Yogg-Saron

Yogg-Saron is a deity that features in the Warcraft universe.

Biography

Yogg-Saron 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 Yogg-Saron alongside those of his kin managed to settle on the world of Azeroth. Yogg-Saron held chaotic tyranny over the world of Azeroth in the very distant past, and was responsible for the creation of the Curse of Flesh to "facilitate assimilation" of the Titans' creations. When the Titans waged war against the Old Gods and shattered their citadels, they found that the infestation of the entities had grown so severe that destroying the Old Gods would also lead to the annihilation of Azeroth. Instead, the Pantheon took measures to neutralize the Old Gods' power and bind them within Azeroth for the remainder of its existence. Yogg-Saron was sealed away within the depths of Ulduar in the far northern reaches of the infant world, and had six watchers assigned to it who served as wardens for its near-eternal imprisonment; the Titanic watchers known as Loken, Thorim, Hodir, Tyr, Mimiron and Freya. Although he was imprisoned, it was incompletely; as his black blood runs through the whole continent, crystallizing into saronite and corrupting all it touches. His whispers escaped with the saronite, tempting many to madness, including the keeper Loken. In time Loken would have an affair with Sif, the wife of his brother Thorim. Yogg-Saron, from his prison within Ulduar, muddled Loken's thoughts and made him lash out at Sif, scared at the thought of losing her, and he killed her by accident. Horrified at what he had done but too scared to tell Thorim the truth, Loken tricked Thorim into believing that it had been the work of Arngrim, the king of the frost giants, turning Thorim against his allies. Loken would stop the war between Thorim's and Arngrim's forces with an army he had created with the Forge of Wills, but unknown to Loken, Yogg-Saron had planted the Curse of Flesh inside the forge, which would slowly convert titan-forged into flesh and could also spread to those forged before the curse was created.

Notes

• Yogg-Saron 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 Yog-Sototh.

Appearances

• World of Warcraft:

External Link

• Warcraft Wiki Entry

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