User:Joshmaul/Ordevaas Portalseeker/Into the Frozen North/The Heat is On

Deathwing's Legacy: The Obsidian Sanctum


Beneath the Wyrmrest Temple lies the Chamber of Aspects, a great hall that led to the five inner sanctums of the Great Dragonflights. Of the five portals present - guarded by two members of each dragonflight, who respected the Chamber (if not the rest of the Temple, considering that Malygos has laid siege to it) as holy ground - only one was active. Not even the black drakonid guards dared attack anyone within the Chamber...and they guarded the active portal: The gateway to the Obsidian Sanctum.

Inside, after slaying several black dragons, Ordevaas and Saavedro encountered truly strange creatures: Shadron, Tenebron and Vesperon, strange drakes that were the lieutenants of the Onyx Guardian, Sartharion. These were the twilight dragonflight: Deathwing's latest attempt to recreate his own shattered dragonflight and dominate the world of Azeroth. With both the broodmother Onyxia and her brother Nefarian - the creator of the "prismatic dragonflight" - slain by champions of Azeroth (with Saavedro being lauded as the slayer of Onyxia), this was the evil Aspect's last-ditch attempt to preserve his own legacy.

Defeating the three twilight drakes first, the two paladins were nearly overwhelmed by the heat as they and their comrades stepped on the "island" in the middle of the lake of magma in the Sanctum to confront the Onyx Guardian. Sending waves of lava against them, Sartharion held nothing back in his effort to protect the eggs - presumably those of the twilight drakes - as he had been charged. But his attempts were for naught as he fell, broken, to the ground. After taking the treasures they wished, the party left him - not realizing that their victory was not quite as complete as they thought...