Arathi Titan Crisis

The Arathi Titan Crisis was a series of events that led to the release and eventual vanquishing of a rogue titan in the Arathi Highlands by Azerothian Heroes shortly after the Cataclysm.

Millennia ago, a titan princess was imprisoned beneath the Arathi Highlands and restrained with several binding stones. The reason for her imprisonment is unclear and debated by scholars to this day. Some speculate that she betrayed the Pantheon of Titans and defected to the elementals who then served the Old Gods, while others claim that the Old Gods captured and imprisoned her without the knowledge of the pantheon. Whatever the case may be, the titan princess went mad during her imprisonment, devising ways to escape and wreak vengeance upon the surface world.

Shortly after the Cataclysm, the primary binding stone that held the titan beneath the highlands was discovered by a band of Azerothian Heroes. When one of the adventurers touched the binding stone, the titan princess was able to enter the mind and communicate her plight; promising great power and treasure if the heroes freed her. Lured by this promise of magical power, the adventurers destroyed the binding stones and slew the elementals that guarded them.

Unbound, the titan princess erupted from the earth and turned against her liberators - slaying them and leaving a path of destruction in her wake. Both the Kingdom of Stromgarde and the Horde forces of Hammerfall sent their champions to do battle with the rogue titan in a climactic fight for the highlands. The titan was eventually vanquished, but not before she destroyed several human and orcish farms in the arathi countryside.