Together with Gorgannon, they wanted to destroy the Draenei at Forest Song and turn the Orcs of Splinter Tree Post into their agents. After being killed, he was among the many demons present during the Battle for Broken Shore during the Legion intro.
New
The first Dreadlord we ever met and was last seen being amongst the demons summoned by Gul’dan at the Broken Shore.
New.
Introduced in Vanilla, as a target for hunters in an epic quest. Last seen amongst the many demons on the Broken Shore during the Legion intro.
I was just remarking on who amongst this Dreadlord incursion was new and returning characters in WoW’s history.
Though it makes wonder what happen if/when likes of Mal’ganis, Diathorus the Seeker, and Solenor the Slayer are killed during the events of 9.1. Would they become permanently dead or did they infuse themselves with enough Fel to sent into the Twisting Nether upon death?
I just imagine a developer trying to think up Dreadlord names.
“What should a Dreadlord’s name be… I know there’s a Mal’Ganis… how about… Nal’Ranis? No that’s stupid. Uh, Nal’ragas. That works!”
All demons go to the nether, and this next part is an assumption but even if they die in the realms of death. Their fel infused souls only being able to be killed in the nether where they’re always drawn back to.
Okay, so this might sound weird, but bear with me. If Nathrezim are created/sired by Denathrius, is there a chance that he made them from pre-existing mortal souls, similar to most Venthyr? If not, and they are something he created entirely from scratch similar to Renathal and the other original Venthyr, what’s the reasoning behind them being different? Do the original Venthyr see the Nathrezim as extended family of sort, both being “children” of Denathrius?
I am currently speculating Renathal and the Curator are both actually Dreadlords in disguise, who take Venthyr form to avoid association with their bretheren as a sign of solidarity/rejection.
I started thinking fel infused stoneborn buuuut hard to say, stoneborn share the closest model to the Dreadlords, but they’ve never been shown to be conniving like them.
So, do you think Dreadlords are anima given form, Stoneborn are stone given anima, and Venthyr are some hybrid of the two? It’d be nuts, but knowing Blizzard, I can see this being a retcon for the way dreadlords die.
We literally have no substantial information to speculate on except the following:
All Stoneborn were born from the current Stonewright. On PTR, there is a new note on the Wrath stone in Sinfall, where the Curator tells Renathal the current Stonewright is the First Mortal Venthyr, the original Stonewright left eons ago.
Draven was present at the invasion of the Light. General Gashaal from the raid was his mentor, and General Kaal from the raid was his student. That’s three “generations”/batches of Stoneborn; this also means at least Draven and Grashaal remember the Dreadlords.
Stonewright on PTR confirms she was Stonewright when the Light invaded, and resents the Dreadlords for it, but does not say more.
That means that before the Stonewright was made (i.e. before there were any Mortal Venthyr), before the Stoneborn were made (i.e. all living stone constructs), there was some other population.
Therefore:
I think the original population of Revendreth were Nathrezim
I think Renathal and Curator may be Nathrezim pretending to be Venthyr for the sake of solidarity and to distance themselves from their “family”
Venthyr and Stoneborn are basically a Dreadlord cut in half: Stoneborn got the body form and the strength and resilience that comes with it, but Venthyr got the vampirism and capacity for magic (and love of manipulation)
Venthyr puts its consciousness into an inanimate stoneborn form, then gets Curse of Flesh’d into a more malleable and element-corruptible version to infiltrate other realms?
