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From the Loa, to the Ancient Guardians, to the August Celestials, Azeroth is a world with many gods, spirits, and guardians. Some are natural, born of Azeroth itself, while others are twisted or corrupted by any number of influences.
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Elemental Lords
Elemental Lords as a whole
- Anthropomorphic Personification: Of the various elements.
- Elemental Powers: Well, duh.
- Fighting a Shadow: They cannot be permanently killed outside of the Elemental Planes (The Firelands, Skywall, Deepholm and the Abyssaw Maw).
- Non-Malicious Monster: They are more akin to forces of nature than outright villains. Ragnaros in particular doesn't burn stuff to be evil but more because that's just the nature of fire.
Al'akir
The Windlord
Al'Akir is/was the most powerful of Azeroth's air elementals and, thus, their leader. Like all the elementals, the Windlord was a servant of the Old Gods while they still held dominion over the planet, he himself being the greatest tacticion in the Old Gods' armies.
He and the other Elemental Lords were sent against the forces of the Titans and were defeated. The Titans knew that the chaotic elementals would be a threat to Azeroth's stability, and so crafted a prison dimension for the Lords and their servants. Al'Akir obtained ownership of the realm of Skywall, a collection of buildings and terraces floating in a vast space of open air and clouds. There he and the majority of his kind remained for many thousands of years.
With the emergence of Deathwing and the elemental upheaval, Al'Akir aligned himself with the Old Gods' forces yet again, intent on reclaiming the land where he once made his home, now the Titan facility of Uldum. First sending one of his lieutenants to recruit the tol'vir of Uldum with promises of removing the Curse of Flesh from their bodies, then burying the city of Orsis under a sandstorm to indimidate those who didn't comply, his aggression was met with heavy retaliation as adventurers infiltrated the Skywall. There, he and most of his lieutenants were slain permanently.
- Affably Evil: He is very friendly with the raid when they come to fight him.
- An Ice Person: An indication that Frost Mages and Death Knights are actually drawing on the Air element.
- Blow You Away: His main mode of attack as elemental lord of Air
- Killed Off for Real: Al'Akir perished within the Elemental plane, ending his life permanently.
- Our Genies Are Different: While he's clearly not a genie/djinn, he visually looks like one and is clearly "Arabian Nights" Days-themed.
- Physical God: The embodiment of the element of air.
- Poisonous Person: Through the power of the West Wind.
- Shock and Awe: Uses lightning-based powers at times, especially in the third phase.
- Sinister Scimitar: Wields one of these.
- The Strategist: An Informed Ability as we don't see him act as one.
- Worthy Opponent: He has great respect for the players who fight him.
Neptulon
The Tidehunter
Voiced by: John Behlmann (English), Oleg Forostenko (Russian)
One of the four Elemental Lords of Azeroth and the embodiment of water and ruler of all Water Elementals.
- The Bus Came Back: After having been seemingly abducted by Ozumat in Cataclysm, he finally makes his return in Legion after being summoned by the Earthen Ring.
- Enemy Mine: Works for a time with the Earthen Ring against the Old Gods in Cataclysm and the demon invasion in Legion.
- Making a Splash: His method of attack as the Elemental Lord of Water, though why he doesn't use ice is not explained.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Remember how Ozumat seemingly managed to abduct and take him away to an unknown fate? In Legion it's revealed he managed to beat Ozumat into submission on his own.
- Prongs of Poseidon: While he isn't depicted with it in the game, it's stated that his weapon of choice (as well as the objective of the Naga incursion into his plane) is a trident comparable in raw magical power to Frostmourne that can control the seas of Azeroth at will.
- Physical God: The embodiment of the element of water.
- Put on a Bus: He is taken by Ozumat at the end of the Throne of the Tides, with his fate complete left up in the air until Legion, where he returns.
- Status Buff: Gives the players incredible increases to their statistics in the third phase of the Ozumat encounter, enabling them to kill Ozumat quickly (which is necessary, because the room has become covered by the Blight of Ozumat, making the players take increased damage over time until they die).
Ragnaros
The Firelord
"THIS WORLD, AND ALL THAT YOU HOLD DEAR, EXIST ONLY TO BURN!"
