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Before the Third WarAn Apprentice in Dalaran
Long before she governed a city, Jaina Proudmoore studied in Dalaran. Her training under Antonidas placed her within the kingdom’s center of magical learning and gave her responsibilities beyond the classroom.
When the plague spread, the archmage entrusted her with investigating it. His journal records both his confidence in her abilities and his own efforts to convince the kingdom to respond. Jaina entered the crisis as a mage charged with finding answers, not as a ruler commanding a nation.
That beginning matters to the decisions that followed. The disaster would force her to act beyond the authority of her teacher and the expectations of the people she had known.
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A Way Out of Lordaeron
After leaving Arthas at Stratholme, Jaina faced the collapse of the country around her. Remaining in Lordaeron offered no clear way to protect the people who had survived. The prophet’s warning proposed something the established leaders had refused: cross the sea to Kalimdor.
Jaina gathered survivors and followed that advice. Antonidas did not make the same choice. Their separation marked the end of a relationship in which she could depend on her teacher to determine the course ahead.
The stranger who had urged the journey was Medivh. His guidance would bring the refugees into contact with other peoples resisting the Legion. The departure gave Jaina a responsibility that would outlast the war: finding a future for the people who had followed her.
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