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I'd known battle before the coming of the orcs, but I hadn't yet known war. Though far from the southlands and far from harm, a few warriors of Alterac heard that battle cry, heard the battle horns of Stromgarde calling their men to war. We rode to Stormwind before her fall, fighting the orcs at Grand Hamlet and Sunnyglade. What monsters they seemed then, so full of rage and strength and bloodlust, how was I to know their crimes would pale to my own? Blackhand was a ruthless enemy, but Doomhammer, he was cunning. We'd lost many a battle, vicious though we fought, yet it wasn't until Goldshire that the war really turned, when our Alliance faltered. Within a few weeks we'd seen the full might of the Horde, seen King Llane brought down by assassins, watched Stormwind burn to the ground. | I'd known battle before the coming of the orcs, but I hadn't yet known war. Though far from the southlands and far from harm, a few warriors of Alterac heard that battle cry, heard the battle horns of Stromgarde calling their men to war. We rode to Stormwind before her fall, fighting the orcs at Grand Hamlet and Sunnyglade. What monsters they seemed then, so full of rage and strength and bloodlust, how was I to know their crimes would pale to my own? Blackhand was a ruthless enemy, but Doomhammer, he was cunning. We'd lost many a battle, vicious though we fought, yet it wasn't until Goldshire that the war really turned, when our Alliance faltered. Within a few weeks we'd seen the full might of the Horde, seen King Llane brought down by assassins, watched Stormwind burn to the ground. | ||
It was with a heavy heart I returned the north, defeated. Perenolde's betrayal made it impossible to return to Alterac, but I found Lordaeron suitable to my tastes. Preparations for the coming war began in earnest then, that terrible strife years in the making. My only joy in those gray days was | It was with a heavy heart I returned the north, defeated. Perenolde's betrayal of the Alliance made it impossible to return to Alterac, but I found Lordaeron suitable to my tastes. Preparations for the coming war began in earnest then, that terrible strife years in the making. My only joy in those gray days was | ||
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Revision as of 01:38, 2 January 2010
"The only verdict is vengeance"
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| Sir Matthew Kay | |
| "The Axe of Alterac" | |
| Game Name | |
| Race | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Class | Death Knight |
| Professions | |
| Guild | Alea Iacta Est |
| Affiliations | Knight of the Ebon Blade |
A History of Violence
I'd known battle before the coming of the orcs, but I hadn't yet known war. Though far from the southlands and far from harm, a few warriors of Alterac heard that battle cry, heard the battle horns of Stromgarde calling their men to war. We rode to Stormwind before her fall, fighting the orcs at Grand Hamlet and Sunnyglade. What monsters they seemed then, so full of rage and strength and bloodlust, how was I to know their crimes would pale to my own? Blackhand was a ruthless enemy, but Doomhammer, he was cunning. We'd lost many a battle, vicious though we fought, yet it wasn't until Goldshire that the war really turned, when our Alliance faltered. Within a few weeks we'd seen the full might of the Horde, seen King Llane brought down by assassins, watched Stormwind burn to the ground.
It was with a heavy heart I returned the north, defeated. Perenolde's betrayal of the Alliance made it impossible to return to Alterac, but I found Lordaeron suitable to my tastes. Preparations for the coming war began in earnest then, that terrible strife years in the making. My only joy in those gray days was