Sylvanas Windrunner (boss)

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Sylvanas Windrunner is the final boss in Priest's Book of Heroes adventure.

Second phase[edit | edit source]

Varok Saurfang

Hero Powers[edit | edit source]

Sylvanas Windrunner Varok Saurfang
Equip Windrunner's Bow
Bold Determination

Player's hero[edit | edit source]

Anduin
Equip Shalamayne

Special cards[edit | edit source]

Sylvanas Windrunner

Hero Power
Windrunner's Bow
Skeleton
Skeletal Enforcer
Deck
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Story 03 Baine.png
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Story 05 Lorthemar.png
Special events
Story 05 BlightCauldron.png
Story 05 WarMachine.png
Story 05 Nathanos.png
Story 05 Durja.png

Varok Saurfang

Story 03 HordeArmorsmith.png
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Story 04 BlackrockRaider.png

Player

Story 05 Alleria.png
Story 05 Mekkatorque.png
Story 05 Greymane.png
Story 05 JainaMinion.png
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Story 05 FaithsDefender.png
Story 05 RepairBot.png
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Story 05 AllianceCommander.png
Story 05 SiegeTower.png
Story 05 Apotheosis.png
Story 05 Shalamayne.png
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Decks[edit | edit source]

The below classes are listed purely for reference, and have no effect on the boss' use of the cards during the battle.

Sylvanas Windrunner Varok Saurfang Anduin Wrynn
Class Card Quantity Class Card Quantity Class Card Quantity
Boss Undercity Huckster 2 Boss  Horde Armorsmith 2 Boss  Faith's Defender 3
 Val'kyr Shadowguard 2 Terrifying Roar 2 Genn Greymane 1
Baine Bloodhoof 1  Blackrock Raider 2  Alliance Commander 5
Marked Shot 2 Warrior  Whirlwind 2 Apotheosis 4
DH, Hunter  Blood Herald 2  Cleave 2 Mass Resurrection 2
Hunter  Deadly Shot 2  Cruel Taskmaster 2 Priest  Binding Heal 2
 Explosive Shot 2 Charge 2  Flash Heal 2
 Unleash the Beast 2  Feat of Strength 2  Holy Smite 3
 Crushing Walls 2  Frothing Berserker 2  Power Word: Shield 2
Priest  Coffin Crasher 2  Mortal Strike 2  Holy Nova 4
Rogue  Undercity Valiant 2  Arcanite Reaper 2  Holy Fire 2
 Plaguebringer 2  Brawl 2
Warrior  Orgrimmar Aspirant 2  Armored Goon 2
Neutral  Bloodmage Thalnos 1 Neutral  Frostwolf Grunt 2
 Amani War Bear 2  Strongman 1
 Linecracker 2  Batterhead 1

Notes[edit | edit source]

  • This is a three-stage battle. At first stage the player has to destroy Sylvanas' four special minions. At the second stage - to fight with Varok Saurfang, and at the third stage - to kill Sylvanas.
  • When the stage is changed, both bosses get a full decks and a copies of random cards of these decks in the amount equal to the number of cards in hand at the previous stage.
  • Sylvanas Windrunner starts with  Horde War Machine on the board.
  • Sylvanas Windrunner is Immune at the first stage.
  •  Windrunner's Bow summons  Skeleton and  Skeletal Enforcer at stages 1 and 3 respectively.
  • The player always gets  Holy Smite,  Flash Heal,  Genn Greymane on mulligan.
    • These cards can be replaced with  Apotheosis,  Binding Heal,  Holy Fire. The replacement takes place from left to right (i.e., if the player replaced one card, they will receive Apotheosis regardless of whether Holy Smite or Genn Greymane was replaced).
  • The player always draws the cards on first four turns in the next order:
    • Turn 1 -  Faith's Defender
    • Turn 2 -  Power Word: Shield
    • Turn 3 -  Alliance Commander
    • Turn 4 -  Holy Nova
      • If the player draws another card per turn, the next card in the list will be drawn. Further cards drawn on this turn will be random.
      • If the player has drawn more than one card per turn, a random one will be drawn on the next turn.
  • The player always draws special minions after the boss minions are destroyed:
  • Sylvanas Windrunner always draws  Lor'themar Theron after  Nathanos Blightcaller is spawned.
  •  Crushing Walls is always the first card drawn by Sylvanas Windrunner at the start ot stage 3.

Dialogue[edit | edit source]

Before match

Anduin Wrynn (present)
▶️I recovered under my father's care. In time, Garrosh was made to atone for his crimes.
▶️Then the unthinkable happened... my father fell in battle. I learned to rule in his stead as I grieved for him.
▶️And all the while, a darkness festered within the Horde... an evil beyond redemption... Sylvanas Windrunner. I would need everything I had learned to confront her.

Stage 1: Sylvanas Windrunner

Introduction

Anduin Wrynn
▶️It is over, Sylvanas!
Sylvanas Windrunner
▶️You have no idea what you're up against. We've only just begun!

Emote Response

Sylvanas Windrunner
▶️Enough meddling!

Hero Power

Sylvanas Windrunner
▶️Suffer well.
▶️Abandon hope.
▶️Destroy them!

Idle

Sylvanas Windrunner
▶️Your whole life devoted to peace, and one little tree brings you to battle.
▶️How much will you sacrifice today, boy king?
▶️All of your most loyal friends are here with you. A pity if you lost some...

Turn 1

Genn Greymane
▶️I've never seen anything like that war machine...
Anduin Wrynn
▶️Bring it down!

