Primal Incarnates

The Primal Incarnates are ancient proto-dragons who refused the gift of the titans and stand opposed to dragonkind, wishing to cleanse the world of the stain of the Pantheon. Analogous to the Aspects of the dragonflights,2022-04-21, How World of Warcraft Hopes to Build New Lore With Old History in Dragonflight. Gamerant, retrieved on 2022-04-24 Raszageth the Storm-Eater, Iridikron the Stonescaled, Vyranoth the Frozenheart, and Fyrakk the Blazing lead a group of followers called the Primalists, who turned to the elements and became infused with their primal power.
Tensions arose between Primalists and dragonflights, eventually leading to a cataclysmic war that took place about 20,000 years ago. The dragons ultimately won and imprisoned Raszageth within the Froststone Vault in the Forbidden Reach, and the three others within the Vault of the Incarnates in Thaldraszus. This ancient, titanic prison is a raid in World of Warcraft: Dragonflight.https://dragonflight.blizzard.com/
==History==
===Ancient past===
While the titans uplifted the Dragon Aspects and their dragonflights, a group of ancient proto-dragons refused their gift, believing that dragonkind should remain unchanged by Order magic and should instead choose to return to their roots and embrace their inherent elemental energies. Despite all the work that the Aspects and their dragonflights had accomplished since their creation, these "Primalist" proto-dragons joined together and demanded that Keeper Tyr be exiled from the dragons' new home. When the Aspects refused, it sowed the seeds of rebellion for the Primalists.The Art of World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, pg. 121-123 The Primalists' leaders became known as the Primal Incarnates, infused with the power of the elements.
Neltharion was concerned about the festering schism between Primalists and dragons, but Alexstrasza dismissed his concerns, hoping to resolve the tensions through communication. Fearing conflict was coming, Neltharion created the dracthyr and prepared for war.Runs in the Family2022-04-20, World of Warcraft Expansion Reveal. YouTube, retrieved on 2022-04-20Warcraft Radio - FOR AZEROTH! EP. 210Legacies Chapter Three
Neltharion didn't have enough time to perfect his creation. About 20,000 years agoScalecommander Azurathel#Quotes: Raszageth, the Storm-Eater, struck first at dragonkind by attacking the Forbidden Reach.Taliesin & Evitel Interview with Steve Danuser & Morgan Day - "[Neltharion was experimenting on dracthyr] until they were ready, until the time was right. Unfortunately, the time never ended up being right because of Raszageth's sneak attack on the Reach and all the events that followed and the war that broke out as a result of that." With the Oathbinder broken, Neltharion lost control of the dracthyr, and resorted to submitting to the whispers of the Old Gods for the first time, using his newfound powers to banish Raszageth to the Froststone Vault. He then discarded the dracthyr and stashed them away in their creches where they were put in stasis indefinitely.
A cataclysmic conflict ensued between Primalists and dragonflights known as the War of the Scaleborn. Vyranoth and Fyrakk were ever loyal to the Incarnate's ideals, but Iridikron truly embraced the war. At the end, he struck terrible bargains to keep their cause alive. Alexstrasza believes the other incarnates never knew the true depths of his depravity.Together We Are Unstoppable Despite the Primalists' alliance with the djaradin to end the dragons' reign,Tarjin the Blind#Quotes - The Magma Pact the remaining Primal Incarnates were ultimately defeated, but Alexstrasza, having failed to restore peace between the two groups,The Storm-Eater's Fury still couldn't bear to kill them given they had once been as close as clutch-mates, and decided to imprison them instead, within the titanic Vault of the Incarnates.Whispers on the Winds
===Dragonflight===
20,000 years later, a group of Primalists, now visibly also consisting of mortal races having joined their cause, resurfaced and were led by Kurog Grimtotem to the Forbidden Reach where they freed Raszageth the Storm-Eater. She unleashed storms across the world's oceans, preventing travel to the Dragon Isles and indefinitely making the Reach inaccessible, and sent the Primalists to invade various points across the globe.Tempest Unleashed She then set out to free her kin from the Vault of the Incarnates. The Aspects, realizing they would not be able to stop them after having given up their titan-gifted powers to defeat Deathwing, began searching for a way to get their powers back. Kalecgos also asked Khadgar to rally the mortal races against the oncoming threat.
