Shrine of Aviana

Shrine of Aviana
Leader(s)	Choluna
Race(s)	Night elf  Tauren
Organizations	Druid of the Talon
Location	Shrine of Aviana, Mount Hyjal
Characteristics
Facilities
Inn	Inn
Inn	Inn
Mailbox	Mailbox
Mailbox	Mailbox
Stables	Stables
Stables	Stables
Anvil & Forge	Anvil & Forge
Anvil & Forge	Anvil & Forge
Travel
Flight Master	Flight Master
Flight Master	Flight Master
Status	Active

The Shrine of Aviana

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is a Druid of the Talon enclave located in the middle of Mount Hyjal, under the care and direction of Choluna. When first entered, the Shrine is under attack by harpies, but as adventurers succeed in bringing Aviana back into the world, the harpy presence disappears, leaving the Shrine peaceful once more.

Legacy

According to Choluna.

Fair Aviana, the Mistress of Birds! All winged creatures of Azeroth once owed her allegiance, especially we Druids of the Talon. It's by her grace that we were granted the ability to shift forms and take to the skies.

Aviana was both beautiful and terrible, like the great birds of prey she counted among her children. She lived in the towering spirit realm of G'hanir, the Mother Tree, but appeared on Azeroth in the form of a great winged goddess.

You speak in the past tense. What happened to her?

<Choluna's face darkens.>

Ten thousand years ago demons flooded across Azeroth in the War of the Ancients. Aviana called her children to the skies and fought off the demon hordes from the front lines. Her wrath was inescapable.

Hundreds fell before the fury of her talons. But ultimately she was surrounded by Doomguards, their barbed lances piercing her sides...

It is said that her blood itself attacked the demons, searing their flesh, destroying them even as she herself fell from the sky.

What became of her?

Aviana perished on the battlefield that day, but the mortal races and the remaining ancients ultimately triumphed. The first druids found her body among the carnage, and bore it up here, to the highest mountain.

She was laid to rest just outside this shrine, within a circle of sacred stones.

A seed of G'hanir was used to planet the World Tree, and it is all that remains of that sacred realm, which otherwise perished with her.

Flight Paths

Gates of Sothann, Mount Hyjal

Nordrassil, Mount Hyjal

Grove of Aessina, Mount Hyjal

Sanctuary of Malorne, Mount Hyjal

Inhabitants

Guards

•   Druid of the Talon (NPC)

Merchants

•   Jandunel Reedwind <General Goods>
•   Nunaha Grasshoof <Leatherworking Supplies>

Quest givers

•   Choluna <Druid of the Talon>
•   Morthis Whisperwing <Druid of the Talon>
•   Thisalee Crow <Druid of the Talon>
•   Skylord Omnuron <Druid of the Talon>
• Aviana (phased)

Services

•   Isara Riverstride <Innkeeper>
•   Oltarin Graycloud <Stable Master>
•   Dinorae Swiftfeather <Flight Master>

Other

•   Borun Thundersky

Mobs

•    Hyjal Owl
•    Hyjal Huntress
•    Hyjal Darkhawk
•    Hyjal Roc
•     Wormwing Swifttalon (initial phase)
•     Wormwing Screecher (initial phase)

Media

Aviana's Burial Circle, just outside the Shrine.

Initial phase

The Shrine under attack by harpies.

Outside the Shrine, home to hostile harpies.

Inside, before Aviana's return.

Final phase

The Shrine free from harpy attackers.

Outside the Shrine, harpies disappeared.

Inside, after Aviana's return.

Patch changes

• Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): Added.