Arthas returned in a fury and chased the dreadlords out of the capital, and Kel'Thuzad was relieved to see him. With the Legion's generals gone, they turned to the human villages who were escaping to the mountain passes. Kel'Thuzad thought that perhaps they would be a fitting sacrifice to the Lich King and led his necromancers into battle against the paladin Magroth the Defender and his men protecting the human refugees.
But as they cut a swath through the human forces, Arthas suffered some violent seizures, and Kel'Thuzad considered recalling their forces, but the King forbade it, and they continued on their macabre mission. In the aftermath, Arthas received a vision from Ner'zhul, who told him to return to Northrend.
Kel'Thuzad immediately prepared for his departure, but they were abruptly ambushed by the dreadlords, and separated. The dreadlords unleashed their forces against Arthas, but Kel'Thuzad found his own way out of the city. Kel'Thuzad later came upon Arthas in the clutches of Sylvanas and her wicked banshees.
She was about to strike when Kel'Thuzad unleashed his forces against her and her sisters. With the banshees dead, Sylvanas was forced to retreat. Kel'Thuzad escorted Arthas to the shore, where he had prepared a fleet of ships for his departure. Arthas asked Kel'Thuzad, as his most loyal servant and trusted friend, to remain in Lordaeron and ensure that his legacy endured. Kel'Thuzad swore on what was left of his life to carry out that mission at any cost. Kel'Thuzad created the Four Horsemen , which he considered as his greatest creation, [ citation needed ] and served as Kel'Thuzad's guards.
Sapphiron also joined the citadel to guard Kel'Thuzad's chamber. In Naxxramas, Kel'Thuzad appointed Razuvious as the trainer of death knights. After being manipulated by Saidan Dathrohan who was possessed by the dreadlord Balnazzar , Renault Mograine betrayed and murdered his father, Alexandros Mograine.
Renault slew his father using the Ashbringer - an act of evil that corrupted the sword. Collecting the body and blade, Kel'Thuzad transformed Alexandros into a death knight - the leader of his Four Horsemen. With assistance from members of the Argent Dawn , Renault's younger brother Darion managed to infiltrate Naxxramas and defeat his undead father. He then fled the necropolis with the Ashbringer. After conferring with Tirion Fordring , Darion learned that his father's soul was trapped in the sword and that only a great act of love could set it free.
When Kel'Thuzad staged an attack on Light's Hope Chapel , Darion ran the Ashbringer through his own heart - sacrificing his life to release his father's soul. An explosion of light destroyed most of the lesser Scourge, but Kel'Thuzad was unaffected. He reanimated Darion as a death knight. While his primary goal had eluded him, he was content to take Darion as his prize, reasoning that the Scourge could always return to Light's Hope.
In the Lich King's haste to spread the plague of undeath over Azeroth, he gifted Kel'Thuzad, with the flying citadel of Naxxramas , a horrific base of operations for the Scourge.
Consistent attacks from the Scarlet Crusade and Argent Dawn factions weakened the defenses of the floating fortress, enabling an incursion that led to Kel'Thuzad's defeat. Kel'Thuzad sought Atiesh. During the first Scourge Invasion , the Scourge attacked Stormwind City , which later led to an Alliance counterattack. Kel'Thuzad was the last encounter of the dungeon Naxxramas , implemented in the patch 1. He was ultimately defeated by the players, but does not die. As a lich, he may reform using a magic item known as a phylactery.
Had Kel'Thuzad's phylactery been destroyed along with him, Kel'Thuzad would have been defeated forever, but some things do not happen as they should. The quest [60R] The Fall of Kel'Thuzad describes how the player, who likely wanted to destroy the phylactery, is manipulated by some mental force to give the phylactery to Father Inigo Montoy in Light's Hope Chapel.
Something very unusual was going on there, and the Argent Dawn reported that the phylactery did not reach their hands. A traitor among the ranks of the knightly order of the Argent Dawn absconded with Kel'Thuzad's cursed remains and fled to Northrend, where the fallen lich could be reanimated.
This section concerns content related to The Burning Crusade. Kel'Thuzad at the Plains of Nasam. He serves the Lich King without question, a necromancer of great prowess in life, turned into a master of necromancy after his death. It is said he is the most loyal of the Lich King's subjects. Kel'Thuzad has survived trials that would have long since shattered the souls of even the greatest of the Brotherhood. He readily gave his life at Arthas's hand, later to be brought back - reborn in the power of the Sunwell.
However, his phylactery was delivered to a false agent of the Brotherhood. We have yet to discover who stole his phylactery or why. Kel'Thuzad once again returned as the final boss of the relocated Naxxramas — now floating above the Carrion Fields in the Dragonblight , besieging Wintergarde Keep.
When the phylactery was given to Father Montoy, it was not delivered to the Argent Dawn; his hoarding of the artifact instead of destroying it or giving it to the Argent Dawn allowed Kel'Thuzad to regain corporeal form.
