Re-origination

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This article is about the re-origination process. For the quest, see N [50] Re-Origination.
A celestial image of Azeroth engulfed in flames and pierced by a beam of energy, triggered by the death of Prime Designate Loken (Terrestrial Watchtower, Halls of Lightning).

“I have seen worlds bathed in the Makers' flames, their denizens fading without so much as a whimper. Entire planetary systems born and razed in the time that it takes your mortal hearts to beat once.”

— Algalon the Observer[1]

Re-origination[1][2][3][4][5][6] (also reorigination[7][8][9][10] or sometimes reordering)[11][12] is a technique used by the titan Pantheon of Order to restructure entire planets[13] and purge them of life in order to reset their evolutionary process,[14] normally in response to "systemic planetary failure" (e.g. Old God corruption).[2]

Re-origination is carried out by titan machines embedded in a planet[14] unleashing immense waves of "energies of uncreation" across the world's surface, instantly killing its flora and fauna[15] and purging any corruption present.[16] The planet and its living organisms are then decomposed into base elements (metals, rocks, and gases) which are reconstituted into the original "planetary blueprint",[2] followed by a process to create a new generation of life.[6][12] It can also be more succinctly described as "the immediate destruction and re-creation of the planet".[4] Re-origination devices can be used on a smaller scale to only destroy a specific area or target, rather than an entire planet.[15][17]

The Pantheon has re-originated many planets in the Great Dark Beyond throughout history.[1] Azeroth's main re-origination device is the Forge of Origination, located in the Halls of Origination in Uldum. Azeroth has been threatened with re-origination several times but has thus far escaped this fate, with re-origination devices on the contrary being used in defense of the planet against the Old Gods.

Great Dark Beyond

A Reorigination Module initializing its reorigination pulse at the Seat of the Pantheon.

As the Pantheon of Order shaped worlds throughout the Great Dark Beyond in search of Worldsouls, they embedded enormous machines in the planets they had ordered in order to monitor them, or purge them of life should their evolutionary paths "succumb to disorder". The Pantheon's leader, Aman'Thul, recruited the constellar race to observe the ordered worlds and watch for signs of instability, in which case they could initiate a fail-safe procedure to scour the life from that world in the hopes of resetting its evolutionary process.[14] The constellar Algalon has in the past witnessed the re-origination of entire planetary systems and, as a result, the combined deaths of "a million-million lives".[1][6] In the event that external or internal forces upset an ordered world's associated "matrix dynamics", the Pantheon could also physically revisit that world in order to reestablish control over it, a tactic that is "not to be taken lightly".[18]

Tarneth, one of Sargeras' dark keepers, had the ability to reoriginate enemies in fire.[19] Argus the Unmaker deployed Reorigination Modules in his battle against adventurers at the Seat of the Pantheon.[8]

Azeroth

Forge of Origination

Main article: Forge of Origination
Concept art of the Forge of Origination.

Azeroth's main re-origination device is the Forge of Origination, installed in Uldum by the keepers during the Ordering of Azeroth.[20] It was protected by four watchers within the Halls of Origination: Rajh, Ammunae, Isiset, and Setesh.[21] The constellar Algalon the Observer has the power to re-originate Azeroth by activating the Forge in the event that the Worldsoul succumbs to Old God corruption.[16] The Pantheon believed the first warning sign of such a "systemic planetary failure" would be the death of the Prime Designate, which would therefore automatically activate an emergency signal—the Algalon Failsafe—and summon the Observer to assess the danger of Old God corruption in the planet's life-support and defense systems. Algalon's analysis would result in one of two reply signals: Reply-Code Alpha (all is well) or Reply-Code Omega (requesting re-origination),[1][2] which he would send back to the Pantheon to notify them of his analysis and allow them to approve of the Forge's activation.[6] The Pantheon originally appointed Odyn the Prime Designate,[20] but the fallen keeper Loken later usurped the title.[22]

Circa 12,200 BDP,[23] the tol'vir of Uldum activated the Forge of Origination on a limited scale to destroy the invading army of the mogu emperor Lei Shen. The unleashed re-origination energies instantly killed almost all life on the surface of Uldum and transformed its jungles into a barren desert.[15]

During the war against the Lich King, many millennia later, adventurers killed Prime Designate Loken and triggered the Algalon Failsafe, summoning the Observer to Ulduar.[2] Algalon ascertained that Old God corruption had spread across Azeroth and requested re-origination. However, adventurers defeated him and convinced him to allow them to reverse the protocol[6] and avert the world's destruction by transmitting Reply-Code Alpha from Dalaran.[24] During the Cataclysm, Deathwing sought to harness the Forge of Origination's ability to scour life from Azeroth. He sent his agents—Al'Akir,[11][25] the Twilight's Hammer,[26][27][28] and Commander Schnottz—on various plots to gain access to the device, but all were thwarted by adventurers.[7] The Forge later came within seconds of detonation regardless when Brann Bronzebeard tried to access and disable the device, but he aborted planetary re-origination at the last moment.[29]

The re-origination beam, focused through the Heart of Azeroth, killing N'Zoth.

After the Fourth War, the Amathet tol'vir sought to transmit Reply-Code Omega and use the Forge to re-originate Azeroth, as they believed that the world and all its inhabitants were corrupted by the Old Gods beyond saving and needed to be remade according to the titans' original vision.[30][31][32] At the same time, the Old God N'Zoth tried to corrupt the Forge and use its Origination Protocol to merge Ny'alotha with reality in order to transform Azeroth into a reborn Black Empire.[33][34][35] Using ancient mogu research, Azeroth's champions and their allies—Magni Bronzebeard, MOTHER, Wrathion, and Highkeeper Ra—found a way to focus the Forge's Origination Protocol on a single target through the Chamber of Heart, allowing them to use it as a weapon against N'Zoth without re-originating the entire world.[36][37] The champions and Wrathion fought N'Zoth inside Ny'alotha, and Magni and MOTHER fired the re-origination beam—concentrated through the hero's Heart of Azeroth with the aid of the Worldsoul's own power—into N'Zoth, killing the Old God and destroying Ny'alotha.[38][39]

Reorigination Drive

Main article: Reorigination Drive
The Reorigination Drive blasting the minions of G'huun in Uldir.

