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Jan 12
there’s no lore for them besides that.
Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. Mike Sacco will be your host today.
This is a picture of my roommates’ cat playing on my new bedding. Enjoy.
Exogenesis asked:
I’ve started a new project, which involves sort of writing a story about my character’s levelling process, from her eyes. I chose a draenei, due to a unique prospect, but I’m a little confused – in Ammen Vale, when you hand the blood elf plans to Vindicator Aldar, he says that the blood elves followed them there.
Followed them from where? Draenor? I thought blood elves didn’t go there until after the draenei left?
Kael’thas and his blood elf followers were in Outland after the Third War; they went there with Illidan and Vashj. They took over Tempest Keep, which was the main draenei “ship,” and began takeovers of Keep’s four satellite ships (the Arcatraz, the Botanica, the Mechanar, and the Exodar). The draenei escaped Outland by flying the Exodar through the Twisting Nether, but blood elf saboteurs caused the ship to crash on Azeroth.
razion asked:
In Stratholme, the cultists and acolytes will yell, when a set are killed within a ziggurat, that an “Ash’ari Crystal has fallen!” And to try to re-summon it later on. I am curious if these crystals are unique to Stratholme, or if they are used in all ziggurats? Are they perhaps only unique to Spirit Towers?
I have yet to hear mention of these crystals outside Stratholme. What are the origins behind the Ash’ari Crystals? They are summoned, but does this mean the crystals are somewhat sentient, like minions? Are there souls inside the crystals?
So, in a nutshell, what do we know about Ash’ari Crystals?
Nothing. They were intended as a locking mechanism of sorts for the Baron’s portion of Stratholme, and there’s no lore for them besides that.