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91 entries tagged Characters, 91 of them long reads. The rest of the wiki points here most often at Sarah Kerrigan, the Queen of Blades and Jim Raynor.
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13- Aal CistlerAal Cistler was the privileged son of a Terran Dominion Treasury Ministry leader, pushed into the Ghost Academy on his father's influence despite a low psionic index, where his drug trafficking and self-interest made him a recurring problem across three training teams.
- Abathur: the Swarm's living DNA librarySpun from many species by the Overmind, Abathur designed the Queen of Blades. He later betrayed Zagara to restart the wars he thought zerg needed.
- AdunAdun was a revered protoss executor of the Discord who secretly sheltered the rogue tribes the Conclave ordered him to execute. He burned away saving them as they were exiled, leaving no body behind, and passed into protoss legend as the Twilight Deliverer.
- Alan SchezarAlan Schezar was a smuggler and crime lord whose Scavengers raided Aiur for protoss technology and learned to control zerg cerebrates, drawing the wrath of the Terran Dominion and the protoss before he died fighting on behalf of the dark archon Ulrezaj.
- Alarak: the highlord who turned on AmonAlarak won the Rak'Shir against Highlord Ma'lash and took the Tal'darim for himself. When Amon cast his people aside, he turned the death fleet on him.
- Aldaris: the judicator who saw the truthA strict Khala believer who acted as the Conclave's hand against Tassadar. He died on Shakuras exposing Kerrigan's hold over Matriarch Raszagal.
- Alexei Stukov: murdered, then infestedDuGalle's oldest friend and second in command was killed on his own admiral's orders, after Samir Duran worked on the fleet. The zerg brought him back.
- AmonAmon was a malevolent xel'naga who turned against the Infinite Cycle of his kind and sought to end all life and remake it in his image. He created the Overmind and the Zerg Swarm, enslaved the Tal'darim, and was finally destroyed in the Void by an ascended Sarah Kerrigan during the End War.
- Angus MengskAngus Mengsk was a senator of Korhal and a member of the Old Families who turned against the Terran Confederacy, declared Korhal's independence, and was assassinated with his family by Confederate ghosts. His murder set his son Arcturus on the path that would forge the Terran Dominion.
- Arcturus MengskArcturus Mengsk led the Sons of Korhal to bring down the Terran Confederacy and crowned himself Emperor of the Terran Dominion, ruling through cunning, propaganda, and brute force until his death during the Second Great War.
- Ardo MelnikovArdo Melnikov was a young Confederate Marine Corps private whose memories of his home on Bountiful were rewritten by neural resocialization. Discovering that the Confederacy, not the zerg, had stolen his past, he died on Mar Sara buying time for civilian transports to escape.
- Ariel HansonAriel Hanson was a selfless bio-engineer from the colony of Agria who joined Raynor's Raiders after they evacuated her people from the zerg. She worked to cure a zerg infestation among the colonists, and her fate at Haven depended on the choice Jim Raynor made there.
- ArtanisArtanis was the Hierarch of the Daelaam, a renowned warrior who rose from executor during the zerg invasion of Aiur to lead the reunited protoss. He forged the Khalai and Nerazim into one people, reclaimed Aiur, and led the alliance that banished Amon from the Khala.
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8- Caleb: the last salvager of the MagpieCaleb was a young terran engineer from a backwater farm world who joined the Kel Morian scavenger vessel Magpie for a single illegal salvage run. The only survivor of the massacre that followed, he was enslaved by a Nerazim murderess and forced to hunt an experimental anti protoss weapon, a hunt he ended by destroying the weapon, his captor, and himself.
- Captain (Episode V): field commander of the UED Expeditionary FleetThe Captain was an unnamed officer of the UED Expeditionary Fleet who executed the Directorate's conquest of the Koprulu sector under Admiral Gerard DuGalle and Vice Admiral Alexei Stukov. From the capture of Boralis to the chaining of the second Overmind on Char, the Captain carried out every major ground operation of the invasion. What became of the officer after the fleet's destruction was never recorded.