After attacking the Ruby Life Pools and Vakthros, she succeeded in releasing her brethren from the Vault, but died in the process. Seeing how Raszageth's haste led to her downfall, Alexstrasza speculated that the Incarnates would retreat and gather their strengths first, and that Iridikron's mastery of the earth would harbor them in the meantime.Together We Are Unstoppable
Fyrakk was eager to take revenge for their sister, but Iridikron did not want to rush in and believed they needed to even the scales with the Aspects first. The Incarnates adventured to the Forbidden Reach as the last echoes of Raszageth's storm faded, where they breached an ancient vault belonging to Neltharion and found a device that would give them the location of Zaralek Cavern, the Earth-Warder's secret underground. They had no interest in the laboratory of Aberrus itself, but in the molten fire that could be found below. Scalecommander Sarkareth and the Sundered Flame followed behind them secretly to claim Neltharion's legacy.Secrets of the Reach
They found one of the hidden entry points to Zaralek right below Valdrakken, where they broke through the ground and sent Fyrakk down, blazing through the earth, to claim the elemental power below and wake the djaradin's Elders at the Zaqali Caldera.Opening the Way Fyrakk was ultimately successful in gaining control over the Shadowflame found within Aberrus, empowering himself, and awakening the Incarnates old djaradin allies. Iridikron himself would make a bargain with the Infinite Dragonflight, using their access to the timeways to travel back to the point of Galakrond's fall and acquire his essence. Though the adventurers and Chromie succeeded in defeating Murozond, Iridikron succeeded in his intent in gaining a fragment of Galakrond's essence before departing through a Void Gate, leaving the Primal Incarnates affairs to Fyrakk and Vyranoth. However, Vyranoth noticed a dark change within Fyrakk, as he had become more unhinged and cruel, leading the two incarnates to briefly class over their methods, especially after the Frozenheart learned of Fyrakk's intent to corrupt the newly emerging World Tree Amirdrassil with his darkened flames, remaking the world in fire. Disgusted with this plan and of how Fyrakk had willingly abandoned their ideals, Vyranoth defected from the Primal Incarnates and warned Alexstrasza of Fyrakk's intent before ultimately joining her in the World Tree's defense.
Now alone in his conquest, Fyrakk gathered his forces, including Fire Lord Smolderon and the Druids of the Flame, and launched his assault upon the Emerald Dream before the World Tree could properly bloom into the real world. However, Fyrakk's efforts would be in vain, as not only were his forces routed but he would fall to the Dream's defenders right at the foot of the World Tree's core before he could corrupt it, allowing the World Tree to fully bloom. As it did so, a powerful surge of Azeroth's magic burst from the core, re-empowering the Dragon Aspects and Vyranoth herself.
==Known==
Name 	Title 	Description 	Status
Fyrakk 	The Blazing 	Imprisoned within the Vault of the Incarnates in Thaldraszus, until he was released by Raszageth. 	
Iridikron	The Stonescaled	Imprisoned within the Vault of the Incarnates in Thaldraszus, until he was released by Raszageth. 	
Raszageth	The Storm-Eater	Imprisoned in the Froststone Vault in the Forbidden Reach, until she was released by the Primalist Kurog Grimtotem.	
Vyranoth 	The Frozenheart	Imprisoned within the Vault of the Incarnates in Thaldraszus, until she was released by Raszageth. 	
==Notes==
*In an early pre-release interview, the Primal Incarnates were described as "followers of Galakrond"Jeremy Feasel interview with AusGamers and "children of Galakrond [who believe that] dragons are the apex of creation [and] should be served by mortals, rather than the other way around." This has not been mentioned or alluded to since.
==References==
 
Category:Proto-dragons
Category:Dragonflights