Many thanks to Joe @ Way of the Totem for this post :D

Melevelia, my Undead Warrior on Arygos had this sword and it starts with a book called 'Foror's Compendium of Dragon Slaying'. This book would only drop for you if you were either a Paladin or a Warrior. The Alliance had it a little easier back at lvl 60 than the Horde did, because back then there were no Horde Paladins- as Burning Crusade had not been released yet. There was no Dark Portal or opening or fancy tabard for participating. No Blood Elves, no Draenei...no Outlands at all. It was all about Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor. Northrend was a place that we knew about, but had no access too. Arthas had already wreaked havoc and scarpered.

So Horde had Warriors to grab the sword and the Alliance had Warriors and Paladins. A little unfair, yes...but oh well. And since back then I was a Hordie, I had my little Warrior tank and I got this drop at 58. Back then, if a book dropped into your possession, you knew that something awesome was going to eventually come out of it. So I went through the motions of the quest, with the eventually end of having to taunt Onyxia out of hiding and slaughtering her. You had to bathe the blade in her blood and then return it to the quest giver- who would then give you Quel'Serrar.

Quel'Serrar was sadly taken out the game when Onyxia was revamped for the level 80's in the current day and also for the 5th Birthday of World of Warcraft. I loved the old lvl 60 version. I had completed it on many toons and to me she wasn't just a loot pinata. When the old Onyxia was removed from the game, all the quest chains went with her...Quel'Serrar, Lady Katrana Prestor, the King of Stormwind missing, the Hunter quest. Everything. It made me shed a tear for the game as for me that was a huge part. Wrath of the Lich King was released and all this was taken away. Lady Katrana Prestor and Highlord Fordragon used to flank the young king on the Stormwind throne and were advisors to the King. During the Scourge Invasion at the end of Burning Crusade, Lady Katrana was replaced by a Argent Healer. At Patch 3.0.2, the three characters had completely dissapeared and were replaced by King Varian Wrynn again. He appeared out of nowhere and there was no lore in place to mention how he had made his way back to Stormwind and where the heck Fordragon/Prestor had gone.

Now for those of you that don't know, Lady Katrana Prestor was a Human form of one of the Black Dragonflight- the Broodmother herself. Yes that's right- Onyxia. So I think that Blizzard just assumed that because we had killed Onyxia and bought the head back for the King...that Lady Katrana Prestor should just dissapear. Don't get me wrong, I understand that some people just don't care about the story, but I do.

So Onyxia is dead and all that fun stuff. But then Blizzard mess it all up and bring Onyxia back. No story to explain why she has risen from the dead, and a new version of Quel'Serrar is one of the items that drops from the new Onyxia...Burnished Quel'Serrar. It's nice to see that they paid homage to the sword, but I do believe that Onyxia should have just stayed as it was.

And lets not forget about the epic quest chain we had to do to be attuned to actually kill Onyxia in the first place! Holy crap! xD

Now, Quel'Delar is the sister blade of Quel'Serrah. It is a prismatic sword forged by the Night Elves and the five dragonflights: Blue, Red, Black, Bronze and Green. After it's creation, it was handed down to the Quel'Dorai and was passed down the elven families until one day it was famously wielded by Thalorian Dawnseeker against the Scourge, while defending the Eversong Woods and Silvermoon from the attack of Arthas. He sadly fell to Frostmourne, like so many others and Arthas proceeded to have a party at the Sunwell where he drew much of his power from to defeat the last of the Sin'Dorai defending the area. Those who survived the attack, fled the area and settled wherever they would not be publicly outed for losing to Arthas. Quel'Delar was bought to Icecrown by Blood Queen Lana'thel, who intended the instrument to be a weapon of vengeance. She made her way to Icecrown, along with Illidan and Kael'thas to destroy the Scourge, only for the three of them to meet their sad fates. (You can find Illidan in Black Temple, Kael'thas in Sunwell and Lana'thel in Icecrown Citadel) . Lana'thel swung Quel'Delar at Arthas when she found him, in anger over the many people lost back home...but Frostmourne overwhelmed her and took her soul to serve Arthas in death. Now she lives as an undead Blood Queen, in service to the San'layn as their queen. Everytime she looked at Quel'Delar, anger would overcome her and eventually she just had enough. Lana'thel let out a scream that could be heard for miles around and Quel'Delar broke into a thousand pieces, flying to every corner of the world.

And you find the battered hilt in Icecrown Citadel. Aren't you lucky? :)