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encouragement to enter glorious
battle. Menaced by the orcs, the
dwarves of Khaz Modan, and their
allies, the Gnomes, emerged
from their deep halls to join this
union of nations. The Elves, bound
by an ancient oath made to the
Arathi, extracted by Lothar, the
last scion of that bloodline, leant
their peerless rangers in support.
It was during this time that the
Clerics of Northshire, decimated
by the First War, decided to clad
themselves in righteous armor and
take up weapons in the defense
of the Holy Light, leading to the
formation of the Order of the Silver
Hand and the first paladins.
It is here that I must stress to
the reader the auspiciousness
of this newly-born Alliance. Had
orcs razed Stormwind to the ground,

the threat of the orcs not shaken

Lord Lothar led a desperate exodus

them so, these four races would

of his people to Stormwind’s sister

never have put aside their ill-bred

kingdom in the North: Lordaeron.

prejudices and formed the powerful

this war, comes, of all places, from

It was there, with the aid of King

threat to numerous forces of worldly

Magna Aegwyn, the mother of

Terenas, that Lothar would convince

destruction that they do now. As

Medivh and Matriarch of Tirisfal. It

the seven great kingdoms of the

unpopular as this opinion has been

is no coincidence that the mother

North to unite under his military

with my fellow scholars in Dalaran

of the man responsible for the orcs’

leadership. There was some debate,

and Stormwind, it is the misery and

entry into Azeroth would record

but most of the human lords

horror bred by the Horde that has

this history to serve as a loophole

were eager to unite; the coastal

allowed our world to stand against

in her oath as Guardian to never

empire of Kul Tiras was already

the darkness time and time again.

interfere in the affairs of men.

ravaged by orcish raids, and Thoras

Had we not united against this

Trollbane of Stromgarde needed no

foe, we surely would have fallen

THE SECOND WAR
Our account of the origins of

The Magna writes that after the
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