Niskara was a floating island near the eastern edge of the Mardum Continent, separate from the rest of the continent, and home to a large demon encampment.
There was nothing special about it. In fact, encampments like it were everywhere across the shattered Mardum Continent. Shortly after Gamon and the 107th Regiment arrived on Mardum, they were sent to the battlefield on Niskara. It should have been an utterly unremarkable corner of the Illidari's sweeping offensive against the Mardum Continent. But while clearing the battlefield after one battle, Gamon had found that damaged Greenleaf Insignia inside a Burning Legion Communications Room destroyed by fel artillery.
It was precisely because he had handed it in as spoils of war that Gamon was transferred back to Despair Ridge, saving his life in the process.
When the Tauren returned to Niskara through the Illidari's Burning Legion Portal, what he saw was a brutal expanse of postwar ruins. After the demons staged a vicious ambush against the Cannon Fodder Legion stationed here, the Illidari Demon Hunters had answered that provocation with even greater brutality.
They had operated the high-powered energy cannons aboard the Naaru vessel called Tempest Keep, the War Fortress suspended beyond the starry sky of the Mardum Continent, and scoured Niskara from end to end three full times. It was certain that 80% of the demons had become part of the battlefield's ruins under that irresistible onslaught of destruction. But some demons always survived, and those would be the opponents Gamon, Sylvanas, and their two companions faced during their exploration.
"Cough, cough! This damned place, this damned air!"
The moment Rhonin stepped through the Portal, he felt Mardum's boundless malice toward mortals. Both the air and the ground here were scorching, almost devoid of moisture, and carried an intensely pungent smell of