Thaurissan

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.

Years later, the Dark Irons launched simultaneous assaults on the two other clans. Thaurissan personally led the attack on the Bronzebeards in Ironforge, whilst his wife, Queen Modgud, led the assault on the Wildhammer fortress of Grim Batol.

After a long battle, Thaurissan was defeated by Madoran Bronzebeard and fled, realizing that if Modgud had failed to destroy the Wildhammers then he would be caught between the armies of the two clans and destroyed. His suspicions were correct, Modgud having died at the hands of Thane Khardros Wildhammer, though not before cursing the city of Grim Batol and rendering it uninhabitable. With their mistress dead, the army of Modgud was routed, only to be totally annihilated by an army sent by the Bronzebeard clan to relieve the Wildhammers.

Realizing that supremacy over the dwarves could no longer be achieved by his own force of arms and sensing imminent defeat, Thaurissan, along with the Seven, delved into forbidden lore and summoned the great Firelord Ragnaros from the inferno to destroy his foes once and for all. Horribly underestimating the raw power of the Lord of Fire, Thaurissan, the Seven, and many other Dark Irons were killed instantly in the resulting immolation which destroyed an enormous portion of the Redridge Mountains and formed the great black peak of Blackrock Spire.

Navigation[]

Villains

Old Horde/Iron Horde
Blackrock Orcs (Blackhand, Orgrim Doomhammer, Rend Blackhand, Jubei'Thos) | Warsong Clan (Grommash Hellscream) | Shadowmoon Clan (Ner'zhul, Dentarg, Teron Gorefiend/Gorefiend) | Stormreaver Clan/Shadow Council (Gul'dan, Garona Halforcen) | Bleeding Hollow Clan (Kilrogg Deadeye) | Shattered Hand Clan (Kargath Bladefist) | Dragonmaw Clan (Zuluhed the Whacked, Nekros Skullcrusher, Nek'rosh Skullcrusher, Overlord Mor'ghor) | Burning Blade Clan (Azuka Bladefury) | Bonechewer Clan | Amani Empire (Zul'jin) | The Twilight's Hammer

Knights of the Ebon Blade
Darion Mograine | Sally Whitemane | Nazgrim

Illidan's followers
Illidan Stormrage | Kael'thas Sunstrider | Lady Vashj | Mekgineer Steamrigger | Mennu the Betrayer

True Horde
Garrosh Hellscream | Nazgrim | Malkorok | Warlord Zaela | Siegecrafter Blackfuse

Pandaria
Pandaren: Suna Silentstrike | Widow Greenpaw
Mogu: Lei Shen | Shan Bu
Mantid: Grand Empress Shek'zeer
Sha: Sha of Hatred

Villains Wiki

Thaurissan

Navigation[]

Fan Feed