Player's cards

Attacking with  Shalamayne
Anduin Wrynn
▶️How's this?
▶️For the Alliance!
▶️Injustice will not stand.
 Alleria Windrunner
Sylvanas Windrunner
▶️Greetings, sister.

 Nathanos Blightcaller

Nathanos Blightcaller
▶️It is you who is outnumbered now.

 Horde War Machine is destroyed

Sylvanas Windrunner
▶️Let the Blight rain upon our enemies!
 Blight Cauldron appears on the enemy board
Varok Saurfang
▶️There must be another way...
Sylvanas Windrunner
▶️SILENCE!

Blight Cauldron at 20 HP

Genn Greymane
▶️My king... we cannot endure.
Jaina Proudmoore
▶️The Horde will pay for its crimes!
Jaina deals 99 damage to all enemy minions
Sylvanas Windrunner
▶️Darkspear, to arms!
 Windseeker Durja appears on the enemy board and two Spellzerkers on either side of it

Windseeker Durja is destroyed

 Nathanos Blightcaller appears on the enemy board and two Abominations on either side of it
Nathanos Blightcaller
▶️Your time is up, King Anduin!
Anduin Wrynn
▶️Alliance, hold your ground!

Nathanos Blightcaller is detroyed

Sylvanas Windrunner
▶️Cover our retreat, High Overlord.
Sylvanas Windrunner is replaced by Varok Saurfang

Stage 2: Varok Saurfang

Turn 1

Anduin Wrynn
▶️This isn't your war, Saurfang...
Varok Saurfang
▶️MY LIFE FOR THE HORDE!

Emote Response

Varok Saurfang
▶️Diplomacy has never been my strong suit.

Hero Power

Varok Saurfang
▶️I am war itself.
▶️Glory to the Blackrock clan!
▶️Lok'tar ogar!

Idle

Varok Saurfang
▶️There is nothing without honor. I must never forget that.
▶️Even I do not know how far our Warchief will go in this war.

Stage 3: Sylvanas Windrunner

Varok Saurfang is defeated

Anduin Wrynn
▶️There is no honor in killing him. Take him away.
Varok Saurfang is replaced by Sylvanas Windrunner
Sylvanas Windrunner
▶️You wield your father's sword. Are you trying to make him proud?
Anduin Wrynn
▶️You don't deserve to speak his name.

Sylvanas Windrunner at 20 HP

Sylvanas Windrunner
▶️You claim you fight for peace... but we are both of us forged by war.
Anduin Wrynn
▶️I was forged. You were cursed.

Death

Sylvanas Windrunner
▶️You've won... nothing.
Anduin Wrynn (present)
▶️We defeated Sylvanas and weakened the Horde, though our victory came at great cost.
▶️In my heart, I knew that I'd found my warrior's spirit, despite my pledge to peace.
▶️When I was young, my father always saved me. And nothing has changed.

Defeat

Sylvanas Windrunner
▶️Do not fret... You won't be dead for long...

Lore[edit | edit source]

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Sylvanas Windrunner, styled variously as "the Dark Lady" and "the Banshee Queen," is the former Warchief of the Horde and the former supreme ruler of the Forsaken, one of the most powerful factions of undead on Azeroth. In life, Sylvanas was the ranger-general of Silvermoon, whose leadership acumen and martial prowess were without equal. During the Third War, she bravely defended Quel'Thalas from a Scourge invasion led by the death knight Arthas Menethil. Ultimately, however, Sylvanas fell in battle. Rather than honor the ranger-general with a quick death, Arthas ripped out her soul and transformed it into a banshee: a cunning and vengeful agent of  The Lich King empowered by hate.
When the Lich King's control over his minions weakened, Sylvanas broke away from her tyrannical master's control and reclaimed her body. Vowing to avenge her death, Sylvanas gathered other renegade undead and set out to wage war against the Scourge. Thus it was that the Forsaken came to be, with Sylvanas as their queen. Under Sylvanas' command, the Forsaken joined the Horde and later helped bring about the Lich King's fall in the frozen wastes of Northrend.
Yet many challenges still lay ahead for Sylvanas. After an uprising within her ranks that killed other members of the Horde, the banshee queen is now mistrusted by many of her allies. While Sylvanas maintains that her loyalty to the Horde is undiminished, some of the faction's members are uncertain about her true intentions.
After the fall of the Lich King, Sylvanas came to the shocking realization that she, like Arthas before her, was damned to an eternity of darkness and torture in the afterlife. After entering into a pact with the Val'kyr, Sylvanas was able to regain her place in the realm of the living for as long as her Val'kyr survive. Knowing the dark fate that will inevitably befall her, Sylvanas considers her people a bulwark against the horrifying darkness that awaits her in the end. Following this, Sylvanas has launched an aggressive attack into the regions of Lordaeron and the greater Eastern Kingdoms not directly under her control, in an attempt to conquer the continent and secure it for the Forsaken.
After being mortally wounded during the battle for the Broken Shore, Warchief  Vol'jin declared Sylvanas as his successor with his dying breath, leaving her to lead the Horde against the invading forces of the Burning Legion. Following the Legion's defeat, Sylvanas now leads the Horde against the Alliance in a war that spans all of Azeroth.
After being challenged to mak'gora by defector  Varok Saurfang, Sylvanas managed to overcome him in combat, but in the process revealed to the rest of her Horde loyalists that they truly meant nothing to her. Ultimately, Sylvanas fled from Orgrimmar and abandoned the Horde to pursue her own agenda alongside those still loyal to her cause.

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