Innuendo
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Fall of Aegis
Prologue written by Serious Retail
The old woman looks at you with milky eyes, mostly blind after many years of sight. She speaks in a soft voice, gone hoarse after many years of speech.
"You know... it's a funny thing, but people now reminisce of a time when we waged war for power. For freedom. Peace... even Greed. A time when our world was ruled and defined by the hatred that was long sewn between factions and races.
Those good old days are gone.
Now our world is defined only by fear, and only one war is left to be waged: the war of survival. The war of life against death... It is a battle which all living things eventually lose, but it seems death has lost its patience.
The Alliance and Horde were weak after the long campaign on the Orcish homeworld. Fighting demons, fel orcs, and the betrayer Illidan Stormrage left them both spent, and tired. The Lich King saw this weakness.
In just one year both Orgrimmar and Stormwind fell to the sudden and relentless onslaught of the Undead Scourge, after the other cities of the Alliance and Horde had fallen even sooner than that. Any survivors, whether they were human, orc, or anything else found both hope and a leader in the noble paladin Tirion Fordring. He led us here, to the floating city of Dalaran. He gave this place and our 'faction' the name of the Argent Bastion.
They moved Dalaran to the seas where it was thought it would be safest, and from here Tirion led many missions to the mainlands in search of survivors. That heroism at last cost the brave holy warrior his life recently. The Lich King himself led an ambush against the paladin's group and slaughtered them all, taking Fordring's soul with his cursed blade, Frostmourne.
We lost more than our leader on that day. Fordring wielded what many believed to be our only hope: the holy blade, Ashbringer.
It has been almost a month since his death. We have been leaderless ever since. Just floating here... Waiting for the army of the dead to find a way to reach us--or for hope to somehow be kindled once more."
Dalaran
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