- Carolina DavisGeneral Carolina Davis was a Terran Dominion officer and lifelong loyalist of Arcturus Mengsk who came to lead the Defenders of Man insurgency against his son Valerian. She engineered zerg attacks on Dominion worlds to discredit the Emperor before Nova Terra brought her down.
- Clolarion: Purifier executor of CybrosClolarion was an ancient Purifier patterned on the brain scan of one of the greatest warriors in protoss history. He rose with the Purifiers in their rebellion against the Conclave, slept for ages sealed within Cybros, and reawakened during the End War to purify Endion and negotiate his people into the Daelaam.
- Cole HicksonCole Hickson was a terran outlaw and soldier scarred on the left side of his face, a sniper and frequent leader of the War Pigs. He once saved Jim Raynor's sanity in a Kel-Morian prison camp, then years later was resocialized by Tamsen Cauley into an unwitting assassin sent against Raynor.
- Colin PhashColin Phash was a young terran with powerful psionic gifts, the son of the Dominion senator Corbin Phash. Hunted for his abilities and forced into the Ghost Academy, he was eventually freed and became the youngest known member of the Umojan shadowguard.
- Connor WardConnor Ward was a Confederate marine who lost his family to a Kel-Morian attack during the Guild Wars and joined the military consumed by revenge, serving in the squad that became known as Heaven's Devils alongside Tychus Findlay and Jim Raynor.
- Corbin Phash: the senator who defied the DominionCorbin Phash was a Terran Dominion senator from Maltair IV who hid his son Colin's psionic gifts from the Ghost Program. When the secret broke he fled to the Umojan Protectorate, survived a ghost assassin, and waged a propaganda war against Arcturus Mengsk from exile.
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4- DaggothDaggoth was one of the Overmind's greatest cerebrates and master of the Tiamat Brood, the largest and most powerful brood in the Swarm. After the Overmind fell, he took command of the surviving cerebrates and built a Second Overmind, perishing when Kerrigan destroyed them.
- DehakaDehaka was a primal zerg pack leader from Zerus and one of the last of his kind before the Swarm's return. He allied with Sarah Kerrigan to gather essence, fought across the Koprulu sector, and led the primal zerg against Amon during the End War.
- Delta EmblockDelta Emblock, designated Agent X10128B, was a Terran Dominion ghost who rose from poverty on New Sydney to become a precognitive operative and, after a campaign of deception by the Defenders of Man, a member of Nova Terra's Covert Ops Crew.
- Donny VermillionDonny Vermillion was a Universal News Network anchor and devoted loyalist of Arcturus Mengsk who spread Dominion propaganda during the Second Great War. A breakdown, a crisis on the infested world of Tartarus, and a brush with rogue spectres slowly humbled his pro-Mengsk fervor.
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4- Edmund DukeEdmund Duke was a Terran Confederacy general in command of Alpha Squadron and a member of one of the Old Families of Tarsonis. After his rescue by the Sons of Korhal he defected to Arcturus Mengsk, becoming the chief military tactician of the Terran Dominion until his death at Sarah Kerrigan's hands.
- Egon StetmannEgon Stetmann was the chief science advisor of Raynor's Raiders, a brilliant and eccentric young scientist who fled the Terran Dominion after sabotaging a cyborg program. Years stranded on Bel'Shir under terrazine exposure unhinged his mind and led him to build the Mecha Swarm.
- Elms: mercenary marine and hidden psychicElms was a terran mercenary marine with a cybernetic arm and a psionic gift she kept hidden from those around her. Hired for a crooked salvage operation on Adena, she fought her way through a zerg ambush, exposed the officers who abandoned her, and killed them all rather than accept a leash from anyone.
- Emil NarudEmil Narud and Samir Duran were two of the many names worn across the millennia by a xel'naga in service to Amon. Posing as a Confederate warrior, a UED advisor, and a Dominion scientist, he manipulated the wars of the Koprulu sector to engineer the hybrid and resurrect his master.
