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Comment by 153946

The new 'Lo'Gosh' model of King Varian Wrynn to be introduced in WotLK. He will be taking the place of Bolvar Fordragon in Stormwind Keep, the Highlord will be moved to Fordragon Hold in DragonBlight leading the Alliance stand against the Scourge.

Comment by Finbarr

Hey, the king's back!

(in case you didn't know, it's the human joke referring to LOTR)

Comment by 192801

Check out these two screenshots of him

http://www.wowwiki.com/Image:VarienWrynnKingofStormwind.jpg
This shows him as he looked in classic WoW before he was removed from his musty cell deep within Alcaz Island. He is shown with short brown hair, a matching handlebar mustache, and a Zappa-esque soul patch

https://www.wowhead.com/cata/npc=29611#screenshots:id=94736
This shows him as he will look in WotLK, clean-shaven and with long black hair. Someone got a shave and a color change. I wonder if Blizzard ever compared the two photos?

Comment by 88783

Wasn't he also in the Stormwind Harbor with his two buddies from the comic?

Comment by Enugma

I do hope that this is a temporary look. His hair looks ridiculous, his swords look like daggers and his armour also looks ridiculous.

Comment by 211075

Actually if you have done any pvp prebc or lv60 and obtained grand marshal gear that is what he is wearing for warriors, and it suits the king well imo although his weapons due need an upgrade.

Comment by 146799

What i want to know is how did he get out of prison after the Defias kidnapped him? :P i hope Blizz will explain this...

Comment by Fwibbles

dual GM 2h swords would be cool : )

Comment by IronSoul24

Based on the history of King Wrynn, we can expect a much more aggressive Stormwind. He's already declared open war on the Horde (WARNING: SPOILERS), despite Jaina's protests.

On the other hand, you can expect the alliance between the humans and night elves to become stronger due to Wrynn's relationship with Broll Bearmantle.

Comment by 124863

was just on the PTR and saw King Varian attack an undead rogue, only ability i saw used was heroic leap, think he has whirlwind too. If anyone else can add to that please do

Comment by 220818

Old king
http://images.wikia.com/wowwiki/images/c/cc/VarienWrynnKingofStormwind.jpg
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New king with many styles
blizz first attempt http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/2967/arthasaa6.png
second attempt https://www.wowhead.com/cata/npc=29611#screenshots:id=94736
final one https://www.wowhead.com/cata/npc=29611#screenshots:id=98368

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and there is also Varian Wrynn's dad
http://www.wowwiki.com/Llane_Wrynn_I

A statue of King Llane can be found in Stormwind Keep; the plaque reads "King Llane I of the House of Wrynn". King Llane is also seen in Karazhan as the Alliance king piece in the chess event, his Horde counterpart being Warchief Blackhand.

Comment by Vulcanos

His new armor is friggin tight!

Comment by 169548

his new modle looks allot like Arthas in CoT

Comment by 186859

hey naim, that first attempt is actually young arthas in Cot strat .. unless they tried that as wrynn first

Comment by 150126

Dual-wielding Quel'Serrars? He's packing some serious hardware now.

Comment by Howitzer

Great job Blizzard, Alliance finally have a faction boss to be proud of.

Comment by 189043

Don't attempt killing on PTR, he's level 83. :\

Comment by 137993

this guy sucks, i remember thinking "wow-wee! SW has a real king now(no disrespect for Bolvar)! but while he looks cool, why did he have to undo everything Jaina, Thrall, and everyone else have worked for, by declaring another ally/horde war. the alliance and horde don't need another enemy when they already have demons and zombies clawing at their necks.
If anything, they could both maintain their tenuous cold war for a few more years until the Arch Warchief of Theramore/Org could take over.

Comment by 222832

The hp amount on him is incorrect!
according to the Blizzards Hp detecter thing in interface he has
5578K hp.

Comment by junkseer

Remember, sire, Esarus That No' Darador

Comment by 179089

i wonder who would win a duel, thrall or varian

Comment by djsixpack14

Pulled him as a T6 Protection Paladin. MH hits for ~6500 and OH for ~3500 before blocks. He can crush. He has a Whirlwind that hits for his MH damage, and also a Heroic Leap that he uses if your MT moves away too quickly.

Comment by 189686

can someone from the ppl that killed him with more than 1 raid group answer for sure if there are 2-3 raid groups does the kill count for every raid or for the raid that hits him first?

Comment by tolbarath

Blizz actively refers to Varian as the Anti-Thrall so I'm going to have to say Varian.

By "Anti-Thrall" I think they mean that he's more of an opposite to Thrall in terms of personality, politics and such. Varian seems to be eager to pick a fight with people - especially the Horde - whereas Thrall has spent a sizeable chunk of his time since the Third War ended trying to establish peaceful relationships with the Alliance.

Each is a bad-ass in his own way, and it's great that the Alliance have another strong leader now alongside Tyrande and Velen rather than a figurehead ruler being manipulated behind the scenes by dark forces.

Comment by 130546

Finally, we actually get to kill the king.
Still, should have been able to kill the kid...

Comment by 232509

Downed 23/10/08 on Stormscale EU by nam, Paragon, Unskilled and Afraid, Insert Coin, and other randoms. Took 40 people.

Our tacs:

Charge into Stormwind, and head for the king. Run straight into the cathedral he's in, trying to ignore the guards. Head into the room on your right (The King's left), and wipe in there. All run back, ress at the same time, buff and heal up. Have a Hunter misdirect the king to the maintank, who should stand in a corner, nearest the door, to LOS Alliance Mages/Warlocks, etc. The new BG (Strand of the Ancients) battlemaster gets involved too. She's a level 80 elite. We offtanked her, and killed her first. The best dps in this fight is a Hunter, so bring a few. Casters do really bad dps on the boss, so have them focus the Alliance/guards instead.

We had an insanely good geared raid, so he went down in 10 mins. We just made a portal, and got out of there fast. Not too hard if you stick to these tacs. :)

Comment by 202648

Where the old version of him stood.
Dustwallow Marhs, 76.19
The old version of King Variran Wrynn was wielding
some kind of wand, might an scepter.

Comment by 133226

He's got Max Payne's face and George Bush's politics. Really someone to be proud of.

I can't wait till we kill this fascist bigot for good in Warcraft 4.

Comment by Sagrurz

Downed on 27/10/08 on Laughing Skull EU by one 40-man raid, including serveral guilds and some random people.

We had alts logged out in the deeprun tram, and summoned everyone there. After we got everyone there, we buffed up and ran into the keep. We had 3 T6-geared tanks who started to pull the royal guards 2 and 2 while we nuked them down. After that we had our druid tank pull Varian into the room directly on our left. He started tanking the boss in the northwest corner of the room, while the raid spreaded out evenly in the southwest and the southeast corners. The hunters and the melee started bringing him down, while we had two groups of caster-dps who were to focus on allys entering the room. All the shamans spam-used grounding totems to prevent the maintank from getting cycloned.
It took us a good 20minutes before we got him down, but it was totaly worth it. Awesome to see so many players work together. Geep up the good work Laughing Skull :D

For the Horde!

Comment by 215604

the new bosses look great, Sylvanas and Wrynn that is... sadly they din't update the looks of all the capital bosses.

Comment by Darthpaladin

We finaly have a king but his face is much too barbarian-looking for me...
Better turn down the graphics.

