Varian Wrynn

But no, this prison is famous because it's rumored to be the place where the Defias once held high-ranking nobles for ransom.

It was at one point even rumored to have held King Varian Wrynn himself.

In the past, we were able to go visit this location, but we couldn't actually go inside.

In forever, of course, now you can.

A statue of him was raised there, and at its feet grows a single unique flower called the Lotharian Lotus.

He is remembered as one of the greatest warriors in human history, and King Varian Wrynn of Stormwind would name his only son after him, Alenduin.

Stromgarde, the old heart of Arathor, was ruled in those days by King Thoros Trollbane, a descendant of Ignaeus, and a hard, experienced soldier.

He was a close friend of Terenas, and he agreed to join the alliance at once.

They fought their way through the tournament and faced the previous year's team champions, three ogres of the Gordani named Giago, Twoheads, and Burly.

and they won in another fight the nameless warrior faced five yetis alone and in the crowd that day sat a masked man who reported everything he had seen to a noble woman in storm wind named katrana prester The Nameless Warrior was Varian Wrynn, the Lost King of Stormwind, and Katrana Prestor was the Black Dragon Onyxia, in disguise.

But that, too, is a story for another night.

The Gordok had gentler moments now and then.

In the comics.

In the comics, the Defias, I believe, kidnap Varian Wrynn and take him to Alcaz Isle.

So one, maybe there'll be Defias there.

Two, there will probably be Naga there.

And then three, maybe Varian Wrynn will just be hanging out at the new Alcaz Isle dungeon.

That'd be so sick.

And we could

I don't.

The GOAT! We have goats among us.

Tarion, Morgraine, Varian, Wrynn, and Thrall.

Got a bunch of heroes out there.

And a few people that think I feel a bit too low of themselves.

Lady Katrana Prestor had encouraged the conflict from both sides.

Beneath her human appearance was Onyxia, a black dragon weakening the kingdom through its own resentments.

Now King Varian Wrynn had gone missing.

His young son Anduin now sat upon the throne, and Bolvar Fordragon governed beside an advisor who was working against them.

The night elves called him Goldrin.

The tauren called him Logosh, which in their tongue means the ghost wolf.

The trolls and the goblins and even the dwarves had their own versions of his legend.

and in all of them he was the same creature, a wild god, one of the great ancient spirits of nature, and the embodiment of ferocity, savagery, and unyielding will.

And yet his spirit, the stories say, lived on, watching over those he favored.

The Tauren tell it their own way.

In their legend, Logosh faced the Legion in the lush lands that would one day become the Barrens, alone and hopelessly outnumbered, and killed hundreds before he succumbed to his wounds.

But not even death could break his will to save his people.

all the remaining kings of the Alliance had come to visit it together.

Tyrannus and Genn Greymane, Daelin Proudmoore and Thoris Trollbane, young Varian of Stormwind, and Antonidas for Dalaran, and for most of them it had been their first sight of the blasted land around the portal.

Since the fall of Dalaran, the fortress had depended on supplies and warriors sent from Stormwind to survive, and a caravan wound its way down from the capital to keep it fed.

And in the forests of Silverpine, the wizard sent a sorcerer named Ashcrom to a keep called Shadowfang to check on the progress of one of their own archmages against the undead.

After the Second War, the people who had rebuilt it, the Stonemasons, were cheated of their pay, and some of them turned bandit and became the Defias Brotherhood, who began to haunt Westfall and creep into Duskwood's empty farms.

Then, in the 25th year after the Dark Portal, King Varian Wrynn vanished on a diplomatic voyage.

His son, Anduin was only a child, and in the young king's name, the kingdom's affairs fell under the influence of a gracious and beautiful noblewoman at court called Lady Catriona Prestor.

Catriona Prestor was, in truth, the black dragon Onyxia in disguise, and her purpose was to weaken Stormwind from within.

The Watch was brave and proud, and under the pride there was a grievance that had been left to fester for a very long time.

And when the Burning Legion came back to Azeroth, it found that grievance, and it pressed on it.

It happened during the Third Invasion, after the disaster on the Broken Shore, when King Varian Wrynn died holding the line so that others could escape.

Stormwind was in mourning.

Rumors of his dissatisfaction spread through the horde, and in secret, the regent of Quel'Thalas began to consider old alliances.

He opened talks with King Varian Wrynn of Stormwind, Garrosh found out, and he moved to sabotage it.

He organized a theft in Darnassus of a mogu artifact called the Divine Bell, and he arranged for the blame to fall on the blood elves.

With the help of a sunreaver named Fonlir Silverthorne, agents of the Horde took the bell from the Alliance and sent it to Silvermoon.

We've got things that were, like, maybe left up to secrets or lots of stories where they were kind of hinted at but never really fleshed out in the quest lines of Classic WoW that we are apparently going to start, like, digging into.

So we're not going to follow the stories of like the big main characters like Thrall as the Warchief of the Horde and then like Jaina and, you know, like Varian Wrynn and these big characters in the classic world and following these basically like superhero stories.

Like their design philosophy now is much more about Taking these little different facets of the world that maybe went a little bit understated on our first pass through back in 2004 and just really running with them and seeing how much more Densely we can pack this world with stuff So in that way They right off the rip at BlizzCon this year, they showed off a bunch of stuff and people had been speculating that there was going to be this like classic plus is what everyone was calling it for a very long time.

And everyone's speculating on what they'd love to see and what changes and blah, blah, blah.