Prelude Quest - Meeting of the Minds

It all begins in the city of Quel’thalas...the new guild “League of Skilled Gentle-beings” gathered people from all across Azeroth to join their illustrious ranks. Two Tauren, a Blood Elf, a Goblin and a Troll, all from extraordinarily different backgrounds were destined to join forces together in this guild.

The guild’s second in command; Ratheil Blood-thistle tasked the recruits to complete a quest together, given to them by the guild’s seer, a blind woman who would at first glance seem rather stereotyped, except what she says does seem to come true. Her age is unknown, why she is allied with the LSG is unknown, in fact, there is very little public knowledge of the seer, only that she speaks the truth.

Cryptically though. Their first mission, to prove their worth to the LSG, was to travel to the distant town of Brill, an Undead village only two hours ride from their capital; The Undercity. There they were to find a “blight upon the land”, and their sixth member who was held captive in “her own past.”

Travelling to Undercity via the Silvermoon town portal, and a quick Zeppelin ride later had the team arrived in Brill and started investigating. They were quick to discover that people (read: Forsaken) had been going missing. Given the nature of Forsaken this was not unusual, however the locations of where they were going missing, and the inside knowledge from the seer led the team to make their way to its location.

At the site the team found a Forsaken woman standing in the middle of the field who for no purpose started to attack them. Having to fend off this attack, but being unable to do damage, the teams troll rogue discovered some unusual happenings inside a nearby farmhouse. Upon investigating he discovered a group of mages around a runic circle, one of which who immediately turned him into a sheep.

Still in combat, the two Tauren took it upon themselves to engage the Undead, the warrior holding it off, while the healer attempted to cleanse a controlling presence from its mind. The rest of the team noticed the disappearance of their rogue comrade, (they would soon learn this to be a normal experience) and also went to investigate the nearby farmhouse. Upon arriving they found the same mage preparing a spell to cast at the team, which was neatly disrupted by a new spell from the Blood Elf warlock who summoned her first demon...a controllable demon. The Imp bit into the mage while the Goblin hacked into it with his dagger. Goblin Tinker on Gnome Mage was a very fair fight. Gnome mage versus Goblin, Blood Elf Warlock, and Imp demon is most decidedly unfair, the mage going down under the demons killing blow.

Meanwhile, inside the farmhouse, the two mages continued their spell, unaware of their partners demise. They were also unaware of the rogue, who now released from the polymorph spell stabbed his spear straight through the chest of the human mage, who went down in a bloody heap on the runic circle. The spell broken and his compatriots dead, the remaining Gnome mage decided retreat was the better part of valour and disappeared in a flash of smoke.

The valiant efforts of the Tauren finally paid off when the runic circle was broken and the priests cure spell finally succeeded in removing the taint from the Undead, who was actually a Forsaken named Verdigris. After travelling back to Silvermoon with the Forsaken, she agreed to join the team and they were all accepted in the League of Skilled Gentle-beings. Each member of the team was granted a gift from the guild, a small palm sized stone with a rune glowing green imprinted on it. Called a “hearthstone”, it was designed to return the team to “home” when in dire need.