AN: I have decided to reboot the original Scourging of Lordaeron quest, which can be found
here, because it was my first attempt at running a civilization/management style game and it quickly became bogged down due to how many heroes, roll bonuses and actions you guys were able to acquire relatively easily and early.
Out of the countless worlds spanning the Great Dark Beyond, none are as important to the great powers of the universe as the planet known as Azeroth. At the planet's core, the most powerful World-Soul the Titanic Pantheon has ever found steadily continues to mature under the guidance of the Pantheon's remaining servants. Once she is fully awakened, the newborn Titan will be more powerful than any who came before her and could safeguard the universe against any threat that might arise. This great power, however, also represents the greatest risk to the universe, because, in her vulnerable state, the World-Soul is powerless to resist the influence of countless malevolent forces who seek to use her power for their own gain.
The first and greatest of these forces are shapeless beings from the Void beyond reality known as the Void Lords, who have existed since before the birth of the universe and now seek to return it to a state of total entropy. Powerless within the physical universe and unable to fully manifest, the Void Lords jealously observed the Titanic Pantheon until they devised a plan. Flinging minuscule extensions of their true power into the Great Dark Beyond, these Old Gods, as they became known, drifted through the cosmos until, guided by their hunger for life energies generated by fertile worlds, they embed themselves like parasites upon once pure worlds and burrow into its core in order to seek a World-Spirit to corrupt. The first contact between the Void Lords and the Pantheon occurred when the Titan champion Sargeras discovered that one of several World-Souls being nurtured by the servants of the Pantheon had been almost completely corrupted by the minions of the Void and was on the verge of awakening. Realizing that allowing this creature to mature would doom the universe, Sargeras acted quickly to fulfill his mission by cleaving the tainted planet asunder and killing the slumbering Titan within. To his shock, however, rather than heed his warning and act quickly to prevent the spread of the Void's corruption, the Pantheon chastised him for killing one of their own and argued that they would have been able to cleanse their brethren had he simply contacted them instead of acting so rashly.
Enraged by what he considered to be the Pantheon forsaking their duty to protect the universe and overwhelmed by the sheer power of the Void Lords, Sargeras eventually came to the conclusion that the only way to protect the universe was to destroy every world that might house a World-Soul that could be corrupted by the tendrils of the Void Lords. Realizing that he would not be able to accomplish this impossible task alone, Sargeras turned to the demonic creatures of the Twisting Nether and shattered the prison that prevented them from entering the physical universe. The surge of Fel energy that spilled forth corrupted the Titan champion and allowed him to forcibly bind the demons to his will, but only at the cost of turning the once noble Sargeras into a twisted demonic hybrid entity. With his new endless army, Sargeras held his new Burning Legion across the cosmos, razing every world in his path in order to prevent the Void from gaining a foothold.
The Pantheon remained completely ignorant of their fallen brethren's actions and continued their search across the stars for other World-Souls to nurture. When one of them finally located Azeroth and sensed the great power of its World-Soul, they were shocked to discover that Sargeras was correct and that the Void Lords were in the process of corrupting the nascent Titan. Gathering their full might and with the aid of their own created servants, the Pantheon fought the minions of the Void Lords and, after a long war in which they discovered the the Old Gods could not be destroyed with risking Azeroth, banished them beneath the surface in special prisons to contain their corruption. Before the Pantheon departed in search of Sargeras to reveal what they found and were able to accomplish, they empowered their minions to watch over and nurture the growth of the one they knew what be their only hope to face the full might of the Void Lords.
By this point, however, the taint of Fel magic had twisted the mind of the former champion and, when he was finally confronted by the Pantheon, argued that his was the only way to stop the Void Lords. Having no desire to fight one of their own, Aggramar, the former champion's dearest friend and comrade-in-arms, attempted to reason with the mad titan by telling him of Azeroth and potential it held. Sargeras, however, refused to end his crusade and demanded the location of what he considered the most dangerous threat to the universe. When the Pantheon refused, however, Sargeras, despite how much it pained him to, struck down his unarmed friend and, when the rest of the Pantheon launched their attack, provided to slay each of them until he was the only Titan that remained. Ever since that day, Sargeras and his Burning Legion has crusaded across the cosmos in search of Azeroth, so that the fallen champion can convince her to join him in his war against the Void Lords or, failing that, destroy her before she can become a vessel for the Void Lords to finally manifest within the physical universe.
