Hello everyone!
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.
“Consider your choice carefully.
Gimme yer ear, friend.
I got a plan that’s guaranteed to put worthy blades in them hands!
“
In this case we’re going to go for the Dreadblades, a plan offered by Fleet Admiral Tethys, a
member of the blood sail buccaneers.
He informs us that just after the cataclysm, one of his best discovered a pair of golden
cutlasses unlike any you’ve ever seen.
The moment Eliza touched them, she had a vision of herself conquering city after city, commanding
a crew of lost souls.
You may doubt such a grand tale, but it indeed came to pass.
The dreadblades have claimed countless souls, and now we are coming for them!
“That be a fine choice.
C’mere, I’ll share the finer details of me plan over a mug or two!”
They’ve tracked Eliza anchored off the coast of Azsuna in the broken isles.
The pair of cursed blades she found, made her the scourge of the south seas.
She also stole one of their best ships – the Horzin’s edge and if we help them take back
their ship, they’ll help us out with obtaining the blades.
“That’s the spirit.
I’ll meet ya in Booty Bay!”
Board the crimson veil – “Listen up!
Raise a mug for the outlaw that’s gonna take the Dreadblades from that blasted Eliza’s
cold, dead hands!”
*Cheer*
“Just let me know when yer ready.
Eliza won’t know what’s comin’ for her!”
Sail away cinematic – Hoist the sails, real in the anker, ready yourself ye salty dogs,
azsuna awaits!”
Enter Dead Man’s Bay
“Let’s get a move on!
The Horizon’s Edge be just over this ridge.”
“Ye sneak past the guards and make sure the first mate sees our side o’things.
We’ll join ya after that.”
‘Good luck out there.
I’ll be watching for yer signal.”
First Mate DeGauza: “Swab the decks till they shine, ya dirty bags of bones.
The Dread Admiral demands perfection!”
We sneak past the undead sailors and litteraly bribe first mate DeGauze with fools gold,
convincing him to hand over the ship.
“Now that’s an offer I can’t refuse!
Fall back
to the temple.
They can have this pile of driftwood!”
“The Horizon’s edge is ours, lads...ain’t she a beauty?”
“Ye’ll be findin’ Eliza in the temple ruins ahead.
Keep yer wits about ya!
Her whole crew’s onto us now.
We’ll provide naval support as soon as we’re up and runnin’.”
We stealth further into the temple grounds making sure not to be spotted and die... several
times...until we find Eliza and her pet giant.
Dread Admiral Eliza: “So, you’re the one who stole MY ship and killed MY crew.”
“Release the giant.
I have business to attend to within the temple.”
“With pleasure admiral.
All will know the blades of dread admiral YARGH”
Lord Brinebeard stands in our way of gaining entry into the temple so we have to bring
him down and thankfully, Tethys and his crew are offering canon support making the fight
a little bit easier.
As we battle with the giant, lets talk a bit about the history of the blades and why all
these pirates look like they could their part in pirates of the caribean.
The weapons we’re going for, the dreadblades, were not forged on Azeroth.
They were designed to trap weak, greedy minds by the burning legion.
The Bloodsail Buccaneers surely had no idea, at first, that they were meddling with the
Burning Legion.
By the end, it seems they assumed they had snatched a piece of forbidden power from under
the demons' noses.
But if they believed there would be no consequences for their ""gift,"" they were tragically mistaken.
It was not happenstance that these weapons fell into Admiral Eliza Goreblade's possession.
It was planned and carefully executed by a Burning Legion commander who had plenty of
experience corrupting fools and turning them against their own worlds.
These cutlasses were meant to do that here, on Azeroth.
The eredar who created these cutlasses is named Talgath.
It's impossible to say for certain when he first began to study Azeroth and its inhabitants,
but it is certainly no accident that he crafted a pair of weapons that caught the eye of a
pirate crew leader.
