From the Ashes
Mid-Story Chapter: What Became of the World
It is true, the vengeful and corrupt high elf Kael of the Blood Elves has revived the long dead dark leviathan of the black dragonflight, Deathwing. With Deathwing's newfound powers of undeath he easily conquered two of the greatest dragons of Azeroth, Alexstrasza of the red dragonflight and Malygos of the blue dragonflight, which he could never have done in life. Grateful for Kael's deed of which his own loyal dragonflight failed to accomplish, Deathwing granted Kael a total of two wishes that were within his power. Kael wished for the revival of the slumbering Naga within the Maelstrom and the rebirth of his dead people, knowing that these combined forces would easily exert extreme punishment upon the other mortal races of Azeroth. For Deathwing it was simple to clear the Maelstrom so the Naga below would awaken. Soon after Deathwing used every ounce of pure darkness in his being to resurrect the diminished race of high elves of Quel'Thalas and Kael's second wish was complete.
Kael told both the Naga and High Elves of recent events and all joined his cause. From that moment foward Kael dubbed his newfound legion as the Drow, and after a week the forces of the world came to fear that name. Kael decided to take the world starting at the western side of Azeroth, attacking the last remained stronghold for the human and dwarf races. With the aid of Deathwing and his menacing swarm, Azeroth and Khaz Modan were taken within a few weeks' notice. News of this new invasion reached the lands of Kalimdor and all took up arms. While the Forsaken held back the Drow in Lordaeron the combined forces of the Humans, Dwarves, Night Elves, Orcs, Trolls, and Tauren fought for their lives along the shores of Kalimdor. Kael sent his brethren by land, his Naga by sea, and his dragonkin by air. The Drow had the element of surprise and power on their side, and it seemed that nothing would change that.
But after a month of bloodshed the Drow took control of the Barren's shores, a sudden (and bizarre) change of events occurred. Drow forces seemed to vanish during battle, their decaying corpse later found strewn in heaps of fire. Even stranger still was that new recruits were coming in from the destroyed human and dwarf lands as if it were always prosperous. No one knows what this means, and everyonethat had asked them about their homeland have receivedonly responses like, "What are you talking about?" or "I don't know."
And to make matters more severe the dear Second King of Lordaeron had vanished soon after Azeroth and Khaz Modan were overtaken. What will happen to the mortal races ofAzeroth when a dark and menacing army led by a vengeful madman has taken over most of their beautiful world? Well, only one way to find out for sure...
