Reflections From The Pond

Now some people wished upon a silver coin instead of a copper coin in the Eventide fountain in Dalaran.

I don’t know if the wish’s chance of being granted is in any way related to the value of the coin, but if it is these pepole should have a slightly larger chance of getting their dream come true. But did they? Let’s find out…

A long time ago, a little human girl named Aegwynn was trained in the arts of magic. She was talented and skilled and was eventually named a Guardian of Tirisfal, a single mortal champion given vast magical powers by the Council of Tirisfal (an order formed by mages to protect Azeroth from the demonic corruption of magic) to fight the Burning Legion and other demons whenever they appeared.

Aegwynn battled and defeated the Lord of the Legion, the Dark Titan Sargeras. This next to impossible success made her grow arrogant and cocky, and she felt she did not need to heed the wishes of the council but instead chose to defend Azeroth as she saw fit and also chose her own successor as a Guardian. What she did not know was that Sargeras, as his physical form was destroyed, had let his spirit find a way into her mind and hide there.

Aegwynn chose Nielas Aran, a powerful mage, to father a child with her, and she named her child Medivh. Medivh succedeed Aegwynn as Guardian. However, the hitherto dormant spirit of Sargeras had passed into Medivh at his birth and slowly began to possess him, eventually opening the Dark Portal in the Black Morass (nowadays known as the Blasted Lands) to let invading orc armies through.

Aegwynn warned King Llane and the Alliance about Medivh and his orc invasions, and as a result of this warning she had to watch her son (or what was left of him) die as the Alliance succeded in driving the orcs away.

Allegedly, Aegwyn is still alive under an assumed name (those anti-aging spells she got as a Guardian apparently works wonders), and serves as chamberlain and advisor to  Lady Jaina, the ruler of Theramore. I can only assume she is at another location at the moment, because the only people accompanying Jaina in her tower in Theramore are Pained, a night elf, and Archmage Tervosh, a human male.

Anyways, sometimes during her more than 500 years of life and frequent visits to Dalaran she wished upon a coin in the fountain there. Somehow I doubt “books” was the word she originally intended to say there…

Wish granted? Do mages ever get their heads out from their…books? Guess not.

Antonidas was a former leader of the Kirin Tor.

When the Scourge, led by Kel’thuzad, the necromancer, and Prince Arthas came to Dalaran to claim the Book of Medivh, the last surviving spellbook of Medivh, Antonidas defended the city. After a long and heinous battle the city was defeated and Prince Arthas led his undead troops into Dalaran and the Violet Hold.

The spellbook was used to summon the demon lord Archimonde and Dalaran was destroyed shortly after Antonidas’ death.

When the city was rebuilt the Kirin Tor put up a memorial to him in the northwest corner.

Antonidas was also one of those who wished upon a coin in his home city, a wish very resemblant to the Serenity Prayer. Wish granted? Well, I think he stood a good chance of that.

Arch Druid Fandral Staghelm is a nightelf druid currently residing in Darnassus. He is more than 9000 years old and was leading the night elf armies in the so-called War of the Shifting Sands, the fight against the invasion of Silitus by the Qiraji, the children of C’Thun, one of the Old Gods. Despite overwhelming odds against him, he held fast against the Qiraji and thus they devised a cunning plan.

Fandral’s son, Valstann Staghelm, was captured and taken by the Qiraji General to the front line of the battle, where he was brutally executed, directly in front of Fandral. Fandral’s spirit was broken and Silithus was soon overrun by the Qirajii.

In one of Fandral’s visits to Dalaran he made a wish upon a coin. I can really feel his desire to forget that war and everything that it entailed, but I think it is one war he will never be able to leave behind.

Khadgar was the apprentice of Medivh and a commander of the Alliance Expedition to the orc homeworld of Draenor (Outland). High General Turalyon, a human paladin, and Ranger-Captain Alleria Windrunner, were also part of this expedition, as were their son Arator.