But in all honesty i think blizz needs to redo his face because even though he was captured a probably beaten it doesn't mean that he doesn't receive all the luxuries that a king deserves.
However, the armor is great, it shows that he doesn't wear armor just for show.

Comment by 137190

It's official, Varian Wrynn is a Neanderthal. Look at his forehead. Frankly, it's embarrassing.

Comment by Dralas

This guy is very powerful. I was watching him while Stormwind Harbor was under attack and he did a Heroic Leap ability, whirlwind, and saw him 2 shotting things with 34k hp. Don't mess with him :P

For the Alliance!

Comment by nassy

You're the King? Well i didn't vote for you!

Comment by 185310

Lo'gosh seemed so collected in the WoW comic (that, & his badassery made him one of my favorite Warcraft characters), also, he doesn't have any voice clips, I mean, come one, at least Blizzard should give him generic voice clips, like they did with Lor'themar

Comment by jeian7

His chin will require its own tank, or it can easily wipe your raid.

Comment by SykotikKytten

1 1/2 - 2 hr spawn time.
Suuuucked.

Comment by 200659

What's the respawn time?

The horde raided him today and I found myself camping him.

Comment by 92105

His Awesomness, King Varian Wrynn, Kicker of Asses.

Who else could make the Scourge invasion of his city stop just by threatening to crush a Necropolis with his bare hands?

Who else could start a war by punching Thrall in the face and pimp slapping Sylvanas?

Who else could beat a crocolisk to death with nothing but amnesia and a stick?

It's about time the Alliance got some loving.

Comment by Limi

Respawn time of King Varian Wrynn is 6 hours

Comment by danix

why people thinks horde are the ones being attacked? Horde, but in special the forsaken kills farmes, kirin tor mages and soon.. several of the forsaken's citizesn fled of the "reat" dark lady.. you really should study a little more before saying that varian just want to pick a fight.. btw it's NOT just about bolvar, when he saw all the things the forsaken (so we can put the horde here too.) was doing with captured alliance members (farmers..) making those bio-weapon.. testing things on them..

and please.. don't tell me "oww but Varimathras beatrayd* us.." come on do you really think that the one of the most evil beings that always go to the winning side would be loyal to something? But as the horde blind fanboys use to say: "if we did something wrong was because of the demons.."

pathetic..

Comment by wsuhoey

Respawn timer is estimated to be about 3 hours.

Source: https://www.wowhead.com/cata/v4236842

Comment by 155695

Use a mistletoe on him. It doesn't affect him, it's just funny to watch him cheer.

Comment by Shada

Just a little note of interest: King Varian Wrynn is the only warrior in the game to retain the Heroic Leap ability, after it was withdrawn from the playerbase in WotLK Beta, for being too unbalanced.

As Alliance I'm not sure whether he uses the Leap in raids against him, but he was Heroic Leaping all over the joint during the Scourge attacks on Stormwind in "Echoes of Doom".

Also....I really don't like him. Dual wielding Quel'Serrar (I never got one, let alone two >.<) + Bloodelf/Dragonball Z hairdo = trying far too hard. Bolvar had class.

Comment by 153653

I guess Wrynn is a lot more dificult than Bolvar Fordragon, atleast Alliance can be proud to have a hard boss to def their city :)

Comment by Raithon

It's great that he's back and all, but he certainly didn't win the beauty contest...

Comment by 278853

i came back to the game when the wotlk was released after a one year break, i toured SW for like 30 minutes looking for Bolvar and i found Varian in his place (i bought the game a week after the expansion so he was in the keep)

i hated him, i only acknowledged Bolvar as my leader. then he almost b.... slapped thrall if it wasn't for that b.... jaina, at that point i had a true and utter respect for him.

P.S "hair style changed to look like Bolvar, in his memory. Rest in Peace Hero"

FOR VARIAN, FOR THE ALLIANCE

(where can i get the comic for his story?)

Comment by 111622

He needs more health.

Comment by 61587

I wonder is he on of the humanlike npcs in Howling Fjord, he looks really much like them, also that he is much higher than a normal human

Comment by ibleedrainbows

I MTed him yesterday in a trip around the alliance kingdoms. 4 faction leaders dead and no wipes. :D i forgot to take a SS but ill do it again since it was so fun and easy. ill sit on his throne. :P

lok'tar!

Comment by D4NK

Dunno, i would say he isn't as powerful as bolvar was. 20 70's would have a hard time with bolvar in his 2.4 form.

Bolvar had shield wall, healed himself to full all the time, 5 second aoe stun, like. Bolvar was alot harder than he is.

20 80's more or less lol @ varian wrynn.

Comment by 222832

Varian Wrynn wasn't held prisoner in Duskwallow Marsh.
He was simply hiding from Saurfang

Comment by 260375

whats his respawn timer? me and some of my horde friende were wondering how many times we could kill him in a day

Comment by AkumuX

Aliases include: Jay Leno and The Chin

Comment by makron

I just wish all the players could get the same graphical update.
Just look at old model vs new one, it's a stunning difference.

Comment by 313373

He looks really really old in my opnion,or is just one ugly alliance leader

Comment by edarien

Personally, I'm glad Varian is so quick to crack skulls. Since forever and a day, the 'good guys' (I know this technically isn't correct but bear with me) have always been about peace and dignity and such. I'm glad we have a ruler that wants to kick ass.

Well, you're half right. The 'good guys' are about peace and dignity. Welcome to the Horde. Pay your respects to ~~the Warchief~~ Vol'jin and Baine. Oh, what? Just because he's Human, you thought Wrynn was the "good guy"? Hence the half-right part. The good guys are about that. But your ruler isn't one of them. All the more proof of just how racist you Allies really are. When it really comes down to it, the only races that aren't racist toward the others are the ~~Orcs~~, Trolls and Tauren. Hm. ~~All~~ Horde. Go figure.

edit: I was looking at posts I'd made and found this one. I'd like to point out that despite -1 total, the votes are pretty well split of +8,-9. I don't know when the votes happened, but this was entirely true when posted it, which was pre-Garrosh Warchief. I've since edited to account for Garrosh's horrid treatment and segregation of the other races. I would also assume the negative votes were from Ally-only players who didn't like the truth. Racism plays a big part in this game. Look at the Durnholde 5-man in Caverns of Time. Look at the history of the worlds in-game. Most people hate gnomes, Elves (both sides) think they're above everyone else, Humans hate any of the animalistic looking races and really only get along with Dwarves if anything. Everyone pretty much fears/is disgusted by the Forsaken/Undead, the Forsaken hate anything "alive", and humans hated the Worgen until they themselves became them. And even then you have people killing themselves before becoming turned into one. Varian, for a long time, has been a shining example of the racism and elitist imperialism that defines the "humans" of WoW.

Comment by rm2k3guy14

Downed today on Laughing Skull (EU), pretty simple full Naxx 25 Druid tank, and many shammies spamming chain heal to keep the raid up. The allies were fended off by 5 Mages on the doors and others around the vicinity taking out stragglers.

Comment by Kenon

For those interested in more Varian goodness, I suggest scrolling down
this page and learn more about my new favorite Alliance leader.

Comment by 311916

Can be found in the keep of Stormwind in the middle room just before where you sign up for battlegrounds.

Comment by 315859

His face actually IS sort of ugly. Should wear a helm.

