User:Mig64/Goroscream Wars

Prelude
After the Lich King's fall, the Goroscream redirected their operations to the Western Plaguelands to aid the Argent Crusade destroy the remaining Scourge there and secure Horde influence in the area under the leadership of Kortoh Stripribs. Once the Zalazane finally fell, Guénon returned with his pet raptor, Gorossauro, and took control of their operations.

Weeks later, Tirion Fordring returned from Northrend and reclaimed the town of Hearthglen for the Argent forces. Thus, Guénon decided to leave the rest of the Scourge entirely in the Argent Crusade's hands, and proceeded to reduce Alliance influence over the north of the Eastern Kingdoms.

Although Guénon and the Alliance worked together back in Naxxramas, the Horde under Garrosh Hellscream's iron fist has expansionist and anti-Alliance plans to set into motion. Though the Goroscream act independently of the Warchief's Command, Guénon considered that imposing the Horde's will would serve as a good tool to prove themselves to Garrosh (the same way they did to Thrall in Northrend with different manners), to avoid the Warchief's interference in the militia's existence.

The Goroscream advance
Once the Goroscream Forces were assembled, Jo'ao -the strongest Rogue of the Goroscream Forces before Kortoh Stripribs- led the assault.

Chillwind Campfire
They started attacking Chillwind Camp, since there were Argent Crusade members there, Guénon sent Shadow priests to Mind Control them and use them as reinforcements, after the Alliance was eliminated, the Argent members were sent to the middle of the Scourge-dominated Gahrron's Withering and freed from the priests' control, they couldn't remember any moment of the battle at Chillwind Camp, and had to leave this for later because a whole legion of zombies was about to strike them. Thus, Chillwind Camp was taken by the Goroscream in the name of the Horde, as a matter of security, Guénon left only rogues to take care of the camp, always stealthed, they would lure curious Alliance adventurers to the camp and then take them down with a surprise attack. Jo'ao became leader of the Goroscream Forces at Chillwind Camp and was in charge of maintaining the order and organization of the outpost.

The blight of Southshore
The next attack would be at Hillsbrad Foothills, this time, Kredo led the next assault, the ghost furbolg and his forces helped the Forsaken destroy Southshore and claim it for the Horde. With Southshore under control of Undercity, the Goroscream soldiers took a rest at Tarren Mill and then proceeded to the Hinterlands.

Wildhammer Apocalipse
The Goroscream's next victim was Aerie Peak, with Falstad Wildhammer on his way for Ironforge to take part of the Council of Three Hammers, Aerie Peak was left temporarily leaderless. With such a small time in hands, the Goroscream quickly attacked the outpost, the battle was intense, as many Wildhammer reinforcements came by air, but this wouldn't last long, for the Warlocks present in the Goroscream army opened several summoning portals and quickly summoned reinforcements directly from Goroscream Hold, with faster and better prepared reinforcements, Guénon's army won and the Goroscream dominated Aerie Peak. Kredo was benevolent to the Wildhammer survivors and allowed them to escape and even healed their wounds after the dwarves agreed to never return.

The battle for Aerie Peak was a hard one thanks to the Wildhammer clan's strong persistence, after repairing the damaged buildings, a portion of the army that fought in the battle returned to Goroscream Hold and were substituted by better prepared soldiers thanks to the Warlocks' summoning portals, which were kept open to serve as a connection between Goroscream Hold and more distant lands. Kredo returned to Guénon with the reports of their victory and the troll became really excited. Upon realizing that the Alliance was no child's game, Guénon decided that his army should be led by a true military leader: Kortoh Stripribs.

Attack at the Highlands
From the portal connecting Goroscream Hold and Aerie Peak, the army advanced to Arathi Highlands, Refuge Pointe was no hard work for the might of Guénon's forces. Kortoh had "lessons about mercy" with Kredo after the battle of Aerie Peak, thus, he spared the Alliance survivors and deserters. The warlocks who composed that raid created more summoning portals to create more connections to Goroscream Hold, while making Refuge Pointe to Guénon's liking, Kortoh led a small party to Stromgarde Keep to give armaments and extra supplies to the Boulderfist ogres, Witherbark trolls and even the Syndicate in exchange of them destroying the remaining Arathor resistence there.

Stripribs' next target, was Menethil Harbor, so that the Goroscream would gain a naval force.

The Alliance Counteroffensive
Meanwhile, the Wildhammer survivors spared by Kredo went in godspeed to Stormwind and adjacent Alliance cities to ask for help. Probably the most reasonable reaction was of King Varian Wrynn, the human thought it was strange that the Horde suddenly started to raid several camps, against his will, Varian sent a letter to Garrosh asking for reasons.

Hellscream had a deep hatred for Varian, but he would not pay for a crime he didn't commit, under Eitrigg's leadership, a small Horde contigent was sent to the gates of Stormwind to call the Alliance for a counterattack against the "damned monsters willing to bring shame to the Horde".

