About 7,300 years ago, the philosophical differences between the Highborne and the Night Elves regarding the use of arcane magic became increasingly irreconcilable.
The leader of the Highborne at that time, Dath'Remar Sunstrider, decided to break away from the ubiquitous supervision of the night elves and led his people to leave Kalimdor by ship in the name of exile.
After going through many hardships and dangers on the endless sea, the Highborne fleet finally reached the Eastern Kingdom, which was still a wild land at that time, and landed in Tirisfal Glades, where they stayed for about 500 years.
Without the magic supply of the Well of Eternity, the upper elves began to show symptoms of magic addiction to varying degrees.
When an elf is in a state of magic hunger, his sanity will be gradually devoured by endless hunger, and he will subconsciously absorb all the energy that he can come into contact with.
According to the historical records of Quel'Thalas, there seems to be some powerful evil being buried beneath Tirisfal Glades, and the forest is perennially filled with dangerous energy that the Highborne could not understand at the time.
Some of the upper elves who were tortured by magic addiction ignored Dath'Remar's dissuasion and inhaled the alien energy later called the void into their bodies in order to relieve the torture of magic addiction.
This energy called the void is mixed with obscure whispers.
Under the subtle influence of these whispers, the dark emotions in the hearts of the upper elves gradually amplified.
The wise leader Dath'Rema noticed the anomaly and set up a special operations team to trace the source.
This special team is composed of thieves who have come and gone without a trace. They successfully completed the tasks assigned by Dath'Rema, and finally learned the source of the dark power after many inquiries.
Zachaz.
After learning about the hidden dangers buried in this land, Dath'Rema, who had long wanted to leave, finally made up his mind to lead his tribe to leave this woodland where they had lived for hundreds of years, follow the traces of magic flow, and continue to move towards the northern part of the continent.
Even the children of high elves can recite the subsequent history.
Dath'Remar and his followers fought through obstacles and discovered a leyline hub at the northern end of the Amani Forest, which was full of trolls.
Dath'Remar poured the water from the Well of Eternity that he had collected for a long time into the small lake in the center of the Leyline hub.
According to historical records, the entire sky of Azeroth was lit up by the radiance of magic rising into the sky, and the surging arcane magic made all the high-ranking elves present ecstatic.
They finally found their true home.
Since then, the Highborne have taken root in the Amani Forest.
Dath'Remar abandoned the name of the High Elf, called himself a High Elf, and personally renamed his new homeland Eversong Forest, and the small lake filled with infinite magic was also named the Sunwell.
After thousands of years of changes, the original team that assisted Dath'Rema in secretly investigating the source of void energy has not been disbanded.
Under the crazy counterattack of the Amani trolls who were trying to regain their homeland of the Holy Land, the newly born Quel'Thalas was under tremendous pressure, and those elite thieves were given more responsibilities in the ongoing war.
Through infiltration investigation, intelligence theft, and assassination, the original investigation team gradually evolved into the exclusive secret intelligence department of the Sunstrider royal family.
Its name is, Backlight Blade.
The Deep Shadow family to which Sarlayan belongs is one of the important backbones supporting the Backlight Blade. The leader of the contemporary Backlight Blade is Sarlayan's uncle, the Lord Verless Deep Shadow mentioned in the previous barrage.
While being a Farstrider, Thalayan's father Julian was also one of the secret members of the Backlight Blade, who was mainly responsible for gathering intelligence for the Sunstrider royal family.
Due to their special responsibilities, the descendants of the Deep Shadow family will basically consciously choose thieves as their main combat profession.
In the past three generations, only an outlier like Sarlayan chose to become a warrior.
Although Sarlayan has no interest in political struggles, he is still a member of the famous aristocratic Deep Shadow family in the environment of Quel'Thalas, and it is inevitable that he will be exposed to some secret information that is not known to ordinary people.
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For example, the internal fighting among the top leaders of Quel'Thalas has become increasingly fierce.
