User:Minionman/Human History

This history starts soon after the frozen throne story.

Stormwind
In the generation since the orc invasion of azeroth, the kingdom of stormwind slowly rebuilt itself, with refugees resettling the area, towns and villages being rebuilt, and while stormwind never recovered its former power and population, it once again had become a powerful human nation by the time of the scourge invasion.

Unfortunately, many of stormwind's best leaders were killed in the orc invasions. Although stormwind had other skilled leaders to take their place, and over a generation new leaders emerged, the years after the war saw corruption, waste, and disorganization creep into stormwind's institutions. This leadership deficiency was little noticed at the time, and it was assumed that the nation would fully recover given time.

When the scourge invaded the northern nations, however, many of stormwind's leaders traveled north to assist the war effort there. Left behind was much of the corrupt, timid, incompetent, or otherwise less skilled nobility. These nobles often squabbled pol;itically, and often forced unpopular decisions, but successfully built social and political networks that gradually took over much of stormwind's institutions. When more skilled stormwind leaders travelled back home from the wars in the north, they found they had little political power, and had difficulty regaining control of the nation.

With lordaeran's destruction, stormwind, now the most populous human nation, became the de facto leader of the alliance in the eastern kingdoms. However, the nation's incompetent leadership left it unable to deal with many of its own problems, let alone assist other nations with theirs. Over time, other human nations in the eastern kingdoms, the dwarven nation of ironforge, and the loosely organized wildhammer dwarves, began organizing themselves to deal with threats. Nobles in stormwind protested, seeing these new alliances as a threat to their power, but more and more often were ignored or not consulted at all. The deeprun tram, a long planned project wqith obvious advantages, that normally would have gained Stormwind's full support and been rapidly completed, instead was delayed constantly due to corruption, mismanagement, and often mysterious losses of promised materials, labor, and support.

While stormwind city itself remains well guarded, the outlying areas of the nation face several threats. A group of disaffected craftsmen, masons, and other workers known as the defias brotherhood had bases throughout the nation of Stormwind, and are concentrated in the southwest. Towwards the northeast, Blackrock orcs from the volcanic lands north of Stormwind have raided and attacked the lands in the Redridge mountains. To the southwest, dark creatures and undead beings have attacked from the region known as deadwind pass, once the home of Medivh, now a barren land leading to rougher terrain to the east and south.

Although stormwind has struggled under corruption and mismanagement for several years now, the nation appears to be improving. Stormwind retains a powerful, well trained army near the capital, and militias in outlying areas have proven resourceful at handling threats. Should the nation become more well organized, these forces would be quite dangerous to enemies of the alliance. Other alliance nations, who once simply ignored Stormwind, have begun putting political pressure on the nation's leaders to fix their problems and contribute their share to the alliance as a whole. Adventurers have helped militias in stormwind deal with outlying threats, allowing members of the militias to also put pressure on sotrmwind itself to fix its problems.

Hillsbrad
After the scourge invasion, the towns of the Hillsbrad region were the only sections of Lordaeran not overrun by the scourge invasion. fortunately for the residents of these towns, the scourge only made several small attacks, that were driven off by militia and forces from Ironforge, before much of the scourge were sent to Kalimdor to help the burning legion there. During the plaguelands wars, Tarren Mill and Hillsbrad were important supply sources for rebels led by Garithos and by remaining paladins. Even today, this region is an important source of supplies and recruitment for the Scarlet Crusade and Argent dawn. The town's populations also increased somewhat, from refugees fleeing the plaguelands and settling in the region.

Through the plaguelands rebels, Hillsbrad leaders knew of the forsaken's rebellion, the fighting amongst the dread lords, and the Lich King's loss of power. The leaders did, however, expect the scourge or some other group to one day regain power. During these events, militias in the Hillsbrad region trained hard, bought weapons and armor from Ironforge, and established communal stables for warhorses. Although Dalaran soon closed itself off, the Hillsbrad towns and Dalaran agreed to support each other should a large scale war occur.

However, it was not the scourge that would threaten Hillsbrad, but the forsaken. The Hillsbrad towns had been major supporters of Garithos's rebellion, and saw Sylvanas's forsaken as an enemy. Sylvanas herself saw the lands of Hillsbrad as potential land for expansion, and wanted revenge for their support of the scarlet crusade and other rebels. The forsaken's first attack succeeded in taking control of Tarren Mill, but later attacks against Hillsbrad and Southshore were defeated. Over the next few years, the forsaken and Hillsbrad towns settled into a stalemate.

In addition to fighting the forsaken, the towns of Hillsbrad improved diplomacy and trade with nearby alliance nations. Their biggest supporters are the nation of ironforge, who supply the forsaken with weapons, other supplies, and some soldiers. Stromgarde has also become an ally, but that nation is facing its own struggles and can only support Hillsbrad with information.