Montoy appears to have been rewarded for this effort as he is now a lich himself — known as Thel'zan the Duskbringer — and located within the Wintergarde Mausoleum below Wintergarde Keep, which is currently under siege by Naxxramas. In the quest [] The Plains of Nasam , Horde players are sent to the Plains of Nasam in a siege tank to destroy Scourge forces in the area and rescue injured Warsong Hold troops. They are also called on to identify the leader of the Scourge in the region — Kel'Thuzad himself, who stands upon a dais and is surrounded by Stitched Warsong Horrors , Plague Spreaders , and other Scourge constructs.
Kel'Thuzad did not have his phylactery on his person during his second defeat, but it was nevertheless destroyed at some point. Kel'Thuzad in the Vault of Souls. Within the Shadowlands, the Arbiter assigned Kel'Thuzad's soul to the realm of Maldraxxus due to the great ambition he displayed in mortality. However, the broker Ta'lora notes that given Kel'Thuzad's importance to the schemes of the Jailer , it is possible that the Arbiter's judgment was somehow manipulated.
It's unclear exactly when Kel'Thuzad started working for the Jailer, but Ta'lora notes that it is plausible that the Jailer was able to peer into the mortal plane and came to see Kel'Thuzad as a means to extend his influence on Azeroth back when he was still a living necromancer. Upon arriving among the necrolords of Maldraxxus, Kel'Thuzad joined the House of Rituals and rose through the house's ranks at a record pace due to his talent in necromancy and due to secretly receiving stores of anima from fellow servants of the Jailer in Revendreth.
He took the place of Baron Balmedar , whom he then also shut out of the house's dealings. Through his manipulation of Sin'dane and Gharmal, Kel'Thuzad caused the destruction of the House of Plagues in what looked like an accident. Shortly after the Maw Walkers arrived in Maldraxxus, Kel'Thuzad told Mor'Bitan to personally perform a ritual at the Rotting Mound that would apparently grant him more power as a reward for his assault on the House of Eyes, [35] [36] [47] but the ritual was sabotaged and Mor'Bitan was killed by Baroness Vashj and the Maw Walkers.
Sire Denathrius later gave Kel'Thuzad—whom he called a "faithful ally"—the Medallion of Dominion , which had previously belonged to Prince Renathal. The image of Kel'Thuzad mocking his enemies at Death's End. After Ouix'Ara was killed, an image of Kel'Thuzad appeared to taunt the "meddlers" and invite them to face him in the House of Rituals.
Kel'Thuzad personally appeared during the battle, supplying the Tithelord with Maldraxxi troops. However, when the Tithelord told the Arch-Lich to use the Medallion of Dominion to help him defeat the invaders, Kel'Thuzad refused and instead left the Tithelord to die, stating that the venthyr had served his purpose and that he needed to attend to "the next part of the plan".
Members of the House of Constructs later returned to Maldraxxus with spoils from their raid on Bastion, including Kel'Thuzad's "personal prize"—the kyrian Bearer Thedrin. Along with the Revendreth anima, [41] the baron planned to use the Bearer in a ritual to breach his master's prison: the Maw.
Balmedar's invisible oculus continued accompanying the Maw Walkers as they reported to Kel'Thuzad in the Vault of Souls. Kel'Thuzad had begun to suspect that there was a traitor in the house's ranks after what happened to the broker caravan, but he was impressed by his "acolyte's" resourcefulness when she presented the Domination Blade to him [51] and asked her to assist him in the final ritual.
The sabotaged reagents did cause the ritual to fail when the baron attempted to sacrifice Bearer Thedrin with the Domination Blade, but they also triggered a burst of feedback that shed the heroes' disguise and revealed Balmedar's oculus. Realizing that he had been deceived, Kel'Thuzad had both Balmedar and the heroes captured and imprisoned in the Vault of Souls.
Balmedar and the heroes managed to escape, but before they had a chance to warn Sin'dane of her baron's treachery, Kel'Thuzad personally confronted her and Baroness Ninadar at the entrance to the Hall of Sorcery. Sin'dane told Kel'Thuzad that he could not match her power, but Ninadar suddenly betrayed the margrave by stealing her weapon, the Staff of the Primus , while stating that she was weak and that it was time to anoint a new margrave.
Kel'Thuzad proceeded to bind Sin'dane in magical chains and mockingly asked Balmedar and the Maw Walkers if they had come to celebrate his victory. He then summoned his old ally, the dragon Sapphiron , to deal with the interlopers while he departed to the necropolis Exoramas with the captive Sin'dane. After mustering their respective forces, the Necrolord and Venthyr Covenants assaulted the House of Rituals to remove Kel'Thuzad's influence. The Arch-Lich's image taunted both of the invading parties—the former attacking the stronghold's southern walls, the latter teleporting into Exoramas—but the covenants managed to separately reach the Prime Arcanum in the house's center, where Kel'Thuzad and his minions successfully performed a ritual to open a portal to the Maw, summoning a Maw Infernous.
Together, the two covenants defeated the creature and pushed on to Exoramas, where Kel'Thuzad was keeping Sin'dane trapped in a block of ice and drawing power from her.
