Hello everyone! Just to make it clear, we’re not actually talking about shadowlands developments
for the scarlets. The upcoming information has apperantly been datamined for the game
back in patch 8.1.5 but only really now came to the surface, atleast I was unaware of it
which means I’m excited and it’s time to share!
In Tirisfal Glades after talking to zidormi and putting the zone back in time, before
the Battle at Lordaeron, head on over to the Calston Estate. The place where we saw the
meeting between Lilian Voss, Calia Menethil and Derek Proudmoore. Over at the trees there
are a couple of pamphlets to pick up that spin some interesting tales. Lets go over
them...
The traitor king: The current king of Stormwind pretends that
he represents our interests. That he cares about us. He does not. Anduin Wrynn is unworthy
of his name and heritage. He cares more about the undead than his living subjects. He has
betrayed us all. It was the boy-king who conspired with Sylvanas
Widnrunner to forge a pact between humans and undead. The meeting in the Arathi Highlands
was a staged event to drum up sympathy for his cause. You have heard stories that the
so-called ‘Forsaken’ were killed by the Banshee. FAlSE. There was no massacre. But
Anduin wants you to beleive there was. Why the deception? Because he wants us to
feel SORRY for those monsters. To welcome them back into our lives. TO give up the lands
we’ve fought so hard to hold onto. Lordaeron belongs to the LIVING. It is our LEGACY. Do
not be tricket by the FALSE king! The Scarlet Brotherhood must bring an end to Anduin’s
puppet reign. Unite and rise up against his treachery!
The Would be Queen: We all know that Teranas Menethil was the
last true liege of Lordaeron. In fact, he was the last GREAT king in all of Azeroth.
Sadly, he was murderedb y a son who had become obsessed with undeath. The same prince who
slaughtered so many of our loved ones and raised them up as MONSTERS.
YEt we clung to one hope for the Menethil dynstaty to live on: PRincess Calia, the last
living heir of King Teranas. Sadly, that hope has been taken from us by a dark CONSPIRACY
led by one of our own. Though she was serving as a humble priestess,
Calia MEnethil was destined to REIGN in Lordaeron one day. The people of this great land would
have risen up and helped her fight for the throne. Anduin Wrynn knew this. He FEARED
such a challenge to his reign. So he set about to bring her down.
The boy-king CONSPIRED with the Banshee herself to arrange a meeting between the living and
the dead under a FALSE flag of truce. Traitor Wrynn seduced the banshee into staging a FAKE
massacre to lure out the good-hearted Princess Calia. Then the traitor king had our princess
MURDERED. But that was not the end of ANduin’s foul
scheme. No, he had his Banshee lover raise Calia as a lich...practically SPITTING on
the grave of good king Teranas! Why? Because the traitor king is OBSESSED with the dead!
He plans to MARRY Calia and secure his right to the throne of Lordaeron.
The Scarlet Brotherhood will not allow this to happen! We will BRING DOWN the traitor
king and his undead puppet! With tears in our eyes, we will burn the corpse of Princess
Calia. Upon her ashes, Lordaeron will return to GREATNESS!
The Cursed Old Wolf: We all know that ANduin Wrynn is a traitor
to his race and does not deserve to be king. These facts are INDISPUTABLE. So who should
be king? For now, there is only one answer: Genn Greymane.
Yes, we must rally behind a shapeshifting monster, cursed by a night elf plague to spend
half his life as a beast. Why? BEcause for all his many flaws, Greymane HATES the Forsaken.
He wants the banshee DEAD. His goals align with ours, and he has the forces to get the
job done. But do not worry, brothers and sisters. Greymane
is NOT a long-term solution. We will follow him only until the undead are wiped out. Then
we will bring down Greymane and turn our blades upon the rest of his cursed kind.
It will be a challenge to hide your disdain for the mongrel worgen. But we must do ti
for a time, brothers and sisters. Once Lordaeron is free of undead filth, the Scarlet Brotherhood
will FINISH the job and ensure that only pure-blooded humans hold this land!
The last Menethil: Knowing that our dear Princess Calia was ASSASSINATED
by Traitor Wrynn and raised as undead is a pang in our hearts, brothers and sisters.
But do not lose hope! King Terenas’ dynasty will yet live on!
It was a well-guarded secret that during the late days of her father’s reign, Princess
Calia wed a nobleman of the ARATHI bloodline. The pridefull Arthas demanded that this truth
remain hidden until he himself had wed and sired an heir. Of course, that never came
to be. But...a child WAS indeed born! Princess Calia gave birth to a son. Yes, an HEIR to
the Menethil Throne!
Sadly, the Princess was seperated from her husband and child during a Scourge attack.