On Draenor, the demonic shaman Ner’zhul was planning to open more Dark Portals to find other worlds to invade and plunder. The magic energies that were unleashed by these portals ripped Draenor apart and the destruction threatened to spread to Azeroth. The Alliance Expedition managed to close the Dark Portal and shield Azeroth when Draenor exploded, but the Expedition members were trapped on the Draenor side.

Khadgar is now residing in Shattrah City, and Arator in Honor Hold, but the whereabouts of Turalyon and Alleria are unknown. Rumour has it they were last seen entering a portal to escape the destruction of Draenor, which seems to have a grain of truth in it given what Khadgar wished for on his coin. Wish granted? I sure hope so.

Terenas Menethil II was the last king of Lordaeron and the father of Arthas. Terenas was one of the greatest monarch in human history and had great hopes of uniting all Alliance races, hopes that his son Arthas was to carry to even greater heights. But things did not turn out the way Terenas had hoped for, and his death at his own son’s hands ended the Menethil Dynasty and ushered in Arthas as the Lich King. Terenas ashes lie interred in the throne room of Lordaeron, the old capital above what is now known as Undercity.

This is one coin wish that I definitely know did not come true.

Maiev Shadowsong was a young priestess of Elune who rose in the ranks of the Sisterhood and became second only to Tyrande Whisperwind, High Priestess of the Moon. She was present when the night elf survivors of the War of the Ancients found a second Well of Eternity, an immense source of arcane magic, upon Mount Hyjal’s summit. The Well was created by Illidan Stormrage, a night elf by birth, a demon by association.

The elves dared not destroy this Well, since their destroying the first Well at the end of the War of the Ancients had resulted in the sundering of the vast original landmass of the world into two seprate continents, Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms. However, knowing that this Well would be the source of unfathomable power, the elves captured and sealed Illidan in a vast underground prison and Maiev was appointed Illidan’s eternal jailor.

Despite this, Tyrande was the one to set Illidan free many thousands of years later, thinking him to be the perfect weapon against the invasion of Ashenvale by the Burning Legion.

Illidan helped defeat the Burning Legion but was banished from the elven lands after that. Maiev tracked him across the lands of Kalimdor and through many adventures and misfortunes and eventually ended up in Draenor, where she finally managed to catch and imprison Illidan again. I am guessing this happened just after the time when she visited Dalaran and made a wish upon a coin there.

However, as her party was travelling back to their base an ambush by naga and blood elves set Illidan free once more.

Maiev is now found imprisoned herself, in a cage Shadowmoon Valley.

Coin wish granted? Yes, at least she knows where Illidan is now…

Muradin Bronzebeard is the brother of the Magni Bronzebeard, king of Ironforge, and of Brann Bronzebeard, renowned explorer. Muradin served as liaison between Lordaeron and Khaz Modan in the Second War. During this time he became friends with Prince Arthas and the two of them had many adventures together.

Muradin often went to Northrend as he was a founding member of the dwarven Explorer’s Guild, and he was searching Northrend for the fated runeblade Frostmourne. During his last expedition to Northrend Muradin met Arthas again, who tricked him into leading him to Frostmourne. When the ice imprisoning the blade shattered it impaled Muradin, and Arthas left him for dead.

However, Muradin survived but suffered from amnesia. He was found by the Frostborn clan in Storm Peaks, and when he saved them from a giant frostwyrm they made him their king and gave him the name Yorg Stormheart.

In one of his many travels to Northrend he visited Dalaran and made a coin wish in the fountain. Now, the Holy Light is a philosophy, the followers of which seek to make the world a better place by being true to their own emotions, but sadly enough did not Muradin’s wish come true.

Tossing silver coins into the Eventide fountain is not a pastime for nobility alone, even peasants find the time and opportunity to wish upon a coin, and again, and again, and again… Wish granted? The answer is in the wish itself, isn’t it, and it’s no.

To be continued…

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