nashuaworldcup Chapter 431 Time Freezes (1)
Chapter 431 Time Freezes (1)
Where does human fear originate?
Unknown dangers?
Or is it the known pain...?
Or perhaps it's a prolonged, recurring, clear, and continuous cycle of unknown and known suffering, the threat of hunger and the inability to obtain what one desires, the struggle, the ups and downs, the dramatic rises and falls... ultimately forcing one to act on instinct, or forcibly resisting instinct, to do things one doesn't want to do...
That is the known despair and curse.
The Faceless One, Born, was clearly an ordinary human nobleman who had experienced great terror...
Among the nobility, few possess unwavering will. Their path to wealth and status is usually relatively easy, especially for those who have received favors, often through the constant depletion and erosion of their ancestors' glory and accumulated wealth.
Generally, families in a kingdom tend to decline; cases of family revival are rare...
Only by reopening the family tree and revealing the rise and fall of seven powerful human nations through a powerful alliance can the so-called family honor be guaranteed.
Interestingly, the founders of Lordaeron and Stormwind were both generals in the Arathorian Empire... Gilneas and Alterac were also originally founded by two high-ranking nobles.
After the opening of the Dark Portal, the bloodline of the former Emperor Arathor was reduced to Anduin, Lothar, and his sister... who had to travel a long and arduous journey to Stormwind.
Lothar's sister married King Llane & Wrynn, making Lothar the Duke of Stormwind... King Llane's beloved son, Varian & Wrynn, inherited the bloodlines of both the Arathor Empire's royal family and Stormwind's Wrynn family, thus Stormwind considered itself the legitimate successor to the human empire...
Lordaeron and Stormwind are locked in a fierce struggle for supremacy on the eastern continent...
That was the flourishing state of the human kingdoms before the Dark Portal was opened.
After the orcish army invaded, the situation changed rapidly...
Under the control of demons, the orc warlock Gul'dan and the archmage Medivh colluded to open the Dark Portal, inciting the primitive orcish horde to invade Azeroth and even storm Stormwind.
After Lothar and Khadgar defeated the delirious Archmage Medivh, they successfully closed the Outland portal, temporarily halting any further orcish reinforcements.
However, most of Stormwind fell, and after Stormwind was captured, King Llane was assassinated by Garona, a half-orc female assassin controlled by the Shadow Council.
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Four years after the opening of the Dark Portal, the first war between humans and orcs (the first half of Warcraft 1) took place, and the humans of Stormwind were defeated.
Lothar was forced to take Llane's young son, Prince Varian Wrynn, to Lordaeron for help... At that time, several powerful figures, including Arthas, Jaina, and Thrall, were still quite young...
In the fifth year after the Dark Portal opened, the Alliance of Humans, resisting the orcs, was established at the initiative of King Tyrese and Menethil II of Lordaeron. During this time, Archbishop Alonsus and Faron of the Light formed the Knights of the Silver Hand.
Uther, Tirion Fordring, Turalyon, and two others became the first human paladins. The cavalry consisted of the elite Lothar's Sons cavalry of Stromgarde... the infantry included former members of the Iron Horse Brotherhood, etc.
During the First Great War, on the side of the Orcish Horde that invaded Azeroth, the Orcish warlock Gul'dan briefly fell into a coma after Medivh's death, as the remnant soul of Sargeras, the Dark Titan who granted them power, was banished back to the Twisting Nether.
Orgrim, a close friend of Durotan, chieftain of the Frostwolf Clan, seized the opportunity to challenge Blackhand, the then Warchief of the Orcs. He successfully took over the leadership of the Orcs in the duel, eliminating most of the Shadow Council's Orcish demonology warlocks and eradicating much of Gul'dan's influence.
The Horde's northward march began by seizing Blackrock Mountain, the territory of the Dark Iron dwarves, and they secretly allied with the Black Dragonflight... The Black Dragonflight King even assisted the orcs... The Amani trolls also joined the Horde, attacking humans and high elves together...
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第二次人兽大战（war1后半段1994，war2黑暗之潮1995、黑暗之门1996以及war3混乱之治部分2002），大约是黑暗之门开启后6年左右。
The Horde-orc alliance invaded the territory of the Bronzebeard dwarves, threatening Ironforge.
The Black Dragon King secretly supported the orcs, allowing them to capture the Red Dragon Queen Alexstrasza and most of the red dragons, and to occupy Grim Batol, the capital of the Wildhammer dwarves... while conducting mysterious research there.
During this time, under the manipulation of the Time Bronze Dragonflight, a group of orcs, human mages, high elves, and dwarf warriors who had traveled through time suddenly appeared, thwarting the Black Dragon King's plot... Rhonin then became a hero of the Kirin Tor in Dalaran, and with the recommendation of his red dragon mentor, became one of the core figures of Dalaran.
Meanwhile, Orgrim led the Horde to rampage across the Eastern Kingdoms, overwhelming the dwarves and high elves... They were forced to formally join the Alliance to fight against the orc invaders.
During the Second World War, the Kingdom of Alterac, cowardly and afraid of death, secretly made way for the orc army.
Orgrim's orc army once besieged Lordaeron, nearly conquering it... but due to Gul'dan's betrayal, he secretly took his trusted followers to search for the Tomb of Sargeras, attempting to obtain the power within...
Gul'dan couldn't withstand even a fraction of the power of one of the avatars within the Tomb of Sargeras, the Dark Titan, and exploded, dying instantly. His head was obtained by Illidan, who then gained the power to become a demon within the Tomb of Sargeras.
Among Gul'dan's followers was a cannibalistic magician named Cho'gall who miraculously survived. He suddenly gained sentience and, in reality, was influenced by the Old Gods. He formed the Twilight's Shadow, and the Twilight's Hammer went into hiding in Azeroth. Many of them fled to the Twilight Highlands on the eastern side of the kingdom...
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Meanwhile, Orgrim's orc army, betrayed by Gul'dan, suffered a series of defeats... Lothar, leading the human alliance, seized the opportunity to pursue them, and the two sides clashed in a great battle at Blackrock Mountain. Lothar, the Lion of the Alliance, led a coalition of seven nations, along with high elves, dwarves, and gnomes, to defeat the original orcish tribe for the first time at Blackrock Mountain.
However, Orgrim Doomhammer, the Warchief of the Horde, killed Lord Lothar, the Lion of the Alliance, at the foot of Blackrock Mountain, and was himself seriously wounded.
Orgrim was once captured, but later escaped.
In the years that followed, the orc forces suffered defeat after defeat, with most being captured or escaping...
Orgrim encountered Thrall (Goul), an orc gladiator born in Azeroth after the opening of the Dark Portal, and his old friend Thrall's son, the Frostwolf chieftain... He then led Thrall to the Frostwolf clan, exiled in Alterac Valley... and instructed him to study under the old shaman Drek'Thar, inheriting the shamanic path and being groomed to succeed the Warchief...
Ultimately, during the escape and battle, Orgrim succumbed to his injuries and died in Hammerfall, Arathi Highlands.
Thrall took up the Doomhammer, the symbol of Horde power...
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Around the same time, Turalyon became the commander of the Alliance forces, continuing to clear out the remaining orcs and reclaim lost territory...
Seven years after the opening of the Dark Portal, Stormwind was liberated, and Varian Wrynn ascended the throne, becoming its new young king... Later, in honor of his uncle, he also named his son Anduin Wrynn...
The two foolish sons of the late Warchief Blackhand led the remaining orcs of the Blackrock clan back to Blackrock Spire, and the Alliance built Watchtower nearby to monitor the movement of the Dark Portal in the Blasted Lands.
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