Voiced by: Chris Metzen (English), Dmitry Nazarov (Russian)
One of the four Elemental Lords of Azeroth and the embodiment of fire and magma and ruler of all Fire Elementals. Once a servant of the Old Gods, he and the other Lords were banished to the Elemental Planes by the Titans when the Old Gods were defeated. Ragnaros was accidentally summoned from his home in the Firelands by the Dark Iron Dwarf leader Thaurissan, an act that shattered the Redridge Range and created the volcanic peak Blackrock Mountain. Reveling in his freedom, Ragnaros quickly enslaved the remaining Dark Iron Dwarves and began bringing his Elemental allies and armies back to the Material Plane of Azeroth, intending to turn the world into a molten hell. However, Ragnaros was defeated by a band of adventurers, who struck before the Firelord had regained his full powers, banishing him back to the Firelands.
This was only a temporary defeat. Following Neltharion's cataclysmic return, the Aspect of Death aided Ragnaros in returning again, this time on the very slopes of Mount Hyjal. With his Fire Elementals, Core Hounds, magma-serpent minions and the Twilight Hammer, Ragnaros seeks to incinerate the World Tree, Nordrassil. He has allied himself with Deathwing, and only time will tell if the fury of the Firelord can be extinguished permanently...
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: For all his Large Ham qualities and allegiance with the evil Deathwing, he's not actually evil (officially listed as
Chaotic Neutral). He simply acts on fire's natural instinct: to burn and consume everything in its path. - Carry a Big Stick: Sulfuras, Hand of Ragnaros, made of red-hot elementium metal and covered in spikes. Players can make a much smaller replica as a level 60 legendary weapon or just take the real deal off of his corpse after it's depowered and shrunk.
- Character Catchphrase: "BY FIRE BE PURGED!"
- Evil Versus Evil: He and his army of elementals and dwarves butted heads with the remains of the Old Horde commanded by Nefarian in Blackrock Mountain. Once Deathwing returned and recruited them both they don't really interact but they're probably on better terms.
- Kill It with Fire: What Ragnaros intends to do to the entire world.
- Killed Off for Real: After being killed in the Firelands, he doesn't reform.
- Large Ham: Everything that comes out of his mouth is grand and dramatic.
- Magma Man: His body is formed of lava and fire.
- No Indoor Voice: He never says anything that isn't rendered in all caps with an exclamation point.
- Physical God: He certainly has the power to back up his position — just summoning him destroyed an entire mountain range, and even in an exponentially weakened state afterwards he was able to handily enslave the civilization that summoned him.
- Pivotal Boss: Except for Phase 4 on Heroic. He has various knockbacks, but will do lethal damage to tanks outside his hitbox.
- Playing with Fire: Naturally.
- Top-Heavy Guy: After he gets legs. He was even more so in an earlier build that was datamined, and players complained about how disproportionate he looked, so they beefed up his shins.
- Trick Boss: On the Heroic mode of his Firelands encounter, you take him down to 10% as normal, but then he gets back up, regains some of his health and enters an entirely new fourth phase.
- Worf Had the Flu: According to Executus, his Molten Core incarnation is at only a fraction of his true strength.
- You Have Failed Me: When Majordomo Executus awakens Ragnaros and tells him that he failed to kill the raid, Ragnaros fires him. Literally.
Therazane
The Stonemother
"And you, fleshling, consider for a moment that you are entirely surrounded by rock in this place. The very earth you walk on bends to my will. If you betray us, there will be no escape for you. I will crush your body so slowly that you shall hear every single one of your bones break. [beat] I'm glad we had this talk."
One of the four Elemental Lords of Azeroth, ruler of Deepholm, the realm of Earth. She bears a grudge against mortals for killing her daughter, Theradras.
- Badass Boast/To the Pain: See the quote.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: Becomes somewhat more open to working with the player as you progress on her quest chain. Unlike other Cataclysm factions, NPCs from the Therazane faction will attack players on sight until they advance far enough in the questline.
- Dishing Out Dirt: A fairly standard ability for the ruler of Azeroth's Earth elementals.
- Enemy Mine: She sides with the Earthen Ring against the Old Gods but makes it clear that she wants them out of Deepholm as soon as they're done. She later agrees to assist in the war against the Burning Legion.
