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Lordaeron's fall destroyed more than a capital. The distinction mattered. Such independence could not end the broader conflict between Horde and Alliance.
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Lordaeron's fall destroyed more than a capital. It severed the roads, command structures and loyalties that had once joined its defenders, while the Scourge spread into lands no surviving crown could securely rule. The Argent Dawn arose in that political wreckage and refused to become the army of a single faction.
The distinction mattered. The Scarlet Crusade pursued the undead with a zeal that grew increasingly indiscriminate, while the Forsaken fought for freedom from the Lich King without accepting the claims of their former living neighbors. The Dawn chose a narrower and more difficult common purpose: fight the Scourge wherever it threatened the world, and accept aid from those willing to serve that cause. Those who opposed undeath could stand beside people their nations had fought before.
Such independence could not end the broader conflict between Horde and Alliance. It did, however, preserve a place for cooperation when inherited loyalties would otherwise prevent it. In the plague-stricken north, the survival of that principle was itself a form of resistance.
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