![]() ![]() Shards of Light were flung throughout reality, suffusing worlds with the spark of life. For long epochs, the ever-expanding Great Dark Beyond broiled in a maelstrom of fire and magic. The energies released from the clash between Light and Void raged across the nascent universe, forming countless primordial worlds. Eventually, the mounting tension between the two forces ignited a series of explosions that ruptured the very fabric of creation, giving birth to the physical universe. The Void quickly grew and began to move against the Light. Yet as the ever-shifting sea expanded, pockets of cold nothingness appeared. The Light existed as a boundless sea of living energy, swelling across all of existence, unfettered by time and space. ![]() Twisting Nether concept art from the Art of World of Warcraft book.īefore life began and before even the universe existed, there was only the Light. He was standing in Hellfire Peninsula, in a copy, or illusion, of Draenor, witnessing the cataclysm all around him, and yet unaffected by any of it, until Lothraxion extirped him from the Twisting Nether and brought him back to the real Draenor, now Outland. įrom within the Nether, Turalyon could witness Draenor's destruction without being there. A week on Azeroth could be a month in the Nether, or ten or many, many more. Turalyon and Alleria have fought in the Nether for a thousand years from their perspective, while on Azeroth it has been only a few decades. Time passes differently deep inside the Twisting Nether, and it is impossible to tell whether days, years, or centuries have passed. It transcends all realities and is normally imperceptible to mortals. The Nether, though separate from the physical universe, still has physical objects, such as planets. The Light intermingles with the Shadow, the primal uncontrolled forces of chaos and order, life and death, clash. Countless worlds appear on the edge, seemingly close enough to touch and yet unimaginably far away. ![]() Turalyon perceived it as a chaotic realm where the universes sparked by the Light and Shadow bled together a place of pitch black skies, twisting and filled with strange, conflicting powers. A snake of energy leading out into infinity represented the flow of energy of the portals the Burning Legion use. Illidan projecting his spirit into the Nether saw it as a black, airless void in which a billion stars twinkled, and behind and beneath him blazed the world from which he had come. There are a thousand ways to perceive the Nether, every voyager sees it differently, depending on circumstance, form, and state of mind. ![]()
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