Although Steinblade has long been infiltrated into a sieve by the Syndicate, this town located at the foot of the Alterac Mountains still nominally belongs to the Kingdom of Lordaeron.
Before the fall of the Kingdom of Alterac, Steinblade was a satellite town of the Royal City of Alterac. Its geographical location was very important, and it happened to be stuck at the entrance from Icewind Hills to the Royal City.
The Syndicate attaches great importance to Steinbred. As long as they capture this town, they can block the march route from Andorhal to Hillsbred.
Due to the geographical environment, Steinblad, located at the entrance to the mountain, is easy to defend and difficult to attack.
If the Alterac Trail from Tirisfal Glades to Hillsbrad is cut off, Lordaeron will have to take a long detour through Silverpine Forest if it wants to march into Hillsbrad.
Silverpine Forest is the inherent territory of the Kingdom of Gilneas. Given the relationship between Gilneas and Lordaeron, it is impossible for King Genn Greymane to allow Lordaeron's army to pass through.
After Sharlayan's connection, the Kirin Tor Council headed by Antonidas had secretly made a promise.
As long as the remnants of Alterac can officially capture Stannblade, Dalaran will join forces with Gilneas to block the Alterac Trail and arrange heavy guarding on the south shore of Lake Lordaemir to prevent the Lordaeron army from crossing the lake. possibility of combat.
Of course, Dalaran is not Gilneas. As a city-state, they don't want or have the confidence to go to war with Lordaeron.
Dalaran's reason is very good, a family must be neat and tidy.
The seven human kingdoms have lasted for thousands of years.
It is certainly an unforgivable sin for Aiden Perenold to betray Azeroth and join the Horde, but his personal mistakes should not be passed on to the entire Kingdom of Alterac.
In other words, Alterac's crimes are not punishable by death, and what you did in Lordaeron is unethical. We several human kingdoms discussed it and decided to bring order to the chaos and rebuild the Kingdom of Alterac.
Thanks to Toterenas' tyranny over the years, none of the countries surrounding Lordaeron have a good relationship with them.
As the saying goes, if a wall falls, everyone will push it down.
Seeing that Lordaeron might suffer a big loss this time, King Zeon of Gilneas was the first to jump out and prepare to shout "Good death", while Antonidas also secretly hid behind the scenes to provide help.
Now the eyes of all the countries in the northern part of the Eastern Kingdom are focused on a small Stannblad, but Lordaeron, which is in internal chaos, still knows nothing about it.
Lordaeron's intelligence department vaguely noticed something was wrong, but due to the strict intelligence blockade imposed by various countries on Lordaeron, they were never able to grasp the key points. They could only anxiously circle around the periphery, unable to touch the situation. core.
Before setting off from Quel'Thalas, Sarlayan had made a plan and asked the elite thieves of the Backlight Blade to contact the Syndicate and the Barov family in advance, and the three parties made an appointment to meet in the town of Stannblad.
When Sarlayan arrived at Steinblade, representatives of the Syndicate and the Barov family who were closer had arrived first.
Even with the support of the four human kingdoms and Quel'Thalas, reviving Alterac will not be easy.
Although the Syndicate and the Barov family both want to rebuild their homeland, their positions are not exactly the same as each other.
The leader of the Syndicate is Duke Faculest of the original Kingdom of Alterac. He supports Auriden Perenold, the eldest son of Aiden Perenold.
As in-laws of the Perenolde family, the Barov family certainly knew what Auriden was.
Auriden is indeed Aiden's eldest son. When Alterac was destroyed, Auriden was just 10 years old.
After experiencing the disaster of destroying his country, the panic-stricken Oridon was taken away by Duke Faculest and has been hiding in the countryside of Hillsbrad incognito.
Six years later, as Oliden grew up, he was undoubtedly raised into a playboy with no ability to govern the country.
Duke Faculest's intention is obvious. He just wants to use his identity as a descendant of the Perenold royal family to seek personal benefits.
If the Syndicate really leads the revival of Alterac, Auriden, who is pushed to the throne, is destined to be nothing more than Falkrest's puppet.
In addition to Auriden, the late King Aiden also had a nephew who had a claim to the throne, Inseton Perenold.
After Aiden was executed and Alterac fell, Yin Seton fled to the Kingdom of Gilneas with the help of his confidants and still lives in the Royal City of Gilneas.
Although King Zeon did not participate in this Steinblade meeting, he also put forward his own ideas from afar, hoping that Yin Seton could inherit the throne of Alterac.
