![]() Velen saw the Burning Legion in all its terrible might and witnessed the destruction it would wreak upon all of creation. He saw the dark future his people were heading towards: siding with the dark titan Sargeras and transformed into demons. After touching the Ata'mal crystal in its temple, he had a vision of the future that filled him with dread. But while Kil'jaeden and Archimonde readily accepted the deal, Velen had doubts. Sargeras claimed he was impressed by the work of the eredar and wanted to supply them with even more power and knowledge in exchange for their loyalty. Īt the height of their society, 13,000 years ago, the eredar's three most prominent leaders, Kil'jaeden, Archimonde, and Velen, were approached by Sargeras, the Fallen Titan. They were aided in this development by an ancient artifact known as the Ata'mal crystal, a triangular crystal whose origin was a mystery to the eredar, though their legends suggested it had been a gift bestowed upon them in ancient times. Using their gifts, they developed a vast and wondrous society, in which art, science, magic, and technology were all as one. They were extremely intelligent and had a natural affinity for magic in all of its forms. Long ago, on the planet of Argus, the eredar race arose. The draenei of alternate Draenor also play a significant role in the Warlords of Draenor expansion. The draenei as they are known today were first introduced with The Burning Crusade, though corrupted draenei - later identified as Lost Ones and Broken - were seen as early as Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. However, the majority vowed to stay and uphold their sacred commitment to the Alliance, as Velen saw through a powerful vision that a great war between the Darkness and the Light was fast approaching, and that Azeroth would be its principal battleground. Following the defeat of Kil'jaeden at the Sunwell Plateau, the draenei completed the desperate mission that first brought them to Azeroth, and some of them were sent back to Outland to revitalize their former civilization. Inspired by tales of the heroic Alliance that stood against the might of the Burning Legion during the Third War, the draenei joined their ranks and led the charge during the Invasion of Outland. ![]() As the orcs were corrupted by the Legion and formed the original Horde, the draenei were slaughtered en masse and driven into hiding.ĭecades later, the survivors managed to escape the ravaged world of Outland aboard the Exodar, a vessel of the naaru fortress Tempest Keep, but crashed upon the world of Azeroth more specifically, on the Azuremyst Isles off the western coast of Kalimdor. For centuries, the draenei lived in relative peace with Draenor's native orcs, until agents of the Burning Legion found them. ![]() Led by the Prophet Velen and guided by the divine naaru, they traveled throughout the cosmos in search of a safe world to settle on, eventually landing on a planet they would come to call Draenor, or "Exiles' Refuge". The draenei (meaning Exiled Ones in their own tongue) are a faction of uncorrupted eredar who fled their homeworld of Argus to escape the corruption of the demonic Burning Legion. “In moments of great strife, I gaze into the heavens and see just how far we have already come.” ![]()
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