See, while Aman'thul and his squad are making magical lakes and pretty landscapes, Sargeras has been brooding and stressing for eons about this whole Burning Legion problem. Eventually his doubt and despair get the better of him. And he comes up with a plan.
OF THE
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PANTHEON
ell, while the Titans are patting each other on the back for making such a damn pretty planet, Sargeras is out in the universe by himself, going a little bat-shit.
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FALL
In order to save the universe from being corrupted by the Void Lords,
Sargeras needs to destroy it.
So now Sargeras is completely bat shit. He decides that in order to embark on this noble en devour, he needs an army. Conveniently, he has a whole Legion of demons locked up on his imprisonment planet of Mardum. Sargeras destroys the planet to unleash his army, and in the process, the fel energy residing within the planet fully corrupt him.
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So now we have a fanatical, fel-infused, pissed off colossal Titan who is a warrior greater than the Pantheon has ever fucking seen... and now he's malicious as shit too.
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So Sargeras and his Burning Crusade start tearing across the universe, destroying worlds and such. Then they run across Aggramar. Poor, Aggramar. He's just trekking across the Dark trying to slay demons and save... well... everything. But Sargeras kills him. Like an asshole.
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Now the Pantheon is pissed and they are gearing up for war. Time to take care of this Dark Titan and his lovely demon horde.
So the armies are about to clash (Clash of the Titans... HA!) when Aman'thul, like an idiot, thinks they can reason with Sargeras. They are old friends after all. He even tells our Dark Titan nemesis all about this lovely little planet called Azeroth, and the potential of the sleeping Titan within.
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"It'll be great, Sarg! He's going to grow up to be strong enough to kick the Void Lords' ass!"
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Yup. So then, like a jackass, Aman'thul approached Sargeras unarmed. And Sargeras. Fucking. Kills him.
The Titans lose their shit and attack in full force, but Sargeras is fel-infused now and by the time the battle is over he has slayed every last one of the Pantheon.
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So, victorious and cocky as hell, our fav supervillian gathers his army and heads for this lovely little planet called Azeroth to take care of that shit once and for all.
So now we know why Sargeras has a hard on for destroying Azeroth.
There is a developing super Titan that's gonna grow up to kick his ass.
Little does he know that right before the Titans died, Norgannon cast a spell that put a protective shield around the spirits of the Titans in his last moments. Now those spirits haul ass across the universe to Azeroth and slam into the consciousness of the Keepers.
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But all the Keepers can comprehend of these consciousnesses is a jumble of fragmented memories. They are pretty much all "WTF?" So they send word to the Pantheon asking for guidance. But.... obviously... they never get an answer.
Well, now we're royally fucked. But this has gone on for way too fucking long. That's the Titans and the Pantheon and why Sargeras is an asshole. Next up is likely the Great Sundering, cause our boy Sargeras has a bunch to do with that as well, and it also explains how the Legion first got into Azeroth.
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But at least now you know the origin story of Sargeras and why we are running around the Broken Isles getting Pillars of Creation that used to belong to the Pantheon.