- Godiva Hair: Her hair reaches down to cover her nipples (Provided she even has nipples. Stone woman and all that.)
- Gonk: She's extremely obese and her face certainly isn't easy on the eyes.
- Mama Bear: Has a vendetta against creatures of flesh for killing her daughter, Theradras, and takes it quite hard when she has to have adventurers kill Ozruk, who apparently joined the Twilight Hammer cult on his own accord and became a boss in the Stonecore.
- Non-Standard Character Design: Compared to the other Elemental Lords. She is a floating rotund rock-like humanoid, somewhat different from Ragnaros, Neptulon and Al'Akir. Fittingly, her figure resembles that of a fertility goddess (compare the Venus of Willendorf).
- Outliving One's Offspring: When players first meet Therazane, she was already mourning the death of her only daughter Theradras whom the player character had likely killed at some point back in vanilla. Continuing further in the Deepholm quest chain and reaching the Stonecore, she informs the adventurers that her son Ozruk had turned to join the Twilight's Hammer Cult and asks us to put him down in order to save the Elemental Plane.
- Pet the Dog: Agreeing to let Aggra and the player rescue Thrall, noting that she hears "a cry of a lover's heart," and she has not forgotten what it means to love.
- Physical God: The embodiment of the element of earth.
- The Smurfette Principle: The only female Elemental Lord.
- You Bastard!: It's quite likely the player has participated in killing Princess Theradras, a boss in the Maraudon instance, as well as the pre-Cataclysm Elemental Invasion event, and Therazane's daughter. Therazane specifically brings this up as one reason she doesn't trust mortals.
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Promises the creatures of flesh that this will happen one day. Players however can continually prove their usefulness, and at the end of the quest chain she'll give you the chance to hang around Deepholm and perform daily quests for profit.
Thunderaan
The Windseeker
"My power is discombobulatingly devastating! It is ludicrous that these mortals even attempt to enter my realm!"
A prince of the air elementals, he was originally slain by Ragnaros. Ragnaros consumed most of his essence, and the remainder was sealed in a pair of bindings. Adventurers could recover the bindings and use them to revive him, only to kill him for his sword, [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker].
In Legion, the Earthen Ring resurrected him as part of an effort to unite all of the elementals of Azeroth against the Burning Legion. They were ultimately successful, and Thunderaan became the new Windlord, swearing to aid in fighting the demonic invasion.
- Back from the Dead: Twice. The first time players brought him back just to kill him again, to obtain [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]. The second time was for a much more benevolent reason.
- The Bus Came Back: He was a minor character in the vanilla game, and did not appear again up until Legion.
- Cool Sword: His [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker], naturally.
- Odd Friendship: His backstory specifically mentions that he was "betrayed" by a couple of Ragnaros's lieutenants, which implies he was on friendly terms with them (and maybe even Ragnaros himself) prior to that. Given that elementals of different types are almost always antagonistic towards each other, this says something.
- Physical God: Succeeds Al'akir as this for air.
- Shock and Awe: His name gives away that his powers are mostly lightning-based. This carries over to his sword [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker], which sparks with electricity (and can trigger Chain Lightning).
Smolderon
Lord of the Firelands
A fiery winged being, he claimed the mantle of Firelord at some point following the defeat of Ragnaros. In return for the Earthen Ring's help in removing some rivals, he agreed to assist them with fighting the Burning Legion.
- Call-Back:
- Since Cenarius himself stated back in Cataclysm that the primal powers behind the Elemental Lords could never be defeated and that a new Firelord would eventually rise (after Ragnaros' defeat on Heroic), it wasn't entirely unexpected that the Adventurers would eventually meet said successor.
- In the Dragonflight Amirdrassil raid, he will give a special message to any shaman who completed the quest to help his ascension in Legion.
Smolderon yells: "You shall fall to the very weapon you placed in my hands. An honor indeed, shaman." - Dark Is Not Evil: He basically looks like a demon made out of fire, complete with wings. Despite this, he's (nominally) on the side of the good guys.
- Face–Heel Turn: In Patch 10.2.0, he becomes one of the bosses in the Amirdrassil raid.
- Meaningful Name: His name literally is "smolder on". It makes sense when you consider he's the successor to the previous Firelord, indicating the flames of the Firelands still burn.
