Bonjour mon amis!
Yrel was a character introduced with Warlords of Draenor, that beloved expansion which took
us not only to an alternate reality, but also back in time.
Around 35 years from our perspective to the home world of the orcs called Draenor, just
around the time where they started their war with the draenei.
This time not because of Kil’jaeden,Gul’dan and the Legion, this time they started their
war under leadership of Grommash Hellscream and his alternate son Garrosh.
“Times change” Garrosh Hellscream of our reality showed Grommash
bits and pieces of the future.
Convinced him not to drink the demonic blood and instead form the Iron Horde to take over
Azeroth with turning the dark portal red.
But times change and heroes of Azeroth, Horde and Alliance quickly rallied together to kick
some iron horde butt, step through the portal and take the battle to them.
Gul’dan and his shadow council are set free to disconnect the portal from Azeroth, but
this does leave our heroes stranded on Draenor and they have to run for their lives.
This leads them into the Umbral Halls, a cave full of the shadowmoon clan which we need
to clear out and inside we meet up with Yrel for the very first time.
“Who’s there!?
Oh- I’m glad I’m not the only one fighting these monsters.”
Her description from the WoW website describes her as the following:
Born on Draenor, the sanctuary of the exiled draenei, Yrel was dedicated to her faith.
She grew up in the Temple of Karabor, the center of the Holy Light for her people, and
served as an acolyte.
Devoted to her beliefs and her studies, she showed promise as a healer.
Prophet Velen noticed her talent.
He invited her to train as his pupil and began to teach her the value of leadership and sacrifice.
But Yrel carried a dark secret within her.
Velen sensed it, and he foresaw that for good or ill, she had a larger role to play.
Yet when she considered her prospects, Yrel preferred to stay inside the temple, quietly
caring for those around her.
Unfortunately, that ideal did not survive.
Her peaceful life was shattered when the savage orc clans forged themselves into a fighting
force named the Iron Horde and set out to conquer Draenor.
Yrel was captured and flung into a war.
Now, she stands at the brink of greatness.
Whatever her fate, Yrel is not destined to remain a humble acolyte in the Temple of Karabor.
Draenor is in danger, and she's called to do something more: to shield her people from
oblivion.
That dark secret Velen sensed didn’t really play a part during Draenor and since her origin
story was kept such a secret, fans took it upon themselves to give their own spin to
it and they came up with some very creative ideas.
Don’t think those ideas have ever been picked up and made canon, so instead we fight against
the warlords and try to get out of tanaan jungle with our skins intact.
Their own weaponry is turned against them as we blow up the foundation of the portal
and quickly set sail to either Frostfire Ridge if you’re horde or shadowmoon valley if
you’re alliance.
Since that’s where Yrell goes, that’s the path we’re going to follow as we meet
up with alternate prophet Velen.
“Prophet, this hero – and many others from another world have come to aid us.”
“It is good to see you, my child.
My people welcome your aid, champions.
Come with me” Prophet, I must warn you.
The Iron horde intends to strike out against all who oppose them.
We must prepare our defenses.”
“We will deal with one problem at a time.
First, we must settle your people.”
Our Maraad joined us on this mission with quite a chip on his shoulder as in our timeline
he was ordered to help guide their people out of shattrath, but instead of providing
them with the guidance of the Light, he chose to go for vengeance.
When he returned, he found those depending on his protection slaughtered and he would
give anything for the barest chance of preventing the atrociites he witnessed from happening
again.
That chance would come soon enough, but first we work on setting up our garrision and helping
out maraad with gathering supplies for our troops and convincing the council of exarchs
to join us in the fight against the Iron Horde.
In the meantime Yrel is kind enough to show us around and the first village she wants
to take us is Embaari village where hersister Samaara is waiting for us.
“Yrel, have you come back from the dead?”
“Giggle, it’s going to take more then some orcs to defeat me.”
“kids: yrell has come to save us” “Samaara, I’m back!”
“Yrel?
After the Iron Horde took you, I feared the worst.”
“The Light granted me strength when I needed it most.
It’s good to be home.”
Yrell is obiusly loved by her people and they’re very happy, but also very surprised to see
that she survived being taken by the iron horde to tanaan jungle.
