

Like their other abilities, shapeshifting was a tool to take what they wanted from the young races.

She assumed her human form and continued that no visage could change a dragon's nature as a hunter and killer.

Onyxia scoffed at Chronormu's view that dragons chose a visage to better relate to the mortal races, stating that it sounded "like something Nozdormu would teach his whelps". When deciding on her mortal guise, she chose the form of an attractive female human so that she could manipulate their kind and allow her to seize all she wanted from them.Īt some point, the bronze dragon Chronormu-who could not make up his mind on what mortal form to choose during his upcoming Visage Day ceremony-sought an audience with Onyxia in the caverns of the Obsidian Dragonshrine, where the daughter of Deathwing was overseeing drakonid laborers and sparring drakes. Onyxia believed that humans were the mortal race that posed the greatest threat to dragonkind. Onyxia serves as one of the two secondary antagonists (alongside her brother Nefarian) in classic World of Warcraft and one of the supporting antagonists in Cataclysm. Ultimately, she would be destroyed once more, along with Nefarian, in the Blackwing Descent. After the return of her father and the Shattering that resulted, she was reanimated by her brother Nefarian as an electrical undead monstrosity. Onyxia was slain and beheaded in her lair by King Varian upon his return when her true identity was revealed, thus restoring the line of Stormwind's kings. Prestor subsequently became a royal councilor to his 10-year-old son Anduin Wrynn and controlled Highlord Bolvar Fordragon with the Drakefire Amulet. She later had King Varian Wrynn abducted by the Defias Brotherhood on route to Theramore Isle. Seeking to take control of the Kingdom of Stormwind, Onyxia manipulated a conflict between the Stonemasons and the House of Nobles that led to the death of Queen Tiffin Wrynn. Her breath was capable of melting iron, and her physical attacks were lightning quick and nearly unstoppable. In addition to being a highly intelligent dragon who was fond of secretly manipulating mortal affairs, she was also a mighty combatant, despite being relatively small for a black dragon of her age. Like her father and her older twin brother Nefarian, she had a human guise, appearing as the Stormwindian noblewoman Lady Katrana Prestor, though she was believed to have several other humanoid guises as well. Onyxia (pronounced Oh-NIX-ee-uh) was the daughter of Deathwing and his Prime Consort Sintharia and the broodmother of the black dragonflight on Azeroth. Usually, I must leave my lair in order to feed.”
