Rex's visit to Peace Town had undoubtedly been a success.
The city was rapidly taking shape from nothing.
As its population grew in the future, its importance would only increase.
Rex had done his job almost too well. The Alterac Mountains were anything but peaceful now; his presence posed an enormous threat to those living there.
Countless military achievements accumulated over recent years had made Rex famous throughout the Eastern Kingdoms. The Alterac Mountains were not cut off from the world, and their inhabitants naturally knew of him.
The Alterac Mountains bordered the Hillsbrad Foothills to the south, the Hinterlands to the east, Lake Lordamere to the west, and the Plaguelands to the north.
The region was cold and foggy, drenched in rain beneath skies heavy with dark clouds. Vast pine forests towered over the slopes.
The dominant force occupying the Alterac Mountains was the ogres. They were the strongest faction there.
The Crushridge ogres were cunning, enormous, and physically powerful. After surviving the Second War, these ogres had abandoned the orcs and ruled according to their own primitive ways.
They lived in Alterac City and left nothing alive wherever they went. The ogres and the Syndicate remained locked in a prolonged war.
The second faction was the Syndicate, a complicated criminal organization whose members were former nobles of Alterac. They operated mainly in the Alterac Mountains and the surrounding regions, seeking to reclaim their ancestral lands through fighting, assassination, deception, and theft. The Syndicate fought only for its own cause, though it would consider cooperating with anyone who could help achieve its ultimate goal. Syndicate agents wore brown and black while on patrol, but dressed in noble finery within their own territories.
Years of plunder and assassination had led them to abandon the honor of the nobility. They had