
The burning lake where Ragnaros lies sleeping acts as a rift connecting to the plane of fire, allowing the malicious elementals to pass through. Though the firelord is incapable of straying far from the blazing Core, it is believed that his elemental minions command the Dark Iron dwarves, who are in the midst of creating armies out of living stone. It is the heart of Blackrock Mountain and the exact spot where, long ago in a desperate bid to turn the tide of the dwarven civil war, Emperor Thaurissan summoned the elemental Firelord, Ragnaros, into the world. The Molten Core lies at the very bottom of Blackrock Depths. įrom the Raid Areas page on the official World of Warcraft Community Site: The burning lake where Ragnaros lies sleeping acts as a rift connecting to the plane of fire, allowing the malicious elementals to pass through.Īt some point, Archmage Antonidas was studying the entrance of the Molten Core. He dwells there to this day with his elemental servants and the enslaved remnants of the Dark Iron dwarf clan. Ragnaros destroyed the city of Thaurissan and created the volcano of Blackrock Mountain. He was more successful than he could have imagined, as he released Ragnaros the Firelord from millennia of captivity under the Redridge Mountains. Near the end of the war, Thaurissan, the leader of the Dark Iron dwarves, sought to summon a powerful fire elemental to defeat the combined forces of the Bronzebeard and Wildhammer clans.

The Molten Core was created during the War of the Three Hammers more than 300 years ago.
