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The Alliance of Lordaeron

Posted by Treetrueseer on 19-Oct-07 03:29am

A lot of people ask about the name, so let's get that out of the way...
The Alliance of Lordaeron

Lord Lothar rallied the remnants of Azeroth's armies after their defeat at Stormwind Keep, and then launched a massive exodus across the sea to the northern kingdom of Lordaeron. Convinced that the Horde would overcome all of humanity if left unchecked, the leaders of the seven human nations met and agreed to unite in what would become known as the Alliance of Lordaeron.
For the first time in nearly three thousand years, the disparate nations of Arathor were once again united under a common banner. Appointed as Supreme Commander of the Alliance forces, Lord Lothar prepared his armies for the coming of the Horde.
Aided by his lieutenants, Uther the Lightbringer, Admiral Daelin Proudmoore, and Turalyon, Lothar was able to convince Lordaeron's demi-human races of the impending threat as well. The Alliance succeeded in gaining the support of the stoic dwarves of Ironforge and a small number of high elves of Quel'Thalas.
The elves, led at that time by Anasterian Sunstrider, were largely uninterested in the coming conflict. However, they were duty-bound to aid Lothar because he was the last descendent of the Arathi bloodline, which had aided the elves in ages past.
The Horde, now led by Warchief Doomhammer, brought in ogres from its homeworld of Draenor and conscripted the disenfranchised Amani forest trolls into its fold. Setting out on a massive campaign to overrun the dwarf kingdom of Khaz Modan and the southern reaches of Lordaeron, the Horde effortlessly decimated all opposition.
The epic battles of the Second War ranged from large-scale naval skirmishes to massive aerial dogfights. Somehow the Horde had unearthed a powerful artifact known as the Demon Soul and used it to enslave the ancient Dragonqueen, Alexstrasza. Threatening to destroy her precious eggs, the Horde forced Alexstrasza to send her grown children to war. The noble red dragons were forced to fight for the Horde, and fight they did.
The war raged across the continents of Khaz Modan, Lordaeron, and Azeroth itself. As part of its northern campaign, the Horde succeeded in burning down the borderlands of Quel'Thalas, thereby ensuring the elves' final commitment to the Alliance's cause. The greater cities and townships of Lordaeron were razed and devastated by the conflict. Despite the absence of reinforcements and overwhelming odds, Lothar and his allies succeeded in holding their enemies at bay.
However, during the final days of the Second War, as the Horde's victory over the Alliance seemed almost assured, a terrible feud erupted between the two most powerful orcs on Azeroth. As Doomhammer prepared his final assault against the Capital City of Lordaeron - an assault that would have crushed the last remnants of the Alliance - Gul'dan and his followers abandoned their posts and set out to sea.
The bewildered Doomhammer, having lost nearly half of his standing forces to Gul'dan's treachery, was forced to pull back and forsake his greatest chance at victory over the Alliance.
The power-hungry Gul'dan, obsessed with obtaining godhood itself, set out on a desperate search for the undersea Tomb of Sargeras that he believed held the secrets of ultimate power. Having already doomed his fellow orcs to become the slaves of the Burning Legion, Gul'dan thought nothing of his supposed duty to Doomhammer.
Backed by the Stormreaver and Twilight's Hammer clans, Gul'dan succeeded in raising the Tomb of Sargeras from the sea floor. However, when he opened the ancient, flooded vault, he found only crazed demons awaiting him.
Seeking to punish the wayward orcs for their costly betrayal, Doomhammer sent his forces to kill Gul'dan and bring the renegades back into the fold. For his recklessness, Gul'dan was torn apart by the maddened demons he had set loose. With their leader dead, the renegade clans quickly fell before Doomhammer's enraged legions.
Though the rebellion had been quelled, the Horde was unable to recoup the terrible losses it had suffered. Gul'dan's betrayal had afforded the Alliance not only hope, but also time to regroup and retaliate.
Lord Lothar, seeing that the Horde was fracturing from within, gathered the last of his forces and pushed Doomhammer south, back into the shattered heartland of Stormwind. There, the Alliance forces trapped the retreating Horde within the volcanic fortress of Blackrock Spire. Though Lord Lothar fell in battle at the Spire's base, his lieutenant, Turalyon, rallied the Alliance forces at the eleventh hour and drove the Horde back into the abysmal Swamp of Sorrows.
Turalyon's forces succeeded in destroying the Dark Portal, the mystical gateway that connected the orcs to their homeworld of Draenor. Cut off from its reinforcements and fractured by infighting, the Horde finally buckled in upon itself and fell before the might of the Alliance.
The scattered orc clans were quickly rounded up and placed within guarded internment camps. Though it seemed that the Horde had been defeated for good, some remained highly skeptical that peace would last. Khadgar, now an Archmage of some renown, convinced the Alliance high command to build the fortress of Nethergarde that would watch over the ruins of the Dark Portal and ensure that there would be no further invasions from Draenor.
-A book found in Darkshire townhall in Duskwood-

Welcome!

