Illidan claimed that magic would be needed should the Burning Legion ever return. "[11], While criticising the constant killing off of villains in Warcraft, Rossi also thought that Illidan's death was unfortunate, as "touted and hyped as the major threat of The Burning Crusade, Illidan's death atop the Black Temple is a waste of a major lore figure not because the fight isn't worthy of him or the culmination of an entire tier of raiding, but because with the release of Sunwell Plateau we find that Illidan wasn't actually the major threat—in fact, he was a stewing, impotently insane figure obsessing over his defeat at the end of Warcraft III and it was Kil'Jaeden who posed the true threat all along. At the beginning of the group quest N [70] Battle of the Crimson Watch, Illidan shouts out to the players: Waves of demons and blood elves attack the party, and the players must defeat the waves, finally battling Torloth the Magnificent. Are you planning to upload your awesome model to Hive? Read more here. While, in his mind, this was to help defeat the Burning Legion, he actually helped them by giving Sargeras the Demon Soul to make the opening for the portal. When asked where he was, Caydiem responded. Illidan called the naga to the surface. He was voiced by Matthew Yang King in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne and the Black Temple Gameplay Trailer and by Liam O'Brien in World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade.[9]. No clear evidence exists either way...but that's likely what they intended. Illidan, after receiving the Orb of Kil'jaeden. "[1] This resulted in the developers putting in more effort to ensure that players experience "more personal connection[s]" with characters such as Illidan.[1].

He was badly wounded, but not killed. (lore). And sometimes the hand of fate must be forced! Illidan, joined by Khadgar and Velen, is also involved in the final battle against Kil'jaeden aboard his Legion command ship in orbit of Argus, the former eredar homeworld. Despite their best efforts, Illidan's servants had not been successful in destroying the boats. Ner'zhul had grown far too powerful for Kil'jaeden to control and Illidan was to remove him from the equation in exchange for more power and magic than he could dream of. During this battle, Tyrande finally revealed why she had spurned Illidan: too drunk with his rising magical and political power, he had forgotten his own inner strength. Following this, Shattrath launched a counterattack, and the two sides continue to battle into the present day. Once an unusually gifted sorcerer, his pursuit of arcane mastery led him to commit numerous atrocities against his people and Azeroth, and he was imprisoned for ten thousand years before his escape during the Second Invasion of the Burning Legion. Tyrande pursued them out of the base and Illidan ensnared her to protect himself, warning her not to interfere. Though he did so to gain power and learn the demons' weaknesses, his people would forever after see him as a betrayer. But while Illidan struggled to win her heart, none of them realized that the battle was over soon after it had begun; Tyrande had chosen Malfurion almost from the beginning. Illidan then challenges the players to join him in defeating the Burning Legion. Alright you guys already know who Illidan is so I won't go into detail explaining that. This too, Illidan accepted without objection. It also implies that the Horde and Alliance will want to use those portals because of Outland's strategic importance. If the goal was to strengthen Illidan's position in Outland it had the opposite effect, since the unprovoked attack caused a large number of blood elves to desert Kael'thas and join forces with the naaru in Shattrath as the Scryers. On the surface, Illidan and Maiev battled for supremacy as the Warden sent out a runner to gather reinforcements from Ashenvale.

Magtheridon noted wryly that Illidan had great power, and asked if the Legion had sent him as a test. Armed with this knowledge, Illidan finally came to grips with his feelings. In the novel World of Warcraft: Illidan, written by William King and published by Del Ray Books in April 2017, more details are revealed about Illidan's intentions than was revealed in The Burning Crusade game. Illidan followed his brother. His body was taken to Azeroth and placed within the Vault of the Wardens. After Torloth falls, Illidan shouts out to the player who landed the killing blow, challenging him to come to the Black Temple and take him on: This suggests Illidan losing his mind over his defeat at Arthas' hand, not believing it himself; on the other hand Illidan did technically survive the encounter, and if "defeat" for Illidan is defined as death, then Arthas did not actually defeat him. Illidan, who seemed to be the more forgiving one at the time, was eager to prove to his brother that the demons had no hold over him. A teaser cinematic shows Gul'dan from the alternate Draenor (shown in Warlords of Draenor) discovering Illidan's corpse encased in a crystal prison in the Vault of the Wardens. Transformed into a demon, Illidan wrapped himself in shadow and utterly destroyed Tichondrius and his demonic forces. During the battle, Maiev taunts Illidan several times in reference to the pain that he has caused her, from forcing her to guard his prison for 10,000 years by committing his crimes to causing the death of Naisha. There is no evidence that Illidan's personality has, At some point, Illidan tried his hand at writing, authoring a book entitled, At release, when there was no high level content, it was announced by Ordinn that "the most powerful NPC is Illidan." He eventually traveled to the shattered realm of Outland and forged a fighting force in his own cursed image: the Illidari demon hunters. The fighters were equally matched and the combatants reached an impasse. After Malfurion let him go, Illidan created a portal to Outland and fled immediately, pursued by Maiev. Driven by his thirst for power and his desire to impress Tyrande Whisperwind, Illidan made a pact with the Legion to secure the entrance of its leader, Sargeras, into Azeroth through the might of an artifact called the Demon Soul and the energy of the Well of Eternity. Strength he found, but peril greater than power came to him at once. Time constraints, however, forced the scene to be done inside the game. He appears briefly in cinematic cutscenes during the Demon Hunter introduction storyline (the first half of which begins shortly before Illidan's death in The Burning Crusade), sending his acolytes to a world called Mardum to retrieve a demonic artifact, the Sargerite Keystone, that would allow his forces to attack any world held by the Burning Legion. The night elf was born before the War of the Ancients, a conflict that erupted over 10,000 years prior to the Third War, when the chaotic Burning Legion first invaded Azeroth. As part of the Unified Community Platform project, your wiki will be migrated to the new platform in the next few weeks. In truth, it was I who was betrayed. (lore)

Illidan made his debut in World of Warcraft as the final boss of Black Temple in patch 2.1. Illidan Stormrage is a fictional character who appears in the Warcraft series of video games by Blizzard Entertainment. There, he poured the contents of three of the vials into the waters. Malfurion was furious at him for causing the loss of Tyrande, who had been, according to Maiev, killed. During the War of the Ancients, Illidan Stormrage began his long struggle against the Burning Legion. For some reason (or perhaps no reason) Illidan has also waged war on Shattrath City, instead of allying with its inhabitants against their common enemy: the Burning Legion. They laid siege to the Black Temple and destroyed Magtheridon's defenses, and then defeated the Pit Lord in battle himself.

", "One Small Thing I Love About Heroes Of The Storm", "Dozens of Blizzard's biggest game characters are getting figurines", "Blizzard store now offering full Halloween costumes", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Illidan_Stormrage&oldid=976563635, Fictional characters who can manipulate darkness or shadows, Video game characters who can move at superhuman speeds, Video game characters with fire or heat abilities, Video game characters with superhuman strength, Wikipedia articles needing rewrite from November 2018, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 3 September 2020, at 17:26. He also has the ability to move quickly to and jump over his foes, as well as to evade enemy basic attacks for short period of time. During the War of the Ancients, Illidan Stormrage began his long struggle against the Burning Legion.