Talgath's role in the Burning Legion is to help Kil'jaeden corrupt the native populations
of different worlds.
He has brought down countless civilizations, and he knows how to tempt mortal hearts.
Sometimes he has found heroic champions who could be turned, but very often he has discovered
willing minds among those who live on a world's fringes.
Talgath used to good friends with Velen the Prophet, before Sargeras showed up on their
world and offered them a spot within his Burning Legion.
Velen was granted a vision from the Naaru showing him that joining Sargeras was a very
bad idea, but his fellow leaders Kil’jaeden and Archimonde, they disagreed, did not trust
the vision and wanted to join.
Behind their back, Velen tried to convince as many of his people as he could to stay
away from the Legion and to help him move where he could not, he asked his old friend
Talgath to aid him.
Talgath was skeptical at first, but when Velen linked their minds and showed him the dark
vision he had been granted, Talgath quickly agreed,or so Velen thought.
In truth, Talgath betrayed him.
Velen and those he had been able to recruit would have perished on Argus, was it not for
the naaru and their protection.
From that point on Velen and the Eredar that joined him now called themselves Draenei and
were on the run from the legion all the way to a planet called Draenor where they were
found once again.
Talgath was the one who informed Kil’jaeden about what he had found and he also informed
him about the primitive race of orcs living together with the Draenei on the planet.
This lead to Kil’jaeden corrupting the orcs, orcastrating the formation of the Horde and
the near annihilation of the Draenei.
It seems that through the weapons he creates, Talgath has claimed more victims and he stumbled
upon an effective method of corruption: find the selfish, the greedy, and the ruthless...
and make them compete for power.
Not only would he learn which among them were the strongest, but the ""winners"" would struggle
so hard to obtain their prize that they would be unwilling to question its true cost until
it was too late.
Azeroth's pirates must have immediately seemed vulnerable to this tactic.
They raided one another in search of treasure, giving little thought to the risks they would
undertake.
The choice to create a pair of nimble cutlasses, the sort of weapons favored on the high seas,
meant Talgath saw great potential in corrupting pirates to the Burning Legion's cause.
These weapons first showed up on Azeroth a few decades ago.
Several Alliance ships reported that they had escaped a band of pirates whose leader
carried glowing blades oozing black smoke, and soon it became clear that those ships
were the lucky ones.
A newly empowered crew of pirates was preying on Alliance vessels, and when the raiders
captured a ship, they left no survivors.
Grand Admiral Daelin Proudmoore led the search for the rogues, and after weeks of hunting,
his small fleet cornered their ship a few miles off the Eastern Kingdoms' shores.
The pirate crew seemed to be possessed, barely human, but after a coordinated cannon barrage,
Proudmoore sent their vessel, the Bellwether, to the bottom of the ocean.
The admiral sailed away, believing he had killed them all.
In truth, one had survived.
The single person who swam away from the sunken Bellwether was a teenage boy, a young pirate
recruit who had seen his crew descend into corruption and madness firsthand.
He had joined them for profit, so watching his captain and shipmates succumb to uncontrollable
bloodlust had been a truly horrific experience.
He was compelled to retrieve these cutlasses from the ship's wreckage, but when he heard
them whispering in his mind, he had the good sense to resist.
He took the weapons and the treasure back to his crew's old lair and buried them deep
underneath an isolated island.
He believed the riches were cursed, and so he left them behind.
The weapons would remain buried for years.
It took the upheaval of the Cataclysm to unearth these cutlasses again.
A ship carrying some Bloodsail Buccaneers, a small but dangerous pirate crew, took shelter
near a patch of tiny islands as the seas heaved to and fro.
After the initial elemental unrest passed, their leader, Admiral Eliza Goreblade, noticed
that rogue waves had revealed something beneath the sand.
When they looked closer, they found a cache of gold, jewels, and old weapons.
It was the last stash of the Bellwether, a windfall nobody knew had been missing.
The buccaneers gleefully took it all.
