The Shard of Lies

PREFACE

After Archimonde's defeat in the west, the remaining forces of the great demonic army, known as the Burning Legion, were left leaderless, acting as enforcers to their rebellious Scourge underlings. Eventually, the champion of the Scourge, Arthas, returned, and led a revolt against the Legion's commanders in Lordaeron. Those commanders were Balnazzar, Detheroc, and Varimathras. These three were of the nathrezim, a race of demons renowned throughout the cosmos as cunning, duplicitous, and self-serving to the bitter end. Arthas was defeated thanks to the treachery of his lieutenant, the banshee Sylvanas Windrunner, who aided the nathrezim in attacking him. However after driving Arthas out, their alliance quickly fell to pieces, and Sylvanas systematically defeated the demon commanders one by one, and eventually took control over the remains of Lordaeron's Capital City. Her force of undead, who had wrested their will from the Scourge, came to be known as the Forsaken.

Meanwhile, another faction arose within the ruins of Lordaeron, led by former holy men of the Church. This force came to be known as the Scarlet Crusade. Most were driven mad by the ordeal of losing Lordaeron, and their leadership degenerated into zealous insanity. They came to believe that all who were not part of their order were tainted by the Plague, and so were condemned equally alongside the undead. The Crusade came to be the enemy of not just the Scourge and the Forsaken, but the Horde and Alliance, as well.

The Scarlet Monastery within the Tirisfal Glades has as such played host to a number of daring raids commissioned by the Horde and Alliance. The chamber where the Crusade's champion Herod makes his home has become well known amongst the adventuring peoples of Azeroth, adorned as it is with statues of men and women who martyred themselves in the Crusade's service.

One of these statues is of Holia Sunshield, who died, they say, as a result of injuries she sustained while killing the nathrezim Beltheris.

The Shard of Lies

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