Burning Crusade

The Burning Crusade is a conflict that features in Warcraft.

History

The Burning Crusade was a longstanding conflict that was perpetrated by the demons of the Burning Legion. Its creation came long ago when the Titan Sargeras performed his duty in combating evil across the Great Dark Beyond and Twisting Nether as per his duty as a member of the Pantheon. During his campaigns, many demons were defeated only for him to find that they would simply reform themselves given time. Thus, he came to imprison them but Sargeras in this time came to learn the threat of the Void Lords who looked to spawn a horrible creature by corrupting a planet's worldsoul. For this, they would send their spawn the Old Gods to worlds nurturing a nascent Titan soul within them. This revelation would lead to Sargeras turning from his comrades in the Pantheon where he gathered a horde of demons under his control as they went to destroy any world that would suffer the risk of such corruption. Thus, the Burning Legion was spawned and they waged a war across many worlds as part of their Burning Crusade.

This would culminate in an invasion of the Legion homeworld of Argus itself and the imprisonment of Sargeras within the Seat of the Pantheon, marking the end of the Argus Campaign. With this, the Burning Crusade was brought to a decisive end, and the Legion dealt a crippling blow.

During Malfurion Stormrage's last assault against the forces of Queen Azshara, the druid drew upon the power of the Dragon Soul to disrupt the Highborne's carefully crafted spellwork and shatter the connection between the Legion and Azeroth. The unstable vortex within the Well's depths exploded and ignited a catastrophic chain of events that would sunder the world forever. The massive explosion rocked the temple to its foundations and sent massive quakes ripping through the tortured earth. As the horrific battle between the Legion and the night elves' allies raged around and above the ruined capital city, the surging Well of Eternity buckled in upon itself and collapsed. As the aftershocks from the Well's implosion rattled the bones of the world, the seas rushed in to fill the gaping wound left in the earth. Nearly eighty percent of Kalimdor's landmass had been blasted apart, leaving only a handful of separate continents surrounding the new, raging sea. At the center of the new sea, where the Well of Eternity once stood, was a tumultuous storm of tidal fury and chaotic energies. This terrible scar, known as the Maelstrom, would never cease its furious spinning. It would remain a constant reminder of the terrible catastrophe. Somehow, against all odds, Queen Azshara and her Highborne elite managed to survive the ordeal. Tortured and twisted by the powers they had released, Azshara and her followers were dragged down beneath the raging sea by the Well's implosion. Cursed — transformed — they took on new shapes and became the hateful serpentine Naga. Azshara herself expanded with hate and rage, becoming a massive monstrosity, reflecting the wickedness and malice that had always hidden within her core. There, at the bottom of the Maelstrom, the naga built for themselves a new city, Nazjatar, from which they would rebuild their power. It would take over ten thousand years before the naga would reveal their existence to the surface world.

After their defeat in the Second War, the Old Horde's Warchief, Ner'zhul was captured by Kil'jaeden for his failure. As punishment, the Deceiver destroyed Ner'zhuls body, and tortured his spirit until he agreed to serve the Legion once again. His soul encased in a suit of armor which was then bound to the Frozen Throne, Kil'jaeden hurled his creation towards Azeroth where it smashed into Icecrown Glacier. Thus the first major player of the Third War, the Lich King was born. Once on Azeroth, the Lich King took control of Northrend and he had the necromancer Kel'Thuzad take the Plague of Undeath to Lordaeron. Before the start of the war, the prophet Medivh came to the young orcish Warchief Thrall in a dream. Medivh told him that he must rally the newly-reformed shamanistic Horde and move them across the sea to Kalimdor in order to escape the shadow that was coming to consume the land. Trusting the prophet's words, and wishing to find a new home for his people, Thrall listened to his call, fought his way through Lordaeron's troops and sailed west.

Overview

In appearance, the Burning Crusade was a conflict waged by the Burning Legion across countless worlds in the universe.

Participants

• Sargeras : the Dark Titan was a former member of the Pantheon who turned against his kin and headed a vast army of demons where he was the instigator of their war against all worlds.
• Kil'jaeden :
• Archimonde :

Notes

• The Burning Crusade was created by Blizzard Entertainment where it featured in the setting of the Warcraft universe.

External Link

• WoW Wiki Entry

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