Khadgar
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 Khadgar
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| Gender | Male
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| Race | Human |
| Level | 71 (Elite)
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| Character class | Archmage of the Kirin Tor, Wizard, Mage |
| Affiliation | Sha'tar, Sons of Lothar (current); the Kirin Tor, the Alliance of Lordaeron, and the Alliance Expedition (previous)
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| Occupation | Advisor to A'dal (current), Kirin Tor Arch-Wizard, Archmage of Nethergarde, leader of the Alliance Expedition, apprentice to Medivh (previous) |
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| Status | Alive |
| Relative(s) | Medivh (master) |
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Khadgar <Sons of Lothar> is a level 71 quest giver located in the center dome of the Terrace of Light in the neutral Shattrath City. He is affiliated with the Sha'tar.
He starts the following quests:
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[65] City of Light
- [65] Allegiance to the Aldor
- [65] Allegiance to the Scryers
- [65] Ishanah
- [65] Voren'thal the Seer
- [70+] Entry Into Karazhan (Dungeon)
- [70+] The Second and Third Fragments (Dungeon)
- [70+] The Master's Touch (Dungeon)
- [70] The Violet Eye
- [70] The Tempest Key
See List of Shattrath City NPCs.
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Biography
Archmage Khadgar is one of the most powerful wizards to have ever lived. He was the apprentice of the Last Guardian, Medivh, and went on to become one of the greatest heroes of the Alliance during the Second War as the Supreme Commander of the Alliance Expedition to Draenor. His name is Dwarven, and means "Trust". LG 36 This gave him an odd dichotomy with Medivh, whose name means "Keeper of Secrets" in Thalassian.
Apprenticeship with Medivh
At the young age of 17, Khadgar was sent by the Kirin Tor to apprentice under Medivh, the Guardian of Tirisfal, in his tower at Karazhan. At first, Khadgar believed Medivh to be nothing more than he appeared to be—a kindly, old, if slightly eccentric wizard—but it wasn't long before he began to sense something was drastically wrong with his master. Though he never suspected that Medivh was actually being controlled by Sargeras, the Dark Titan, he became suspicious of his master's actions and motives. Eventually, he unraveled Medivh's plot to open a portal between Azeroth and Draenor, after meeting a Horde emissary, the half-orc assassin Garona. Knowing it was already too late to stop the Dark Portal from opening further, Khadgar and Garona rushed to King Llane Wrynn of Azeroth for help. The pair, along with Lord Anduin Lothar and a group of soldiers, returned to Karazhan to find Medivh in psychic link with the orc warlock Gul'dan. Khadgar managed to best his master and Sargeras by plunging a sword into Medivh's heart, but not before becoming cursed with frailty and old age. By the end of the events of Last Guardian, Khadgar had gone from a young adult to an old man with a great white beard.
The Second War
Following Medivh's death and the fall of Stormwind to the orcs, Khadgar fled north with Lord Lothar and the rest of the refugees to Lordaeron. He spent the Second War fighting with the Alliance of Lordaeron, all the while studying Medivh's spells and the nature of the Dark Portal. When the tide of the war turned and the Alliance managed to push the Horde back to the Portal itself, Khadgar attempted to destroy the Dark Portal, effectively severing the link between Azeroth and Draenor. The rift between worlds remained, however. To guard against a second attack from Draenor, Khadgar oversaw the construction of Nethergarde Keep in the Blasted Lands.
The Alliance Expedition
Khadgar's fears would be validated only a year after Nethergarde's completion, when the portal opened again, and orc forces began pouring out, striking strategically to steal powerful artifacts. Fearing a second invasion, Khadgar led an Alliance Expedition to the orc homeworld, where he quickly discovered that the situation was even worse than he had feared. The orcs, under the leadership of the shaman Ner'zhul, were planning on opening doorways to new worlds for the Horde to plunder. Unable to stop Ner'zhul from opening his portals, and unable to contain the terrible energies that were unleashed by the many portals, Draenor was being torn apart.To prevent the potential destruction of Azeroth, the archmage used Medivh's spellbook to close the Dark Portal from the other side, thereby shielding Azeroth from the final cataclysm of Draenor's destruction. Khadgar ushered the survivors into one of the rifts (he was trapped on the other side the portal when Draenor exploded and was believed to be dead). S&L 41
Archmage Khadgar has since been immortalized in stone, along with the other leaders from the expeditionary force, in the Valley of Heroes in Stormwind. He also has a herb named after him, Khadgar's Whisker. His essays on Dimensional Convergence are also highly valued by the mages of Stormwind and Nethergarde.
Khadgar and the Burning Crusade
Khadgar, now an advisor to the naaru called A'dal, can be found at the Terrace of Light in Shattrath City, located in the western borders of Terokkar Forest in Outland. He appears as an NPC representing the need of the Alliance and the Horde to work together to defeat the Burning Legion (much like the Argent Dawn in Azeroth, which encourages the rival factions to ally against the Scourge). It would appear that at some point in their travels, the Expedition encountered the naaru, and have joined their holy quest to stop the Legion in its tracks. Because of Outland's nature, it is a strategic location in the Nether, and is the perfect staging ground for Legion invasions or a resistance.
In the December 2005 issue of CGW:
- "The Burning Crusade," says Metzen, "is the Burning Legion's ongoing war to snuff out life in the universe, to put it mildly." Khadgar explains to the varied races of Azeroth that although they may have withstood the Burning Legion twice, the bad guys are still marching across the universe, burning planets and crushing everyone in their path—and that mortal heroes (like you) must join the fight.
