Ahn-Kahet question

[Vashi]

Who is this guy? Anyone know? Some of those nerubians looks like worshippin something or pray to someone? Came around this thousands of time but never wonder who is this statue.

[Jawless Jones]

They're likely Undead Nerubians channeling the magical energy (probably similar to what Prince Taldaram was doing) in Ahn'kahet.

It would be odd for them to be worshiping Yogg-saron along with the Twilight's Hammer due to them effectively being Atheists, and them being live Nerubians isn't particularly likely due to the Scourge presence throughout the instance.

[Vashi]

Scroll a bit to the right of the pic. I mean the big guys statue not the nerubians.

[Jawless Jones]

perhaps a statue of a previous Nerubian Queen?

[Vasti]

An Old God that created the Nerubians?
Or some phophet of said Old God

(assuming those are living nerubians and not scourge ones)


Was it Yogg-Saron that created the Nerubians or was it some other Old God....usually Old Gods take 'bugs' and mold them to do their bidding (Qiraji, Thoses wasps from Pandaria and I believe there was one more example, but I forgot)

[Lolretadin]

Probably an easter-egg -- it looks a little like a Starcraft 2 Hydralisk with additional appendages.

[Netherspark]

Just a statue of some random Nerubian.

[RigidCannibal]

An Old God that created the Nerubians?
Or some phophet of said Old God

(assuming those are living nerubians and not scourge ones)


Was it Yogg-Saron that created the Nerubians or was it some other Old God....usually Old Gods take 'bugs' and mold them to do their bidding (Qiraji, Thoses wasps from Pandaria and I believe there was one more example, but I forgot)

All of the insectoid races in warcraft (the Qiraji, Nerubians, and Mantid) all originate from a single race known as the Aqir, though it seems that depending on location, they appear to have been influenced differently by different old gods. The Qiraji were formed by C'thun, and the Mantid by Y'sharraj, so it's assumeable that the Nerubians are from Yogg Saron. It seems he lost control of them long before the fall of the Nerubian Empire, as the remnents are at war with both Yogg Saron and the Scourge.

[rad586]

Most likely Nerubian version of Mantid Empress/Emperor, both races are descendants of the same race after all, the Aqir.

[Martyn 470]

It's a Nerubian Vizer IE the spellcaster nerubians, they gained a lot of power after the Lich King fought against the Nerubians and slew Anub'arak, i'm assuming there's a high priest Vizer, as is normal with spellcasting cults.

[shoc]

Probably an Elder or something, in the same way the Klaxxi had their giant Mantid Oracles (the ones who got blown up) these might just be their Northrend variety.

[Golden Yak]

There's no lore that identifies the subject of the statue - the idea that it is an image of an actual aqir is my favorite theory though.

[Rafoel]

Good catch, I don't remember anyone mentioning this on the forum even if there were 6 years already from the release of that dungeon.

With the lore of MoP, I would say it it equivalent of mantid's empress - however the concept of mantid didn't exist back in wotlk, so it's unlikely a never-before-mentioned-queen-of-nerubians was Blizzard's intention.

The statue is obviously old, as old as Nerubian Empire, so certainly it predates the Scourge. The only known power present in Northrend before Scourge was Yogg-Saron and Titans - both certainly NOT being presented by this statue.

My guess would be that the statue actually presents nobody specific - you can see the exact same statue far in the background, and a similarly looking platform indicating the third one hidden from view far away. They probably posed a role of "intimidating sight", same as statues before Stormwind or Mogu'shan vault (first 2 that came to my mind). What race is presented however, as it certainly isn't Nerubian? I guess Aqir is indeed a best guess

[Deleted]

Think this was going to part of the actual Azjol-Nerub zone/raid. They already developed a lot of it. I think Azjol-Nerub/Ahn'kahet were a lot bigger than the dungeons, they developed more than what was accessible in the game. Or at least the background decoration was "explorable". There should be videos on youtube.

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[Mormolyce]

I think it's just random decor.

[Skytotem]

There's no lore that identifies the subject of the statue - the idea that it is an image of an actual aqir is my favorite theory though.

Doubtful, seems just like a stylized Vizier nerubian, plus I think Aqir would probably be something like Locusts, Ants, Sea Scorpions, or something anyway.

[thottstation]

It's nice to overthink these things (where's the missing titan watcher, etc)... but don't forget the Great Gundrak Letdown from WotLK.

Everyone was theorizing like crazy about what that giant snake tail could imply. Some brief view of the final boss of the cancelled Gundrak raid? Was the final boss Hakkar, now reborn and gargantuan in size? etc. Specualation was RIFE. When asked years later at a Blizzcon, the devs just admitted that they threw it in because "it looked cool".

That's what this statue is. It's a statue. They put it in because it looks cool. That is all.

[RigidCannibal]

Good catch, I don't remember anyone mentioning this on the forum even if there were 6 years already from the release of that dungeon.

With the lore of MoP, I would say it it equivalent of mantid's empress - however the concept of mantid didn't exist back in wotlk, so it's unlikely a never-before-mentioned-queen-of-nerubians was Blizzard's intention.

The statue is obviously old, as old as Nerubian Empire, so certainly it predates the Scourge. The only known power present in Northrend before Scourge was Yogg-Saron and Titans - both certainly NOT being presented by this statue.

My guess would be that the statue actually presents nobody specific - you can see the exact same statue far in the background, and a similarly looking platform indicating the third one hidden from view far away. They probably posed a role of "intimidating sight", same as statues before Stormwind or Mogu'shan vault (first 2 that came to my mind). What race is presented however, as it certainly isn't Nerubian? I guess Aqir is indeed a best guess

There was a little lore about Nerubians having a queen. You encounter one in WC3 on hard difficulty when traversing Azjol'nerub.