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The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe. You're playing the game, you're fighting the bosses, you know the how -- but do you know the why? Each week, Matthew Rossi and Anne Stickney make sure you Know Your Lore by covering the history of the story behind World of Warcraft.

We talked this week about the tol'vir and the new backstory for them revealed last week. It occurred to me afterward that for a lot of this story, we're casually throwing around names -- silithid, aqir, qiraji, nerubian -- and not bothering to really explain exactly what these things are or what they were doing enslaving ancient titan constructs. So for this installment of KYL, we're going to cover the ancient history of these arthropod-like entities: who they are, where they come from and why their actions left ripples that reach down the eons to affect the present day.

It all began with the war between the titans and the Old Gods. (This is often the case.) Despite their elemental lieutenants and enormous power, the Old Gods that infested Azeroth were eventually defeated and imprisoned within the planet. It's claimed the titans couldn't kill the Old Gods without doing irreparable damage to their work on Azeroth, and perhaps that's even true. But whatever is true in that case, one thing is indisputable and that is once the Old Gods were dealt with, the titans began to shape Azeroth to their liking. They created the dragonflights to monitor and control the evolution of their creation.

In the land today know as Silithus, a titan and an Old God met in furious combat. In the end, both fell. The titan's name is lost to us; the Old God we know today as C'thun.

Continue reading Know Your Lore: The Aqir and their descent, part 1

Know Your Lore: The Aqir and their descent, part 1 originally appeared on WoW.com on Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:00:00 EST.  Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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