The New York Times bestselling tie-in to the World of Warcraft game
expansion: Cataclysm**.**
Thrall, wise shaman and the warchief of the Horde, has sensed a
disturbing change.
Long ago, Azeroth's destructive native elementals raged across the world
until the benevolent titans imprisoned them within the Elemental Plane.
Despite the titans' intervention, many elementals have ended up back on
Azeroth. Over the ages, shamans like Thrall have communed with these
spirits and, through patience and dedication, learned to soothe roaring
infernos, bring rain to sun-scorched lands, and otherwise temper the
elementals' ruinous influence on the world of Azeroth.
Now Thrall has discovered that the elementals no longer heed the
shaman's call. While he seeks answers to what ails the confused
elements, he also wrestles with the orcs' precarious future as his
people face dwindling supplies and growing hostility with their night
elf neighbors. The fate of Azeroth's great races is shrouded in a fog of
uncertainty, and the erratic behavior of the elemental spirits,
troubling though it is, may only be the first ominous warning sign of
the cataclysm to come.