Malygos the Blue

[Mike]

http://www.wowpedia.org/Malygos


I don't really understand this. How is he eternal AND killable at the same time?

[Maulbane]

God bless them.

[Knock]

Eternals aren't invincible- Cenarius was killed. They're immortal in the sense that they live forever and are bound to the mortal world.

[Bovel]

Eternal can also mean that only an avatar dies if killed, not the actual being. Like how all the ancients who died in the War of Ancients roam the Emerald Dream now and Cenarius aids Malfi against the Nightmare.

[SweetSpirit]

Plus Wowwiki meant they are killable in-game.

For the longest time now I've considered the lore of Warcraft does not equal the happenings of WoW to the fine point. <-<

Still, I agree with the previous posters. Mostly the part about how their avatar in Azeroth merely dies, not their force of being.

[Piroska]

Well, drawing from official sources of information, such as the official World of Warcraft encyclopedia:

Many immortal and near-immortal creatures exist in Warcraft. A number of these creatures are fundamentally incorporeal beings, but others lead a primarily physical existence.

The Nature of Immortality

Immortals in Warcraft are generally resistant to sickness and injury, but immortality does not confer invulnerability. Immortal beings can still be wounded and even killed. Indeed, many immortals have perished over the course of recorded history, particularly during the War of the Ancients. The death of an immortal is just as real as any mortal death and, barring a few extraordinary cases, just as permanent.

What, then, does the term immortality mean in Warcraft? Immortal creatures essentially stop aging when they reach adulthood, and thus, they cannot die merely from old age. In addition, they tend to be more powerful than most mortal creatures, although this tendency does not always hold true. Even godhood itself is no guarantee of superior might. Consider the titans' defeat of the Old Gods. The titans are not gods, but their vast power allowed them to imprison the Old Gods far below the surface of Azeroth.

Furthermore, immortality need not be a lasting state of affairs. The night elves, for example, were immortal for thousands of years, but sacrificed their immortality during the Third War. Today they are a mortal race, and they are accordingly classified as such, rather than listed herein.

There are also quite a few races and individuals who have attained immortality after leading a mortal existence. Most demons in the Burning Legion were once mortal creatures.

Last but not least, there are creatures that can be considered nearly immortal. Technically these beings are mortal, but for one reason or other, they have a lifespan that greatly exceeds several millennia. Indeed, these mortal creatures might even be considered effectively immortal due to some external factor, as with Ysera's consorts, who almost never emerge from the Emerald Dream.

Included in this category are demigods, demons, and gods. From the article on gods, we find:

There are no hard and fast rules to define what it means to be a god in Warcraft, save that all gods are immortal. Gods can be fundamentally incorporeal, like Elune, or they may have physical bodies.

Gods are neither omniscient nor omnipotent. Take for example the case of the Soulflayer. Many of the trolls in the Gurubashi empire rose up against his bloody rule. They succeeded in destroying his avatar and banishing him from the world of Azeroth. Also, the benevolent titans, though not gods themselves, cast a magical slumber upon the Old Gods and imprisoned them far below the surface of the world.

It is possible for a god to exert influence over several locations simultaneously. Yet the power of a god is limited. Otherwise, of course, the Old Gods could not have been imprisoned. Nonetheless, an imprisoned, sleeping, or otherwise enfeebled god may still have an effect--conscious or not--on the god's surroundings. The development of the qiraji is said to be the result of just such an incidental influence.

Can one ever truly destroy a god, putting a lasting end to its existence? Unfortunately that question has departed the realm of philosophy and become a matter of vital concern. Not long ago, the priests of Hakkar the Soulflayer succeeded in summoning their hungry god physically into Azeroth. Worse, C'Thun has awakened, freed itself, and reemerged from the planet's depths. Many valiant heroes are banding together in the hope of defeating these two evil gods.

And, to tie it all together, we look to WoWWiki's article on eternals, which states:

Eternals are Azeroth's immortal beings.

If immortal beings -- which, as you may recall, does not infer invulnerability -- can be killed (and that includes gods!), it's not a far step to imagine that the head of a dragon aspect may die as well. Remember, dragons are eternals, which is another name for immortals, and immortals can die.

[Wiseman]

I miss Malygos.

They killed my favorite Lore character.

*sniffle*

[Harmonic]

Don't necromance old topics, especially short lived ones.