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Dar'Khan Drathir
- Author(s)
- BaiyuGalan, Stefan.K
- Tags
- Fantasy, Hero, High Elf / Blood Elf, Undead, Open Source
- Size
- 332.02 KB
- Rating
- Downloads
- 498
- Created
- Nov 25, 2024
- Updated
- Nov 28, 2024
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- 2
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Background Story
Dar'Khan Drathir was once an esteemed magister, who would become one of Quel'Thalas' greatest traitors. He was a talented mage, but unbridled ambition made him arrogant and vindictive. He never felt that he received the recognition he deserved. As bitterness filled his heart and darkened his emotions, his limitless ambition, combined with his egotistical mindset, made him an easy pawn for the Lich King Ner'zhul. Empowered by the treacherous Arthas Menethil himself, Dar'Khan opened the way for the Scourge to enter Quel'Thalas and ravage the land in their march to the Sunwell.
As a magister of Quel'Thalas, Dar'Khan was sent to aid Priestess Liadrin in uncovering the mystery behind a runestone malfunction, though was captured and slated for torture. Beaten and exhausted, Dar'Khan struggled to free the group, though eventually succeeded in mustering the energy for a teleportation spell. The experience was the start of a friendship between himself, Liadrin, Galell, and future Regent Lord Lor'themar Theron, all of whom had survived the ordeal together.
Dar'Khan was a highly ambitious and egotistical elf, feeling he was never duly rewarded for his deeds. Despite his high social status of magister, he was just one of many, not enough to sate his greed. He greatly coveted the position of Grand Magister of Quel'Thalas, though was unable to attain it. Lack of recognition for his part in high elf society coupled with his own egotistical nature, pushed him down a dark path and he began to secretly develop his own magics, as well as an obsession with the Sunwell. Frustrated by a lack of progress, Dar'Khan was elated when during the Third War Prince Arthas reached out to aid him, and pledged his loyalty to the despoiler of Lordaeron.
Manipulated and strengthened by his "Blessed Lord", it was his friendship with Lor'themar that allowed Dar'Khan to help Arthas and his army slip through the Thalassian defenses, slaughtering his own comrades in the process, all the while believing that Arthas was helping him to fulfill his desire for the Sunwell's power. Dar'Khan was tasked with binding the Sunwell, to ensure Ban'dinoriel could not protect the kingdom from the undead onslaught. Dar'Khan left for the Sunwell Plateau, and murdered several members of the Convocation of Silvermoon; though the first kill was difficult, he came to revel in the carnage as his murders became more frequent. Dar'Khan succeeded in his mission, though could not help but have a "taste" of the power that awaited him.
After the resurrection of Kel'Thuzad, Dar'Khan - having attempted to betray Arthas, just as he had betrayed his own people - was killed by the death knight, a fact that pleased the recently-raised banshee Sylvanas Windrunner to no end. Arthas subsequently raised him into the Scourge and put him in charge of the citadel of Deatholme in what was now known as the Ghostlands.
The corrupted Sunwell would be later destroyed by Prince Kael'thas, but Dar'Khan realized that some of the magical pond's power had survived the incident. Drathir was sent by the Lich King to track down where the remaining magic had gone.
Following years of fruitless searching he finally neared his goal, detecting the Sunwell's presence near a peasant girl named Anveena Teague, who had also drawn the attention of members of the blue dragonflight. Dar'Khan disguised himself as a human prince and hired the dragon hunter Harkyn Grymstone to hunt down any dragon that would be drawn to the Sunwell's essence.
Dar'Khan, now skilled in necromancy and commanding Scourge forces, attempted to capture Anveena and ascertain the power's whereabouts. He led failed attempts at her home and again in Tarren Mill where he was defeated by Tyrygosa, who enveloped him with fire. He was able to whisk himself away before the fire fully consumed him. He then finally came to the realization that Anveena was, in fact, an avatar of the Sunwell's power in humanoid form. Kidnapping her in Alterac Mountains and spiriting her to the ruined lands of Quel'Thalas, now known as the Ghostlands, he confronted her with the truth of her existence.
