Traces of the Wrath cinematic found ingame
Aug 22nd, 2008
And while most players assumed the wyrm was Sapphiron (the frost wyrm boss of Naxxramas), MMO Champion doesn't think so -- there's a model in the beta called Sindragosa (labeled "The Frost Queen"), and there's a place called "Sindragosa's Fall" -- we're not sure where it is in the game, or if that's it above, as Icecrown Citadel has barely been explored.
So maybe further questing and lore in the expansion will give us a little bit of a clue as to what exactly Arthas was doing in that trailer. Odds are that dragon we saw is ingame somewhere, and we players are probably just the dragonslayers to slay it.
Update: Yep, the area is Sindragosa's Fall, which makes the dragon almost definitely Sindragosa. So it looks like the summoning we saw in the cinematic might be more story significant than we thought.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
8-22-2008 @ 9:47AM
BAgar said...
Damn, look at the screenshot of Syndragosa's fall on MMO-Champ, it's just the photo you posted, from a different angle !
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8-22-2008 @ 9:48AM
Cru said...
I liked it!
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8-22-2008 @ 9:48AM
Unmei said...
Keeping in mind that Sindragosa's name carries -gosa which also ties her into once being part of the Blue Dragon Flight. Given that she is also one very huge dragon and given the title Queen leads me to theorize that she could have possible been one of Maylgos's Consorts in life, and in death it shall be she who lords over the Frostwyrms.
that's my take. :x I can't wait for all the lovely lore to come out about it.
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8-22-2008 @ 9:50AM
Zarkharaan said...
Now that I think of it, wasn't Sindragosa the consort we killed and burned to horrify Malygos?
8-23-2008 @ 8:29AM
nav said...
No, that's Saragosa.
8-22-2008 @ 9:52AM
Zarkharaan said...
Nah... Just remembered that wasn't her. But yeah, -gosa - blue dragon previously. Well, not very surprising.
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8-22-2008 @ 10:03AM
Unmei said...
Lore wise a majority of Frostwyrms are Blue Dragons, but not all of them are. Since they are raising dragon corpses from the dead it's tricky to tell their origin's. :)
8-22-2008 @ 9:57AM
Searif said...
It wouldn't be Sapphiron because he was killed and raised in TFT by Arthas, as for the frost wyrm, how do we know its not just a random dragon that was stuck under the ice?
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8-22-2008 @ 10:40AM
Baharroth said...
well it was ridiculously massive, bigger then normal dragons, so that means its gotta be something of importance
8-22-2008 @ 10:20AM
john said...
Why would Arthas go out to the middle of no where, Stop, wipe the snow away like he knew something was there and then free it if it if it were not going to help him? I don't think it's just some random dragon.
8-22-2008 @ 10:03AM
Zghuk said...
Could it be?
Malygos' true love? dead and now undead?
Is this the reason of Malygos' behavoir? Will be Malygos normal when we kill/rescue arthas?
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8-22-2008 @ 10:06AM
Unmei said...
Nah Malygos' is crazy because he feels mages have gone -too- far running around using magics like it was nothing. He remembers the days the Kaldorei Highborne used their magics to initially bring the Burning Legion into our world. He wants it to stop and doesn't care how many he has to kill to make that happen.
8-22-2008 @ 10:07AM
Whytehand said...
While the name suggests blue dragon flight, the last major battle including dragons that far north would have been Sargeras' second coming to Azeroth when the Burning Legion launched a Dragon hunt (revenge anyone) and Medivh's mother Aegwynn finally "killed" the dark titan. However, the betrayal of Neltharion had already happened and most of the blue flight, including Malygos' consorts had been turned to dust. It does make me wonder who this is/was. Either way, the light shall find its way to easing her soul, or my 2 giant (no longer slowed) axes will find their way into her neck if she stands between me and arthas :P
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8-22-2008 @ 10:41AM
Unmei said...
While it's true it could have been the burning legion that killed her. I still stand by my theory as to who she was in a former life. Obviously not all of Maly's consorts died during the war of the Ancients or how would you explain the Saragosa (she is a consort of Malygos, and we do have to kill her as part of the quest)
Imo at least in life she deems important enough to be a full grown Dragon, be given the title Queen, and have a Name associated with the prime Flight of the region.
8-22-2008 @ 11:00AM
s256 said...
Maybe this is happening now and an army of scourge, controlled by Sindragosa, is going to attack the Alliance and Horde.
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8-22-2008 @ 11:03AM
BAgar said...
Now THAT would be cool. That would ease my pain for having missed the major invasions at the release of the Necropolis patch and TBC.
8-22-2008 @ 11:18AM
Unmei said...
Now THAT is a theory/idea I like!
+1 !
8-22-2008 @ 4:53PM
Berliner said...
Maybe Sindragosa, behind a Scourge army, shows up to attack Stormwind after laying waste to Darnassus and Ogrimmar. Varian Wrynn leaps into action but the forces of the Alliance are outmatched and all appears lost. Then, a force of Aldor and Scryer Paladins escorted by some Naaru come through the Dark Portal and save the day. In the aftermath, Varian puts together a Northrend expedition to take the fight to Arthas.
8-22-2008 @ 11:42AM
deviationer said...
here's the strange thing. There is no mention of Sindragosa or Frost Queen on WoWWiki. Which means there is no current lore for her. So they are making shit up again.
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8-22-2008 @ 11:53AM
s256 said...
Blizzard isn't allowed to come up with characters and plot developments?
Explain!