Show Notes
Lore segment begins at (21:50)
The Twilight Highlands should be where Horde and Alliance turn their attention toward Cho’gall, the Bastion of Twilight, and the growing power of the Twilight’s Hammer.
Naturally, they spend the opening campaign trying to blow each other off the shoreline.
In Episode 75 of Tides of Lore, War on the Twilight Shores, we follow the first major push into the Twilight Highlands from both sides of the conflict. The Alliance crashes into Highbank, fights to hold the coast, and begins the difficult work of rallying the Wildhammer clans. The Horde secures Dragonmaw Port, helps Zaela overthrow Mor’ghor, pushes against Highbank, and tries to turn the Dragonmaw into a real force within Garrosh’s Horde.
But while both factions bleed over beaches, wreckage, gryphons, gunships, naga, and goblin engineering disasters, Cho’gall is already watching. The Twilight’s Hammer does not need the Horde and Alliance to lose immediately. It only needs them angry, distracted, and predictable.
This is the story of Highbank, Dragonmaw Port, the Wildhammer clans, Zaela, Kurdran, the Demon Chain, the Eye of Twilight, and one wedding that somehow becomes the moment the anceint Wildhammer clans finally stand together.
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