Why did Rex want to get to the bottom of the Naga's origins? Because he was afraid. There was something he feared.
The Worgen.
Yes, keeping the Kingdom of Gilneas from turning into Worgen had been simple. Rex had taken the right approach back then. As long as the Kingdom of Gilneas could hold off the Undead, who would summon the dangerously unpredictable Worgen?
Only those driven into a corner would choose such a course.
Take the Dark Iron Dwarves, for example. They had now become Ragnaros's slaves, but they had once been immensely powerful. When they attacked Ironforge, however, they faced a combined assault from the Wildhammer Dwarves and the Bronzebeard Dwarves.
There were only three great dwarven tribes in all. It was the attack by the other two that had brought about the Dark Iron Dwarves' defeat. Before the Wildhammer Dwarves joined the war, the Dark Iron Dwarves had won victory after victory and had been on the verge of taking Ironforge and driving the Bronzebeard Dwarves out.
Facing the assault of both tribes, the Dark Iron Dwarves were no match for them. In the end, they chose an extreme course: summoning powerful beings from another dimension, hoping to rely on them to turn the tide of battle.
There was nothing inherently wrong with that choice.
But once those beings from another dimension had been summoned, getting them to obey the Dark Iron Dwarves was no easy matter. That depended on just how principled those powerful beings were.
It was a gamble, and the Dark Iron Dwarves were gambling.
Clearly, the Dark Iron Dwarves had lost that gamble. The being they ultimately summoned was Ragnaros.
This Fire Elemental lord was an extraordinarily powerful being. In particular, he had accumulated power in the elemental plane for countless years. The