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| Location |
The Vile Cascade, Shadowcrown Glacier |
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| End boss |
Angraf the Blood-King |
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| Instance info |
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| Type |
Scenario |
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| Level |
95 |
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| Player limit |
3 |
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The Storming of Icecrown Citadel is a scenario in the Spider Kingdom.
Background
- Stop Death Queen Angerboda from assaulting the slumbering Lich King atop Icecrown Citadel!
Angerboda has raised an army of undead vrykul from the many slumbering beneath Utgarde Keep. Atop undead proto-drakes, they have assaulted Icecrown Citadel, attacking the forces of the Ebon Blade that still remain there. Angerboda seeks to capture the crown of the Lich King from the slumbering Bolvar Fordragon for herself. She must be stopped at all costs, or the Scourge will have a new leader - a Lich Queen.
Scenario denizens
The Storming of Icecrown Citadel
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NPCs
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 Angrymr Warrior- Angrymr Blood-Speaker
- Angrymr Drake-Rider
- Angrymr Skull-Cleaver
 Plaguemaw Proto-drake- Mortyron, Harvester of Wrath
- Botchulus the Plague-Father
- Angraf the Blood-King
 Death Queen Angerboda
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Stage guide
Stage 1: The Rampart of Skulls
- Defend Icecrown Citadel from the Queen's Wrath Scourge.
- Ormus the Penitent says: I wish we did not have cause to meet again, champion. But the vrykul queen's hounds are baying at our door.
- Ormus the Penitent says: After the Twilight Cult's attack, our ranks are badly depleted. And our allies are occupied on other battlefields.
- Ormus the Penitent says: It falls to us. We must be the armor of the Lich King now. None must disturb him.
- Undead proto-dragons fill the skies, carrying armored vrykul warriors to the Rampart of Skulls.
- Ormus the Penitent yells: They come again! Ready yourselves! Give them the second death!
- After a time, the vrykul champion Mortyron, Harvester of Wrath will appear.
- Mortyron, Harvester of Wrath yells: All life exists only to end!
- Mortyron, Harvester of Wrath yells: The world crumbles and rots beneath my feet!
- Mortyron, Harvester of Wrath yells: You call for death! I answer!
- Mortyron, Harvester of Wrath yells: I slay for the Death Queen!
- Mortyron, Harvester of Wrath yells: You may live... but death is... inevitable...!
- The Stage ends when Mortyron falls.
- Ormus the Penitent yells: Champions! We will hold the lines here, but you battle will be decided elsewhere! Take the frostwyrms to Deathbringer's Rise!
Stage 2: The Skies Darken
- Takes to the air onboard Ebon Blade frostdrakes and do battle with the proto-drake mounted vrykul.
- The players are mounted on frostwyrms.
- Ebon Blade Wyrmrider yells: The vrykul are coming in! Use the grappling hooks and slay their riders!
- Players must use grappling hooks to jump from protodrake to protodrake and slay the riders. Finally, they will arrive at Deathbringer's Rise.
Stage 3: On Tainted Wings
- Destroy the undead proto-dragon at Deathbringer's Rise.
- At Deathbringer's Rise, a giant undead protodragon, Botchulus the Plague-Father, is attacking the gate.
- Lord Thorval yells: Champions! That abomination seeks to breach the walls of the citadel! Destroy it at once!
- The Stage ends when Botchulus falls.
- Lord Thorval yells: We've been played for fools! This attack was merely a feint! They invade the Frostqueen's former lair! Take the translocation rune there at once!
Stage 4: The Queen Arrives
- Battle Angerboda's forces at Sindragosa's old lair.
- The players teleport directly to Sindragosa's terrace at Frostqueen's Lair. The skies are filled with vrykul mounted proto-drakes.
- Lady Alistra says: Ah, reinforcements, at last. My heroes.
- Angrymr Drake-Rider yells: Forendur ravagh! Destroy them all! For the Death Queen!
- The Stage ends after a certain number of enemies have been slain.
Final Stage: The Blood King
- Defeat Angerboda's champion Angraf the Blood-King.
- Two colossal undead proto-dragons arrive, bearing Death Queen Angerboda and Angraf the Blood-King.
- Lady Alistra yells: The Death Queen herself arrives! Ready your weapons, champions.
- Death Queen Angerboda yells: Stand aside, vermin! I will not be denied!
- Angerboda knocks aside Lady Alistra and freezes the players with a cone of frost.
- Death Queen Angerboda yells: Angraf, dispose of this rabble. I go to the pinnacle to seize my rightful crown.
- Angraf the Blood-King yells: As you command, my queen!
