![]() It was here that he would destroy what was left of what he wished to save.Īrugal was many things: unquestionably talented, a patriotic Gilnean, steeped in the lore of his magical order. Archimonde himself proved more than a match for all the wizards of Dalaran proper, destroying the city with a great magical rite and scattering the surviving mages.Īrugal made his way home to the northern lands of Gilneas, the holdings of Baron Silverlaine. In so doing, he released countless demons and demonic servants into the already ravaged countryside of what had been humanity's greatest nation. Arthas Menethil of the Lordaeron Royal Family then went even further and with the aid of the necromancer and risen lich Kel'Thuzad (formerly of the Kirin Tor) summoned forth Archimonde the Defiler, battle leader of the Burning Legion, onto Azeroth. Lordaeron was destroyed by its own prince, who unleashed a monstrous wave of undeath upon his own people as well as their neighbors to the north in Quel'Thalas. There was some limited contact between the sides (as Greymane kept in contact with Archmage Arugal, a member of the Kirin Tor originally from the Gilnean areas of Silverpine), but in general, Pyrewood and its environs were free from Gilnean oversight. It's likely that after an initial period of hardship, the people of Pyrewood and Baron Silverlaine might even have come to like the autonomy from their Gilnean overlords and found the situation agreeable, as an overlord who is shut away behind a wall can't exactly demand taxes. The scattered Gilnean settlements could trade with their Lordaeron neighbors to the north (centered around the fortress of Fenris Keep) or the Dalaran-claimed town of Ambermill. The land was good enough for farming and had plenty of game. As a result, when Crowley's rebellion failed and the Greymane Wall sealed shut, the northern possessions of Gilneas were left to fend for themselves.įor a while, this wasn't much of a difficulty. It seems likely that Baron Silverlaine would have been Crowley's direct vassal, holding his lands and title from the man. The decision did not go unopposed, and figures like Lord Darius Crowley who had estates and roots on both sides of the wall in what is today Silverpine and what was then a borderland between Gilneas and Lordaeron were not at all happy with the decision. The wall was built after the Second War, when Genn Greymane decided to pull his nation from the Alliance of Lordaeron and determined that his people were self-sufficient enough to run their own affairs and protect their own borders. Gilneas did not build its famous wall to protect it from the Scourge. until, of course, the coming of the Scourge. Ruling over the settlers of neaby Pyrewood Village, the Baron seemed a relatively capable leader. Yes, before it was a dungeon, Shadowfang Keep was the ancestral home of Baron Silverlaine, a noble who owed allegiance to Gilneas and whose ancestral lands lay just outside of where the Greymane Wall would be erected. Well, unless you like your keeps to be atmospheric, top-filled with raging monstrosities and jam-packed with the loots - in which case, the former estate of Baron Silverlaine awaits you. In short, time hasn't done much to improve Shadowfang Keep's general disposition. Now, some six years on, it's a brooding ruin infested with those dastardly undead, led by three traitors to both the Forsaken and Gilneas itself, also jam-packed with the ghosts of its former worgen masters and their victims. It debuted in vanilla WoW as a brooding ruin infested with those dastardly worgen and the angry, unquiet ghosts of their victims. Since I talked about Gilneas last week, it only makes sense to continue the discussion with one of the most worgen-centric places in all of the World of Warcraft, namely storied Shadowfang Keep. You're playing the game, you're fighting the bosses, you know the how - but do you know the why? Each week, Matthew Rossi and Anne Stickney make sure you Know Your Lore by covering the history of the story behind World of Warcraft. ![]() The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe.
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