The Burning Legion has invaded azeroth once again and after Khadgar and the Kirin Tor
teleport Dalaran to the broken isles, a ravenholdt courier approaches us with a message from
Jorach Ravenholdt himself.
He requests our presence within the Halls of Shadows where 3 different plans to obtain
an artifact are ready to proceed.
They want us to be their blade in the dark that vanquishes their foes and it’s up to
us to decide which one to go for.
Tess Greymane: “The Kingslayers are the only way to ensure the Legion’s end.
Hear me out!”
Tess Greymane, daughter of Genn Greymane wants to go after the cursed daggers that took down
King Llane, Varian’s father.
Garona Halforcen was the one who killed him and we’ll dive into the history a little
later.
She hid the daggers away since their power is not to be underestimated.
“Sorry, boys, looks like we’re going with my plan after all.
Let’s talk details.”
Garona, another member of the Uncrowned, has left to assassinate the leaders of a Legion
cult some time ago.
They haven’t heard from her since and to make matters worse, she took the Kingslayers
with her.
She knows they bring out the worst in her and our best bet to find her is by continuing
her work.
“I’m afraid you’re on your own out there until you can find Garona.
I’d be recognized in a heartbeat that close to Alliance territory.”
By following Garona’s steps, we might be able to track her down and intel points to
a warlock by the name of Caden Shadowgaze inducting new recruits at the Altar of Storms
in Blasted Lands.
Another lead that may prove useful is Felcall Whitley, another of the cult’s elite.
He’s eluded their agents at every turn and their latest reconnaissance report puts him
somewhere in the village of Raven Hill in Duskwood.
Both of them surely carry some vital information for our search so we go out to kill them both
and we find Caden sucking the life out of veiled witnesses into some sort of orb, saying
that their pathetic souls will fuel the legion’s coming.
On his corpse we find a coded message which we only need to find some sort of decipher
for and as luck would have it, that’s exactly what we find on the body of Felcalled Whitley
who was busy with a dark communion within the Raven hill inn.
We pick up his fel cipher and use it to decrpy the coded message:
The Herald: “Brother Shadowgaze, it is time for our glorious ascension.
make haste to Darkshire.
Sister Ebonlocke has gathered the Skull and Blood of the innocents.
She awaits your escort.
May the Legion guide you, and do not forget to destroy this letter.
We must leave nothing to chance.”
The cultists seem to have a base of operations in Darkshire.
At least Althea Ebonlocke is a member, but it is likely that the entire Night Watch has
been compromised.
The best course of action for now is to retrieve the dark implements for their ritual and make
an attempt on Althea’s life.
Garona will have to wait.
In the town of Darkshire we find that madness has taken over its citizens.
In the town hall, Althea Ebonlocke, leader of the night watch, stoud defenders of Darkshire
and part of many fond memories for alliance players as they battled against stitches...Theyy’ve
for some reason, decided to join the Veiled Hand and the Burning Legion.
We can not allow them to continue with this insanity so we make an attempt at her life.
Althea: “All goes as planned.
Once Brother Shadowgaze arrives, we leave for Stormwind!”
“We will not be stopped!”
“The Herald has promised us freedom and respect.
We will not be denied!
You will not interfere.
The Legion will rise!”
Althea is able to escape, but she’s not the only one that stepped away from the Alliance.
The whole town seems in on it.
Chef Grual is carving up the body of Morg Gnarltree while guarding the skull of the
innocent and within the scarlet raven tavern, we pick up the blood as Farrin Daris and Innkeeper
Trelayne are displayed dead on the best.
Only a small group of people, Avette Fellwood - Madame Eva – Sheri &Danielle
Zipstitch – Anchorite Delan – Clerk Daltry and Watcher Ladimore are huddled together
in a little house.
Ladimore says : How could they believe the Herald’s lies?
There’s dark magic at play here mark my words.
Please, if you can do anything to stop this, do it now.
So many innocent lives lost...
We can not bring back the innocent, but perhaps we can stop the cult from doing more damage.
We’ve denied the Hand the reagents for their ritual and managed to buy precious time.
