Bronze dragonflight – WoW Dragonflight

The bronze dragonflight are dragons who have yellow-bronze scales and can breathe superheated sand. The titan Aman’Thul blessed the wise Nozdormu and his brood with the ability to time travel and mastery of temporal magic. Generally stoic and detached from ‘current’ events, they are rare to interact with mortals unless they require help in safeguarding the one true timeline. Their nemeses are the Infinite dragonflight, a faction of bronze dragons corrupted by the Old Gods who wish to rewrite the timeline. While the Caverns of Time are the flight’s home, Tanaris Desert is their province.

They could once see the past and future with perfect clarity, and all the countless tributaries of alternate universes and timelines. They can still travel the timeways, but don’t have that perfect knowledge anymore since Deathwing’s defeat. They’ve also lost the ability to control the flow of time. A growing faction of discontent within the Bronze dragons believes they should change history to make a better future. Kairozdormu appears to be a part of this faction, and it is possible that this faction will become the Infinite dragonflight.

Member types

The bronze dragonflight includes the bronze dragons themselves as well as all other bronze dragonkin such as dragonspawn and drakonid.

• Bronze dragon (mature)
  • Bronze wyrm
• Bronze drake
• Bronze whelp
• Bronze dragonspawn
• Bronze drakonid

Culture

Bronze dragons exist to keep the time stream inviolate and the order of events progressing as the fates intended. Considered to be protectors, the bronze dragonflight find themselves greatly attracted to areas of civilization. They display great cunning in all things and are very patient by nature, always relying on observation and acting with a plan before being hasty. Bronze dragons are very sensitive to the flow and ebb of the time stream, especially Nozdormu and his prime consort Soridormi. From within their home, The Caverns of Time, located underneath the vast sands of the Tanaris desert, the wardens of time can often be found disguising themselves in mortal guises and entering the timestreams, which they constantly attempt to maintain and repair.

Bronze dragons are very cunning, much like blues, and value wisdom and patience over all else. Nozdormu, their patron Aspect of Time, is patience incarnate. In their duties bronze dragons on occasion turn to mortals. A few individuals in service of the bronze flight, possibly dragonsworn, refer to themselves as Watchers. Baristolth of the Shifting Sands was dying when Anachronos breathed upon him and he was bound as a Watcher. Jonathan the Revelator was empowered by the Timeless One himself and became keeper of the sacred gong and eternal watcher of the bronze flight. Ralo’shan the Eternal Watcher, a night elf forever tied to Staghelm Point also appears to be a Watcher. Xarantaur, <The Witness>, a tauren druid historian was made a Watcher by Nozdormu in order to continue his studies of mortal civilizations. These individuals have been granted immortality in order to serve the needs of their draconic patrons.

Bronze dragonkin are sometimes referred to as Amber. When taking a humanoid form, most bronze dragons prefer to transform into gnomes, though human, quel’dorei, and dwarf guises are also common.

Most bronzes dragons know how they eventually die. Trying to prevent this for personal reasons would be an abuse of their powers and goes against everything the flight stands for.

Nomenclature

Members of the bronze dragonflight occasionally have names ending in “dormu” for males, or “dormi” for females, though exceptions exist. Sometimes terms relating to time find their way into their names as well.

The Timewalking vendors also have names differing from the usual nomenclature, such as Xia and Kiatke.

Factions

The Brood of Nozdormu

When the Titans first descended on Azeroth, vanquishing the Old Gods and bringing order to the world, the Highfather of the Pantheon himself empowered the great dragon Nozdormu with some of his own cosmic powers, enabling the dragon to guard time itself and police the ever-spinning pathways of fate and destiny. And so, the stoic, honorable Nozdormu became known as the Timeless One. Ever since then, Nozdormu’s Brood has guarded the timestream from all who would seek to disrupt its flow, guided by the Timeless One’s wise, all-knowing counsel.

Now, the bronze dragon Anachronos has returned outside the Caverns of Time in the Tanaris desert, the bronze dragonflight’s home and province. Events have been set in motion that will shape the future of all of Azeroth, as the attention of the Brood of Nozdormu is focused on Ahn’Qiraj, the fortress city of the Qiraji. A terrible darkness is building up beyond the Scarab Wall, enough to give pause even to the Timeless One himself. The dragons are rallying their champions to descend into the nightmarish hives beneath Ahn’Qiraj and to finish what they have begun.

The Keepers of Time

At the heart of the Tanaris desert lie the Caverns of Time, home of the bronze dragonflight. Nozdormu and his flight work to safeguard the time stream against all who might disturb the delicate pathways of fate. Lately a malevolent force has infiltrated the timeways, and the efforts of this mysterious enemy could lead to a destabilization of the world, and even time itself.

The Keepers of Time have detected interference at several key points in the history of Azeroth. Thrall’s escape from Durnholde Keep is being sabotaged to prevent the son of Durotan from fulfilling his destiny of freeing his people and becoming the greatest warchief the orcs have ever known. The same forces working to undo Thrall’s escape are also trying to erase the very event that led to the First War and ushered in an age of chaos on Azeroth: Medivh’s opening of the Dark Portal. Last but not least, the outcome of the Battle of Mount Hyjal, where the orcs, humans, and night elves stood united against the the[sic] might of the Burning Legion, is being altered as well.

The Scale of the Sands

The Scale of the Sands is a secretive subgroup of the bronze dragonflight, led by Soridormi, prime mate of Nozdormu.

Notable members

Notes and trivia

• Male bronze dragon names end in “-ormu”, while female names end in “-ormi”.

• In Old Norse “-orm/-ormr” means “dragon, serpent”.