There you’ll be faced with eight Missions – new single-player content for Hearthstone. The first steps you’ll take to join the Knights of the Frozen Throne will be within Icecrown Citadel. A useful ability to have at hand when you’ve already got both feet in the grave. When a card with Lifesteal deals damage, your hero is healed for the same amount. Lifesteal expands on an ability already found on some cards and gives it a new dedicated keyword. Some of the Lich King’s spells and minions have the awful power to draw sustenance from the very life essence of a victim: Lifesteal. The teeming armies of the undead are as gruesome as they are deadly-so you can expect to find some potent abilities among their number! The legions of the Scourge are a menagerie of ravenous undead beings, from lowly ghouls and zombies to hulking, unspeakable abominations that have been stitched together from the flesh of countless victims. The Hungerĭeath Knights may be vicious combatants, but they are only a small fraction of the Lich King’s monstrous army. Terrifying indeed! Of course, there are many other threats to found within the Scourge. The beastly abomination is then added to Deathstalker Rexxar’s hand to later be unleashed on a hapless foe. The new creation combines all the stats of both creatures he’s sewn together mana cost, attack, health, and card text. When played, Deathstalker Rexxar fires a flurry of arrows-dealing 2 damage to all enemy minions-and replaces your hero, granting 5 armor and changing your Hero Power to Build-a-Beast.īuild-a-Beast allows Deathstalker Rexxar to stitch together a horrifying new Zombeast by ‘Discovering’ pieces of two former animal friends. When Rexxar’s hunt came to a premature end, he was resurrected as Deathstalker Rexxar. While each Death Knight hero is different, they all offer possibilities that can transform the way you play Hearthstone. When played, each Death Knight Hero card replaces your hero, casts a Battlecry, dons some hefty armor, AND provides a new Hero Power. Hero cards are an entirely new card type that are neither spell, minion, nor weapon. In Knights of the Frozen Throne, each of Hearthstone’s nine heroes has embraced the Lich King’s dark power to serve him as a Legendary Death Knight Hero card! Despite their transformation, they have not fallen completely under the Lich King’s sway, so it’ll be up to you to decide how to wield the awesome abilities at their command. Foremost among those minions: the Death Knights! Dead and Loving ItĮach Death Knight was once a mighty hero of Azeroth-but after the Lich King raises a hero from the dead, they gain unimaginable strength from beyond the grave. If that weren’t enough, he also controls the vast undead army known as the Scourge from his Frozen Throne atop Icecrown Citadel.Īll told, the Lich King and his minions represent one of the greatest threats to life on Azeroth. When combined with the soul-devouring hunger of Frostmourne, he is an unstoppable, armor-clad juggernaut. The evil in the blade consumed him, setting him on the path to become one of the most powerful and horrifying beings in existence: the Lich King.Īs the Lich King, he manifests his strength in the physical realm as the strongest of the Death Knights-commanding power over mortal blood, freezing ice, and unholy corruption. While he did gain great power in the process, the promise of power was a trap. His fear and desperation drove him to take up the cursed runeblade, Frostmourne. It is the story of a young hero willing to take any risk and employ the most extreme measures to save his people. The tale of the Lich King is a tragic one. In Hearthstone’s next expansion, Knights of the Frozen Throne, we ask the question: what happens when the heroes fall from the light? When the Lich King raises them from the dead as Death Knights, what will they do with the immense and terrible powers he gives them?īut who is this Lich King we speak of? The Lord of the Scourge The awful beings residing in Icecrown Citadel are dark, brooding, and terrifyingly powerful… but also really, really cool! The Hearthstone team knew they wanted to explore the story of the Lich King and his horrifying minions, but how to visit such grim themes while preserving the game's friendly and whimsical spirit? These are among the most frightening, tragic elements of Azeroth’s past.
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