The draenei as they are known today were first introduced with The Burning Crusade, though corrupted draenei - later identified as Lost Ones and Broken - were seen as early as Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. However, the majority vowed to stay and uphold their sacred commitment to the Alliance, as Velen saw through a powerful vision that a great war between the Darkness and the Light was fast approaching, and that Azeroth would be its principal battleground. Following the defeat of Kil'jaeden at the Sunwell Plateau, the draenei completed the desperate mission that first brought them to Azeroth, and some of them were sent back to Outland to revitalize their former civilization. Inspired by tales of the heroic Alliance that stood against the might of the Burning Legion during the Third War, the draenei joined their ranks and led the charge during the Invasion of Outland. As the orcs were corrupted by the Legion and formed the original Horde, the draenei were slaughtered en masse and driven into hiding.ĭecades later, the survivors managed to escape the ravaged world of Outland aboard the Exodar, a vessel of the naaru fortress Tempest Keep, but crashed upon the world of Azeroth more specifically, on the Azuremyst Isles off the western coast of Kalimdor. ![]() ![]() For centuries, the draenei lived in relative peace with Draenor's native orcs, until agents of the Burning Legion found them. Led by the Prophet Velen and guided by the divine naaru, they traveled throughout the cosmos in search of a safe world to settle on, eventually landing on a planet they would come to call Draenor, or "Exiles' Refuge". ![]() The draenei (meaning Exiled Ones in their own tongue) are a faction of uncorrupted eredar who fled their homeworld of Argus to escape the corruption of the demonic Burning Legion. “In moments of great strife, I gaze into the heavens and see just how far we have already come.”
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