Executor Zygand mobilizes against the Scarlet Crusade

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Executor Zygand organizes Forsaken recruits against Scarlet Crusade forces holding ruined towers in Tirisfal. His orders show that the conflict between Lordaeron's freed undead and the zealous living order had reached the countryside beyond the capital. Even ordinary watchtowers had become positions in a struggle over who could occupy the old kingdom.

The Scarlet Crusade emerged from human resistance to the Scourge but treated undead beings as enemies without granting the Forsaken the distinction they claimed. Sylvanas's followers, by contrast, occupied land where many had lived before the plague. Zygand's position as executor placed him among those directing the Forsaken's immediate defense and retaliation. The towers mattered because roads, settlements, and abandoned fortifications still controlled movement through the ruined landscape.

His instructions belong to the original starting state of the conflict, not to an account of every possible raid's outcome. The existence of Scarlet garrisons near Deathknell explains why newly freed undead encountered armed humans almost as soon as they awakened. Tirisfal was not a secure country won by a single rebellion, but a patchwork of contested positions after the collapse of royal rule.