Now It's Personal: With Wrath of the Lich King, said Metzen, the team learned that it was important to focus on a primary villain. Burning Crusade's Illidan was a "kickass badguy," but he wasn't in your path and came out of nowhere for his Black Temple. In contrast, the Lich King was omnipresent, and in characters' faces since Level 70. They wanted to give wow gold players a personal reason to kick his ass, and they're carrying that philosophy into Cataclysm - with classic Warcraft nemesis Deathwing.Deathwing, who debuted in Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal, was an ancient dragon and guardian of the Earth, who was driven mad by the whispers of the Old God chained beneath Azeroth. His power began to rip him apart, with his blood running with lava, and his agents were forced to brand iron plates onto his hide to hold him together. Though Deathwing was sleeping beneath the earth in Deepholm, the elemental plane of earth, he awakens - and his explosive eruption back onto the plane of Azeroth is the Cataclysm. With tsunamis, storms, and volcanoes, no part of Azeroth is left untouched - "Well, maybe Westfall," joked Metzen. Deathwing is, in fact, the Worldbreaker.The people of Gilneas barred themselves up beyond the Greymane Wall to protect themselves from the Scourge and the plague in Warcraft III. However, Archmage Arugal (known to players from Shadowfang Keep) brought the curse of the Worgen to the land, and it made its way past the wall.