Terracotta warrior

This article is about the animated statues. For the Kun-Lai Summit mob, see Terracotta Warrior. For the Shadowlands gargoyles, see Stoneborn.

Terracotta warrior
Faction/Affiliation	Mogu empire
Racial capital	Mogu'shan
Racial leader(s)	Lei Shen
Homeworld	Azeroth
Area(s)	Pandaria

The terracotta warriors or Stoneborn are artificial mogu powered by souls.

Background

For many ages, the mogu used flesh as a weapon: warped, bent, and twisted to their malevolent will. But after their failures in creating the saurok race, and having exhausted their options for enslaved mortal warriors, the mogu sought to create another weapon, this time forged with total obedience. They turned their attention to creating armies of animated constructs to do their fighting for them.

Their ancient research delivered to them methods of turning flesh to stone, and back again. Lifeless rock could be animated, providing a willing (or unwilling) soul could be captured within. These dark rituals created the Stoneborn, soldiers of jade and dark magic forged from the living essence of conquered victims. These creations were powerful, terrible to behold, and above all else, completely loyal to their mogu masters. These terracotta warriors would sometimes sit dormant for centuries.

These warriors resemble the original stone mogu before they were cursed with flesh, and modern mogu who have reversed the process.

Types

•   Ancient Stone Conqueror
•   Animated Guardian (Mogu'shan Palace)
•   Animated Stone Mogu
•   Animated Warrior
•   Baruk Bladeward
•   Baruk Demolisher
•   Baruk Protector
•   Crumbling Jade Warrior
•   Cursed Mogu Sculpture
•   Inert Conqueror
•   Jade Colossus
•   Jade Guardian (Vale of Eternal Blossoms)
•   Korune Tomb-Guardian
•   Mogu Effigy
•   Palace Gatekeeper
•   Reanimated Jade Warrior
•   Stone Sentinel
•   Stone Sentry
•   Stone Statue
•   Stonebound Annihilator
•   Stonebound Destroyer
•   Stonebound Earthweaver
•   Stonebound Monstrosity
•   Stonebound Shale-Speaker
•   Stonebound Soldier
•   Stonebound Warrior
•   Stormbound Conqueror
•   Terracotta Champion
•   Terracotta Gladiator
•   Terracotta Warrior

Notes

• Players can summon a terracotta warrior to their side by using  [Terracotta Fragment].

Inspiration

The Terracotta Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BC and whose purpose was to protect the emperor in his afterlife, and to make sure that he had people to rule over. "Terra Cotta" is latin for "Baked Earth".