Felt like showing this, since its a pretty cool sum up of what happened after cataclysm with us killing Al'akir. In an effort to get the wind elementals to help the earthern ring in the shaman campaign, without a windlord to govern the air elementals the skywall and vortex pinnacle are is turmoil. So its suggested the only one who could take Al'akirs place is -
When Thunderaan was killed years ago in silithus, his soul was transferred to the thunderfury, which adventurers had taken. When we find where thunderfury ended up, in a funny twist that some random adventurer had the blade and died to a demon, dropping it, we unleash Thunderaan from the blade, and he becomes the new windlord.
This gave me some satisfaction, because it was bugging me for years what would happen to the skywall without al'akir. I'll admit while I'll always love Al'akirs design and his swords, Thunderaan has his own style going for him