Its power was enough to fully transform Illidan Stormrage into a demon, and passed on all of Gul'dan's knowledge to him. A small shard of Gul'dan's soul remained within the bleached bone of the skull, where he whispered to whoever held it; the warlock proved to still be dangerous, even in death. Nothing else matters in comparison to this quest, and Gul’dan is willing to betray his own people and sacrifice his closest friends to achieve it. He discovered at Oshu'gun that he had been duped by Kil'jaeden and attempted to back out. Gul'dan bound her mind to his will and began to secretly train her in the art of assassination. To Ner'zhul's horror, he discovered that Gul'dan had seen everything at Oshu'gun and told Kil'jaeden of it all before Ner'zhul returned. To seal the bargain between him and Kil'jaeden, Gul'dan and the Shadow Council offered the clan chieftains the Blood of Mannoroth. Gul'dan is the 10th and final boss of the Nighthold. With nearly half of his standing forces suddenly gone, Doomhammer was forced to retreat and hunt down the traitorous warlock.

Medivh acknowledged that Gul'dan was the single most powerful warlock among his people. Trained in the arts arcane by the Daemon Kil'jaeden, Gul'dan is perhaps the most powerful Warlock ever to walk the temporal plane. [10] Gul'dan returned to his village, draped in tattered robes. Gul'dan possesses an unquenchable thirst for power and a ruthless personality. [2] He often referred to himself as "Darkness Incarnate" and "The Destroyer of Dreams". Necrolytes, Ogre-Magi, and the dread Death Knights are all results of his endless experiments with the forces of magic. As a test of the Horde's strength, Gul'dan and the Shadow Council guided the orcs into murdering every single draenei they could find on their homeworld; their near-extermination proved to Kil'jaeden that the orcs were ready for the next slaughter.

A magical artifact carried by Gul'dan, the Shadow Orb, was shattered and found by Maiev. The demon lord offered Gul'dan power in return for becoming the harbinger of his fury. They became the dread death knights, who Gul'dan believed would be loyal to him alone and not Doomhammer. An alternate Gul'dan appears in the alternate Draenor in the past during the war in Draenor and escapes to the "prime timeline" Azeroth. Gul'dan tried attacking the figure with his fel powers, which Medivh merely threw back at the orc. The shattering is soon to come!

He then advised the runt to seek out the Throne of the Elements, for perhaps there he would find his destiny. While this theory has many valid points, it also overlooks quite a few that make it near impossible as well.

Be silent! Whether this information was true or not, not even Gul'dan was certain, but it was possible, and Doomhammer disbanded the raiders and placed them among the many grunt regiments. Through Gul'dan, Kil'jaeden now had access to a public figure. [4] Both are likely correct; The Skull of Gul'dan remained an incredibly powerful focus of warlock magic for decades after the Orc's death. Garona's betrayal of course had been forced. He did not however find the godhood he was hoping for. [19] Over the next few years, Gul'dan and his ogre-mage apprentice Cho'gall would secretly manipulate the Horde as it rampaged across Azeroth. This section concerns content related to The Burning Crusade.

The outcasts he leads, the Stormreaver clan, now fight to wrest their “rightful” place in the Iron Horde from Gul’dan’s former master Ner’zhul . He placed these gems into truncheons and gave these truncheons to the bodies of the orc possessed knights, and was met with success as each on awakened the moment the truncheon was placed in its hand. Yet, brought these clans to ruin." Gul'dan agreed, and with the assistance of the Shadow Council, he helped Medivh open the Dark Portal between Azeroth and Draenor. Though this fulfilled his promise to Doomhammer, the death knights were ultimately loyal to their creator. Gul'dan was born crippled, weak and deformed in a village in Gorgrond. The spirits of fire, earth, water, and air approached him but, sensing the darkness and fury within the orc's heart,[9] violently recoiled from him. I will enjoy breaking you!" When Thrall was traveling through alternate timelines, he witnessed Durotan telling Orgrim about Gul'dan's betrayal in one of the timeways.[43]. The skull was used by Ner'zhul to open portals to other worlds on Draenor, and later by Khadgar to destroy the Dark Portal. In response, Gul'dan angrily beat his hand away. I have secured our future! Doomhammer was willing to spare Gul'dan's life, despite his gut feeling that he'd regret his decision, and even let him run Balor and the ruins of Stormwind Castle in exchange for information in regards to Blackhand's followers.

Though Blackhand was competent in battle and a relatively sound tactician, he had a lust for power — and thus was easy for Gul'dan to control. Even though Gul'dan constantly tends to be embroiled in many different plots and schemes, his overarching goal is always to discover the location of the Tomb of Sargeras and to claim the dark titan's powers for himself. Because of this, he tends to associate most easily with mages, sorcerers, rogues and scouts and dislikes druids, priests and paladins. Bask in my glory! He and Cho'gall joined his necrolytes in a powerful ritual and at its height he slaughtered each and every one of them. He was still deep within the Guardian's thoughts when Lothar and Khadgar killed him, ending Medivh's treachery and forcing Gul'dan into a coma. The one that Karioz basically created when he did what he did. Bear witness to the undeniable power of our dark master! Gul'dan became frustrated and found another way: with Cho'gall's help, Gul'dan joined his necrolytes in a powerful ritual and, at the height of the incantation, slaughtered each and every one. As a token of his "loyalty" to the new warchief, Gul'dan promised to create an army of undead riders loyal to him and him alone. Gul'dan has used his magiks to bring into being a host of servants for the Horde. She had learned quickly how to avoid unwinnable fights, and how to quietly kill relentless pursuers. [7] The remainder of his clans were slaughtered by Doomhammer's retaliation.

