After willingly abandoning The Sepulcher and nearly a third of its territory in Silverpine Forest, Gilneas, enclosed by the Greymane Wall, resembled an irregular circle, with Gilneas City at its very center.
This city, one of the finest on the continent, had once been the pride of the Gilneans. It had truly been completed under the previous king, Archibald Greymane. Gilneas had been a thriving commercial nation then. Despite its enviable coastline, most of its trade had traveled overland. It was not that the Gilneans disliked sailing, but that a peculiar kind of submerged reef, the "Biting Reef," grew off their coast. These reefs lined the entire coast, preventing any ship from entering Gilneas by sea.
In fact, however, this had served as a form of protection for Gilneas. During the Second War, at least, these reefs had made Gilneas almost the only nation spared a large-scale orc invasion. Thus, most people in the country considered the Biting Reef a good thing.
Now, however, while the Biting Reef continued to protect the country, it also obstructed its last hope of a new beginning.
Everything had begun six years earlier. After the War Against the Undead broke out, King Genn Greymane had carefully assessed the scale of the entire war. By then, Gilneas had already withdrawn from the alliance of human nations over sensitive territorial and commercial issues, and the horrifying sight of Lordaeron falling completely to the undead within a few months had truly frightened the country's upper ranks.
Ultimately, Genn had decided to build a wall to protect his people. The idea seemed somewhat fanciful, but Gilneas's distinctive peninsular geography actually made it an almost perfect solution. Thus, while Lordaeron continued to resist, the Gilneans had abandoned them.
It had been a difficult decision. Not only had they needed