The Dark Portal and the Fall of Stormwind
Warcraft: Orcs and Humans
As Kil'jaeden prepared buy wow gold the Horde for its invasion of Azeroth, Medivh
continued to fight for his soul against Sargeras. King Llane, the noble monarch of Stormwind, grew wary of the darkness which
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As a final incentive, Sargeras promised to buy wow goldbestow great power upon Gul'dan
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found the undersea tomb where the Guardian Aegwynn had placed wow goldSargeras' crippled
body nearly a thousand years before. Gul'dan agreed and decided that once the denizens of Azeroth were beaten, he would find
the legendary tomb and claim his reward. Assured that the Horde would serve his purposes,
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Through a joint effort, Medivh and the warlocks buy wow goldof the Shadow Council opened
the dimensional gateway known as the Dark Portal. This portal bridged the distance between Azeroth and Draenor, and it was
large enough that armies might pass through it. Gul'dan dispatched orc scouts through the portal to survey the lands which
they would conquer. The returning scouts assured cheap wow goldthe Shadow Council that
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Still convinced that Gul'dan's corruption would buy wow gold destroy his people, Durotan
spoke out against the warlocks once more. The brave warrior claimed that warlocks were destroying the purity of the orcish
spirit and that wow goldthis reckless invasion would be their doom. Gul'dan, unable to
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east of the kingdom of Stormwind. As the orcs began to branch out and explore the new lands, they came into immediate
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orcish Horde had crossed into Azeroth, and Gul'dan buy wow golddeemed that the time for
the primary strikewow gold against humanity had come. The Horde launched its full might
against the unsuspecting kingdom of Stormwind.
As the forces of Azeroth and the Horde clashed across buy wow gold the kingdom, internal
conflicts began to take their toll on both armies. King Llane, who believed the bestial orcs to be incapable of conquering
Azeroth, contemptuously heldwow gold his position at his capital of Stormwind. However,
Sir Lothar became convinced that the battle should be taken directly to the enemy, and he was forced to choose between his
convictions and his loyalty to the king. Choosing to follow his instincts, Lothar stormed Medivh's tower-fortress of Karazhan
with cheap wow goldthe help of the wizard's young apprentice, Khadgar. Khadgar and Lothar
succeeded in vanquishing the possessed Guardian, whom they confirmed to be the source of the conflict. By killing Medivh's
body, Lothar and buy wow gold the young apprentice wow
goldinadvertently banished the spirit of Sargeras to the abyss. As a consequence, the pure, virtuous spirit of Medivh was
also allowed to live on... and wander the astral plane for many cheap wow goldyears to
come.
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wow gold continued to dominate the defenders of Stormwind. As the Horde's victory drew nearer, Orgrim Doomhammer, one of
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Draenor. His old comrade, Durotan, returned from exile and cheap wow goldwarned him yet
again of Gul'dan's treachery. In speedy retribution, Gul'dan's wow goldassassins murdered
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found by the human officer, Aedelas Blackmoore, and taken as a slave.
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ever know.
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corruption and ultimately wow goldassumed the role of warchief of the Horde by killing
Gul'dan's corrupt puppet, Blackhand. Under his decisive leadership the relentless Horde finally laid siege to Stormwind Keep.
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Lothar and his warriors, returning home from buy wow goldKarazhan, hoped to stem the
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smoking ruins. wow goldThe orcish Horde continued to ravage the countryside and claimed
the surrounding lands for its own. Forced into hiding, Lothar and his cheap wow
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The Alliance of Lordaeron
Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness
Lord Lothar rallied the remnants of Azeroth's buy wow gold armies after their defeat at
Stormwind Keep, and then launched a massive exodus across the sea to the northern kingdom of Lordaeron. Convinced that the
Horde would wow goldovercome all of humanity if left unchecked, the leaders of the seven
human nations met and agreed to unite in what would become known as the Alliance of Lordaeron. For the first time in nearly
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dwarves of Ironforge and a small number of high elves of Quel'Thalas. The elves, led at that time by Anasterian Sunstrider,
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The epic battles of the Second War ranged from buy wow goldlarge-scale naval skirmishes
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erupted between the two most powerful orcs on Azeroth. As Doomhammer prepared his final assault against the Capital City of
Lordaeron - an assault that would have crushed the last remnants of the Alliance - Gul'dan and his followers abandoned their
posts and set out to sea. The bewildered Doomhammer, havingwow gold lost nearly half of
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forsake his greatest chance at victory over the Alliance.