Thousands of years after the destruction of the Pantheon, the Watchers left behind by the Titan to safeguard Azeroth have slowly fallen victim to the corrupting influence of the very Old Gods they guarded. With their influence diminishing, various mortal races began to abuse the tools they once used to nurture the World-Soul. The greatest of these mortal races was the Quel'dorei, who had built their great civilization upon the banks of the Well of Eternity, a giant sea of pure arcane energy that was formed from the blood of the World-Soul itself when the Pantheon ripped one of the Old Gods from her shell. Arrogant and powerful from their abuse of magic, the queen of the Kaldorei Highborne, in her hubris-created lust for the one being she believed was her equal, Sargeras himself, revealed the location of Azeroth to the Burning Legion in order to gain his attention and favor. The war saw the Burning Legion repealed and the Kaldorei Empire shattered, but at the cost of sundering the super-continent of Kalimdor into pieces and destruction of the Well of Eternity. Fearing that the freshly opened wound would kill the nascent Titan, the surviving Kaldorei, under the guidance of powerful Nature spirits left by the Titans, planted the World Tree Nordrassil over the last remnant of the Well of Eternity in order to contain its power and heal the World-Spirit.
Sargeras and Burning Legion were banished back to the Twisting Nether, where, without a source of power as potent as the Well of Eternity, the titan himself would not be able to fully manifest back on Azeroth again. The Legion attempted an indirect invasion by subverting the Orcs of the planet Draenor and, with assistance from a Human mage possessed by a fragment of Sargeras, created a portal to transport their new army to Azeroth. After a decade of brutal warfare, the Orcish Horde was defeated at great cost, but the surviving warlocks of the Shadow Council, who had sold their race to the Burning Legion in exchange for power, began to slowly spread their influence across the mortal races of Azeroth. Despite this setback, however, the Burning Legion immediately put another plan into action and sent the trapped soul of an Orc warlock named Ner'zhul to the frozen continent of Northrend. Now known as the Lich King, Ner'zhul began to work with the agents of the Burning Legion to create a Plague of Undeath that would sweep across Azeroth and leave the planet defenseless against the Legion's return.
What the Legion did not account for, however, was the influence of the Old Gods, whose prisons had been shattered by the constant warfare. Having saved the Highborne and a faction of the Shadow Council known as the Twilight's Hammer after they were abandoned by the Legion, the Old Gods now seek to use the Legion to break their final shackles and consume the World-Soul in order to open the way for their masters in the Void beyond reality.
You are:
[ ] Lady Ariseth Dawnspring
A former High Elven noblewoman of Silvermoon, who once loyally served her family and her people as a shrewd diplomat and spymaster, Ariseth entered a self-imposed exile from her ancestral homeland and cut off all contact with her family after the political machinations of the Convocation of Silvermoon resulted in the lose of her inherited position to the illustrious ruling body of the Quel'Thalas. Ariseth is a skilled manipulator and a charming orator, but she has little taste or experience with warfare and her once pleasant demeanor has been overwhelmed by bitter resentment at the recent direction her life has taken, which she has to venting upon her often incompetent minions.
[ ] Custom Character
The Cult of the Damned is composed of Humans and High Elves. The Shadow Council is supposed of Humans, High Elves, Orcs, Eredar and Shivarra. The Twilight's Hammer is composed of Humans, High Elves, Naga and Dragons.
You have risen to become a leader of:
[ ] The Cult of the Damned
The Cult of the Damned is led by the Grandmaster Necromancer Kel'Thuzad and works to spread the Plague of Undeath across Lordaeron in service to the Lich King.
[ ] The Shadow Council
The Shadow Council was reformed by the Dreadlord Tichondrius after the loss of its previous leader, Gul'dan, to aid in the Legion's return to Azeroth.
[ ] The Twilight's Hammer
The Twilight's Hammer is an enigmatic cult led by the ogre mage lord Cho'gall, who seeks to take advantage of the Burning Legion's invasion to free the Old Gods from beneath Azeroth.