Old Gods' forces

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Old Gods' forces
Main leader	C'Thun† N'Zoth Yogg-Saron† Presumably other Old Gods
Secondary leaders	Cho'Gall† Deathwing Sintharia† Nefarian† Onyxia† Twin Emperors† Loken† Assembly of Iron† Xavius
Membership	Dragonflights, Elemental forces, mortals, various other creatures and factions
Race(s)	Old god Forgotten one File:IconSmall Erudax.gif N'raqi Merciless one   Naga   Qiraji  Tol'vir Arakkoa  Centaur (Galak) Skywall Denizens Firelands Denizens Dragonkin Nightmare  Black  Twilight  Chromatic  Satyr Azerothian Hydra Leviathan Kraken  Silithid Notable Twilight's Hammer races  Ogre Former races from the Alliance and the Horde. Elementals  Dark Iron dwarf  Sand troll
Capital	Unknown
Other major settlements	Ny'alotha, Nazjatar, Twilight Citadel, Neferset City, Shadowforge City, Grizzlemaw, Zul'Farrak, Blackrock Spire
Base of operations	Twilight Highlands, Ulduar, Silithus, The Rift, Skywall, Ahn'kahet: The Old Kingdom, Firelands, Maelstrom, Twilight Realm, Emerald Nightmare, Twilight Caverns, Blackfathom Deeps, Rift of Aln and believed others
Theater of operations	Elemental Plane, Twilight Realm, Twisting Nether (believed in Outland), Emerald Dream and Great Dark Beyond (knowingly Azeroth).
Language(s)	Faceless (possibly)
Status	Active, possible cripple/defeat

The forces of the Old Gods are a vaguely united "faction" of all the entities and organizations that serve the Old Gods. This page is an attempt to list them. In recent times its members either serve the Old Gods directly, or just ally with Deathwing, to achieve their own objectives with the support of the Old Gods.

Although they suffered a crushing defeat long ago, and the Old Gods along with most of their minions had been imprisoned, the Old Gods' activities on Azeroth have been steadily increasing, culminating in the Cataclysm, when they launched a major offensive in a attempt to expand their influence and eventually reshape Azeroth to their wishes. As the Old Gods are behind most of the plots in Warcraft one way or another, this list of forces under their "control" is expansive.

Membership

Major Members

• The mortals and creatures of the Twilight's Hammer cult
  • A cult that blindly serves the Old Gods with promises of power and ascension.
  • Led by the mutant Cho'gall, first of the ogre magi.
  • The Twilight Council are another of the leaders of the cult, which only known member is High Priestess Azil.
  • Before Cho'gall or the Twilight Council the cult acted on the orders of the Abyssal Council a powerful group of elemental nobles.
  • The cult has various members the most notable are:
    • Mortal betrayers from Alliance and Horde.
    •   Various ogres are attracted by the promises of power of Cho'gall.
      • Cho'gall has made some disciples in his former likeness.
      • The Ogres of the Mo'grosh clan
        • Led by Gor'kresh.
    • A number of Gronn joined the cult, notably the Skullcrasher of the Mountain.
    • Some Ettin have followed the ogres into the Twilight's Hammer.
    • The Dark Iron clan has been divided and some decided to join the Twilight Hammer and Ragnaros.
    • The Sand trolls of Zul'farrak allied with the Twilight's Hammer in a desperate attempt, led by Hydromancer Kulratha.
    • Various mortals have joined the cult, attracted by the promise to ascend and "reborn" as elemental ascendants.
      • The Ascendant Council judged which mortal where worthy of Elemental Ascension.
    • Many Bound elementals have been found serving the Twilight Hammer member.

