EASTERN PLAGUELANDS

The corrupted, blighted lands of the Eastern Kingdoms were home to some of the foulest creatures that the world had ever seen. From the undead that roamed the countryside to the twisted, monstrous abominations that lurked in the shadows, and the traitorous members of the Cult of the Damned, the Plaguelands were a place of unrelenting, unholy darkness.

Yet despite the danger, Lord Maxwell Tyrosus and the Argent Dawn pressed on, its members united as they left a swathe of land free of the shambling dead.

It had been weeks, since their current campaign started, and they had made significant progress.

And despite their appeal to the horde being rebuffed, the Alliance and Scarlet Crusade had come to a rough agreement to purge the plaguelands. Not working closely together, but enough that they were aware of the territories they each planned on taking charge of.

In efforts to limit the chance that undead slipped past all their forces, Lord Maxwell had first led his troops south from Light's Hope Chapel, then west to Corrin's Crossing. There they waited while slaughtering and burning, until they sighted the Scarlet Crusade force fielded from Tyr's Hand in the distance.

Then they had both surrounded and fully cleansed Corrin's Crossing of the cultist's of the damned and their undead minions by blade, light, and fire. But they were far from done.

And in accordance with their rough agreement, the Dawn shifted north, while the Crusade marched west.

WESTERN PLAGUELANDS

The problems dwelling within the Western Plaguelands was much the same as the Eastern Plaguelands. Undead, abominations, and cultists.

Marching north out of the Hillsbrad foothills to bring wrath and fury upon them, was Marshal Marcus Redpath with an army. An Alliance army that had grown steadily from ships unloaded waves of soldiers at Southshore. Afterwards the army had traveled along the Darrowmere river up to Darrowmere Lake outside Scholomance, their primary target.

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And surging south out of Hearthglen was another army headed by High Commander Galvar Pureblood. They swiftly fell upon the nearby plagued farms and razed them and their unholy inhabitants to ash.

Which left Galvar with a few choices of where to go next. The Ruins of Andorhal. Or the Bulwark.

Scarlet scouts watching the Bulwark provided the high commander with disappointing news that made his choice simple. While the Crusade had been making great strides on their righteous mission, the Bulwark had been further fortified and reinforced with additional Horde savages.

His desire to strike out into Forsaken lands was unfeasible for the moment, and would harm the necessary task of culling the undead. So purging Andorhal would come first.

But maybe, just maybe, combining forces with Lord Valdemar out of Tyr's Hand in the future would offer a way to overcome the Forsaken obstacle...

THE UNDERCITY

Sylvannas, Banshee Queen of the Forsaken, wasn't surprised in the slightest upon the latest reports from the Bulwark.

The Scarlet Crusade had come sniffing around, but had turned tail after facing strengthened defensive position.

She was surprised though, when she received the latest message from Nathanos, her Champion stationed in the plaguelands. He had been forced to abandon his post at Marris Stead due to oncoming Scarlet wave of frothing crusaders, in such numbers that he could no longer evade or ignore them. As such, he was falling back to the Bulwark, as it was the nearest place he actually could fall back to. She approved, it was the only sound option.

The Scarlet Crusade was going all out by all accounts, with the plaguelands purge. And the Alliance army that had marched past Tarren Mill in the Hillsbrad Foothills was a sign to Sylvannas that the purge was not only being taken seriously enough, but it also had enough support that it might actually succeed.

Planning for what might happen afterwards though, is what had her strategists constantly busy sifting through all the new information as it came in.

But she truly doubted the Alliance would allow incursion of an army of unaffiliated, marauding crusaders past their army into Hillsbrad. Not only was the region already contested, the Alliance already had the Northrend invasion in the works with the Horde, with Sylvanas planned as the commander to helm the Horde fleet.

Which left the Bulwark as the only reasonable target. And the Forsaken had seen to it that there were no Scarlet presence left to be feared in Tirisfal, therefore the chance of sabotage was low.

The greatest chance of being attacked, would come when Sylvanas departed for Northrend...