Blackhand the Destroyer's Blackhand Legion

Though the Burning Steppes and the Badlands were not as deadly as Theramore, in a sense, they also lay between Stormwind and Ironforge, cutting off the connection between them.

If Stormwind and Ironforge had not mainly relied on the already completed subway, Stormwind would have long since dispatched a heavy force to reclaim those two regions.

Previously, constrained by many factors, Stormwind had never deployed a major army. This time, they had completely torn off the mask and openly declared war. With the Horde's main force away on the Northrend expedition, they launched an assault on the Burning Steppes and the Badlands.

Rend had placed too much faith in the usefulness of Warder Stilgiss among the Dark Iron Dwarves, never realizing that Warder Stilgiss had already been exposed and was now under house arrest by the Dark Iron Queen Moira.

Without timely intelligence from the Dark Iron Dwarves in Blackrock Depths, and with the Blackhand Legion in Upper Blackrock Spire having lost its commander, the suddenly empowered Dark Iron Queen Moira, wielding immense fire elemental power, had won battle after battle and broken out of Blackrock Depths.

The Dark Iron Dwarves who emerged joined forces with Marshal Windsor, attacking the Blackrock Clan's Firemark Legion stationed at the Blackrock Pass checkpoint between the Burning Steppes and the Redridge Mountains from both front and rear.

The gateway to the Burning Steppes had been thrown wide open, and the defeated Firemark Legion retreated to Blacktooth Camp and Dreadmaul Rock east of Blackrock Spire.

Rend and the Dark Rider Guard arrived in Upper Blackrock Spire through a portal that had been constructed long ago.

After nearly twenty years of development by the Blackrock Clan, Upper Blackrock Spire had become entirely Blackrock Clan territory. Even the Dark Iron Dwarves who had built Blackrock Spire would