Wishing to become a god and make even Arthas bow to him, Dar'Khan then attempted to cast a spell that would allow him to absorb the energies from her, however with the aid of her allies, Anveena manifested the Sunwell's power and wielded it against him. He made a final desperate attempt to drain the energy from her directly but was unable to withstand its brilliance and was burned away.
Against all odds, Dar'Khan had somehow survived his pulverization at the hands of Anveena and was once again reanimated as a puppet of the Scourge. Two years after his previous death, the Lich King, intrigued by the possibility of Light-wielding warriors who adhered to no particular moral code, had tasked Drathir with luring out members of the new Blood Knight Order to be slain and raised into undeath. Dar'Khan, delighting in the notion of forcing Lady Liadrin to attack her beloved Silvermoon, left a number of clues regarding the delivery of the Stone of Light, Stone of Flame, and Stone of Spark to focus scrutiny on Dawnstar Spire and draw out an adequate number of knights. Posing as a man named "Thadirr," Dar'Khan ambushed the elves with an undead horde at his back, though Lor'themar had seen through his deceit and arrived with Astalor Bloodsworn and the royal guard to kill him. The tide turned further when Halduron Brightwing and his rangers relieved the battle, though Dar'Khan set Theron ablaze and prepared to flee. However, the Blood Knights healed the regent lord's wounds, and Lor'themar fired an arrow enchanted with a fragment of the Stone of Spark straight into Drathir's head, which caused the former magister to crumble into dust.
“He...my Blessed Lord Arthas.”
License
Anyone can edit my models, use their meshes and textures, and re-upload them as long as proper credit is given.
Contributions
Modeling : Stefan.K
Sponsor: BaiyuGalan
Animations Credits: Khadgar (by~Tauer)
Reference
Blizzard Entertainment, The Sunwell Trilogy, Blood of the Highborne, Hearthstone, World of Warcraft
Keywords
The Betrayer, Darkfallen
2024.11.28
Fix Sanity Test.
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Amazing model! Was not expecting such a good model for this guy 
I would love to see his Darkfallen version being a bit more different than just face swap.
I would love to see his Darkfallen version being a bit more different than just face swap.
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Awesome Model, it really needed one
By the way, where is the image from?
By the way, where is the image from?
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Finally - a canonical Dar'khan! Will you do Kalek and Tyrygosa next? Or - Anveena?
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I guess @BaiyuGalan has an answer for that. XD
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Phenomenal work as always. Btw, do you have plans to upload the mounted Arthas version that we see in the picture? Since it looks already finished and it's so awesome.
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This looks like a really cool model dude, but looking at the manga, I think he actually had satin hair because you cannot spell "Dar'Khan" without "Dark." We would have known that his hair was "red" if shaded a mid-gray.
My guess.
My guess.
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Finally, the most fashionable elf of Warcraft!
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The hat slanted downwards on one side and the pointy eyebrows are such great details. Fantastic model.
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This model was obtained by me from someone else. This model is composed of four different models. Therefore, it is impossible. Unless I can obtain their consent.
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Model is fine, you should make mounted version
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This character feels so not Warcraft, with a debatable (high) elven name, having a fancy witch hunter Robin look. Regardless, a great model to be used for stuff, preferably not Warcraft.
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That'd be cool. I know Stefan K has his own mounted Arthas model, but the one in this picture looks much better imo.
All the whacky outfits we see from hundreds of characters in the franchise over the years, and Dar'Khan is an oddity to you?
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finally! the savvy, feathered fedora wearing elf of warcraft is here!
love the animations except the attacks but its ok in terms of being unique. imo, Jaina or Medivh's attacks feels like fit in too but thats just me
Good work!
love the animations except the attacks but its ok in terms of being unique. imo, Jaina or Medivh's attacks feels like fit in too but thats just me
Good work!
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Damn...