Admiral Goreblade reserved a pair of gleaming cutlasses for herself, the only weapons in
the cache that hadn't become rusted and worn over time.
Unfortunately, that decision led her crew to ruin.
After claiming these cutlasses, Goreblade was taken by a vision.
She saw herself commanding an impossibly large pirate fleet, one that could conquer the high
seas and all the nations of Azeroth.
Every ship that dared to challenge her burned, and every city gave up its treasures or was
destroyed.
It was an intoxicating sight, and she drank every drop of its promise.
When she awoke, she had her crew set sail for a rival pirate hideout.
The corrupted Bloodsail Buccaneers proceeded to slaughter all the unfortunate souls they
found there.
The loot they took was secondary.
The killing was what truly satisfied them.
These weapons had taken root deep within their minds, and now there was no escape.
Goreblade's buccaneers became an unseen, deadly menace on the South Seas.
The master of these weapons, Talgath, had seen what attracting too much attention would
do, so he encouraged Admiral Goreblade to attack only isolated ships and make certain
they did not escape.
For several years, the pirate crew did exactly what they were told.
They killed without mercy, and the power of the cutlasses grew ever stronger.
When other Bloodsail Buccaneers learned how deep into insanity this crew had fallen, they
tried to intervene.
Goreblade's pirates survived the counterattack and managed to steal the Bloodsail Buccaneers'
most prized ship, the Crimson Veil, for themselves.
Soon, some crew members began to change.
Their forms withered and faded.
Only their skeletons remained.
Admiral Goreblade did not mind.
The cutlasses hungered for blood, and now, so did she.
Shortly before the Legion's recent arrival, Admiral Goreblade finally discovered the true
power behind her weapons.
Talgath revealed himself and told her that she had only tasted a meaningless drop of
the Burning Legion's strength.
If she aided the demons in the coming war, he promised that she would ascend to immortality
and find out what might the Legion could truly bestow.
The admiral agreed immediately.
She made a pact, giving the souls of all her crew to Talgath's tender care.
She had already come to enjoy being the unseen terror of the seas.
The possibility of bringing a world to ruin consumed her mind.
When the Legion attacked, so did Admiral Goreblade.
It now seems clear that several convoys of reinforcements--from both the Horde and the
Alliance--were destroyed by her crew before they could reach the Broken Isles.
So more reinforcements were planned to show up and fight against the Legion on that faithful
day where both factions lost so much.
So not only can we obtain a powerful weapon, we can also take vengeance for what transpired
that day.
Lord Brinebeard has been defeated, the squallshapers are maintaining a raging current and blocking
our way so we take them out and then only Eliza listening to Talgath’s whispers is
left standing.
Eliza: “The Dreadblades have claimed entire fleets.
Impenetrable fortresses have gushed rivers of blood by their will.
To utter their name instills fear in sailors’ hearts.”
“They know no equal...I know no equal!
Turn back now and you may yet live to tell the tale.”
Talgath: “Destroy them.
Your blades thirst.”
Couple of dead crewmen and talgath, creater of the weapon projection
Atttack Eliza “It will be my pleasure.”
“I have already seen my destiny.
You are not a part of it.
I am the scourge of the seas, the fear in sailors’ hearts!
You are NOTHING!”
“Enough!
I’ll run you through!”
“Impossible...”
Pick up dreadblades cinematic
Tethys: “We can’t hold em off forever!
Get the lead outta yer boots and get outta there!”
“Ye made it out in one piece!
AH, and you have em!
I’ve seen no finer swords in all me days.”
“We’ll sail to Dalaran, it’s a short voyage from here.
I’ll meet ya in the Hall of Shadows!”
Fate and Fortune, the dreadblades are now ours to wield against the enemy.
With that our adventures into legion can begin while we also have the rogue order hall campaign
to go through in which we’ll discover more about that horrible defeat upon the broken
shoes.
That’s a tale for another time though.
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