Naxxramas

Level 60 · 40 players · Eastern Plaguelands

Eastern Plaguelands

Father Inigo Montoy

Rohan the Assassin

Huntsman Leopold

Korfax, Champion of the Light

Rayne

Rimblat Earthshatter

Commander Eligor Dawnbringer

Archmage Angela Dosantos

Craftsman Wilhelm

Mataus the Wrathcaster

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Omarion's Handbook

Omarion's Handbook60

The Phylactery of Kel'Thuzad · from Kel'Thuzad

The Fall of Kel'Thuzad60

Horde quests

Alliance quests

Eastern Plaguelands

Commander Eligor Dawnbringer

Craftsman Wilhelm

Naxxramas is a Scourge necropolis that floats above the Plaguewood, the blighted forest just south of Stratholme in the Eastern Plaguelands. It began as a ziggurat built by the nerubians, the spider-like people of Northrend, deep underground. When the nerubians lost their fight against the Lich King, their fallen king Anub'arak was raised as a crypt lord, and he led his undead kin to conquer the ziggurat and rebuild it to his master's design.

The archmage Kel'Thuzad, cast out of Dalaran by the Kirin Tor for his experiments with undeath, followed a guiding voice to Northrend. Anub'arak showed him the ziggurat's four wings, stocked with undead, stitched creatures, arms and plague cauldrons for a coming war, and Kel'Thuzad swore himself to the Lich King. The Lich King showed him a vision of cultists tearing Naxxramas from the frozen ground and raising it into the sky, and named it Kel'Thuzad's vessel. Kel'Thuzad went on to spread the plague across Lordaeron, died at Arthas's hand and rose as a lich, and when Arthas departed for Northrend, he left Kel'Thuzad in charge of the Scourge in Lordaeron.

Kel'Thuzad, the Lich King's chief lieutenant, rules the Eastern Plaguelands from Naxxramas and waits at its top in the Frostwyrm Lair, guarded by the frost wyrm Sapphiron. Anub'Rekhan, Grand Widow Faerlina and Maexxna hold the Arachnid Quarter of undead nerubians and spiders, while Noth the Plaguebringer, Heigan the Unclean and Loatheb hold the Plague Quarter, where the plague is refined into weapons. Instructor Razuvious, Gothik the Harvester and the Four Horsemen train death knights from Lordaeron's fallen soldiers in the Military Quarter. The Construct Quarter, full of abominations stitched from the dead, holds Patchwerk, Grobbulus, Gluth and Thaddius.

The Argent Dawn leads the fight from Light's Hope Chapel while the Lich King's servants gather here for another assault and other necropolises appear across Azeroth, including outside Stormwind and Undercity. Wards guard the rune portal in the Plaguewood, so Archmage Angela Dosantos cloaks adventurers with a Kirin Tor cantrip she modified, charging less the more the Dawn trusts them. Commander Eligor Dawnbringer of the Brotherhood of the Light, a group within the Dawn that keeps peace with the Scarlet Crusade, sends them to kill Scourge in all four quarters before Kel'Thuzad can strike. The Brotherhood also restores armor that the Scourge stripped from Lordaeron's dead and carried into Naxxramas.

When Kel'Thuzad dies, he vows to return with powers beyond imagining and leaves his phylactery behind. A quest sends the finder to Father Inigo Montoy of the Brotherhood at Light's Hope Chapel, who pays well for it. The quest's own text admits that destroying the phylactery would keep Kel'Thuzad from ever re-forming.

Eastern Plaguelands

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Eastern Plaguelands

Eastern Plaguelands

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