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Therazane the Stonemother
Title	<The Stonemother>
Gender	Female
Race	Earth elemental (Elemental)
Affiliation(s)	Herself (current), Previously; Old Gods' forces, Elemental Lords
Occupation	Elemental Lord of Earth
Location	Therazane's Throne, Deepholm
Status	Alive
Relative(s)	Princess Theradras (daughter), many centaur offspring
Alignment	Lawful neutral

For the reputation faction, see Therazane (faction).

Therazane the Stonemother is the Elemental Lord of Earth, and formerly one of the Old Gods' lieutenants.

Biography

The war with the titans

The Old Gods chaotic forces raged across the face of the world and when the titans arrived on Azeroth they clashed. Though the elementals were powerful beyond mortal comprehension, their combined forces could not stop the mighty titans. One by one, the elemental lords fell, and their forces dispersed. The Pantheon shattered the Old Gods' citadels and chained three of the five evil gods far beneath the surface of the world. Without the Old Gods' power to keep their raging spirits bound to the physical world, the elementals were banished to an abyssal plane, where they would contend with one another for all eternity. With the elementals' departure, nature calmed, and the world settled into a peaceful harmony.

Cataclysm

After witnessing the devastation Deathwing and his followers caused her realm, Therazane treats all outsiders with open hostility.

Therazane, also known as the Stonemother, is the elemental lord of earth, an ancient and immensely powerful counterpart of Ragnaros, Al'Akir, and Neptulon. Unlike the realms of Al'Akir and Ragnaros, however, her domain-that of the earth, rock, and mountains-has put her in immediate conflict with Deathwing, whose emergence from Deepholm has pushed her stony realm to the point of collapse.

Though Therazane has no love for mortals, she recognizes the role that these races might play in restoring Deepholm and evicting the Twilight's Hammer, who have flocked to her kingdom to bask in the glory of Deathwing's former sanctum. Heroes who seek the aid of the Stonemother will find that her favor can confer many blessings; among them are powerful augmenting stones borne up from Deepholm itself to strengthen the armor of those who serve Therazane's will.

Description

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Therazane from Shadows & Light.

Therazane is a monstrous humanoid covered with stones, earth, and clinging plants. She has squat legs and four powerful arms. Her unblinking eyes of gold-flecked agate look out into the world from her one head, but there are two other faces to be seen as well.

Therazane the Stonemother is ruler over the earth, dirt, rock, and mountains. She is revered by all earth elementals and creatures that dwell underneath the ground. Some druids of the wild see her as the embodiment of all that is peaceful and calm about the world. Some sages believe she feels pain whenever the ground is sundered and weeps at the destruction wrought by Deathwing and his ilk. If so, however, she has done nothing specific to oppose the great dragon. Therazane is the most peaceful of the Elemental Lords. She is a patient, loving, motherly type who encourages growing things and loves simply to spend long periods of time relaxing with those creatures that make their homes upon her. She often feels as though she is always at war with the other Elemental Lords: Al'Akir erodes her surface with winds, Neptulon beats his waves constantly upon her shores, and Ragnaros is a blazing furnace that churns at her fiery core. She would be perfectly happy if the three of them would just go away. Therazane is slow to anger and attempts to avoid combat whenever possible. If roused to battle, however, she can be a fearsome, powerful opponent. She typically drives toward the most dangerous foe, smashing her target into tiny red pieces before moving on to the next. Should she be seriously challenged, she simply sinks into the earth and retreats.

Appearance

As you watch, the earth ahead seems to rise up, forming into a monstrous humanoid covered with stones, earth and clinging plants. It has squat legs and four powerful arms, and the suggestion of large, saggy breasts and wide hips indicate that this creature is undeniably female. Unblinking eyes of gold-flecked agate stare at you from a face that seems curious, inquisitive… and you see what appear to be two other faces beside the one that regards you now, one of anger and fury, the other of perhaps sorrow and longing.

In Cataclysm, she appears as a spherical, obese, floating woman with only one visible face and only two arms. Two vestigial legs hang beneath her, treading the air. Like her daughter, she uses her hair to cover her breasts. A number of purple crystals grow on her, and some are also used by her as jewelery.

Cataclysm

This section concerns content related to Cataclysm.

Therazane in Cataclysm

Therazane is a questgiver in Deepholm, residing at Therazane's Throne. Her questline is in a similar experience to the Sons of Hodir's questline in Storm Peaks. While she offers quests to adventurers in Deepholm, Therazane makes it clear she has no love for the mortals who killed Princess Theradras, and warns those who speak to her that they will eventually outlive their usefulness.

Quests

• Quest:At the Stonemother's Call
• Quest:Audience with the Stonemother
• Quest:Wayward Child

Elemental Bonds

When Thrall's spirit became bound to the earth of Deepholm players along with Aggra visit Therazane to gain her blessing in searching for him. Though she finds Thrall's spirit fascinating and is at first unwilling to part with him she states she can still hear the cry of a lover's heart and that she has not forgotten what it was to love. She grants her blessing to Aggra and the player but warns that even with it Thrall himself may not wish to leave.

Memorable Quotes

• Therazane yells: You should have taken the hint when we destroyed your precipice, cultist.

• Deathwing's taint shall be wiped from Deepholm, and his Twilight cultists with it.

Trivia

• Princess Theradras, who (along with Zaetar) was the progenitor of five clans of centaur, is Therazane's only daughter, as stated by the Stonemother herself.
• Princess Theradras' model is called "Tharazun".
• In the reputation tab's description of Therazane's fation, the Stone Lords are called her sons. Ozruk is also described by Therazane as her child. This may or may not be a literal expression as she may consider all earth elementals her 'children'.
• Some have speculated that the tauren are referring to Therazane the Stonemother when they speak of the kind and gentle Earthmother. Terrath the Steady calls Therazane the "Earthmother" in his gossip text in Deepholm. This may be confirmation.
• Therazane's name may be derived from terra, a Latin word meaning earth.
• Her appearance may be based on the Venus of Willendorf.
• During the Cataclysm beta, Therazane used Theradras' model as a placeholder. At one point a rather ugly amalgam of several models was allegedly datamined and circulated on forums such as MMO Champion and there was much speculation about what the 'real' Therazane would look like.