- Physical God: Succeeds Ragnaros as this for fire.
- Uncertain Doom: The Dark Iron Dwarf recruitment questline reveals that Smolderon has gone missing in the wake of renegade Dark Iron cultists attempting to resurrect Ragnaros. The leader of the cultists is decidedly vague when asked about Smolderon's whereabouts, and Smolderon fails to reappear by the end of the questline. This becomes further complicated with his inclusion in the Amirdrassil raid in Dragonflight as one of the bosses working with Fyrakk. After he's defeated, Fyrakk absorbs his flaming essence for himself. Whether he's truly dead or will return to the Firelands is hard to say.
- Unexpected Successor: He was such a nobody that he never appeared or was mentioned prior to Legion, but considering that players had been killing Ragnaros's top servants left and right, something like this happening isn't terribly surprising.
Draenor Gods
Anzu
The Raven God
One of Draenor's Wild Gods. Ruler of corrupted Arakkoa and embodiment of the night (or Raven as the Arakkoa call it). He was crippled by the demigod Sethe, whom he had slain with the help of Rukhmar the Sun Goddess. When the Adherents of Rukhmar turned against Terokk and tossed him off of Skyreach and into Sethe's blood, corrupting them with the Curse of Sethe, Anzu took pity on them and taught them Shadow Magic. In the main timeline, the Sethekk had corrupted him and used him to attack the Emerald Dream.
In Warlords of Draenor this is averted as Anzu gains the aid of the players in killing Talon King Ikiss and slaying the ghost of Sethe.
- The Archmage: Anzu discovered Draenor's ley lines and became the world's first native inhabitant to master arcane magic.
- Cannibalism Superpower: The Curse of Sethe also empowered Anzu with the serpent's magic of darkness.
- Cannot Spit It Out: Anzu was in love with Rukhmar but never found the courage to reveal his feelings to her.
- Casting a Shadow: As the Arakkoa embodiment of Night it's expected of him. He actually gained the ability after devouring Sethe's corpse.
- Clever Crows: While not as impressive in his appearance compared to the elegant Rukhmar, Anzu more than made up for this with his intellect and wits.
- Dark Is Evil: Under the corruption of Sethe.
- Dark Is Not Evil: When not under the corruption of Sethe.
- Fallen Hero: Due to Talon King Ikiss inflicting Sethe's corruption on him.
- Faking the Dead: He went millennia letting everyone think he was dead until he revealed himself to Terokk.
- A Father to His Men: Worked with Rukhmar and Sethe to turn Arak into a sanctuary for winged creatures and took great care of the ravens of who he was the protector. He also regave hope to Terrok and the other Arrakoa casted out of Skyreach and who fell victims to the curse of Sethe, and taught them arcane and shadow magic.
- Feathered Fiend: Due to Sethe's corruption.
- Freakiness Shame: After he was corrupted by Sethe's blood and lost the ability to fly, he fled into the forests surrounding Arak so Rukhmar wouldn't see what had happened to him.
- Heroic Sacrifice: As he stood over Sethes' broken form, the Winged Serpent God threatened to destroy their world with his cursed blood; prompting Anzu to devour the dying God, the cursed blood crippled Anzus' form and nearly drove him insane as he retreated into The Shadowlands to wait out the curse. Only a single piece of gristle fell from Anzus' beak which had blighted the land below to create Sethekk Hollow.
- Last of His Kind: By the time players interact with him in Burning Crusade, Anzu is the last living member of the winged Gods of Arak. Though the others' remains still existed and there had been attempts to revive them, that all became moot when Draenor became Outland and most of Arak was lost. In addition, he seems to be the last of the dread ravens, the Draenic giant bird species which he belonged to, as no others of his kind appear on Outland.
- The Sacred Darkness: The incarnation of Night, and worshiped by the Skalax and later the outcast cursed Arakkoa.
- Squishy Wizard: He was physically smaller and weaker than his two peers, but his keen intellect helped him master his magic and become their equal.
- Weak, but Skilled: Compared to Rukhmar and Sethe Anzu was small and weak physically but he also had a cunning and sharp mind and learnt how to find and master Arcane magic, and after becoming cursed learned to master Void magic, too.
