Among the four people present, only Dai Lin was the true head of state of the human race.
But Lothar has not yet stepped down as commander of the alliance. Archbishop Fao's influence among the human race is even greater than that of the king, and Li De was simply the initiator of this incident.
Of course, this is not a formal decision-making meeting now, but a head-to-head meeting.
Several other people were in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with the dragon.
However, after discussion, everyone agreed that this matter could never be accomplished by them alone, and four people must be truly involved.
The first one on the list must be Terenas.
No matter what they do in the name of the human race, they can never bypass Terenas. Unless one day, they dare to pull away from Terenas and establish a separate political center for the human race.
But now this is unrealistic. The population of Lordaeron is almost half of the human race. This huge proportion means that he must not be ignored.
The second one is the Wildhammer Dwarf King, Kurdran Wildhammer.
The high-level dialogue with the Red Dragon Legion is based on the rescue of Queen Alexstrasza. The Dragonmaw clan that imprisoned the Queen is currently entrenched in Grim Batol.
Grim Batol was once a city of the Wildhammer dwarves in history. Although after the War of the Three Hammers, the Wildhammer dwarves abandoned this place and moved to the Hinterlands.
However, the Wildhammer dwarves still retain the right to rule Grim Batol, and if they want to sneak into Grim Batol, the Wildhammer dwarves must be the most familiar with the situation there.
The third place is the Bronzebeard dwarf, Magni Bronzebeard.
Although the rule of Grim Batol belongs to the Wildhammer dwarves, it is actually bordering the territory of the Bronzebeard dwarves. Ever since the dwarves were divided during the War of the Three Hammers, the relationship between the dwarves has always been somewhat awkward.
Even though Kurdran and Magni could drink freely when they met, in fact both of them knew in their hearts that they were already two countries.
In personal relationships, because dwarves are simple and enthusiastic, and like to drink and make friends, they can agree that they are good friends. However, when considering issues from a national perspective, especially sensitive issues related to territory, one must be cautious.
To help the Red Dragon Legion rescue the Queen, we must put pressure on Grim Batol from all sides and disperse the power of the Dragonmaw Clan. Several parties are sending troops here, and it will be very troublesome if we don't explain clearly.
As for the last one, he is the great wizard Antonidas.
It sounds unreasonable. Dalaran has no interests in Grim Batol and has no history with the Red Dragon Legion.
From a political point of view, there is Terenas, the supreme leader of the human race; from a military point of view, there is Alliance Commander Lothar. It seems that Antonidas is not required to attend, no matter how you analyze it.
In fact, this is not the case. The dragons are an extraordinary divine race. When mortals deal with them, a truly strong person must stand up. Antonidas is a force that goes beyond the rules.
Although compared with the previous guardians of Tirisfal in history, Antonidas is still far behind in strength, but compared with heroes like Li De, he is an extraordinary existence.
To be honest, the existence of heroes is still an unknown realm for Li De and Lothar. How to divide the heroes, they are still unable to understand.
Archbishop Fao seems to be able to understand that realm, but the archbishop is more concerned with the realm of thought and the study of the Holy Light. To discuss the destructive power in him is an insult to this elder.
So if you think about it carefully, it seems that Antonidas is currently the strongest person in the known world of the human race. Therefore, when mortal races deal with dragons, he should be present no matter what.
But besides that, Li De had another reason in his mind that he didn't say clearly, and that was Crassus.
Krasus is not only a high-ranking member of the Red Dragon Legion, but also a member of the six-member Kirin Tor Council. Now that the dragons want to change their relationship with the mortal race, they need this great wizard who has been dealing with the dragons for a long time.
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After roughly discussing the matter and coming to a conclusion, the four of them did not immediately disperse to rest. Li De took this opportunity to suggest that it was time to march into Alterac.
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The results of the discussion in the orc prison camp have been reached, and the reconstruction of the Kingdom of Stormwind has begun to take shape. Next, it is time for the Alliance to deal with the problem of Alterac.
This matter has been put on hold for such a long time, and issues related to Alterac have reached a point where they have to be discussed.
Among the seven human nations, Alterac has the smallest land area. It is only a basin in the middle of the Alterac Mountains. However, Alterac's geographical location is the most important, and it is the country with the most neighboring countries.
To the north is the Royal City of Lordaeron, and there is only Lake Lordaeron between the two places; on the north shore of the lake is Lordaeron, and on the south shore are the adjacent Dalaran and Alterac, so Alterac is also connected to the west.
It borders Dalaran.
To the south is the crucial Hillsbrad Foothills, where a piece of land is also under the control of Gilneas; to the east is the Arathi Highlands, which is under the jurisdiction of Stromgarde.
