After the scouts reported that the forest trolls had followed the Horde and vanished entirely from the dense forests of Zul'Aman, the fighting throughout Quel'Thalas came to a complete end.
After this battle, Silvermoon City and Aerie Peak both pledged to join the Alliance, becoming its members... Together with the Seven Kingdoms of Men and Ironforge, which had joined earlier, the Alliance now had as many as ten member nations.
Although the Horde's armies had retreated south of the Thandol Span, Sir Anduin Lothar did not let his guard down in the slightest.
Under his orders, after a brief rest, the Alliance armies soon left Quel'Thalas and headed for the Arathi Highlands to guard against a winter offensive by the Horde.
King Anasterian Sunstrider also decided that Silvermoon City would fully cooperate with the Alliance's operations. The ranger forces, mage forces, and even the spellbreaker forces would all dispatch large numbers of troops to march south after spring arrived in year five of the Dark Portal, helping the Alliance fight a decisive battle against the Horde.
The Dark Portal calendar first emerged when the Horde's armies became a force to be reckoned with in the Blasted Lands and the Black Morass, counting the year the Dark Portal appeared as "year one." By year three of the Dark Portal, when the Horde threatened the safety of the northern human kingdoms, it had spread widely throughout the human kingdoms, to the point that residents across the Eastern Kingdoms had now begun using it.
Liadrin had left as well, traveling to Stratholme with a group of high elf priests.
They would reportedly undergo the baptism of paladins there. Karin believed that, with her devotion and hard work, Liadrin would certainly be able to undergo the baptism and become a true paladin. It