Rukhmar
The Sun Goddess
See Warcraft The Light for her tropes Sethe
The Wind Serpent God
One of Draenor's Wild Gods, he was killed by Rukhmar after Anzu warned her about his plans to murder her. With his dying breath, he attempted to curse the entirety of Arak with his blood, but was stopped when Anzu devoured his remains and took most of the curse into himself, though some of his blood remained. The pools of blood left behind by Sethe's death can curse arakkoa that come in contact with it, mutating their bodies and stripping them of their wings. Rukhmar's followers use it as a form of punishment. Sethe's ghost seeks to resurrect and enslave Anzu using his agents: the Sethekk.
- Bad Boss: Chronicle Volume II mentions that he was a cruel and demanding master to the wind serpents.
- Bloody Murder: His blood is alive and sometimes becomes Wind Serpents not to mention cursing any Arakkoa that touches it with winglessness.
- The Caligula: Overlapping with Bad Boss, Sethe often killed or devoured his Wind Serpent offspring for even the smallest of perceived slights he feels.
- The Corruption: He seeks to induce this on Anzu through his lieutenant Talon King Ikiss, ruler of the Sethekk.
- Feathered Serpent: Unlike Azeroth's own 'wind serpent god', Sethe is literally just a wind serpent with no weird limbs or ribs or anything. In this case his winged nature is important — his ability to fly helped him be one of the only animal gods on Draenor to survive to mortal memory.
- Green-Eyed Monster: The entire reason he hated Rukhmar was because she could fly higher than him. The fact that she was more than a little arrogant about this didn't help.
- Horrible Judge of Character: A rare villainous example. He approaches Anzu with the idea of killing Rukhmar together because he assumed Anzu was just as jealous of her as he was. Anzu actually adored Rukhmar and warned her of Sethe's betrayal.
- Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Of course the flying snake is the one who plots against the other two gods out of spite and jealousy.
- Small Role, Big Impact: It's revealed that the Red Pox that was used by the Ogres to infect the Orcs in the past, and later reverse-engineered by the Old Horde to create a plague that caused Draenei to lose their connection with the Holy Light and devolve into Broken and further into Lost Ones was actually created from The Curse of Sethe that was itself contained in Sethes' corrupted blood.
Genesaurs
The demigod leaders of the Primals, native to Draenor and at war with the Breakers.
- Alien Kudzu: Originally, their growth was so unchecked that they would have depleted all of the soil and magic on the planet.
- Green Thumb: They plan to turn all of both Draenor and Azeroth into plants.
- Knight Templar: They won't relent on turning all of Draenor and Azeroth into a duplicate of the Everbloom.
- Planimal: More like Plant Magnataurs. Their botani servants fit the trope better.
- When Trees Attack: They rule over tree Ancients which aid them in their plans.
Breakers
Breakers as a whole
A group of giants placed on Draenor by the Titans. They are at war with the Primals. Starting with the massive colossals, Breakers over time evolved into several gradually smaller but more intelligent species, most notably ogres and orcs.
- Cyclops: Most species of breaker possess only a single eye. The line didn't begin developing binocular vision until ogres came along, and even then it isn't universal among ogres.
- Dumb Muscle: Compared to groups like the ogres and orcs that share their lineage, earlier Breakers from the magnaron to ogron have very little in the way of smarts.
- Flawed Prototype: The Breakers are this to the Titan-Forged races used by the Pantheon to watch over Azeroth. Where the latter are capable of using complex tactics and technology to accomplish their goals, early Breakers gave little thought beyond the Attack! Attack! Attack! approach.
- Shorter Means Smarter: An evolutionary example. The Breaker evolutionary line gets gradually more intelligent, but at the cost of their colossal stature.
Magnaron
Giants made of molten stone, and the mightiest of the surviving Breakers. They apparently seek to make all of Draenor like Frostfire Ridge.
- Blue-and-Orange Morality: According to the Blackrock Foundry Dungeon Journal, the mind of a magnaron is unfathomable; case in point, the Blackrock clan accidentally came across a magnaron while excavating a mine, and to their shock he began helping them with their efforts. Nowadays he uses his stone fists and Super-Strength to shape the plates used on the Iron Horde's siege machines and naval units. The magnaron in question is a boss in the Blackrock Foundry raid.
