Why are we going to the Obsidian Sanctum? Sartharion doesn't seem to be doing anything except watching over eggs. He's not a direct threat to anyone like Onyxia or Nefarian were. He seems like just some random Black Dragon who's minding his own business, hanging out in the Black Dragonflight's area under Wyrmrest. Did I miss our rationale for wrecking up the place every week somewhere along the way?

Unfortunately, they didn't explain this at all in-game. At all. No quests, no nothing. Why we go in there is explained in the other Warcraft media, specifically the new Night of the Dragon series. It was released shortly after Wrath, but actually tries to set up some of the events of the expansion. A little too late for that, huh?

Sartharion and the Twilight Drake Trio guards many, many eggs of Twilight Dragons. The Twilight Dragonflight is another one of the Black's little projects to recreate their flight. Nefarian was trying to make Chromatic Dragons, remember? The Twilight dragons are a hybrid of Blacks and the mutated Netherwing dragons. Sinestra (the Black Dragon chickadee we meet in Shadowmoon Valley) is responsible for these guys. They feed off of magic, including that of other dragons.

I won't give all the nitty gritty details of the story in case some of you actually intend to read it, but that's why we go in and wipe out Sartharion. He's watching over something very bad for everyone.

Kram asked...

Is there a good place to look at how heroic dungeons differ from their regular counterparts? I got dropped from a group because I hadn't tanked Nexus on heroic yet, and was looking for a quick read so I could pretend I had.

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