The Uldir facility in Nazmir housed a Reorigination Drive, seemingly intended as a safety measure that could destroy the facility's main captive and research subject, the Old God G'huun, in the event that it broke the seals keeping it imprisoned within the Festering Core. During the Fourth War, adventurers entered the Festering Core and used the drive to release blasts of re-origination energy on G'huun and its minions to weaken it and allow them to destroy it, though the Old God ruined the drive in the process by destroying its focusing crystal.[40]

Re-origination devices

A Re-origination Anchor in Ny'alotha.

Related items

Trivia

  • One of MOTHER's irritated on-click quotes is: "Warning: Reorigination sequence imminent."
  • Re-origination is narratively and visually similar to the glassing technique used by the protoss to destroy zerg-infested worlds in Blizzard's StarCraft universe.

In Hearthstone

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Speculation

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This article or section includes speculation, observations or opinions possibly supported by lore or by Blizzard officials. It should not be taken as representing official lore.

The Heart of Eternity in the Sepulcher of the First Ones houses a First One device called the Machine of Origination. Its intended purpose is unknown, but the Jailer planned to use it to destroy reality and remake it into one of his own design.[44][45] Acquisitions Automa summoned by Lihuvim, also in the Sepulcher of the First Ones, have an ability called "Reoriginate" which lets them reverse their own deaths. It's unknown if these uses of the term are related to titan re-origination, but they may indicate that the titans based their re-origination methods on First One technology.

It can be noted that re-origination is generally,[7][40][38] though not always,[8] depicted as taking the form of beams of golden energy, which bears a passing resemblance to the golden color characteristic of First One magic. Re-origination energies are variously associated with arcane,[8][40] holy,[46] fire,[19] and possibly Void and chaos.[47]

See also

References

 
  1. ^ a b c d e Algalon the Observer quotes
  2. ^ a b c d e Archivum Console: First dialogue with Brann Bronzebeard
  3. ^ N [30-35] A Disarming Distraction: "They seek dangerous re-origination technology beneath Uldum and must be stopped."
  4. ^ a b Ultimate Visual Guide, pg. 32 - 33
  5. ^ March Badness - Algalon the Observer: "... he possesses the power to trigger the re-origination of the planet and bring about the end of all life on Azeroth."
  6. ^ a b c d e World of Warcraft: Chronicle Volume 3, pg. 182 - 184
  7. ^ a b c N [30-35] Harrison Jones and the Temple of Uldum
  8. ^ a b c d Reorigination Module
  9. ^ Reorigination Drive
  10. ^ N [50] Opening the Gateway
  11. ^ a b Halls of Origination: Adventure Guide: "Rumors abound that the complex also contains a devastating weapon capable of reordering all life on Azeroth. Deathwing has moved to obtain this terrifying device through his agent, Al'Akir the Windlord."
  12. ^ a b Ammunae: Adventure Guide
  13. ^ Ulduar Bosstiary: Algalon the Observer
  14. ^ a b c World of Warcraft: Chronicle Volume 1, pg. 20
  15. ^ a b c World of Warcraft: Chronicle Volume 1, pg. 85 - 87
  16. ^ a b World of Warcraft: Chronicle Volume 1, pg. 42
  17. ^ N [50] The Engine of Nalak'sha
  18. ^ N [50] The Stone Watcher
  19. ^ a b Tarneth abilities
  20. ^ a b World of Warcraft: Chronicle Volume 1, pg. 38
  21. ^  [Staff of Ammunae]
  22. ^ World of Warcraft: Chronicle Volume 1, pg. 59
  23. ^ World of Warcraft: Chronicle Volume 1, pg. 80
  24. ^ N [30R] All Is Well That Ends Well
  25. ^ World of Warcraft: Chronicle Volume 3, pg. 205
  26. ^ B [30-35] Decryption Made Easy
  27. ^ B [30-35] That's No Pyramid!
  28. ^ Haethen Kaul quotes
  29. ^ a b N [30-35D] Doing it the Hard Way
  30. ^ N [50] Shared Goals
  31. ^ N [50] Mutually Assured Destruction
  32. ^ N [50] A World Worth Saving
  33. ^ N [50] Opening the Gateway
  34. ^ N [50] Assault: The Black Empire - Black Warden Rhothkozz says: You are too late. Your forge will bring Ny'alotha into being.
  35. ^ Annex of Prophecy - N'Zoth the Corruptor whispers: Watch as my empire consumes your reality. Soon, all will be one.
  36. ^ N [50] Magni's Findings
  37. ^ N [50R] Ny'alotha, the Waking City: The Corruptor's End
  38. ^ a b N'Zoth the Corruptor
  39. ^ World of Warcraft: Chronicle Volume 4, pg. 170
  40. ^ a b c G'huun encounter
  41. ^ N [30-35] Reduced Productivity
  42. ^ N [30-35] Harrison Jones and the Temple of Uldum
  43. ^ N [30-35] The Coffer of Promise
  44. ^ The Jailer encounter quotes
  45. ^ Sylvanas, chapter 25
  46. ^  [Reorigination Spark]
  47. ^ Setesh
  48. ^ N [10-60] Operation: Mechagon - The Mechoriginator
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