Although Calia was the princess of Lordaeron, because she was not Terenas's ideal heir, she had not received the ruler's education aimed at governing a nation as Arthas had. Therefore, she knew little about the lords across Lordaeron and the distribution of its military forces.
Thus, the name Hearthglen alone told her nothing about what kind of army was stationed there.
However, as a former Warcraft player, Ye Ting was exceedingly familiar with Hearthglen.
This broad valley in the northern Western Plaguelands was home to a force renowned throughout Warcraft history due to its easily defended, difficult-to-attack terrain—the Scarlet Crusade.
When discussing Warcraft history during the Scourge's rampage, the Scarlet Crusade was undoubtedly an organization that could not be ignored.
Born from the Knights of the Silver Hand, they were a vanguard dedicated to driving out the Scourge's influence. Their activity had effectively contained the Scourge's devastation across the old lands of Lordaeron, allowing more people to survive beneath the undead's claws.
Yet on the other hand, they were also crazed slaughterers of the undead, possessed of an extraordinary fanaticism for their cause. Though that fervor had sustained them through this dark era, it also drove members of the Scarlet Crusade to commit many excessively extreme acts, such as putting less fervent members among their ranks on Judgment as undead sympathizers.
It could be said that the Scarlet Crusade was an abnormal organization that could only emerge in abnormal times. To Calia, this army was undoubtedly a force worth winning over. But if their fanaticism could not be effectively restrained, the Scarlet Crusade might become a double-edged sword that turned on her.
However, for Calia, who now controlled only a single barony, with merely several hundred soldiers and over a thousand civilians under her command, the Scarlet Crusade was a