#Starcraft the story so far series

Cairne became immobilized after he received a flesh wound during the battle, allowing the new warchief to land a killing blow.ДЇollowing the duel, Magatha's agents seized the tauren capital of Thunder Bluff for the Grimtotem. The matriarch of the Grimtotem tauren tribe, Magatha, had poisoned Garrosh's blade, unbeknownst to either of the duel's combatants.

Although the mighty tauren fought valiantly, no amount of strength could have led him to victory. Believing that the new warchief would lead the Horde to ruin, Cairne challenged Garrosh to a duel of honor. In particular, Garrosh infuriated Cairne Bloodhoof, the wise tauren high chieftain. A gruesome slaughter of druids in Ashenvale, which the Twilight's Hammer had perpetrated to look like an act of the Horde, escalated tensions further and sowed mistrust among Garrosh's own comrades. Garrosh's brash demeanor inflamed relations between the Horde and the Alliance. In his absence, Thrall appointed Garrosh Hellscream, son of the legendary orc Grom, as acting Horde warchief. Meanwhile, Thrall journeyed to his ancestors' lands in Nagrand, hoping to glean insight from Outland's elemental spirits as well as other respected shaman. In the wake of his petrification, the Bronzebeard, Wildhammer, and Dark Iron clans agreed to rule over Ironforge via the Council of Three Hammers, but the city's future remained uncertain.

The ceremony, however, had an unexpected effect: Magni was transformed into diamond and became fused to the depths of the mountain city itself. In the dwarven bastion of Ironforge, King Magni Bronzebeard undertook a mystic ritual to commune with the earth. The world's leaders scrambled to find a solution to Azeroth's growing instability. Agents of the nefarious Twilight's Hammer cult surfaced throughout Horde and Alliance cities, spreading word of the impending apocalypse.

#Starcraft the story so far series

The world's elemental spirits grew increasingly erratic, setting off a series of deadly natural disasters. Yet just as hope was beginning to surge among Azeroth's races, tragedy struck. Elsewhere, after years in exile, the highly intelligent gnomes and the fearless Darkspear trolls made gains toward reclaiming their respective homes in Gnomeregan and on the Echo Isles. Archdruid Malfurion Stormrage was at last freed from his imprisonment by the shadowy Emerald Nightmare through the efforts of his love, High Priestess Tyrande Whisperwind, and her allies. As if to affirm that a bright future would soon dawn on Azeroth, other joyful events occurred across the world. The Lich King's reign of terror was over.