Illidan Stormrage

A character from WarCraft 3. A legendary legacy character from VGCW.


Born a night elf with golden eyes, an indicators that he had a great destiny, unfortunately his 'great destiny' tied into events that brought catastrophic destruction to his species and the world they lived in (albeit great devastation not caused by Illidan himself; he was more interested in attaining as much power as he could amongst said events then actually destroying the world). For the consequences of his choices, he was imprisoned and came to be called "The Betrayer" for his actions. When another world-threatening war caused him to be released after 10,000 years to serve as a weapon, Illidan quickly demonstrated he had not learned a thing and immediately went off on his own to begin seeking new and more power again, eventually becoming a hybrid of demon and elf in his pursuit of it. It was not enough to keep him from getting jobbed hard by the death knight Arthas Menithil on the glacier known as Icecrown, Illidan's schemes having led him there for a crack at ultimate power. Having failed, his mind broken and in the grips of a delusion that he, Illidan had won instead, he fled to Outland and seized the Black Temple, planning to raise an army to defend himself against the powerful forces who would attempt to kill him for his failures.

In World of Warcraft, Illidan appears as the final boss of the Black Temple raid. As a major boss, Illidan has five phases and required a group of twenty-five people to take him down at the time he was 'current content'. He also possessed the legendary swords, the Warglaives of Azzinoth: once further expansions reduced his raid to 'farm content', this subjected him to being jobbed constantly by EVERYONE. This included legendary weapon hunters, max-level achievement hunters, transmogrification hunters looking for fine fashion... yeah, everyone.

The Extinct Light
Now this legendary icon of the ring returns to get his glory to new heights in AEW Dark and tap into some of its forbidden power to destroy "the fed".