Comment by 288482

Quick question, whats his respawn timer? ive been told 1 day, 6 hours, 3 hours, and "Saurfang hasnt decided to let him leave the realm of infinite cleavings yet" (yes that was a player that whispered me)

Comment by 180082

Is it me or does Varian look...really really @#$%ed off?

Comment by 328045

So... He's like the Rambo of World of warcraft?

Comment by 237317

He looks angry.

Comment by Limiter

A.K.A Varian "Chin" by his friends.

Comment by 323389

Varian isn't as calm as Thrall, since he actually is ready to kill Thrall when you do the quest for retaking Undercity (I've played as Alliance). Wonder why? =/ Anyone able to answer?

Comment by 131361

I've done the attack on the under city quest and I think he's in the right place. just what good has this "peace" done for the allince? nothing but the lose of a hero and many soldiers dead from the horde. ya I know "but they were rebels they weren't part of the forsaken they we're bla bla bla bla" if you ask me I think sylvanas (and maby thrall) were all in on it and i'll fight side to side with the king til the end is near and my vanish is finished cooling down...

Comment by 338261

I think that the king is more then right with declaring war to the horde if you have watched the Ulduar Trailer you will most likely see the reason why. He blames the horde for the death of Highlord Bolvar and many other alliance soliders, so if you watch all this carefully this actualy IS the fault of the horde and he is just doing the right thing.

Comment by 143038

Did anyone notice that his and Arthas voice that was used in warcraft 3 are kinda the same? ;)

Comment by 111294

I was seriously disappointed as the Varian did not receive Own Voice as Faction leader. He currentilty has normal human voice, but I hope it will be changed as it was in trailer heard. He's swords also changed to match those that were in Ulduar Trailer.

And for you, Itsnotvsmyay, Varian angers to horde, as you can hear from Wrathgate cinematic and questline, because of Saurfang, Bolvar dies, and so he dishonors the acts of them, and so toughts that it is Thralls fault.

Comment by 266285

For those of you who are all, "Hey, Varian's right about hating the Horde!", I think you should watch the Wrathgate cinematic again.

In no way was that the Horde's fault. A bunch of traitorous little Forsaken $%^&*es came and blasted everyone with the Forsaken Blight. Varian's just sticking the blame on the Horde, for no other reason then he hates them for destroying his kingdom (not sure why he couldn't just yell at them for that), and that they're the easiest to blame, due to the stereotype that they're all bloodthirsty beasts.

If someone can tell me exactly HOW Putress and his pals deciding to join up with Varimathras is the Horde's fault, I'll gladly see the errors of my ways. However, I highly doubt that will be happening, as I see absolutely no way how all this is the Horde's fault.

Comment by snowboyak08

Does anyone know what his new weapons are? There's gotta be some soft of 1hd'er out there that matches the model of his new weapons that are featured in the Ulduar trailer.

Comment by VraulJawrip

I miss his impossible to get player-wise dual wielding Quel'Serrars, but his new blades look pretty awesome too.

Comment by 356123

I don't know why Zaelan's post was downrated so much, since he's absolutely right. The attack by Putress on the forces at Angrathar was not orchestrated by the Horde or its leadership. Like Zaelan said, there's absolutely no proof of that. The simple fact of the matter is that Putress acted on his own, with his own group of renegade Forsaken that defied Sylvanas and the rest of the Horde. That's the conclusion I've reached given the evidence that we do have at our disposal right now.

But let's assume Sylvanas did plot the whole event at Angrathar. First of all, look at the victims of Putress' attack. The victims included a substantial number of Horde soldiers, most of whom were from the elite Kor'kron forces that serve as the personal guard of Thrall himself. And then there's Saurfang the Younger, son of High Overlord Saurfang and the most prolific victim on the Horde side. If the Horde discovers that Sylvanas is indeed the mastermind behind their deaths, then she stands a great risk to not only destroy the partnership between her Forsaken and the Horde, but to incur the personal wrath of the Warchief. She would not stand a chance in the subsequent battle.

Secondly, what would she stand to gain by giving Varimathras carte blanche to allow demons to run rampant through her main base of operations? Back in the Third War, she and her Forsaken fought hard to gain control of the city of Lordaeron. Thus to relinquish control of it to the Burning Legion doesn't make sense considering the bulk of her resources are at the Undercity. And yes, the Forsaken have bases in Northrend and Tarren Mill, but let's be honest here; without their foothold in Lordaeron, they will lose a lot more territory than they can afford to in the long run.

Bigalmou, while your view on what happened may very well be the one that Varian Wrynn himself sees, it just doesn't amount to anything more than a wild conspiracy theory cooked up by an Alliance partisan. But in the spirit of fairness, I'd like to add one last point; Sylvanas, from what we know about her, is a reclusive but brilliant strategist. Her primary goal is to get revenge on Arthas, but once that's achieved, who knows where she'll go from there? If she is indeed behind the massacre at Angrathar, then she's hiding her involvement in it (and her motives for it) very, very well. But for now? Occam's Razor, my friend.

Comment by Egrem

In the World of Warcraft comic (issue #13), Jaina Proudmoore gave the two Varians a pair of magic elven blades called Shalla'tor ("Shadow Render") and Ellemayne ("Reaver").

When Onyxia fused them back into one Varian (in issue #14), those swords were combined to create a single, more powerful weapon called Shalamayne.

Comment by 201257

1. An Orc befriended his father, and then assassinated him.
Profiling. Yes an orc betrayed his father. So what? It could have been anyone.

2. The Orcs held him against his will, and forced him to kill for their amusement. Don't say it wasn't Thrall's fault, because Wrynn was trained as a Gladiator in Org. That means the Horde leadership is well aware of a thriving slavery trade, and openly permissive of it.

Wait.... didn't Thrall get the same EXACT treatment? At least have the respect for Thrall because he went through the exact same thing that you did. Oh wait ... he was RAISED as a gladiator, having no real childhood whatsoever... and the only thing he knew of his people was this old broken down old orc that he didn't even know jumping from his shakles and attacking his guards dying only to try to give freedom to the future Warchief. I'm sure Varion had a bad childhood living in a capital city during a decade of Alliance dominance.

3. Doesn't matter if it was a coup, or a splinter group, The Horde killed his best friend.
wasn't the coup you refer to staged by... a demon? a Burning legion deamon that... made the lich king?Oh wait but he doesn't care about a race older than the night elves that feed off of life itself, that have manipulated entire worlds. Hello King Varian Big Chin Dumbass... dark portal.. go over there... ask a Dranei what happened. Burning legion manipulated an entire world that brought uppon it's own end. Hint hint dumbass hint hint.

4. The Orcs destroyed Stormwind, and forced Wrynn to retreat to lordaeron where he grew up. Lordaeron was like a second home to him, and even though he knew Arthas destroyed it, he hadn't seen it in person until he led the Attack there that killed Putress. Seeing Lordaeron transformed into the Undercity was shocking, and offensive, and from a Lore-wise perspective, it was the first time anyone from the Alliance had ever seen how much the city has changed. Imagine your home town being run by the same evil zombies that killed your best friend. And don't argue that the Forsaken aren't evil, I've done the Tarren Mill quests. Human experimentation, and torturing animals seems pretty evil to me.

