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Fear of defeat led King Aiden Perenolde to betray the human Alliance during the Second War. Alterac's mountain passes made its loyalty strategically important, but its ruler secretly aided the very Horde the northern kingdoms had united to resist. Once exposed, the conspiracy cost Alterac its independence and left its territory disputed by stronger neighbors. Its downfall revealed how a kingdom's attempt at self-preservation could undermine the coalition meant to defend it.
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Alterac joined the human kingdoms of the north when the Alliance gathered to resist the Horde, but its ruler, Aiden Perenolde, doubted the wisdom of standing against an enemy he feared might win. The small mountain kingdom occupied a strategic position among roads and passes that could matter to both armies. Its geography made neutrality difficult, and its king chose survival through secrecy over loyalty to his allies.
Perenolde betrayed the Alliance by assisting the Horde. When the deception became known, Alterac lost the trust of the very coalition it had joined. Its political independence was broken, and the fate of its lands became a matter of dispute among stronger neighbors. The betrayal gave the other kingdoms an example of how fear could undo their common defense from within.
The kingdom's collapse did not erase its people or the claims competing for its future. It left a fractured mountain realm whose name carried the memory of an alliance betrayed. Alterac's history illustrates the danger facing the lesser human kingdoms in the Second War: the attempt to escape destruction through accommodation could lead instead to the loss of the state itself.
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