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5- Gabriel Tosh: the ghost terrazine remadeA loyal Dominion ghost until a psychic catastrophe and terrazine broke him. Tosh led Project Shadowblade against Mengsk, and his fate turns on a choice in Wings of Liberty.
- Gary: Egon Stetmann's harvesting botGary was a terrazine harvesting bot built by the stranded scientist Egon Stetmann on Bel'Shir. Upgraded into the combat leader of the Mecha Swarm, he served as Stetmann's confidant, bodyguard, and self declared best friend through years of isolation, war, and madness.
- Gerard DuGalleGerard DuGalle was a highly decorated admiral of the United Earth Directorate who commanded the Expeditionary Fleet sent to subdue the Koprulu sector during the Brood War. Manipulated by Samir Duran into ordering the death of his lifelong friend Alexei Stukov, he was defeated by Sarah Kerrigan and took his own life as the fleet fell.
- Grand PreserverThe Grand Preservers were the highest of the protoss preservers, rare Khalai who held the memories of every protoss ever joined to the Khala. They advised the Conclave, urged the building of the arkships, and in Grand Preserver Rohana survived to guide the reclamation of Aiur.
- Gui Montag: the Confederate firebat named for a Fahrenheit 451 firemanGui Montag was a Terran Confederacy firebat and a major of Omega Squadron's 28th. He survived the zerg invasion of Tarsonis in 2500 and resurfaced as a Terran Dominion soldier in StarCraft: Enslavers.
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3- Hank HarnackHenry "Hank" Harnack was a hot-tempered Confederate Marine Corps firebat of the Heaven's Devils during the Guild Wars. A rival turned friend of Jim Raynor, he wielded his flamethrower through the campaigns on Turaxis II until he burned to death during the Devils' final desertion.
- Horace WarfieldHorace Warfield was a Terran Dominion general and commander-in-chief of the Dominion Armed Forces during the Second Great War. A longtime friend of Arcturus Mengsk, he led the war against the zerg, was saved by Jim Raynor on Char, and was killed by Sarah Kerrigan defending the wounded of his command.
- How Did Kerrigan Become Human Again in StarCraft 2?Kerrigan became human again at the end of Wings of Liberty, when Raynor's forces fired an ancient xel'naga artifact on Char and its energy wave stripped away most of her zerg infestation. Here's how it worked, what it left behind and why it didn't last.
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2- Is Kerrigan Dead?No. At the end of StarCraft II, Kerrigan doesn't die: she becomes a xel'naga, destroys Amon and comes back two years later for Raynor in human form. Here is why some players think she died, and what the game actually shows.
- IzshaIzsha was a one-of-a-kind zerg advisor in service to Sarah Kerrigan, grafted to her leviathan, where she stored the Queen of Blades' memories and filtered the Swarm's endless sensory data. She stood as a midpoint between Kerrigan's cold reason and the feral nature of the zerg.
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4- Jack Frost: firebat commander of Brontes IVLieutenant Jack Frost was a terran firebat and retired Confederate officer who was drawn back into service when the zerg and a wave of insurgencies engulfed Brontes IV. As leader of the New Dresdin Outlaws he fought the Fist of Redemption, a corrupt colonial government, and the Swarm itself before dying in a final act of defiance.
- Jackson HaulerJackson Hauler, also known as Doctor Cole Bennett, was a powerful psychic who murdered his way into the Confederate Marine Corps and rose to command the black-ops Nova Squadron. Betrayed by the Terran Dominion, he plotted a coup against Arcturus Mengsk before dying at Gehenna Station.
- Jake RamseyJacob Jefferson Ramsey was a maverick terran archaeologist who became the unwilling host of the protoss preserver Zamara. Carrying her memories and hunted by Valerian Mengsk, the dark archon Ulrezaj, and the Queen of Blades, he was drawn into the secret history of the protoss and the xel'naga.