Orcs destroyed Stormwind. It's called a war. Deal with it. And do i need to remind you the way the orcs were treated after their initial attack of Azeroth? Slave camps, forced to hide into the mountains. Defeating your enemy is one thing but what the so called alliance did was in fact... hitleristic. So... alliance lost a city, the orcs almost lost their race. Yea clearly a fair trade.

Fact is right now two characters are really really stupidly done in warcraft lore. King Varian ... who if you have read the comic, is initially a calm calculated warrior and doesn't hate the Horde (talking about Logosh). He understands his situation and deals the best he can with it. On the other side of the Varian is the Varian that returned to Stormwind. The fun Varian if you will. Strange but when the two merged they turned into this bumbling brute that resembles the other stupidly done character in WoW... Garrosh Hellscream.

Garrosh is an orc that never touched demon blood. Acording to lore orcs were shamans and a peacefull race before the blood drinking. He is acting just like Grom did. At least Grom had the decency to obey the warchief despite not understanding the methods. (he only disobeyed after drinking blood the second time). Also Garrosh was a crying little @#$%^ when you first meet him. Fearing that he will end up like his father. He sees that his father managed to atone for part of his mistakes and turns into a carbon coppy of him? Hello years of fears and self doubt don't go away in an instant.

It's fun to see that the only two characters that apparently don't like or trust the other faction are the only two that don't make sense.

Comment by 111622

I don't think the World PvP Bosses hit hard enough... I tanked Thrall as a 79 Mage. I see this King here only hit a Tank for about 3k Damage, which is nothing when you have 10 healers and 40k health. The AB Battlemaster is more of a Threat, and if there's anyone that needs Damage increased its Undercity's boss Windrunner.

Comment by Yankee

Varian must be one of the worst inter-faction politician ever to set foot in Azeroth.. Too bad when he is cool as hell.

Comment by 333338

It takes a real king to hold two giant swords 24/7 and yell for a minute every time a DK walks up to him.

Comment by 173862

I can see both sides of the argument. But remember it, we're watching it third person, we know all that happens and he's watching it from his view.

Here's his view.

One: Orcs enslaved him and forced him to kill for their own money and amusement.

Two: Best friend killed by what he thinks was Horde, of course it wasn't the Forsaken solely that did it they were traitors so it isn't completely the Horde's fault.

Three: What happened to Lordaeron. Varian is obviously not happy about what happened to his former second home. Seeing what the Undead did to it.

Four: Ulduar trailer. I thought Varian AND Garrosh were immature children. Let's start with the start of it. Garrosh says "I want to see this Dwarf, to see the fear in his eyes" kind of implying he'll start a fight. But once they enter Varian arrogantly says "What are THEY doing here?" like two girls mad at each other at a party. Of course he has a right to be on guard the way he arrogantly said it like that still stands. Garrosh of course could've arrogantly said why they were but instead he resorted to calling them "Alliance Pigs" Varian then provoked Garrosh to attack him, and shows how much he wants to fight him saying "He's mine!"

Varian from his point of view thinks what he's doing is right. My final conclusion? Varian and Garrosh are fools, Varian is letting his emotions get in the way of him being a king and leading his people. Garrosh is a reckless fool and we all know that there's someplace in Azeroth where the true bad asses go when they die and Grom is sitting there next to Lothar, Uther, Broxigar, Durotan and Orgim facepalming.

Comment by 373723

I hate the Horde!

Comment by Breadzilla

That king is a rich man, whopping 75g.

Comment by dreadblood

his swords changed

Comment by 229054

I though Varian's face model would look cool but...... can't blizzard simply not fail at human males?
I wish that when blizzard updates character models they don't look like varian's face.

Comment by 288122

Are those swords he got in 3.1 attainable in game? Or are they unique models made just for him?

Comment by 299362

It should be noted that in the Ulduar trailer he is voiced by Chris Metzen, the same voice actor for Thrall, taken from Wowwiki.com, same as Saurfang the younger as well..

Comment by 346214

74 gold?
pretty poor for a king...

Comment by UndeadWarlock

With 3.2 he now has unique voice acting. Maybe this means Lor'themar Theron will be getting new quotes soon?

Comment by JonTargaryen

Since the Alliance Warrior Tier 9 set is named after him, I wish it had been modelled on his armor too.

Comment by Vay69

kill him garrosh!

Comment by 421112

varian would kick garrosh's ass, garrosh is a pathetic excuse for a son of hellscream only reason he had the upperhand was because varian in dalaran d idn't expect them and so he brought one sword if he brought two he would &*!@ garrosh up, plus varian has more hp then him and does more damag garrosh damage can be full blocked did so on a raid test there which was successful.

Comment by 435708

hey i was wondering if there is an in-game version of his weapons?

Comment by Egrem

As of patch 3.2, Varian speaks when clicked on. He is voiced by Chris Metzen, and most of his lines are either quotes from (or references to) the WoW comic book.

Comment by hnim

Varian atleast has some justification to hate the Horde. Imagine, you're living in a city, and a race of bloodthirsty monsters begin in an act of genocide against your race. As you fight back, you find one Orc who actually seems like a good person. The one orc who seems to not be a killer of children and innocent civilians... kills your father.
Personally, I'm not even sure why the Horde hates the Alliance. Sure, they put them in prison camps, but you know what the Orcs did? They tried to exterminate Humanity, and probably Dwarves too. They should have been glad they weren't paid back in kind.

Comment by 315058

Now has his own voice! Says:

Greetings!
"Stormwind honors your service to the Alliance."
"I am Varian, but I am also Lo'Gosh."
"The line of Stormwind's kings has been restored."
"My open hands will reward my friends, but let my enemies beware!"
"Stormwind is reborn!"

Angry!
"You want to compare scars?"
"I'm of...two minds about all this."
"You don't want to see my angry side."
"You must have me confused with the other Varian. He's not here anymore."
"Hmph...if only I were still in the Crimson Ring."

If you exit his text:
"Never again will our kingdom be deceived."
"Our struggles are far from over."
"Fare you well."
"Serve with honor."
"The Alliance will forge a new destiny for Azeroth!"

I have yet to see a Horde Raid attack him since he got his voice, I hope to update this when he gets attacked (everyone has their bear!) to see if he has an agroo saying!

UPDATE!

Has no agroo saying... :*( he could have at least said FOR STORMWIND or something...

Comment by 395903

In Patch 3.2.0 Call of the Crusader he will get new unique voice they will be.

1. Stromwind is reborn!
2. The line of Stromwind kings has been restored.
3. My open hand will reward my friends, but let my enemies beware.
4. Are struggles are far from over.
5. Stromwind honors your service to the alliance.
6. The Alliance will forge a new destiny for Azeroth.
7. I am Varian but I am also LO'GOSH.
8. Serve with honor.
Never again will kingdom be corrupted.

Her are some of the quotes he says when you get him &*!@ed a.k.a keep clicking on him.

1. You want to compare scares.
2. You don't want to see my angry side.
3. I am two minds about all this.
4. You must have me confused with the other Varian. He's not her anymore.
5. Hmm if only was still in the Crimson Ring.

Please note that some of these quotes happen when click goodbye.

Comment by 395903

I still do not understand about this other Varian not Varian Wrynn who is he?

Comment by viruxez

As of patch 3.2 the king now has his own voice. To be honest i think he sounds too nice, he should sound like the orcslaying gladiator he really is. Some anger in the voice wouldn't hurt.

