disturb the balance.
Is it going to be as simple as that or has there always been more at play?
And how will the sire feel about his allegiance with the jailer now that the jailer just abandoned
him to his fate?
Curious little threads are being build up and I really hope they’re going to deliver.
For now you’re up to speed on the story of Lothraxion, a holy dreadlord and the developments
with the nathrezim in the Shadowlands.
Really hope you enjoyed and by all means let me know what you think is going on in the
comments down below.
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next time.....see ya!