Scalecommander Azurathel

Scalecommander Azurathel is the leader of the Obsidian Warders, the dracthyr of the Alliance.
==History==
===Ancient times===
Azurathel was one of the was one of the dracthyr created by Neltharion, who would come to select him to serve as the Scalecommander of the Obsidian Warders. Neltharion fashioned the Forbidden Reach as a secret training ground for the dracthyr,Edict: The Earth-WarderDragonflight Zone Preview: The Forbidden Reach where at his command Azurathel would train the Obsidian Warders in their charge with defending the allies of the black dragonflight and protecting its strongholds.Edict: Obsidian WardersEdict: Dark Talons In a battle with Raszageth and the Primal Incarnates, the titan relic that Neltharion used to control the wills of the dracthyr was destroyed. Though Raszageth was sealed away, Neltharion could no longer directly control the dracthyr without the relic and so deemed them a risk.
Azurathel and his people were thus subsequently ordered to the creches beneath the Forbidden Reach by Neltharion, where they were sealed away by Malygos in magical stasis and watched over by his blue dragonflight. They remained there, abandoned and forgotten for nearly 20,000 years, awakened from their long slumber only when the Primalists returned to break Raszageth free, as an ancient, magical surge rippled through the Forbidden Reach, the dracthyr awoke, but from their long stasis their memories became a blur.Lessons From Our PastDragonflight Zone Preview: The Forbidden Reach
===The Forbidden Reach===
As the dracthyr awakened, he found himself trapped in stasis until he was awakened by dracthyr adventures. After his awakening, he declared that they couldn't dwell on their broken memories, but had to move forward to assess and make a plan.Awaken, Dracthyr Thus he directed the dracthyr with acquiring their gear,Gear Up and healing their fellow dracthyr. As the group moved forward, they discovered Scalecommander Cindrethresh and that the blue dragon Lapisagos intended to destroy them.Into the Cauldron Though Azurathel was uneasy at the task, due to believing that the dragons and dracthyr should fight side by side, Cindrethresh reassured him that as Lapisagos intended to destroy them, they had no other choice. After slaying their enemy, the dracthyr emerged from the ruins of their creche only to discover that their training grounds had become overgrown and realized that they'd been in stasis for a very, very, long time.The Dragon at the Door
Upon noticing that a crystal was outside the creche, he sent dracthyr to investigate, where they discovered that there were crystals in front of the other creches and that they were under attack. They quickly informed Azurathel, who declared that they must reach their allies.Arcane Intrusion After this declaration, he and his allies were approached by Scalecommander Emberthal and discovered the Adamant Vigil were no more.Stretch Your Wings After discovering that the Primalists had invaded the Stormsunder Crater and were keeping the Ebon Scales trapped at their creche, Emberthal sent Azurathel, Dervishian, and the adventurer to provide them aid. As the group headed out to rescue their allies, Azurathel directed his allies in thinning the numbers of the Tarasek, who had joined the Primalists, and destroy the elementals summoned by the Primalists. Conjured Army With their tasks complete, the trio were able to reach the Ebon Scales, where the dracthyr united and destroyed Ekrazathal. After this, Scalecommander Sarkareth, demanded answers from Azurathel who told him that they would have to wait as they had to stop the Primalists.
The entire dracthyr army then gathered together as one and was soon joined by Ebyssian and Wrathion. The dracthyr and dragons then rallied to the Froststone Vault in order to prevent the Primalist from freeing the Raszageth, an effort they would ultimately fail at.The Froststone Vault The group was forced to flee from Raszageth's fury, rallying to the safety of the ruins of the combined Dark Talons and Obsidian Warders creche. It was there that they were joined by Nozdormu, who declared that the kingdoms of Azeroth had to be warned of Raszageth's release. Thus, Azurathel and the Obsidian Waders decided to join with Wrathion, who would guide them to the Alliance. Before they departed, Azurathel requested that Sarkareth and his Ebon Scales joined them; however, Sarkareth refused, renamed his group the Sundered Flame, and declared that they would claim their destiny by right. As he watched them depart, Azurathel reflected that their anger sent them down a dark path and feared the day he would meet Sarkareth as a rival on the field of battle. As they neared Stormwind City, he was impressed with its walls and declared that it would hold strong against a formidable adversary. As the dracthyr neared the city gates, they were approached by hostile guards. However, Mathias Shaw soon arrived and after a brief exchange allowed the group to enter the city. He and Wrathion then presented the Dragon Aspects invitation to visit the Dragon Isles.
