As he entrusted the position of Speaker to Ye Ting, Antonidas also handed him a ring.
The ring was a magical item, a token representing the Speaker's duties. Within the Kirin Tor, whoever held this ring could exercise the Speaker's authority.
As long as Ye Ting possessed this ring, it signified that Antonidas had entrusted his power to him.
Of course, stealing the ring would be useless. Special magic had been placed upon it, and only a specific incantation could activate it. That incantation was known only to each successive Speaker.
Since Gul'dan's Skull had already been snatched away by the undead, Archimonde's summoning was practically inevitable.
Archimonde was one of the upper echelons of the Burning Legion, which represented the power of fel, one of the six primordial forces in the World of Warcraft universe.
The six primordial forces—Light and Shadow, Life and Death, Fel and Arcane—stood in pairs of opposites, symbolizing the essence of this world.
Archimonde and the other leaders of the Burning Legion were to fel what the Titans who created the world were to Arcane. They could be said to be incarnations and spokesmen for these forces' wills in the material world.
In a world where true gods did not exist, the representatives of these primordial powers held positions almost akin to true gods.
Although Ye Ting could slaughter Earth's gods in the Type-Moon world, that was based on the rules of the Type-Moon world.
In World of Warcraft, Ye Ting did not dare guarantee that he could confront someone like Archimonde head-on.
He had never intended to do so from the start.
His plan to save Dalaran had been devised entirely to deal with the worst-case scenario. It required mobilizing all of Dalaran's manpower and resources, as well as sufficient time.
Thus, after entrusting