The Betrayal of Alexandros Mograine

Alexandros Mograine became one of the Scourge’s most dangerous enemies. Yet the betrayal that ended his life came from within his own family. Under Balnazzar’s influence, Renault Mograine turned against his father and lured him into an ambush near Stratholme.

After Alexandros fought through the undead, Renault took his father’s sword and murdered him with it. The weapon became corrupted. Kel’Thuzad later raised Alexandros as a death knight in Naxxramas, placing a former enemy of the undead among the Four Horsemen. For Darion, the loss of his father was only the beginning: neither the man nor his blade had found peace.

A Son Enters Naxxramas

Darion Mograine refused to abandon his father. With volunteers from the Argent Dawn, he entered Naxxramas and confronted Alexandros among the Four Horsemen. Defeating his undead body allowed Darion to recover Ashbringer, but his father’s spirit remained bound to the weapon.

Darion carried it to the Scarlet Monastery. There, Renault attacked his brother, only to face the spirit of the father he had murdered. Alexandros killed Renault. Darion had uncovered the betrayal and survived the confrontation, yet vengeance had not given his father peace.

A World Under Siege

Across Azeroth, adventurers confronted threats from Blackrock Mountain to Ahn’Qiraj. The Scourge also returned in force, with Kel’Thuzad’s Naxxramas looming over the Plaguelands. Even as other enemies demanded attention, the undead remained a threat to lands still bearing the wounds of the Third War.

Victory Without an Ending

Above the Plaguelands, Naxxramas brought the surviving kingdom’s enemy into a single fortress. Kel’Thuzad commanded the necropolis, while its four quarters trained soldiers, maintained monstrous constructs and turned disease into a weapon. The Cult of the Damned helped sustain the power that had already ruined Lordaeron.

The assault passed through the Military Quarter and its Four Horsemen. The original roster included Alexandros Mograine and Sir Zeliek, whose forced service showed what the Scourge could make of its former enemies. Beyond the wings stood Sapphiron, guarding the route to the lich.

The attackers defeated Kel’Thuzad, but his body was not the whole of his existence. A surviving phylactery left the apparent victory dependent on what happened to the object carried out of the fortress.

The Trust Betrayed

The phylactery recovered from Naxxramas was delivered to Father Inigo Montoy at Light’s Hope Chapel. The place represented resistance to the undead. Entrusting the vessel to a priest there seemed to place the unfinished task in friendly hands.

Montoy instead returned it to the Lich King. Kel’Thuzad could regain his form because the means of preserving him had survived the very expedition meant to stop him. The betrayal turned the recovery of a dangerous object into the condition for another campaign.

Montoy’s betrayal left Kel’Thuzad’s phylactery beyond the victors’ control.