The original text is quite long, and is written in a classical biography style interspersed with reverse order, narration, and psychological description. It depicts a large number of detailed scenes that no one could possibly witness with their own eyes.
Although this incident was tried hard to cover up by the Stormwind Kingdom officials, it was recorded in many private channels and many foreign documents. The author of Borrowing Stars for Eternity collected and organized these unofficial histories, and made a second creation without rewriting the trend of historical events; it is exactly the same as the writing method of a certain Tai Shigong.
Because it is not necessary, I will not repeat the full text here (mainly because it is very tiring to compile in the book). Only the events related to the main line are excerpted as follows:
Before and after the Third War, shortly after the restoration of the Third Dynasty, the branch of the Holy Fathers of Light, which had been exiled to the central mountains of Dawn State for several years, suddenly did something unknown. It seemed to be conducting some kind of secret experiment in the territory, and created Serious magic contamination. The entire sky south of the Dawn River was obscured by shadow energy, and the sunny forest was turned into darkness, which has not been completely eliminated until now.
Pollution and lack of light caused large tracts of crops to wither and livestock to die of disease. Some local people even contracted a terrible plague, which left patients with necrotic minds and shaped like zombies. This caused resentment among the people of Liming State and demanded that the government investigate the matter thoroughly and punish and expel those priests who did not do anything.
However, the local government in the state did not dare to mess with the Illuminati Church. As the former ruler of the kingdom, although the church stepped down and lost its armed forces, it is still the spokesperson of the Holy Light, with many believers and huge influence;
In addition, the Wrynn royal family in power was restored under the escort of the intervention army after the First Republic was strangled by the Alliance of Lordaeron. Its foundation was unstable and it had no time to take care of local affairs. Liming State's finances are mainly supported by the wealthy Guangming Church, and there are close contacts in all aspects.
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Seeing this, Auster felt as if he had taken a big bite of screws, and his whole body became amused - the Third Dynasty, the First Republic, the Papal Branch, the Restoration, the Intervention Army... what the hell are these? Could it be that France's soul has also traveled to a different world?
Fortunately, the author of the book understands the readers' feelings very well and inserted a chronology of the Kingdom of Stormwind's regime in the middle;
[About 800 years before the Stargate - 434 BC, the First Dynasty of Azeroth (Arathor);
Stargate 435 BC - Stargate 3, the First Dynasty of Storm (Wrynn);
Star Gate Year 4-6, Orc Tribe;
From March to September of Stargate 6, the Second Dynasty of Azeroth (Lotha);
From September 6 to September 7 of Stargate, the Second Dynasty of Storm (Wrynn);
From October 7th to Stargate 10th, the Storm Pope was a vassal state (Turalyon);
Stargate 11-14, Republic of Storm;
Stargate 15 years to the present (Stargate 29th year), the third dynasty of Storm (Wrynn). 】
It can be seen that the political turmoil in the Kingdom of Stormwind is comparable to that of Gallic Chicken in another world. The country's title changes so frequently that if a girlfriend falls out, it can happen up to three times a year. Not only did Lothar become king, but even Turayan Later, they all added a leg.
This is mainly due to the fact that the country's political power has been controlled by the northern powers for a long time since the tribe captured the capital. For a long time after the First and Second Wars, Lordaeron was the unquestioned leader of the Alliance. The Magical Industrial Revolution is in full swing, and the territorial and national power has reached its peak. Terenas aspires to ascend to the throne of God and pursues interventionism in the alliance countries.
After Stormwind City was restored under the protection of the Alliance Army, all dynasties and papal states were puppets supported by the Alliance of Lordaeron in the south - except for the Republic that emerged out of nowhere.
Continuing to look down, the follow-up of the incident is:
… Faced with people’s demands to expel the church, stop pollution, and punish those responsible, Dawn State officials were short-tempered, wore the same pants as the church, and did everything perfunctory. In the end, they even began to openly suppress demonstrators and resisters.
So the people gave up and rose up one after another, spontaneously organizing a militia group called the Night Watch. Because it won the hearts of the people, the momentum quickly grew.
