So I finished every quest in Spires of Arak, felt good. Went to outlands…. The arakkoa in outlands seem to be scattered with not much lore or anything besides vague mentions of a “raven god” and “ old god”. I’ve looked everywhere, do we have any info on how they became this way or what happened later on or now? I’m assuming Arak was destroyed when draenor was destroyed. Would love any answers! 
Yeah there was not much of the Arakkoa in terms of lore back in TBC.
You only really had vague references to the Apexis Empire (Blades Edge), Rukhmar and Anzu, the Sethekk cult takeover and the worship of an Old God that they tried to summon. Also Terrok having fallen to madness. WoD is where the Arakkoa got a lot of world building. Expanded Rukhmar into being their creator, Anzu got cursed upon killing Seethe. Seethe is also a new character to the Arakkoa pantheon. Seethes curse also makes the Arakkoa wingless and was used as a punishment for traitors. Terroks role as the King of the Arakkoa, then champion of the cursed was expended upon as well.
Most of what we learn about the Arakkoa and their Gods during WoD up until our direct involvement also happened in the MU.
Sadly yes. The only part of the Spires of Arak that avoided Draenors fracturing in the MU was the city of Skettis.
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Per Chronicle, on MU Draenor the arakkoa civilization started falling apart when the cursed Outcasts helped the Horde to infiltrate and overrun Skyreach, leading the extermination of the High Arakkoa (i.e. the Adherents of Rhukmar.) The Horde then turned on the Outcasts as well, killing most of them.
The surviving arakkoa (at this point all Outcasts) were further scattered when the shattering of Draenor destroyed Arak. Those who remained were split between several cults, each seeming to pursue incomplete and twisted fragments of their old beliefs:
1.) Those of the Grishna in the Blade’s Edge Mountains seem to be the leftovers of the Ravenspeakers, who seek to summon Anzu (who eventually started going mad from consuming Sethe’s remains and power and sealed himself away from Draenor to protect the arakkoa from himself.) Their plan to do bring him back seemed to involved trying to grant him access to the Emerald Dream.
2.) The Skettis arakkoa resettled in the trees above the ruins of the old Outcast capital, seeking to release Terokk from his imprisonment, which had been imposed when he started going mad and became a tyrant, whereupon his own priests and warriors sealed him away until they could figure out how to “fix” him. The current MU Skettis arakkoa don’t seem to care if he’s sane or not, and just want to bring him back to lead them in retaking what they’ve lost.
3.) The Sethekk arakkoa don’t actually seem to even remember Sethe himself; instead they became a cult that believed their leader was some sort of mortal avatar Terokk or Rhukmar (their legends have become so jumbled that they don’t entirely differentiate between the two) and left Skettis to Auchindoun in the wake of the latter’s destruction believing that said destruction had heralded the arrival of some “true master” into their world.
4.) The Dark Conclave seem to have been a group of arakkoa sent by those in Skettis to launch an attack against Gul’dan and the Horde by trying to summon an Old God to Shadowmoon Valley. Gul’dan preemptively attacked them with the power he was channeling to sever the orcs from the elemental spirits of Draenor, wiping them out, but their ghosts continued trying to complete the summoning until players intervened to prevent it.
5.) The Skettis Exiles are a small group of arakkoa who, per the name, broke off from Skettis to escape its leadership, then started following the Light once they settled in Shattrrath to live among the draenei and other refugees from around Outland.
The angles of Anzu, Terokk, Rhukmar and the Old Gods seem to have gotten blended together into a slurry of overlapping ideas that are interpreted differently by different groups, in part due to the old arakkoa Outcast traditions being a mix of arcane and shadow/void magics, which likely allowed sinister agents of the latter to start feeding them ideas that would twist them toward certain ends. Between Terokk and Anzu going mad from the Curse of Sethe, the Dark Conclave trying to summon an Old God and the Sethekk cult’s warped agenda, it seems like the Outland arakkoa may have been systematically influenced and misdirected by void-aligned agencies behind the scenes. Such that none of them even seem to care a whit about the stuff left behind by their Apexis ancestors.
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Appreciate it. So does that mean they will basically slowly die out. Kinda sad
Well, not necessarily. The players intervened and prevented the malevolent sects from pulling off their schemes so while some are probably permanently insane (Sethekk) or already dead (Dark Conclave and the settlement of ghosts NW of Auchindoun), the rest could potentially come around to some more balance state of mind down the line if they’re willing, and at the very least the Skettis Exiles can keep living in Shattrath and recruit any arakkoa from the other groups who come looking for an alternative to the dead-ends they’d been following before.
Of course, that’s all notwithstanding the hypothetical eventual collapse of Outland (and therefore deaths of anyone still there if/when it occurs), though since it hasn’t happened yet, its hard to say just how imminent it really is. Maybe it’s still doomed to fall completely apart, or maybe stuff like re-balancing the elements in Shadowmoon Valley and shutting down the Manaforges in Netherstorm opened the way for it to eventually stabilize. After all, technically Argus is in an even worse state than Outland, being torn into several large chunks, thoroughly saturated with fel and residing directly within the Nether, yet it’s still around and moderately habitable tens of thousands of years after Sargeras and the Legion made it that way, suggesting that just because it’s floating completely in the Twisting Nether doesn’t necessarily mean a world has to structurally collapse and become uninhabitable, and compared to Argus, Outland’s surface ecosystems are in better shape and it’s only partially suspended there.
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The Outland Arakkoa worshipped Terrok as a reincarnation of Rukhmar and wanted to summon him from the Shadowrealm. That was the plot of the whole Whispers of the Raven God. They were also trying to summon an Old God to Outland but that plot went no where and to this day it still makes me wish they hadn’t abandoned that plot.
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Yea The Terokk one i liked cuz it was prob the original for Spires of Arak but the outland one just went… no where. The hellfire one also went… no where. Just random arakkoa standing around… 
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