• Black Dragonflight and the Servants of Deathwing
  • Led by the Aspect of Death Deathwing the Worldbreaker, formerly the benevolent Neltharion the Earth-Warder, Aspect of Earth and the Black Dragoflight, driven mad and corrupted by the Old Gods.
  • The Black Dragonkin of the Black dragonflight.
  • The Chromatic Dragonkin of the Chromatic dragonflight.
    • A experimental dragonflight created and led by Nefarian.
    • Only the Drakeadons seems have survived and used by black Drakonid Slayers as combat pets.
  • The Twilight Dragonkin of the Twilight dragonflight.
    • Led by Sintharia, their creator.
  • The Dark Horde is a renegade group of various races, that reject the leadership of the Horde, they are stronger in the Burning Steppes.
    • This group is controlled by Nefarian, Deathwing son, trough the self-styled Warlord Rend Blackhand.
    • Orcs of the Blackrock and Black Tooth Grin clan
      • File:IconSmall Felhunter Small.gif Many orcs in the dark horde practice demon worship and summon imps, felhounds, and felguards.
    • Forest trolls of the Firetree and Smolderthorn Tribes
    • Ogres of the Firegut, Spirestone and Stonegullet clans
    • The Dark Horde has corrupted Dragons of all dragonflights.
    • Worgs that are trained by orcs
  • Deathwing and the Dark Horde employs various Goblin mercenaries.
  • Some of the Stone dragons of Deepholm were controlled by Deathwing.

• Yogg-saron's forces
  • Yogg-saron, the old god sealed in Ulduar employed many different forces, that he corrupted to spread his influence:
    • Faceless, led by the general Vezax
    • The corrupted titanic creations of Ulduar
      • Formerly led by the corrupt Prime designate Loken
      • Titanic watchers like Thorim, Freya, Hodir and Mimir.
      • Many Mechagnomes have been enslaved.
        • File:IconSmall SpiderTank Small.gifFile:IconSmall Flyingmachine Small.gifFile:IconSmall FlameLeviathan Small.gifFile:IconSmall Pummeler Small.gifFile:IconSmall Bombling Small.gifFile:IconSmall ClockworkGiant Small.gif and their Clockwork constructs.
      • Some Fire giant like Fjorn, Volkhan and Ignis that forged a lot of constructs for the Iron Army.
    • The army commanded by the Assembly of Iron
      • Iron dwarf
      • Iron giant
      • Iron golem
      • Iron vrykul
      • A Plated proto-drake, which the only known is Razorscale made from the former broomother Veranus.

• C'thun's forces
  • C'thun a wounded old god sealed himself in ahn'qiraj to heal himself and shaped a ancient race to his purposes.
    • The insectoids of the city-Kingdom of Ahn'Qiraj found in the southern part of Silithus.
      • Formerly controlled by the Twin Emperors.
      • It's primarily ruled by it's Qiraji inhabitants.
        • Qiraji prophets are a type of qiraji who command powerful mental abilities.
        • Qiraji emperors are the rulers of the qiraji.
      • The Qiraji have built and enslaved many constructs for war.
        • Anubisath Built and enchanted to be the guardians of Ahn'quiraj
          • Horusath A improved version of Anubisath.
        • Obsidian Destroyer A creature made of Obsidian, related to the Tol'vir.
      •   And have many Silithid Servants of 15 castes grouped into 12 hives.

• Old God's creatures and creations
  • The old gods have spawned and favoured many creatures throughout the ages for their servitude.
  • The Faceless, are mysterious monsters related and often employed as soldiers by the Old Gods.
    • File:IconSmall Erudax.gif Faceless General, giants with hardened shell they seem to led the faceless into battle.
    • Faceless of the Deep are faceless that are employed underwater.
    • Faceless Shadoweaver are mask wearing faceless that are employed as casters.
  • Merciless ones are aquatic parasitic aberrations that appear with other servants.
  • The Forgotten Ones are unfathomable horrors of a long forgotten time.
    • Iso'rath and Soggoth the Slitherer are thought to be forgotten ones.
  • The Old Gods keep Azerothian Hydras demigods as pets.
    • Gahz'rilla and Aku'mai are two of those adored pets.
    • Oozes have a mysterious relation to the old gods.

