Light's pinnacle

With Fenris keep, or now "Light's pinnacle" under Scarlet Control, the order has found itself a strategically vital position at the borders of Lordaeron city itself.
Easily defendable, but also hard to leave, is this so called Fenris Isle. While it's close to our goal, there is a large possibiltiy the Forsaken will retaliate before we have even repaired major damages to the old keep.

One thing is certain, we have moved further and closer to our goals. But let us hope we shan't regret it.

~Grand Crusader Dathran Eranor

The Scarlet Enclave marches on.

Dathran smiles as he peers over the banisters of the ship. The Scarlets are sailing to Lordaeron and it will only be a matter of days before their "Grand Campaign" once more can continue where they had to abandon it. Taken the roads are safe atleast.

Three days later.


"Prepare the sloops for departure!" yells Dathran with a loud voice. The Scarlets have moored in a small bay known as Faldir's cove. Having loaded their supplies into small sloops they're now preparing to cross the small waters to a nearby shore. Commander Aldrathorn nods at Dathran, showing him to his sloop. The Scarlet sailors begin to row and they quickly reach the nearby shore. They climb out of their sloops, carry their cargo and walk ahead over the steep shore.
Quickly they reach a cave, they stop shortly. It seems they were followed, but Dathran shrugs shortly before stating their business.

"We will march for Stromgarde for Horses, after that we'll ride for Hillsbrad"






Under load shouting and what must have been a horrorfying sight, Tarren mill was attacked by the Scarlet Cavalry in a glorious charge. Many a forsaken lost it's life, but also many were spared. The time of the Scarlets was minimum and they had to continue with a fast pace.



Three hours later the Scarlet forces arrive at Lordamere lake. Crossing the lake with a small boat, rickety boat, they arrive at Fenris keep. A keep where the Scarlet forces have had an eye on for a long while
The forces were just too late to rescue a farmer woman, burned at a pole on the courtyard by the undead gnolls. But in the midst of the night, the forces snuck into the Keep and vanguished it's inhabitants silently and quickly. And thus, Fenris keep was taken..

and thus: Light's Pinnacle had been found.





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The Scarlet Forces have sailed north.

The Scarlet rose slowly disappears beyond the horizon, loud cheering and angry shouting all that is left at the docks of Stormwind.

The Scarlet Order has once more left for Lordaeron and it is determined to push forward until it's homeland is restored.

OOC information.

Greeting's Scarlets and other Sha'Tarians!

On Sunday the 2th of october the Scarlet Enclave has again left Stormwind. This means our Scarlet events will take place in the continent of Lordaeron, focussed on fighting heretics, Forsaken and Scourge. And of course, surviving in the ruined lands without proper supply support.

What does this mean for the guild?

Practically it's impossible for us to stay away from Stormwind, so we'll still be active as guild there aswell. But the Scarlets have decided that their best way to do that (train, grow, etcetera) would be in a disguise.
Unknown to the outside world, but know to the order itself, they're now disguised and acting as a people's militia from Westfall. This means that there won't be people clothed as Scarlets in the southern lands.

This means people won't be rid of us now either and we'll continue our roleplay both publically and privately, but our main events will be in Lordaeron. Events that will hopefully also involve the rest of the server, one day, taken they want to be involved. There is many untapped lore, denounced location and general fun to be had in these lands, and we are determined to use them.

We'll update this blog often with news about Lordaeron and our movements. We noticed that when we last departed, our roleplay had gone unnoticed. And while we're not attention whores, the stories we roleplayed were good and interesting for all.

This blog will mainly be an in character blog, a logbook so to say. A sneakpeak in our people's hearts and minds. This means that, unless the knowledge is gathered by your character -in game-  you do not know of what occurs in this blog. Our stories may involve subjects that'd normally stay secret. Whereas of course propanda in favour of Scarlets would be spread. The idea mainly is, that you know facts about our order. You will know what to believe and whatnot. (Rumors like us blockading the Stormwind harbor aren't true of course!) So keeping you up to date, will be a pleasure.

We also will use this blog to support our events in the future, an easy way for all to keep track of all changes. But note that this is also our guild's website and under construction.

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As some of you might have noticed however, we use the same host as the Sha'Tar herald. I have to say the host is extremely good and I'd like to thank Rioriel and the other Heraldies for letting us see this opportunity.

This is it Sha'tar, thank you for reading.

Warhorns be heard
Army be gathered
Rallied be our brethren of Lordaeron.

War is at hand, Lordaeron awaits.
Today we set sail, today our march begins for Lordaeron's gates.

Warhorns be heard
Army be Gathered
Ready be all for the reckoning at hand.

The ways of the Scarlet Crusader

As a Crusader of the Shining light you have duties to uphold and commands to respect, many bold young men and women strive to deny command and aim to cause more problems then they can solve.

I, Grand Crusader Dathran Eranor therefore write the rule of the Crusader.

