The Year of  Dark Tides (2011)
When One War Becomes Another (Current Story)

In the wake of a terrible war, the Thalanaari have been forced into old alliances, and old lines developed by years of hardship have been redefined in the days of fighting in the fields of Feralas, and in the vie for power in the Courts of Stormwind.

The death of the Earl Vincent Rethbourne has left a gaping wound in the leadership of Redridge, Westfall and Elwynn, and forces loyal to House Stormshadow, House Cavalry and House Fletcher have moved to capitalize on the power vacuum’s wake.

When Bradford Rethbourne sent the remains of his forces and attempted to attack Thalanaar, he was put down, but after a chance meeting in Ironforge just days before the battle, Highblade Ashnara fell for the man’s charms, without knowing the man’s name.  Months later, a child was borne of the dalliance, and the Court of Stormwind was thrown into chaos.

Faced with the prospect of naming a bastard child as the heir to holdings close to Stormwind, they ultimately choose to appoint Ashnara as the Steward of Stormwind, until her son’s issue can be remedied, and plans are quickly made to marry him off to a stable line that will place power back in the hands of the Noble Court.

Thalanaar supports Ashnara’s position by naming their own Elspwen Viggul as the headmistress of a new school of the arcane arts, to be placed on the site of the former Tower of Ilgalar in the Valley of Galardell.  But a feud breaks out between the Houses of Viggul and Cavalry when it is revealed that Lady Celaeste Fletcher, loyal to the House Cavalry, has located and adopted an heir to the Viggul family–and refuses to give her up.

Fighting breaks out in Westfall between the Countess Viggul–now the Countess Mistmantle–and forces loyal to Cavalry.  Thalanaar sits on both sides of this battle, and the lines divide the loyalties of the house.

As one Shattering ends, and the healing process begins, it is interrupted by the fighting, and the threat of war in Westfall and Redridge looms, as Krianne suddenly calls her Irregulars home.

The Blooding

The people of Thalanaar have called the month of June the Blooding.  Lost in the war against Magitha Grimtotem are Crestfall’s brother, Judicator Yaalan Dvorak of the Hand of Argus; his wife Kaihlan of the Eye of Velen; and Gwydion Brenn’s own daughter, the scion and heir to his house, Sheyle.

Broken ranks and dozens dead are answered, however, when the master of the Westbrook Irregulars, the Countess Krianne Cavalry, leads her forces headlong into the Grimtotem throngs and strikes a stunning blow.  The battle is nearly lost when forces loyal to Thalanaar begin reporting sights of “the Crone”–a val’kyr reanimator–walking the ranks with a grizzled old tauren shaman.

The Crone had first become known to Thalanaar in the war against the Earl Vincent Rethbourne, and his son, Bradford, and had been responsible for the scourging of Brenn’s daughter, Sheyle.

A disorganized, furious charge begins, and the Westbrook Irregulars and the Druids of the Claw loyal to a recently returned Archdruid Bearrage of the Claw set upon their forces, intent on finding the Crone and ending her before she can do anymore harm.

 

The battle rages into the Thousand Needles, where Krianne makes a terrible discovery, along with others.  Unable to reach her in the thick of battle, Magitha Grimtotem is sighted among a coterie of Twilight Cultists–bound as a prisoner, and Thalanaar’s worst fears are revealed.

The Crone has forced the union of one of Thalanaar’s most bitter enemies and the new Grimtotem threat under one banner.   Magitha may

have been an innocent prisoner all this time, but there is no way to know.

 

Now the Thalanaari must decide, will they aid their enemy this past long year, and attempt to free Magitha and potentially restore a deadly enemy to power?

Or will they leave her to her fate, and possibly allow the Twilight Hammer to gain a powerful new weapon against them in the days to come?

 

Shadows of Northrend, the Path of Death

Rumors rise out of Goldshire about a single shard of Frostmourne, stolen out of Icecrown in the pockets of a would-be hero, and the Twilight Hammer cult seeking to expand their evil influence sends its agents to ascertain the truth, and steal the shard for itself.

The Forsaken send its agents into the Grizzly Hills, where a vrykul shaman is rumored to be keeping the shard after capturing or killing its former keeper.  Signs point to the shard still housing the powers of the blade, and when the Alliance sends its own envoy to search for the shard and dispatch the enemy attempting to learn its secrets, the envoy and his guards vanish without a trace.

After sparse encounters between the Forsaken and the Alliance,  each realizes that the other does not possess the shard.  Wild rumors surface of a new Cult of the Damned attempting to repopulate the fallen citadel in Icecrown, but the enemy meets an even greater foe, that they did not expect.

Their forces crumbling, the Cult of the Damned retreat to the Plaguelands, their last bastion of power, where the Brotherhood of the Light engages them from a renewed and repopulated Lights Hope.

 

From Circled Wagons

With Thalanaar overrun and Westbrook’s troops currently without leadership, the Grimtotems have begun to overrun key positions near Thalanaar and Shadebough, on more than one occasion pressing their advantage all the way to Estulan and the Dire Maul.

Facing inevitable defeat without immediate reinforcement, Thalanaar has drafted its forces back into regular patrols along with Feralas Sentinels, walking the lonely roads between the boundaries of Feralas, from Ravenwind to Shadebough, to prevent renewed aggression against the fishermen and tenacious farmers trying to mete out an existence in the respectively rough seas and unforgiving soil.

Shandris and her Sentinels have reason to believe that without the presence of the Thalanaari, defeat is now simply a matter of time – and with Feathermoon’s fall, so too will the Dire Maul fall into the hands of the Horde, and their blood elf warlocks are too dangerous to risk rediscovery of the vaults of Eldre’thalas.