Ancient behemoth

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Ancient behemoths are giant elephant species that once lived in the Eastern Kingdoms, and are likely extinct. Many corpses of the behemoths could be found frozen within the Alterac Mountains. The evil Forsaken Baron Valimar Mordis tricked many dwarves into mining the mountains to free the behemoths and remains of Dragons found there. He planned to resurrect them using an Orb of Ner'Zhul, and use them to take revenge against the Scourge as well as the living.

Description

• They look like giant quadruped elephants with four tusks. They appear similar to the mûmakil (aka oliphaunts) in The Lord of the Rings movies.
• They are called ancient behemoths, by Kalecgos, and behemoths by Mordis, it is unknown if this is the actual name for the creature or if they are just describing them based on their size.
• It is unknown if they are related to mammoths of Northrend.
• It is also unknown if the elephants of Azeroth and Emerald Dream are related in some way.
• It is also unknown if they are related to the elekk draenei mounts.
• They may be mammoths of Northrend which wandered before the Great Sundering to Alterac mountain and died there.

Source

The Sunwell Trilogy: Shadows of Ice