Classic TBC. As Adams said, the Elemental Planes were created by the Titans as a place for the Elementals to go so they wouldn't interfere with the Ordering of Azeroth.
You're right that they are peculiar to Azeroth, but they are not a part of the world. An interview done with one of their story designers or something like that… about old gods.
Q: Third Chronicles have information about Old Gods. Hephaestus chased her and managed to catch her, in order to rape her. The goddess took some wool to wipe it away and threw it on the ground. Out of that semen, Erichthonius was born. He was cast off Mount Olympus by his mother because of his deformity or, in another account, by Zeus for protecting Hera from his advances.
In Greek mythology, Zeus is not killed at all. Zeus is king of the Greek gods and goddesses, a role he takes on after defeating his own father…. In Greek mythology there are only a few Gods who are actually said to be dead. Undead Nozdormu is fair enough. The problem would be getting Nozdormu in the first place. And even after all that, Nozdormu still has power and awareness of timelines.
The Scourge winning and taking over the world is not the True Timeline — nor is it even his eventually-intended End Time — therefore as soon as he was able, he would stop it from coming to pass in the first place using time travel. The only force powerful enough to stop him would be himself. Now, there are a few ways that Arthas could kill Deathwing. Another way would be to proactively enter the prisons of the Old Gods and exterminate them there, with no knowledge or regard for the health of the world-soul, which would then cut off the source of power that keeps Deathwing alive through impossible flesh wounds.
And arguably the most anticlimactic of all, is for Arthas to not physically attack Deathwing at all, but instead invoke the Fury of Frostmourne to attack his soul directly, which may be able to kill him if the tiny undead human can survive against the giant volcano dragon long enough or if he gets his spellcasters to do it for him.
Some new ideas I also just had working off what was posted above in regards to advantages the Lich King would have and paths he could take for victory…. This would make Arthas and his most powerful minions even harder to destroy as well as give them greater access to the realm of souls. Arthas could potentially take the later Sylvanas route and even subdue Eyir and take over the Halls of Valor, Odyn, and Helya to gain true mastery over death.
It is also likely that Arthas would go into Ulduar and kill Yogg-Saron as well as purge it of all its constructs fairly quickly after, unearthing many secrets of the Titans as well as gaining more insight into the Old Gods and their natures as well as greater knowledge of the lands of Azeroth that were shrouded such as Pandaria.
Speaking of Pandaria, the Sha could be of particular use to the Scourge since in general they are emotionless but could be brought to bare against beings like Deathwing, and otherwise they could subdue the Pandaren, Mogu, and in particular the Mantid would make an excellent fighting force. At this point the Zandalari would still be undergoing some fractures and it is possible that after seeing what the Scourge do to the Drakkari Zul would lead a civil war and side with the Lich King in a bid to take over Zandalar, offering up Nazmir and its knowledge of the Titans and Old Gods to Arthas as well.
The main thing I think that would give the Scourge an advantage is they would have a year or more to conquer the world, something I think would be fairly easy given their overwhelming conventional power at that point.
He needed time to recover from his wounds caused by the Demon Soul and to regain his strength. During his long slumber, the other dragonflights would hunt his corrupted black dragonflight to the brink of extinction. The incredible amount of magic roused Deathwing from his slumber.
He watched with fascination as Stormwind and the Horde fought, and he became convinced that the orcs would be the means to restore his flight to its full glory. However, he knew the other Dragon Aspects and the mortal races would oppose him if he came out of hiding. If the Horde could break Azeroth's kingdoms, Deathwing could devote his full attention to fending off the Aspects.
He did nothing drastic, for fear of attracting the Aspects' attention, yet the Old Gods saw Deathwing's intervention as a way to engulf the world in chaos. The first thing Deathwing did was take the guise of a noble human from Stormwind and travel to Lordaeron.
He charmed the aristocracy, and when stories of the Horde invasion finally reached Lordaeron, Deathwing openly scoffed at them. He told Lordaeron's nobles that the tales were fabrications meant to hide growing problems with rebels in Stormwind, and his lies were much more convincing than Stormwind's desperate pleas for help.
To win over those who stubbornly believed the reports, Deathwing subtly influenced the minds of Lordaeron's nobles with his magic, preventing them from taking any action against the Horde.
