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During the First WarThe Apprentice and the Tower
Khadgar arrived at Karazhan hoping to learn from Medivh. Earning a place required practical work as well as magical talent, and the tower itself presented unsettling visions that did not belong to the present.
The arrival of Garona challenged his assumptions about the enemy beyond the tower. Distrust gave way to cooperation as they faced danger together and compared what they knew. Their questions began to point toward the man who had admitted them both.
Khadgar’s investigation revealed a connection between his master and the Horde’s arrival. The education he had sought now required a decision about loyalty: protecting his teacher meant ignoring a danger to everyone outside the tower.
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The Master Behind the Gate
Khadgar and Garona escaped to bring their discovery to Lothar. He returned with them to confront his old friend Medivh in Karazhan. The source of the invasion was also a man they had trusted.
The Guardian’s magic overwhelmed them and drained Khadgar’s youth. The apprentice nevertheless drove a blade into his master; Lothar delivered the final stroke as Sargeras tried to emerge. Medivh’s death ended the possession, not Sargeras’s existence.
Gul’dan, searching inside Medivh’s mind, fell into a coma when the link was broken. Beyond the tower, the Horde remained in Azeroth. Stopping the architect of the betrayal could not undo an invasion already in motion.
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