Not everyone knew of the master behind the Qiraji.
In fact, even among those with truly high-level combat strength, only those who had genuinely crossed into that invisible circle could know of the Old Gods' existence.
That evil inherent in the world itself, those monsters formed from the gathered evil of all living beings, those creatures of chaos, those beings utterly unimaginable to an ordinary mind-they were a secret that should not be made public.
Everyone who knew of their existence guarded that secret with the utmost care.
Until over a decade ago, when the Old Horde's war ended at Marshal Lothar's hands, an ogre unexpectedly gained the favor of a power of chaos in this world that he should never have encountered. After narrowly escaping the Tomb of Sargeras alive, the ogre Cho'gall came alone to Silithus. At the call of the Dark Whispers, he used some unknown means to enter the sealed Scarab Wall and personally meet the dark master in the deepest reaches of this land.
The Old God C'Thun, known as the Many-Eyed Fiend, gave Cho'gall new power and faith. Thus, when the ogre left Silithus, the Twilight's Hammer, a cult named after Cho'gall's now-extinct clan, came into being.
Few people knew the Twilight's Hammer's origins, and those who did remained wary of it. But Dick was the first to actually wage war against this cult that worshipped the Old Gods!
The war he had sparked in the southern borderlands of the Eastern Kingdoms had uprooted almost every Twilight's Hammer outpost in the southern Eastern Kingdoms. Had the mysterious Twilight Prophet not extended an invitation to the Twilight Cultists, who were being hunted like beaten dogs by the combined forces of the Dark Iron Dwarves and Black Scythe Warlocks, the southern Eastern Kingdoms would probably have