Broll Bearmantle
 Broll Bearmantle
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| Gender | Male |
| Race | Night elf |
| Level | 85 Elite |
| Character class | Druid, Gladiator |
| Health | 151,000 |
| Mana | 15,976 |
| Affiliation | Cenarion Circle, Alliance, New Council of Tirisfal, Varian Wrynn, formerly Crimson Ring |
| Occupation | Companion of Varian Wrynn, Druid Representative on the New Council of Tirisfal, formerly gladiatorial slave of Rehgar Earthfury |
| Location | Unknown |
| Status | Alive |
| Relative(s) | Anessa (daughter), Telandria (cousin) |
| Mentor(s) | Malfurion Stormrage, Rehgar Earthfury |
- "I fight to live, Valeera. While you blood elves…" [1]
Broll Bearmantle, along with Valeera Sanguinar, was a companion of Varian Wrynn.
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Biography
Tragic Past
Broll Bearmantle was born with antlers, an extremely rare gift of nature and a sign that one day he would do great deeds. For years people watched as his antlers grew and waited for him to manifest greatness. Over the long centuries he developed into a fine druid — very powerful, an amazing shapeshifter with many forms — but beyond that he seemed nothing special. In time he was further gifted with an idol crafted by the immortal druid Remulos, son of the demigod Cenarius. The idol was connected to a green dragon, and through the dragon Broll was linked to the Emerald Dream. The idol, however, could not help Broll in further developing his powers. He felt he had not fulfilled his promise. His "failure" began to eat at him.
When the Burning Legion along with their Scourge slaves, invaded Kalimdor during the Third War. Broll found himself at Mount Hyjal battling undead and demons. His daughter Anessa fought beside him. Broll's command was cut off from the main resistance force. Drawn by his hidden core of druidic power, a group of powerful demons attacked. In his desperation, Broll, for the first time called to the deep earth to protect those who fought beside him. He stood his ground giving the others time to pull back toward the main army as the trees uprooted themselves and attacked undead and demons alike. He had been fighting all-out for hours. He was tiring and in the end the pit lord Azgalor overwhelmed him. Broll dropped the draconic Idol of Remulos as he fell. Azgalor struck the idol with his two-bladed sword, Spite, infusing it with fel energy. The explosion of fel energy from the corrupted statue killed Anessa, who was trying to save her father. After the battle, Broll felt it was his fault that his daughter had died; his grief and fury caused the spirits of the wild abandon him: the stag, the panther, the seal, and the crow. But one spirit remained with him, the spirit of the bear, corrupted by fel magic and feeding Broll's rage. Despite this great personal loss, Broll saved many other lives that day and contributed greatly to the Alliance's victory.
Gladiator
His grief eating away at him, Broll left night elf society and eventually allowed himself to be bought by Rehgar Earthfury and his ex-slave now-partner Bloodeye Redfist. Broll became a gladiator alongside Bloodeye and a young blood elf named Valeera Sanguinar. Bloodeye however was soon after assassinated and Rehgar found himself without a leader for his team before the Crimson Ring tournament. The answer to his problems came in the form of a incredibly skilled amnesiac human warrior nicknamed Lo'Gosh who was later revealed to be none other than King Varian Wrynn. After working together as gladiators to win the Crimson Ring tournament, Broll aided and accompanied Lo'Gosh in his escape from servitude.
The Idol of Remulos
With Lo'Gosh's strategies and Broll's power over nature, the two later aided the Silverwing Sentinels in defending Warsong Gulch from the Warsong Outriders. Unfortunately, Broll's rage had made his powers dangerous and chaotic; almost causing a natural disaster had Lo'Gosh not knocked him out with a stick. After the battle, Broll discovered that the corrupted Idol of Remulos had been retrieved by the Thistlefur furbolgs, corrupting them. For this matter, Broll and Lo'Gosh flew to Thistlefur Hold in Ashenvale to cleanse the corrupted idol of its fel energies. They eventually succeeded in cleansing the idol, but only after battling the green dragon that was linked to the idol and a horde of corrupted furbolgs. In cleansing the idol, Broll was able to once again commune with the other spirits of the wild and soothe his rage.
Broll and Lo'Gosh brought the idol to Fandral Staghelm, who wanted to make sure that it truly had been cleansed. After studying the idol, he decided that it would be best if Broll left the idol with him in Darnassus.
Further Adventures
Broll Bearmantle, along with Valeera Sanguinar, continued to accompany the warrior king until they assisted him in bringing the broodmother Onyxia to justice, rescuing Anduin and returned Varian to his rightful throne; thus becoming a trusted friend in the process. He also grows attached to Valeera, who's independent and sometimes reckless nature remind him of his deceased daughter. The two form a close, almost father-daughter like bond over the course of their journey. Broll however, is deeply concerned for Valeera and her addiction to magic. After the death of Onyxia, Varian offered both Broll and Valeera a permanent place in Stormwind, in which they could act as Varian's bodyguards and advisers.
Broll was unable to attend the Theramore peace summit between King Varian and Thrall because he was being summoned by Fandral Staghelm for some endeavor via visions in his dreams. He later joins the New Council of Tirisfal during Med'an's battle with Cho'gall when he saved them from a Twilight's Hammer cult attack.
Wrath of the Lich King
In the pre-launch World Event at the Stormwind docks, Broll appeared to discuss the threat of the Scourge with Bolvar and Varian.