Khadgar’s Pipe of Insight
The innovative archmage Khadgar created the first of these pipes while studying with acolytes in Dalaran. Though the pipe of insight can look like any pipe, it is most often made with a stem of gnarled wood and a deep bowl made of yellowed bone. Sometimes the bowl has mystical lettering or runes carved into it. MM&M 143
Khadgar’s Gem of Health
This is a flawless sapphire, set in a platinum circlet, offset by tiny diamonds. The stones seem to glow with their own mystical life. When held or worn by a character, the flickering matches the owner’s heartbeat. The first of these special jewels was created by the archmage Khadgar to help keep him alive during his trials. Since then, others have been able to duplicate the creation. MM&M 142-143
Staff of Nethergarde
This simple oak staff is engraved with arcane glyphs and topped by a globe of cloudy crystal 6 inches in diameter. The staff of Nethergarde was crafted by Khadgar while studying portal magic in the Black Morass and protecting Azeroth against another invasion by the Horde. S&L 169
Khadgar's age
It is still unclear what Khadgar's actual biological age is. By lifespan Khadgar is only around sixteen to seventeen years old by the end of the First War in Last Guardian. Medivh's curse caused Khadgar to grow old and his hair turn snow white, however in WarCraft II: Tides of Darkness and WarCraft II: The Dark Portal, when he is first shown, he appears as a middle aged man with a trim goatee and cropped red hair, later in the game he is shown to have a strip of white going through his hair and a longer greying beard (much as his appearance in artwork of Shadows & Light).
From here one can assume that Khadgar somehow countered or at least reduced the severity of the curse, and went on to age naturally from a middle aged man to an old man between the destruction of the Dark Portal up to the events of Burning Crusade. It is also possible that he may have cropped and dyed his hair and beard shortly before the end of Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, then let it grow out and lose the color during his time with the Alliance expedition in Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal. However, there is further confusion when we look at the monument erected in his honor in the Valley of Heroes. He is clearly shown as an old man with a long, white beard. This interpretation of him could not have been made unless this was how he was last seen since the closing of the Dark Portal.
There are references to him appearing older than he is actually is, made in Shadows & Light;
Khadger was once young and excited to be following the paths of magic. Now he understands the dangers; and though he has accumulated incredible magic powers, he has also paid a terrible price that causes him to act as he appears - old before his time.S&L 41
During a short story in Shadows & Light, set just before the events of the Dark Portal expansion, just after Nethergarde Keep was set up to watch the portal;
He looked incredibly old, though Leyan knew Khadgar was only slightly older than his father. (see related image above)S&L 126
From the events of Last Guardian to our current time in World of WarCraft (Pre-Burning Crusade), Khadgar should have a from birth to present lifespan of around 50 years. Whether he aged naturally from a reversed-curse state both biologically and by stress of the magical power he wields or his appearance in WarCraft 2 is to be retconned remains to be seen. Tides of Darkness makes references to his curse, saying that Khadgar appeared far older than even Lothar, confirming that it has happened.ToD 9, 10, 79, 80
Khadgar's story in his own words
After touring Shattrath with his servant, this conversation opens with Khadgar:
I've heard your name spoken only in whispers, mage. Who are you?
- I am Khadgar, former apprentice to the fallen Guardian, Medivh. I'm sure you've heard his name before.
- It was I who discovered that Medivh had been possessed by the Evil One, Sargeras - and that he had opened the Dark Portal between this world and Azeroth. Though I honored my Master, I was forced to slay him and put his tortured soul to rest.
Go on, please.
- I fought alongside Lord Anduin Lothar as we drove the Horde from our lands in Azeroth. As the heir of Medivh's legacy, I could do no less.
- When the call finally came to invade this grim world - and put an end to the orcs' evil forever - I stepped forward along with my friends Turalyon, Alleria, Danath and Kurdran.
I see.
- My comrades and I called ourselves the Sons of Lothar - in honor of the greatest, most selfless man we ever knew. We gave our all to defeat Ner'zhul and end his madness.
- As this doomed world fell apart around us, we shattered the Dark Portal to prevent any further harm from befalling our beloved Azeroth.
What did you do then?
- Trapped in this broken wasteland, we did our best to survive. Over time we sensed that a new evil was closing in around us from the Twisting Nether. More foul than the dark orcs - it was the Burning Legion itself that sought to take hold of this... Outland.
What happened next?
- While my comrades held the line against the encroaching darkness, I used my magic to reach out into the Great Dark Beyond. There, I sensed beings of immense Light - of unfathomable purity.
- It was A'dal and his naaru I had found. It was nothing short of... a miracle.
I see.
- <Khadgar grins to himself>
- I convinced A'dal and his brethren to return here with me. I believe that only their power can drive the Legion from this universe. But as you will no doubt find - their power must first live in our hearts.
- To combat the darkness, we must become beacons of their eternal Light.
Valley of Heroes Monument
Archmage Khadgar of the Kirin Tor
Former apprentice of Medivh. Supreme Commander of the Alliance Expedition that marched into the orc homeworld of Draenor. Presumed deceased.
Never did one so selflessly delve into the dark heart of magic and warfare. We wish you well, bold wanderer. Wherever you are.
- Antonidas - Archmage of Dalaran
Gallery
 Khadgar stands on a tower at Nethergarde Keep with young Leyan Steelson |
 Khadgar as seen in a WC2 cinematic |
 Khadgar closing the Dark Portal |
 Khadgar in WoW |
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