Scarlet Monastery

The Scarlet Monastery stands in the mountains of northeastern Tirisfal Glades. Before Lordaeron fell, it was a center of the kingdom's priesthood and a place of learning, with a library and a seminary where paladins trained.

When the Scourge rose during the Third War, the fanatical Scarlet Crusade turned the monastery into one of its strongholds. The Crusade was founded as a noble order by Highlord Mograine, High General Abbendis and High Inquisitor Isillien, but it grew corrupt after a figure known as the Grand Crusader appeared. Its members now see every non-human, and anyone without their tabard, as a possible plague carrier who must be destroyed. Raleigh the Devout, who once served the Crusade here, says the order has lost its grip on reality and tortures innocent people on the mere suspicion of plague.

Four wings open off the monastery's entrance hall. In the graveyard, Interrogator Vishas tortures prisoners in the Chamber of Atonement, and the tombs beyond hold undead such as the skeletal Bloodmage Thalnos. Houndmaster Loksey and Arcanist Doan guard the library, and Herod, the Scarlet Champion, holds the armory. In the cathedral, Scarlet Commander Renault Mograine leads the garrison, but High Inquisitor Whitemane, a priestess who raises fallen warriors, is the monastery's real master and brings Mograine back to fight again.

Horde adventurers answer to Varimathras in the Undercity, who calls the Crusade the Forsaken's worst problem close to home and wants Whitemane, Mograine, Herod and Loksey dead. Master Apothecary Faranell wants Crusader hearts for an experiment, while Parqual Fintallas of the Undercity and Sage Truthseeker of Thunder Bluff each want a book from the library. On the Alliance side, Brother Anton, a Crusade recruiter in Desolace, sends volunteers to Raleigh in Southshore, who asks them to kill the same four leaders instead. Librarian Mae Paledust of Ironforge wants the book Mythology of the Titans rescued from the library.

A hidden chamber behind the cathedral altar holds High Inquisitor Fairbanks, once Highlord Mograine's closest advisor and now undead. When someone wielding the Corrupted Ashbringer from Naxxramas enters the cathedral, the Crusaders kneel, the spirit of Highlord Mograine strikes down his son Renault, and Fairbanks is set free. Fairbanks explains that the Grand Crusader made a deal with Kel'Thuzad, and that Renault led his father into a Scourge ambush at Stratholme and killed him with the Ashbringer. Fairbanks was murdered at the monastery for telling this story, and those who believed him founded the Argent Dawn.