The history of Kingdom of Gilneas can be roughly traced back to the pioneering era after the establishment of Empire of Arathor. The pioneers established a city-state near the sea in the southwest of Lordaeron, which later became Gilneas City.
The once prosperous Empire of Arathor later declined. The original royal family led their people across the sea to the south to establish Kingdom of Stormwind, and the remaining people named it Empire of Arathor. The capital of, Stromgarde, was built as the center of a brand new Kingdom of Stromgarde. The city-states that were originally subordinate to Kingdom of Arathor became independent one after another, which became the seven human kingdoms.
Kingdom of Gilneas, located southwest of Lordaeron, gradually prospered under the rule of several kings, and its national power continued to prosper, eventually becoming a middle-level country second only to Lordaeron.
When Orcs invaded and defeated Kingdom of Stormwind, refugees from the south brought news of the war. Under the call of Lordaeron King Terenas, the six northern countries joined forces with High Elf dwarves, dwarfs and other allies to establish Alliance of Lordaeron to fight against the invading Orcs.
After several years of war, Orcs, which originally covered most of Eastern Kingdoms, was expelled and captured. Many conflicts arose within the Alliance, which was originally established to fight against Orcs.
For Kingdom of Gilneas, they have fulfilled their obligations by sending troops to fight against Orcs. Now that the war is coming to an end, it should be time to enjoy victory, but things are not as they expected.
Seeing that the war is coming to an end, Lordaeron King Terenas still keeps asking his allies to continue to contribute. Genn's idea of supporting a Alterac King who is close to Gilneas is also blocked by Terenas. On the surface, Terenas Terenas chose to leave the throne of Alterac vacant for the reason that the war was not over, but secretly sent Lordaeron officials to station in Alterac and actually ruled Alterac. This made the Gilneas people feel betrayed.
In addition, Terenas also imprisoned Orcs people captured during the war in concentration camps, and required Alliance countries to pay huge fees for this, which further aroused Gilneas's dissatisfaction.
At present, the coalition forces organized by Lordaeron have marched into Khaz Modan to help the dwarves and gnomes conquer their homeland. Due to moral reasons, Genn also sent the army of Gilneas to participate in this war.
However, King Genn is tired of this endless effort, but Genn is also worried about what threats Gilneas will encounter after the Alliance quits.
Finally, Genn came up with a magical idea: build a huge wall across the border in Gilneas to protect the people of Gilneas behind the door, so that Gilneas does not have to stay in the Alliance and does not have to worry about encountering threats.
The above are not all said by Liam, many of them are inferred by Aaron himself relying on the information obtained from the game.
"Oh, I have told my father not to do this, but he has already made up his mind." Liam looked at the many Gilneas people busy on the construction site and couldn't help but sigh.
This young prince has a completely different mentality from his father, and he does not agree with Genn's decision. Unfortunately, Genn is stubborn enough, and he does not want to disobey his father, so he can only follow his father's order to supervise the construction process.
"King Genn did this..." Aaron wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say it. Judging from the current situation, Genn's decision cannot be said to be completely wrong. This giant wall named Greymane Wall has indeed protected Gilneas, which has enjoyed peace for more than ten years.
Considering the location of Gilneas, as long as this huge wall is built across the peninsula where Kingdom of Gilneas is located, coupled with the unique Bite Reef beyond the coast of Gilneas, it seems that it is indeed enough to completely protect Gilneas.
However, Genn never imagined that when Scourge invaded, Greymane Wall blocked the enemies from outside the wall, but Gilneas was contributed by enemies from inside. When Cataclysm happened, all the Bite Reef outside the Gilneas coastline were silent. Forsaken attacked Gilneas from the sea, causing the complete fall of this huge kingdom.
Liam did not see this danger, but what he was concerned about was that in order to build this huge wall, a large part of the land in the northern part of Gilneas's country had to be given up. Although the residents on the land could move back inside the wall, those territories were basically given to Lordaeron for free.
On the other hand, Liam is also very dissatisfied with Genn's behavior of betraying the covenant. When Terenas invited Genn to join Alliance, Genn was very reluctant, and it took the joint persuasion of Liam and many domestic ministers to convince Genn to join Alliance and send reinforcements that were much smaller than those of other countries.
"By doing this, my father put Gilneas in a very dangerous situation." Liam said this and sighed. For this young man, he really couldn't agree with his father's decision, but he could not disobey Genn's order, so he could only bury these worries in his heart.
"Sorry for talking to you about this." Liam seemed to realize something and hurriedly showed an apologetic smile to Aaron. Just now he just wanted to explain the unintentional remarks made by his sister, but he didn't expect to say so much to Aaron.
Aaron waved his hand, indicating that he didn't mind. He could see that Liam was in a very bad mood right now, and he said some things that he shouldn't have said to an outsider like him in this mood.
"Where are you two going next?" Liam adjusted his mind and asked Aaron where they wanted to go next.
Aaron pointed to the northeast and said, "We are going to Dalaran."
"I see, then we should go on the same road next, and maybe we can go together for a while." Liam nodded, and asked Aaron and the others to go on the road with him.
"But, aren't you here to supervise the progress of the project?" Aaron gave Liam a strange look. If Liam was going to supervise the progress of other parts of Greymane Wall, he should go to the east. How could he go the same way as Aaron and the others?
Hearing Aaron's question, Liam's face showed the same mixture of helplessness and worry again. "Actually, we still have to go to the north to solve some troubles."
With Liam's explanation, Aaron finally understood the purpose of this prince coming to the border of the kingdom: speaking of checking the progress of the project, it can be done by Gilneas's officials. There is no need to specially ask Liam, the prince of the kingdom, to make a trip.
Liam is also going to solve the problem of a nail household during this trip. As mentioned just now, Greymane Wall is located within the territory of Kingdom of Gilneas. When the giant wall is built, part of the kingdom's land will be Abandon. Although Genn has ordered the residents on this part of the land to relocate, there are still some residents who are reluctant to leave their original homes. Liam's trip is to persuade those residents who are unwilling to move inland.
Aaron was a little puzzled by this. "Do you actually need to persuade me personally?"
Liam nodded. "Baron Silverlaine is quite stubborn, so I suggested to my father that I should go and persuade him."
What Liam didn't say was that Genn was quite dissatisfied with the stubborn Baron Silverlaine, and even wanted to personally lead people to capture the old baron, but he was persuaded by Liam, and then Liam chose to go and persuade him in person.
Moreover, what Liam himself did not realize was that he had not wanted to see his father recently, and this decision was also influenced by this factor.
"Silverlaine? It sounds so familiar." Aaron felt vaguely impressed when he heard this name, but he couldn't remember the name of the other party for a while, so he just agreed to Liam's invitation., go with them for a while first, and it is not a bad thing to have a good relationship with this young prince. If Aaron can reach the point where it will be valued by high-level officials in various countries in the future, it will be a lot more convenient to have such a friendly friend.
"How are you two going to move forward? Do you need me to provide a carriage?" Liam said.
Aaron smiled mysteriously and told them not to be surprised. He then turned around and gave an order to Dreadwake, which was anchored off the coast. The ship flew up from the sea, causing everyone on the shore to make a noise.