- I haven't seen such a buildup of forces since the Third War! Varian is dead set on addressing the Scourge threat directly. That's just like him....
- Are you heading to Northrend? I have never been there, but I hear it is both a beautiful and treacherous land. Sadly, urgent matters at home require my attention, so I will not be able to join Highlord Fordragon and his army on their journey.
His appearance in Stormwind during the Scourge attack would later be contradicted by the events of the comic, where he was summoned by Fandral Staghelm for some endeavor in Darnassus.
Additionally, he started the quest The Battle For The Undercity and accompanied Varian to the demon-filled settlement.
World of Warcraft: Stormrage
- "You are as you were destined to be."
- —Malfurion Stormrage thinking of Broll with pride, as Broll's eyes blaze gold while channeling the energies of Azeroth
After the death of the Lich King, Teldrassil became increasingly ill. Broll was was one of many members of the Cenarion Circle who were called upon by their leader, Fandral Staghelm, to help heal the decaying Teldrassil. The Cenarion Circle were to lend their power to the World Tree and use the Idol of Remulos' power to make their efforts more potent. While fused with Teldrassil and channeling his druidic powers to help heal the tree, Broll began receiving visions of Teldrassil's corruption, which then caused him to faint and disrupt the collaborative operation. Though Broll recovered, these visions would again reoccur, this time prophesying the emergence of demonic like shadowy creatures and a familiar figure emanating the green light of the Emerald Dream. He later recognized the green figure to be the Idol of Remulos. Broll couldn't help but feel that Azeroth, or something similar, was trying to warn him of an impending danger.
The warnings were getting worse for Broll. It has now infected his dreams, as Broll started receiving nightmares of his deceased daughter Anessa. Broll was later quietly informed by a Sister of Elune that he had been summoned to a secret meeting by High Priestess Tyrande Whisperwind. Only Hamuul Runetotem knew of this secret meeting and kept it secret from the other druids.
As a trusted friend of Malfurion Stormrage, Broll was asked by his shan'do's beloved to help her free what ever was imprisoning Malfurion and return his dreamform to his body. Tyrande confided in Broll that Elune had revealed to her that Malfurion was dying. Fandral Staghelm had forbidden entrance into the Emerald Dream as the increasing danger of the Emerald Nightmare plagued the dream realm. Instead, Fandral Staghelm felt that the archdruids should be concentrating their efforts in healing the ailing Teldrassil, which he felt that only with its aid could they find Malfurion. Tyrande howerver, realized that Malfurion would die before any progress from the second World Tree could be made. Tyrande confided in Broll because Malfurion trusted him, was a hero of the Third War, and who's outside exploits would make him less prone to simply agree with Fandral's unwavering plans. Stirred by his personal loyalty for Malfurion and by his recent nightmares and visions that implied some form of evil was at work, he agreed to aid Tyrande.
Tyrande had decided to enter the Emerald Dream itself through the portal at Bough Shadow but in order to do so Broll determined that they would need the Idol of Remulos. Though Broll knew that the idol was integral to Fandral's plan to heal the World Tree, he nonetheless stole the artifact from Fandral's private sanctum. Broll and Tyrande eventually entered the Emerald Dream and freed Malfurion from the Emerald Nightmare's imprisonment. After discovering the Nightmare Lord's plot to conquer both the Emerald Dream and Azeroth, Broll and his allies rallied the Cenarion Circle and the defenders of Azeroth in the War against the Nightmare. Though Broll had long thought he was unworthy of the antlers that marked his greatness in druidism, Malfurion had assured him that he believed in him and respected him as an equal.[2] His great druidic abilities finally manifested itself after Fandral and his corrupted Teldrassil was defeated. By showing great skill in channeling the energies of Azeroth, he was able to use its power to revive the comatose druids who were deprived of their energy due to Fandral Staghelm's treachery. After performing this feat, Broll's eyes, which were silver at birth, while not as resplendent as Malfurion's, now also gleamed gold. Broll had finally overcome the last self-imposed barrier to truly become a great druid, his deep uncertainty replaced with confidence that he was now the druid he was always meant to be.[3]
After the trying events of the Emerald Nightmare, Broll was asked and honored to be a part of Malfurion and Tyrande's wedding ceremony.[4]
After this, he has taken Malfurion´s place of organizing the druid scouts.
Cataclysm
Broll later shows up, for Alliance players, as one of many well-known characters aiding in the fight against Ragnaros' forces.
Notes
- Broll shares the name Bearmantle with Athridas.
- Broll Bearmantle is featured in DC Unlimited's World of Warcraft: Series 2 action figure set and appears to be wearing parts of the Stormrage Raiment, and wielding [Journey's End].
- Broll finds barrow dens too cramped for sleeping in, having once been a slave. He prefers sleeping outside if given the choice between a barrow den and the outdoors.[5]
Gallery
Broll Bearmantle
The Broll Bearmantle action figure.
References
- ^ World of Warcraft Trading Card Game: Blood of Gladiators. Blizzard Entertainment. 147.
- ^ Stormrage, p.343
- ^ Stormrage, p.393
- ^ Stormrage, p.394
- ^ Stormrage, p.57
External links
| Mount Hyjal | Battle for the Undercity |
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DC Unlimited: World of Warcraft Broll Bearmantle
