Turalyon

Order

The Army of the Light

Turalyon and Alleria at the head of the Army of the Light, ranks of armored soldiers behind them, Argus and a green crystal spire in the sky.
The Army of the LightPatch 7.3 key art. Blizzard Entertainment.
Seen from behind, Turalyon in a red cloak faces a huge golden naaru. Alleria stands at his side. The Army of the Light fills the ground below.
Meeting Xe’raWorld of Warcraft: Chronicle Volume 4. Blizzard Entertainment.
Close portrait of Turalyon with white hair, a scarred cheek, and eyes glowing gold, framed by the plates of his armor.
LightforgedWorld of Warcraft: Legion. Blizzard Entertainment.
Full-length view of High Exarch Turalyon in white and gold plate, a sword of Light in one hand, mountains behind him.
High ExarchWorld of Warcraft: Legion. Blizzard Entertainment.

Xe’ra’s army had been fighting the Burning Legion in the Twisting Nether long before a paladin from Lordaeron fell through a rift. Turalyon and Alleria joined it. She eventually frightened the naaru. He was forged by them. The years were a thousand, unhitched from Stormwind’s calendar, and they ended with him Lightforged and High Exarch.

The Army is the reason he is alive to be regent. It is also the reason Alleria spent an age in a prison of the Light, and the reason his body no longer belongs to an ordinary lifespan. When the Legion fell on Argus, he offered the Army’s allegiance to the Alliance. The Vanguard of the Light in Midnight is the same vow, brought to Quel’Thalas for the Sunwell.

Lothraxion, once a dreadlord, is one of the Army’s captains and one of Turalyon’s companions in that war. The detail matters because the Light’s army was never only human paladins in familiar colors. It was a crusade. He became worthy of it by Xe’ra’s standard. Midnight asks whether that standard still knows his son’s face.

The three orders