Those Left in the Tunnels

Before the assault reaches its political target, the mines hold losses that matter to people far from Sentinel Hill. In Stormwind, Wilder Thistlenettle remembers a tunnel collapse beneath Moonbrook. He escaped; his brother and friends did not return. He asks for his brother’s Explorers’ League badge and union cards that could give other families answers.

The old workings are more than a passage into the Brotherhood’s stronghold. For Wilder, a badge or a union card can carry news back to a family still waiting in Stormwind. The expedition has a duty to the people left in the tunnels as well as to the people living above them.

Shoni the Shilent sees another opportunity underground. A functional goblin shredder has a power supply that could help gnomish excavation machines breach the approaches to trogg-held Gnomeregan. Recovering it connects this Westfall expedition to a different community’s attempt to reclaim its home.