Welcome to Know Your Lore, where each week Alex Ziebart brings you a tasty little morsel of lore to wrap your mind around. Sweet, sweet lore. Mmmm.
Today we're going to take a step back from out pre-emptive study of
Wrath subjects and look at something a little more old school. We'll get back to catching up for
Wrath of the Lich King soon enough, don't you worry about that. I'm far too excited about the expansion to not come back to it soon.
Today we're going to look at Hakkar the Soulflayer, not to be confused with
Hakkar the Houndmaster which apparently came
first in the lore, but I don't really care which of them came first because the Blood God (that one's the Soulflayer) is way cooler. What the Soulflayer actually
is is largely a mystery. He's a god, certainly, but Azeroth has many flavors of gods and demigods. He is probably just a Loa god, but our buddy
Brann Bronzebeard seems to think he's more than that. Specifically, Hakkar might be the son of an Old God.
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