This models gives me the bloodII's caleb vibes for some reason... 5/5
This models gives me the bloodII's caleb vibes for some reason... 5/5
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Stylish model
reminds me of Dandelion (Lyutik) from witcher 3
reminds me of Dandelion (Lyutik) from witcher 3
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To be honest, this is exactly the model I was expecting.That'd be cool. I know Stefan K has his own mounted Arthas model, but the one in this picture looks much better imo.
All the whacky outfits we see from hundreds of characters in the franchise over the years, and Dar'Khan is an oddity to you?
I mean Dar'khan with the robe and the hat.
Maybe I'll order a "Dirty Void Daddy" skin too~
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I've been thinking...
Will it be alright if I use your brand new Dar'Khan model and make a derivative?
Will it be alright if I use your brand new Dar'Khan model and make a derivative?
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Everyone's least favorite high elf!!
Love it!
Love it!
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But he IS a Warcraft character - he SHOULD be mentioned in the Warcraft 3 Reforged Undead campaign, but Blizzard did not add him. Latest his appearance in Warcraft 3 was, IMO, in @SevenBlood "Path of the Damned" REVAMP.
I hope that @InsaneMonster will add him to his Re-Reforged campaign.
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Yeah, it's a character appearing in chapter 4 and 5 of the undead re-reforged campaign.
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Blame the manga artist there X'D
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Well, look at the WoW depiction, it's as elven mageish as it can be. Much more suiting.
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While they should've made a unique model for his character, they only reskinned the priest model in WoW
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Still more fitting I guess. Dark priest.
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You can hope that at least in Midnight they will return it and take it from Dainsleif's reference from Genshin for the redesign of Dar'khan.
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You definitely need to work with the animation of walking and in general with the legs (they look too short and wide).
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Been looking for a model like this for awhile now, super happy to find it here now!
The diversity of spell animations is pretty rad, from the spell - slam animation to the spell - throw there is a substantial amount of ‘weight’. The attack animations are fantastic as well and remind me of the kind of movements Saruman and Gandalf made during their ‘wizard duel’ in the Lord of the Rings film.
While I am an appreciater of this rendition of his attire from the manga I do think perhaps a nice compromise to bring him more in-line with other in-game models would be to increase the size of his head just a tiny bit. I think that the relative size of the cloth over his body makes him ‘appear’ bulky at a glance where he should otherwise be lithe and that sizing up his head just a tad might help rectify this.
Otherwise awesome work, and I can’t wait to see what other models lie in our future due to such talent!!
The diversity of spell animations is pretty rad, from the spell - slam animation to the spell - throw there is a substantial amount of ‘weight’. The attack animations are fantastic as well and remind me of the kind of movements Saruman and Gandalf made during their ‘wizard duel’ in the Lord of the Rings film.
While I am an appreciater of this rendition of his attire from the manga I do think perhaps a nice compromise to bring him more in-line with other in-game models would be to increase the size of his head just a tiny bit. I think that the relative size of the cloth over his body makes him ‘appear’ bulky at a glance where he should otherwise be lithe and that sizing up his head just a tad might help rectify this.
Otherwise awesome work, and I can’t wait to see what other models lie in our future due to such talent!!
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just liek in the comics
i like it
i like it
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As a suggestion, I suggest you add it to chapter 6 as well. If only so that at the beginning of the ending cutscene, he gets killed by Arthas.
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Icons here : Hero Dar'Khan Drathir
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When the pimps in the Scourge, man, drop it like it's hot…
When the ghouls try to get at you, park it like it's rot…
And if a Lich get a attitude, Frost it like it's not
Got that mana pool stacked, so you know I’m ’bout to pop.
I’m droppin’ Death Coils, watch your heroes gettin' shot
When the ghouls try to get at you, park it like it's rot…
And if a Lich get a attitude, Frost it like it's not
Got that mana pool stacked, so you know I’m ’bout to pop.
I’m droppin’ Death Coils, watch your heroes gettin' shot
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