Oster was greatly shocked when he heard this, and couldn't help lamenting again that his more than ten years of playing games were in vain.
Still unfinished, he asked, "What about the last one? How was Lordaeron destroyed in the three wars? The version I heard was that the Lich King spread the undead plague and turned the residents into zombies."
The old man rolled his eyes at him and said, "Which pirated history book did you read this from? It's so imaginative. A disease wants to destroy a superpower with an area of one million square kilometers and a population of nearly ten million." ? Idiots all know how to seal off the epidemic area. There can only be one reason for such a country-destroying disaster, and that is civil war."
As he said this, the old man touched the top of his head and continued his lecture:
For a long time, the status of the Pope of Light in Lordaeron was higher than that of the king. The Knights of the Silver Hand take orders directly from the church rather than the royal family, and all major decisions made by the kingdom's top leaders require the Pope's nod and approval.
The same is true in the Alliance. Not only do countries have no right to interfere with the church's industry and military, they are also unable to exercise any administrative and judicial power over the knight's territory and subjects. Even the establishment and removal of succession by the Supreme King requires final recognition and announcement by the church. The situation in the north at that time was highly consistent with the current Stormwind Kingdom. Until a few decades before the Star Gate, Lordaeron gave birth to a famous reform king, Terenas Menethil II.
He is the father of Prince Arthas and the last High King of the Alliance. This man was ambitious and enterprising. He fought against the Holy Light Church for decades to strengthen the royal power and tried to deprive the church of its power, which aroused the extreme dissatisfaction of the Pope.
At first, Terenas was unable to shake the Holy Light Church, which had been entrenched for thousands of years. However, as the Orc uprising swept across the eastern continent and destroyed the old order everywhere, the local church forces also suffered a heavy blow. Terenas also saw the so-called fel magic power from the Burning Legion, which was enough to compete with the power of the Holy Light monopolized by the Church.
In addition, another big event is also quietly unveiled. In Stargate Year 8, shortly after the Orc Uprising was suppressed, a Super Brain King suddenly appeared in the North. Using advanced soul fragment reshaping technology, he created an army of omnics. In just two years, he united with many races in the north, including the Eldraine, ice trolls, vrykul, mammoths, etc., and wiped out the vast majority of the northern territory. Some Titan forces directed their troops towards the Storm Peaks and surrounded the Titans' last stronghold in the north, the Temple of Ulduar.
The name of this super brain king is Ner'zhul. It is said that he was once an orc chief of the planet Delgo (which is what Draenei calls Draenor). The Titans destroyed his hometown and was seriously injured and burned when he was about to die. Legion rescued. Originally too injured to survive, he was voluntarily transformed into a super-brain magic experiment and survived. Afterwards, he parachuted into Northrend, the northern territory of Ai Star, to seek revenge on the Titans.
Although the war between the Northern Super Brain King and the Titans is a fight between gods and gods that are beyond the reach of mortals, on the side of Lordaeron, the Holy Light Church's power has been further weakened due to the theft of its hometown. Terenas seized the opportunity and began to vigorously promote religious reform and the industrialization of magic. First, he signed a decree to fully liberate the orc slaves against all opinions, and then sent the special envoy Kel'Thuzad to the north to meet with the Super Brain King and establish a good relationship with the Burning Revolutionary Army.
When Kel'Thuzad went on a mission to the north, he secretly deployed a large number of mage spies to steal a large amount of source energy magic technology and very dangerous soul fragments to reshape omnic technology. Fearing retaliation from the Church of the Holy Light, Dalaran learned of the incident and expelled the Magic Industrial Faction headed by Kel'Thuzad from the Kirin Tor overnight, and gave them the derogatory name of the "Cult of the Curse."
However, a blessing in disguise, because the enemy of my enemy is my friend, the albino elves who had been excluded by the Kirin Tor accepted these mages and shared the elves' source energy well technology with them. The combination of human creativity and elven experience quickly cracked the advanced magical technology of Titans and Legions.
Since then, the North has kicked off the magic industrial revolution. In just 10 years, Lordaeron and Quel'Thalas have entered a highly developed artificial puppet industrial society, and all races have been impressed by the powerful productivity brought by the magic industry. As the country's power soared, the alliance's royal power gradually broke away from the control of the Holy Light Church and the Magic Guild. Terenas also revised the alliance law and became a lifelong hereditary supreme king, reaching its peak of power.
Although the Super Brain King warned Terenas that technology is a double-edged sword, this technology is still in the experimental stage, and its original purpose is for war rather than production, so you should not rely too much on automatic magic puppets. Teridas also thought about changing, but the nobles and great magic capitalists who had tasted the benefits refused to look back.
The Church of Holy Light had been extremely dissatisfied with Terenas before. As Lordaeron and the Burning Revolutionary Army signed a peace treaty and ordered the confiscation of church assets, the conflict between the two parties completely intensified.
