Chapter 5 : The Legend of Avernus

The battles between the mortals, and the dead proceed further
However, soon shall come the day in which destinies unravel

There had been many skirmishes between the Undead Scourge and the Night Elf Sentinels until now, however, there was no such battle whose outcome would be as decisive as the Battle of Destiny. This battle would take place in one of the last prevailing strongholds of the already weakening Sentinels. It was in those Barrow Dens that fate was demarcated in. However, that battle would ultimately changed fate itself. New destinies would unravel, while some destinies would be sealed forever...

"Summon the Lich Kel'thuzad," bellowed the King.

"At once, my Master." spoke the newly resurrected Paladin

They called him Abaddon. He had long since forgotten his true name. Before arising as the Undead, he lived in Stormwind with his kinsmen. The Burning Legion had invaded his homeland and begun their onslaught once again. The Legion had arrived on the planet through the portal in the recently formed Lake Avernus, a tributary formed of Lake Crystal due to mysterious forced acting upon the river path. It is said that there were a group of seven Warlocks called the Cult of Gul'dan that had tried to summon a Fel demon from Outland itself, but in their recklessness torn a hole in their realm leading to the distant lands of Outland. The Demon Kil'jaeden, sensed this fabricated portal and had seized this opportunity to invade Azeroth with a select few chosen alongside him. Upon arriving at Lake Avernus, they slayed the Warlocks and resurrected their souls as slaves to the Burning Legion.

Of the Warlocks, only one named Alexia Kala'mar managed to survive this assault, and fled afar, and nearly a month later, reached the gates of Scholomance. Kil'Jaeden and his troops raided the nearby capital city of Stormwind, and butchered its inhabitants. The Warriors, Rogues, and Mages, Priests, and Paladins of Stormwind tried their best to thwart this invasion, but their attempts were futile. Several managed to flee, and take refuge elsewhere. Abaddon was one of the first few Paladins to fight and die valiantly in battle. Meanwhile, Alexia Kala'mar had encountered a powerful Undead Mage at the gates of Scholamance. They fought a hard and difficult battle, but it was the Undead Mage, Jaf'ara who managed to slay the much less experienced Alexia.

The Lich Kel'thuzad who was present there to carry out direct orders from the King himself, sensed a powerful presence about her so he revived Alexia in her previous Humanoid state with all her memories intact. She informed Kel'thuzad of the Burning Legion's invasion at Stormwind. Kel'thuzad realized that the Legion would once again try to trick the Scourge, and enslave the King, as the Dreadlords had done earlier.

King Arthas and Kel'thuzad with a small army secretly raided into the city Stormwind which had now become a base for the Legion. They resurrected several of the deceased Stormwind Army as ghouls, abominations, skeletons warriors and mages alike to overthrow the Legion. The soul of the Lich King told Arthas to resurrect Abaddon as a Death Knight. Hence, Abaddon was raised from the dead, and was a great asset to Arthas in helping to break Kil'jaeden's defenses. Under Abaddon's command, the front line had been decimated and now allowed Arthas to reach the Demon Kil'jaeden with ease.

The Lich Kel'thuzad, and his new apprentice Alexia had sealed the portal at Avernus for good. The Lich King warned Arthas that Kil'Jaeden was a powerful being and could very easily defeat Arthas and the entire Undead forces alone if he had to. Kel'thuzad proposed a plan, however, it required very drastic measures to be able to overthrow the Legion's leader. If the Lich King transferred his entire power to Arthas, and did not hold back, he could empower Frostmourne's might to enormous proportions. The transfer would require the Lich to sacrifice a great deal of his own power to allow such a powerful being to have his soul powered into the chamber of a sword.

However, Kil'Jaeden would even then still be too powerful to be fully defeated so a consensus was reached to trap his soul. A demon as strong as Kil'Jaeden could not be trapped in the spiritual plane as the risk of him being resurrected was far too great, but only a being powerful enough to store this awesome power of his while still being under the control of the Scourge Army.

Terrorblade, the Soul Keeper, once known as Illidan in his living state was slain by Arthas at the frigid base of Icecrown. Revived by King Arthas as a means of revenge to have his enemy sworn in as his personal slave for life, he was named Terrorblade the Soul Keeper. His memory was permanently erased to avoid upheaval. Terrorblade was chosen by Arthas to keep this Demon Kil'jaeden's soul which would grant him unfathomable power, however, would never be able to resist King Arthas's command.

With the new Frostmourne imbuing the magic and soul of the Lich King himself, Arthas was able to slay Kil'Jaeden. His soul was captured and rendered into the Soul Keeper's being restoring his once possessed knowledge of Demon Magic and granting him much more power than he could have possibly hoped to attain in his living state.

For his show of courage, bravery, and loyalty to the Scourge for mercilessly slaying his own brethren he was given the title of Lord of Avernus.

Abaddon strode towards the end of the massive citadel. He could not help but gaze in awe at the brilliantly crafted structure. The walls were magnificently designed, massive and titanic in structure. In fact, the most astonishing part of the beauty of this architecture was that it hovered several meters above the ground.

There is no time to waste; I must inform the Lich Kel'thuzad.

He strode down the long corridors of the massive complex. While walking by, he curiously gazed at the different laboratories in which ghouls and undead were being animated from the lifeless. There was one particular lab which piqued his curiosity the most. Inside seemed to be a much larger and hefty abomination. The Necromancer inside was busily working on the abomination, ignoring any onlookers that may be peering through the glass window. The abomination did seem, unusual. It was almost double the size of by far any abomination he had ever seen. No matter, he would he able to find it later.

Perhaps this may be the experiment that Kel'thuzad spoke of earlier?

Abaddon burst through the doorway leading to the private chambers of the Lich.
"What is the meaning of this!" spat out Kel'thuzad.

"I bring forth a message from King Arthas." retorted Abaddon coolly.

"Elaborate," spoke the Lich whilst menacingly glaring Abaddon.

"King Arthas wishes to see you at once."

The Lich hovered past the knight and spoke into his ear, "Not once have I approved of the Lord's unusual, fancy, for this you. In my eyes, you're nothing but an utterly pathetic excuse for a soldier. You can coax the King to believe your lies, but I shall remain as his personal servant always."

Do not worry "master" Lich. Someday, you shall be made to listen to my every whim, and bow down to me...