• The Emerald Nightmare
  • Is a mobile area of corruption within the Emerald Dream, sparked by the Old God N'Zoth.
  • Led by the Nightmare Lord Xavius.
  • The Nightmare has corrupted various beings in the dream.
    • Various nature creatures, known as the Corrupted ones.
    • Mortals that are caught in the Nightmare, are turned into Unwaking
    • The Dragons of Nightmare, the corrupted members of Ysera's Brood.
    • Xavius still has satyr followers.
    • The Mysterious Shadow satyr
    • The Druids of the Nightmare willingly revere the Emerald Nightmare for power.

Allied Factions

• The Firelands minions of Ragnaros
  • Ragnaros, ruler of the Firelands has agreed to ally with Deathwing to burn down the world tree of Nordrassil
  • Fire elementals are the servants of ragnaros, shaped in various forms.
    • The Flamewakers are the nobles of the fire elemental hierarchy
    • Fire Revenants are the main infantry of Ragnaros army
    • Molten giants are the brutal and cunning front-line defenders of Ragnaros' army.
    • Core hounds are the vicious but faithful servants of Ragnaros and his minions.
    • Lava elementals are a conglomerate of both fire and earth elementals.

• The Skywall minions of Al'akir
  • Al'akir, ruler of the Skywall has agreed to work with Deathwing to find the re-origination device created by the titans.
    • Conclave of Wind serve directly under Al'akir.
  • Air Elementals are the servants of Al'akir, shaped into various forms.
    • The Djinni are the nobles of the air elemental hierarchy.
    • The Lightning revenant are the main infantry.
    • The Storm dragons protect the Vortex Pinnacle.
    • Turbulent Squalls.
    • Empyrean Assassins .
  • Some mortal tribes have served with Al'akir.
    • The Centaurs of the Galak tribe
    • The Tol'vir of the Neferset tribe, joined with Al'Akir armies to regain their lost stone bodies.

• Empire of Nazjatar
  • Nazjatar is the great empire of the naga and is built under the seas of Azeroth.
  • Ruled by the Empress of Nazjtar Queen Azshara.
  • The former highborne that served the queen were turned into Naga by a mysterious force.
    • Naga sea witches are revered spellcasters of the naga.
    • Naga anomaly are the mutants of the Naga race.
  • The naga have enslaved many races.
    • The Naga have enslaved many members of the Alliance and Horde.
    • Murloc
      • Deep Sea Murloc
      • Mur'gul
  • They have also tamed many of the ocean creatures.
    • Snap dragon
    • Dragon turtle
    • Couatl
    • Tube wyrm
    • Leviathanian Kraken
      • The naga have bent Ozumat the patriarch of all kraken to their will

Former allies

• Neptulon's water servants
  • Used to work for the old gods before the imprisonment in the Elemental planes.

• Therazane's earth followers
  • Used to work for the old gods before the imprisonment in the Elemental planes.

Organization and former members

Before the coming of the titans, the old gods had control over the elementals and they acted on the battlefield, the same cannot be said in current times when the old gods are still weakened by the titans' attack and imprisonment eons ago, they whisper and corrupt powerful individuals so their armies can help them complete the Hour of Twilight, the mysterious objective of their forces.

The Faceless ones and the forgotten ones directly serve the old gods and the old gods fancy Hydra demigods, like Akumai and Garhzilla has pets.

Ahn'Qiraj

Ahn'Qiraj is a fortress city in southern silithus, and it's the home of the qiraji a race descended from the aqir, that were shaped by C'thun, from the silithid. They first threatened the world with the War of the Shifting Sands, where they were sealed inside their own fortress city.

They tried a new offensive but utterly failed against the Might of Kalimdor, ending with the death of the Twin Emperors, rulers of the qiraji, and with them their master C'thun.

Cho'gall and the Twilight Hammer took over Ahn'Qiraj while he mutated, and tried using C'thun's corpse to corrupt the Med'an the soon-to-be Guardian.

