The Roots Beneath Khaz Algar - What We Suspect So Far
The War Within takes us deep beneath Azeroth's surface. In the lowest zone, Azj-Kahet, mysterious great roots can be found — but what are these roots? And why are they so special?
The Great Roots
Early on in the Azj-Kahet storyline, we meet Orweyna, a Harronir who enlists our help when a contamination of Black Blood threatens the great roots of… something important.
In fact, we learn that the Harronir camp beneath these roots, which they act as guardians for. In the Wildcamp Or'lay, We meet some Arathi who have only just come across the Harronir camp themselves. They make several comments about the strangeness of the place — how it's filled with unusual wild growth that they cannot understand, and the sense of peace and calm that they can feel.
For the most part, the Harronir are very secretive — hinting only that their role is a vitally important one — but in a side quest, a root ancient tells us how once, the area was a great lake — until the roots ruptured its floor, draining the water away. The ancient also hints at the importance of the Harronir — and, by extension, the roots that they guard.
As part of a quest, Goehi also gives us Goehi's Root, which indicates Goehi — and presumably the roots he's associated with — is, well, ancient.
The lushness of the area and importance, age, and size of the roots suggests, quite strongly, that these are the roots of a World Tree. Specifically, they are likely the roots of the very first World Tree, Elun'ahir.
The Legend of Elun'Ahir
We first learned about the legend of Elun'Ahir from an Emerald Dream lore book from Patch 10.2. According to this story, Eonar was gifted a branch