- Jim RaynorJames Eugene Raynor was a farm boy turned Confederate marine, marshal, and rebel who helped bring down the Terran Confederacy and later fought its successor, the Terran Dominion, becoming one of the few terrans to ally long-term with the protoss.
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4- KarassKarass was a protoss high templar and praetor of the Daelaam whose mastery of psionic powers was considered legendary. On the eve of the Second Great War he led a force to Ulaan and sacrificed himself and his troops to cover the escape of Dark Prelate Zeratul.
- Karax: the phase-smith who armed the SpearA Khalai worker who rose to keep the arkship Spear of Adun flying and armed. Karax prepared the Keystone that finally drove Amon out of the Khala.
- Kate LockwellKate Lockwell was a reporter and later chief anchor for the Universal News Network. Long a loyal supporter of the Terran Dominion, she gradually confronted its propaganda, publicly challenging Arcturus Mengsk and covering the Koprulu Sector through decades of war.
- Kath ToomKath Toom was a telepathic terran ghost, a member of the Ghost Academy's Team Blue alongside Nova Terra and Gabriel Tosh. Mind-wiped into Agent X52735N, she was later captured and transformed into a spectre by Project Shadowblade before General Cole Bennett killed her.
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2- Lio TravskiLio Travski was a hab-addicted ghost trainee whose technopathic gift let him command machines with his mind. After dying at the Ghost Academy, his consciousness survived as an artificial intelligence, and he became a key agent first for Project Shadowblade and later for Nova Terra.
- Lisa CassidyPetty Officer Lisa "Doc" Cassidy was a Colonial Fleet medic attached to the Heaven's Devils during the Guild Wars, a skilled doctor and crab addict coerced into spying on the platoon by Colonel Javier Vanderspool. Her betrayal exposed the squad before she was killed in the crossfire at Korsy.
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7- Ma'lash: the Blade of AmonMa'lash was the highlord of the Tal'darim, a warrior so brutal in the pits of Rak'Shir that his own people believed Amon had blessed him personally. He climbed the Chain of Ascension by torturing rivals to death, held the highlord's throne on Slayn through the treachery of Alarak, and lost it to the same hand.
- Malcolm KelerchianMalcolm Kelerchian was a terran detective turned ghost wrangler, the man responsible for bringing Nova Terra into the Ghost Program. Bound to a job he hated, he survived Tarsonis and the spectre crisis and grew close to the agent he had once hunted down.
- Matt HornerMatthew Horner was an idealistic Sons of Korhal recruit who became captain of the Hyperion and Jim Raynor's loyal first officer, serving as the conscience of Raynor's Raiders before rising to admiral of the reformed Terran Dominion fleet.
- Max ZanderMax Zander was a Confederate marine of the Heaven's Devils during the Guild Wars, a slum-born mechanic and grenadier known for his oversized loadout and his habit of risking himself to protect civilians. Colonel Javier Vanderspool murdered him for witnessing his treachery.
- Michael LibertyMichael Liberty was a terran news reporter whose pursuit of the truth carried him from the Confederate press to the Sons of Korhal and finally into open defiance of the Terran Dominion. Through pirate broadcasts and the Liberty Manifesto he became the most persistent voice against Arcturus Mengsk.
- Mira HanMira Han was a terran mercenary, crime lord, and leader of Mira's Marauders. Forced into marriage with Matt Horner after a poker game, she ruled the underworld of Deadman's Rock and lent her forces to the rebels and later the Dominion against Amon.
- MohandarMohandar was the aged leader of the Nerazim and a member of the protoss Hierarchy, a close ally of Matriarch Raszagal who guided Vorazun and held the dark templar within the Daelaam until his death at rebel hands.
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3- NarudNarud was a xel'naga who served the fallen dark god Amon, and who used the aliases Samir Duran and Emil Narud across millennia of manipulation. He goaded the terran, protoss, and zerg into war, bred the hybrid, and engineered the events that would resurrect his master.
