The Northern Borders: Andorhal

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Andorhal seeks settlers!

Since the siege of Lordaeron, the Forsaken presence has diminished much in the North. The Alliance has returned to Andorhal, a city which once was the centre of trade for Eastweald, in an effort to secure it as an Alliance outpost in the North. At the Southern gate, settlers are returning to the city to make new lives for themselves in this once lost land. Farmers from the surrounding area bring wares into the town once more, though Forsaken remnants still hold the Northern part of the city.

Thus I call to any soul bold enough to seek a better life, albeit a harder one, to come forth in the North and help us resettle Lordaeron in the name of the High King, Anduin Wrynn! Whether soldier or farmer, mason or carpenter, we need all sorts to help in turning this shattered city from it’s current state into a vibrant hub of activity North of the Thandol Span!

Signed,
Baron Atyrian Wyrmblade,
Knight-Marshal of the Covenant of Lordaeron.

OOC

So, the Covenant has been out here for a little while, and honestly considering the past campaign in Lordaeron done by fellow rpers, we decided it wasn’t too much of a stretch to decide to move back into the Alliance area of Andorhal. Mainly due to the fact that the area is mainly just filled with genereric Forsaken mobs that only go up to level 60, and one can imagine that the ability to supply a Horde army here has become rather more difficult. Besides, it provides some interesting RP in an area that has mostly been left along since Cataclysm.

This is mostly an invitation for anyone who feels like rping North of the Thandol Span to consider this as an option for somewhere to operate out of. :slight_smile:

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Well isn’t this interesting…

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Hey, would y’all be interested in tangling with us sometime? Our DK bunch has been camping in a ruined castle on the Plaguelands border and we’d love the chance to harass (and be harassed by) some paladins - and by the look of this also their villagers!

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Is this Alliance retaking of Andorhal based in any recent lore that I’ve missed, or purely headcanon?

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The only bit of lore I could find is nothing specific of Andorhal, but only this quote of one of the missions from the BFA Mission Table:

An army of Alliance soldiers from the Plaguelands marches towards Hillsbrad. Attack from the shadows to slow their progress.

So speculation could suggest that either Andorhal has fallen or deserted by the Horde when the Undercity was to be besieged by the Alliance. Perhaps we’d might see future missions as the War Campaign carries on in 8.1 and future patches.

Source: https://www.wowhead.com/mission=1941/dancing-with-dark-rangers
https://www.wowhead.com/news=284410/the-story-from-the-follower-missions-in-battle-for-azeroth-spoilers#eastern-kingdoms

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@Dawncastle Thanks for that piece of lore. Glad we got something supporting our reasoning now. <3

@Belok It’s kind of headcannon in a way- however, it seems that speculation would support this. Besides, if something happens to Andorhal, we fully intend to bow towards the lore and either back out, or if it’s in Alliance hands, we’ll state we’re doing so a local force alongside official forces.

@Vildred We’d love to! Always good to have other guilds to interact with, and we’d love to deal with the Scourge still in our midst! For the most part, we’ve been dealing with Forsaken remnants IC.

We’ve been out here for a good two or so months now. We’ve had good fun interacting with travellers on the road.

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Well, we’re not actually Scourge, just annoying Ebons! That opens opportunities for not just a bit of rivalry, but also begrudging cooperation and casual RP in the area. :slightly_smiling_face:

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What’s that? You’re not actually scourge, just scourge?

Hmm, maybe. Depends on what your attitudes towards the Horde are. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I’ll pop round the Plaguelands to cause some Scourge havoc if I must.

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Watch that tone, choir boy… :skull:
For real though, we have no love of the Horde, so maybe we could bond over slaughtering some orcs.

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Death Knights and Nelox coming to attack Andorhal ?
Guess some Red Flame will have to burn them all >:s

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Love to tangle with you sometime, but we’re not Scourge/hostiles. Feel free to burn Nelox at a stake, though.

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You’re all the same to my luminous and righteous flame.