- Angerboda enters the citadel just as the ice holding the players shatters. Angraf attacks before they can persue.
- Angraf the Blood-King yells: Feel the wrath of the Blood-King!
- Angraf the Blood-King yells: I am the instrument of my queen's rage!
- Angraf the Blood-King yells: All who oppose Angerboda shall die!
- Angraf the Blood-King yells: Falter and fail!
- Angraf the Blood-King yells: You will die... when the Death Queen wills it...!
- The Stage ends after Angraf dies.
- Lady Alistra says: She has reached the throne by now... hurry...
Outro
- Angraf is defeated, but his demise has bought Angerboda the time she's needed. She has reached the Frozen Throne. Her forces battle Darion Mograine and his champions before Bolvar's prison of ice.
- The cinematic will begin soon after Angraf's defeat.
Cinematic
- Darion and his Ebon Blade knights battle undead vrykul atop the Frozen Throne. Badly outnumbered, Darion is not able to win clear of the vrykul. He can only watch as Angerboda approaches the ice encasing Bolvar.
- Darion yells: No! Stay away from him, witch!
- Angerboda yells: It is shameful for a king to slumber while his champions fight so fiercely. If he will not rule, he must cede the crown to one who will.
- Angerboda flings her arms wide. The ice encasing Bolvar splinters and cracks, then bursts outwards, exposing Bolvar. The Lich King remains slumped and silent on his throne.
- As Angerboda reaches for the crown, Bolvar's eyes flare with baleful flames. He snaps to attention, and a torrent of golden flame burst across Angerboda's body. She is driven back a step, but continues reaching forwards, grimacing as she pushes through the constantly blazing flames.
- Angerboda yells: Is this all you are now? You have the power of a god! The power of death itself! If you would but unleash it, you could defeat me in an instant! You could destroy my army, lay waste to this world! You could conquer everything! Unleash it!
- Bolvar's eyes flare brighter and brighter at Angerboda's words. Suddenly they flicker and he falters for an instant.
- Bolvar yells: No...
- Angerboda draws a fist back, and it is engulfed in scarlet energy. She punches forwards through the golden fire, a thunderous blow that stikes Bolvar dead in the chest. The shockwave snuffs out of the flames and shatters the remaining ice encasing Bolvar. The Lich King reels back in his throne, then slumps forwards, the light in his eyes going out.
- Darion yells: No!
- Darion strikes down his enemy and races for the foot of the Frozen Throne.
- Angerboda takes the crown from Bolvar's head in one hand. And she holds it, it begins to shudder and shift, with sound like plates of iron grinding against one-another. The crown expands in her hands, becoming a vrykul-sized helm. Angerboda moves to don the crown.
- Darion rushes up the stairs towards Angerboda and leaps, swinging his blade around.
- Angerboda places the crown upon her head. Her eyes flare a brilliant scarlet red. The gemstone in the crown turns from gold to red as well. Power shockwaves out from her, knocking Darion back. Bolvar spasms in agony upon the throne, golden light flaring around him.
- Darion struggles to his feet as Angerboda walks to the base of the Frozen Throne. Scarlet energy bleeds from her eyes and the crown's gem.
- Angerboda yells: This world will die now. Bare witness as I murder it.
- Dragon roars sound overhead. The forces of the Wyrmrest Accord arrive, wheeling in the sky overhead. With Dalaran now safe, they have come to aid the Ebon Blade.
- Angerboda yells: Come. Do your worst. It is nothing to me. At my command, the dead... shall rise.
- Angerboda raises her hands... and nothing. The slain on the battlefield and the undead slumbering within Icecrown stay dormant.
- Angerboda yells: What...?
- Angerboda whirls as Bolvar rises from the Throne, his eyes blazing with golden light.
- Bolvar yells: You wear the crown, but cannot begin to understand what the power truly is. I am the Lich King. The dead are mine to command. They will not heed you, usurper.
- Furious, Angerboda turns. A Shadow Gate opens before her.
- Angerboda yells: Keep your Scourge then. Lock them away, moldering and useless. I will soon have a new army, greater than any this world has ever seen... and I will return to put and end to you all.
- Angerboda strides through the gate and disappears.
- After the cinematic, players will be left atop the Frozen Throne, where they may speak with Darion Mograine and Bolvar Fordragon. They are told that Angerboda's taking of the crown has cut Bolvar's power in half, and the crown must be returned to him before he loses control over the Scourge slumbering within Icecrown. These events lead directly to the Utgarde Catacombs raid.
Achievements
- The Storming of Icecrown Citadel (achievement)