- Nova Terra: Dominion ghost, Agent X41822NNova Terra was born to one of the Confederacy's Old Families. Rebels murdered them, her telepathy erupted, and the Ghost Program made her Agent X41822N.
- NyonNyon was an executor of the Tal'darim who guarded sacred xel'naga relics during the Second Great War. He suffered a long string of defeats to Raynor's Raiders as they stole the components of a xel'naga device, and he made a last stand aboard his mothership trying to stop them.
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- Prisoner: the nameless Nerazim murderessThe Nerazim prisoner was a protoss criminal whose name was never recorded, a murderess of her own kind held as the sole inmate of a prison ship that went derelict. Freed by terran scavengers who boarded the wreck, she slaughtered her way through two crews, enslaved the last survivor, and hunted an experimental Umojan weapon before dying above Aeneas.
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5- Raszagal: the Matriarch Kerrigan enslavedAdun saved her from execution on Aiur, and she led the Dark Templar for over a thousand years. Kerrigan seized her mind during the Brood War.
- ReigelReigel was a cybernetically armed Terran Dominion scientist and weapons specialist who aided Nova Terra against the Defenders of Man. A former Moebius Foundation researcher driven to do good for the sector, he became a fugitive alongside Nova and later clashed with her over the fate of a cache of spectres.
- Rohana: the last grand preserverRohana was one of three grand preserver sisters who conceived the arkships during the golden age of the Protoss Empire and then buried herself in stasis aboard the Spear of Adun. Awakened by Hierarch Artanis after the corruption of the Khala, she refused to sever her nerve cords and became both Amon's mouthpiece and the only protoss able to read his mind.
- Rory SwannRory Swann was a one-armed engineer and former miner who became the chief engineer of Jim Raynor's battlecruiser Hyperion. He kept the Raiders armed and operational through the Second Great War and went on to serve the new Dominion under Valerian Mengsk.
- Ryk KyddRyk Kydd, born Ark Bennet of the Old Families, was a Confederate Marine Corps sniper of the Heaven's Devils during the Guild Wars and a friend of Jim Raynor. After deserting with Raynor and Tychus Findlay, he became an assassin for hire and was killed by the bounty hunter Ezekiel Daun.
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5- Samir DuranSamir Duran and Emil Narud were two of the many names worn over the millennia by a xel'naga in service to the fallen Amon. Posing as a Confederate soldier, a UED advisor, a consort to Sarah Kerrigan, and a Dominion scientist, he manipulated terran, protoss, and zerg alike to engineer his master's return.
- Sarah Kerrigan, the Queen of BladesSarah Kerrigan was a psychic terran who began as a Confederate ghost, rose to be second-in-command of the Sons of Korhal, and after Arcturus Mengsk abandoned her on Tarsonis was captured and infested by the Zerg Swarm to become the Queen of Blades.
- SelendisSelendis is the protoss High Executor, a celebrated warrior who rose as the protege of Artanis. She served with the Golden Armada, fell briefly under Amon's thrall, and struggled to find purpose after the loss of the Khala.
- StarCraft Characters: Every Major Character, Terran, Zerg and ProtossThe people who drive the StarCraft story, from Jim Raynor and Sarah Kerrigan to Zeratul, Artanis and Amon. Who each one is, what they do across StarCraft, Brood War and StarCraft II, and how their story ends.
- StoneStone, codenamed Agent X74996R, was a powerful Terran Dominion ghost whose unusually resilient memory survived repeated mind wipes, and whose loyalty was bent and rewritten by the Defenders of Man before he chose, finally, to walk away from the program.
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5- TalandarTalandar was a protoss purifier built from a brain scan of the Templar hero Fenix. Awakened during the End War believing himself to be Fenix, he came to accept that he was a separate being and chose his own name, becoming a leader among the purifiers of the Daelaam.
- TaldarinTaldarin was an ancient protoss praetor and a personal friend of the hero Adun. Mortally injured long ago and preserved in stasis, he became the first warrior ever transferred into a dragoon shell so that he could continue to fight the enemies of the protoss.