Now shadowmoon valley is not only home to the draenei, it’s also home to the shadowmoon
clan lead by warlord ner’zhul.
He now serves the iron horde and Grommash to save his people from their wrath, breaking
all ancient vows and tapping into the powers of something they call the dark star.
This is actually a fallen naaru that was ejected when the Draenei crash landed on Draenor.
This was many years ago and their ancestors quickly found out that meddling with the powers
of the void was no good.
Ner’zhul needed it to save his people though, needs even more of its power so with the horde
on the attack, he decides to kidnap many of the draenei including Yrels sister samaara!
“no samaara!”
“Ner’zhul, stop this.
What do you want?”
“Your blood will grant me the powers of the Dark Star.
To Shaz’gul with you!”
“Yrel....noooo!”
“Tell your prophet this his era is over.
Darkness dawn!”
He leaves us with Karnoth a shard of the dark star, darkness which we quickly cast out but
we still need to save her sister and stop the threat of the shadowmoon clan.
Velen doesn’t want to use agresion, but he also can’t let his people just be taken
like that.
“Master Velen, I have never led soldiers before.
Are you sure--- “You are capable of more than you know,
Yrel.
Now go.
The Rangari follow your orders.
Find the prisoners.”
She’s still very insecure about her capabilities so we join Yrel on her mission into Shaz’gul.
We place some bombs here and there, but unfortenatly things didn’t go so well for her party and
we find them captured by the orcs.
“YOur security is lax chieftain.
I caught these rangari spies within your gates.”
“They are too late.
The prisoners are already on their way to Anguish fortress.
Their blood will summon forth the Dark Star, and make me a god among the Iron Horde!”
. Yrel loses all faith in herself.
These draenei sacrificed their lives under her leadership.
It’s hopeless, how are we going to get out of here?
But some quick words of encouragement give her the strength needed to push on.
“You are truly wise, outsider.
I must believe in myself, for I carry the Light within me.”
“Detonating the explosives...now!”
“Look...Fire!”
“There are still enemies among us, EVERYONE TO ARMS!
Seal the exists.
No draenei scum leaves this village alive!”
The light answers her call as together we not only fight our way out of Shaz’gul,
we also infiltrate Anguish Forstress and save as many of the draenei as we can.
Ner’zhul still has samaara though and proudly shows Grommash what he’s been able to do
so far
“Over here, hero before they see us!
Listen- they’re talking about the Dark Star.
“Behold my power, warchief hellscream.
With my clan at your side, you will be unstoppable.”
“The void...HUNGERS!”
“Well done, Ner’zhul.
We attack Karabor soon.
Summon forth the Dark Star.”
“I will begin my reperations at once.”
“What is that monstrosity?”
“It is but a fraction of the Dark Star’s power.”
“We’ll see about that.”
“Samaara!”
“No...No!!!!!!!!
cry” “Yrel, do not be sad, I did not choose this
fate, but you...you can still choose.”
“Be strong, little one.
I...I will be watching over you.
Uhgnnn gasp” “Samaara, I swear to you.
I will become strong.
I will proect our people.
I Will Fight!”
“Come, champion.
I will need your help to crush this “Iron Horde.”
A person can only take so much and for yrel, seeing her beloved sister die like that...
it was a breaking point.
Her time just caring for people inside the temple has come to an end as the threat of
the Iron Horde cannot be ignored.
Prophet Velen has seen a possible vision of the future, one in which Karabor or as we
know today, the black temple, fell to the iron horde because of the dark star.
We can not let Ner’zhul succeed but the orc forces are already moving in for the attack.
While Maraad joins their defenders and tries to hold them off for as long as they can,
we join Velen and Yrel as they confront Ner’zhul who’s busy summoning the powers of the dark
star.
“You are just in time.
Witness the dark majesty of the void.”
“I will save my clan even if I must forfeit the souls of my ancestors.”
“KIll spirits of the ancestors” “Darkness is my strength!
With this power, the Shadowmoon will be conquerors.”
“It is not too late.
Turn from this dark path and let us help you.”
“The shadows have already consumed my soul, prophet.”