Ulduar's Corruption and the Iron Army

Ulduar is where the old god Yogg-Saron was sealed, but it wasn't strong enough to stop his influence from spreading over the milleniums, corrupting the Prime-designate Loken, the other Titanic watchers (Frejya, Hodir, Mimiron and Thorim), and other titanic constructs, like giants.

With control over the Forge of Wills, the corrupted Loken started creating a new army like many other's of the titan's creation's (earthen, giants and vrykul) but made of iron instead of stone and empowered by runes.

However the Explorers League together with the Kirin Tor and the Horde mounted an offensive against Yogg-Saron's forces and managed to kill him and save the corrupted watchers, except for Loken which was killed earlier by heroes in the Halls of Lightning, and with the death of the Prime designate, Algalon the observer came to Azeroth to judge its corruption in order to re-originate it.

Deathwing servants

Neltharion the Earthwarder was corrupted during the War of the Ancients into the service of the Old Gods, and with him his dragonflight, and renamed himself Deathwing.

However he suffered wounds too great in the events of the Day of the Dragon and had to retreat into Deepholm to heal himself, beating the stone dragons into submission to serve him, in his absence Sintharia his mate, and his two sons Onyxia and Nefarian took over his dragonflight.

Onyxia tried to control Stormwind much like his father tried to control Lordaeron, but was eventually found and killed by Varian in her lair.

Nefarian tried to create a new army, he recruited the many races of the Dark Horde, and stole the eggs of the other dragonflights and created the short lived Chromatic Dragonflight, among other experiments, he was killed by heroes.

Sintharia travelled to Outland to recruit the Fel Horde, and experimented with egg of the Nether dragonflight to create the most powerful dragons in Azeroth: the Twilight dragons, however she was killed by her own creation Dargonax.

With the Cataclysm, Deathwing and his flight returned and resurrected Sinestra and Nefarian as undead, the latter which resurrected his sister onyxia, reinforced by Sinestra creation the Twilight Dragonflight, they allied with the elemental lords, Ragnaros of the Firelands, and Al'akir of the Skywall, and together with the Twilight Hammer they work to bring the Hour of Twilight.

Emerald Nightmare

The emerald nightmare is a infection of corruption in the emerald dream, a realm designed as the titans plans for Azeroth, sparked by the Old God N'Zoth. It turns the native fey creatures into "Corrupted Ones" and makes sleeping people into "Unwaking". This also turned some of Ysera's noble brood into shadows of their former selves, and even inspiring reverence and granting power to some of the more twisted druids.

It's led by the Nightmare Lord Xavius, the first satyr, but was beaten back to the Rift of Aln by Malfurion. however the Nightmare still influences Azeroth, as shown by the regrowth in Southern Barrens during the Cataclysm.

Twilight Hammer

The Twilight Hammer is a former orc and ogre clan that has turned into a destructive cult that accepts anyone, including the almost extinct sand trolls and the rebellious dark iron dwarves, led by Cho'gall and the Twilight Council, they control most of the twilight highlands they do their best to help Deathwing wreak the Cataclysm, and complete the Hour of Twilight.

Empire of Nazjatar

In the end of the war of the ancients, after the shattering happened, queen azshara and the highborne tried their best to keep the waters at bay, but struck a pact with a mysterious power that turned them into the reptile Naga.

Now as underwater inhabitants in a sunken city they worked their way into shaping a underwater empire, enslaving many aquatic races like murlocs, and taming many beasts like tube wyrms, coualt, dragon turles and snap dragons, with Azshara leading them and against beings like Leviroth and the Kvaldir.

In recent times they have begun invading land, controlling the echo isles, and some supported Illidan in the outlands before his death in the hands of Akama and Maiev.

In the Cataclysm they have begun a campaign in Vash'jir against the elemental lord of water, Neptulon and his servants in a attempt to obtain his trident that controls the seas, and his realm the Abyssal maws.

Elemental Planes

In ages past, the Old Gods controlled the elementals through their lieutenants, the elemental lords. However, the lieutenants were defeated by the Titans, and then imprisoned within the Elemental Planes.