- Talen AyersTalen Ayers was a famous research geneticist and author whose bestselling books on xenobiology made him a household name before he was abducted into the Dominion's secret Project Blackstone, where his doubts about Arcturus Mengsk and the fate of his daughter slowly hardened.
- Tassadar: the templar who slew the OvermindTassadar refused the Conclave's order to wipe out humanity, learned Void energies from Zeratul, and rammed the Gantrithor into the Overmind above Aiur.
- Tychus Findlay: sent to kill KerriganRaynor's old friend from the Guild Wars turned outlaw and served decades in prison. Mengsk freed him on a secret contract to kill the Queen of Blades.
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2- UlrezajUlrezaj was a protoss dark archon formed from seven of the most powerful Dark Templar, bent on vengeance against the protoss who exiled his people. He founded the Aiur Tal'darim, hunted the preservers, and was finally trapped in a crystal alongside the preserver Zamara.
- UrunUrun was a proud, traditionalist protoss of the Auriga Tribe and a member of the protoss Hierarchy who later commanded the carrier Saalok's Eye and died fighting the Niadra Brood on Adena.
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2- Valerian Mengsk: the archaeologist emperorArcturus' secret heir allied with Jim Raynor to deinfest Kerrigan, broke with his father over her fate, and took the Dominion throne on his death.
- Vorazun: Raszagal's daughter, MatriarchShe defended Shakuras, took the Nerazim matriarchy after Mohandar died, and became one of Artanis' closest advisors in the long war against Amon.
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6- What Happened to Kerrigan After Legacy of the Void?Kerrigan became a xel'naga, killed Amon, handed the Swarm to Zagara and later came back for Raynor in human form. Here's what Legacy of the Void's ending shows, what it leaves open and where she is in the stories that followed.
- Why Did Kerrigan Become a Xel'naga?Kerrigan became a xel'naga because it was the only way to kill Amon. In the Void, the dying xel'naga Ouros told her only one of their kind could defeat him there, and she accepted his essence partly to make up for her past. Here is the reasoning Legacy of the Void gives, and why it had to be her.
- Why Did Kerrigan Become Zerg in StarCraft?Kerrigan became zerg because Arcturus Mengsk abandoned her to the Swarm on Tarsonis and the Overmind chose to infest her rather than kill her. Years later, in Heart of the Swarm, she chose to become zerg again. Here's what happened both times and why.
- Why Did Kerrigan Kill Fenix in StarCraft: Brood War?Kerrigan killed Fenix because once their alliance had beaten the UED on Korhal, she no longer needed him, and she wanted no one left who could challenge her rule over the zerg. Here's how it happens in True Colors and why it haunted Raynor for years.
- Why Did Kerrigan Kill Warfield?Kerrigan killed General Warfield on Char because he stood between her and the Swarm she needed for her revenge on Mengsk, and because he threw Raynor's name in her face. Then she let his wounded go. Here is what Heart of the Swarm shows in the cinematic Conscience, and what it means.
- Why Did Raynor Kill Tychus in StarCraft 2?Raynor killed Tychus to save Kerrigan. Tychus had made a secret deal with Emperor Mengsk to assassinate her in exchange for his freedom, and when he aimed at her on Char, Raynor shot him. Here's the deal, the scene and what each side's choice meant.
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3- Zagara: the broodmother who rebuilt worldsKerrigan made her on Char as the first broodmother. Zagara inherited the whole Swarm after the End War and set it to rebuilding worlds instead.
- ZaszZasz was a clever and loyal zerg cerebrate who led the Garm Brood during the Great War. His assassination by Zeratul opened a fatal psionic link that revealed the location of Aiur to the Overmind.
- ZeratulZeratul was a revered Nerazim mystic and dark prelate who allied with Tassadar against the zerg, slew the cerebrate Zasz, and was manipulated by Kerrigan into killing Raszagal. His decades-long pursuit of the xel'naga prophecy shaped the fate of the protoss, and he gave his life freeing Artanis from Amon.