Crowded around a dwarven bed, the Provost Obadiah and Sir Uriel prayed for the soul of Thane Khazgrim. Having been struck down by the Hand of Kharduum's leader, Lord Gorridon, at the siege of Wildhammer Stronghold, the dwarven commander made a recovery in the lead up to the Battle of Shadowmoon Pass. Yet at the height of the Alliance's victory, a darkness took the dwarven thane and threatened to consume him, mind, body and soul.
The paladins of the Order, and the convicts beneath them that aspired to serve the Light, deemed this to be unacceptable, and the darkness was banished. It was thus that the Thane Khazgrim demanded vengeance, and Marshal Falheim was instructed to take with him the stronghold's best fighters to defeat the Hand of Kharduum abroad, where they had fled to the old portals across Outland.
It wasn't just the knights of the Order that rode through Shadowmoon Pass and down to Allerian Stronghold first, however. The deserters that had fought alongside them went with them, as well as the Sergeant-Major that had been their commanding officer prior to the Order's arrival. An unlikely lot, they had weathered the felfires of Shadowmoon Valley together, and so it was that they would crusade across the shattered world as one.
Their arrival at Allerian Stronghold was without fanfare, though they were greeted by Captain Skywatcher, the elven ranger-captain in charge. Not an hour before their arrival, he said, the Hand of Kharduum's cultist following had lifted its own siege upon the stronghold and retreated to the Bone Wastes, where Xorothian felsteeds and their demonic riders patrolled.
The elven garrison soon gathered its strength, and at last, at the beginning of a new week, the Alliance went on the offensive once more. Across the Bone Wastes, in the shadow of the ruins of mighty Auchindoun, the Order and its followers thwarted the felsworn cult and drove them into the depths of the Shadow Tomb, opening the way to the plains to the west.
Nagrand awaited them, and the portal upon Twilight Ridge, on the far western extreme of the shattered world, would be the first to face their crusade. Yet at home, on another world, trouble stirred. Even on Outland, they were not beyond the reach of Stormwind's politics. While the knights of the Order had spent a fortnight fighting day-by-day against the hellish fiends from the Twisting Nether, the consequences of their courts martial at the start of the month had not played out in full...
The Order will soon depart from Allerian Stronghold in Terrokar Forest, venturing forth to close the portals and deny their enemy, the Hand of Kharduum, their footholds on Outland. Join today* to partake in this year's hottest demon-slaying campaign!
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