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| - Deep beneath the earth and seas of the Elemental Plane lurks the Firelands, a place of heat and ash. Although it is a harsh land, visitors can survive, for in one of those cruel paradoxes that define the universe, fire needs air to live and fuel to feed upon. Within the Firelands, these things exist in a constant cyclical state, with the very ash itself gradually transforming into fuel for future burnings.
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| - Deep beneath the earth and seas of the Elemental Plane lurks the Firelands, a place of heat and ash. Although it is a harsh land, visitors can survive, for in one of those cruel paradoxes that define the universe, fire needs air to live and fuel to feed upon. Within the Firelands, these things exist in a constant cyclical state, with the very ash itself gradually transforming into fuel for future burnings. In the center of a vast lake of fire stands Sulfuron Keep, the home of Ragnaros the Firelord. Until comparatively recently, he ruled his underground land with an iron fist. Three hundred years ago, he was summoned to fight in the dwarven civil war known as the War of the Three Hammers. This reckless act sundered the Redridge Mountains and created Blackrock mountain. Now, in a greatly weakened state, he lay at the bottom of that volcano on Azeroth, striving to find a way home. Meanwhile, in Sulfuron Keep and elsewhere across the Firelands, his elemental princes battle constantly for dominance. Ironically, when a group of adventurers strove to destroy Ragnaros, they merely banished him back to his home in the Firelands, thus freeing him from the molten core of the mountain. Ragnaros' defeat was not without cost however, since upon his return to the Firelands he needed to re-establish his dominance. To this end, Ragnaros found a strange new ally in the fallen and now clearly insane archdruid, Fandral Staghelm. As always, the Old Gods are behind the scenes and have shown Ragnaros the way to take advantage of the re-emergence of Deathwing and the subsequent weakening of the borders between Azeroth and all of the Elemental Plane. Portions of the Firelands and its minions have burst forth into Mount Hyjal.
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