Althea said they were leaving form Stormwind so that’s our clear destination and outside
the gates we finally catch up with Garona:
Garona: “Let’s move.
I’ll be right behind you.”
“Great...It’s Shaw...”
Mathias: “SHow yourselves, I don’t have time for games.”
Garona: “Step aside, Shaw!
All of Stormwind will burn unless we finish our work.
Mathias: “We’re aware of the Veiled Hand’s activities.
The city is locked down while WE handle the situation.
No one enters these gates until this is resolved...especially the two of you!
Stay out of this, half-breed.”
Garona: “Arrogant bastard!
If we are going to find the Herald, we’re going to need a diversion, something big.
Hmm....´ “Ah, yes!
Find agent Elling Trias in the Trade District.
He should have a smoke bomb.
If we set it off somewhere public, the guards will be forced to react.
“ “While they are busy investigating the ruckus,
we should be able to gather some information and act on it without the risk of heavy reinforcements.”
“Until then, watch your step.
The city is on high alert, and the guards will kill you on sight.”
We can’t let Stormwind fall to the legion and garona doesn’t trust Shaw or his SI:7
goons to take care of the Hand on their own, so we need to handle this while there’s
still time by sneaking in, creating a distraction and find information.
While we go through the city and not get busted, let’s talk about the history of Garona and
her weapons, the Kingslayers also known as Anguish and Sorrow.
They’ve made some minor changes to her story with the information behind this artifact
but I’ll explain those differences as we go through it.
As instruments of death, these daggers are exquisite.
As tools of assassination, they are unparalleled.
And every moment of every day that you carry them, they will seek to bend your mind to
the will of their master, Kil'jaeden.
Perhaps one day you will be able to thank him personally for that.
These daggers were forged to spill the blood of heroes and innocents.
In the hands of Garona Halforcen, they did just that.
Anguish and Sorrow were named well.
In their history, they have killed kings, commanders, soldiers, magi, demons, and countless
others.
If things had gone a little differently, it might have been these weapons that allowed
the first Horde to conquer Azeroth.
The story of these daggers begins on Draenor, soon after the Burning Legion had sunk its
claws into the orc clans, so by the time Kil’jaeden had found the draenei and decided to turn
the orcs against them and use the orcs to murder the draenei.
In the early days of the Horde, Gul'dan had taken Garona under his care.
As a half-orc, half-draenei outcast, Garona had found survival to be brutally difficult
since she was born.
She had learned quickly how to avoid unwinnable fights, and how to quietly kill relentless
pursuers.
Gul'dan bound her mind to his will and began to secretly train her in the art of assassination.
She did not fully understand his intentions, but she grew to resent his cruelty.
Still, she obeyed.
Survival demanded nothing less.
Garona proved to be skilled with almost any weapon she held, but Gul'dan was not satisfied.
His grip on the Horde was still tenuous; assassinating his enemies could backfire if the involvement
of his Shadow Council became known.
He needed weapons that would allow Garona to kill for him with impunity.
This bit makes it seem like Gul’dan just found Garona as an outcast, but originally
it was said that she was part of his breeding experiment and from before her birth, she
was under his control.
He magically aged her, trained her in the ways of the assasin and in time ensorcelled
her, placing magical spells on her mind to keep her obedient and force her to do his
bidding.
The Shadow Council was gul’dan’s secret council which ruled the Horde from behind
the curtains.
The Horde's first warchief held the solution to Gul'dan's problem.
Warchief Blackhand and his clan, the Blackrocks, had the most advanced weapon foundries among
all the orcs of Draenor.
Gul'dan approached them quietly, asking how their ancestors had created the powerful,
legendary weapon of Doomhammer.
""It was a gift from the fiery heart of Draenor,"" they told him.
That was no help.
Gul'dan wanted to break the orcs' reverence of the elements; asking the Furies of Draenor
for more weapons might strengthen it instead.
Gul'dan turned to Kil'jaeden for assistance, imploring the Burning Legion for aid.
Kil'jaeden saw the value of having a covert assassin at the Shadow Council's command.
He gave Gul'dan strict instructions... and the raw materials needed to create two of
the deadliest weapons Draenor would ever know.
