The civil war that broke out in the Kingdom of Lordaeron did not end as the other kingdoms had expected, with one side swiftly bringing the war to a close through overwhelming force.
The rebels backed by the Church of the Holy Light far surpassed the Kingdom of Lordaeron in military strength.
But the Kingdom of Lordaeron had an endless supply of undead creatures to replenish its forces.
A death knight only had to make a circuit through the wilderness, and all sorts of undead creatures would crawl out of the ground to join his undead army.
Although most undead creatures summoned in the wilderness were the remains of beasts that had died there, with combat strength far below that of ghouls.
As cannon fodder, however, they served much the same purpose as ghouls.
After all, sending those ghouls to the front lines only meant having them sawed apart by those strange, roaring weapons.
In that case, it was better to use weaker skeletal soldiers and skeletal beasts to wear the enemy down.
Faced with the endless tide of undead creatures, the army strengthened by the Holy Light could hold them off with ease.
But pushing straight back through them was impossible!
No one knew just how many undead creatures lurked in the densely wooded Tirisfal Glades.
Recklessly entering that region without knowing the situation could leave them surrounded by vast numbers of undead creatures, resulting in heavy losses or even total annihilation.
Tirion Fordring did not dare risk his soldiers' lives on that gamble.
King Terenas was also willing to drag the war out while preparing to gather more troops.
Thus, the tug-of-war between the Holy Light and death remained fairly intense.
The best way to break the deadlock at this point was to hire the Wildhammer Dwarves' aerial