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The Demon Soul's destruction at Grim Batol broke the power that had helped keep Alexstrasza captive. Alexstrasza had been forced to provide offspring for Horde dragon riders, a practice described in the Warcraft II manual. The rescue is remembered through the roles of Rhonin and the allies drawn into his mission, together with the actions of the dragons themselves.
Full History
The Demon Soul's destruction at Grim Batol broke the power that had helped keep Alexstrasza captive. In the original novel Day of the Dragon, a rescue effort becomes entangled with the Dragonmaw's control of the Dragonqueen and the surviving dragonflights. The end of the artifact marks more than one prisoner being freed. It closes a chain of domination reaching back to Neltharion's betrayal during the War of the Ancients.
Alexstrasza had been forced to provide offspring for Horde dragon riders, a practice described in the Warcraft II manual. Even after the Second War, Grim Batol remained associated with the captivity of the red flight. The Demon Soul gave her jailers extraordinary leverage, and its continued existence endangered the Aspects as well as the Dragonqueen. Breaking the artifact therefore struck at the foundation of that control rather than merely defeating an ordinary garrison.
The rescue is remembered through the roles of Rhonin and the allies drawn into his mission, together with the actions of the dragons themselves. The breaking of the Demon Soul allowed the balance among the surviving Aspects to change and Alexstrasza's captivity to end. The account belongs before the original World of Warcraft starting world; it must not be confused with any later player action or with revelations introduced in much later dragon histories.
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