Warchief Blackhand was intrigued by Gul'dan's request.
The warlock had asked for two daggers created from a mysterious type of ore that no orc
had ever seen before, and he wanted them imbued with a power that would only reveal itself
when the time was right.
Blackhand agreed to make the weapons himself in his foundry.
As he quenched the blades, he felt a terrible, dark presence fill them with unspeakable might.
This was no Elemental Fury-it was the raw hatred of Kil'jaeden sinking deep within the
daggers.
Blackhand could feel untamed agony radiating from the weapons.
He named them Anguish and Sorrow, for he knew they would never be satisfied unless they
were drinking the blood of new victims.
Gul'dan was delighted with the daggers' power.
Not only were they brimming with the dark presence of a Burning Legion lord, but they
also were imbued with the means to control the will of the one who wielded them.
To test the weapons' potential, Gul'dan handed them to Garona and gave her a simple command.
She obeyed instantly.
An unfortunate Shadow Council acolyte had no chance to defend himself before she tore
open his throat with one slash.
It was not a pleasant death.
But it was fast, quiet, and efficient.
When the orc took his last breath, the wound that killed him became irregular.
Nobody would be able to tell whether he had died to a knife, an axe, or a spear.
Gul'dan saw the possibilities immediately.
A mysterious death could be used to sow confusion and redirect suspicion wherever he pleased.
These daggers would prove to be extremely valuable.
As the Horde waged war on the draenei, Gul'dan dispatched Garona with care and precision.
Influential orcs who expressed doubt or dissent were often found dead shortly after a skirmish
with draenei forces.
The wounds did not look as if they had come from orcish weapons, so Gul'dan was never
suspected.
Nor was Garona.
As a ""half-breed,"" she lived beneath the notice of most orcs, and those who noticed
her saw only a servant of Gul'dan, held on a tight leash.
Her quiet work aided the Horde in securing victory against the draenei, and then her
blades helped maintain control in the war's aftermath.
Life on Draenor withered due to the presence of fel magic, but tensions within the Horde
stayed manageable.
Whenever they didn't, Gul'dan gave the command, and Garona obeyed.
Her daggers were busy.
For many years, Garona was bound to the will of the Shadow Council.
She obeyed them to survive; she killed on their behalf to appease them.
She often dreamed of using these daggers to slay her masters, but when she woke, her ensorcelled
mind buried those thoughts, keeping her loyal.
That power, fortunately, seems to have died decades ago, along with Gul'dan in the Tomb
of Sargeras.
And to be clear, nobody is happier to see these daggers exacting payback from the Burning
Legion than Garona.
When the Horde invaded Azeroth, Gul'dan ordered Garona to find the sorcerer Medivh and keep
an eye on him.
In time, Garona would reveal herself to Khadgar, medivh’s apprentice at the time, seeing
humans as a potential means of escaping Gul'dan.
Had she known that these daggers helped the warlock control her actions, she might have
abandoned them, and history would have gone down a very different path.
In the end, though she tried to resist, Gul'dan manipulated her into murdering the king of
Stormwind, Llane Wrynn.
Garona was now considered a traitor.
She was forced to return to the Horde, bringing these daggers back with her.
Garona did not receive a hero's welcome from the Horde.
Warchief Blackhand had been killed by Orgrim Doomhammer in a mak'gora.
Gul'dan was in a coma, and his Shadow Council was on the run.
Garona was tortured for information on the Shadow Council's location.
The reason why Gul’dan ended up in a coma was because he was snooping around in Medivh’s
mind trying to look for more power.
Medivh was slain by khadgar, Lothar and Garona because he was a corrupted guardian with the
spirit of sargeras inside of him and as you might imagine, being in someone else’s mind
while they’re slain...it’s not good for your health and he slipped into that coma.
Now this text says that Gul’dan manipulated her into murdering the king of Stormwind,
but the king was still alive after they took out Medivh and Gul’dan was still in his
coma as she returned to the Horde.
Maybe his influence was still there while in a coma?
I don’t know, either way...
As the Horde moved to finish off the human-led Alliance, Garona made her escape.