Comment by Dralas

I agree with whoever said the Alliance side should have gotten his armor. It is named after him, so why not give Alliance warriors gear that looks like his? Sounds like a brilliant idea.

Also, maybe its just me, but I would probaly follow King Varian into battle

Comment by Akario

Why does he always look so &*!@ed?
Even his armor looks &*!@ed!

Comment by KaptainKrunk

The sheer size of his chin is outstanding. He's not that bad at fighting either. A raid tried to take him down today, and they got chintercepted. Plus, he looks as if he could block Saurfang's axe with that thing.

I, for one, welcome our new king, Varian Chynn.

Comment by TheAwakened369

I wanna know one thing:

will he wait 4 years to sit on his throne like Thrall did?

Comment by 421112

actually i heard someone say too arms in a soft voice and it was definately varians aggro voice he does it sometimes when a belf ran into him thinking she was cool to bubble.

Comment by 444601

once someone has already killed him what is the respawn time?

Comment by 445357

I hate SW... they put all these kids in tight litle groups and disable their PvP... its an insult to mages!

Comment by Ethlin

Sadly he's actually one of the weaker Alliance bosses (Thrall it's so hot either sadly). Bolvar was a stronger boss. Sucks the "Main" boss from both factions is weaker campared to most of the other ones.

His whirlwind can hit for a good amount, but you can heal through it easy. And that's all he does, is the whirlwind after the initial Heroic Leap (Which is amusing to see him do).

Comment by 445184

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8khZcx5LZ-M

Solod by a Paladin, Let's use this to nerf palas! ^^

Comment by 451455

No agroo saying? bummer...

I wanted him to say somthing like this...

For Sir Lothar!

Glory to the Alliance!

For Lordaeron/Stormwind!

Here comes the Crimson Chin!

Comment by jster

Who is else semi-disappointed that his weapons/armor are not what T10 looks like at all? while some people don't like his weapons. Pop Mongoose on them and they will look BAMF.

Comment by 395903

Wonder what he looks like in Icecrown Citadel.

Comment by 227440

Of course, this was also a failing on the part of the Alliance members of that server. What manner of traitors would abandon their king?

The ones that think hes a worthless scrub. I mean cmon, hes the whole leader of the alliance and he cant even manage to take down a single horde player.he sucks.

Comment by 371504

Look at the size of this guys throne! I mean seriously! No throne should be that big!

I personally think he's compensating for something. <.< >.>

And this guy really needs to take a chill pill. He's always so angry. Still....

EDIT: thankfully it seems like our good king is calming down a bit, as can be seen after the deathbringer fight in ICC.

Comment by 358417

Apparently, Varian saves Saurfang's life in Icecrown Citadel, and allows him to take the body of his son.

So much for "Racist Varian" huh?

Comment by malletin

it appears varian is softening up abit in icecrown, where he says "stand down muradin let a grieving father pass" then muradin refuses to lets saurfang pass to see the body of the deathbringer(saurfang jr.) after you have defeated him as ally. and you also see saurfang cry then you kill saurfang jr. as horde.

Comment by 172651

Kinda funny see that he is like swapping between loads of weapons.
First off he had:
Dual wielding Cruel Barb
Then he had after some patch:
Dual Wield Quel'Serrar (Unique wep Thou)
Then When 3.1 arrived he got new weapons. There is no other swords like his but the most fun with it is, When he is in Stormwind he got Two of the same swords, But! in the Ulduar Cinematic he only got One, Two-handed Sword.
So, what's next? he will learn Titans Grip and Dualwield Shadowmourne or what?

Comment by 381360

Warning Spoilers ahead!

It seems that our Little Varian is becoming a better leader than most would have thought he actually is learning to control himself observe i read this from the spoiler page in wowhead. its what happens when alliance kill Saurfangs son in the icecrown citadel raid

High Overlord Saurfang says: Behind you lies the body of my only son. Nothing will keep me from him.
Muradin Bronzebeard says: Don't force my hand, orc. We can't let you pass.
Muradin Bronzebeard says: He... I can't do it. Get back on your ship and we'll spare your life.
King Varian Wrynn says: Stand down, Muradin. Let a grieving father pass.
High Overlord Saurfang says: I will not forget this kindess. I thank you, highness.
King Varian Wrynn says: I... I was not at the Wrathgate. But the soldiers who survived told me much of what happened. Your son fought with honor. He died a hero's death. He deserves a hero's burial.
Lady Jaina Proudmoore cries.
King Varian Wrynn says: Jaina, why are you crying?
Lady Jaina Proudmoore says: It was nothing, your majesty. Just... I'm proud of my king.
King Varian Wrynn says: Muradin, secure the deck and prepare our soldiers for an assault on the Upper Citadel. I'll send out another regiment from Stormwind.
Muradin Bronzebeard says: Let's get the move then. Move out

Sniff Sniff Maybe we'll get less Varian haters now but then again its WoW :P

Comment by 493353

he looks more cooler than the old Varian Wrynn from TBC

Comment by 204960

I am slightly confused however, the resemblance is similar to the book, BUT his weapons are incorrect. Varian Wrynn uses two swords by the name of "Shalla'tor" derried from Darnassian for "Shadow render" and Ellemayne "Reaver". He is duel-wielding Shalla'tor, the true weapon of his gladiator nature. He should be wielding Ellemayne, which is a blue glowing blade with a shorter spiked hilt, from his royal and heroic nature.

Edit, I had forgotten, in due time Onyxia had returned Varian to his original king state, and restoring his weapon to it's full state, however, the shape of Varian's weapons are still somewhat incorrect and do not resemble from the story.

Comment by 426223

Man he cant spec a warrior .. if hes duel wielding shouldn't he have two two-handers with titans grip now

Comment by HandofDeath

anyone know where to get his armor? not the weapons

Comment by Darrion

i just got finished killing him on WoWbeez(I'M NEW OK...) on a rouge named Stealthyy =D lolgot 9k gold

Comment by Armonis

His armor is unique for him, you can't have it. Just like Sylvanas.

Comment by Ghouls

He has so many guards it isn't even funny. It's almost cheating how they are walking around other places until he's attacked. At least Thrall's guards stay put in 1 room so you know where they are and expect it instead them pooping out of nowhere.

Comment by Dorf

As of patch 3.3.3 he only has 1 sword.

O.o?

SS attached

Edit: Lol? Another downrate? This is accurate info. jeez :p

Comment by 124863

So he went to the warrior trainer for a respec during the patch! Fury to Arms, better imo. But in combat he still hits as if he has an offhand and doesnt use the 2h human animation, blizz take the OH away with out tuning for the use of just one 2h

Comment by Dorf

Sigh, even Varian is going Bladestorm....

Comment by 542090

i am honored and lo'gosh he once said when i clicked on him lol

Comment by 616268

Varian may be tough when you raid Stormwind because of lots of guards and lots of players may defend Varian.

Comment by 452229

Damn, too bad he doesn't say "It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum, but I'm all out of gum..." when attacked.

Comment by Mecha

2 Manned this guy last night with a Prot Pally and a Destro Lock. Originally we wanted to pull him down the keep ramp and into one of the side halls up to the library or something so we would be out of sight, but he leashes if you try to take him into either of those halls. Ended up pulling him and taking him into the room to the left into the far back left corner, just out of view of the alliance who would be standing in the throne room. Any closer than the back left corner and guards are going to trickle in constantly and will give you away.