In the 19th year of Star Gate, the Pope led the Alliance's most powerful military force, the Holy Knights of the Silver Hand, to flee East Wilder (this area was later known as the Eastern Plaguelands) and announced that Terenas would be deprived of the title of High King. The pope ascended the throne and became independent from the Union. The royal family of Lordaeron immediately declared the Papal State illegal and sent troops to encircle and suppress it. At this point, the Alliance Civil War, the Third War, broke out.
The course of the subsequent war was extremely complicated, with the forces of all parties intertwined and various accidents changing the situation one after another. On the grand stage of history, everyone who appears on the stage is full of confidence, but those who try to control the current situation are eventually crushed by the current situation;
The greedy northern capitalists hired a large number of undead workers and experimented with programs to resurrect the dead in Caer Daron; Quel'Thalas secretly made peace with the Church of the Holy Light in order to repair the Sunwell and solve the problem of magic addiction, but failed due to the intervention of the dragon envoy; Laran disguised himself as an industrialist and placed a virus in the Andorhal base station, causing a large-scale power outage; Marquis Barov activated the dangerous nanocontroller without authorization just to resurrect the family head to clarify the inheritance issue.
In addition, the cowardly and inferior prince was deceived by his teacher, thinking that his father had been deceived by the devil, and went to the north to destroy the ice console. Later, King Terenas died tragically in an accident, and the omnics in Lordaeron and Quel'Thalas went out of control. The final result of the chain disaster was that the two most powerful countries in the north were completely destroyed in just a few months. .
The story that followed was that millions of people in Lordaeron who lost their bodies used the consciousness uploading technology to attach their souls to magic puppets with the help of the Super Brain King and survived; the prince led these undead subjects to seek revenge on the Church of the Holy Light. , mercilessly killing all those who deceived and betrayed him. Later, in order to repay their kindness, Prince Arthas and the people of Lordaeron joined the command of King Super Brain and joined the war with the Titans, the rulers of the north.
As for the Church of Light forces in Stormwind City, that is another story.
After the restoration of the country after the Second War, Stormwind City accepted the branch of the Holy Church of Light that went to the south. After that, a series of events occurred. The Holy Knights once controlled the power of the Kingdom of Stormwind and established the Papal State. With the disappearance of Archbishop Turalyon during the expedition to Draenor, the papal regime stepped down and was placed in the Sunny Grove area. After the events in Lordaeron, the entire Pope headquarters met with the Holy Light, and Stormwind City claimed to be the legal successor to the Holy Light Pope and the Holy Titan Alliance.
If you want to explain the above content in detail, my brother said that it took three days and three nights to finish the entire catalog.
He recommended a book to Auster called "Eternal Star". Although it is a banned book, it is not difficult to buy it. The content is profound and simple, including not only the official history, but also anecdotes such as the feud between Lordaeron and the Six Kingdoms over the millennium, the love and murder between the Church and the Magician's Guild, and a bunch of bad things about Arathor's bloodline. The author is unknown, and it has many volumes. It is a pamphlet that has become popular in underground book clubs across the kingdom in recent years.
Auster said that he should digest and digest these contents. His original overall understanding of World of Warcraft has basically collapsed to pieces.
During the conversation, the officers and soldiers on the street left with the captured strong men, probably heading to the next town or county. Seeing that the steam tank had driven away, everyone thought it was safe and came out of their hiding places one after another.
Oster reluctantly wanted Brother Zhongliang to leave his contact information. The brother smiled slightly and said that his knowledge was still shallow. If he wanted to know more, he could go to Yuexi Town. It is the most prosperous port city in the kingdom except Stormwind City, and it is far away from the center of royal power and religious power. Travelers from all over the world gather there, and the atmosphere is very open.
If you have the opportunity to go there, you can find an underground society called the Four Seasons Society. Most of the new chapters of "Borrowing Stars for Eternity" leaked from this society.
Oster was very moved and while he was talking, unexpectedly, the officers and soldiers suddenly came back and surrounded the nearby streets. The officer used the amplification magic to shout, "Don't hide anymore. The Northern Expedition is glorious. If you come back standing, you will get a medal, and if you come back lying down, you will get a pension."
It seems that these officers and soldiers have rich experience in catching soldiers and know the principle of fighting back. In a panic, Oster and several others fled in all directions, hiding in piles of debris, haystacks or trash cans.
Oster huddled in the trash can and did not dare to come out. He watched the officers and soldiers pass by. Fortunately, he was not discovered. But the well-informed brother was not so lucky. He hid in a haystack because he was extremely smart, and his shiny head was shining. He was discovered by the officers and soldiers at a glance, and they pulled him out and dragged him into a military vehicle.
Seeing his brother struggling and crying to no avail, Oster was helpless and silently blessed the teacher, whose name he still didn't know, in his heart, wishing him good luck to survive on the battlefield in the north.
