As the Titans' direct representatives on Azeroth, the Guardians wielded all sorts of strange powers, and almost all had their own responsibilities. Frankly, whenever Dick thought about Ulduar's composition, he felt as though he were looking at one of those tangled pantheons from mythology.
To the mortals of Azeroth, these Guardians were little different from gods. Fortunately, these "deities" had the fundamental mission of ensuring this world's continued safety, so mortals did not need to worry about some absurd incident in which a deity suddenly appeared to destroy the world.
Every organized pantheon inevitably had a Life Goddess responsible for life. Ulduar, with its complicated division of duties, likewise had such a Life Goddess: Freya. This Guardian, who had walked the earth since life first began to multiply, had truly fulfilled a Life Goddess's duties throughout the evolution of civilization on Azeroth.
Of all the Guardians, she probably had the greatest influence on this world. Leaving everything else aside, every Wild God currently in existence had an inseparable connection to Freya. Those Wild Gods were, for the most part, creatures Freya had encountered while walking the untamed earth in the days before all things had emerged.
There was Ashamane, the black panther she had raised herself, for example, and Goldrinn, the wolf spirit whose path had also crossed hers. One could say that in that age when all things were first beginning, the Guardians maintained order throughout the world, while Freya had built the order of life little by little.
Dick and the Dragon Aspects walked through the enormous inner ring of Ulduar's front hall. Just how vast was this space? Merely looking down from the edge of the inner ring at the layers of surging darkness and sparks of Titanic energy gave one the feeling of facing the entire