Ruins of Lordaeron

The Ruins of Lordaeron are the broken streets of Lordaeron's old capital, on the surface above the Undercity in Tirisfal Glades. Inside lie King's Alley, Market Street, the Lordamere Overlook and the Lordaeron Graveyard.

Arthas and his Scourge devastated the city. When it fell, many of its people fled to take refuge in Stormwind. The ruins still hold family heirlooms and keepsakes of loved ones who never got out in time. The Forsaken have worked to restore the city, and they are fighting to reclaim it.

The Scourge still roam the ruins in great numbers. Reports from the Lordamere Overlook tell of an unholy fog over the streets and graveyard that hides the Scourge. The Forsaken's scouts name a new power in the Scourge's ranks, a necromancer called Rath'mael, and all signs point to an attack on another city. The ruins also hold the venomous beast Witherfang, the abomination known as The Baron, the undead Bjork and The Abandoned, the beast Viktor the Vile, and sometimes a Lordaeron Captain.

The Forsaken send help from all sides. Deathguard Kristof, near Brill, wants Rath'mael driven out. Morbin Lightbane, a paladin of the Forsaken, wants intact limbs as spare parts for Forsaken whose decaying flesh cannot be mended. Theodore Griffs of the Apothecarium wants a sample of Witherfang's toxin, said to eat through even undead flesh. Tabitha Heartweaver, at the Sepulcher, asks after her husband Edward. Their son was lost when Arthas razed the city, and his body was never found. Edward went to the graveyard every week to search the ruins, and this time he has not come back.

Alliance adventurers who slip in come for Lordaeron's relics: soldiers' insignias for their next of kin in Stormwind, and the old crest of Lordaeron. A torn letter from the graveyard names a missing Heartweaver child. Stormwind's orphan matron remembers him: Jeremy Heartweaver, brought in after the attack on Lordaeron and since adopted by Avette Fellwood of Duskwood. Inside the ruins, Captain Truman still keeps his post, waiting for his master, a Grand Marshal. In the Undercity, Master Apothecary Faranell knows the head on The Baron: it belonged to an Alliance Grand Marshal named Othmar, whom the Dark Lady killed herself. Faranell calls it her cruel joke, reattaches the head to a body and sets out to bind Othmar to her will.