Razorfen Kraul

Razorfen Kraul is a mass of giant thorn vines at the southern edge of the Barrens, west of the Gold Road. Legend says the vines sprang up where the blood of Agamaggan soaked into the earth. Agamaggan was a demigod in the shape of a colossal boar, and he fell fighting the Burning Legion in the War of the Ancients, ten thousand years ago. The quilboar believe they are his mortal children and hold his thorn fields sacred, above all the Razorfen at their heart.

The old crone Charlga Razorflank conquered the Kraul, and under her rule its quilboar raid rival tribes and Horde villages. Rumors say she has been bargaining with agents of the Scourge, and a letter she carries confirms it. In it, the undead envoy Ambassador Malcin offers to help her seize the Barrens and everything beyond them, asking in return only for a free hand in the region.

Charlga rules from the far end of the Kraul, fights with lightning and healing spells, and warns intruders that her new allies will avenge her people. Razorfen warriors, beast trainers and geomancers fill the tunnels, and Overlord Ramtusk shouts Agamaggan's name as he charges. Priests of the Death's Head, the high priesthood of the quilboar, fight at their side, including Death Speaker Jargba and the prophet Aggem Thorncurse. Death's Head ward keepers hold a giant armored boar, Agathelos the Raging, penned behind a magic field.

Horde adventurers bring Charlga's heart to Auld Stonespire in Thunder Bluff, a tauren whose people were driven from their holy land in the southern Barrens. Her letter from the Scourge goes to Varimathras in the Undercity, and Master Apothecary Faranell there asks for guano from the Kraul's rare bats. Mebok Mizzyrix of Ratchet pays for blueleaf tubers, a delicacy found only in the Kraul, and hands out trained snufflenose gophers to sniff them out. Willix the Importer, a goblin caught by the quilboar while chasing the same tubers, waits inside for an escort out.

The Alliance thread starts with the body of Henrig Lonebrow, an Explorers' League dwarf, lying by the Great Lift in Thousand Needles. His journal tells how the Razorfen locked him in a hut with Heralath Fallowbrook, a dying night elf druid sent to study the fallen boar god. Heralath begged him to warn Falfindel Waywarder at Thalanaar that Charlga was raising an army, and Falfindel now asks for her medallion as proof of her death. Heralath, still alive in the Kraul, asks for his wife's stolen pendant to be returned to her in Darnassus with word of his death.