News of Theramore's fall quickly reached Stormwind.
Yet King Varian Wrynn of Stormwind was not surprised in the least. When Rend became Warchief, he had already foreseen Theramore's destruction. If he had been the Horde's Warchief, he would have done the same.
"Your Majesty, Lady Jaina is already on her way to Kul Tiras, accompanied by Tandred Proudmoore and Grand Duke Bolvar Fordragon," the master assassin Mathias Shaw reported to his king.
When the Alliance First Fleet was defeated by the Iron Fleet and the Alliance lost its advantage at sea, Grand Duke Bolvar Fordragon realized that if they wished to contend with the Horde's Iron Fleet, the only option was to bring the Kingdom of Kul Tiras back into the Alliance.
For this reason, Grand Duke Bolvar Fordragon had gone to Boralus, the capital of the Kingdom of Kul Tiras, under the pretext of visiting his daughter Taelia Fordragon, who was also the adopted daughter of the Proudmoore family.
Kul Tiras had withdrawn from the Alliance because Stormwind had refused to avenge Admiral Daelin Proudmoore and had allowed Theramore to join the Alliance, leaving relations between the two sides extremely strained.
But although Admiral Katherine Proudmoore, the current ruler of the Kingdom of Kul Tiras, had no desire to receive Stormwind's Grand Duke Bolvar Fordragon, having lost her eldest son, she could still understand a father's feelings.
Naturally, Grand Duke Bolvar Fordragon had been unable to secure the Kingdom of Kul Tiras's aid. He had not even successfully set foot on Kul Tiras soil; his meeting with Taelia Fordragon had taken place aboard a ship outside Boralus.
However, Grand Duke Bolvar Fordragon learned of Kul Tiras's current situation from Taelia Fordragon's guardian, Cyrus, the harbor master of Boralus.
After Admiral Daelin Proudmoore's death, the Kingdom of Kul Tiras had