Gilneas Southern Coast was almost entirely desolate. With Biting Reef there, this coast was never destined to prosper. In fact, since Gilneas was founded, it had scarcely devoted much effort to this coastline. The natural barrier stood there, ensuring that no fleet would attack the kingdom from the south.
But today was different! Along that barren coastline, from Greymane Manor in Southwest Gilneas to Stormwind Cliff in the southeast, blue-green creatures were everywhere. They were like deep-sea nightmares that had walked out of the water. Their upper bodies barely resembled humans, but their lower bodies were entirely those of giant serpents, with scales covering their bodies, fleshy fishlike fins, tentacles, and bone spurs of every color.
True mollusks, yet with the sinister air of venomous snakes.
Wherever their cold yellow serpentine eyes swept, the malice within made every creature under their gaze shudder.
These were Naga, twisted creatures formed when they sank beneath the sea with the glory of the Kaldorei Empire ten thousand years ago. Over those countless ages, they had hidden in the deep sea. Apart from the conservative Night Elves, no one considered them a threat to the world. Yet today, on this ordinary day in Azeroth, they emerged from the depths and attacked coastlines across the world.
Gilneas was only one stop among many, but clearly, its terrain dictated that it would be a major target of the Naga assault.
More than half of the southeastern Black Forest had fallen. Whisperwind Valley Fortress, established by the Moonrage Worgen and some humans, had been utterly destroyed by the savage sea beasts driven by the Naga. As an unbelievably vast army of Murlocs rampaged through, everything in its path would be trampled into the dust, then torn apart and eaten by those savage creatures.
It was a cruelty