Staff of Antonidas

The Staff of Antonidas is an ornate wooden staff formerly wielded by Archmage Antonidas. He gifted it to his most promising apprentice, Lady Jaina Proudmoore.^[1]

Background[]

Second War[]

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When the rulers of the Seven Kingdoms met to discuss the upcoming arrival of the Old Horde to Lordaeron, Antonidas raised his staff and emitted a burst of light from it to dazzle the other rulers when they wouldn't seriously heed Anduin Lothar's warnings.^[2]

Mists of Pandaria[]

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In the aftermath of Lei Shen's defeat, Jaina tasked Alliance champions to charge the Staff of Antonidas with the remains of the Thunder King's power. After its transformation, the staff was renamed to the [Storm-Stave of Antonidas]. Jaina claimed that when the time was right, she would use the staff to bring the walls of Orgrimmar crashing down around Garrosh Hellscream's head,^[3] but no such thing is known to have happened.

Notes[]

In the End Time instance that displays an alternate future, Jaina's staff has been broken into pieces at the Azure Dragonshrine. Once the pieces are reconstructed, its trapped spirit, the Echo of Jaina, appears.

Speculation[]

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In Jaina: Reunion, the Staff of Antonidas was last seen in the panels set in the past, where she stood in the Violet Citadel, leaving the Kirin Tor during the third invasion of the Burning Legion, resting on furniture. In the present, Jaina's staff has a blue crystal. It is possible that she either left her staff behind and wields a new one, or her staff's appearance changed between Legion and Battle for Azeroth.

Since Battle for Azeroth, the model of Jaina's weapon has been updated in her past appearances as well, for example in the Culling of Stratholme, the Siege of Orgrimmar or Theramore Isle, which may indicate that they are the same weapons and that the appearance was just retroactively changed.