With only these weapons and her survival instincts, she set out across Azeroth to find a new life.
The poor Horde trackers sent to hunt her down never really had a chance.
Eventually, as Garona was pulled into the events of the Second War, she began to understand
the power these daggers were exerting on her will.
Even so far away, she could feel Gul'dan trying to compel her back into his clutches.
She sought out the help of an undead mage named Meryl Winterstorm, asking him to hide
the blades somewhere beyond anyone's reach.
Garona wanted to make sure that no other victim would die to them, and that no other mind
would be subject to Gul'dan's tricks.
These daggers remained buried for decades.
This whole bit of the daggers taking over her mind is new.
In the past it was purely the magical spells placed on her mind and it seems like they’re
going with both because if it was just the daggers that hold control over her, then there
was never a need of leaving Med’an with Meryll out of fear of being mindcontrolled
and do him harm.
She wouldn’t have been able to be used by Cho’gall and screw up the meeting at Theramore
because the daggers were hidden by that point and she wouldn’t have had such a big motivation
of taking down cho’gall during the Cataclysm.
So that’s the history of Garona and these daggers and now she’s wielding them once
again against the forces of the legion and this cult.
We’ve sneaked our way through stormwind and gained some information.
Althea: “Fine!
Killing you myself will earn me a greater place in the new order.”
“Where is the herald?
Speak!”
“You seek to delay the inevitable.
The Legion will wash over this world!”
“So be it.
Let’s see how you handle the Kingsbane poison!”
“What is...happening...my veins...are on fire...!”
“Please...no more!
I’ll tell you everything!
Just make it stop!”
“Where is the Herald?
Speak, miserable worm!”
“He lies...in the keep...”
“The keep will be heavily guarded.
We should split up.
At least one of us has to make it to the Herald alive.”
“We don’t have much time.
Get moving!”
Shaw: “Reinforcements to the keep at once.
They’re here!”
“Severing, secure the keep gates!
We’re moving the king to a secure location.”
we sneak into the keep despite them doing their very best of keeping us out and inside
we find some guards dealing with a ritualist casting felwind.
Nothing a quick shadowstep can’t fix.
Cinematic – Melris Malagan: Foolish orc!
You will be the first to witness the Legion’s arrival into my city."
“Long have I waited for this day.
Let us not waste another moment!”
“Ered’nash ila mornu nakuun.
Ered’nash ban man’ari!”
“They come!”
Melris Malagan, former guard in the city of stormwind who had post right next to the hero’s
call board has allied himself with the legion, gaining the title of herald of the legion.
This is the man we’ve been looking for, time to take him out:
“You are too late, assassin.”
“They have arrived!
Oh, they are even more beautiful than I imagined!
Do you not see?
Can you not feel their warm embrace?
Master, your servant requires aid!”
“My plans will not be ruined.
My destiny will not be denied.
You will burn!
M-master...?”
“Good.
Our work is done.”
“Being in this palace with these daggers bring back...dark thoughts.
Impulses I’ve spent years trying to be free of.”
“Take the blades.
You’ve more than proven your skill as an assassin.
Perhaps you can overcome the darkness within their steel.”
Pick up blades cinematic
Shaw: “Lower your weapons!
We’re not here to fight you.
The king was never in danger, but where my men failed to stop this cultist, you did not.
That spares you from prison at the very least.
Go.
Get out of my city before I change my mind.”
“Let’s meet at the hall.
There’s still work to be done.”
Melris has been taken down and the threat of legion seems to have been eredicated out
of stormwind.
For someone who calls himself the herald of the legion, he didn’t really seem to have
much power.
The minions he summoned were quite weak and who is this master that he was calling for?
That’s a story for another day as this one is about Anquish and Sorrow, the kingslayers
now in our possession with the blessing of garona.
Every second she held those blades was torture.
These weapons do not have a history of glory.
They did not earn honorable victories.
They were meant to cause pain, and they have caused untold damage to both Draenor and Azeroth.
Respect their power.
Never forget the innocents who have died to them.
Make the Burning Legion pay for every drop of blood their wielder was forced to spill.
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