The guild name is a subtle joke. The shop is called Holy Order of Lordain after “Lordain’s Feed & Seed”, where feed and seed both end in the sound “-eed”, thus rhyming with the person of legend. The sign says that the shop was “Formerly Chuck’s”, implying that the two words beginning with “F” and “S” would have ended with “-uck”, rhyming with “Chuck”. So, when Chuck owned the shop, it would have been called- well, you don’t need me to break ToS.
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While the Order returned to Lakeshire to partake in a tournament, to further their image and cause, the Ninth Thane of Kol Ungor did not rest. His cabalist allies tracked the five orcs which had departed the Charspear stronghold on the mountain slopes, and he personally descended upon the ashen wastes to send them to their vile makers. The day after the tournament had finished, the Order was once again approached by Angrune, who brought with him one of the runic keys of his ancestral home, taken from the bodies of the orcs that had been tracked.
With the key to Kol Ungor in the possession of their Dark Iron associate, the Order traversed the fiery cavern of Blackrock Mountain and made for a secluded crag on its northwestern slope. Fighting their way through the Charspear Legion's scouts, they came upon the entrance to the Blackchar Caverns, a system of winding, deep lava passages running to the roots of Blackrock itself.
Angrune led the way through those passageways, recalling better times when they would be travelled, and soon the blackstone tunnels led to a wider and more open expanse, situated outside a solid stone bunker. Here the Order rested, but not before encountering a citrine fury of the earth itself, a towering, monolithic elemental of granite and crystal-stone. With its defeated, they stood at the brink of Kol Ungor - a short distance from the outer reaches of the stronghold, where it was unknown what would lie in wait for them...
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After a short side story with Angrune, the order is back on track for an epic story with plenty of friends involved! All this, on this season of “Crusading with the Order!”
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After a short rest, the Thane once again led the way into the blackstone caverns, winding ever deeper into the roots of Blackrock Mountain. In the dim light that they cast upon the walls, the Order spotted the wrought iron cages as they passed - hundreds of them, line along the walls and hanging from the ceiling of the cavern. A reminder of the dark past of the Dark Iron dwarves, and an indication of the one that led them onwards.
In time, the Order stepped into an arena, whose spectator ring above was warded by pilfered dwarven magics. This, Thane Angrune told them, was at the outer edge of the stronghold of Kol Ungor, and here they caught a glimpse of its inhabitants - the orcs, trolls, tauren and goblins that they had slowly be whittling down over the prior weeks. Among them, the dark, tall and foreboding figure of their leader, Drok Charhide, stood upon the spectator's ring, issuing his taunts to the dwarven thane that had fled his home so many years ago.
With little choice but to fight, the Order came face-to-face with a captured yeti, some fifteen feet tall, whose icy breath was no less deadly in the depths of the volcano than it was on the slopes of Dun Morogh. After dispatching it, Stone Guard Brukkor, an ogre adjutant of the Charspear warlord, personally came to dispatch the Order, with the aid of the legion's warshaman to flood the arena with magma.
The ogre, instead, met a fiery, ugly end in the magma, and the Order were quick to exploit the open passageway to the spectator's ring. While they did battle with the unsuspecting occupants of the bunkhouse adjacent to the gladiatorial ring, the Ninth Thane called upon the Living Flame to incinerate those that were readying their weapons on the spectators ring above.
After a short rest, the Order set out once more, across the spectator's ring and the carpet of blackened, charred bodies left in the wake of the Thane's sorcery. Just beyond, they came upon the vast chasm that led to the stronghold proper, the bridge upon which the Thane and the Warlord had last done battle. As they approached the gates of Kol Ungor, their foe came to meet them, with the warlord at their head. A vicious battle ensued, but as the battle raged on it became evident why Drok Charhide had managed to best the acolytes of the Living Flame before.
Casting Angrune aside, Drok turned his attention to the Order proper. The orc held a fierce sway over the elements, and the mountain trembled at his asking; the fiery depths beneath the span of granite upon which they stood roared in defiance of the pests that trod upon it. With just moments to spare, the shaman-warlord of the Charspear Legion was slain. For Angrune, retribution had come at last. Aided to his feet by a knight-aspirant of the Order as the warlord was brought low, the dwarven thane mustered his strength and charged the orc down. The Blackener, the ancestral warhammer from which the Thane drew his name, blazed with a dark fury, and as the last hammerblow was dealt the Warlord was instantly reduced to a glassy black fragments, stretched out some twenty feet along the causeway.
With the death of its warlord, the Charspear Legion was no more. What few remained in Kol Ungor, that had not been slain by the Living Flame or during the battle outside its gates, fled from the mountain. Whether they were slain by the Dark Iron patrols was unknown to the Order. The scavenge of the upper levels of the stronghold was left to those that had aided the Ninth Thane.
