I think I may have found one worthy of my admiration.
Milling about the land of Azeroth has provided me with much amusement, but none more than the arrival of the strange floating palace called Archerus. Send by the Lich King, in it he raised former champions of the two factions to serve him and unleashed them on an area called Death's Breach. It was simply marvelous the decay he inflicted upon this place! The very land resembled rotting flesh, crawling along it were reanimated corpses who were likely victims of the zealous Scarlet Crusade. Strange servants of the Lich King guided the risen Death Knights from this base of operations - strangely loyal. A contingent of skeletons stood in file along the edge of the bluff raining deadly arrows on those below them - the army and townsfolk of the Scarlet Crusade, working their farms as some plan seemed to be unfolding. The death knights laid such waste to those soldiers, and the air filled with the screams of innocent townsfolk. Such music! Their entire fleet was decimated leaving no opportunity for escape even if there were any survivors. Very quickly the corpses of both warrior and townfolk littered the ground, staining the lands red with their blood.
I watched as this relentless, unfeeling army continued to push the Crusade back to their fortified town of New Avalon - only to easily breach the defenses. Churches were set aflame, more townsfolk and soldiers began to join the ever growing number of bodies. Death knights made short work of what pitiful defenses stood in their way as they snuffed them once and for all. And those bodies did not go to waste, oh no. Once the Crusade was eliminated, the Lich King's servants raised the bodies of the slain to serve as mindless warriors. When the King gave the order they advanced from Death's Breach into the Plaguelands and amassed just over Light's Hope Chapel, the last bastion of safety in those decaying lands. What a disgusting place it is, so pure and blessed. An abomination, a false sense of security. However this fight revealed just how cunning and clever this Lich King is. Though his army was by far impressive, they were easily defeated by the pitiful army of the Argent Dawn - yet this was his plan! All those corpses, all those death knights were sent to their second deaths in order to bring out his most hated enemy. He had no intentions of raiding the Chapel, but to remove the head to let the body die on its own. And those soldiers who had become so loyal to him, whether by force or by choice, realized all too late that their King truly had no care for them. To watch the betrayal register on their pathetic faces as the warriors of the Dawn cut them down...ah I don't believed I watched something that enjoyable in some time.
However, the King made one large mistake - he underestimated the situation. And that underestimation cost him the fight. Pathetic really, but I have to admire how well he is able to spread destruction and snuff out hope. Aside from his unexpected defeat, it really was a good plan.
I wish I had thought of it first.
Regardless, I think the time has come for a trip to Icecrown.
Milling about the land of Azeroth has provided me with much amusement, but none more than the arrival of the strange floating palace called Archerus. Send by the Lich King, in it he raised former champions of the two factions to serve him and unleashed them on an area called Death's Breach. It was simply marvelous the decay he inflicted upon this place! The very land resembled rotting flesh, crawling along it were reanimated corpses who were likely victims of the zealous Scarlet Crusade. Strange servants of the Lich King guided the risen Death Knights from this base of operations - strangely loyal. A contingent of skeletons stood in file along the edge of the bluff raining deadly arrows on those below them - the army and townsfolk of the Scarlet Crusade, working their farms as some plan seemed to be unfolding. The death knights laid such waste to those soldiers, and the air filled with the screams of innocent townsfolk. Such music! Their entire fleet was decimated leaving no opportunity for escape even if there were any survivors. Very quickly the corpses of both warrior and townfolk littered the ground, staining the lands red with their blood.
I watched as this relentless, unfeeling army continued to push the Crusade back to their fortified town of New Avalon - only to easily breach the defenses. Churches were set aflame, more townsfolk and soldiers began to join the ever growing number of bodies. Death knights made short work of what pitiful defenses stood in their way as they snuffed them once and for all. And those bodies did not go to waste, oh no. Once the Crusade was eliminated, the Lich King's servants raised the bodies of the slain to serve as mindless warriors. When the King gave the order they advanced from Death's Breach into the Plaguelands and amassed just over Light's Hope Chapel, the last bastion of safety in those decaying lands. What a disgusting place it is, so pure and blessed. An abomination, a false sense of security. However this fight revealed just how cunning and clever this Lich King is. Though his army was by far impressive, they were easily defeated by the pitiful army of the Argent Dawn - yet this was his plan! All those corpses, all those death knights were sent to their second deaths in order to bring out his most hated enemy. He had no intentions of raiding the Chapel, but to remove the head to let the body die on its own. And those soldiers who had become so loyal to him, whether by force or by choice, realized all too late that their King truly had no care for them. To watch the betrayal register on their pathetic faces as the warriors of the Dawn cut them down...ah I don't believed I watched something that enjoyable in some time.
However, the King made one large mistake - he underestimated the situation. And that underestimation cost him the fight. Pathetic really, but I have to admire how well he is able to spread destruction and snuff out hope. Aside from his unexpected defeat, it really was a good plan.
I wish I had thought of it first.
Regardless, I think the time has come for a trip to Icecrown.
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