Today's seven human nations seem to be closely united by the alliance, but there have been many conflicts in history, as evidenced by Hillsbrad Hills.
Strictly speaking, Hillsbrad Foothills does not belong to any country. It is actually the buffer zone between Gilneas, Stromgarde, and Dalaran. The most prosperous town among them: Southsea Town, is Barov
The family's fiefdom pays no taxes to any country.
Now that we are talking about the Barov family, we have to mention this strange family. Their bloodline is very noble and can even be traced back to the Arathi ancestors before Thoradin. They are the oldest aristocratic family in the human race.
Their fiefdoms are spread across Lordaeron, Alterac and Hillsbrad Foothills, and they are called kings without crowns.
But in fact, this seemingly powerful family is just the product of the special geopolitical patterns of various countries.
Lake Lordamre and the Alterac Mountains cut into pieces the fertile land in the north-central part of the kingdom's continent. In ancient times, when the war model was backward, several human nations did not have the ability to annex other countries.
In the past three to four hundred years of modern times, with the development of various countries, Lordaeron, the largest city, Dalaran, the mage city-state, and Stromgarde, the most powerful people, seemed to have the possibility of unifying the central and northern parts of the continent.
Only the peninsula country Gilneas is becoming increasingly conservative.
With everyone's national power growing crazily, whoever can control Alterac is equivalent to having a fulcrum for external expansion.
That is to say, under this background, Alterac has become increasingly safer, because no one on our side dares to make the first move.
The several parties have restricted each other in this way for three to four hundred years until now. During these three to four hundred years, Alterac has completely lost the qualification to develop and has become a common chess piece of the three major chess players.
After the space for external expansion was sealed off, Alterac was left with only hundreds of years of involution. The final result was that Alterac, from the royal family to the nobles, was transformed without exception.
Sick, rotten, spineless.
This is how monsters like Barov are born. Whenever there is tension between several countries, this harmless ancient nobleman will become a good horse bone from various countries and be given a large fiefdom.
In fact, this family has truly become a top noble in the past two hundred years. Otherwise, do you really believe that an Alterac noble would have an old castle on the island in the middle of the lake in East Wilder?
It's just a trick to show the noble bloodline after becoming developed.
What's even more ironic is that this great nobleman who owned many fiefs actually had his territory in fragments. He couldn't hold it together and clenched a powerful fist. It was just a piece of fat scattered all over the ground.
All countries will carefully protect Barov's territory as much as possible, allowing them to smoothly collect donations from various places, without giving them any reason to recruit knights as vassals.
The so-called top families, apart from a bunch of tax collectors who exact excessive taxes, don't even have any decent weapons.
This can explain why during the Second Orc War, Barov, who was determined to betray the Alliance, could not organize an army, and all he could do was incite peasants to riot.
Alterac is small, but as a place of four battles, it affects the nerves of several surrounding powerful countries.
It was also the long-term suppression of several powerful countries that allowed the sick King Perenold to collude with equally sick nobles such as Barov and Faculest to do the most spineless and most damn spineless thing.
Things: Betrayal of the Alliance turned the tables.
The rebellious behavior of these guys made the balance game in the central and northern parts of the Kingdom Continent completely unplayable.
People can't just pretend that nothing happened and let Perenold continue to be his pawn, and Barov can no longer happily be his daughter-in-law.
But this way, a difficult problem is placed in front of several other countries. Who should manage the land of Alterac next?
Dividing Alterac is the stupidest idea. How to divide a land as big as a palm?
In fact, Terenas has realized that it is a mess. The hundreds of years of stalemate have made Terenas realize that it is difficult to form a unified country in the complex geographical environment, and only political alliance is the best way out.
Terenas does not intend to occupy it, nor does he want Dalaran or Stromgarde to occupy it. His plan for a soft unification of political alliances must not be ruined by the resurgence of geopolitical conflicts.
It is precisely because of such an embarrassing situation that the issue of how to deal with Perenold has been unresolved. Now the guy is still the king of Alterac in name only and has become a piece of rotten flesh that cannot be cut out.
Are other kings really not qualified to depose a king? Don’t be ridiculous, the rules are not made by humans.
Even before, several other leaders knew about Perenold's escape from house arrest, but they all pretended not to see it.
Because they thought that Perenold just wanted to escape justice, and this was exactly what they wanted to see.
Perenold's disappearance was not caused by anyone's request for removal. It had nothing to do with anyone, and a delicate balance could still be maintained.
But how did they know that Perenold was going to steal the Book of Medivh, and it fell into the hands of Lothar and the others!
Therefore, Lothar, who has the identity of the alliance commander and Perenold, has become the key to breaking the situation. Since everyone is thinking about that piece of land, just don't worry about it, just bring it to you!