It describes how one creature had too many limbs and too many joints and altogether too many teeth; and that it was soon followed by others. Years later it would appear again on Azeroth, this time used by the Burning Legion to corrupt the forests of Felwood. Gul'dan has used his magiks to bring into being a host of servants for the Horde. This page was last edited on 3 October 2019, at 14:41. Gul'dan was the first orcish warlock as well as the de facto founder of the Horde. When Gul'dan saw the shaman who had saved his life months earlier, he gripped his shoulder and thanked him, saying that he had found his destiny, before killing him as well. Later in the same chapter the "demon" is described as have legs with claws on them. . A small shard of Gul'dan's soul remained within the bleached bone of the skull, where he whispered to whomever held it; the warlock proved to still be dangerous, even in death.
The spikes coming off Gul'dan's back were originally stated as being part of his clothing. To Ner'zhul's horror, he discovered that Gul'dan had seen everything at Oshu'gun and told Kil'jaeden of it all before Ner'zhul returned. The near-extermination of the draenei, a race as old as his master Kil'jaeden, proved that the orcs were ready for the next slaughter.

When the others finally tried to beat him to death to be rid of him, the clan's shaman stopped them and told Gul'dan that he saw greatness in him, advising him to go to the Throne of the Elements to seek his destiny. Before the true start of the Second War, Gul'dan founded and created his own clan, the Stormreavers, to protect him from Orgrim. He then claimed the shaman's staff and left the burning ruins of his birthplace behind forever. Instead, he was torn to shreds by a swarm of insane demons that the tomb's opening had unleashed.

Gul'dan convinced Grom Hellscream and his Warsong clan to remain on Draenor during the conflict later known as the First War. Although his spawn of his work have strengthened the Horde, the true loyalties of Gul'dan lie only with himself and his quest to become omnipotent. Watch! It is the people who serve higher moral or religious powers that he fears. Its skin was scaled and covered in bumps that seemed to ripple, as if somehow its surface were fluid like water. [23] He also created during the ensuing conflict many ogre magi out of a band of extremely loyal ogre enforcers by warping and twisting the energy of the high elven runestones. During the Sundering, several ancient kal'dorei capitals were destroyed and Queen Azshara was forced to make a pact with the Old Gods in order to save herself and her people from drowning. He drops Tier 19 leg tokens, the Fiendish Hellfire Core, and Living Infernal Core mounts. Garona's betrayal of course had been forced. Kil'jaeden ordered him to ally with someone who could, but first he would need to eliminate everyone who knew of his past. Azmodan, a character from Diablo, using a Gul'dan-themed skin in Heroes of the Storm. Garona, still under mind control of the Shadow Council, then assassinated King Llane in the name of Gul'dan, cutting his heart out. However, in the absence of the furies, Kil'jaeden[9] began to whisper to him.

Due to duping the Grand Magistrix of Suramar, Elisande, by the Legion, he was able to start the incantation in the Nighthold. Seeing no reason to be gentle to someone who sold his entire race to the Burning Legion, Medivh made Gul'dan kneel before him in front of the Shadow Council, an insult Gul'dan would never forget or forgive.
When the tomb caved in, Gul'dan's final testament was buried. This reprieve would ultimately give the Alliance time to regroup and retaliate. . Gul'dan is widely agreed to be one of the most powerful mortals who ever existed. However, when Ner'zhul began to notice that they could no longer call upon the power of the elements or the ancestors, the shaman began to sense something was amiss. After barely fighting off a group of giant carrion birds, he collapsed onto the ground. Gul'dan angrily rejected the shaman, and the chieftain banished Gul'dan from the village. The Empowered Eye of Gul'dan works the same as it did in phase 2 and it must be killed off as soon as possible, as there is a large amount of raid wide damage present in this phase.. Dps should try and save cooldowns for each time an eye spawns, including using Bloodlust on the very first eye. After learning of its existence from Arthas the death knight, Illidan Stormrage found and took the skull, absorbing its power, remaining only half night elf and becoming half demon.

Gul'dan from yet another universe[44] appears in the Warcraft film universe. Sylvanas withdraws the Horde at Vol'jin's implicit request and Varian orders the pullback of the Alliance, thinking the Horde has betrayed them. Kil'jaeden approached Gul'dan and offered him the chance to become a master of warlocks' magic, on the condition that he help bring the orcs under his banner. Gul'dan awoke from the coma with only Cho'gall, the Twilight's Hammer, and his necrolytes still loyal to him; Blackhand, the Shadow Council, and the warlocks were dead, and Garona and the other clans had betrayed him.

The altar lies in front of a massive volcano known as the Hand of Gul'dan. Equally willing to manipulate friend and foe alike, he constantly tries to better his station in life through any means possible. When the others finally tried to beat him to death to be rid of him, the clan's shaman stopped them and told Gul'dan that he saw greatness in him, a…

[13], Another individual Gul'dan encountered was Garona. Gul'dan then went on a rampage, killing all of his former brethren. However neither Gul'dan or Doomhammer realized that the death knights were loyal only to themselves. The ruined world of Draenor serves as a caution to those who would follow in Gul'dan's footsteps. I have secured our future! Gul'dan did indeed locate the Tomb, and used his power to raise it from the ocean floor. However, when Ner'zhul began to notice that they could no longer call upon the power of the elements or the ancestors, the shaman began to sense something was amiss.