Her family was presumed dead. But let joy fill your hearts, friends...for the child
was SAVED! The young prince was rescued by a good-hearted citizen of Lordaeron. He has
been kept sheltered and safe all these years by members of the Scarlet Brotherhood. We
have him in a SECURE location that must, for obvious reasons, remain secret.
We had intended to reunite the young heir with his mother. Sadly, the Traitor King of
the Alliance had Princess Calia murdered by his banshee lover. The abomination that now
walks this land is NOT Princess Calia! Retribution will fall upon all these monsters! Lordaeron
is for the LIVING! Let hope rise in your hearts, brothers and
sisters. Once we have purged the undead FILTH and the CURSED worgen from our homeland, the
young king will be revealed! The traitor Wrynn will be exposed and our TRUE king will take
the throne. The Menethil dynasty WILL be restored.
And there you go, a little bit of lore kindly handed out by the Scarlet Brotherhood. Those
of you familiar with the lore might have raised your eyebrows a couple of times as this is...
“FAKE NEWS’
This is scarlet propaganda, perhaps anduin seducing the banshee queen, turning her into
his lover is a dead give away but lets do a bit of fact checking.
It was the boy-king who conspired with Sylvanas Widnrunner to forge a pact between humans
and undead.
Notice how they once again use the title of boy-king for Anduin. The whispers of illgynoth
mention him offering three lies, I still havent been able to pin them down. To this piece
of fiction, this is actually true. In the novel before the storm, he does work towards
a meeting between human and forsaken. Reunite lost loved ones, a meeting that ended in disaster.
The meeting in the Arathi Highlands was a staged event to drum up sympathy for his cause.
You have heard stories that the so-called ‘Forsaken’ were killed by the Banshee.
FAlSE. There was no massacre. But Anduin wants you to beleive there was.
During the meeting, the forsaken and humans, living and undead had such a great time that
they did not want the meeting to end. They didn’t want to go back to the undercity
so when they noticed Calia menethil as one of the priests overseeing the meeting, making
sure that everything was going right, they called out to her. They asked her to stand
with them and she did, rallying them to run back to the Alliance. Some followed her, others
wanted to come back to their beloved banshee queen. Neither made it as sylvanas took the
field and shot down every single one of her people, even Calia as she wasn’t part of
the alliance, while being smart enough to create any casualties on anduin’s side.
This way the war wasn’t started quite yet, so the massacre did happen. You can even find
their graves in the arathi highlands.
Calia MEnethil was destined to REIGN in Lordaeron one day.
Debatable as part of the reasoning she gives for doing something as stupid as rallying
the forsaken to abandon sylvanas during the meeting, was because...
“I was never taught how to rule, Anduin, because no one expected me to. I never formally
studied politics or stategy. So when I got out there... You just followed your heart.”
Then the traitor king had our princess MURDERED. But that was not the end of ANduin’s foul
scheme. No, he had his Banshee lover raise Calia as a lich...practically SPITTING on
the grave of good king Teranas! Why? Because the traitor king is OBSESSED with the dead!
He plans to MARRY Calia and secure his right to the throne of Lordaeron.
I don’t even know where to begin with this one. I love the fan art that’s gonna come
out of anduin’s banshee lover. ow nope never mind, just did a quick google search and of
course that’s already a thing. Calia was not raised a lich nor was she raised by sylvanas.
Her body was brought back to the netherlight temple, the priest order hall, where Anduin
together with Alonsus Foul and the naaru Saa’ra did their ritual. Brought calia back not as
a forsaken or scourge or lich, but something new entirely. The whole wedding is interesting
though as before the storm did deal quite a bit with anduin’s heritage. Uncle Greymane
pushing him to start working on a family. Calia or the throne of lordaeron were not
really on the table.
It was a well-guarded secret that during the late days of her father’s reign, Princess
Calia wed a nobleman of the ARATHI bloodline.
The best lies are sprinkled with a bit of truth. Calia was married in secret, but not
to a nobleman of the Arathi bloodline. She fell in love with one of the footmen, someone
her father would never have approved of. If it had been a nobleman of the arathi bloodline
then there wouldn’t have been any problems to keep it secret to begin with.
The
pridefull Arthas demanded that this truth remain hidden until he himself had wed and
sired an heir. Of course, that never came to be. But...a child WAS indeed born! Princess
Calia gave birth to a son. Yes, an HEIR to the Menethil Throne!
When I was certain I was carrying, I confided my love for the footman to my mother. She
was furious, but she could tell by my face that this was a true love, and I assured her
my child would be legitimate. Father was too caught up in Arthas to make much objection
when my mother and I went on a ‘long rest’ to more remote parts of the kingdom. I got
to hold my beautiful little girl and tend to her for a few weeks before it was decided
that my husband would raise her, away from Lordaeron and ignorant of her birthright.
