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The Sunken Temple or The Temple of Atal'Hakkar is a location set in Blizzard Entertainments video game and book series, Warcraft. In the MMORPG World of Warcraft it acts as an instance dungeon in the virtual world.

Background

The Temple of Atal'Hakkar is located on an island in the Swamp of Sorrows in Azeroth.

The ancient Gurubashi trolls during a civil war driven to desperate measures, sought the aid of the darkest god from the trolls' collective pantheon of primitive deities: Hakkar the Soulflayer. Hakkar was a vile and bloodthirsty spirit who exulted in blood sacrifice. Though he aided the Gurubashi trolls in greatly expanding their civilization throughout all of Stranglethorn and the islands of the South Seas, he demanded a great price. The bloodthirsty god demanded blood sacrifices every day. The trolls soon realized what a terrible mistake they had made by consorting with such an evil force.

The strongest tribes rose up against Hakkar and his followers, and a terrible war ensued. The budding empire was devastated by the magic unleashed by the angry god and his rebel children. However, the trolls succeeded in destroying Hakkar's physical manifestation and banishing his followers -- the Atal'ai -- from their kingdom. The Atal'ai were forced into the uncharted Swamp of Sorrows to the north. There, they built a great temple to their fallen god -- Atal'Hakkar -- where they could continue to do their master's work.

In the World of Warcraft the descendants of the Atal'ai led by the Prophet Jammal'an is attempting to resurrect the God and is responsible for the summoning. .

Nomenclature

While geographical short forms are highly varied in any MMORPG, the most common shortform referring to The Sunken Temple is "ST". It should be noted that the shortform "Temple" or "Sunken" may potentially also be used.

Instance zone

The temple can be roughly divided into two parts: Lower Temple and Upper Temple.

The Lower Temple surrounds a mysterious chamber with a stone circle. It is up to the adventures to discover the secrets of the room.
The Upper Temple houses the prophet, the summoning room (for Hakkar), and the dream projection of a mighty dragon, Eranikus.

Navigation inside the Temple can be tricky for first timers and even afterwards, the Temple's layout is somewhat confusing. Certain fights require a progression of steps before they can be attempted. For example, the Prophet Jammal'man can only be accessed by first killing several sub-bosses who are channeling a shield around the Prophet's room. Also, before Eranikus can be attempted, several smaller dragons must be dealt with, or Eranikus will summon them to him all at once, spelling certain death for the party. Eranikus drops a trinket which spits out a poisoned cloud around the caster.

In the World of Warcraft the trolls fail to summon the Soulflayer in the temple. However, in the 20-man raid instance Zul'Gurub, he is successfully summoned.

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