Kuura, I hope this letter finds you well. How goes the war effort in Stormsong? Have you seen the half-ogre since? The expedition to the Stonetalon Mountains has been very successful for the Mok’Nelghor, we now have allied with a nest of Wyverns from atop the peaks. Turns out that Wind Rider wasn’t scamming me of a few silver after all…
Now, relax young one. I can already see you scanning the rest of the letter for the details of what happened, they are coming just keep reading! After paying for the Wind Rider’s supper I headed out into Orgrimmar to find me some Dragonmaw who shared my vision of forming a Warband whom would claim the skies again, claim it for the Horde again, bring glory to our clan again…but in a better, more ancient way. Most of them are young, certainly younger than me and are rather lost since the downfall of Zaela and Hellscream. We gathered in the Valley of Honor and set off towards the Stonetalon Mountains on foot, much to the dismay of the younger grunts.
The Goblins have perverted the once beautiful forest of Azshara for their own. Smoke filled our gasping lungs as those vile little creatures tore up the ground with their machines. Perhaps it spurred us all on though, eager to escape the polluted paradise and cross the Southfury into Ashenvale.
We crossed into the forests of Ashenvale, slowing our pace, wary of what the trees might have concealed. We soon found a lone orc warrior, surrounded by Night Elven corpses, she reached out and warned us of more approaching. Forming a perimeter, we withstood the knife ears and their snarling mutts and brought the wounded warrior to a nearby lumber camp run by the noble Warsong Clan. They were willing to provide us with shelter for the night and even an escort the following morning for saving Grakah’s life, I hope to cross paths with them in the future to return the favour.
You see when we departed from the Warsong lumber camp we were escorted by none other than Grakah herself, along with two other outriders, although not fully healed from last night’s events she soldiered on to repay us. We marched through Demonfall Canyon, where the legendary Grom Hellscream saved our people from the Demon’s poison, I would like to bring you there one day. From there we rejoined the forest road and for a time, the forest was quiet…in hindsight, it was too quiet.
We came across a small camp, nothing more than a few tents surrounding a campfire. However all the orcs were slaughtered, and the fire was still burning, suddenly Worgen broke out from the trees and arrows were flying, we were ambushed once again. Experience beat ferocity as I slew two Worgen, one with my bear hands, it was at that moment that Grakah made the ultimate sacrifice to repay us for saving her…and deep down I think, to see her mate once again. We beat them back for a moment, Grakah urged us to flee and that she would slow them down the best that she could. I refused, of course but… When she spoke of her mate it reminded me of your mother…something I could understand, I would not deny her that. We marched as fast as we could, and promised that if we ever came across Warsong again we would sing about Grakah’s sacrifice. We reached an island in the middle of a lake, bearing some old elven ruins and after scouting it out, set up camp for the night, if those knife ears did catch up with us, we would put up a bloody fight.
We woke with our heads intact and resumed our march into the red mountains of Stonetalon. The Wind Rider’s tales were proven true almost immediately as Wyverns greeted us overhead, some even returned of stares! We marched through the valley to reach Windshear Crag, apparently some of the Wind Riders tame the wild ones there from time to time. We felt some tremors beneath the earth as we started the climb up to the peaks however and soon found a Wyvern nest…butchered, its protective mother not far behind. We hurried our pace to the peak to find a brutal battle taking place between some Dark Iron and Wyverns over the nests. We charged the flank of the Wildhammer kin and sent them routing back into their mole machines, but not before one of the Wyverns saved my life. We made our way to the nests to find that some Dark Iron saboteurs had set fire to many of them and had injured the Alpha Male of the nest severely. In an attempt to prove our worth we tracked down some food for the hungry and herbs to try and ease his passing.
We were too late and…he passed away before our very eyes, I…I think he shed a tear. After mourning their leader, the Wyverns tore the Ram apart amongst themselves. After promising vengeance against the Dark Iron butchers, the Matriarch of the nest nudged me to climb atop her back and with that Kuura I found myself in the sky for the first time since the Second War and…it was glorious. To feel the wind in my hair, to smell the clean air amongst the clouds, to peer down on the land like an Eagle…I didn’t realise how much I missed it Kuura. We brought them to Dustwind Cavern to allow them to rebuild their nest, the Mok’Nelghor and the Dustwind Wyvern are now allies, destined for glory.
I hope your reply reaches me soon Daughter,
Aka’magosh,
Kagryn Scalebinder.