===Dragonflight===
Azurathel and Wrathion then met with Turalyon, where Wrathion declared that Alexstrasza would be pleased that the Alliance had answered the call but would insist that conflict is not brought to their shores. Azurathel reminded them that the isles were home to the dracthyr as well and not a place to plunder. He then declared their intention to accompany the Alliance on their journey, while reflecting that it would take time to build trust between them. Turalyon admitted that as a fellow soldier, he perfectly understood his wariness.Aspectral Invitation
He directed adventurers with delivering his orders to his lieutenant, Dervishian.The Obsidian Warders As Azurathel and his Obsidian Warders arrived at the Stormwind Harbor, they were joined by Emberthal, who shared that Nozdormu had revealed to her the origins of the dracthyr, how Neltharion had put them to sleep, and that they had been in stasis for nearly twenty thousand years.
==Quests==
*Awaken, Dracthyr 
*Gear Up 
*Into the Cauldron 
==Quotes==
===Gossip===
;Old Weyrn Grounds, after The Dragon at the Door
:Inhospitable, unwelcoming territory, infused with broken chaotic magic energy and barely-contained blue dragon rituals.
:Perfect training ground.
;In front of Stormsunder Crater
:Proto-dragons flying in reinforcements. An elemental army being conjured on site. Tarasek recruited into their ranks.
:Our enemy is efficient. And dangerous. This operation must have some greater purpose.
:Hmm... Why do these Primalists seem so... familiar?
:No time for that. Focus on the dracthyr trapped on the other side of this crater.
;Further at the Stormsunder Crater
:The enemy's ranks are growing. For every foe we strike down, two more take its place.
:Focus on the Siege Creche. We must aid the Ebon Scales! 
;Stormwind City (after completing Ground Leave (Alliance)
:Ah, <name>, I hope your exploration of the city has been fruitful.
:I have been speaking with this Turalyon. He seems a capable leader and soldier, but he is a zealot. And one must be cautious of zealots.
:It is too soon to know if the Alliance is will prove worthy of our trust. But it seems we share a common foe, and perhaps through battle we will forge a bond between us.
;Stormwind Harbor
:Hello again, <race>.
:This is my trusted comrade, Emberthal. She too is a scalecommander. Well, she was. Her weyrn did not survive our long confinement.
:We dracthyr have only just awakened, and we have only fractured memories of our past. But the bronze Aspect, Nozdormu, has peered through time to show Emberthal what transpired.
:These truths are... troubling.
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;Wild Coast
:It will be challenging to protect the expedition if its members insist on running haphazardly in every direction at once.
:<Scalecommander Azurathel shakes his head and sighs.>
:Explorers...
;Valdrakken
:Greetings, <class>.
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::I would say this world is more... populated... than I was expecting.
::The Alliance does not have enough order and discipline for my tastes, but they show promise and mean well. Given time we might mold them into a more unified and dignified fighting force.
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::Neltharion.
::I would counter with another question: Does it matter what I think?
::He is dead. I am told that before he died he did a great many evil deeds, became corrupted by Old Gods, and his children and flight made war on this world the likes of which led to a Cataclysm.
::To me, he was a father and a leader. To everyone else, a murderer and world breaker. I will choose to remember him my way.
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::Ha! Well then allow me to congratulate you in advance. I am sure your forces will appreciate losing to only the best.
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He and Scalecommander Cindrethresh have a voiced conversation in Weyrnrest:
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;Morqut Village gossip
Now that the storms have passed, we've got Primalists searching the island, pirates and rivals trying to grab all they can, and rebel dracthyr trying to force us off the island.
Look, I appreciate that everyone needs a place to sleep and food to eat, but first, we need to make sure no one's going to get killed. We've got a job to do. It's time to fight.
==Trivia==
*Scalecommander Cindrethresh sometimes calls him "Zury."Into the Cauldron
*His generic name during The Ebon Scales is Obsidian Warder Talon.
==Patch changes==
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==External links==
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