The king of Stormwind was surprised by the Warchief's reaction, he refused to work alongside the Horde once again, but he was verbally defeated by Eitrigg's persistence, that was the greatest proof Wrynn needed to be certain that it wasn't the Horde attacking the Alliance's camps. After the armies were assembled under the leadership of Major Mattingly, with Eitrigg as his advisor, the Alliance sent it's counteroffensive.

Saving the Wetlands
The Alliance went from Elwynn Forest all the way to the Wetlands, where they found the Goroscream laying siege to Menethil Harbor, both armies locked into intense combat, the Goroscream using the "Warlock Summoning Portal" strategy to get reinforcements. The Goroscream met their first defeat and were overwhelmed, the surviving warlocks destroyed their own portals to prevent the Alliance from using it, only to be killed by Eitrigg's agents right after it. Kortoh was gravelly wounded but retreated with his surviving men to Refuge Pointe, with the Alliance's Counteroffensive coming after them. The Goroscream Hunters left several traps to hold the Alliance's advance, it worked enough to Kortoh arrive at Refuge Pointe ask Guénon for reinforcements, and so the troll did.

Reclaiming Refuge Pointe
After arriving at the Highlands, Eitrigg called upon the Horde at Hammerfall to aid in the battle, where Major Mattingly assembled the survivors from Refuge Pointe and some lost ones from Aerie Peak. With the Alliance coming with an even bigger army, Kortoh ordered that half of his army returned to Goroscream Hold by the portals, after the evacuation was complete, Stripribs destroyed all warlock portals. He knew he would meet defeat but he had to hold the Alliance as much as he and his mates could, the Alliance finally arrived, estimulated by the rage of the orcs' bloodthirsty roars, and these roars called the attention of the Goroscream at Arathi, it was when the Fel Orc General finally saw the Horde forces working alongside the Alliance.

Kortoh was broken inside himself, the faction that he worked so hard to help, was coming to destroy him and all those who shared the same cause. Stripribs became immovable, the Goroscream Forces at Arathi became pratically leaderless and were quickly obliterated and Kortoh Stripribs was taken prisoner, being unable to warn Guénon of Hellscream's agents.

After reclaiming Refuge Pointe to the Alliance, Eitrigg wanted to execute Kortoh because of his demonic body, and almost succeeded. Major Mattingly said that he would be sent to the Stormwind Stockades and deal with the other prisoners there, a small party left the army to return to Stormwind with Stripribs.

The Rejection of Southshore
With all preparations done, they went to Hillsbrad Foothills in order to reclaim and reconstruct Southshore, but when Eitrigg saw that it was under control of the Forsaken and not the Goroscream, he rejected the attack.

Major Mattingly insisted that Southshore belonged to the Alliance and should be retaken, upon realizing that there could be no deal, Eitrigg and his agents left the Counteroffensive and took a zeppelin back to Orgrimmar. Mattingly considered this an act of treason and sent a report to Varian Wrynn regarding this.

An emissary was sent by Wrynn with his reply, the king said that he would give armaments to the Hillsbrad worgen and the Stormpike dwarves and would send the necessary reinforcements, but all this would only be done after the Goroscream Wars ended. In the end of the letter, Varian ordered the Counteroffensive to advance directly to Aerie Peak.

The Wildhammer Dawn
Aerie Peak had it's buildings reinforced in Dark Iron and was now way more protected than before, with reinforcements constantly spawning from the summoning portals.

Suddenly, Wildhammer and human gryphon riders infested the skies of the Hinterlands, bringing down the few Goroscream aerial force, but met difficulties with the Goroscream hunters. In the ground, the Alliance didn't manage to enter the Peak, the Goroscream was using their strongest warriors to hold the allied ground forces with mighty shields as spellcasters shot their soldiers and rogues used a hit-and-run tactic.

The Elemental Skirmish
In the middle of the battle, the Alliance and Goroscream shamans started summoning several Fire and Earth Elementals, the Alliance Earth Elementals punches in the ground make the Goroscream warriors shake and fall while the Fire Elementals' fireballs lay siege on their buildings and the Alliance finally manages to enter, they are held by the Goroscream elementals, whose boulders obliterate the enemies under and stuns those around it, the Fire Elementals burn the ground and the Alliance's feet.

When the warlocks of both sides finally managed to banish those elementals, it was too late...

The Peak of Aerie
With the Alliance ground forces finally managing to enter Aerie Peak, the Goroscream didn't last long, and their forces were obliterated. It was when Major Mattingly found the summoning portals that provided reinforcements for the Goroscream, they quickly entered the portals to end this battle.