Nowadays, the Old Gods have little control over the elementals. Only Al'akir and Ragnaros allied with Deathwing, the Old Gods' tool, while Therazane and Neptulon directly oppose them.

Skywall and Al'akir

Free from the imprisonment of the Skywall, Al'akir and his air elementals quickly joined forces with Deathwing in a attempt to obtain the re-origination device the titans left in Uldum. To fight the Tol'vir, his ancient enemies, he called the support of the Conclave of the Winds and Skywall's many denizens.

Firelands and Ragnaros

Ragnaros allied with Deathwing when he was promised to burn Azeroth together with his minions, without Therazane or Neptulon interference, he decided to start with the world tree of Nordrassil with the support of the Twilight Hammer, prompting the druids of the Cenarion Circle and the Ancient Guardians to oppose him, he was beaten back to the Firelands by Cenarius, Hamuul and Malfurion, and after some days of preparations, the druids are prepared to bring the fight to Firelands and kill Ragnaros forever.

Deepholm and Therazane

Therazane however has not liked the old gods plans for Deepholm her prison, after Deathwing broke the world pillar causing the deepholm to be infested by fungus, and a invasion by the twilight hammer, she and her kin made a temporary alliance with the earthen ring to solve those problems, the old gods indirectly caused.

Abyssal Maw and Neptulon

Neptulon was attacked by the naga backed by the old god's faceless ones, in a attempt to conquer his realm, and after a confrontation with Lady Nazjar and Ozumat he was beaten back to the Abyssal Maw, the heroes attempted to rescue him, but ultimately failed as Neptulon was quickly taken away by Ozumat.

Beyond Azeroth

More old gods exist beyond the five of azeroth, but most information comes from the Outlands.

The Sethekk and the Dark Conclave Arakkoa serve a mysterious master, and the latter group, magically augmented by Gul'dan's curse, attempt to summon their master, which they call it a ancient and powerful evil. He looks similar to C'thun, another old god, and when the hidden mob name is revealed, he's called a Summoned Old God.

The Black Blood of Draenor are oozes and the oozes of azeroth have been various times associated with the old gods, and it's very similar in name to Black Blood of Yogg-Saron, a ore made from the blood of the Old god Yogg-Saron.

Harbinger Skyriss is a servant of the old gods, a qiraji prophet much like Prophet Skeram of Ahn'qiraj, is imprisioned in the Arcatraz of Tempest Keep. According to A'dal, he seeks to usher his masters' vision of conquering all of the worlds in the universe.

Notable Leaders

Known Old Gods

• C'Thun†
• N'Zoth
• Yogg-Saron†
• Ancient and powerful evil

Other Leaders

• Cho'Gall†
• Deathwing
  • Nefarian†
  • Onyxia†
  • Sintharia†
• Twin Emperors
  • Vek'lor†
  • Vek'nilash†
• Loken†
  • Assembly of Iron
    • Stormcaller Brundir†
    • Runemaster Molgeim†
    • Steelbreaker†

History	Faction		Shaping of Azeroth			War of the Ancients		War of the Shifting Sands		Opening of the Dark Portal		Battle of Grim Batol		World of Warcraft			War against the Lich King		Cataclysm
Ruler	Twilight Hammer									Cho'gall
	Deathwing's Forces		Deathwing											Nefarian Onyxia			Sintharia		Deathwing
	Ahn'Qiraj							Twin Emperors (C'Thun)								Cho'gall (C'Thun)
	Ulduar			Loken (Yogg-Saron}														Assembly of Iron (Yogg-Saron}

Speculation

This article or section includes speculation, observations or opinions possibly supported by lore or by Blizzard officials. It should not be taken as representing official lore.

Capital?

It can be argued that the Old Gods' prisons are the capitals of their forces. They are:
Chamber of C'Thun, Ahn'Qiraj (formerly) - C'Thun's location
Prison of Yogg-Saron, Ulduar - Yogg-Saron's location
The Rift of Aln and the Rift of N'Zoth - N'Zoth's location
Presumed other locations of other Old Lords.