According to the information provided by the Backlight Blade, Yinseton was not raised like Auriden.
The Greymanes treated him like their own nephew, and even allowed Yinseton to receive a royal education together with Liam Greymane, Prince of Gilneas.
From this information, it can be seen that Gilneas has long been prepared to assist Alterac's revival.
Regardless of King Zeon's original intentions, he did help the Perenold royal family to cultivate an outstanding young heir.
Once Alterac is restored and Yinseden takes over, in the foreseeable future, the Kingdom of Alterac will inevitably maintain a brotherly relationship with the Kingdom of Gilneas to jointly resist the pressure from Lordaeron.
The third party trying to compete for the right to inherit the throne is the Barov family, which is related by marriage to the Perenold royal family.
Relatively speaking, the Barov family's claim is weaker. Saryan is inclined to let the Barov family support Yin Seton in taking the throne, but he doesn't know if Alex Barov can accept it.
If he can get the support of Barov, the largest nobleman in the original Alterac Kingdom, Yinseton, who is already very capable, can suppress the idiot Oridon launched by Duke Faculest.
But this is not enough, Yin Seton needs more support.
The mayor of Steinblade is appointed by the central government of Lordaeron, and the frequency of replacement can be described as incredible.
At the fastest time, Steinbred changed five town mayors within a year, four of whom died unexpectedly. The last one resigned voluntarily and returned to his hometown, narrowly escaping with his life.
Needless to say, it can be guessed that these mayors died at the hands of Syndicate thieves.
Terenas was furious when he learned the inside story, and he attracted another old noble of the Alterac Kingdom-Duke Jorach Ravenholdt.
The Ravenholdt family and the Falkrest family had a feud. When the Kingdom of Alterac still existed, these two powerful dukes did not deal with each other.
Terenas, who was proficient in political means, happened to pinch Duke Faculest within seven inches, instigating the two former Alterac Dukes to fight with each other.
For a long time, the Syndicate and the Ravenholdt Rogues had been at loggerheads.
Under the control of the Ravenholdt thieves, the safety of the mayor of Steinblade finally has some guarantee.
But even so, under the pressure exerted by the Syndicate, the mayor of Steinblade will still be changed every year.
Before setting off, Sarlayan sent people to Ravenholdt Manor to contact Duke Jorachi Ravenholdt, but unfortunately the feedback he received was not very optimistic.
Duke Ravenholdt is willing to help Alterac rebuild, but he firmly refuses to cooperate with the Insects.
Unless Duke Falkrest can be kicked out completely, Ravenholdt Manor will not provide help for the restoration of Alterac.
To be fair, Sarlayan didn't like the syndicate that had no bottom line, and he didn't like the ambitious Duke Faculest either.
But the Syndicate controls a large number of nobles and people of the original Alterac Kingdom. If they want to rebuild the Alterac Kingdom as soon as possible, it is unrealistic to kick them away.
Landing outside this snowy town, Valeela quickly connected with the Backlight Blade thieves who were staying here, and guided them to the agreed-upon secret meeting place.
To Sarlayan's surprise, the meeting place arranged by the Syndicate was actually underground in a Holy Light Church.
This also illustrates the extent of Syndicate's penetration into Steinblade.
Duke Faculest is a bald, middle-aged man with a very muscular figure, which is in sharp contrast to the starving residents of Steinblade.
The first impression Duke Faculest made on Sarlayan was not very good. This guy deliberately acted like he would be better off than anyone else.
Knowing that Sarlayan was attending on behalf of the Sun King Kael'thas, he acted quite arrogantly during the meeting, and "received" Thalayan in a condescending manner.
"Hmph~"
Not only was Sarlayan dissatisfied with Duke Faculest's gesture, but an old Mediterranean man in the Barov family's camp sneered unabashedly.
Perhaps because he was used to living aloof, Duke Faculest had zero tolerance for anyone who dared to resist him.
He stared at the old man with cold eyes: "Haas, old man, I didn't expect you to be still alive. What? Do you think you can challenge this Duke with the support of the Barov family?"
'Haas? '
An idea flashed in Sarlayan's mind, and Barrage also exclaimed at this time.
[General Haas! The former famous general of Alterac, he had repelled Thoras Trollbane's attacks on Alterac many times. 】
[I didn’t expect that he was still alive... It seems that Alterac’s revival is really promising. 】
[The premise is that Xiao Sa must deal with this annoying idiot Duke. 】