Deathwing did not only involve himself with human affairs, either. Once he was certain Lordaeron would not send aid to Stormwind, Deathwing moved south. He took the form of a Blackrock orc and lived among the orcs for months, examining their society from the inside.
He had easily sensed the hidden power driving the Horde's actions, and before long Deathwing maneuvered himself into the good graces of several individuals.
Gul'dan believed Deathwing's orc disguise to be a loyal follower, Blackhand believed him a proud Blackrock orc, and Orgrim Doomhammer believed he was a stalwart ally.
When Blackhand fell to Orgrim, Deathwing did not see it as an issue. As a servant of the Old Gods, he saw the shattering of the Burning Legion's hold on the orcs as a good thing that only served to make them more vulnerable to his own masters. But there was a problem with Deathwing's plans. The Horde had been weakened by the First War, and if the rest of the human kingdoms were to unite, the orcs would not have the means to destroy them.
Even if they could, they would awaken too many enemies in the meantime - if the Dragon Aspects learned about the Horde, the orcs would stand no chance. However, Deathwing's Dragon Soul was still out there, having been hidden after the War of the Ancients. It contained the power of all the Aspects except Deathwing, and so could be used against them for destruction or control. And although the weapon had been enchanted after the war so that no dragon could wield it, orcs could. Deathwing granted visions to Zuluhed the Whacked , chieftain of the Dragonmaw clan.
He was bombarded with vivid dreams of his clan taming and riding dragons. His clan had once ridden rylaks on Draenor, and to once again soar in the sky was an idea that could not be resisted. Once the hook had been set, Deathwing coaxed Zuluhed to the Redridge Mountains. The Dragon Soul was hidden deep beneath the mountains, protected by wards and the red dragon Orastrasz , untouched for ten thousand years.
Dozens of Dragonmaw orcs died against Orastrasz, unfamiliar as they were with dragons, but they succeeded. Zuluhed ordered his clan's greatest warlock, Nekros Skullcrusher , to retrieve the Dragon Soul.
Sensing the dark power within, Nekros renamed it the Demon Soul. Far from the Redridge Mountains, Alexstrasza sensed the wards breaking and grew concerned when she heard no word from Orastrasz. She and several of her red dragons hurried south, though she believed that some mortal had found the disc and Orastrasz was currently hunting for it and that it would be easy to help him retrieve.
In truth, they were heading right into Deathwing's trap. Deathwing taught Nekros how to use the Demon Soul through dreams and visions. With it, the Dragonmaw clan was able to enslave Alexstrasza shortly after the Horde assaulted Khaz Modan. He could not use it on the other dragons as he had to focus on her, but by lashing out at Alexstrasza with the disc's power whenever her dragons tried to intervene, Nekros was able to get them to do as he ordered.
The Dragonmaw took control of the long-abandoned dwarf city Grim Batol in the Twilight Highlands and forced Alexstrasza's dragons to accompany them by threatening their queen. While the Dragonmaw began to ride their captives as battle mounts, Alexstrasza was imprisoned within Grim Batol and forced to lay eggs so the Dragonmaw could raise loyal dragons from infancy. From afar, Deathwing rejoiced in Alexstrasza's imprisonment. He continued to subtly advise Nekros on how best to use the Demon Soul to control the red dragons.
Not only would making the Horde stronger help his plan to restore the black dragonflight, but he also knew that seeing her children be used as tools for war would make Alexstrasza's heart suffer. And Deathwing would relish every moment of Alexstrasza's torment. Kryll , a goblin servant of Deathwing, was sent to infiltrate the Dragonmaw clan and to serve Nekros Skullcrusher. Nekros ended up being manipulated by Kryll into doing Deathwing's bidding. The goblin served as an "advisor" to Nekros, whispering ideas to the orc in order to further Deathwing's aims.
Eventually, the Horde lost their war and were forced to retreat to Draenor with the Dark Portal closed behind them. After Ner'zhul reopened the portal several years later, his forces were approached by Deathwing. He offered his own children for assistance in exchange for safe passage to Draenor. They agreed and Deathwing helped them prepare for several key battles to steal two artifacts from the Alliance in order for Ner'zhul's newly reformed Horde to create new portals to other worlds.
