Dath ' Remar Sunstrider Dath ' Remar Sunstrider was the leader of the Highborne who survived the War of the Ancients . He had originally been part of the Highborne who had stayed with Queen Azshara during the war . He was even offered to be turned into a satyr by Xavius but declined , becoming increasingly uneasy over the Highborne ' s affiliation with the Burning Legion . He and other like - minded Highborne worked secretly to slow the work of their brethren and the demons who were opening a portal for Sargeras to step through onto Azeroth . When Tyrande Whisperwind was captured by the satyrs , Dath ' Remar took her into his confidence . This eventually led to him freeing her and taking a large number of Highborne and escaping from the palace . During their initial escape , Dath ' Remar and others were attacked by guards of the Highborne still loyal to the Burning Legion . He waved his hand and the guards flew into a wall . He said " That will teach them to dare attack a Highborne of the Elite Circle . " The surviving Highborne escapees joined the Kaldorei Resistance at the end of the war much to the opposition of many night elves . After the war , Dath ' Remar was one of the leaders of the new night elf society and was present at the forbidden formation of the new Well of Eternity by Illidan , and later at the wonderous planting of the World Tree . The Highborne had to reconcile with the rest of the night elves if they were going to revive their civilization . This peace did not last forever . When the surviving night elves chose to take up druidism and forsake all forms of arcane magic , he called the druid s cowards for refusing to use the power of magic . As the Highborne felt the pangs of their addiction to magic they grew more desperate , and in an attempt to convince the druids to change their minds , the Highborne led by Dath ' Remar unleashed a terrible magical storm across Ashenvale Forest . For this final action , the Highborne were exiled . The Highborne exiles boarded specially crafted ships and sailed eastwards , braving the Maelstrom . They landed in the Tirisfal Glades , and Dath ' Remar who ' s ancestral name Sunstrider , meaning ' he who walks in the day , ' had an appropriate name for a leader in the struggle the Highborne were undertaking . After being forced to abandon Tirisfal , Dath ' Remar led his high elves to a land in northern Lordaeron . There he and his brethren created the Sunwell , the magical foundation of their new kingdom of Quel ' Thalas . Dath ' Remar was crowned the first High King of Quel ' Thalas and though he did not rule , the king retained a modicum of political power . It is rumored that Dath ' Remar ' s signature weapon was the sword Felo ' melorn , also known as Flamestrike , which became an heirloom of the Sunstrider Dynasty and has been wielded by his descendants to the last of the Sunstriders , Prince Kael ' thas . He also wielded the Sunstrider ' s Longbow . Though his descendant Anasterian Sunstrider was king during the invasion by the scourge to Quel ' thalas , Dath ' Remar seems to have been still alive according to the epitaph on the Shrine of Dath ' Remar on Sunstrider Isle . The epitaph speaks of his sacrifice during the recent invasion , despite the fact he is not mentioned in any other source to have even been alive during the invasion . It is probable that this sacrifice is figurative and not literal , but if it is literal , than something is very odd ( the writer may have simply confused him with Anasterian ) .