![]() When Bolvar took up that Helm at the end of Wrath, it was the last we heard of him for years. It was only once the Lich King had established control over most of the conteninet that he extended his telepathic reach south, in search of more dark souls to serve his purpose. Eventually, Northrend was riddled with Scourge. Working from within the chunk of ice on the Frozen Throne, he began forming a monstrous army of undead - and new death provided new souls and more power to command. Without the Legion, the Scourge wouldn’t exist – and he would be a hale and healthy man.Īfter arriving on Azeroth, the Lich King set about the task that the Burning Legion had assigned. After all, he wouldn’t be wearing that helm at all, were it not for the Burning Legion. And if there are any lingering echoes of Ner’zhul left behind, they are quietly urging Bolvar to take revenge while he can. ![]() That Bolvar Fordragon, Highlord of the Alliance, is still doing some good. ![]() That the grim task he willingly undertook in Wrath hasn’t overpowered him. First, that Bolvar Fordragon is still looking out for us. There are two schools of possible thought, here. So while we may think hey, it’s great that the Lich King is just as set against the Legion as we are, it might not be that simple. Bolvar points this out to the player during the quest for the Death Knight’s Class Hall mount. But that helm that Bolvar took up at the end of Wrath isn’t just a piece of fancy headgear – it’s full of memories and visions. Give Bolvar’s past, he has experience against the horrors of the Legion. Little wonder, then, that Bolvar would be just as set against the Burning Legion. By the end of the Third War, the Burning Legion was largely gone and the Lich King was triumphant…to a degree. What resulted from this “punishment” was a very long, very clever game in which the Lich King quietly managed to undermine the Burning Legion altogether. But in doing so, he also granted Ner’zhul a lot of power. He’d failed the Burning Legion, and Kil’jaeden essentially forced him into servitude. When Ner’zhul was crafted into the first Lich King, it was a punishment of sorts. But a closer look at Legion’s Death Knight campaign raises some disturbing questions. It was a temporary arrangement, purely for the sake of getting rid of the Burning Legion. And it makes sense, because at the end of Legion, your alliance with the Lich King is presumably over as well. Presumably, it’s gone once you’ve finished reforming the Four Horsemen. So the task of raising these four new soldiers falls on your shoulders and you’re granted the power to fulfill that task. Obviously Bolvar – the new Lich King – is stuck up on the Frozen Throne in Northrend. Except in Legion, players are tasked with raising a new set of Four Horsemen. Technically speaking, the Third War was when the creation of new Death Knights ended. Update: We wrote this post way back in 2018, but with the leak of new BlizzCon art of Bolvar as the Lich King, we think Bolvar’s story is worth revisiting.
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