They then fled back to the Dark Portal to Draenor. Deathwing believed the world would be a relatively safe haven for his offspring and secreted away a cache of black dragon eggs there. However, the gronn did not take kindly to Deathwing and his black dragons trying to take over their territory and conflict arose between the two races. They were after the Skull of Gul'dan which Deathwing possessed he demanded it as payment from Ner'zhul.
After that, Gruul and his ogre minions, along with the heroes, challenged Deathwing from his perch in Gorgrond — killing his eggs and impaling his lesser black drakes on the mountain spikes. Infuriated by this act, Deathwing landed on top of them and attacked Gruul. Although clearly no match for the mad Aspect 's power, Gruul was saved by Khadgar 's miraculous spell when he disassembled some of the adamantium plates that were holding Deathwing's unstable body together resulting in Deathwing's retreat.
Having escaped back to Azeroth, Deathwing ended up in a fight with some of the archmagi of Dalaran and feigned defeat, falling into the sea, where most of the council assumed at the time that he died. Soon after Ner'zhul recklessly opened multiple portals on Draenor, the magical stress tore the planet apart.
The energies released in this catastrophe altered Deathwing's eggs, resulting in the nether drakes : partially corporeal and partially ethereal dragons who possess the ability to shift between the astral and physical planes. Without Deathwing's guidance, these otherworldly nether drakes are just now finding their own way among the blasted ruins of Outland. Deathwing, posing as Lord Daval Prestor, managed to make himself popular with King Terenas and the kings of the Alliance nations, and for a while had a strong influence in the decisions of state.
Lord Prestor was a minor noble, dispossessed and without backing, who came from the north. He and a handful of his close family traveled by foot — no mounts, not even any servants or guards — to the Capital City of Lordaeron, where he presented himself to King Terenas. When debating on what to do with Lord Aiden Perenolde , the treacherous king of Alterac , right after the Second War ended, Prestor advised Terenas to depose Lord Perenolde and declare martial law in the Alterac region.
Although no one had heard of him prior to five years before the Battle of Grim Batol , [12] Prestor claimed bloodlines in the royal house of Alterac [12] ensuring he was a distant cousin to Aliden Perenolde.
Greymane supported Perenolde's nephew in his claim for the throne of Alterac. Trollbane advocated dividing it between Lordaeron and Stromgarde. Realizing that neither situation was acceptable and that Lordaeron could not simply annex it, Terenas — telepathically coerced by Prestor — believed that a strong leader trusted by the Alliance leadership should be put in place as King of Alterac, and he declared Lord Prestor as his choice to take that position.
Terenas was even prepared to give Prestor the hand of his daughter, Princess Calia , in the coming years as part of a marriage alliance between the new king of Alterac and the king of Lordaeron. Deathwing's ultimate goal was to obtain a high level of power and influence within the Alliance, so he could destroy it from within. He had begun his campaign against the Alliance by pitting the kingdoms of Lordaeron, Stromgarde, Gilneas, and Kul Tiras against the Kirin Tor of Dalaran - who Deathwing considered threats to his new identity.
Because of that, the Kirin Tor of Dalaran had their misgivings. The red dragon Korialstrasz — in his guise as Krasus, a member of the Kirin Tor high council — attempted to penetrate the chateau of Lord Prestor, setting off a very powerful spell-trap known as the Endless Hunger.
The powerful energies maimed him, but Krasus was able to discover who he truly was. Two other members of the high council, Drenden and Modera , saw that Prestor was a complete blank magically, implying that he possessed great power — "possibly almost as powerful as Medivh ", as Modera put it.
The fact that the Alliance leaders, including the normally stubborn Greymane, had given Prestor their support, and the fact that King Terenas appeared to be leaving Dalaran out of the loop entirely, increased the Kirin Tor's suspicions about this unusual man. The orcs of the Dragonmaw clan at Grim Batol kept their hold over Alexstrasza, even though the bulk of the Horde had already been defeated. Deathwing tried to frighten the Dragonmaw orcs into believing that the humans were attacking Grim Batol, so that they would move Alexstrasza and her eggs north to Dun Algaz ; this left her eggs vulnerable.
Deathwing hoped to steal Alexstrasza's latest cache for himself to create a new dragonflight; though bearing the crimson scales of the Dragonqueen, they would be raised by Deathwing and carry his hatred for the mortal races.
