After the Battle of Stormwind, Azeroth fell into peace once more.
This was peace in the truest sense—a peace that encompassed all of Azeroth.
Peace had been achieved across the Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor, Northrend, Pandaria, the Broken Isles, the Draenor Islands, Zandalar, Kul Tiras, and other lands.
The Horde had defeated the Alliance led by Stormwind and become Azeroth's dominant power. Though the Horde had also been badly battered, under the leadership of its new Warchief, Garrosh Hellscream, it not only avoided decline, but continuously unleashed its war potential and grew even stronger than before.
Following the death of Tyrande Whisperwind, the Night Warrior, the Night Elves fell into an unprecedented decline. Archdruid Malfurion Stormrage abandoned Ashenvale and signed a peace treaty with the Horde.
Meanwhile, Regent Lord Lor'themar Theron of the Blood Elf Kingdom of Quel'Thalas convened the first gathering belonging to the elves since their split ten thousand years ago—the Dorei Conference—within the floating city of Eldre'Thalas.
The Blood Elf Quel'dorei hosted the conference, attended by the Highborne, High Elves, Nightborne, Night Elves, and even the Naga.
Since the division, the various elven peoples had gone as long as ten thousand years without any contact. Combined with the immense hatred between them, reconciliation would not be easy.
Among humans, the decline of the Kingdom of Azeroth had made the Kingdom of Gilneas and the Kingdom of Lordaeron the strongest of the six human kingdoms.
The ambitious Genn Greymane of the Kingdom of Gilneas proposed that the Kingdom of Lordaeron, the Kingdom of Azeroth, the Kingdom of Alterac, and the Kingdom of Stromgarde had all declined; the Kingdom of Kul Tiras had closed itself off; and Dalaran had already fallen. Only the Kingdom of Gilneas had reached the peak of its strength under his rule. It was time for