Hello everyone!
Our mission on the broken isles is to get our hands on the pillars of creation.
Within Stormheim the Aegis of Aggramar awaits, but at the same time we also deal with the
Horde Alliance conflict and that’s the story we’re going to talk about today so let’s
begin shall we?!
After the events on the broken shores, some members of the alliance want to put away their
hatred and focus on the war against the Legion, but some of them have old hatreds burning
deep within their hearts and they are not willing to forgive or forget.
Genn Greymane and Admiral Rogers have a history with Sylvanas and the Horde.
In the case of Rogers, she lost her hometown of Southshore to the forsaken and the plague
and despite her best efforts during Mists of Pandaria
“no mercy gun them down” the Horde still lives.
Greymane has lost his city of Gilneas as well as his son to the banshee queen
“Son dies nooooo” Naturally, these two are the best to send
on a mission into Stormheim where they know that the Aegis of Aggramar can be found but
they’re also aware that the Forsaken fleet has set sail from Durotar and they suspect
that Sylvanas may be among them.
Now considering that we have freedom to choose where we want to level on the broken isles
first, it’s hard to say what zone comes first in the timeline but an interesting bit
of information can be found at the end of Azsuna.
One of the ships that joined Sylvanas on her mission is seperated from the rest by a massive
storm.
They end up within Azsuna and the capitan’s log talks about the warchiefs plans of stealing
the very power of the v for herself, v most likely standing for valkyr.
The log is found by adventurers and brought back to Dalaran.
If you play for the Horde then you’re complimented on keeping this delicate information out of
the grubby little hands of the Alliance, but if you play for the alliance you’re informed
that this information will be brought to greymane as soon as possible.
So it’s possible that Greymane was aware of Sylvanas her other plan since if you go
into Stormheim as a horde player, you’re not only informed about the Aegys, she also
explains that Stormheim holds another treasure.
One that she will be pursuing by her own means.
The Forsaken cannot reproduce so are they destined to wither away into nothing?
“No.
The Forsaken will never stop fighting.
Not while I reign.
Not when there are still beings out there with the power to stop death”
The Banshee queen is still focused on avoiding the hell that she ended up in after she threw
herself from the top of icecrown.
The valkyr made a deal with her, they would take her place in hell incase she dies and
in exchange they would be free from Bolvars control.
Knowing the torment and damnation that awaits, sylvanas took them up on their offer and gained
not only the power to stay out of hell, but also valkyr able to resurrect more forsaken.
She has lost a few of her valkyr already and it seems like she’s looking for the power
of the valkyr herself, the ability to create more of them.
Joining her is Nathanos Blightcaller, who in his lifetime was trained by the high elves
and appointed the rank of ranger lord, granted to him by sylvanas herself who was so impressed
by his skills that not even Kael’thas objecting to training the human could persuade her to
stop.
The scourge eventually swept over their lands and Nathanos was murdered by Ramstein the
Gorger.
Like Sylvanas, he too was turned into an undead and he found his way to the Forsaken.
Despite the alliance trying to end his undead torment, Nathanos is quite happy to stay at
his banshee queens side and some speculate a romance between the two of them.
Time will tell if that’s really true, Nathanos seems to be very loyal to sylvanas that’s
for sure, but knowing the history behind these characters and knowing why they’re going
into Stormheim, we’ve inspected the ships and troops....so let’s begin our journey!
“Three days ago, the Forsaken fleet set sail from Durotar, heading straight for the
Broken Isles.
We think Sylvanas Winrunner herself may be among them.
We are to track them from a safe distance.
We may engage, but only if the situation demands.
I strongly suspect the situation will demand it.
It had better.
I am not in the habit of tracking prey unless I intend on killing it.”
“Pew pew pew, fire in the holy, ships burning, run for your lives omg!”
The skyfire has located the horde fleet and they take their shot.
The alliance target is the banshee queen herself so they fly down and search the ships eventually
ending up on their flagship where the captain is interrogated:
Wait.
She may have information You are too late..The Dark lady is already
gone.
And your ship is already doomed!
The banshee queen is long gone as Horde players join Nathanos in a counter attack
“The mixture in those vials is extremely volatile.
Once you pop the cork, there’s no containing it.
Meet me on deck when the vials are in place.
There is someone here I want to kill personally...”
“They’re trying to bring the ship down from the inside.
Hero Get those chemical flares away from the ammo!”
Its no use, the ammunition has caught fire!
Quickly up the stairs.”
“Monsters!
You have no place in this world.
You call us monsters?
How rich.”
Nathanos and Greymane go at eachother, but the skyfire blows up and crashes out of the
sky
“Crash cinematic”
The alliance and horde are seperated again and they’ll have to put their battle on
hold while they deal with the damage done from their fight in the sky.
On the Horde side we can see that Sylvanas is once again quite happy to use the plague
and it made quite a mess so we get to clean it up.
Next to that, Nathanos is desperatly searching for his beloved banshee queen, she has to
be out there somewhere and we’re going to find her.