- Dishing Out Dirt: Magnaron frequently employ earth magic, and beyond that can simply use their colossal strength to cause earthquakes.
- Grew Beyond Their Programming: Initially, the Breakers like Grond and the colossals were charged by the titan Aggramar to fight against the forces of the Evergrowth in order to keep it in check and prevent the vicious plants from devouring their world's biosphere. However, the magnaron rarely obeyed the commands of their colossal progenitors and instead wandered to other parts of Draenor doing their own thing.
- Knight Templar: They are obsessed with making all of Draenor completely barren and inhospitable like Frostfire Ridge and refuse to stop.
- Magma Man: They are made of molten stone.
- Playing with Fire: They bend Fire Furies to their will.
Gronn
Giant demigods that are part flesh and part stone. They share little love for their ogre descendants ruling their clans with a brutal fist.
- Abusive Precursors: They beat and whip their ogre descendants.
- Evil Versus Evil: They got into a territorial dispute with the black dragonflight when Deathwing tried to hide out on Draenor.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: They performed this on black dragons.
- Turned Against Their Masters: Their orc descendants enslave them in Warlords of Draenor.
Gruul
The Dragonkiller
The greatest of the gronn. He is said to be the father of all other gronn and is worshipped by the ogres of Blade's Edge Mountains.
- Abusive Precursors: He leads the gronn in enslaving and abusing his Ogre descendants.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: While Gruul is nothing to be trifled with, he is still several steps below Deathwing on the totem pole, yet with Khadgar's help was able to drive the Aspect out of Blade's Edge.
- Embarrassing Nickname: In Warlords of Draenor, his Blackrock descendants capture and enslave him which leads to him gaining the title Gruul the Subjugated.
- Hooks and Crooks: In Warlords of Draenor, his left hand has been replaced by a hook in mimicry of the Shattered Hand clan's Blade Below the Shoulder initiation rite, to help him pull vats of molten slag.
- Hulk Speak: This is Gruul at his most sophisticated:Gruul: I! I Gruul, greatest of Gronn! This my land, my mountains... and you will not take them! You go now or end up like children!
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: He was the first gronn to do this to Black Dragons.
- Red Baron: He is known as Gruul the Dragonkiller.
Other
Elune
The Moon Goddess
See Warcraft The Light for her tropes An'she
The Sun God
See Warcraft The Light for his tropes Algalon the Observer
"Yet all throughout, my own heart, devoid of emotion... of empathy. I... have... felt... NOTHING! A million, million lives wasted. Had they all held within them your tenacity? Had they all loved life as you do?"
A constellar sent to look over Azeroth after Loken's death and determine whether it must be re-originated.
- Affably Evil: He doesn't intend to fight you unless you attack him, calmly explains what he's doing and why and if the reorigination time limit runs out his parting words are a goodbye and a backhanded compliment.
- Celestial Body: A member of a mysterious race in service of the titans known as Constellars, his body consists of a constellation surrounded by a blue outline resembling a robed man.
- Dual Wield: Algalon wields two daggers made of stars.
- Knight Templar: Plans to reoriginate the world (which will kill every living thing on it) because the Old Gods have started escaping their prisons and are corrupting it. Though he quickly changes his ways after his defeat.
- Person of Mass Destruction: Miniature black holes and big bangs should give you an idea of what he is capable of, in addition he would have been the one to carry out Azeroth's reorigination.
- The Power of Creation: Wields this, as referenced in one of his battle quotes. Which is manifested as Big Bang.
- Superboss:
- To fight him, you must defeat the Assembly of Iron with one of the more difficult kill orders, and then clear the hard modes on Hodir, Thorim, Freya and Mimiron.
- Similarly, he can be fought once in a Pet Battle, but to do so, you must obtain all pets that can be dropped by raid bosses from Wrath of the Lich King.
- Time-Limit Boss: If you don't defeat him in time, he leaves to re-originate the world, in addition to the standard raid boss enrage timer.
- Unrealistic Black Hole: He puts several on the ground, and you have to step into them to escape his ultimate attack.
- The Watcher: Following his encounter he remains in Ulduar to observe the people of Azeroth.
