Thaurissan

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Sorcerer-Thane Thaurissan is a character in the Warcraft universe. He was the leader of the Dark Iron Dwarves during the War of the Three Hammers. Before and during the war, the plotted against the Bronzebeard and Wildhammer clans for control over Ironforge Mountain. However, he and his clan were defeated and banished from the mountain. He would go on to found the city of Thaurissan (named after himself) in the land that would later become the Searing Gorge.

Biography[]

Years passed before the Dark Iron clan made their move, striking both rival clans in a bold, coordinated assault. Emperor Thaurissan marched his forces upon Ironforge to challenge the Bronzebeards himself, while his consort, Queen Modgud, led her legions against the Wildhammers entrenched within Grim Batol.

The wars that followed were long and brutal. Thaurissan’s campaign ended in failure when he was defeated by Madoran Bronzebeard and forced to retreat. Fearing encirclement by the victorious armies of both rival clans, he realized that his wife must have fallen. His fears were soon confirmed: Modgud had perished in single combat with Thane Khardros Wildhammer. Yet before her death, she laid a terrible curse upon Grim Batol, twisting the fortress with dark magic and rendering it unfit for any to dwell in. Leaderless and broken, her army was routed and then completely wiped out by Bronzebeard reinforcements aiding the Wildhammers.

Faced with the ruin of his people and the collapse of his war, Thaurissan turned to the darkest of powers. With his inner circle of sorcerers—the Seven—he performed a forbidden summoning, calling forth Ragnaros the Firelord from his fiery domain. The act proved disastrous. The elemental’s arrival unleashed a cataclysmic explosion that obliterated Thaurissan, the Seven, and most of their followers, carving a vast wound into the Redridge Mountains and birthing the smoldering volcanic citadel now known as Blackrock Spire.

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