Mini-Lore: Dwarf Warlocks

Troll warlocks are fairly obvious. Their a voodoo worshiping race with a penchant for the dark arts, even their shamanism has a darker lore tint to it than the orc and tauren versions. Warlock was really a natural for them all along.

Dwarves, however, spawned a lot of WTF moments up there with Tauren paladins. However, things actually make a reasonable amount of sense in light of new Beta explorations. For example, take this image of the Ironforge throne. Magni Bronzebeard is out of commission, and now the dwarf capital is ruled by a council of three: Muradin Bronzebeard, representing the Dwarves of Ironforge and possibly the Frostborn as well, High Thane Falsted Wildhammer, representing the shamanistic Wildhammer dwarves, and somewhat unexpected, Princess Moira Thaurissan, representing the Dark Iron Dwarves. These are the three factions that the dwarves split into during the War of the Three Hammers after the death of the last Anvilmar king.

As you may remember from BRD, Moira was the Bronzebeard princess forced to marry Emperor Thaurissan of the Dark Iron dwarves. A special quest in BRD requires you to kill the emperor but spare the princess. That storyline has at long last been revisited. As the technical heir to the Dark Iron throne, it appears Moira has reunited at least part of the defeated Dark Iron clan with Ironforge.

What does this have to do with dwarf warlocks, you ask? Everything, I say. The Dark Iron dwarves are notable as the only dwarf clan to dabble in the dark arts. They have a number of warlocks in Blackrock Deeps and elsewhere. Doom'rel, one of the Seven who summoned Ragnaros at Blackrock Mountain, was a warlock, as is Balgaras, the leader of their forces in the Wetlands.