User:GoldenYak/Hollow'Gan

Hollow'Gan is a raid instance in the Emerald Dream Expansion Concept. It features 8 bosses and is the first of three raids in the Dream Tier 01 raid tier, having lower difficulty than the Heart of the Dream and Sartan's Wrath raids. Hollow'Gan is the hidden bastion of the Deviaan Host, where the myriad deviant races rejected by the Titans plot their cruel vengeance.

Background
In its earliest ages, the Emerald Dream was used a testing ground for producing mortal life by the Titans. Under the guide of Keeper Freya, lifeforms were spawned in the Emerald Dream and tested to see if they were compatible with the burgeoning biosphere of Azeroth itself. Among these lifeforms were the deviaan race, mighty humanoid beings of flesh and elemental stone, possessed of great strength and will and the ambition to raise themselves above other races. While mighty and intelligent, the deviaan's more aggressive attributes led to them ultimately being deemed unfit for introduction into Azeroth proper. But the Titans respected life in all its forms and strove to preserve it whenever possible. Lifeforms that were not compatible with Azeroth might yet prove worthy on other worlds, and so rather than exterminating the deviaan, the Titans chose to put them in stasis vaults constructed deep within the lower Dream-layers. Perhaps one day the deviaan might take their place in the Titans' grand design.

Whatever their future might have held, it was irrevocably altered when the Nightmare infested the Emerald Dream. Pouring into the deep layers of the Dream, the Nightmare compromised the Titan stasis vaults built there, resulting in the deviaan being unleashed from their mass-imprisonment. While the deviaan were naturally highly resistant to the Nightmare and could not be subverted against their will, the dark influence of N'Zoth whispered to the deviaan as they stirred to waking, filling their minds with resentment and hatred towards the Titans who had made them and then rejected them. One in particular, the deviaan Kor'rok, held an overwhelming lust for destruction and conquest, a desire to prove the deviaan superior to all other creations of the Titans by utterly annihilating them. The Titans themselves would bow in awe of their greatest creation, and Kor'rok himself would ascend to the pinnacle of rulership of the ultimate race.

The greatest of the deviaan stasis-vaults has been remade into their stronghold, the great fortress of Hollow'Gan. From here, Kor'rok guides his forces in their campaigns of conquest against the surface world. Every day, more stasis-vaults are discovered and torn open, and Kor'rok's legions grow ever larger. When all the deviaan race is freed from bondage and united under his rule, Kor'rok will ravage forth and grind all that is under his heel.

Tan'rok the Divider

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Tan'rok serves as the chief guard of Hollow'Gan, defending the fortress with a blade of enchanted truestone, carved from the strata of the Emerald Dream itself. Under the blade of Tan'rok, all things become two.

Vor'mai Screamlash, the Wretch-Herder

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The deviaan as a race are cruel enslavers, and so for one individual to rise to the top of the slave-master hierarchy requires truly profound cruelty and malice. Vor'mai Screamlash wove her namesake weapon from the flayed hides of over fifty slaves, and used sorcery to bind their pain and agony into her lash. With every crack, her victims feel the pain of all those who have perished from Vor'mai's cruelty, their cries of misery and pain echoing in their minds. Vor'mai's sorcery even allows her to create phantasmal incarnations of her victims suffering.

Dezak Nespada, the Sanguine Censure

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The diraz serve Kor'rok as spies and assassins, and Dezak Nespada is the most skilled of their insidious breed. The shadows themselves roil around Dezak like a living thing, stained crimson with the blood of those he has slain.

Mokk the World-Eater

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The colossal bruutox Mokk was the prototype of a race of creatures the Titans had designed to hollow out the deep places of the earth. When the appetite of the creatures proved too ravenous, the Titans sealed them away along with the deviaan and other races. Upon their release, the deviaan turned their cruel talents towards breaking the creatures as beasts of war. However, even the deviaan's most devious and creative tortures could not break the spirit of mighty Mokk, who still rampages in the depths of Hollow'Gan's tunnels. Though bound by chains, Mokk refuses to surrender and continues his struggles to break free.

Haask'or, Breaker of Stone

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One of Kor'rok's chosen lieutenants, Hassk'or charges into combat astride the vicious bruutox Rukus, one of the largest and most ill-tempered of the stone-skinned beasts that the deviaan have managed to bring under their control. Hassk'or's colossal war mace Skullsunder can split apart a mountain when swung by the mighty deviaan warrior, and he must use it frequently simply to keep Rukus under his control and focused on the enemy.

Gogg and Magogg

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The deviaan must continue to prove themselves in the art of war, be it upon the battlefield or within the great arenas of Hollow'Gan. Of those who have won glory in the arena, the two deviaan brothers Gogg and Magogg are unmatched. Gogg is a devastating brute fighter, his massive body bedecked in thick armor and wielding a huge warhammer and iron shield. Magogg, while still a huge and powerful fighter, wields lethal sorceries derived from elemental flame and stone in battle, channeling them through his magical staff. When the two of them fight as a single unit, they are nigh-unstoppable.

Nagus the Venerable

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The lamassu are a mutant breed of deviaan that has transformed into a highly intelligent four-legged creature with potent mystical abilities. Among the lamassu, the great elder Nagus is the most powerful of his kind. Nagus' magical abilities are so dangerous, it is only the bargain he has made with Kor'rok that prevents Nagus from unleashing his fury on everything around him.

King Kor'rok, the Slave-Maker

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King of the deviaan and nemesis of the free races of the Emerald Dream. Kor'rok has never met the Titans or even spoken with their representative, Keeper Freya, but in his heart a deep and terrible hatred of them has taken root. Fed by the whispers of N'Zoth, Kor'rok has forged an empire bent on revenge against the distorted idea of an enemy that most have never known. Only when the works of the Titans lie in ruins and all that they created lies under Kor'rok's heel will his hunger for domination ever be sated, and perhaps not even then.

Storyline
Built by the deviaan, the great fortress-city of Hollow'Gan lies in the Nightmare-shrouded crevasses of Frostholt's darkest region. The deviaan have mustered their warriors and slave-legions, and are preparing to launch an all-out assault upon Eden'ar. Kor'rok the Slave-Maker, the cruel architect of the assault, plans to personally lead his underlings into battle. The deviaan war-machine must be dismantled before they can attack Eden'ar, or the city will crumble under threats from both without and below.