Tanked him against the back wall and warlock stood about 6 yards behind him. This kept him out of range of the whirlwind, but close enough where he couldn't use his heroic leap ability. Just burned him down. Took right at 20 minutes because the lock died from heroic leap + whirlwind while we were positioning him and it's a good 5-7 minute run back from eastvale logging camp at least.

Picture shows where we fought him. He was cheap and only dropped 54g :(

http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/9725/wowscrnshot071510000710.jpg
http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/5575/wowscrnshot071510000812.jpg

Comment by StaticLgtBrngr

I was standing next to this guy earlier and thinking how much I missed the glory days he had before wrath launched, dual wielding quel'serrars, ripping sunwell geared tanks to pieces with crushing blows and wiping raids out with his whirlwind, it fitted his mean look and checkered background perfectly.

http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/9881/varian.jpg

Watching him fight at 80 though feels like you're drowning in wallpaper paste :(

*raises glass* Heres to an updated Varian raid wipe pwnage in cataclysm! *ching*

At least thats what I'm hoping for.

Edit: Got my wish on the cataclysm test realm in an ironic kind of way where a bug caused him to become hostile to alliance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIWNOxAiIGI

Seems they buffed city npcs a lot health and damage wise for cata, he has over 100 million hit points and those guards he is one and two shotting have over 100k hp each so gives you an idea of how much he is hitting for.

Comment by kaiskm

Great job Blizzard, Alliance finally have a faction boss to be proud of.

Uh huh, soloable by good geared prot paladins.

Comment by 305281

This guy's really racist. He hates orcs for just enslaving him and forcing him to be a gladiator

Dude, if you have a better reason for him to hate orcs, I would LOVE to hear it. Maybe try thinking before you spew your verbal diarrhea.

Comment by 471535

As of 4.0.1...

He's now holding a meeting in Stormwind with the other leaders of the alliance, they talk about the earthquakes as a prelude to cataclysm.

I've taken screen caps of the conversations.

Amusingly, if you're on the quest line from dragonblight, jaina appears twice in the same room.

Comment by Okoth

I can't be entirely certain, but it looks like the respawn time might have been reduced. Wrynn was killed earlier this evening (I'd happened to come in as the horde were killing him). Had things to do while tabbed out of game anyway, so I left myself sitting there. King Wrynn popped back into place about 3 hours later.

Comment by 153653

King Varian Wrynn ( as all the other capital bosses ) has now been extremly buffed in latest patch. From 5,6M hp to 103M hp, thats the same health pool as Lich King in the 25man Heroic version, raiding Varian will be a big danger for the hordes due to the other boss Genn Greyman ( I think thats the worgen king or something )standing next to him plus all the Alliance players. I dont think it is possible to kill Varian before Cataclysm release since now he is classed as an lvl 85 boss which will probably 1 shot any horde that comes close.

With Pandaria here he got 523M Hp. Takes a while to get him down.

Comment by Tricks

<Heretic> on EU Al'Akir server killed the 103mill version of Wrynn dec 1st ;)

Comment by Typhron

Likes Catfish.

Comment by 708179

He may disappear during quest, when you are supposed to kill traitor Major Samuelson, providing you nasty break in leveling, since you can't continue to Twilight Highlands for next 6 hours (and also everyone who comes after you will fail since he's not there)

Noone has killed him, no horde was in sight, he simply despawned. Maybe Anduin's bubble can fail?

Comment by 92432

El Presidente is best presidente!

Comment by 147350

The First War

Varian Wrynn was born to King Llane Wrynn in the Kingdom of Azeroth and as a youth lived a joyful and prosperous life as prince of Stormwind. But all that changed when the orcs appeared from beyond the Dark Portal and attempted to destroy his homeland, thus ushering in the First War between his beloved Kingdom of Azeroth and the Horde.

Anduin Lothar, the Champion of Stormwind, rallied his countrymen and armies and gutted out a desperate attempt to hold the Horde at bay and to keep them away from King Llane, Varian, and Stormwind. While Lothar enjoyed some small success in holding back the Horde, his efforts were dashed when Garona Halforcen, who had become an ally to Stormwind, betrayed King Llane under orders from the Shadow Council and cut his heart out, giving it to Gul'dan. Varian could only watch helplessly as his father was murdered and the Horde overran his kingdom, burning its homes and slaughtering all who stood in their way. The death of his father affected him greatly, his later closest friend Arthas Menethil recalls him looking weary and ragged when he first sees him, and says that he'd "lost absolutely everything but his life."

Exodus to Lordaeron

Anduin Lothar, convinced that Stormwind could not be retaken, gathered Varian and all who remained in the city and led an escape from their homeland. Narrowly escaping by boat into the sea, they headed North while Lothar gathered his thoughts aboard his ship. Consulting with Varian and the Kirin Tor mage Khadgar, they determined that in order to preserve humanity from annihilation by the Horde they would need to warn King Terenas, ruler of Lordaeron, of the danger that loomed on the horizon.

After landing at the port of Southshore Lothar gathered Prince Varian along with Khadgar and several knights and marched towards Lordaeron. Upon arriving young Varian was greeted by King Terenas, who treated him as an equal king despite Varian's young age. King Terenas quickly offered him his pledge to stand by him until his homeland was retaken and invited him to stay with him for as long as he was willing. Although at first Varian was slightly shy being in a Kingdom he had never seen before, he quickly overcame his timidity and Varian found King Terenas' son Arthas Menethil, who was just a few years younger than he, as a great new friend and the two quickly formed a close friendship. Shortly after he began staying in Lordaeron, King Terenas formed the Alliance of Lordaeron. Under the command of Anduin Lothar, its supreme commander, this alliance was finally able to put an end to the Horde reign during the Second War. However, the victory came at a great price as Anduin Lothar was killed shortly before the war ended and would not live to see the retaking of his Kingdom of Stormwind.

Friendship with Arthas

After taking up shelter in Lordaeron, Varian quickly became friends with Arthas Menethil who was anxious to meet another young prince. Though most of the time he kept his composure, Varian once broke into tears as Arthas tried to console him about the assassination of his father. He was later recalled by Arthas as his "best friend" for much of their childhood and adult lives, and Varian frequently sparred with the less-athletic Arthas in an attempt to toughen him and make him a better paladin. They built up a friendly rivalry, and a year after Varian was crowned king, they met and sparred on the day of Arthas' ascension to the Order of the Silver Hand. Though not outwardly spiteful, Arthas frequently lamented that he was not as physically strong as Varian. During the later murder of King Terenas, Arthas recalled words that Varian once said about how King Llane was "stabbed right through the heart" moments before he plunged Frostmourne through his own father's heart. After Arthas' falling in with the Scourge and rise to become the new Lich King, Varian began to see him as the ultimate traitor to the Alliance.

Rise as king

With Stormwind retaken and slowly being rebuilt (thanks to King Terenas, who had urged the Alliance to help fund the rebuilding of Stormwind), Varian was officially crowned King of Stormwind at the age of eighteen. King Terenas himself was well-pleased with how Varian had grown into a clever and noble King, feeling a father's pride as he had grown attached to Varian over the years, considering Varian his second son. The Stonemasons, led by Edwin VanCleef, came to lend their help in rebuilding Stormwind and hoped to forge a new future for themselves, with aspirations that riches would soon follow their work's completion.

