User:Lovechia/Nazjatar

Release date: Patch 4.4 last patch of Expansion

Attunement: Yes

History: Nazjatar is the great capital city of the naga and is built into the walls of the Rift. It is where most naga dwell and their queen, Azshara, holds court within a beauteous palace even larger than her former home on land.

Boss encounters:

Alvus, the Slavedriver

Aly´ssa "Princess of the Deeps"

Chronous, the Sea King

The Sea Sisters

Dharma "The Oracle"

Queen Azshara

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1. Alvus, the Slavedriver (male, Naga anomaly)

Lore: Alvus is one of the high-ranking Naga under Azsharas command.

He is one of the few surviving naga anomalies, and holds the position of the Warlord in Nazjatar.

Azshara has tasked him Slavedriver over the imprisoned Mur´gul in Nazjatar.

Alvus enjoys his position as a Slavedriver and is consequent in killing Mur´guls who do not do their job good.

2. Aly´ssa "Princess of the Deeps" (female, Hydra)

Lore: Aly´ssa is an ancient Hydra princess and the most favoured pet of the Old Gods.

She is living proof of the tie between Azshara and the Old Gods who are responsible for the Naga race. Aly´ssa was send to Nazjatar as a gift from the Old Gods for Azshara, with the intention to conciliate the erratic Naga Queen since the Old Ones rely on her to free them from their prison.

At first, Azshara had little use for the Hydra princess, but after discovering the enormous magical powers and a secret magical power that even the Old Gods hadnt noticed, Aly´ssa now serves as a guardian for something secret inside Nazjatar.

3. Chronous, the Sea King (male, Sea giant behemoth)

Lore: Chronous is one of the few remaining Sea giant behemoths, the eldest and most powerful of the Sea giant race. In fact, Chronous is the Sea King of all Sea giants in Azeroth (though there are no ranks in the Sea giants race), and the first Sea giant to be created by the titan Golganneth himself, making him older than 100.000 years. As the prime of the Sea Giants, Golganneth the Thunderer gifted Chronous with the ancient anchor weapon Gi´shan which would help him in shaping the Seas of the young world Azeroth. The Gishan caverns, the most enormous sea caverns and undoubtably the best work done by Chronous and his anchor would later receive their name by Chronous anchor with which he would shape many of the Sea caverns of Azeroth.

These caverns, which are now located north of the Rift under the Maelstrom would also become home to the Sea giants and the biggest sea races of Azeroth.

Over thousands of years, Chronous has become more ill. Now he resides in the Gishan Caverns, waiting for his demise. Chronous, like most of Azeroths sea races strongly despises the naga, and the naga avoid the Gishan caverns, knowing that inside are the most dangerous creatures of the sea and their greatest enemy: the Sea giants.

(In the expansion you will be able to interact with Chronous who is at first hostile, and do quests for him. In the end of his questlines, when you return to him, there will be the following cutscene:

The naga, under command of "The Oracle", abduct Chronous into Nazjatar, because Azshara knows that he and his Sea giants are a major threat to the naga. In Nazjatar, they imprison him in the cellar of the palace)

4. The Sea Sisters (female, Naga triplets)

Lore: Theres not much important Lore behind them.

Before the Sundering, they were night elven babies and a sensation in Suramar because they were triplets. Their parents are Dhalia, a highborne who lived in Zin-Azshari, and an ordinary Night Elf man, who was not a highborne. Relationships between Highborne and normal Night Elves were not allowed by Azshara at that time, and so they were the result of a forbidden affair of Dhalia. Dhalia got them shortly before the War of the Ancients inside the palace of Azshara. Azshara herself was present during their birth. She has already then sensed that the babies would have uncommon great magical talent and planned to take them away from Dhalia.

When the War of the Ancients started, Dhalia realized what the Highborne were doing and she wanted to take her babies and flee to the father of her babies who joined forces with the Night Elves and wanted to get through to Dhalia because he had hope that she would turn the good side. However, Dhalias plans would never realize...

When Dhalia took her babies and secretely wanted to leave Azsharas palace, Lady Vashj stood before her. (She was tasked by Azshara to take the babies from Dhalias room, but when she saw it was empty she searched for Dhalia.) Vashj realized that Dhalia wanted to betray the Highborne and a battle began. Unfortunately, Vashj was far stronger than Dhalia. She then took Dhalia to Azshara. While Azshara took her babies, she had Dhalia put into the prison cells by Vashj, were also Tyrande Whisperwind would later be put. (PS: Dhalia will have a major role in the expansion, i am writing on it and will release it her later.)

After the War of the Ancients ended and most of the Highborne were transformed into Naga, the babies were transformed into Naga also. Since then, Azshara raised them as her own, and trained them in their magical powers early on in their life.

Now, they are grown up Naga sea witches, and called "The Sea Sisters". Their magical powers have grown even superior because they were trained by Azshara herself.

5. Dharma "The Oracle" (female, Naga)

Not much is known of "The Oracle", even under the Naga.

Nobody but Azshara know her real name (which is Dharma), she is called by her title "The Oracle", also by Azshara. Shes the right hand of Azshara.

Shes a Priestess of the Tides, in fact shes the High Priestess of the Tides, the leader of that class in the naga society. Shes rumored by the naga to be able to look into the future, and shes the personal adiver to Queen Azshara, hence her title "The Oracle".

6. Queen Azshara, Empress of Nazjatar (female, Naga)

I guess you should all know about her, but she has not been dormant since the Sundering, so here is what happened since. (note that this is fan art by me, nothing official)

Azshara carefully plans making her existence official since thousands of years.

She still identifies herself and her people as the Highborne, even though they are now twisted sea creatures.

Lets begin from the very point of the Sundering and the birth hour of the Naga:

In the collapsing of the Well of Eternity, Azshara and her Highborne endured the flooding of the World. Azshara drew upon her greatest powers to shield her people from the water floods, but even she knew that this shield would not last for long.

In the facing of her death, Azshara heard a voice.. a voice of three. The voices told her that they could save her people.. that they could make her more than she ever was.. and when the time comes.. she would serve them well.

The magical shield then collapsed. But as the water filled her lungs, she did not drown.

Instead, she and her people transformed into monstrous creatures, now known as the Naga.

This was the beginning of the pact between Azshara and "the Three".

"The Three" are the Old Gods, the last three completing the five Old Ones alongside C´thun and Yogg-Saron.

Since this time, Azshara serves them Old Gods and they see Azshara as the only last chance to be freed from their prisons deep beneath the earth.

The Old Ones know about the moodiness of Azshara, and so they at several points try to soothe her, by telling her secrets of their power or sending their most favored pet as a gift to her.

They rely on her powers, for are they the only tool capable of freeing them at last.

Azshara is in contact with the Old Golds through a great Mirror, the Mirror of E´hriel, which is a magical mirror, which shows the inner truth to anybody who looks inside it. This mirror is also a "gift" from the Old Ones to Azshara, but secretely was a tool with which they would turn her into their mindless minion, because: Whoever looks into the mirror, does see their inner truth. This mirror is an insane making tool created by the minions of the Old Gods on Azeroth.

Azshara hated it, for would it show her real inner uglyness in her face, whenever she would look inside it. Azshara might have the body of a Naga, but her face still is like that of her Elven beauty.

For that reason, she put the Mirror as far away in Nazjatar as possible.

Besides not much is known about her activities.

In Wrath of the Lich King you learn she imprisoned the kraken Leviroth in Northrend.