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Before the plague devastates LordaeronAn Estate Given to Death
The Cult of the Damned needed places where its work could proceed unseen. The Barov family’s bargain with Kel’Thuzad supplied one beneath their home at Caer Darrow. The promise of immortality opened the estate to a power its owners would not control.
The underground chambers became Scholomance. What had belonged to a noble household now served the training of necromancers. Alexei Barov himself became an undead servant rather than an independent beneficiary of the bargain.
The academy tied private ambition to the approaching public catastrophe. The plague was not simply a force arriving from outside the kingdom: its servants had already gained shelter within Lordaeron’s own institutions and estates.
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The Servants Left Behind
At Caer Darrow, Eva Sarkhoff told a story hidden behind the academy’s reputation. She and Lucien had survived in hiding before discovery delivered them to Krastinov’s experiments. Even death had failed to free them from the estate.
Her request gave the adventurers a task beyond reaching Gandling: attend to the remains of the people whom the school had used. Within Scholomance, the fight against necromancy therefore included an attempt to give its victims an ending.
The expedition’s enemies were not only the undead occupying its rooms. Living practitioners maintained the institution that had made the suffering possible. Confronting the headmaster struck at that continuing work, while Eva’s plea kept the household’s lost servants at the center of the story.
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