Because the Holy Knights had been disbanded at that time and were rebuilt many years later, the church with its teeth pulled out was like a little sheep, unable to resist the frequent attacks by the militia. The state guards in Sunshine Town are also in disarray. They are few in number, poorly equipped, and have no time to take care of themselves, let alone rescue.
Soon, the militia occupied large areas of the kingdom's counties, towns and church territories, expelled local officials and churches, and established autonomous committees.
At this time, a regular regiment of the kingdom used to guard against the Trolls of Stranglethorn Valley was stationed in the Crow Ridge area. The commander of the regiment is called Morgan Ladimore. This man was originally a paladin and was very good at leading troops in battle. After the disbandment of the Knights, he was assigned to the Royal Army, but privately he still had a close relationship with the church.
At the Pope's personal request, Morgan could not save face and sent his troops to attack the militia several times. It is impossible to test whether it was because he failed to inform his superiors and was good at making opinions.
Initially overwhelmed by their equipment and training, the Corps easily defeated the Night's Watch and hanged a number of autonomous leaders;
Soon, the militiamen reacted, and under the same hatred of the enemy, a steady stream of reserve forces entered the battle. The officers and soldiers were gradually overwhelmed. Although they had superior equipment, they could not withstand the opponent's large numbers and the support of the people. Morgan's regiment suffered several heavy losses, and even the deputy commander was killed.
If Morgan had retreated at this time and told his friends to let it go, he would not have ended up in the same situation later. But this man was very proud of himself. In anger, he asked the Church of Light to give the soldiers of the Corps the power of the Holy Light and teach these ungrateful bastards how to behave.
The church has also completely broken up with the people. If the Kingdom Corps withdraws at this time, they may be skinned and hung by the militiamen like they did during the Republic. After refusing several times with high-sounding reasons, and seeing that the situation was still deteriorating, the church finally agreed to use the power of holy light to infuse some of Morgan's soldiers and transform them into powerful paladins.
The effect of the Holy Light is very amazing. Soldiers who receive the infusion become extremely powerful, can recover quickly from injuries, can reattach broken limbs, and can even squirm on their own after the broken limbs are detached from the body; in addition, they do not need to rest or sleep. They can travel long distances and fight continuously as long as they need food and water; it is said that soldiers who look completely dead can stand up again after a period of time.
Under the attack of this terrifying Legion of Holy Light, the Night's Watch was unable to parry, and retreated across the board, making countless sacrifices. The remaining militiamen broke into pieces and fled into the mountains and forests to carry out guerrilla warfare.
Originally, Morgan was a professional soldier, an aristocratic priest, and very cultivated. But at this time, for some unknown reason, his temperament changed drastically. In order to prevent the resurgence of the rebellion, he ordered all prisoners to be executed like trolls, and the areas where militiamen were active were cleared.
The soldiers under his command carried out the order to the letter and raised their butcher's knives high against their compatriots. For a time, blood flowed into rivers, and the fields were wailing. Many farms and villages had no chickens or dogs left alive. Some people even saw bloodthirsty corps soldiers chewing on the corpses of people and animals.
What Morgan didn't know was that the church that had fallen to the Dawn State had actually lost the power of the Holy Light, otherwise they wouldn't have been eager to carry out those extremely polluting soul experiments;
What makes the soldiers of the Corps invulnerable, not afraid of pain, and not tired is not the holy light, but something called soul energy. It transforms soldiers into undead magical creatures, much like what happened to the people of Lordaeron in the far north.
Because this technology is still in the experimental stage, those who have been injected with soul energy may lose their minds at any time, become hating all living things, and become murderous. Morgan had previously accepted indoctrination despite dissuasion and ordered the massacre of innocent villagers, which was to some extent influenced by this. And as the soul energy in their bodies is exhausted, they will instinctively rely on eating corpses alive, devouring other people's souls, and gradually become outright evil ghosts.
With the help of Morbent Fell, a church researcher who had run away because of his conscience, Morgan regained some of his sanity, but it was too late.