Deathwing used his pawns to manipulate the mage Rhonin , who had been sent to Grim Batol by Krasus, as part of a plan to free Alexstrasza. He saved the young mage several times and helped him reach Grim Batol, hoping that his appearance inside the mountain fortress would further convince Nekros to flee from it.
Though the orcs were convinced and began leaving Grim Batol, Deathwing's attack on the caravan, however, failed. Nekros tried to use the Demon Soul on Deathwing but was unsuccessful due to the disk having no power over the black dragon. He then sent Tyranastrasz , old and sick, to stop the Deathwing, but he failed and was killed. At the behest of Krasus, the three remaining free aspects, Malygos , Ysera and Nozdormu , grudgingly decided to come out of their lairs and attack Deathwing.
However, due to the power they had given to the Demon Soul, they were no match for the black leviathan. Furthermore, he discovered its weakness and destroyed it, releasing all the powers of the dragons who had given their power ten thousand years earlier. Deathwing was sent retreating with four very angry, fully-empowered Dragon Aspects on his heels, though he managed to elude them in the end.
Shortly after the battle of Grim Batol, Lord Daval Prestor vanished under unusual circumstances when Deathwing was forced to go into hiding, with his chateau abandoned and his servants gone. Deathwing's influence over the nobles disappeared along with him. Onyxia and Nefarian , offspring of Deathwing and masters of the black dragonflight in the absence of their father, have tried to control the world.
Onyxia followed in her father's footsteps by taking the Prestor name to attempt to manipulate the Alliance. She posed as a human counselor named Katrana Prestor for the new child King of Stormwind. He was able to enslave the Blackrock Clan orcs who served him on the top of the mountain, the Blackrock Spire. This section concerns content related to The Burning Crusade. In a brief dialogue with Overlord Mor'ghor , Lady Sinestra Sintharia revealed that Deathwing survived the events of the Battle of Grim Batol, and seeks the Netherwing eggs to continue Nefarian's experiments.
Deathwing's consort Sintharia serves as the primary antagonist of Night of the Dragon , carrying on Deathwing's experiments of creating twilight dragons.
Deathwing himself does not appear until the end of the novel, where it is revealed he is using the research of his children and consort to perfect the creation of the Twilight dragonflight. Some time after Sinestra's death, Deathwing retrieved her corpse and used the power of N'Zoth to reanimate her for the sole purpose of creating more eggs to turn into twilight dragons.
Deathwing first made his debut in World of Warcraft as a cameo appearance during the battle against the Old God Yogg-Saron , inside Ulduar. He appears in human form and under his original name of Neltharion and is featured along with all the other Aspects in a flashback that depicts the creation of the Dragon Soul , ten thousand years earlier.
Cataclysm marked the return of Deathwing and his wrath constituted a world-changing event known as the Shattering. He plays a part in a number of quests as well as the achievement [ Stood in the Fire ] and is also the final boss encounter of the expansion. He is the last of the Dragon Aspects to appear in dragon form in the game, and is the third one that can be confronted by raids or dungeons the first being Malygos and second Nozdormu in the corrupted form of Murozond.
Deathwing rising from the Maelstrom. Deathwing unleashing destruction on Azeroth after bursting forth from the Elemental Plane. After the battle at Grim Batol, Deathwing returned to Deepholm , the realm of the earth elementals , to recuperate. When he arrived, the native stone dragons flocked to his side, easily swayed by the Old God -amplified power of the Aspect of Earth. Hidden away inside the Stonecore in the Temple of Earth , Deathwing waited, recovering from the wounds of his last battle against the forces of Azeroth.
As he bided his time until he could reforge the world in molten fire, the Twilight's Hammer toiled over him, forging a new armor of elementium plates that were then hammered to the Dragon Aspect's skin to hold his tormented body together.
In recent years, the whisperings of the Old Gods had gotten worse; the Old Ones' dread power steadily increased as C'Thun and Yogg-Saron stirred from their ancient slumbers, and the growing influence of the Old Gods magnified Deathwing's power ten-fold.
From within his lair in the elemental plane of Deepholm, Deathwing awoke from his slumber and literally erupted into the world.
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