Among two decades of loot and plunder was an old elven blade, which was taken by one of the Order's rangers. Another found a particularly interesting ingot of metal - arcanite, no less, which the Ninth Thane demanded to be handed back to him, but eventually relented as payment. And lastly, a letter, written in the final days of Charhide's life of war and raiding, addressed to a junior orc of the Charspear Legion and imploring them to leave the mountain, to take 'the Scion' elsewhere, across the sea. Who this Scion was, where it was to be taken, or if the orc had even made it out alive remained unknown.
The Order’s long since left Blackrock Mountain and Kol Ungor behind (I’m just behind on writing up the details - things happen very quickly!). Now we’re on the war path, back in the northern reaches of the Eastern Kingdom, with our eyes set on all of our many, many enemies, most of all the heretical Blood Knights of Silvermoon. There really is no better time to join the Order!
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I saw those guys staying close to Uther Tomb… They looked like they had some beef with the undead following the Banshee Queen. I hope they broke their legs.
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While the upper levels of the stronghold remained secure, the lower levels of Kol Ungor and the state they lay in were still unknown. The Great Hall lay below them, wherein the Ninth Thane's treasury was also expected to lie in wait. After gathering their strength and reforging the rune-keys that controlled the doors of the great dwarven fort, they Order set off with Thane Angrune at the helm, down into the depths of the hold.
Through the dark and lifeless slaveforged halls of Kol Ungor the Order traversed, until at least they came before a great iron door. At the Thane's command, the doors to the Great Hall swung open, and revealed to them the fiery secret that the Charspear Legion had enchained there.
Towering high over their heads, the black wyrm Apocion, the Wyrm of Kol Ungor, reared back, and at the onset of battle the Order was awash in dragonflame. Without pause for thought nor safety, the Order - from sworn crusaders to newcomer-followers - charged forth to meet the chained wyrm. The battle raged on with greater ferocity than the Order had faced yet, matching even the great magics of Kelmir and the demonic fury of Diathonix, for this was a black dragon and a commander of flame and earth.
As Apocion's fury grew, magma spilled into the Great Hall, covering the floor of the dwarven hall and forcing the Order to high ground. The wyrm weakened nevertheless, assailed by the Holy Light, even in the darkeest depths of Blackrock Mountain, until the ground hardened once more in the advent of its last stand. The heat of the dragon's flaming hide was so intense that many of the Order slipped into unconsciousness in its presence, yet, finally, the last of the Charspear Legion's great powers, and secrets, was laid to rest.
It was in the hall of his forefathers that Angrune, once more the Thane of Kol Ungor, finally conceded - beyond his stubborn dwarven pride and quiet resentment of surface-dwellers - that he needed the Order's aid. As such, he departed a portion of his wealth unto the Order, at the requests of those who were present for the death of Apocion. For most, powerful enchantments and works of dwarven craftsmanship were needed. Others received unfinished works - weapons and armour only lacking in finishign touches. And for one elven ranger of the Order, an ancient, petrified leaf of great natural potency; a mystery yet to be unravelled.
Thus the quest to destroy the Charspear Legion was at an end, and the dwarven fort of Kol Ungor was returned to its rightful owner - for better or for worse. By the Light, it was so.
Thus concludes the story of Kol Ungor, a mini-campaign hosted at the start of the month, in between larger and longer plots. We’re already well underway with our next storyline, the next step on a years-long epic that began at the end of BfA, and one that’s certainly going to be FLAMING hot 
Join today to get involved in what promises to be one of a battle!
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The Order’s been on the road ever since Kol Ungor, travelling further and further north. We’ve clashed with the loyalists twice now and it’s been a blast, can’t wait to see what’s in store for this next month!
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Some say that the holy order has not one but two herbalist enthusiasts…
Burt once said…
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Been greatly enjoying my time with the Holy Order so far. Enlist today and you too can help stop the insidious Horde and their Void-born allies!
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Not long left until we venture further north…
Join us on our journey and see what waits for us within the high home of the elves with your own eyes!
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A cool new campaign, fighting old foes and new foes. Can’t wait for all the screenshots to be posted!
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Was an amazing fight today! Alliance Paladine and horde shaman clashing with eachother will never not be fun!
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The holy order is finally back in Stormwind!
Come by and say hello 
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10/10 would get flattened by plate-wearing, Light-wielding heroes/psychopaths (opinion dependent on faction) like these again. Ow, my ribs!
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Based people , would absolutely toss rocks at them again !
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Holy Order do not fear Horde nor Undead, they SMITE them to dust!
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Step by step, the Order helps me to walk the path of redemption.
What was wronged is going to be corrected.
The Light stands with its chosen, it is up to you to open yourself to the Divine.
Will you take arms to defend its will ?
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Love my Lordain Buddies, could not ask for a better nemesis to seethe about to the end of times
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I’m doing a collection of all the hammer of Light those Crusaders have thrown at me for being undead.
Join them if you want to cast Judgement too.
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The Oscar nominated Holy Light RP guild is still recruiting.
We’re also having an epic time in Khaz Modan currently, you should get involved. Lots of cool stuff ahead for the faithful few of Lordain.
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