Posted by Treetrueseer on 19-Oct-07 03:11am

Welcome to Alliance of Lordaeron!
Purpose
Why we are here...
OK, now you know about how I came up with the name but you don't know about Alliance of Lordaeron as guild...
Let me start off with a little story about why I started my own guild in the first place...
I joined a guild shortly after I first started playing because they had a cool tabard that was black and had a skull on it. They had about 250 members and spent most of their time arguing about which band was best and who had the best computer and "momma calling" and just generally some of the most retarded bunch of crap that you ever saw in any Yahoo or AOL chatroom. They wouldn't ever give a useful answer to any question and they wouldn't ever help you or ask in guild if other people were working on quests/instances that they were working on. The vast majority of members spent most of their time standing around and dancing in Goldshire or one the other lower level areas and never seemed go up in level at all. So, I quit...
Then I joined a guild that was started and ran by 2 of my real world friends, which was kind of cool. There wasn't any senseless chatter in guildchat, there wasn't any guildchat at all, there really wasn't very many people in the guild, and the ones that were in the guild weren't on all that much and when ever I or anyone else needed help or wanted to ask someone something there wasn't anybody on. It didn't take too long to become obvious that it wasn't much more than just a name over my head and a tabard on my back. I started hanging out and talking to people in another guild all the time because there wasn't anyone in mine to do anything with really, so after this guild's members repeatedly invited me to join their guild, I finally agreed. It was a very difficult choice but it was the best choice for me at the time.
This new guild was a fairly good sized guild that was very well established and had likable members and were moderately helpful. One important thing that I didn't know before joining or until quite awhile after, was that the original guildmaster and founder had dumped the guild onto one of it's other members and just left and joined another guild. There was some separation between different cliques within the guild that started to show up more and more, and there was some clear unhappiness/unfriendliness going on the background between various members, and between various members and the leadership. In short I'd joined a dieing guild and I personally think that the individuals in charge, who had the mess dumped on them, were happy to see it go. People left the guild all together or were never on or were playing alts that were in other guilds and such. I needed help time and time again and couldn't get it. I'd see guildmates or even guildofficers in instances without being invited or even seeing where they asked if any of their guildmates needed or wanted to go in guildchat. I tried for a month or longer to get help doing BRD and went with several groups that didn't make it very far, people whining that you need to be a 60 or that nobody can do BRD without being in a raid and their playing ability clearly displayed why they felt this way. I was not getting any help, liking my guildmates less and less, when there were actually any online, so needless to say, I quit....
I stayed guildless for a while all the time thinking more and more about forming my own guild and one morning when I got home from work I went and got a charter and wondering around trying to get it signed, it surprised me just how many people either wanted money to sign or that were unwilling to sign because they hated guilds. On that day Alliance of Lordaeron was born and I got very little sleep.
If you are ninja , a beggar or looking for people to play your character for you this is NOT your guild. If all you care about is leveling your own character and getting stuff for yourself, this NOT your guild. If you are the type of person that deserts your party or raid group in an instance to go to Battle Grounds, this definitely is NOT the guild for you.
This is and will always be a guild of FRIENDS who play together. We have always been fairly close knit and for a long time we didn't recruit anybody that we hadn't played with for an extended amount of time, but we weren't growing fast enough to stay a vital and really viable guild so we started recruiting a little more aggressively. Recruiting people we didn't know well, creates some growing pains we didn't have before, and we have had to pull a few weeds and may have some to spring up later to deal with but we have made some great new friends.
If you are a reasonably mature and friendly individual who isn't totally self absorbed and would like to have other friendly and trust worthy individuals to quest, raid and chat with please by all means sign-up here and we will contact you in game. Please note that we no longer except members who are under the age of 18 unless you are sponsored by an adult member of the guild. You can always whisper Treetrueseer on Perenolde anytime, if I don't answer you right way it is because there is someone already getting my full attention and I will get back to you as soon as I possibly can.










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