The power-hungry Gul'dan, obsessed with obtaining buy wow goldgodhood itself, set out on
a desperate search for the undersea Tomb of Sargeras that he believed held the secrets of ultimate power. Having already
doomed his fellow orcs to become wow goldthe slaves of the Burning Legion, Gul'dan
thought nothing of his supposed duty to Doomhammer. Backed by the Stormreaver and Twilight's Hammer clans, Gul'dan succeeded
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Seeking to punish the wayward orcs for their costly buy wow goldbetrayal, Doomhammer
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his recklessness, Gul'dan was torn apart by the maddened demons he had set loose. With their leader dead, the renegade clans
quickly fell before Doomhammer's enraged legions. Though the rebellion had been quelled, the Horde was unable to recoup the
terrible losses it had suffered. Gul'dan's betrayal had afforded the cheap wow
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Lord Lothar, seeing that the Horde was fracturing buy wow goldfrom within, gathered the
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trapped the retreating Hordewow gold within the volcanic fortress of Blackrock Spire.
Though Lord Lothar fell in battle at the Spire's base, his lieutenant, Turalyon, rallied the Alliance forces at the eleventh
hour and drove the Horde back into the abysmal Swamp of Sorrows. Turalyon's forces succeeded in destroying the Dark Portal,
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The Invasion of Draenor
Warcraft 2X: Beyond the Dark Portal
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portals on Draenor that would lead the Horde to new, unspoiled wow goldworlds. To power
his new portals, he needed a number of enchanted artifacts from Azeroth. To procure them, Ner'zhul reopened the Dark Portal
and sent hischeap wow gold ravenous servants charging wow
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King Terenas ofwow gold Lordaeron, convinced that the orcs
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lieutenants. He ordered General Turalyon and the archmage, Khadgar, to lead an expedition through the Dark Portal to put an
end to the orcish threat once and for all. Turalyon and Khadgar's forces marched into Draenor and repeatedly clashed with
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Ner'zhul finally opened his portals to other worlds, buy wow gold but he did not foresee
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Turalyon's forces fought desperately to return home to wow goldAzeroth, the world of
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On Draenor, Turalyon and Khadgar agreed to make the buy wow goldultimate sacrifice by
destroying the Dark Portal from their side. Though it would cost their lives, and the lives of their companions, they knew
that it was the only way to ensure Azeroth's survival. Even as Hellscream and Deadeye hacked their way through the human
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Ner'zhul and his loyal Shadowmoon buy wow goldclan passed through the largest of the
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roiled the shattered landscape as the tortured world was finally consumed in a massive, apocalyptic explosion.
The Birth of the Lich King
Ner'zhul and his followers entered cheap wow goldthe Twisting
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the Great Dark Beyond. Unfortunately Kil'jaeden and his demonic minions were waiting for them. Kil'jaeden, who had sworn to
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shaman's body apart, piece by piece. Kil'jaeden kept the shaman's spirit alive and intact, thus leaving Ner'zhul painfully
aware of his body's gross dismemberment. Though Ner'zhul pleaded with the demon to release his spirit and grant him death,
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The orcs' failure to conquer the world for buy wow goldthe Burning Legion forced
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Azeroth. This new army could not be allowed to fall prey to the same petty rivalries and infighting that had plagued the
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Holding Ner'zhul's spirit helpless in stasis, buy wow goldKil'jaeden gave him one last
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spirit was placed within a specially crafted block of diamond-hard ice gathered from the far reaches of the Twisting Nether.
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Ner'zhul's loyal death knights and Shadowmoon followers were also transformed by the demon's chaotic energies. The wicked
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When the time was right, Kil'jaeden explained buy wow goldthe mission for which he had
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Azeroth that would snuff out human civilization forever. All those who died from the dreaded plague would arise as the
undead, and their spirits wow goldwould be bound to Ner'zhul's iron will forever.
Kil'jaeden promised that if Ner'zhul accomplished his dark mission of scouring humanity from the world, he would be freed
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Though Ner'zhul was agreeable and seemingly buy wow goldanxious to play his part,
Kil'jaeden remained skeptical of his pawn's loyalties. Keeping the Lich King bodiless and trapped within the crystal cask
assured his good conduct for the short term, but the demon knew that he would need to keep a watchful eye on him. To this
end, Kil'jaeden called upon his wow goldelite demon guard, the vampiric dreadlords, to
police Ner'zhul and ensure that he accomplished his dread task. Tichondrius, the most powerful and cunning of the dreadlords,
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Lich King's unbridled potential for genocide.
