Two Bosses Enter ... but only One Boss Leaves, in WoW Insider's series of fantasy death matches. This season's bosses come from the five-man instances of Wrath of the Lich King.

Utgarde Pinnacle's Svala Sorrowgrave impaled The Prophet Tharon'ja of Drak'Tharon Keep in this week's Two Bosses Enter, One Boss Leaves fantasy deathmatch. Reader Talusazaroth sets the scene: "... The dueling arena is probably going to be the coolest out there. If we're giving the Vrykul her altar, we have to give the Prophet some nice ruined archways and overgrown jungle. So on one side, we have the Lich King's view portal, covered in ivy, with a tree or two and some nice, exotic plants, slowly giving way to her altar of sacrifices.

"As her alter, slightly overgrown, turns to hard stone made by the blood of many lesser Trolls, we would have stone pictographs detailing the Troll empire. The jungle on his would be half alive, half dead. So we would have blighted tropical plans spiraling up the broken archways. Oh, and birds of paradise -- got to have those flying around, getting turned into sacrifices and skeletons."

Enter the combatants, Svala Sorrowgrave and The Phophet Tharon'ja.

"Both of these bosses reek of desperation," observed reader Across. "Tharon'ja, to retain what power he has, and Sorrowgrave, to prove worthy of the power newly bestowed upon her.

"His Curse of Life is quite powerful indeed, but he's kind of fatally flawed. Tharon'ja's hold over his power is slipping. It's part of the encounter and why people return to flesh constantly. Even if the damage of the curse remains unadjusted, causing Sorrowgrave's mouth to spill over with bile and blood tears to stream down her face, the damage of her altar would seal Tharon'ja's fate the moment he lost control and returned her to flesh.

"Plus, she's kind of fighting for major kudos from the Lich King here. Killing the Prophet is what he wants done, and instead of rewarding Drakuru (who obviously wasn't getting the job done, if she's here to do it), he may very well confer additional power to her and perhaps turn her into a DPS check for Naxxramas some day. She'd be a cool 10/25-man boss."

Vote in the next deathmatch (with more bosses from the five-man Wrath of the Lich King instances) when Two Bosses Enter returns later today.

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