Faceless one Faceless ones ( aka The faceless and known originally as the n ' raqi ) are mysterious monsters that remain mostly in Azjol - Nerub and Icecrown in Northrend . They have been revealed over the years to reside in many more places . Always involved with the corruption of the Void and / or the Old gods and their creations . They are formed from the very energies and fleshy masses of the Old gods . History . In the RPG . Tales say they lived in Azjol - Nerub long before the Scourge came , dwelling too deep for the nerubian s to hunt them . The strange faceless ones are ancient monsters long imprisoned beneath the ice and recently loosed again . Faceless ones have a long magical heritage . They draw upon their race ' s legacy of arcane spellcasting traditions to increase their power . Although faceless ones have a racially low intellect , they have a strong heritage of necromantic magic . A second passage into the has been discovered by the Scourge , and Baelgun knows the faceless ones will overpower even the undead and then be free to escape into Northrend proper , and so he vows to stop them . In Warcraft III . During Arthas and Anub ' arak ' s desperate flight towards Icecrown to defend the Lich King from Illidan and his army , they were forced to cross through the mostly underground nerubian kingdom of Azjol - Nerub . There they encountered still living nerubian freedom fighters and dwarves left over from Arthas ' last trip to Northrend . But as they delved deeper into the ruins , they also encountered " horrors " ( as the dwarf leader Baelgun called them ) released by Illidan ' s recently caused earthquakes : strange , vaguely humanoid beings that had arisen , and the giant tentacles of one massive creature . As they fought their way through , they soon encountered the monster who Anub ' arak called " A forgotten one " . The crypt lord Anub ' arak seemed stunned that such a creature actually existed , saying he thought they were only a myth . He then told Arthas to " fight as you ' ve never fought before " . The undead barely managed to defeat the creature , but as more faceless ones appeared and the cavern began to collapse , they were forced to press on . Eventually , they made it out of Azjol - Nerub and did battle with Illidan , but not until after surviving great peril . In the Comics . Theramore came under attack from a Faceless One that had been awakened by Cho ' gall to take Med ' an with him . During the battle , Med ' an intuitively wove together arcane and shamanic magic to defeat the ancient creature . In Wrath of the Lich King . In the quests and , Kilix the Unraveler and Archmage Lan ' dalock say that as the nerubians fought the Scourge , they dug deeper underground as they lost ground to the undead . " We inadvertently exposed a tendril of the old god ' s will , which was made manifest in the creatures known only as the Faceless . " He then goes on to say that they lost the war because " In the end , we could not fight on two fronts against such powerful enemies . Our misfortune cost us the war against the undead , and ultimately , our home . " implying that the nerubians discovered the faceless ones by accident . Interestingly , " faceless ones " ( see the Faceless Lurker ) , and " forgotten one s " ( see the mob known as Forgotten One ) look similiar . Multiple faceless ones appear including Herald Volazj , the leader of the Old God ' s forces , and Darkspeaker R ' khem . Faceless ones are also encountered underneath Icecrown Citadel in a place called . Killing the Faceless Lurker s there is required for the quest . Much like gnoll s or ogre s , faceless ones have a " battlecry " : " " Shur ' nab . . . shur ' nab . . . Yogg - Saron ! " " . It would appear , therefore , that the darkest fears about the faceless ones are true . In Ulduar faceless ones are led by General Vezax guarding the twisted passages leading to the Prison of Yogg - Saron . In Cataclysm . " " brings new faceless ones within the Abyssal Depths ( Faceless Mauler s and Faceless Shadoweaver s ) of Vashj ' ir and the Abyssal Maw instance hub . They seem to be allied with the Naga and fight against Neptulon . The Faceless Ones can also be seen in many places around Vashj ' ir , especially Faceless Overseer s around L ' ghorek . The Faceless of the Deep appears as leader of the Naga at the Ruins of Vashj ' elan on the Lost Isles . Appearance . Faceless ones are vaguely humanoid creatures who , as the name implies , have no discernible faces insofar as other races recognize them . One arm is much larger than the other , grotesque and misshapen , while the other is little more than a prehensile tentacle . Generals . Faceless general s are massive faceless with a hardened shell . They seem to be the leaders of the Faceless ones . Some of their aquatic features may be a recent adaptation to eons underwater as remains of older massive faceless lack these features . Language . The faceless ones speak a " language " which no race on Azeroth is capable of understanding or pronouncing . The only known example of this language is Herald Volazj . His strange utterings are somehow translated directly into the minds of nearby players through telepathic whispers . Darkspeaker R ' khem also communicates with other beings by projecting telepathic thoughts into their mind , together with a wave of soothing , euphoric feelings that are mixed with a sense of pain . After completing , he disappears with a noise that is translated as laughter in the player ' s mind . Faceless Lurker s sometimes utter " Shur ' nab . . . shur ' nab . . . Yogg - Saron ! " when assaulting their victims , which never appears to be accompanied by telepathic whispers , so it seems only powerful faceless ones can express themselves in this manner .