Hello everyone! It’s been a while since we did a hearthstone lore video, but I’ve
counted the votes and the card you wanted me to talk about most is the one and only...goldshire
footman... “to arms”...I have to say, I like the challenge, so let’s begin shall we?!
The human town of goldshire is one of the first towns you’ll visit when you make a
new human character. Marshal Dughan is the current marshal of the town and in charge of the security
on behalf of the Stormwind army. The town faces threats in the form of kobolds, gnolls,
murlocs, bears, wolves and even the defias brotherhood. The goldshire kids are amongst the creepiest
stories that you'll find in warcraft and the Goldshire inn is known by most for being the place to be while playing
on a roleplaying server, you know, for those special nights that you’re looking for a little bit of extra
roleplaying. “Ready for action”
Amongst its defenders stands the goldshire footman. The card description say that you
would think the town would have been overrun years ago with the Goldshire footman guardian it and in truth, it has been overrun
before. During the first horde invasion of Azeroth, the town of goldshire together with
moonbrook were taken by the horde as they prepaired to bring down Stormwind itself.
That’s about all we can say when it comes to goldshire and it’s footman,
but the art used for the card has a bit more story. It shows the picture of Marshal Reginald
Windsor and those that played back during classic on the Alliance side, you might remember him as the most annoying escort quest ever.
Back in the day, the house of stormwind nobles was infiltrated by the black dragon Onyxia
under the disguise of Lady Katrana Prestor. She wanted to keep control of the city and
manipulate events from within and for that a plan was created where she decided to split Varian
in two separate beings. 1 version was a strong willed Varian which she would dispose of and 1 version was a weak willed varian
which she could easily use to rule events from behind the curtains. She had varian kidnapped by
the defias brotherhood, all things seemed to go according the plan. Her spell did the
trick, Varian was indeed split in two, but just in that moment, the naga attacked. The strong willed
Varian was able to use the opportunity and escape and he would eventually become a slave gladiator under the guidance of
Rehgar Earthfury. The weak willed Varian was ransomed back to Stormwind and used by Onyxia, but his son, prince Anduin Wrynn
noticed something was wrong with his father. He informed Bolvar Fordragon about his suspicions
and Bolvar placed Marshal Windsor on the job of figuring out what was going on. Reginald
was very good at his job and he figured out that lady Prestor was actually Onyxia in disguise, but
before he could make his report, he was captured by the dark iron dwarves and he was taken prisoner within blackrock
mountain. Now ingame, as I mentioned, this was one of the most anoying escort quests. We were the ones who went into blackrock
depts, cleared the place, recovered Windsor’s data and escorted him back to Stormwind to
reveal that Prestor was actually Onyxia. Now within the comics things happened a little bit different and I assume that this is part of the official lore.
In the comics it was actually the strong willed Varian,who in the mean time had been able to liberate himself, he was the one who went into the mountain, freed windsor, recovered
theepic hammer called Ironfoe and brought him back to Stormwind.
Standing just outside the city was General Marcus Jonathan and at first he told Windsor
that he couldn’t let them pass. Prestor still had some massive influence, nobody knew about her
true identity at that point yet Reginald was able to convince Jonathan to step aside, since they had a very long history
together. Back in the day, both of them had served under general Turalyon, the Alliance of Lordaeron and Reginald would never do anything to harm
the alliance. Marcus Jonathan stepped to the side, ordered his people to leave Reginald alone and In the throne room the game was up for onyxia, but she wasn’t quite
done yet. 1 mighty breath of fire took the life of the heroic Windsor and as her dragonkin
guards battled with the heroes present, Onyxia kidnapped Anduin and took him back to her
lair. That’s where the tail of Marshal Reginald Windsor ends, but his death was not in vain.
Onyxia was explosed and was eventually brought to justice and in the process, Varian was restored into
1 single being. 'The line of Stormwind's kings has been restored" And that ladies and gentleman is the story behind
the goldshire footman card. Like I said, it was quite a challenge to figure out what story
to tell but I do hope you enjoyed it. As always, I’ll leave it up to you guys and girls to decide what card
we’ll talk about next so leave your pick in the comments down below and your card might
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