The world changed with each passing day. To the long-lived races, the past hundred years had been far more eventful than the previous ten thousand combined. In particular, over the last thirty years, the entire world seemed to have entered an endless cycle of war. From the Orc invasion to the undead in the Northern Frontier, to Mount Hyjal, to Silithus, and then to the Northern Expedition, every one had been a truly great war.
War spurred changes in the world. New races emerged from its mists one after another, from Orcs to undead, then the Tol'vir, and finally the Pandaren. More recently, there were the Draenei, who descended from the skies aboard a colossal skyfire vessel, as well as those strange races said to have come to Azeroth from another world.
Arakkoa, intelligent Ogres, Ethereals, Broken, and a few rare Sporelings.
Their numbers were small, but only relative to entire races. During the Great Migration from Draenor six months earlier, more than 150,000 outsiders had entered Azeroth. The various kingdoms hardly welcomed these exiles who had lost their civilizations, so they simply formed a small faction of their own, called "Shattrath," supposedly in memory of the city in the other world that had ultimately fallen.
Moreover, these scoundrels from the Shattered World were either the strongest fighters or the most devious members of their respective races. Azeroth's hostility forced them to band together, and shaped by this way of survival, they dealt a severe blow to Azeroth's five traditional strongholds of darkness. Covert warfare in the Dark World raged fiercely for a time, until, under pressure from the bigwigs above, Azeroth's sixth underworld stronghold was officially established.
Of course, this had little to do with ordinary people or the Light World. Yet after the "atonement" clause was proposed for