Watcher (bronze dragonflight)
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- For other uses, see Watcher (disambiguation).
“Forever you will remain if you must.”
- — The words with which Anachronos bound Baristolth as a Watcher[1]
A Watcher[1][2][3] is a mortal individual who has been empowered to act as an immortal agent of the bronze dragonflight.[2] All known Watchers were empowered by either Nozdormu himself or his son Anachronos.
Baristolth of the Shifting Sands was dying when Anachronos healed him with his sand breath and "bound" him as a Watcher,[1] seemingly during the War of the Shifting Sands.[4] Baristolth believed that the beginning of the second War of the Shifting Sands and Anachronos' return signaled the end of his "watch"[1] and the time for him to fulfill a "promise" he'd made during the first war.[4]
Jonathan the Revelator is the keeper of the Scarab Gong and an "eternal watcher of the Bronze Flight", and was empowered by Nozdormu to grant treasures to adventurers during the second War of the Shifting Sands.[5]
Xarantaur the Witness was "snatched from the brink of death" by the bronze flight near the end of his natural life, long before the War of the Ancients, and brought to Nozdormu who granted him immortality as a Watcher and tasked him to witness and preserve the history of Azeroth.[2][3]
The Timewalkers have played a similar role in recent times, and have a rank of the same name.
Speculation
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Ralo'shan the Eternal Watcher was most likely one of these Watchers as well, based on her title, her mysterious immortality, the bronze drakes flying over her position, and her belief that she was "chained to both the past and present" and blessed to be "a herald to harken in a new age". Like Baristolth and Jonathan, she was also connected to the War of the Shifting Sands.
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References
- ^ a b c d
[60] What Tomorrow Brings
- ^ a b c Xarantaur quotes
- ^ a b Ultimate Visual Guide, pg. 128
- ^ a b Baristolth of the Shifting Sands quotes
- ^ [60] Treasure of the Timeless One