Eventually we meet up with dread-captain tattersail who was the last person to see the warchief:
“We got the queen into a rowboat, but she didn’t want an escort.
Told us to stay behind and fight.
My guess?
She landed somewhere up the coast and continued on foot.”
“No sign of Sylvanas in the hills.
What have we here?”
“That’s one of hers alright...”
The banshee queen made her escape and it would seem like she doesn’t want to be followed
not by us or anyone else and ours is not the question, only to obey, atleast according
to nathanos.
We kill Thane Wildsky, a gryphon master prepairing to take flight, no doubt to pursue our queen
from the sky and we take out a few of the SI:7 members that has been spying on our troops.
One of them has even been able to seduce a local Ravenbear so we take them out and after
that we focus our efforts on finding the aegis.
On the alliance side we see Greymane knocked out cold, but most of our troops are up and
running and we need to send out a distress signal to the alliance navi.
We collect some medical supplies, we take out some of the forsaken troops, we charge
our battery with the lightning attacks from the stormdrakes and we send out our signal
using the propellor from the skyfire.
This does attract some unwanted attention in the form of more forsaken soldiers, but
they too fall to our might and we even scare of Vethir a stormdragon we later befriend
during our mission of finding the aegis.
With the signal send out, the alliance quickly evacuates to Greywatch and after that we focus
our efforts on finding the aegis.
During that quest we go through several trials and for one of them we seek the judgement
of Ashildir, queen of the valkyra.
The problem however is that Runeseer Faljar is calling upon dark forbidden magics in an
attempt to banish her spirit to hellheim and if he succeeds, our trial will be lost.
We must do everything in our power to stop this from happening, but unfortenatly we fail.
No...this power...its too strong!
“I would see you banished before I allow you to grand judgment to an outsider!
No...you can’t...
I can.
You have sealed your fate, shieldmaiden.
You and this...outsider.
Enjoy your eternity of damnation.
Hellheim awaits!”
Hellheim is a domain ruled by Helya and it’s a form of afterlife for the vrykul.
Where the greatest and mightiest of vrykul earn their place within the halls of valor,
the unworthy are pulled down into helheim and are turned into Kvaldir.
Being here amongst the spirits of the dishonorable is not a great place to be so we set out to
meet up with Helya in an attempt to convince her to let us go back to the living world,
but here we find the banshee queen herself.
“Remember our bargain, banshee.
Do not dare to cross me...”
“What have we here?
Another one of greymane’s mercenaries?
No matter.
Soon you will witness the birth of a new age.
If you ever make it out of here, that is.
Ah my loyal hero You must not languish here.
The aegis cannot fall into enemy hands The future of the horde depends on you and
me.
Find your way back to Stormheim – I will be waiting.
Sylvanas has found her own path into hellheim, but it’s unexplained how she did this but
you could imagine that considering she’s a banshee and she has several valkyr at her
side...it’s possible that she used that to gain entry.
The details of the bargain made with helya are also kept in the dark.
We can see that she obtained a lantern, similar to the one we later use to free our own severed
spirit, but what did helya want in return?
Did her goals simply align with that of the banshee queen or did sylvanas promise something
she has yet to pay?
That’s unknown for the moment all we know is that some sort of bargain was made and
sylvanas goes out to use her lantern while we’re stuck in hellheim with having to find
our own way out.
Helya make us a deal as well, to entertain her she challenges us to fight with her pet
and if we win, we get to go.
“Have fun with my pet, outsider.
I will enjoy watching him break you” Your spirit feels...weaker.
What has she done?
Ashildir notices that our spirit feels weaker and tells us to collect a helhaim waylight,
set to have the power of releasing the bonds of the spirit which we do and we use it to
not only collect the fragments of our spirit, but also liberate several of Ashildirs valkyra.
Together we fight with Geir and bring helyas mighty champion down, earning us our freedom
and escape from hellheim as well as gaining Ashildirs trust, something that will come
of use later.
It is done Helya.
We have fullfilled your bargain, and we will collct our payment.
Such insolence!
none will leave Hellheim while I rule.
What?
This can not be!
Her hold is weakening.
She cannot keep us here.
No one leaves Helheim!
No one!
Your tyerms were met Helya.
It seems even you must honor your wor.d Noooooooooo!
And we’re back!
Back on the surface, members of the alliance are called over to Greywatch to meet up with
greymayne.
Forsaken troops in the area are cooking up blight so we’re send to destroy it before
they overtake us while also dealing with an apothecary providing them with plague and
searching for scouting orders which may help pinpint sylvanas’ objective in the area.
We do just that and we find out that sylvanas is after something in skold ashil, a vrykul
town not far from Greywatch but we still don’t know what exactly she’s after.
Perhaps the answer can be found in skold ashil so we fly out while greymane will muster the
fleet to assault the forsaken outpost.
This is what the horde encounters as they’re summoned by Nathanos as greymane attacks.