In order to express his gratitude to the upper elf nobles who followed him through hardships and established a new country without regrets, the first Sun King Dath'Remar Sunstrider established the Silver Moon Council and shared part of the power that belonged to the royal family to those who were loyal to him.
Nobles.
The members of the Silver Moon Council of the first generation were all fans of Dath'Rema. If Dath'Rema said one thing, they would never say another thing.
However, as the first generation of the Sun King and the first generation of MPs passed away one after another, their successors did not cooperate sincerely as Dath'Rema expected, but instead opposed each other due to issues of interest.
In the eyes of Deep Shadow and other families who have always been loyal to the Sunstrider royal family, the Silver Moon Council has now become a cancer that hinders the development of Quel'Thalas.
Unless there is an imminent emergency such as a tribal invasion, the Silver Moon Council's daily job is to veto the decrees proposed by the Sun King.
Regardless of whether this decree is correct and whether it is beneficial to the people and the country, most members will vote with their eyes closed and with their feet to demonstrate the limits of the parliament on the royal power.
The worst thing is not this.
Whenever there is even the slightest voice of dissatisfaction with national policies in the kingdom, certain members of the parliament will not hesitate to blame the Sun Chaser royal family and stand aside to watch the fun with a sneer.
To put it simply, the top brass of Quel'Thalas are now clearly divided into two factions.
They are the royal party led by the Sunstrider royal family, and the Silver Moon Parliament...or the republican party that represents the interests of the great nobles.
Dath'Remar would have never dreamed that the Silver Moon Council, which he had established with his own hands to assist the royal family in governing, would become a powerful force in the future.
The struggle for the supreme power of Quel'Thalas must have countless dirty things behind it.
The Backlight Blade has become more and more active in recent years, and Julian Deep Shadow, who has two responsibilities, is often too busy to go home.
Regarding the tribal invasion, although some things have been kept secret, anyone who knows the inside story can see the strangeness.
Lylas: "Mother, Sylvanas and Vereesa have always had suspicions."
"Why can the orc warlocks easily find the Bandinoril runestones buried in secret places?"
The Bandinoril Barrier is a barrier that protects Quel'Thalas. It is powered by the Sunwell and has extremely powerful effects.
As long as they enter the barrier, any spell caster will be completely muted, eliminating the possibility of the enemy using spells.
The rune stones that make up Bandinoril are very important. They are all buried deep under the ground where the magic network nodes are located. Three strongholds were specially built for defense.
These three strongholds are the Temple of the Moon, the Temple of the Sun, and the Tower of the Morning Star.
Corona Village was already in sight. In order to avoid alerting the enemy, Sarlayan and Lyras got off the ground in advance and walked some distance away from the village.
"The orc warlock named Gul'dan accurately found the Temple of the Sun and the Temple of the Moon, commanded the tribe's army to break through the two defensive strongholds, dug out the rune stones buried in the ground, and corrupted them with evil spells.
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"Two of the three major fulcrums have been lost. The only remaining Tower of Morning Star is unable to support itself, and the Bandi Noril barrier collapsed."
Although Sharlayan prefers to use his hands rather than his brain, this does not mean that he is stupid.
Lylas's purposeful and inducing words made Sarlayan subconsciously think deeply along his train of thought.
"You mean, there was a traitor who revealed the weakness of the Bandi Noril Barrier to the tribe?"
Liras nodded solemnly: "Only in this way can it make sense."
"The magician's spellcasting principle is completely different from that of the arcanist. Essentially, he relies on the power of demons, rather than studying the essence of things like arcane magic."
"It's not that I look down on Gul'dan. A spellcasting profession like Warlock that relies on external forces is completely incomparable to arcane magic in terms of finding its origin."
"I don't believe that Gul'dan found the rune stone by his own ability. There must be something fishy behind this matter."
Sarlayan narrowed his eyes and asked Lyras thoughtfully: "So, Vereesa went out alone not just to contact the ranger troops in the northern part of the forest, but the more important task was to find out the traitors and the people left behind by the tribe.