THE
GREAT
SUNDERING
W
ell. We know from the last page that the War of the Ancients is coming to a head. Sargeras is
knocking. Azshara is bat-shit. Malfurion is fucking pissed. Deathwing is a thing now. And Illidan has earned his title of the Betrayer.
So, while the battle between Mal and Azshara is raging, Illidan sneaks off to the Well of Eternity to get a few vials of its waters. See, Illidan thinks they are pretty much fucked, so he wants some of the arcane power of the Well for himself before it all goes to hell.
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Why am I an Illidan fangirl again? No worries. I'll get to all that eventually.
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But for now... this moment is important. But that's for later too.
Right after Illidan makes off with some of the water from the Well of Eternity, the battle gets so intense that the spells that Azshara and her crew were casting to stabilize and expand the portal within the Well begin to unravel.
Sargeras is about to step through the portal right well things go to hell. Sensing that the Well and its entry into Azeroth are about to be lost, he tries to force his way through.
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And the Well. Fucking. Explodes.
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Sargeras is blasted into the Nether and the tiny world of Azeroth is rocked to its literal core.
The continent of Kalimdor is blasted apart.
The waters of the earth rush in to fill the gaping as hole where the Well of Eternity used to be. The waters raged and swirled, creating a Maelstrom in the center of the fragmented continents Kalimdor had become. This swirling mass would never dissapate, and would serve as a reminder of the catastrophic events that tore Azeroth asunder.
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Thanks Azshara.
So now we have a lovely Maelstrom where the Well of Eternity used to be. Azshara and her assholes survived the blast but were dragged to the depths of the sea, transformed by the backfiring of their powerful spell into the Naga. Azshara herself, pissed as fuck, lets her rage expand until she is her own monstrosity. Everyone thinks they are gone, cause it will take about ten thousand years for the Naga to surface and steal your bike.
And now my friends, you know why Azeroth is split into several continents. And why we hate Archimonde and Mannoroth. And why Illidan is in trouble. And why Sargeras was fucking lost and not coming after us for about ten thousand years. And why the night elves tend to keep to themselves and embraced druidism over the arcane.
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Cause they fucked up.
That's the Sundering. Click the tab here to fast forward to the next time we see Sargeras in our neighborhood.