The war in Quel'Thalas had ended...
With the help of their Alliance allies, the brave Quel'dorei had finally driven the invaders from their homeland.
They also swore that they would join the Alliance until the "Horde" had been wiped from this world completely!
Yet although the Alliance had won the final victory and forced the Horde to flee by sea, they had still paid an enormous price and made great sacrifices.
Nearly twenty thousand valiant Alliance soldiers had found their final rest in Quel'Thalas and its surrounding waters, including humans, Dwarves, and High Elves. Alongside them were the towering ancient trees that had grown for hundreds or even thousands of years, now reduced to ash...
Rear Admiral Derek Proudmoore was the highest-ranking Alliance officer to have fallen in battle thus far.
His funeral took place seven days later, in a cemetery in Silvermoon City.
The funerals of the other fallen soldiers were held at the same time.
Flowers lay on the headstones of grave after grave, and everyone attending the funerals wore black armbands...
"He was a hero of the Alliance!" Sir Anduin Lothar said gravely as he laid a bouquet before Derek's grave.
"Quel'Thalas will be grateful for everything he did!" King Anasterian Sunstrider said quietly.
"The Holy Light will bless him!" Uther the Lightbringer prayed, tightening his grip on the cross in his hand.
A general dressed in an emerald-green uniform knelt there, clinging tightly to the headstone...
Daelin Proudmoore, the king of Kul Tiras, had flown to Quel'Thalas overnight on a Gryphon after hearing the terrible news.
The uninhibited vice admiral, whose private life had drawn countless criticisms, now sobbed uncontrollably before his eldest son's grave.
For a parent to bury their child-perhaps that was life's greatest agony.
Including his illegitimate children, the vice admiral had many