Something else happened after that, but no one knows the specific details and what happened. After all, all records were strictly destroyed. In short, the sunshine forest has completely become a historical term and turned into the twilight forest today.
——Then the bottom part disappeared, and the volume ended abruptly.
Auster yelled, "Fuck me, this is a history book, what does it mean to end it with a hook?"
He was eager to see the key content, and it was also a question that had puzzled him when he played the game in his previous life: Where did the undead in the Twilight Forest come from?
In the entire eastern continent south of the Sador Bridge, only the small area of twilight is covered with undead, and it is strangely shrouded in shadow all day long, unable to see the light of day;
There were no signs of being contaminated by the plague in any of the surrounding areas, and not even a few undead monsters could be found.
It is clearly recorded in the chronicles that this place was originally called Sunshine Grove, but it later became like this for some reason. And according to the setting, the source of the undead plague is far away in the Lordaeron and Quel'Thalas regions on the other side of the world. It is caused by shadow magic and cannot occur naturally.
This is a very strange and unreasonable phenomenon. It can even be inferred that the twilight plague was probably caused by someone who traveled thousands of miles from the north carrying pathogens and released them intentionally or accidentally.
In the game, through the mouth of an NPC, the origin of the Twilight Plague was vaguely attributed to a little-known necromancer, Morbant Fell.
This person does not know where he came from, and there is no follow-up plot. He is wandering alone on the second floor of a cemetery hut. It is extremely weak. Even if you don't do the prerequisite tasks to get the magic lantern, you can kill it alone with just a large player;
No matter how you look at it, he is not the kind of ruthless character who can carry the plague across the entire continent, across the territories of more than a dozen countries of various races without being discovered, and go deep into the heart of the Kingdom of Storm, polluting an entire state with just one person. In contrast, the scapegoat in the north was the famous Kel'Thuzad.
Now, it is clearly written in Eternity by the Star and in many history books that Mobent’s true identity is a high-ranking priest next to the Pope and one of the researchers of the soul experiment. He was killed while trying to escape.
Based on the information he had learned before, Auster already knew that the plague of the undead itself was a very doubtful thing. This Mo Bente can be sure that he was framed by the real murderer behind the scenes after his death.
As for the identity of the real culprit, it is actually obvious from the previous records:
From the 19th to the 20th year of the Star Gate, the headquarters of the Northern Light Pope fought fiercely with the Royal Army of Lordaeron due to religious reform issues. Basically, all the northern countries were involved, and it was called the Third War in history. By the end of Stargate's 20th year, all parties had perished together due to the disaster-level omnic magic going out of control;
Pope Alonsos Faol, who had a chance to escape, took many high-ranking priests and hurried to the branch in the Kingdom of Stormwind in the south. This was exactly the time when the Twilight Plague began to rage.
The Pope died of illness not long after, and was buried in the central mountain range of Sunshine Grove, which is the large area in the middle of the map that is known as the Green Dragon Territory and the entrance to the Emerald Dream. His successor, Fathion, renounced the title of pope and still called himself pope.
The answer is obvious: the Pope brought a large number of secret equipment and researchers from Lordaeron during his lifetime, including many experimenters of soul fragment reconstruction technology, and Mobent was one of them.
Although the Storm Division was unable to protect itself at this time and was exiled to a remote mountain ravine, it still had a place to stay and would not be driven into the sea to feed the fish. The church, which had lost the protection of its territorial army and holy light energy, was eager to regain its strength and rashly carried out research and experiments without the technology and conditions. The subsequent series of mindless undead incidents in Dawn State were inseparable from them.
But this volume ends here. Everything was mentioned, but nothing was explained clearly. It seems that there are also broken dogs in other worlds.
Oster felt itchy and couldn't bear it, and Skarl was away on business. In desperation, he had no choice but to ask Marissa, his follower, to find a way;
This kid was so surprised when he was asked for help by Auster for the first time that he stole all the gang leader's bookcases.
Find the complete book of Borrowed Star Eternity that is treasured in the box. The next volume is called "Soul Furnace".