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Guess it gotta burn all that brighter now that you have to sleep outside, eh? Enjoying your Monastery by the way, fancy decor you’ve put up. Goes well with crusader skulls. :skull:

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Today, partially due to a large-scale event that went slightly wrong, Andorhal is full of various guilds and people! The houses have been opened up, beds set up for them, and the Alliance sector of the town, if one is near-sighted enough to not notice the ruins in the background, could be confused for any Alliance town!

On that note: Andorhal asks for settlers! Non-combatants, or people willing to fight all the same! We need butchers, bakers, candle-stick makers! If you want to rp a new life for yourself out on a wild frontier, and want somewhere mostly npc-free (aside from low-level mobs here and there), come to Andorhal!

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This doesn’t mean the Alliance control the Plaguelands however. It is as you said, purely speculation regarding what is up with Andorhal, but with no actual reference then there is no case the Alliance are settling in the Western Plaguelands. Marching through the Plaguelands does not mean settle, or in possession of. If that quote was the case, did the Alliance also remove the Argent Crusade settled there?

You must remember the mission tables are ‘tit for tat’ in nature. The Horde are also marching through and fighting in the Plaguelands, by that same quotation does that mean the Horde owns it? It is much more accurate to assume the de facto answer (for now) is it is in Horde hands since it’s reclamation in the Cataclysm. The second WoWhead article shows it painted red. You can read the comments to see how much criticism it has taken – it is a opinion-piece in itself and not something to use as citation.

The guy writing it made a number of mistakes, such as painting the entire Plaguelands blue at one point, this is because he simply read a opinion-piece by Red Shirt Guy and took him as a canon source. He also really wanted Tirisfal Glades to be claimed by the Alliance, but didn’t relent in re-editing the map after critique. But as we’ve seen in-game since, the area is abandoned all for a few Forsaken NPC’s here and there. He was also completely wrong about Darkshore being 70% held by the Night Elves, among the Alliance owning a massive chunk of Durotar. The Horde has lost North and South Barrens entirely save for the Crossroads? I don’t think Anshlun and Redshirtguy were being very impartial when they theorycrafted this garbage.

Notice on that map he drew the Horde claims as tiny red dot, but when the Alliance happen to tread through an area the entire region becomes blue, lmao.

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How is any of this relevant to a bunch of people wanting to have fun in a zone?

Please, this discussion is not for this thread.

We have made a point of showing the Alliance NOT controlling the Plaguelands. To an extent that we have had the Forsaken still controlling the Northern part of the city, and holding Caer Darrow in recent events. The Western Plaguelands is, at least in our headcanon, still contested. The only thing that’s really changed is Alliance presence in Andorhal, which to be fair makes sense- if troops are marching through the plaguelands, and into Hillsbrad, well, they must be using the one area where you can cross the river- Andorhal. Armour’s heavy, yo, and marching into a river is not fun, especially when there’s two serviceable bridges in that town.

Besides, we don’t station ourselves in uncontested zones often. Events get boring that way.

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How is any of this relevant to a bunch of people wanting to have fun in a zone?

You didn’t mind the discussion when it made your concept look justified.

I only cast doubt on the idea because last time we interacted with you guys outside Andorhal you refused to come out of the phased zone and the guild began telling us to go away IC / OOC. That doesn’t really tell me you guys are very interested in having the area be contestable.

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Maybe because people don’t want it to become the stomp that Soggoth was ? :thinking:

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It’s almost as if that entire farce was not A) Agreed upon. B) Sensible. Or C) Possible, as the gates were locked. Also, to be quite frank, it’s not our fault you were phased! We had prepared to do campaigns there, and had done the quests accordingly. You came here at the spur of a whim, and complained to us that we wouldn’t come out to fight you when you had like forty people and we had FOUR.

You want an RP PvP? Then we plan it out, we don’t just do whatever the Horde feels like because they happen to have more people at that time.

You came down from the mountains with NO siege equipment, and expected us to go “Oh, alright, sure, come right on in, slaughter us and our wounded?” No. Of course not.

That’s my statement on that. I am a veteran RPer, I have played Table Top, LARP, and of course virtual RP.

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