Dust-Covered History

In the days that followed, the other officers of the Raven Guard Knights began training the soldiers, organizing supplies, packing wagons, and bringing out freshly made cured meat, bread, and pickled vegetables in preparation for the coming campaign.

Roderick carefully read through the information from Ravenholdt as well, but the matter was truly complicated. According to the documents, the Kingdom of Alterac had not existed for long. Its first king, Aiden Perenolde, had merely been a local lord in the Alterac region, neither especially powerful nor prestigious.

After the Kingdom of Alterac was founded, Aiden Perenolde ignored everyone's objections and built the kingdom's capital deep in the mountains. Although this greatly improved its security, it also left him with very limited territory and population under his direct control, less than even some of the great nobles of the Kingdom of Lordaeron. Aiden Perenolde held little prestige within his own kingdom, and many nobles merely went through the motions when carrying out the king's orders.

During the war between Lothar's human Alliance and the Orcs, Aiden Perenolde, who had never wished to join the war in the first place, committed a grave error. He attempted to make peace with the Orcs on his own and opened a passage that allowed Orc forces to besiege Lordaeron's royal capital.

If not for the Orcs' inexplicable internal strife and retreat, Lordaeron's royal capital might very well have been breached by the then Orc chieftain, Orgrim Doomhammer. Had such a tragedy occurred, the entire history of humans and Orcs might have been rewritten.

Such betrayal was naturally unforgivable. Thoras Trollbane of Stromgarde led his soldiers in forcibly taking over all of Alterac City, while the Barov Family, nobles of the Kingdom of Alterac who lived in Caer Darrow, also launched attacks against their own king's