In the original history, even though the High Elf Ranger Corps had fought with everything they had, and even Lireesa Windrunner, their highest-ranking ranger commander at the time, had died in battle, Doomhammer still believed that Quel'Thalas was not particularly powerful.
Perhaps Doomhammer had formed that impression because he had never led his troops into the northern reaches of the Kingdom of Quel'Thalas! At the very least, Silvermoon City's towering, thick walls would not have been so easy to destroy.
But that was only speculation. In the end, Doomhammer had left, taking his elite troops to attack Lordaeron City and leaving the trolls of Zul'Aman to fight alone in Quel'Thalas.
Despite all the devastation Quel'Thalas had suffered during the Second War, there were still people afterward who believed that the High Elves had contributed little to it.
Think about it seriously-how ridiculous was that logic? A third of a nation's territory had been engulfed in war, at least a third of its people had been slaughtered, and even its supreme military commander, second only to the king, had fallen on the battlefield. How brutal must that war have been? It had been a war that consumed the entire nation! Its significance was no less than that of the Sino-Japanese theater of war.
If Quel'Thalas had not held down the trolls of Zul'Aman, what would have happened to Lordaeron, with its rear left undefended, when Zul'Aman marched south alongside its orc allies?
By the time Doomhammer reached the walls of Lordaeron City, the Stratholme Region would probably have fallen entirely into the hands of the Zul'Aman Trolls! Once Stratholme fell, it would directly threaten Andorhal in Lordaeron, the largest granary in the entire Alliance. At that point, the Allied Army had barely managed to hold Lordaeron City itself. If the granary