Realizing he couldn’t defeat his enemies, he turned to sorcery to hopefully turn the tide. Following the War of the Three Hammers, the sorcerer-thane Thaurissan lost his wife Modgud in an attack on Grim Batol and was pushed back to the Dark Iron settlement of Thaurissan (yes, he named it after himself - he was self-proclaimed Emperor of the Dark Irons and wasn’t particularly humble). The area today known as the Burning Steppes was once a normal mountain range to the north of Redridge, settled by the Dark Iron clan of dwarves after their exile from Ironforge. Consider another Firelord, summoned in a plume of fire so intense that it wiped out an entire region. Decades later, it took a group of heroes to reconstruct the Cipher and use it to lure Cyrukh the Firelord out, and only through his destruction were the elements finally able to fully heal the breach between themselves and the world.īut as Khadgar said, the Cipher is not unique to Draenor. In our timeline, Gul’dan’s use of the Cipher may well have contributed to the ultimate destruction of Draenor and birth of Outland - we have no way of knowing for certain, but it’s clear that the elements were in no position to defend the planet from Ner’zhul’s portals after Gul’dan’s actions. This is likely where Kael’thas found it, and this leads one to wonder - did reading the Cipher first give Kael’thas the idea to ‘switch paymasters’ and join with the Legion?īefore we go too deeply down that path, let’s consider Cyrukh the Firelord, and another Firelord we know. Was this why Gul’dan kept it? Oronok tells us that Gul’dan had the Cipher in his private quarters in Karabor for over two decades, and even Illidan thought better of using it, securing it in turn. It now seems clear that he used the Cipher of Damnation to do it. We know that Kael’thas managed to use the Sunwell to create a portal to allow Kil’jaeden into Azeroth. Should you choose to come, seek me out at the Terrace of Light. A’dal has requested your presence in Shattrath City. His knowledge of the ancient words explains much. The burning symbol you saw was the mark of Kael’thas. That is to say, it is not unique to Draenor. Ancient and chaotic, the cipher itself has been responsible for many tragedies in the history of our worlds. The Cipher of Damnation is indeed a powerful incantation. It took decades for them to restore it.Īs terrifying as that is, consider Khadgar’s words. That’s right - Gul’dan didn’t just sever the elementals from the orcish people, he broke their connection to the world itself. From the moment Gul’dan read the incantation, decades passed before the elementals of what would become Outland managed to restore some semblance of a connection to the world. The raising of the volcano, the summoning and binding of Cyrukh, these paled in comparison to the utter desecration of the orcish people and their ancient ties to the world that the Cipher caused. Once a shaman, and then a warlock himself, he served Gul’dan that fateful day that he read from the Cipher. But Oronok was not always a farmer - he was an eyewitness and even a willing aide to Gul’dan’s act of destructive vanity. We learn the truth of the Cipher’s use from Oronok Torn-Heart, an orc farmer we first meet in Shadowmoon Valley tending to his pigs. Even after Gul’dan’s death and the breaking of Draenor by Ner’zhul, Cyrukh lingered. Bound to a twisted world, corrupted by the demonic fel magics of the warlock, Cyrukh seethed for many years. The Cipher is a spell of unfathomable power - it called Cyrukh the Firelord to Draenor and drove him mad in the process. In the timeline we come from, the Cipher was first used by Gul’dan in Shadowmoon Valley to create a massive fel volcano, the Hand of Gul’dan, and in so doing finally severed the connection between the shaman of the orcish clans that made up the Old Horde and their former elemental patrons. Indeed, such power has been invoked on Azeroth as well. Such is The Cipher of Damnation - an incantation so powerful, it managed to sever the connection between Draenor’s orcs and the elements they’d revered - is one of these. Some lore is simply too dangerous for mortals to know.
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