The Arch-Lich mocked the gathering, especially Kael'thas, who sought vengeance against the lich for his part in the destruction of Kael's homeland years before. Baroness Draka told Kel'Thuzad to surrender or be destroyed, but he merely replied that the Jailer's plan was unfolding "exactly as intended" and that they would not live to see its completion.
Most of the attackers spread out to hold off the lich's skeletal minions while the Maw Walkers focused on weakening the traitorous baron himself so that Balmedar could free Sin'dane with the Staff of the Primus.
When he placed the staff in her hand, it allowed her to shatter her icy prison, stunning Kel'Thuzad in the process.
She declared that he would answer for his crimes against both Maldraxxus and her. Kael'thas wanted to claim his vengeance by incinerating the lich, but General Draven intervened to grab the Medallion of Dominion from the lich's chest. Kel'Thuzad yells: Your forces are nearly marshaled to strike back against your enemies, my liege. Kel'Thuzad yells: It is good that you serve me so faithfully. Soon, all will serve the Lich King and in the end, you shall be rewarded Kel'Thuzad yells: Yes, master.
The time of their ultimate demise draws close What is this? Kel'Thuzad yells: Your security measures have failed! See to this interruption immediately! Kel'Thuzad yells: As you command, master! Kel'Thuzad yells: No!!! A curse upon you, interlopers! The armies of the Lich King will hunt you down. You will not escape your fate Kel'Thuzad yells: Agghhhh! Kel'Thuzad watched Arthas as he made his slow advance toward the Sunwell in Silvermoon against the hosts of Sylvanas Windrunner.
Arthas razed the 2 elven gates besieging Silvermoon making his way to the Sunwell. Once there, he placed Kel'Thuzad's remains in the fountain and, with the help of Tichondrius, Kel'Thuzad was reborn in the terrifying form of a Lich. As they traveled to Alterac, Kel'Thuzad explained to Arthas that the plague was the forerunner of the Burning Legion and that he should summon the Demon Commander, the Warlock Eredar Archimonde to the mortal world.
After killing the orcs guarding the Demon Gate, the lich contacted the Dark Lord. Archimonde told him that he must travel to Dalaran and steal the Book of Medivh. After Arthas commanded the attack on Dalaran and assassinated Antonidas, the Guardian's Book was recovered and Kel'Thuzad began the long process of summoning as Arthas defended it from the attackers from Dalaran and the Kirin Tor. When the ritual was completed, Archimonde entered the portal and began to act according to his plans.
His first act was to promote Tichondrius as Scourge commander, relegating Arthas and Kel'Thuzad to the background.
Yet Kel'Thuzad, confident in the great designs of the Lich King, disappeared amid the chaos and destruction of Dalaran. I had other plans Kel'Thuzad resurfaced in the aftermath of the invasion and remained in the Capital as one of the Lich King's Lieutenants.
Arthas had departed for Kalimdor under Ner'zhul's orders to search for the demon hunter, Illidan, leaving only Kel'Thuzad and Sylvanas Windrunner in his place.
However, they both knew that the Legion had been defeated long before the Dreadlords were defeated. Arthas returned in a rage and sought out the Dreadlords to finish them off. Once the Legion generals had left, they returned to the escaping human villages to the mountain passes. Kel'Thuzad thought that perhaps they might be an acceptable sacrifice to the Lich King. As they passed through the human forces, Arthas suffered some violent attacks and Kel'Thuzad considered calling his forces to retreat but Arthas prevented him and they continued with their macabre mission.
During the fight, Arthas received a vision from Ner'zhul ordering him to return to Northrend. The Lich immediately prepared their march but were ambushed by the Dreadlords and were separated. The hosts of the Dreadlords charged at Arthas. Kel'Thuzad managed to arrive in time to lift Arthas from the clutches of Sylvanas and her Banshees. She was about to attack when Kel'Thuzad unleashed his forces against her and her sisters. With the banshees dead, Sylvanas was forced back.
It was then that Arthas was escorted to shore by Kel'Thuzad where they prepared a fleet of ships for his journey. Arthas asked Kel'Thuzad and his best servant and friend to remain in Lordaeron to ensure that his legacy remained. Kel'Thuzad swore by what little he had to live that he would complete that mission no matter what. In the successive battles between Sylvanas and the Dreadlords, Kel'Thuzad concealed his forces in preparation for his resurgence in the new powers of the Plaguelands.
It was established in the Necropolis of Naxxramas floating above these lands. Although Kel'Thuzad has been defeated by groups of brave and brave adventurers, his soul remains in the phylactery that is part of his body. If the phylactery were destroyed with him, Kel'Thuzad would be defeated forever but some things don't happen the way they should.
He Serves the Lich King without question, a necromancer of great skill in life, he became a master of necromancy after his death. He is said to be the most loyal servant of the Lich King. Kel'Thuzad has passed tests that should have shattered the souls of even the greatest of the Brotherhood. He lost his life under the hand of Arthas only to return later to the power of the Sunwell.
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