Icecrown and the Frozen Throne
Kil'jaeden cast Ner'zhul's icy cask back into the buy wow gold world of Azeroth. The
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From the confines of the Frozen Throne, Ner'zhul buy wow gold began to reach out his vast
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army that he housed within Icecrown's twisting labyrinths. As the Lich King mastered his growing abilities under the
dreadlords' persistent vigil, he discovered a remote human settlement on the fringe cheap wow
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human village. Within three days, wow goldeveryone in the settlement was dead, but
shortly thereafter, the dead villagers began to rise as zombified corpses. Ner'zhul could feel their individual spirits and
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The Battle of Grim Batol
Meanwhile, in the war-torn lands of the south, the scattered remnants of the Horde fought for their very survival. Though
Grom Hellscream and his Warsong clan managed to evade capture, Deadeye and his Bleeding Hollow clan were rounded up and
placed in the internment camps incheap wow gold Lordaeron. Notwithstanding these costly
uprisings, the camps' wardens soon re-established control over their brutish charges.
However, unknown to the Alliance, a large force buy wow goldof orcs still roamed free in
the northern wastes of Khaz Modan. The Dragonmaw clan, led by the infamous warlock Nekros, was using an ancient artifact
known as the Demon Soul to control the Dragonqueen, Alexstrasza, and her dragonflight. With the Dragonqueen as his hostage,
Nekros built up a secret army within cheap wow goldthe abandoned - some say cursed -
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to reunite the Horde and continue wow goldits conquest of Azeroth. His vision did not
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In their fury, Alexstrasza'swow gold dragons tore Grim Batol apart and incinerated the
greater bulk of the Dragonmaw clan. Nekros' grand schemes of reunification came crashing down as the Alliance troops rounded
up the remaining orc survivors and threw them into the waiting internment camps.cheap wow
gold The Dragonmaw clan's defeat signaled the end of the Horde, and the end of the orcs' furious bloodlust.
Lethargy of the Orcs
Months passed, and more orc prisoners were buy wow goldrounded up and placed within the
internment camps. As the camps began to overflow, the Alliance was forced to construct new camps in the plains south of the
Alterac Mountains. To properly maintain and supply the growing number of camps, King Terenas levied a new tax on the Alliance
nations. This tax, along with increased political tensions over border disputes, created widespread unrest. It seemed that
the fragile pact that had forged the cheap wow goldhuman nations together in their
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Amidst the political turmoil, many of the camp buy wow gold wardens began to notice an
unsettling change come over their orc captives. The orcs' efforts to escape from the camps or even fight amongst themselves
had greatly decreased in frequency over time. The orcs were becoming increasingly aloof and lethargic. Though it was
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on Azeroth - had completely lost their will to fight. The strange lethargy confounded the
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Some speculated that some strange disease, buy wow goldcontractible only by orcs,
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he could find of orcish history, Antonidas wow goldlearned that the orcs had been under
the crippling influence of demonic power for generations. He speculated that the orcs had been corrupted by these powers even
before their first invasion of Azeroth. Clearly, demons had spiked the orcs' cheap wow
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Antonidas theorized that the orcs' communal buy wow gold lethargy was not actually a
disease, but a consequence of racial withdrawal from the volatile warlock magics that had made them fearsome, bloodlusted
warriors. Though the symptoms were clear, Antonidas was unable to find a cure for the orcs' present condition. Then too, many
of his fellow mages, as well as a few notable Alliance leaders, argued that finding a cure for the orcs would be an imprudent
venture. Left to ponder the orcs' mysterious cheap wow goldcondition, Antonidas'
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The New Horde
The chief warden of the internment camps, Aedelas buy wow gold Blackmoore, watched over
the captive orcs from his prison-stronghold, Durnholde. One orc in particular had always held his interest: the orphaned
infant he had found nearly eighteen years wow goldbefore. Blackmoore had raised the young
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Despite his harsh upbringing, young cheap wow goldThrall grew into a strong, quick-witted
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The resourceful yet inexperienced Thrall decided to escape from Blackmoore's fortress and set off to find others of his kind.
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Constantly hunted by the humans, Hellscream buy wow goldnevertheless held onto the
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idealism, developed a strong empathy for the Horde and its warrior traditions.
Seeking the truth of his own origins, Thrall buy wow goldtraveled north to find the
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Under the tutelage of the venerable shaman Drek'Thar, buy wow gold Thrall studied his
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To symbolize his people's rebirth, Thrall returned buy wow goldto Blackmoore's fortress
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Thrall took up Doomhammer's legendary warhammer buy wow gold and donned his black plate-
armor to become the new warchief of the Horde. During the following months, Thrall's small but volatile Horde laid waste to
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War of the Spider
While Thrall was liberating his brethren in buy wow goldLordaeron, Ner'zhul continued to
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one shadowy empire stood against his power. The ancient subterranean kingdom cheap wow
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