Today in paperback-New York Situations bestselling writer Richard A. Knaak continues the thrilling story started in the record-breaking MMO game expansion Wow: Cataclysm.

In the wake from the Cataclysm, conflict has engulfed every corner of Azeroth. Hungering for more assets amid the turmoil, the Horde has pressed into Ashenvale to feed its burgeoning war machine. There, performing warchief Garrosh Hellscream offers employed a brutal brand-new tactic to conquer the spot and crush its night time elf about Wow: Wolfheart defenders, a move that will cripple the Alliance’s power throughout Azeroth.

Unacquainted with the disaster making in Ashenvale, the night elves’ legendary market leaders, Great Priestess Tyrande Whisperwind and Archdruid Malfurion Stormrage, conduct a summit near Darnassus to be able to vote the proud worgen of Gilneas into the Alliance. However, resentment of Gilneas and its own ruler, Genn Greymane, works deep in Stormwind’s King Varian Wrynn. His refusal to forgive Genn for closing his nation off from the rest of the world years back endangers a lot more than simply the summit: it threatens to unravel the Alliance itself.

Varian’s animosity is only one of many unsettling developments in Darnassus. An uneasiness creeps on the once-immortal evening elves as the to begin them fall sufferer to the infirmities old. While they manage using their mortality, tensions flare within the reintroduction from the Highborne, previously the best caste of evening elf nobility, to their society. Many night time elves cannot pardon the Highborne for the devastation unleashed millennia ago by their reckless use of magic.

Whenever a murdered Highborne is uncovered in the outskirts of Darnassus, Malfurion and Tyrande move to stop further bloodshed and unrest simply by appointing among the night elves’ most cunning and skilled agents to find the killer: the renowned warden Maiev Shadowsong. Yet with all that is transpiring in Darnassus, the Alliance may be powerless to avoid the relentless brand-new warchief Garrosh from seizing the complete of Ashenvale.