The roar of fel cannons. The percussive thumps of the siege tanks. The demonic, metallic bellows of an almighty fel reaver. The pass between Shadowmoon Valley and Terrokar Forest was hellish to every sense imaginable. Their foe was relentless, the honour guard of the pit commander Gorridon taking to the field to halt the advance of the Alliance's battle-weary forces.
Among them, the knights of the Holy Order and their new following. Convicted deserters by title, their valour in battle had earned them a modicum of respect from the paladins, and those that didn't study beneath them fought alongside them as equals all the same, for there was no time for pause and no time for division in the face of the Hand of Kharduum.
Atop the remains of Legion Hold, the annihilan commander could only watch as his forces fell to the flanking advance of the paladins, which the faded blue banner strode with. Even the mighty fel reaver was brought low by a single blast of a freshly-repaired steam tank, made possible only by the determination of the Wildhammers' salvage teams, protected by the Order.
But at last, the demons were routed. Their runestones, which enabled them to utilise the teleporter to travel across the shattered world of Outland, were collected and detonated, destroying their means of accessing the valley, and their reinforcements were stemmed. Two weeks since it began, the Hand of Kharduum's invasion of the valley was thwarted, and its shadow withdraw to the distant, secretive reaches of the world...
Having defended the walls of a castle against a pit lord, stormed the subterranean Deathforge and restored portal travel to Shadowmoon Valley, and finally broke the demons’ hold on the land route to Terrokar Forest, the Holy Order (and co.) have finally broken free of the hellish, scorched land!
Ahead of them lies a long and twisting path through the wilds of Outland and beyond as they seek to end the threat of the Hand of Kharduum once and for all. Many challenges and trials lie ahead for them, new and old alike. Maybe they’ll even pick up a few new faces along the way…