Scarlet Enclave

The Scarlet Enclave lies in the far southeast of the Eastern Plaguelands. It includes Tyr's Hand, a fortified city and one of the oldest and most revered holy sites of the Church of the Holy Light, and the town of New Avalon just east of the city. The city was one of the last places in the region where the living held out against the Scourge, and it has long belonged to the Scarlet Crusade.

While the Crusade fought at Naxxramas, hostile crusaders came from Stratholme, took the stronghold and barred it; emissaries sent inside did not return. A scout saw Grand Crusader Saidan Dathrohan in the cathedral, apparently in command, but Dathrohan is the dreadlord Balnazzar in disguise. High General Abbendis is likely dead.

Commander Beatrix and Scarlet Inquisitor Baelin Caldoran gathered their crusaders at the Scarlet Base Camp west of Tyr's Hand to take it back. Caldoran, once a knight-captain who took part in the Culling of Stratholme at Prince Arthas's side, swore to kill Balnazzar with his own hand, and he did it with a blast of Light once the dreadlord was weakened. Then he and Beatrix turned on the allies who had fought beside them and claimed the enclave for themselves.

Their defenders include Solistrasza, a light-bound, dragon-like beast that the Argent Dawn believes is Caldoran's pet; Mason the Echo, a grand admiral whose ships lie off the beach; Alexei the Beastlord and his beast Sir Dornel; the Reborn Council of Herod, Vishas and Doan, raised into undeath; and Lilian Voss, who calls herself the jailer of the apothecary Putress. Inside, the Argent Dawn found a new plague and the souls of the pious being drained to power light-infused weapons.

At Light's Hope Chapel, Leonid Barthalomew the Revered sends adventurers to watch the Crusade and warns them never to trust Caldoran, who once ordered the deaths of Leonid's family. After Solistrasza strikes the chapel, Lord Maxwell Tyrosus commits the Argent Dawn: adventurers ring the abbey bell to signal the attack, destroy Balnazzar, defeat Beatrix and Solistrasza, and bring Caldoran to justice in the inner sanctum.