C'Thun
C'Thun is a video game deity who features in the Warcraft.
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Biography
C'Thun was one of the Old Gods that had been created by the Void Lords who dispatched them to corrupt the world-souls of planets in the Great Dark Beyond. The seed of C'Thun alongside those of his kin managed to settle on the world of Azeroth. In that time countless millennia ago, C'Thun began to establish the mighty Black Empire through the aid of the Old God's spawn who helped enslave the chaotic elementals that were the planet's only inhabitants. Their rule of the world remained unchallenged for countless years until the arrival of the god-like Titans to Azeroth. Vowing to cleanse the planet of the Old Gods and saving its world-soul from the eldritch beings' malign influence, the titans crafted the titan-forged from the planet's crust to destroy the Black Empire. The titan-forged succeeded in imprisoning the Elemental Lords and defeating most of the aqir, but after the titans saw the catastrophic effect that the Old God Y'Shaarj's death had on the planet, they ordered their creations to imprison the remaining Old Gods rather than killing them. After containing N'Zoth, the titan-forged launched their campaign upon the temple-city of C'Thun, purging swams of n'raqi before successfully imprisoning the Old God itself. After the defeat of the Old Gods, the titan-forged set to work ordering Azeroth. After installing the Forge of Origination, the titan-forged Ra and his anubisath servants marched northwest towards C'Thun's prison, laboring to expand the prison into the fortress of Ahn'Qiraj.
For millennia, C'Thun lay dormant within its prison. Roughly 16,000 years BDP, the race known as the trolls accidentally reawakened the insectoid aqir, who had escaped underground during the destruction of the Black Empire. Led by the C'Thrax Kith'ix, the aqir launched a great war against the trolls, but the trolls were able to drive the insectoids back to the far corners of the continent. One group of aqir fled southwest and overran Ahn'Qiraj, enslaving its anubisath guardians with the intention of using the giants against their foes, but nevertheless, the Gurubashi trolls were sucessful in containing the insectoids within the fortress for the rest of the war. The aqir would remain inside the prison complex's walls for millennia afterwards, and over time, the influence of C'Thun transformed them into a new race namely the Qiraji.
Thousands of years later, the night elves accidentally awakened the dormant qiraji upon entering Ahn'Qiraj. C'Thun stirred within its prison and became aware of the insectoids that had gathered around it. The Old God drove the qiraji and their silithid minions into a murderous frenzy, and shortly thereafter the insectoids swarmed out across Silithus.[14] So began the War of the Shifting Sands. The whole of Silithus was soon engulfed by the silithid and their qiraji hosts. The night elf army, led by the pompous Fandral Staghelm, was pushed back through Un'Goro Crater, to the borders of the Tanaris desert. Fandral sought the aid of the bronze dragonflight who resided in the Caverns of Time, and who at the time were led by Anachronos. Anachronos initially hesitated to bring the bronze dragons into the war, but when the qiraji attacked the Caverns of Time itself, Anachronos agreed to ally with the kaldorei forces. Realizing that even the combined forces of the night elves and the bronze flight couldn't stop the onslaught of the qiraji, Anachronos called out to the green, red and blue dragonflights. Arygos of the blue flight was the first to notice the strange emanations radiating from the monolothic temple in the southern quadrant of Ahn'Qiraj, a strange power completely different from anything radiated by the qiraji. Seeing the endless numbers of the silithid and qiraji constantly growing within the walls of Ahn'Qiraj and sensing the presence of the qiraji's master, the dragons knew that they had to react quickly. The Scarab Wall was erected to create an impenetrable magical barrier and contain the insectoid threat. The war ended, and C'Thun's plans had failed.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, C’Thun was depicted as a colossal, monstrous entity with one immense, glaring eye at its center, surrounded by writhing, tentacle-like appendages. Its body was grotesque and alien, with chitinous plating and organic, pulsating textures that reflected its inhuman and primeval origins. When portrayed visually, its central eye was always emphasized as the source of its psychic power, dominating depictions with an unblinking, hypnotic presence.
In personality, C’Thun was shown as malevolent, manipulative, and patient, exerting its will through whispers and visions. It demonstrated no compassion or individuality, only an overwhelming hunger for domination, corruption, and madness. Its demeanor was cold, calculating, and alien, treating mortals as pawns and disposable tools to further its inevitable rise.
He was regarded as the Old God of madness and chaos.
Powers and abilities
In abilities, C’Thun possessed vast psychic powers that allowed it to influence minds across great distances, driving mortals into madness or fanatic devotion. It also commanded the Qiraji and their insectoid armies, serving as their god and source of power. When directly confronted, its physical body had destructive abilities such as eye beams capable of obliterating targets instantly, tentacles for crushing or piercing, and regenerative resilience. Its combination of mental domination and raw destructive power made it one of the most terrifying Old Gods of Azeroth.
Following the war against the Titans, C'Thun was stripped of his full power.
Notes
- C'Thun was created by Blizzard Entertainment where it featured in the Warcraft universe.
- The name appears to be based on the Cthulhu Mythos entity known as Cthulhu.
In other media
Video games
Appearances
- World of Warcraft:
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