This letter is distributed at great expense through neutral and Alliance sources. Horde characters may find goblins from the Steamwheedle Cartel keeping a few pinned to their stalls, claiming they were paid good money to do so. Others still might find a letter posted directly to them. How someone receives, reads or ignores the letter is entirely up to them. There is, naturally, a very limited amount of them in circulation, so efforts to take them down will meet with relatively easy success.
This open letter is addressed to any denizen of Azeroth, regardless of allegiance.
Some of you may be aware I was recently captured by a Horde warband led by Tharâzog Giantrender. There has been confusion over their goals, so let me spell it out in plain terms.
When they say they only wish to stop Night Elves and Worgen from attacking Horde in Kalimdor, they are lying. It is what they want to provoke and encourage.
During my captivity I overheard enough, and my judgement of the individuals that make up the warband is based entirely on deductive and painstaking character profiling and thought.
Most of these individuals care only for their own glories or fabricated opinions. Some may not even care at all, simple anarchists. Others are misguided, led along by false promises of justice and peace.
I invite the reader to think upon how kidnapping and attempting to use a dwarf, an ex-General, as a bargaining chip to get Night Elves and Worgen to stop acting on very justified grievances actually works. The answer is it doesnât, the very notion I am that important is laughable. It only takes a small amount of thought to deduce that people of the level of cunning exhibited by the warband would also know that my capture would matter very little to those who they claimed the stunt would stop.
So what then is their true goal, if they knew my capture would have no effect? I see the result. Dwarves I am close to who were previously willing to go along with the truce now clamour for Horde blood, and through that it is plainly clear what their aim is.
Tharâzog Giantrender and his warband seek to start a new war. By drawing more and more individuals into a spiraling proxy war they seek to force the wider leadership of both the Horde and the Alliance to act, whilst using the very aggression they themselves stoke as proof of the other sideâs unwillingness to seek peace. It is a classic case of fabricating a reason for war, and we should not fall for it.
And so I call upon everyone to hunt Tharâzog and his warband, offer them no sanctuary, hound them to the end of their days. Attempt to reason with those of his warband who may hold doubt, but be under no illusion that most are fanatics that need to be put down.
I will state plainly my intent to do the same. I was originally content to leave them be, to let this little flame of theirs die out without success, but recent sacrifices that could have been prevented were it not for that orcâs meddling have caused me to reevaluate that opinion and take a more direct stance in snuffing them out.
I address the Horde directly now: I do not like you, it would not be a stretch to say I hate you. But in the moments after the Battle of Mount Hyjal, I had a hope that we could live in peace. This was swiftly dashed, and my opinion of the Horde does not, unlike King Anduin, change so easily depending on who sits on that throne of hide and bone of yours. So I put this challenge to you now: Change my mind. Take the first steps in your long road to redemption by aiding me in putting down Tharâzogâs warband and their warmongering ways.
Tharâzog. It does not matter to me whose hand you die by, I will just be content being one of the many that cut you down like the rabid dog you are. You should have used my bones to start to pave your new âPath of Gloryâ when you had the chance, because you will not get another.
Grannd Thunderbraid.