#nerzhul

On the Lore Watch podcast recently, the discussion fell to Gul’dan in Harbingers and how and why the Legion reached out to him. In the classic timeline, Gul’dan was Ner’zhul’s apprentice. After his mentor rejected the Legion, Gul’dan went to Kil’jaeden and said, essentially, I’ll be your big bad evil guy. This laid the path for the formation of the Horde, the drinking of the Blood of Mannoroth, the corruption of the Orcs, and everything else that led up to the Azeroth we know today. Just as obviously, however, the Gul’dan from Warlords’ Draenor was never Ner’zhul’s protege. How far does the divergence go? If our Gul’dan was an acceptable Shaman for a while, why did this Gul’dan fail to meet the approval of the elementals? How did the Legion even know to make him an offer at all? For answers we must speculate, because some facts have never been presented in game or elsewhere. So let’s talk about how the game’s two Draenors differ from one another.