Llane Wrynn I Llane Wrynn I was the ruler of the Kingdom of Azeroth during the First War . He was the child of King Adamant Wrynn III and Lady Varia , and the father of King Varian Wrynn . He is also the grandfather of King Anduin Wrynn . History . Llane was born in the year 564 by the accounting of years formerly used in that kingdom . In 577 , Llane reached to the Age of Ascension and was given the full title Prince of Azeroth . During the evening feast arranged to honor the young Prince , the great wizard Medivh , who had been absent from events of the world for years , interrupted , announcing his return to the world and giving an obsidian hourglass to Llane , symbolizing Azeroth ' s unending prosperity . The sands in the glass ran , but the top half never emptied into the lower half . Six years later , Llane awoke in ordinary morning to find to his horror that the hourglass had almost completely emptied . As the last grain fell , an attack on Stormwind Keep by the orcs began . Although the orc attack was repelled , this marked the beginning of the First War that would last for years . Llane was sent with his mother to Northshire Abbey away from potential danger by his father , who in turn began to lead the battle against the orcs . The next year , his father , King Adamant Wrynn III died , and at the age of twenty , Llane was pronounced King of Azeroth and continued the battle against the orcs for ten relatively successful years , during which the invaders were held back to the Swamp of Sorrows . King Llane Wrynn ' s son , Prince Varian Wrynn , was born to him in Stormwind City ten years before the First War . Ten years later , Llane was visited by a mysterious stranger who revealed herself to be Aegwynn , the mother of Medivh . She revealed that Medivh was behind the arrival of the orcs into the kingdom , warning that Azeroth would eventually have to deal with him . Following the rise of Blackhand as Warchief , the war turned badly against Stormwind . Sensing that the final confrontation was at hand , Llane prepared to rally the armies of Azeroth against the orcs . Garona Halforcen was a close friend of Llane , but also secretly an agent of the Horde . As the orcs besieged Stormwind itself , Garona ( under mental control of the orc Shadow Council ) sorrowfully assassinated the beloved king and took his heart to the head of the Council , the warlock Gul ' dan . Garona knew from a vision she had seen in Karazhan that she was fated to kill one of the few men who accepted her for what she was , and thus it was King Llane ' s assassin who mourned him most of all . In World of Warcraft . A can be found in Stormwind Keep ; the plaque reads : In Patch 3 . 1 , is seen during Yogg - Saron ' s vision of his assassination . Yogg - Saron also drops two pieces of gear apparently tied to King Llane : and . The former is his symbol of office , stained with blood from his assassination . The latter seems to imply it was the weapon used to do the deed ; it makes a good rogue weapon , and the flavor text is similar to Garona ' s feelings in the wake of her betrayal . How both items came to be in Yogg - Saron ' s possession is unknown . See Karazhan NPCs . In Warcraft movie . King Llane is one of the protagonists of the Warcraft movie , set to take place during the latter part of the First War , after King Adamant ' s death . True to his character , he questions other nobles ' assertions that the orcs are all beasts who should be destroyed and is shown to be sympathetic to them , as well as extending a hand to Garona as a bridge between the two races .