This will be the pilot episode of a new series in which I summarize the lore of various villains with neat little drawings for a nice visual aid since a lot of this stuff doesn't happen in-game. This series will only ever cover the lore of villains and nothing else, and to start off this series we'll start with Yogg-Saron, one of the more active old gods. Yogg-Saron's story starts off with the void lords. The void lords wanted to corrupt titans but found out they couldn't, so instead they settled on trying to corrupt titans before they woke up. But they couldn't tell a normal planet apart from a titan one so they just randomly flung pieces of themselves throughout the universe to hit planets and corrupt them with the hope that at least one of them might be a sleeping titan. This shotgun approach was bound to work at least once and that's all they needed for if they succeeded one time a void powered titan would be the most powerful being in existence. Many times more powerful than normal Titans and would absolutely be the end of the universe. The thought of one of these void titans becoming a reality is what scared Sargeras into creating the Burning Legion. And these random pieces of void lords thrown on to planets are what we know as the old gods and also, how Yogg-Saron was born. Before Yogg, and the other old gods crashed into Azeroth, Azeroth was already in a constant state of chaos with the four elemental lords fighting each other for control of the planet. But with the threat of the old gods the four elemental lords worked together for the first time in history to try and fend off a common enemy. But they did not succeed. No matter how many of the old god minions they took out new ones would just be born to replace them faster than they could be killed until eventually they just got overwhelmed. After which the old gods managed to enslave the elemental lords and turned them into their own minions. Then sometime later Aggramar, one of the titans, found Azeroth and noticed that Azeroth was not only a titan but possibly the most powerful titan to date. And despite the fact that its surface was covered by old gods, it was still uncorrupted. So Aggramar went back to the other titans and formed a plan to stop the corruption before it spread too far. Since the titans themselves were too big to directly help the planet without accidentally killing the titan soul, they instead built an army of metal and stone titan-forged and then each titan gave a few of the titan-forged some of their own powers so they could lead the titan forward in the upcoming war with the old gods. The War Between the Titans and the Old Gods At the start of the war the titan-forged came down and just decimated the minions of the old gods. The titan-forged were so efficient at killing that the old gods just couldn't create more than were being killed fast enough like they did with their fight against the elemental lords, so instead they called upon the elemental lords to fight for them. Tyr and Odin fought Ragnaros the Firelord, eventually pushing him back into a volcano and containing him. Archaedas and Freya fought Therazane, and trapped her in unbreakable roots. Ra, Torim, and Hodir fought Al'Akir and just beat him at his own game and used wind and lightning magic to contain him in his throne. Loken and Mimiron fought Neptulon. Loken would freezes his water elementals while Mimiron on created a device to imprison him. Then Ra used the fist of Ra-den to create the elemental planes to contain the elementals so they wouldn't just reform and come back. With the elementals taken care of, the titan keepers could focus on the old gods again and mounted an attack on the strongest old god, Y'shaarj. But it was a little too much for the titan keepers to handle. So Aman'Thul, one of the titans himself, ripped Y'shaarj out of the planet, killing him and realizing that the old gods had so infused their bodies with the planet that killing them would also kill Azeroth. So instead they turn their attention towards imprisonment. The titan keepers easily imprisoned both N'zoth and C'thun but have a much harder time with Yogg. You see, Yogg-saron had created a super minion called C'Thraxxi while the keepers fought the other old gods. And the C'Thraxxi was a giant beast far stronger than the titan-forged and a lot more intelligent than anything they'd created since. The C'Thraxxi nearly wiped out the titan-forged before the keepers showed up Even the titan keepers had a hard time dealing with the C'Thraxxi so Odin came up with a plan to have Loken use an illusion spell to trick the C'Thraxxi into thinking their allies were their enemies. With Yogg-Saron's men fighting each other, Odin ran in and used the confusion to diminish their numbers with the other titan keepers eventually helping out. with this final push Yogg-Saron was defeated and locked in a prison known as Ulduar. Yogg's story doesn't pick up again until sometime after the war with the titans. While locked away in his prison, Yogg-Saron managed to regain some power and control to affect the physical world in subtle ways to eventually plan his escape. One of his first plans was to corrupt the Forge of Wills, a device in Ulduar used to create new titan-forged, and Yogg wanted to afflict it with the curse of flesh. The curse of flesh would weaken the titan-forged bodies by turning them from stone or metal into flesh. The curse of flesh is pretty self-explanatory. As stone or metal creatures, the