Does anybody know when Blizzard will be completing the quest line that starts with Itharius? Currently it stops after you get sent to Winterspring to talk to Umbranse. While you might have been able to do more after that before the opening of the AQ gates, currently you cannot and Eranikus is still being tortured, which I must say sucks monkey balls.--Illidan Rocks 21:28, 5 September 2006 (EDT)
From what has been stated at the forums, it looks like Blizz won't be continuing this quest line anytime soon.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=102931598&pageNo=1&sid=1#5
Status[]
Eranikus was confronted by Lethon and in his struggle to prevent being corrupted again he pushed himself and Lethon into a void, seemingly destroying them both.
- So... assumed dead or actually died?
(Sssss/Slithered) 03:18, May 26, 2010 (UTC)
- "A fiery maelstrom erupted where Lethon had been. That maelstrom swallowed up Eranikus, who made no move to avoid it." I'm not sure who wrote the original summary, but it seems pretty clear to me that he's dead. -- Dark T Zeratul (talk) 03:20, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
Corruption source[]
The article mentions that Eranikus succumbed to the Emerald Nightmare while in the Temple of Atal'Hakkar, but the adventure guide entry for the Shade of Eranikus says that he was corrupted by the Temple's "dark forces." I no longer have a sub to retail or classic WoW- were the "dark forces" within the Temple of Atal'Hakkar in some way related to the Emerald Dream/Nightmare? Or did Eranikus fall within the temple, get messed up by dark magic, and then get got by the Nightmare?
Bigpilgrimskey (talk) 18:44, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
- A connection between Hakkar and the Emerald Nightmare was certainly implied, but never spelled out. This dialogue leads to this unclear answer. The clearest answer we have is the quest "
[15-30] Step Two: The Bloodletter" which says that the Atal'ai at the Temple of Atal'Hakkar were using Hakkar's blood to make green dragons fall to the Emerald Nightmare, so that Hakkar could feed off the evil produced by this. However, how the one type of corruption triggers the other is unknown.--Sandwichman2448 (talk) 20:03, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
- Itharius explains that the corruption of Hakkar in a Classic gossip text. [55] The Essence of Eranikus also makes mention of Hakkar's corruption, and also of "an eternal nightmare". In [60R] The Nightmare Manifests Eranikus says "For so long, I was lost... The Nightmare's corruption had consumed me... And now, you... all of you.. you have saved me. Released me from its grasp." In [60] Eranikus, Tyrant of the Dream, the description says "You must cleanse Eranikus of the taint placed upon him by the Old Gods.", and Malfurion says "He has been twisted... twisted by the same force that you seek to destroy." So from these, it looks like to me it is "Hakkar's corruption caused Eranikus' fall to the Nightmare."
- The adventure guide entries were released in a Cataclysm patch, IIRC. This expansion also has [20-30D] Eranikus which explains Eranikus backstory with more detail, and the adventure guide corroborates with it. So as per the quest, it was the Hakkar blood that had devastating effects on Eranikus, and as a result of it, succumbed to the Nightmare.
- World of Warcraft: Chronicle Volume 3, pg. 122 supplemented the matter by saying that when the green dragons entered the Temple of Atal'Hakkar, they were already under the effects of the Nightmare. When the Atal'ai returned to the temple, they found the dragons disoriented and vulnerable. It continues with "Both the Nightmare and the trolls dragged the dragons down into the depths of madness and corruption." -- Mordecay (talk) 20:37, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
- Itharius explains that the corruption of Hakkar in a Classic gossip text.