Goroscream Showdown
The Alliance ends up in the entrance of Goroscream Hold, and are welcomed by a contingent of the Goroscream Honor Guard, which is quickly dealt with. Goroscream Hold's architeture follows a straight line, which made invading it even easier for the Alliance...if not for Guénon's resistence.

Once Guénon knew the Alliance reached them, he put a Snowserpent Mail Helm to hide his face from them, and alongside Gorossauro, Gorescream, Kredo and his Honor Guard went to the Entrance Hall, with such a small force but immense power, the Alliance was once again outside the stronghold, Major Mattingly was hit by Guénon's Explosive Shot right in the chest, knocking him unconcious and making Guénon open a malicious smile and prove that he is a force to reckoned, then roar that this shot "was for General Stripribs". As a group of Draenei shamans tried to wake Mattingly up and heal him, the small Goroscream resistence wreaked havoc upon the leaderless Alliance. And to make things worse, the frostwyrm, Yoza, rose from the underground, making a tremendous but fast earthquake. Yoza's blast combined with the might of the high tier of the Goroscream made the Alliance consider demise, as almost half of their forces became dust.

That was when the Alliance Warlocks decided to mimic the Goroscream strategy, they opened summoning portals and brought massive reinforcement with them. Luckily, Mattingly woke up at the same time of the reinforcements' arrival, he managed to reorganize and gain the upper hand in the middle of chaos, they striked hard and Yoza started to get worried, for the Goroscream's numbers were slowly reducing. Yoza roared and ordered all Goroscream soldiers to go back inside and bolster their defenses.

Guénon said that he couldn't afford losing her again, Yoza said that she missed Horzinaku and wouldn't care to die in battle if she managed to give a final help to their cause. Guénon's mind began to be disturbed, he felt that this would be a second Borean Terror, and went back inside with his people. Kredo summoned Greater Earth Elementals to aid Yoza and thanked her for all she had done and went back inside.

With blue flames floating away from her eyeholes representing tears, Yoza roared and charged with the elementals, Warlord Roggar -a Furbolg Warrior- sent a Shockwave against the Alliance -stunning most of it's forces- before retreating.

Eventually, she was defeated and destroyed alongside the elementals, while the Alliance tried to reopen the stronghold's gates, Guénon met treachery, with defeat imminent, the servants of the Barov Family escaped Goroscream Hold by jumping off windows in despair. This took a considerable amount of Guénon's forces, when the troll looked behind, the door opened.

Upon looking at Yoza's corpse and elemental remains, Guénon told himself that he wasn't supposed to be a leader, he dropped his weapon and took a few steps to Major Mattingly.


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The remaining Goroscream went into a suicidal skirmish against the Alliance, each Goroscream soldier fell one after the other, Kredo was being victim of the paladins' holy magics, Guénon saw his men's honorable deaths, this distracted him and then he was stabbed in the chest by Mattingly. With blood spilling constantly, Guénon fell to the ground.

He couldn't take any action but look around and see the death of his allies' deaths, although Kredo's words, Guénon couldn't stop to feel the pain of seeing his people fall once again. The pain reached it's peak when he saw Kredo vanish, he tried to concentrate his last strenght to finally die with honor, but he remembered that "his day was not that one", and thus, faked his own death.

The last one to fall was a Fel Orc Dark Shaman...when he fell to the ground, Goroscream Hold became the graveyard of a genocide. Mattingly and his men took a portal back to Stormwind, with the sensation of "mission complete", but not before spitting on Warlord Roggar's face.

Guénon's Awakening
A few minutes after the Goroscream's defeat...


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The Relentless
The Alliance thought the conflict was over, and thus, started to fully occupate their recovered bases. When the turn of Chillwind Camp came, all the small Alliance Expedition sent there saw as an abandoned camp, but when they got closer to it, the group was decimated by stealthing rogues.

These rogues were left there by Guénon to ensure Goroscream influence over the area, unaware of the Goroscream's end, the rogues kept doing what they were ordered to. And with the following weeks, the unawared Alliance kept sending people to Chillwind Camp, with no success in reclaiming the base. At first, they thought the expeditions were being killed by the Scourge forces in the area, thus, they sent stronger warriors for the camp. Once again, the rogues made another bloodshed, but one Draenei Paladin managed to survive, he went to Stormwind and told that the true assassins were the Goroscream Rogues, not the Scourge.

This time, the Alliance sent an even stronger expedition, with all members armed to the teeth, but that didn't scare the rogues, and another fight occurred. This time, the Alliance gained the upper hand, recognizing defeat, the rogues retreated to Goroscream Hold and ask Guénon for aid, but all they found was piles and piles of corpses, Guénon's one was nowhere to be found.

Upon finding Stormwind's crest in a dead human footman's shield, the rogues discovered the Goroscream was now defunct thanks to the Alliance. Consumed by hatred, they created their own faction, dedicated to have their revenge against the Alliance, thus, The Relentless were born.