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Before the Second WarThe First Paladins
The First War had shown the danger faced by the servants of the Light on a battlefield. Alonsus Faol helped answer that loss by forming an order whose members could wield weapons as well as holy power. The Silver Hand made protection a fighting vocation.
Its first paladins were Uther, Turalyon, Tirion Fordring, Saidan Dathrohan and Gavinrad. Their induction at Alonsus Chapel in Stratholme established the generation from which the order’s later traditions would grow.
The same fellowship would be tested by more than battles against the Horde. Its members would eventually face the question of whom their duty required them to protect, and what remained of that duty when their kingdom fell.
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The Face Beneath the Crusader
The ruined streets of Stratholme led into two hostile centers. Rivendare held the undead side; the Scarlet Bastion offered a different enemy under the apparent leadership of Saidan Dathrohan. The paladin’s identity concealed what the crusaders served.
Adventurers pushed through the bastion and confronted its Grand Crusader. The encounter forced Balnazzar to abandon his disguise. The trusted figure had been a dead man’s body used by a dreadlord.
This was not the culling Arthas had carried out years earlier. It was a later struggle over the city’s surviving strongholds, revealing that opposition to the Scourge did not by itself make the Scarlet leadership safe to trust.
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