During his reign as king, Varian left Stormwind City under the stewardship of the House of Nobles and traveled to the many corners of his kingdom to protect his people from raiding orc parties, meeting with spies who were searching for the assassin Garona, and directing the restoration of his kingdom. After many months Stormwind was finished, reborn as a kingdom of majesty and architectural brilliance eclipsing even its once-pristine condition before the First War. It was during this time of renewed tranquility that Varian would marry a young, beautiful woman named Tiffin and conceive a son, Anduin, named for Lothar.

However, the Alliance soon began fracturing, and the elven Kingdom of Quel'Thalas, along with the human kingdoms of Stromgarde and Gilneas seceded. Despite this, King Varian vowed he would stand by King Terenas and the Alliance as they had stood by him in his time of need. It was also during this time that the Stonemasons who had rebuilt Stormwind demanded to be paid for their service to King Varian and the House of Nobles. However, the corrupt House of Nobles, under the influence of Katrana Prestor, refused to adequately pay the guild for its work. King Varian was unable to negotiate a resolution because the nobility held too much political power and outmaneuvered him repeatedly. Though the Stonemasons were compensated for their work, they received a fraction of the pay they had earned, and so Edwin VanCleef and the Stonemasons set to rioting in the streets of Stormwind, demanding just compensation. The riot was dangerous and chaotic and in the confusion Varian's young queen was brutally murdered. Edwin VanCleef fled Stormwind with the Stonemasons while Varian mourned Tiffin's death. He fell into a great depression but over time regained his determination and vowed to continue to create a new and better world for himself, his son and the people of Stormwind.

Third war

Varian was never seen during the Warcraft 3, though it is known that Stormwind had sent many troops to support Lordaeron during the Scourge assault. Varian agreed to give shelter to the Lordaeron refugees in Stormwind and send the armies of Stormwind to Hillsbrad to retake Southshore. It was also at this time the outpost of Chillwind Point was established between the now corrupt Plaguelands and Alterac. With the fall of Lordaeron, Varian had become the leader of the Alliance and Stormwind had become the strongest remaining human kingdom.

Abduction

After the dust had settled from the Third War, Varian journeyed to Theramore to speak with Lady Jaina Proudmoore regarding Horde/Alliance relations. En route, he was abducted by the Defias who had been told of his diplomatic trip through a spy rumored to live within the Kingdom of Stormwind itself. Rumors circulated that he was taken to Alcaz Island and was held captive there. These rumors were t

Comment by 783759

That's a rather odd statement.

Jaina Proudmoore does want peace. She just wishes the Horde and Alliance could get along. However, she also realizes that peace is not in the best interest of the Horde and Alliance leaders. What did you expect her to do? Keep Theramore out of the war in Southern Barrens entirely, allowing the Alliance forces there to be defeated by the Horde forces? Given, I'm sure Hordies would like that, but even they must agree it would be stupid of her to do. You can not truly tell me with God as your witness that your version of Jaina making peace with the Horde is just staying out of everything and letting her fellow members of the Alliance, whether they be soldiers or innocent civilians, die.

Call me an Alliance fanboy all you want, I don't mind. But if peace means backing out and letting the enemy over-run her people, it seems pretty sensible that Jaina is helping the war effort.

---
Of course I've noticed, I did the quests in Southern Barrens because I was curious about all that was going on down there. It's been said that with Thrall giving the position of Warchief to Garrosh, Theramore has decided to cast away their unofficial peace treaty, so to say, with The Horde. I find it probable that Jaina agreed with the invasion as she was worried of what Garrosh might decide to do with Dustwallow Marsh, due to its close proximity to Horde territory. It would be very unlike her to agree with the citizens of Taurajo being killed, but, pray tell, is this not very similar to the situation at Hillsbrad Foothills? Camp Taurajo may never have attacked The Alliance but it did provide support to The Horde. The Forsaken wanted to strengthen their hold on Hillsbrad, and The Alliance wants to do that as well with Southern Barrens, in order to have a strategical piece of land against the vast Horde forces. I don't expect you to like that, but it is very reasonable from The Alliance's point of view, just like the attacks on our towns are reasonable from your point of view. Edit: Who knows? Personally, I think she decided to just give up on the unofficial peace treaty since it would be unlikely that Garrosh would leave her and her forces alone, should they have never started invading Southern Barrens. If she was still going around preaching about how wrong war is and everything I'd call her a hypocrite, but I believe she has the "I really wish that this whole war between us would end." feeling, which is what most people have; the whole "war is a necessary evil" bit. Some Forsaken aren't truly loyal to The Horde, but some of them are starting to consider themselves loyal Horde members, even if they don't follow the Horde's more traditional beliefs. I would say they are a part of The Horde, but that's just me.

Comment by 4dehorde

I think the biggest difference between what happened at Taurajo and the battles at Southshore and Hillsbrad Fields is that there was a much higher civillian casualty rate at Taurajo. It was more of a massacre than a battle in my view. And I honestly do not believe Taurajo posed a threat to the Alliance invasion, while Southshore was a major threat to Forsaken and Horde interests in southern Lordaeron. A supply port and military staging ground, which Varian was intending to use for an invasion of Lordaeron before its fall.

I can understand Lady Jaina's new willingless to support the Alliance war effort. With a new warchief, aggressive in nature and still learning the ropes, she probably feels she has no choice. Though by ending the treaty I fear the Horde members who honored the agreement will feel betrayed, and rally to take up arms. As such because of what has happened, the new highway to the Southern Barrens and what Alliance troops did at Taurajo, the Horde will likely launch an all-out-assault on Theramore. In the end, Lady Jaina may have dug a grave, either for herself or Theramore. Though maybe Thrall will step in to save her. I think even after all this, they still consider each other friends, even if no longer having any chance at being allies as they preferred.

Some people may say that Hillsbrad is worse than Taurajo because the Forsaken were experimenting on prisoners of war. But as quests at the Sludge Fields reveal, it was intended to just be a prison camp. The warden there was mentally unstable and even experimented on some of his own guards. In the end, he is executed by a fellow Forsaken and a player (and a rather odd blood elf, but that's not relevant right now) for his crimes.

And it is true while at first the Forsaken only thought of the Horde as "tools to use", over time since the start of their alliance more and more Forsaken now see themselves as geniune members of the Horde, and are even proud of it too. Some see the Horde as outcasts, which they can relate too. Some orcs also share a sort-of bond with the Forsaken. As the Forsaken were slaves of the Scourge, the orcs were slaves of the Burning Legion. And now they are both free. Some orcs feel obliged to help a similarly liberated people.

Comment by 421112

Surprisingly no one knows but Varian is voiced by Jon St. John. Better known for being the voice actor of Duke Nukem

Edit: LOL someone down rated me...

Comment by Denmor

He looks more like King Varian Vrykul.

Comment by Nyteyes

I must have missed this somewhere, he used to be duel wielding swords. Why is he only wielding one currently?

Comment by Centaurian

Next time I talk to him he will ask me a question and all I will be able to tell him is . And Andiun will be standing there leaving me wondering if I should lead him into the basement of the Slaughtered Lamb or to the Stormwind Orphanage.

Comment by Quench

Varian's favorite drink is apple cider, which made from the apples found on the roads of Stormwind city. Livin' the high life.