titan-forged can live forever and are pretty durable. As meaty fleshy things they are a lot easier to kill. And Yogg would set it so that the new titan-born created from the Forge would spread the curse to other ones as well. But in order to pull this off Yogg worked towards turning the keeper Loken to his side. Yogg tried to break him by sending his usual madness whispers to his dreams and stuff But Loken just kind of brushed it all aside. But Yogg did hit upon a jackpot by focusing on Loken because as it turned out Loken was having an affair with Sif, who was the wife of Thorim, another titan keeper. So Yogg pushed this angle and convinced Loken to go all in with Sif and try and let them be together But Sif knew that a scandal like that might be bad for the titan keepers who all needed to work together, and could even cause a civil war. So she eventually broke things off. But in a fit of rage Loken ended up killing Sif, and then coincidentally the ghost of Sif appeared immediately right in front of Loken and told him that she forgave him for her death but that they needed to work quickly to cover it up lest war break out. Of course this ghost wasn't actually Sif, it was Yogg. He finally had his direct line of manipulation to get Loken to do what he wanted. First he told Loken to blame Sif's death on the ice giants, which caused a massive war between the storm and ice giants. Next he told Loken to use the Forge of Wills to create a massive army of his own. You know, to protect himself from those crazy ice and storm giants fighting each other. Then Loken told Thorim that his war was silly an emotion fueled, that Sif would be ashamed at what he had done. Which caused Thorim to agree and voluntarily go into exile. Then Loken used his new army to subdue all the remaining giants and take control. While all this was going on Yogg had also succeeded in corrupting the Forge of Souls as the spirit of Sif. And the curse of flesh was spread to all of the new army Loken had created and anyone who came into contact with his new army. Loken eventually found out that the Sif spirit was an illusion made by Yogg-Saron and became obsessed with covering up his mistake. And in order to do so he had to take out all of the other titan keepers. First he went after Odin by promising to free Helya from her being a Val'kyr if she could lock Odin in his Halls of Valor, which she did. Next he sabotaged Mimiron's lab to have him killed in what would look like an accident. Luckily his mechagnomes managed to save him after the accident, but Mimiron lost his mind in the process. Then Loken went after and attacked Freya After her defeat Yogg pulled her into Ulduar to work on a garden to keep her busy for some reason. At the same time as his attack on Freya, Loken also sent a group to attack Hodir that consisted of fire giants to completely counter his frost giants. The remaining two titan keepers Tyr and Archaedas saw the attack on Hodir and went into hiding. Loken was then worried that Ra might come up from the south and see what happened to the other titan keepers. So he sent a small force of his own men down to Uldum to check up on him. Upon investigation, it turns out Ra went missing in the titan-forged didn't know where he went. And it was this meeting with Loken's men that affected the mogu, tol'vir and the anubisaths to the curse of flesh. With all the other titan keepers dealt with, Loken shut down the Forge of Wills and named himself as the new prime designate and waited in Ulduar, worried that one day Algalon would come back to Azeroth and punish him. But with Loken's successful takeover of Ulduar, Yogg was free to do pretty much whatever he wanted to try and free himself, as he no longer had to worry about the titan keepers stopping him. Then Yogg's story here on out kinda gets fragmented until his eventual downfall. Yogg managed to corrupt the Tree of Life in Grizzly Hills named Vordrassil until the night elves found out about it and cut it down, but not before Yogg could set up a link to the Emerald Dream which would eventually start the Emerald Nightmare fiasco. Then like thousands and thousands of years later. Yogg, finally decided to make a push to free himself from his prison. Coincidentally, at the same time that both the full might of the horde and Alliance were in Northrend to fight the Lich King, bands of heroes (as player characters are called in lore) managed to kill Loken and free the remaining watchers who were trapped inside Ulduar. And together with the help of the titan keepers, heroes managed to stop Yogg-Saron from resurfacing and pushed him back down into his prison. With Loken out of the way and most of the titan keepers back to their jobs of actually watching Yogg-Saron, there has been very little involvement with him since. And that's it for the Villains Quarters segment on Yogg-Saron. I obviously left out a few things because this was meant to summarize what I thought were the important parts and was never meant to be a comprehensive list of everything to do with Yogg-Saron. So, what did you think of the video? I very much want to hear feedback for this video as it is a pilot episode. Also, if you have any suggestions for the next villains corner video should be about just let me know. All the drawings for this video were done by Rachel and links to her website and DeviantArt will be in the video description if you want to check out her work because I think she did a really good job with these drawings.
