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When Medivh reached fourteen, his powers as a Guardian manifested themselves throwing
him into a coma that lasted for twenty years. During this time, Sargeras tapped into the
Guardian's enormous power, and when Medivh at last awoke, the dark titan had nearly taken
complete control. In his new body, Sargeras contacted the orcish warlock Gul'dan, leader
of a host of orcs on the world of Draenor — a world which had been discovered by his
lieutenant, Kil'jaeden, a few generations beforehand. Medivh went to the Black Morass
in the remote, southern parts of Azeroth and opened the Dark Portal allowing the orcs permanent
access to the planet. Gul'dan's Orcish Horde swarmed through the rift, waging war upon
the native humans of the Kingdom of Azeroth.
Medivh's nature was thoroughly changed after his coma, and his closest friends and relatives
noticed something was wrong. Medivh's mother Aegwynn, now banished from the realm for her
misdeeds against the Order of Tirisfal, had figured out what Sargeras had done to her,
and got into contact with King Llane and his general, Lord Lothar. Lothar felt he had no
choice but to destroy the corrupted Medivh in order to prevent the evil Guardian from
doing any more damage to Azeroth. Medivh's apprentice, Khadgar, helped Lothar and an
orcish emissary, Garona, infiltrate Medivh's dark tower, Karazhan. Despite his enormous
power, Medivh was caught off his guard, and was in the end killed by his former friends
and comrades in his underground sanctum. The small remaining part of Medivh's human conscience
had taken Khadgar into apprenticeship for this very reason, to stop Sargeras.
Sargeras desired vengeance against the human kingdoms and expected the orcs to travel through
the portal and destroy the humans. Although the orcs did enter the portal, and eventually
caused a great amount of damage to the human kingdoms, Sargeras ultimately failed in his
plans because of Medivh's early death. Eventually, Sargeras wanted to shed the body of Medivh
and once again enter his avatar, but he didn't have enough time to do so.
As Medivh died, the portion of Sargeras' spirit that had possessed him was released and swiftly
dispersed. To this day, it is unknown what really happened to Sargeras' real body or
avatar. Many believe that Sargeras' spirit yet endures, hungering for revenge against
the only world ever to withstand the Burning Legion's might...
Brann Bronzebeard is fairly confident that the real Sargeras never actually set foot
on Azeroth, implying the real Sargeras is still around in the Twisting Nether. Lending
this theory further credibility is in War of the Ancients, the power of the Well of
Eternity was needed to create a portal strong enough for Sargeras to attempt to enter Azeroth,
the creation of which took a long time to be completed. The portal used to bring the
Sargeras that Aegwynn fought was powered by a handful of demons and was created in only
a few minutes. The orcish warlock, Gul'dan, believed the
Tomb of Sargeras to hold amazing power, since he had been told as much by both Medivh and
the eredar demon, Kil'jaeden. Gul'dan attempted to claim the tomb for himself, but, when he
gained access to the grave, Sargeras' avatar was not there. Instead, Gul'dan found a plethora
of demons that had been driven mad by their long imprisonment. The demons proceeded to
tear Gul'dan to shreds, but he survived the first ambush. Then Gul'dan saw Sargeras (or
at least an illusion of him) laughing at him and understood that he had been a pawn, a
fool. Now that he knew he would not get the Eye of Sargeras and would instead die in the
tomb, he wrote his story in runes with his own blood. Shortly afterwards, the demons
came for him and killed him, eventually using his skull as a focal point of demonic power.