Heroes are asked to fire some of the forsaken catapults, kill a few of the worgen troops
and blow up the ship that greymane is shouting from.
“face your executioner sylvanas”
Nathanos believes that that there’s no way greymane could have survived that desctruction
so with the outpost secured, the horde travels so skold-ashil to carry out sylvanas’ mission
and there they encounter the banshee queen herself who’s not pleased that her troops
have been unable to secure the vault or even the town.
A change of tactics is in order.
Our goal lies within the vault.
Sylvanas doesn’t have time to explain the details, just know that it is vital to the
forsaken that we succeed.
We’re send to figure out how the chosen few of the shieldmaidern order, those that
are allowed access into the vault, are selected and this tale is engraved upon the Vrykul
shields.
These shields show the story as to how the goddess of the shieldmaides named EYir is
watching over them in battle.
Various trials are undergone by the warriors of skold-ashield with an image of a shieldmaiden
kneeling before an elborate spear.
The priestesses of the temple stand nearby, silently observing the rite.
The next scene shows one of the shieldmaidens glowing with a radiant aura, held aloft by
golden wings while hovering above a statue of an ancient champion of skold-ashil.
Eyir stands at the entrance of the titan vault and she appears to be welcoming a winged champion
of the shieldmaidens inside.
The final shield shows the image of a shieldmaiden liften the body of a fallen vrykul from the
battlefield and this image appears eerily similar to that of a val’kyr.
From this we can say that the shieldmaidens undergo some trials to prove themselves worthy
of entrance into the vault where they’re judged by Eyir and if found worthy, they’re
turned into val’kyr.
This means that Eyir has the power to create more valkyr and considering that valkyr keep
sylvanas out of hell as well as grant her the ability to create more troops...This is
something that would secure the future of not only sylvanas but also the forsaken and
something that from the alliance point of view can absolutly not happen.
Both factions are told to become the next ascendant and for this we have to collect
eyirs helm, pauldron, spear and shield commune with the statue of an ancient champion of
skold-ashil and bring down the barrier.
As luck would have it, this ancient champion is actually Ashildir, the same ashildir that
we partied with in helheim and she was the one who once upon a time brought the shieldmaidens
to skol- ashil.
““What is this?
The hero of Helheim seeks entrance to the vault?
I know your worth.
I will grant you an audience with Eyir.
You may proceed, but know that Eyir may not regard you as I do...
Seek your fate in the vault, Nobbel.
May Eyir be your wings”
The path is open for Sylvanas to claim her prize while Greymane quickly goes after her
in an attempt to stop her.
Storm the vault, for gilneas!
We’re coming for ya sylvanas!!!
“Final cinematic” Traitorous banshee!
*zap, aauuu that hurts* You know not, what you are medling with.
Submit....The Valkyr are mine... ROAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR
Sylvanas....Your quest for immortality has left you volnurable.
I will have ...my...VENGEANCE!
For varian, for gilneas, FOR MY SON!
Smack a bit up waaaaaaaamp OW snap you punched me look at them standin
there ahhhh chaaaaarge
ow shoot an arrow, did greymane lose?!
IT seems i overestimated you old wolf.
Bwahahah you think?!
I got your lantern OW NO.
Ow yes.
ROAAAAAAR Be free Eyir, fly my pretty...Fly
You took my sons future.
Eyir’s out bitches.
And now i’ve taken yours Let me squeeze my bow instead of killing you....
Greymane got his revenge for what went down on the broken shore and what she did to his
city and most of all to his son.
He will need time to heal from the poison while Sylvanas regrets that they underestimated
Greymane’s tenacity, but Eyir cannot hide for long.
She will hunt her through the very halls of valor if she must so it seems like the banshee
queen is not done with trying to collect Eyirs power.
That’s where the story arc between greymane and windrunner end for the moment and I asked
on twitter what people felt about all of this and the opinions were very diverse.
Some loved standing at their queens side while others hate it that they were forced to help
sylvanas with this.
I especially liked feedback from horde warriors that have their order hall in the halls of
valor itself while at the same time they assist sylvanas with plans like this.
I also read feedback stating that the story felt irrelevent to the questing experience
and had no resolution and I think there’s definatly something to be said about this,
it doesn’t seem quite over yet.
The Horde Alliance conflict is something constantly going on despite pretty much every expansions
having the horde and alliance working together against a greater threat while also kicking
the crap out of eachother.
I personally feel like this story arc is a lot better then the reasoning that they gave
us during Warlords of Draenor since atleast this one has some connections to older lore,
there’s a lot of history between sylvanas and greymane.
I do wonder what the future is going to bring.
Sylvanas made a deal with Helya but for what and now that she failed to make Eyir submit,
what does that mean for the future?
Will she keep trying or will something prevent her from doing so?
I personally can’t wait to find out, but let me know what you think!
How do you feel about the events with Sylvanas and Greymane in Stormheim?
Leave your opinions in the comments down below and for now we’ve reached the end of the
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