- Your uniform has to in order while on duty, this means the proper Scarlet colour should be worn along with the Scarlet Tabard. Cloaks are restricted to officers only and those with a cloak on while on duty shall be punished properly.

- Orders from an officer are to be followed without questions, if one does not act right away the whole goal of the orders might have already failed.

- As a common Crusader of the Scarlet Order you are not destined for the political stage, nor are you allowed to create your own enemies in name of our order. Commands to attack or harm another man or woman can only be given by commanders or higher. If you are caught causing trouble you will either be warned or immediatly thrown out of the order.

- The basic armour set of the Scarlet Crusader exists out of shoddy chain mail and a standard issue shield. During your training you are allowed to buy additional pieces with your payment.

- After battles or actions worth mentioning payment is given to the Crusaders.

initiate: 1 gold

trainee: 2 gold

Crusader: 3 gold

Veteran Crusader: 4 gold

Crimson Garde : 5 gold

Commander : 6 gold

Aspirant Commander : 7 gold

- If discussions arise inform your leaders and let them speak, do not interfere since one word from you might break a leader's whole argument.

- While on duty and an officer is speaking, you do not speak until given permission. You ask for permission, naturally.

- You may not complain about the beatstick

- When officers approach you step aside and salute, you also salute your brethren.

- While inside Alliance lands Deathknights, elves and Draenei are not be harmed with violence, merely to make sure we can stay and recruit there.

This is the list for now, Brethren. Keep it up.

Quot capita, tot sententiae sed unum luminum.

"So many heads, so many opinions, but only one light."

It is not strange that the first words written in this book are these. While we all live to be vessels and servants of the ever shining light we are not always on one line while doing so. Civil war, theft, murder and senseless accusations are what even this day the world is home to. Stormwind is no exception nor was Lordaeron.

To get to the core of these problems we have to get to the core of light worshipping and I will begin as far back in time as I can possibly know. I speak of the Church of the Holy light in Lordaeron, a church actively recruiting light followers throughout the continent of Lordaeron and Quel'Thelas, naturally the southern lands also had their Church of the holy light. In fact the whole known world at that time was covered by said churches and it was generally known that all the nations now known together as the Alliance were devout followers. But the first sign of different worshipping throughout the world did not appear during the rise of the light, instead the signs appeared not too long ago, when it was almost consumed by the shadows of our world.

An Interlude to "The Light's musings" by Grand Crusader Dathran Eranor

The Knights of the Silver Hand.

The Church of the Light gave birth to an order that would carry the light as their guidance and weapon, an order that has existed for many years while it lived to rid the world of darkness and to protect it's people. I write of course of the Silver Hand: Created after the First war by Uther the Lightbringer and Archbishop Alonsus Faol. Many do not know however that the order found it's true birth before the First War. Alonsus Faol had earlier created the holy order of Northshire Clerics unfortunately this order was devastated during the first war. The Order was reformed as the Silver Hand with the following core members: Uther, Turalyon, Saidan Dathrohan, and Gavinrad the Dire, who was recommended by Sir Anduin Lothar.

We all know what turned out to be the sole destruction of this holy order and I will not press that matter further. The true point of the story is the following: After the destruction of the Church of Light and the Silver Hand the beliefs in the light began to become more diverse and different in several orders that came to existance.

The first order that of course was formed was the Scarlet Crusade, having many old paladins of the Silver Hand and other people willing to fight the scourge in it's ranks. The Crusade quickly began to grow a certain form of paranoia after they found out that even the most healthy man could turn into a brain eating ghoul in merely two hours. While the ways the Crusade dealt with possible plague bearers is still frowned upon by many, they did do what had to be done to defend their own. The peaceful ways of the light however began to disappear and it soon had become more of a weapon then a guidance.

The second order that was formed was the Argent Dawn, betraying their brethren of the Scarlet Crusade because of their weak stomach they turned to every other race in the world to once more strengthen their ranks and continue their fight for Lordaeron's freedom. Throughout the years however the order has shown to lack the strength to fully purge Lordaeron and has now ended up sailing to Northrend as the Argent Crusade leaving Lordaeron behind for the remaining Scarlet Forces to take care of.

While both of these orders use the light as weapon aswell as guidance, the balance between the two differs. The Scarlet Order has always been more direct and seems to take the fastest way to their goals, whereas the Argent Crusade is full of old men who aim to take no risk and wish to spare as much men as possible, while the risk that they're too late to take out the Scourge in Northrend becomes only larger.

While this is of course not an order, there's also a third stream of the light. I've seen this exist mainly in Stormwind but I have not been here too long myself, it however seems that the light is seen as some sort of God, no longer an element or guidance in life. I still do not know what I have to think about said matter, but I'll make sure to write more on the subject when I can.

Chapter 1 "The light's devotees" of "The Light's musings" by Grand Crusader Dathran Eranor