“There is no darkness light cannot pierce, Ner’zhul!”
“No!
The power of the Dark Star will be MINE!”
Harry potter beam moment, cinematic
“Behold...the dark star falls now upon you.
The Iron Horde will prevail.
And all that stand against us will die.”
Poef ner zhul is out, uhooooo this is a problem.
Welp, time to sacrifice myself, bye yrel.
Its been fun.
HEre have this symbol that will make people go crazy but not actually mean anything.
Just a symbolic, cinematic way of saying goodbye.
I’m entering the shadow now.
The light within my will cast away the darkness.
Like I said no darkness that the ligth can’t pierce.
WOESJ, BEHOLD, the naaru is reborn.
PAM PAM PAM PAM CHAAAAAAAAAAARGE.
Bathe in my light chidren, I will save you.
There is no darknesss that the light cannot pierce as Velen sacrifices his own life to
restore the naaru K’ara back to its holy and pure state.
Even after all these years, I don’t believe they’ve given a lore reason to the transfer
of the symbol.
If they did then by all means let me know the source, but I think it was done for the
sake of the cinematic rather then the story.
Either way, K’ara is no longer a threat, quite the opposite as she empowers the draenei
and gives us the strength needed to save Karabor.
“We need to spread news of our victory.
Take the fey dragon and meet me back at your garrison.”
“Hero, you fought fearlessly.
For that please accept my thanks.
The light prevails, because we stand against the darkness.”
“ It is done, victory is ours!”
““You’ve inspired me commander.
I’ve seen you and your armies win many hard fougth battles across Draenor.
We now face our greatest challenge as we attempt to Unite against the Iron Horde.”
Victory is ours, Shadowmoon Valley has been secured for the Draenei and our Garrison stands
strong.
Ner’zhul would find his ultimate fate within the shadowmoon burial grounds, while our story
with Yrel that takes us into Gorgrond.
“We should have brought an army to fight the Iron Horde!”
“Gorgrond is no place for armies.
This land swallows all who enter.
We will be fortunate to even lay eyes upon the Iron Horde base.”
This is an area also visited by the Horde once they finish their experience in Frostfire
Ridge and not really a lot happens for Yrel here, basicly we are here to uncover the secrets
of the land to potentially use it against the Iron Horde.
We do see Maraad’s anger towards the orcs flare up a little bit, this was supposed to
be quite a story arc for him but it fell a bit short.
We’re on the path of finding an artifact called the WIll of the Genesaur.
It has the power the control the Gronn, ancient primal beings of raw power and what better
way to use it then to turn it against the Iron Horde where as the Horde parties with
Draka of the Frostwolf clan, the alliance has Yrel.
“Ahh, there it is.
There’s my artifact.
How foolish of me to trust Brak with something so valuable.”
“It’s a shame that you’re too late to stop me.
SUrrender the artifact and I will allow you to escape with your lives.”
“We will never surrender to you.
Champion, now is the time.
Use the artifact!”
“Hahahha so be it!
IRon Horde, advance!”
“NOOOO!
I Will die before I let you take what is mine!
You will not..win...this war!
AAARHGHGHGH” “The artifact...What has he done?!
We must restore it, we must get it to safety.”
“hahahahaha See what weapons I have in my arsenal.”
“With pleasure.
Brace yourself champion.
The light is with you.
I will not let you fall.”
“release the iron stars!”
“It is over, their defenses are shattered.
We have won this battle, but without the artifact we have far to go.
Let us rally back at your Garrison, commander.
We must plan our next course of attack.”
The artifact has been rendered useless but victory in Gorgrond is ours and we’ve been
gained several new powerful allies.
The Iron Horde did manage to get a fleet of ships out of Gorgrond and they’re getting
ready to assault Talador and the former capital of the draenei, Shattrath city.
This area is the crossroads for the whole continent so we can’t let them have it.
However, we'll save that for next week as I still have quite a bit to cover when it
comes to Yrel.
I hope you now have a better understanding of her origin, where she came from and what
pushed her into this war.
The dark secret and destined for great things Velen sensed in her, lets take that with us
to next week as we'll finish up the story.
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