Lore Spotlight - Hakkar the Blood Loa
wowhead.comPhase 2 of Season of Discovery will launch on February 8, increasing the level cap to level 40, an upgraded Level-Up Raid inside Gnomeregan, new runes, new abilities and a zone wide PvP event in Stranglethorn Vale! Blizzard's announcement video shows the sky turning red over Stranglethorn Vale, is there any lore that might reference this?
Hakkar the Blood Loa
As the Blood Loa, Hakkar the Soulflayer has been strongly associated with a red, or «blood» moon, especially in his art. According to The Embrace, a story from Folk & Fairy Tales of Azeroth, the White Lady turns crimson only when she is angry.
1500 years before the Dark Portal, the Gurubashi Trolls of Stranglethorn Vale — once, one of the most powerful empires in Azeroth — turned to Hakkar the Soulflayer, Loa of Blood, in an attempt to reclaim their former glory. Hakkar would help the Gurubashi extend their empire once again across the lower Eastern Kingdoms, but in exchange, the loa required blood — lots and lots of blood.
Thousands of living prisoners were taken to Hakkar's bloodstained shrine within the Gurubashi's capital of Zul'Gurub, where they sacrificed to the Blood Loa, whose disembodied spirit gorged endlessly on blood. In time, this began to concern the Zandalari Trolls, who realized Hakkar's bloodlust would never be sated. Worse, it was discovered there was a plot by extremist Hakkari priests — the Atal'ai — to summon Hakkar into a living form. The Zandalari knew well the danger of this — millenia ago, a similar attempt to summon Hakkar into Zandalar had caused a blood plague to sweep across their empire.
Most Gurubashi were against the summoning of Hakkar, and they banded together with the Zandalari to put a stop to this madness. Thankfully,