- Villainous BSoD / My God, What Have I Done?: When you manage to defeat him, Algalon admits defeat and pauses to consider that he's been killing planets (Which it's implied he's done several thousand times), just because their creators no longer deem them "perfect". He wonders whether any of the residents of the worlds he destroyed loved life as much as Azeroth's did, and freaks out and resolves to never do it again.
Aluneth, Greatstaff of the Magna
Voiced by: Matthew Mercer (English), Alexander Rakhlenko (Russian)
"After many setbacks, Aegwynn finally bound the entity to an enchanted greatstaff. The task of containing Aluneth was done, but it would take the Guardian years to truly harness its power."
Aluneth is a powerful arcane entity, bound into the form of a staff by Aegwynn. Despite its bindings, it still has a mind of its own, and only the most powerful of mages could ever hope to subdue it enough to let them wield its power.
Here is a collection of Aluneth's whispers.
Beware of spoilers.
- Affectionate Nickname: Implied. Aluneth occasionally refers to the adventurer as "child". This is first seen when acquiring it and Aluneth refers to the mage as a child "...compared to (it)". Initially it was an insult, but the affection is implied later as this is usually accompanied by a warning of being low on mana.
- Admiring the Abomination: Aluneth was summoned by blue dragons to study it. When Aluneth caused a huge mess in The Nexus, destroying a lot of artifacts and tomes of power, the dragons were even more interested on learning about it and its behavior.
- Awesome, yet Impractical: Aluneth is a very powerful staff, but to get the best of it, you have to control the sentient being that is the source of its power. Aegwynn found it the hard way against the Avatar of Sargeras, when Aluneth refused to obey. She had to switch to the weaker but not-sentient Atiesh to do the job.
- The Cynic: A line in the Tomb of Sargeras reveals him to be this.(After the image of Aegwynn discusses the Tear of Elune) "A dream of perfect beauty... ridiculous! This world knows only pain, child."
- Deadpan Snarker: Aluneth is almost always snarky.(when using a portal spell in a group) "You waste precious energy poking holes in reality for these clumsy sword-swinging brutes."(when making mage food) "The power of the ancient Titans at your command, and you use it to make... tasty treats?"
- Energy Being: Aluneth himself is a creature of pure arcane energy, bound into the physical staff.
- Energy Absorption: Aluneth can feed on arcane energy around the Broken Isles and is hungry for more.
- Good All Along: Despite being conceited, craving arcane power and sounding excited at the idea of remaking the world, 7.3 reveals Aluneth to be this. Aluneth wants the world to survive, is aghast at the idea of the Void and the Burning Legion getting all the Titan Pantheon's power and laments having to fight titans."Stop them! The magic of the titans must not fall into the Legion's hands!""I never thought I'd have to slay a titan. This grieves me but we do what must be done."
- Given that Titans are the Arcane's equivalent of the Light's Naruu and the Void's Old Gods, Aluneth, as an arcane elemental, is quite justifiably conflicted at the prospect of battling Titans.
- Good Is Not Nice: Despite Good All Along above, Aluneth is rude and still abandoned Aegwynn when she fought the Avatar of Sargeras.
- Hungry Weapon: Aluneth craves arcane power.
- Living Weapon: Since Aluneth is an arcane entity turned into a staff, it has a mind of its own.
- Magic Staff: A powerful magical staff with a mind of its own.
- Mundane Utility: Mage players can use the powerful arcane entity that lives within the staff to conjure food. Aluneth is not amused.
- Not So Stoic: Aluneth employs most of its time snarking at everything, but when it sees an image of Aegwynn, it panics and immediately protests the idea of being caged again.
- Puny Earthlings: It seems to have this attitude towards the mortal races of Azeroth according to its quotes."The Kirin-Tor. Contemptible mortals groveling about for what meager scraps of power their tiny minds can comprehend."
- Talking Weapon: Aluneth does communicate with the player, though it's not known if others can hear Aluneth's word in the lore.
- Time Abyss: Not the weapon, which is a relatively modest few hundred years old, but the arcane entity itself has existed for tens of millennia in its home dimension, at minimum.
- You Talk Too Much!: Despite his own snarky tirades, Aluneth has this view of Aegwynn.
