Midnight is almost here. Xal’atath has united the warring factions of the Void, unleashing a ravenous army that threatens to consume all of Azeroth.
Character Profile: Xal’atath
Xal’atath is an entity that has outlived empires, cataclysms, and deaths of countless worlds. She is lethal cunning made manifest, ambition without end, and a patience honed across eons.
Once bound within a black blade forged in the age of calamity known as the Black Empire, Xal’atath watched as Old Gods and mortals alike wandered into her subtle web of a million machinations. Each of them considered mere pawns in a game she has been playing for millennia untold.
Her earliest known designs unfolded on the doomed world of K’aresh, where she walked upon the dying world as the Harbinger of Dimensius the All-Devouring. Yet even while appearing to delight in servitude, Xal’atath raged against her leash. Seeking freedom, Xal’atath whispered promises of salvation to the people of K’aresh, guiding them into a ritual that destroyed their world, shattered Dimensius, and released her from the grasp of the Void Lord.
In time, her gaze turned to the world of Azeroth, the nascent world caught in a stranglehold by four Old Gods. Their sinister roots worming their way toward the heart of the world to claim the Worldsoul that dreamt within. Xal’atath attempted to usurp their efforts for her own ends, but her dangerous gambit ultimately failed; the Old Gods, working together in a manner they had never before, bound her within a vessel known as the Blade of the Black Empire.
Yet imprisonment could not silence Xal’atath. For ages untold, she whispered from within her blade, unraveling minds that listened and twisting their fates, her influence ever leaving ruin in her wake. As many across history succumbed to her whispers, the blade shifted from hand to hand, never resting long, disaster shadowing—and ultimately claiming—each of her wielders. Millennia passed over and again, but Xal’atath endured. Plotting. Waiting. Always whispering.
In the present age, the schemes of Xal’atath have grown bolder and her shadowy reach ever longer. She has manipulated cults and kingdoms, deceived champions, and fed upon the essence of beings older than stars in the Great Dark Beyond.
To Xal’atath, monarchs, mortals, and monsters are but pieces of a game board of her own design. They are tools to be shaped, sacrificed, or shattered at her whim. Xal’atath offers many things to many people, but her final gift is always the same. A lesson. The Void’s singular truth: there is no mercy, no balance, no salvation that awaits them.
Only consume… or be consumed.
"Oh, this has been a delight. But our little game is over. When next we meet...I will take everything you love."
Stand and fight, or be consumed.
