Water Elemental Lord

Biodata

Power Progression

Rank and Authority

• Territorial power: Becoming an elemental lord provides a power base and the ability to build an army. Neptulon promises Azathoth territory befitting the position 138.
• Separate from skull rank: Lordship is not restricted to skull-tier bosses. Azathoth becomes a lord without a single skull, while the one-skull Kukuker remains an Elemental Elder 151.
• Unusually low-level appointment: Azathoth receives the title at level 35; he has not previously encountered an Elemental Lord below level 50 151.
• Limited numbers: The Water Elemental Plane has only about a dozen elemental lords when Neptulon offers Azathoth the promotion 138.
• Political divisions: Water Elemental Lords do not form a united bloc. Azathoth considers the possibility that Neptulon might grant him another lord’s territory and expect him to seize it 151.
• Faction interface: Lordship unlocks rankings covering all Elemental Lords. Azathoth initially places thirty-seventh, with Hydra City listed as his territory 151.

Position in the Elemental Hierarchy

Obtaining the Title

Elemental Lord’s Crown

• The first Elemental King forged the crown using wind, fire, water, and earth. It was intended to honor elemental elders who achieved great wartime victories 150.
• Its active effect, Lord’s Coronation, crowns the wearer an elemental lord. The legendary story item has no level requirement and binds on equip 150.
• Neptulon sends the crown to Azathoth after the campaign against Hydra City. When equipped, it merges with his watery body and forms a crown-shaped feature on his head 150 151.

Other Documented Routes

• Seed of Elements: Choosing water during Azathoth’s first mutation would have raised him one rank into a Water Elemental Lord at level five. He rejects this option in favor of becoming a boiling water elemental 83.
• Road of Vengeance: Killing Ragnaros awards the Water Elemental Lord template and the title Child of the Plane. If the recipient already has the lord template, it instead raises their template by one rank 99 281.
• Scepter of Elemental Domination: Azathoth uses the artifact’s rank-raising function to make Wotkud an elemental lord 290.

Appearance

• The classic Water Elemental Lord form has a roughly humanoid upper body and a whirlpool lower body. Azathoth’s version also displays a faint red glow in its chest 152.
• Elemental lords cannot transform into humanoids, but can make their bodies look more human and use certain specialized equipment 152.
• Azathoth’s customized appearance includes a humanlike face and sharply defined muscles formed from water 152.
• After promotion, Azathoth stands seven or eight meters tall and can absorb additional water to exceed ten meters 153.
• The related Sewage Elemental Lord form used by Big Water Cunt is green and more than ten meters tall 323.

Abilities & Skills

Leader Aura

A passive command benefit granted when Azathoth becomes an Elemental Lord 151.

• Nearby units belonging to the same faction receive a 10% attribute boost 151.
• The coronation also grants an additional 100% health bonus; Azathoth’s resulting level-35 profile lists 570,000 health 151.

Water and Frost Magic

Water Elemental Lords are shown using powerful frost attacks and large-scale water manipulation 150 280 393.

• Frozen Orb: A boss-upgraded Frost Orb that fires Frostbolts around itself while traveling. Xiao Yu previously witnessed a Water Elemental Lord use it 150.
• Wave manipulation: Neptulon’s accompanying lords raise towering waves and drive lake water toward the Elemental Throne like a moving wall 280.
• Fleet destruction: Seven Water Elemental Lords join Neptulon in unleashing a tsunami against the Alliance and Horde fleets 393.

Elemental Gate

An ultimate lord skill exclusive to elemental lords, learnable at level 60 272.

• Described as theoretically an elemental lord’s strongest skill 272.
• Its demonstrated user is the Fire Elemental Lord Zhurong; no Water Elemental Lord casting it is shown in the supplied account 272.

Holder-Specific Abilities

• Azathoth’s boiling-water skill set: At coronation, he possesses Frostfire Bolt, Biting Wind Protection, Frost Nova, Deep Sea Maelstrom, Summon Minion: Boiling Water Elemental, Fission Orb, and Elemental Absorption. These belong to his individual build rather than constituting a universal lord skill list 137 151.
• Wotkud’s conventional skill set: His Lost Temple encounter uses skills described as standard for Water Elemental Lords, with their exceptional power making execution and player skill more important than tricks 390.

Known Holders

History

Azathoth’s Independent Lordship

Neptulon promises Azathoth lordship and territory in exchange for defeating the naga and destroying Hydra City. After receiving the crown, Azathoth instead proposes retaining the city as his fief and a defensive barrier for the Water Elemental Plane 138 151.

The arrangement deteriorates when Neptulon orders him to return the Water Elemental Legion from the Prime Material Plane. Azathoth publicly refuses, reducing his relationship with the Throne of the Tides to indifferent. Neptulon’s forces later seize Hydra City 215 249.

Elemental Kingship and Reorganization

Azathoth opens the Elemental Throne’s ascension ritual, giving every elemental lord the right to compete for the kingship during its twenty-four-hour duration. Neptulon brings several Water Elemental Lords to contest his attempt 277 279.

After becoming king, Azathoth promotes trusted followers, appoints Wotkud Guardian of the Ocean, and establishes the Lords’ Council. He leaves Hydra City under the Sea Elemental Lord Monari rather than reclaiming it for himself 290.

Expansion Conflict

Wotkud becomes the Lost Temple’s final regular boss and guards it in Azathoth’s name. Ironblood Heart eventually claims his first defeat after three days of fighting 362 390.

Other holders take opposing roles in the wider conflict: seven Water Elemental Lords help Neptulon destroy the Alliance and Horde fleets, while Qixi Jun later joins Elemental Will’s effort to strip Azathoth of the Elemental King title and restart the ritual 393 411.