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Before the fall of StormwindThe 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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Stone Broken, Rift Remaining
The Alliance’s victory carried the grief of Lothar’s death with it. Pursuing the defeated Horde led the army toward the Dark Portal, the structure that had made the invasion possible.
Khadgar used his magic to destroy it. The visible gateway collapsed, and the campaign could appear to have reached its conclusion. Yet destroying the frame had not severed the connection between the two worlds.
That surviving rift made vigilance necessary. Nethergarde Keep was established to watch the site, but the quiet that followed was not proof that Draenor could never reach Azeroth again.
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