– Mother promised that when the time was right – when Arthas had finally married
and produced an heir – we could acknowledge my daughter and perhaps elevate my husband
to a nobleman’s status so that her name would be unsullied. That day never came. But
the Scourge did.
From Calia’s own mouth, she had a daughter but again, this is scarlet propaganda. Either
they believe that it will be easier for the people to swallow a male heir to take the
throne OR that’s simply who they want the throne to take... who ever it might be.
Sadly, the Princess was seperated from her husband and child during a Scourge attack.
Her family was presumed dead. But let joy fill your hearts, friends...for the child
was SAVED! The young prince was rescued by a good-hearted citizen of Lordaeron.
The fate of her husband and child is actually unknown at this point which makes this plot,
this scheme all the more interesting. Calia doesn’t remember much about the time in
which the scourge came. She was lying in a ditch while the scourge passed above her,
slowly making her way to Southshore where her husband and child had been hidden away.
A sweet reunion as the three of them wept, but it was not to last. No one recognised
her since everyone assumed her to be dead. For a time they were happy...and then came
the blight. We ran. I wasn’t about to leave my family again, but in the crowd we were
seperated. I stood in the middle of street, screaming for them. Someone took pity on me,
pulling me onto his horse and galloping past the limits of the town barely in time. – So
many of us waited, desperate for word of our loved ones. Sometimes prayers were answered,
but Calia never saw her family again. It might be that they’re part of the forsaken, they
might still be out there in the world somewhere... it be unknown.
But what’s the point of all of this, why are they handing out pamphlets, what we can
learn from this? Well, one thing that definatly stands out is that the scarlets are still
not done. We tried to get rid of them in classic, the lich king had a swing at it with wrath
of the lich king, Lilian had a go...time and time again the scarlets just keep on coming
back. Still setting their eyes on reclaiming Lordaeron. This time by planting their own
heir to the throne. We might look at this, top side view, and we can grab the texts from
the books and disprove what they’re saying, but the people in Azeroth don’t have that
luxury. They only hear rumors about things that happen in the world. The stories told
by the scarlets contain a grain of truth, which builds the best lies. If they can sway
the minds and hearts of the people to turn against Anduin...that’s a very powerful
tool at their disposal. Infiltrating civilizations and turning them against eachother. It has
dreadlord written all over it which the scarlets have a massive history with. Being infiltrated
by the dreadlord Balnazzar, pretending to be Saiden Dathrohan is part of the reason
why they’re so zealous and from certain point of views, corrupt. It’s no spoiler
to say that the Shadowlands deals with the Lich King and what better dreadlord to have
make a return in that storyline then the one and only...Mal’ganis.
“It’s time to finish this mal’ganys...just you...and me.”
Last we really saw of him was during wrath of the lich king where he left us behind,
told us we’d never be able to take care of Arthas without his aid, but we proved him
wrong. Nothing much with him after that until Legion with a very small cameo, being part
of the demons that pop up on the broken shore. I’d love to see Mal’ganis just play a
little part in this expansion. Have him be part of the scarlet brotherhood would be very
cool.
But what could that part be... Well like I said, these stories could have some massive
effects on the people as well as Greymane.
“Peace is the option, it has to.”
Both he and tyrande are on a war mission and while Varian played a big part in the return
of the Gilneans to the alliance...Anduin does not have that kind of connection. As sylvanas
said, The respect the others give him is a courtesy, not an obligation. Meaning that
Greymane might feel more loyalty towards Tyrande and the night elves now, those that offered
them aid when no one else did. Helped them master their worgen curse and regain their
humanity. If the choice is either stick with Anduin and try to go for peace or follow Tyrande
on her path of war, combined with the scarlets offering their aid... I wonder if Greymane
would take the oppertunity....
Lordaeron is seemingly abandoned for the moment, but perhaps they can find a way to fix up
the land in the future, actually have something worthy to fight over.
We’d see characters like Calia herself show up, trying to go against this propaganda,
right, tell the real story. Lilian voss with connections to the scarlet
crusade herself, setting up this meeting for the recently resurrected.
The Scarlet Brotherhood producing their prodigy child to take the throne of Lordaeron.
Malganis, taking at the stab at the menethil family again.
Greymane, deciding to go on his own path of war and throwing in his forces with the scarlets.
Or maybe he just makes it look like that and then BAM turns around, what do you mean mongrel
worgen. We are gilneans, we are the alliance, for azeroth.
LEts just say that a small bit of lore that popped up around these trees could lead to
a whole lot of cool story telling, or maybe it leads to nothing at all...who knows. For
now you’re up to speed with a nice and juicy lore bit. How would you like to see the scarlet
story play out? Let me know in the comments down below and of course, thank you very much
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