In the truest sense, Ulduar was a mysterious region made up of entirely different regions of space-time, reassembled, overlapped, and arranged together in a way mortals could scarcely comprehend. They were housed within the city of Ulduar, together forming the mysterious Titans City.
Strictly speaking, the Front Hall and the Training Grounds were not on the same plane, so rapid travel between them required the special teleporters scattered throughout Ulduar. The Titans who had built Ulduar had imposed strict space-time barriers between these regions. Even the most powerful mage in the mortal world, Malygos, the Aspect of the Blue, could not break through those barriers from within.
After the blue starlight generated by the teleporter shattered, the party appeared in Ulduar's Front Hall, which no one had visited for tens of thousands of years. Dick, the first to step out of the starlight, looked around, then crouched and brushed his hand across the floor. A thick layer of dust and ash lay there, a sign of this place's isolation from the world.
"No matter how magnificent the past, it truly cannot withstand merciless time."
The Bronze Dragon Aspect's observation was distinctive indeed. He strolled over to a nearby platform and lightly brushed a hand across it. Mixed into the drifting dust were the remains of ornaments that had peeled off the ornate walls. His fingers touched a sculpture made of pure gold, and at that light touch alone, it rapidly crumbled into golden sand across the floor.
Nozdormu's observation was correct. This was a place forgotten by time. Though it still maintained its old order on the surface, time had, in fact, utterly destroyed these things on a deeper, symbolic level.
Malygos raised his hand. Exquisitely controlled arcane power stirred gentle breezes, stripping all the dust from the floor. Once