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Khadgar
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Human
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The Alliance
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Champion of Azeroth, agent of the Kirin Tor
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In the fictional
Warcraft Universe , was one of the most powerful wizards to have ever lived, and one of the greatest heroes of the Alliance. At a young age, Khadgar was sent by the
Kirin Tor to apprentice under
Medivh in his tower at
Karazhan . At first, Khadgar believed Medivh to be nothing more than he appeared to be, a kindly, old, if slightly eccentric wizard, but it wasn't long before he began to sense something was drastically wrong with his master. Though he never suspected that Medivh was actually being controlled by
Sargeras , the Dark
Titan , he became suspicious of his master's actions and motives. Eventually, he unravelled Medivh's plot to open a portal between
Azeroth and
Draenor , after meeting a
Horde emissary, the half-
Orc assassin
Garona . Knowing it was already too late to stop the
Dark Portal from opening, Khadgar rushed to
King Llane of Azeroth for help. Khadgar, along with
Lord Lothar and a group of soldiers returned to Karazhan to find Medivh in psychic link with the Orc warlock
Gul'dan . Khadgar managed to defeat Medivh in combat, banishing both his soul, and that of Sargeras who was controlling him.
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Khadgar fled from the ruins of Azeroth with Lord Lothar and the rest of the Azerothians to
Lordaeron . He spent the
Second War fighting with the
Alliance , all the while studying Medivh's spells and the nature of the Dark Portal. This knowledge would come in useful when the tide of the War turned and the Alliance managed to push the Horde back to the Portal itself. Using all of his powers, Khadgar destroyed the Dark Portal, effectively severing the link between Azeroth and Draenor. Even as the Alliance celebrated its victory, Khadgar suspected that perhaps the Dark Portal wasn't completely vanquished after all. The powers that Medivh had unleashed in creating it were too potent to be destroyed in one spell. Now an Archmage of considerable influence, Khadgar directed the building of
Nethergarde Keep , a fortress which would watch over the
Blasted Lands , and the wreckage of the Dark Portal.
Khadgar's fears would be validated only a year after Nethergarde's completion, when the portal opened again, and fresh Orc forces began pouring out. Fearing a second invasion, Khadgar joined the expeditionary force led by
Turalyon and marched into the Orc homeworld. Khadgar quickly discovered that the situation in Draenor was even worse than he had feared. The Orcs, under the leadership of the shaman
Ner'zhul , were already in the process of opening doorways to new worlds for the Horde to plunder. Unable to stop Ner'zhul from opening his portals, and unable to contain the terrible energies they unleashed, he and the expeditionary force were now sitting on a dying world.
Khadgar and Turalyon, knowing that the destruction of Draenor would cause untold havoc on Azeroth, realized that they had to take drastic action to protect their homeworld. The Archmage used Medivh's spellbook to close the Dark Portal from the other side, thereby shielding Azeroth from the final cataclysm of Draenor's destruction. It is unclear whether or not anyone from the expeditionary force managed to successfully escape Draenor. Archmage Khadgar has since been immortalized in stone, along with the other leaders from the expeditionary force, in the Valley of Heroes in
Stormwind .
It has been implied by Blizzard staff that in the ''World of WarCraft'' expansion pack ''The Burning Crusade,'' Khadgar and some of the surviving Alliance heroes will resurface in one form or another.
"Khadgar" means "trust" in Dwarven. In '''', Medivh often calls his apprentice "Young Trust".
Also, as stated in the novel, Khadgar is destined to die on Draenor along with a small group of human soldiers unable to hold off the orcs. It is unknown whether this will indeed take place as the vision Khadgar saw in Karazhan might have been false (although all others he saw were true). When he asks the un-tainted Medivh, who is looking at him from the future, if it is true that he dies on Draenor, that Garona kills King Llane, and that Stormwind falls to the Horde, Medivh does not answer.