Comment by Egrem

A short story about Varian Wrynn is now available on the official World of Warcraft site: Blood of Our Fathers.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/game/lore/leader-story/varian-wrynn/1

Comment by 884267

I read some of the lore related to him.. I will never think of him the same way again. :D

Comment by 931988

I wonder that who is the Queen of King Varian Wrynn? :) I have never seen her !

Comment by polabeard

Does anyone know what gear he is wearing?

Comment by mark4072

Does anyone know what item-ID he uses (Chest, shoulder, leggs & etc.)

Comment by XACBalistikX

I hope that when MoP comes they at least try to breathe new life into this supposed icon of Alliance leadership. To be honest, even without much time on screen, King Terenas is much more of a memorable Alliance (Human!) figure then this dude. Every Horde player I have ever spoken to doesn't know a damn thing about this guy.

The problem, I realize, is that Thrall has that legendary celebrity status offered to him by playing such a major role in Warcraft III, while the Human Campaign's primary protagonist turned out... well, to be the Lich King -_-;

As a Horde player, I realize I never got to partake in what I imagine was Wyrm's equivalent of Thrall's, and now Grommash's, early level gather-quests-that-are-somehow-cooler-because-they-came-from-the-Big-Guy. Still, I feel like JUST THROUGH PLAYING THE GAME I should have come to interact with my mortal enemy's leadership more then in one or two cutscenes (in Wrath?). I don't care much for the other lore content, books, comics, etcetera. I play the game because I want to play the game, I shouldn't have to get "the full experience" from outside sources. That's just my personal choice, of course. I mean, I should have at least HEARD of this guy a few times! Like, maybe some Horde propaganda type insults thrown his way?

I realize with Dragon Soul that Thrall's (I still don't consider Grommash to truly be the Horde Big Boss, call me crazy) undeniably epic involvement in that particular chapter must have led to some groaning and moaning from Alliance players. But I mean, its Thrall ^_^ he is the man... er, the orc. Still, they couldn't have squeezed Varian in to some epic content in Cataclysm at all? Didn't Deathwing, like, breathe fire all up in your city and eat up your children like tic-tacs (embellishment)? Shouldn't you have been present at that final, epic confrontation?

Still, I can't help but wonder what possible thing they could have planned for the Alliance that would lead Horde players to recognize this guy's stern face in a crowd. Maybe he's the guy who finally runs Grommash's big stupid face through (except my bet's on the honor going to Sylvanas, actually x_x). Or they could just end up replacing him with some kind of more awesomer dude. The anti-Grommash, if you will.

Please forgive me if I somehow missed some kind of huge exposition Horde-side involving this guy. If I did, its only because it obviously can't have been that important :P

Comment by Reignac

Varian's voice is softer now in Mists of Pandaria. After his character development in the novel Wolfheart, Varian doesn't have anger issues anymore and is much calmer.

Here is his voice in MoP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfm-aLgAjtU

Comment by 1001073

Truthfully Blizzard shoud add every aspect of king varians aurmor into the game through end game material such as a egendary set

Comment by 463454

In the MoP Beta, Varian Wrynn has 523M Health. His guards have 787K health and are all level 90 elite now.

Comment by Allakhazam

His location is in Stormwind Keep at 79.9,38.5...or right in the middle of the keep if you don't have coordinates.

Comment by Allakhazam

With the WotLK expansion, he's now in the middle of Stormwind Keep.

Comment by xLunacyx

The worst design about this is there are multiple quests that turn in to him with no alternative, meaning if a horde raid has killed Varian recently, then they'll have to wait about 6 hours for the respawn, including the lv59 deathknights who just want to keep playing their class but are now forced to wait.

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King Varian Wrynn <King of Stormwind>

This NPC can be found in Stormwind City (3).

Quotes (37)

King Varian Wrynn yells: People of Stormwind! Citizens of the Alliance! Your king speaks!
King Varian Wrynn yells: Today marks the first of many defeats for the Scourge! Death knights, once in service of the Lich King, have broken free of his grasp and formed a new alliance against his tyranny!
King Varian Wrynn yells: You will welcome these former heroes of the Alliance and treat them with the respect that you would give to any ally of Stormwind!
King Varian Wrynn yells: Glory to the Alliance!
King Varian Wrynn yells: Enough! I will not stand for this!
King Varian Wrynn says: ATTACK! FOR STORMWIND! FOR BOLVAR! FOR THE ALLIANCE!
King Varian Wrynn says: The main chamber is this way! Let's go!
King Varian Wrynn says: The time has come to make things right. To disband your treacherous kingdom of murderers and thieves. Putress was the first strike. Many more will come.
King Varian Wrynn says: What our world could be without you and your twisted Horde... It ends now, Warchief.
King Varian Wrynn says: I've waited a long time for this, Thrall. For every time I was thrown into one of your damned arenas... for every time I killed a green-skinned aberration like you... I could think of only one thing.
King Varian Wrynn says: To the throne room!
King Varian Wrynn says: You should all know, the orcs have a battle cry: LOK'TAR OGAR! It means "victory or death." Fitting...
King Varian Wrynn says: I was away for too long. My absence cost us the lives of some of our greatest heroes. Trash like you and this evil witch were allowed to roam free -- unchecked.
King Varian Wrynn yells: The hour of redemption is close at hand! Prepare yourselves!
King Varian Wrynn says: Our descent into the depths of depravity begins! Be on guard! Jaina, lend us your strength!
King Varian Wrynn yells: The march upon the Undercity begins now! Be empowered by your King's strength! Follow me, heroes! FOR THE GLORY OF THE ALLIANCE!
King Varian Wrynn says: Soon we will march upon this cursed place and cleanse it of its evil!
King Varian Wrynn yells: Onward, brothers and sisters! Destiny awaits!
King Varian Wrynn says: ONWARD!
King Varian Wrynn says: Horde. By the looks of the struggle, they are here in force - somewhere.
King Varian Wrynn says: Stay alert and on guard. There's no telling what horrors await us.
King Varian Wrynn says: What is this?! Stand your ground! Don't give them an inch!
King Varian Wrynn yells: For Bolvar! For the Alliance!
King Varian Wrynn yells: Heroes of the Alliance, your King calls! Gather behind me at the entrance to the sewers!
King Varian Wrynn says: Hidden inside this defiled city is the wretch responsible for murdering our brothers and sisters at the Wrathgate! He must be brought to justice!
King Varian Wrynn yells: Soldiers, fall in! Guard the halls!
King Varian Wrynn yells: Your aberrations are no match for the Alliance, Putress! We're coming for you!
King Varian Wrynn says: THRALL! HERE?
King Varian Wrynn says: What say you now, Putress?
King Varian Wrynn says: How much longer will we allow these savages free reign in our world?
King Varian Wrynn says: THERE!
King Varian Wrynn yells: There's nowhere to run, monster!
King Varian Wrynn says: I have seen the Horde's world. I have been inside their cities. Inside their minds...
King Varian Wrynn yells: And justice is served!
King Varian Wrynn says: ONWARD! We end this now!
King Varian Wrynn says: I know what evil lies in the hearts of orcs.
King Varian Wrynn says: Look around you, brothers and sisters. Open your eyes! Look at what they have done to our kingdom!

King Varian Wrynn <King of Stormwind>

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