Arcane Mage of Azeroth

More than six thousand years ago, Dath’remar Sunstrider led a group of elven nobles who wished to continue their studies in arcane magic away from their kin, accepting exile and migrating eastward to the land of Lordaeron. These exiled Highborne evolved into high elves and founded their own magical kingdom, Quel’Thalas. The high elves then used the waters of the Well of Eternity to create a new magical source, the Sunwell, on the Isle of Quel’Danas.

Basing their civilization on the Sunwell, the high elves constructed three sanctuaries along the ley lines: An’telas, Andalas, and An’ohein. Within each temple was housed a magical artifact, the Trine of the Crescent Moons, divided into three crescent-shaped crystals. Every treasury was built at a nexus of the ley lines, resembling the very Sunwell itself. The ley circuits ran like veins beneath the earth, but what flowed within was not blood, but pure magic.

Thus, an energy field known as Bandinoriel—the “Gatekeeper” in the elven tongue—was formed between the crystals, serving as the guardian of this land. The field protected the gates of the elves, stood watch over the high elves, and also isolated the arcane energies released during magical research, preventing the Burning Legion of the Twisting Nether from exploiting any weakness in the ley defenses for another invasion.

For six thousand years, Quel’Thalas thrived under the Sunwell’s blessing, its high elves basking in the well’s radiance.

Yet, in the twentieth year after the opening of the Dark Portal, the renowned magical kingdom of Quel’Thalas w