Sargeras

Sargeras is a fictional character in the Warcraft universe - a fictional universe in which a series of games and books are set. He is the key villain of the universe, being the founder and the leader of the Burning Legion. With the release of the World of Warcraft expansion pack 'The Burning Crusade', significant changes were made to the existing plot in order to accommodate new features. Thus there are two biographies, an original and a patched-up version.

Biography (Pre-Burning Crusade Retcon)

Sargeras was a warrior member of the Titans, a race of god-like beings who spread life throughout the universe of Warcraft. These Titans began reforming the worlds they encountered, ordering them for the beings that would later inhabit them. However demonic beings from another dimension, the , appeared and started to undo their works upsetting the balance which the Titans had wrought. To prevent this, the Titan high council Pantheon elected its greatest warrior, the bronze-skinned Sargeras, to deal with the demonic peril. Sargeras fought the demons for millennia.

Sargeras encountered two races of demons that would give him pause. The first, the Eredar, were a race of malevolent sorcerers who invaded and enslaved the worlds they encountered with their corrupting magics. The Titan then encountered a horde of vampiric demons known as the Nathrezim. These Dreadlords used their abilities to possess a world's inhabitants and manifest hatred and distrust in their hearts. Sargeras fought and defeated both races easily, their power insignificant next to his own. However, the races' inherent evil troubled him. As depression overtook him, he began to think the ordering efforts of the Titans to be folly. Their efforts to console him merely met with his disregard and eventually he departed their ranks, believing them delusional.

Sargeras viewed chaos as the optimal absolute in the universe. He came to blame the Titans for this failure of realization and viewed all of the Titans' work as obsolete. His increasing madness eventually corrupted his form and he became a fiery incarnation of blistering hatred. In his anger, Sargeras released the demons who he himself had imprisoned. These demons swore eternal service and loyalty to the fallen Titan.

From among the ranks of the Eredar, Sargeras selected two champions: Kil'jaeden the Deceiver, who was chosen to recruit other races in the universe based on darkness and strength and Archimonde the Defiler, who was called upon to rally the armies of Sargeras. Kil'jaeden's first move was to enslave the Nathrezim under his own power and employ them as his agents to seek out races for corruption. Sargeras pressed his new forces into his new army, the Burning Legion. This force had as its only purpose to undo the works of the Titans and set the universe aflame.

Sargeras and the Legion consumed or destroyed countless worlds in the ensuing millennia. During this time, the Titans had continued their efforts to shape and order the universe and redeem it from the chaos that preceded them. Through the naive use of sorcery, the Highborne sorcerers of the Night Elves would focus his attention on the primitive world of Azeroth. Sensing the untapped potential for power this world possessed, Sargeras was moved by his hunger to attempt an invasion. His initial attempts at invasion were defeated by the efforts of the Night Elves who rose against the demon's corrupting influence and Dragons who were charged by the Titans with the safeguarding of the world. The attempt did not leave Azeroth unscarred however, and the font of power which he coveted was torn asunder and drastically altered the word forever.

Although set back in his efforts, his hunger for the power he beheld upon Azeroth would not let him abandon the world so lightly. He would attempt to gain entry to the realm through different methods.

Continually sending his minions through various rifts and entrances to the world, he assaulted the inhabitants of Azeroth, especially seeking the Dragons who he considered a threat to his efforts. Eventually he would manage to manifest a portion of his being within the world. He disembarked in Northrend, where the Guardian Aegwynn met his presence.Seemingly, Aegwynn defeated Sargeras but was unaware that this was the fallen Titan's intent. A portion of Sargeras' spirit had invaded her body where it attempted to wrest control of her power. Later, his efforts would be successfully redirected at Aegwynn's child, Medivh, the Last Guardian.

Concurrent with these events, Kil'jaeden had begun to bring the Orcs of Draenor into the fold. Employing his minion Mannoroth the Destructor, the Eredar Warlock began to corrupt the shamanic race with demonic magics. He enticed the orcs to drink the blood of Mannoroth which transformed them into a more bloodthirsty warrior race. They would first assault the other races of Draenor and remain eager for a foe to fight.

Upon Azeroth, when Medivh reached maturity, Sargeras brought his influence to bear on the human's mind. Twisting his thoughts, the Titan influenced the magus and made him contact the leader of the Orcish Horde and open a portal between Draenor and Azeroth, promising him a new world for the Orcs to plunder. His aim was to have the Orcs weaken the defenders of the world so that he could reach the Tomb of Sargeras, in which Aegwynn locked the Titan's seemingly defeated shell years ago.

Orcs flowed in through the Dark Portal and Warcraft began in Azeroth. However, the apprentice of Medivh, Khadgar, realized Medivh's corruption, and with the help of Sir Anduin Lothar, he succeeded in killing the possessed Guardian. With the death of Medivh, Sargeras' spirit was banished back to the Twisting Nether where, without a body, to the current date in the Warcraft Universe, he remains.

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