The Order's arrival to Northrend was an orderly one. Their brief stay in the city of Stormwind had been fruitful, not least in that it had brought two faithful individuals to their doorstep, and one of them was well-connected. So well-connected, in fact, that they were able to hire an icebreaker from their clerical stipend; the Hailstorm was an old, decommissioned warship, but it was sturdy despite its scars.
The coal-fired engine of the icebreaker carried them across the waves to Daggercap Bay, pausing only to carve a path through the thin autumnal sea ice that was beginning to gather. Once they had arrived in Valgarde, they made the short journey to Westguard Keep, where they intended to make their base of operations for the first leg of their quest to find the Crypt of Arduran.
Although they intended to make haste and to visit the Tuskarr on the shore nearby, to beseech them for their ancestral wisdom and for any clues as to the crypt's whereabouts, they were almost immediately waylaid by the Cult of the Damned, from within the sparsely-garrisoned keep itself. Though two of the cutlists were revealed and disposed of, the calamity had attracted the attention of their vile allies, and the next morning they faced an assault upon the eastern side of the fort.
While the attack was easily repelled, the gun emplacements outside the fort providing deadly firepower, it wasn't without its revelations. The ghouls and cultists that swarmed the emplacements were a mere distraction, intending only to bog down the attending cannoneers, while their soul-forged construct marched towards the walls of the keep. A giant of ghastly metal, dark smoke and ghostly flames, it came down beneath twin blasts from one of the keep's cannons.
For the Order, it was the first indication of what the Cult of the Damned had been up to in the frozen north - the terrific new powers that they had sold their souls for. When did the Cult obtain such constructs? More importantly, how, and where from? These were questions to be answered later, and they were sure those questions would be answered the further north they travelled...
The Order is in Westguard Keep currently, but will soon be moving towards The Best Zone In The Game 
(also known as Grizzly Hills). We’ve just finished some relatively wholesome and adventurous roleplay around Kamagua too - stay tuned for the next story update!