Will Lordaeron Ever Be Restored? Undercity after BFA?.

Hello guys this is Doronsmovies and today I will be talking about the future of Lordaeron. Covering the history, recent events and future speculations. So without further ado, let's get into the lore. Lordaeron is one of the most relevant human kingdoms and one of the most important empires within the old Alliance.

Initially, it split off from the Arathorian Empire and was just a city-state. It was named after the great Arathorian general Lordain that together with five hundred men kept the Amani forces at bay, all of them sacrificing themselves in order to protect the rest of the army.

Over time Lordaeron would grow to become one of the most influential human empires on the continent. Fabled for it's fertile lands and size as well as at their peak they held much of the northern Eastern kingdoms. They would rise to their prominence in the Second war as the Alliance of Lordaeron was formed there uniting other human kingdoms, dwarves, gnomes and high elves.

Under the leadership of Terenas Menethil the Alliance was victorious and the world was seemingly saved. The orcs that survived were placed into internment camps and in order to finance them Terenas demanded taxes from the rest of the kingdoms. This together with other issues essentially crumbled the once strong Alliance.

It was only Stormwind that remained with Lordaeron, but unfortunately, they would not be of much aid in what was to come. Through the Lich King and dark magic, the plague of undeath was created and it started spreading through Lordaeron like wildfire.

The son of the king Arthas was sent to investigate but this only led to him discovering that it was much too late and ultimately corrupting him. Arthas became a death knight, murdered Terenas and destroyed the rest of the kingdom. Lordaeron was hit extremely hard and it had a very tragic fate as most of the citizens were turned into the Scourge or were just wiped out.

Only a small group of survivors escaped to Stormwind and together or Jaina Proudmoore. Ultimately Arthas would head for Northrend and his minions would gain power, leading to the rise of Sylvanas Windrunner. She would manipulate the surviving humans and would defeat the dreadlords and the scourge and would take over much of the continent.

Now a large chunk of Lordaeron was the home to the newly founded forsaken, while other parts were ravaged by the remnants of the Scourge. The undead would ultimately join the Horde and over the years Sylvanas would keep expanding her foothold and influence across Lordaeron.

Many new bases were built and new war campaigns were started most importantly against Gilneas. What was once the sewage system of the capital city would now become the bustling undead capital known as Undercity. Now in the most recent time, massive changes would occur.

Sylvanas would burn Teldrassil and in response, the Alliance would mount a massive invasion against Undercity now known as the Battle for Lordaeron. It was a critical event with many casualties and ultimately the Alliance was able to take over the capital.

However Sylvanas rigged it and exploded the entire area with plague making the victory lose its significance and turning the area uninhabitable. Nonetheless, as we know now the Alliance did win so what exactly will happen with Lordaeron in the future after this war? It is very important to note that while the Alliance did conquer Undercity technically they didn't take over the continent.

The forsaken still control a large part of the land and what the Alliance did was invade from the North with their fleet, essentially bypassing Horde territory, nuking the city and leaving. The kingdom of Lordaeron is much more than just Undercity. The plaguelands were a major region, large part of the hillsbrad foothills, tirisfal glades, parts of silverpine forest and a few other areas.

Alliance actually has a presence in some of these, more in some than in others and as far as we know the Alliance managed to control the ruins of Gilneas and it was a strategic location in this war. Still forsaken are powerful and do manage to hold on to some of the regions.

Also Undercity was essentially blown away with plague so currently it is completely uninhabitable. Sure the lands were scorched and Alliance won but it's not like they have been rebuilding the capital city. In my opinion, as this is a world of magic it is possible to somehow bypass the plague but that would probably take some time and effort The main point is in order for the Alliance to restore Lordaeron they would really need to conquer most of the other regions in order to actually secure the zones.

However, all of this is much more complicated than that. The Alliance obviously has an interest in expanding their influence seeing that they rebuilt Stromgarde and there is currently an ongoing conflict there. Also, Genn, being very close to the king, is extremely keen on revenge and rebuilding the fallen kingdom of Gilneas.

If Stromgarde and Gilneas are rebuilt, Lordaeron seems only like the rational third piece seeing that many survivors fled to Stormwind. Obviously the Horde is not going to make this easy in the slightest as if the Alliance managed to occupy all of this Silvermoon would be under a serious threat and Horde would ultimately lose almost all of their influence within the Eastern Kingdoms.

One counter-argument though is that maybe the Alliance doesn't actually want to rebuild Lordaeron as we have seen with some Lordaeron survivors saying they wouldn't want to return to their home. Recently there was an attempt that did end up completely wrong with some humans reuniting with their families that were undead or vice versa.

Sylvanas was very much against this and this ended up with the death of Calia Menethil the sister of Arthas. Now, in my opinion, seeing that Calia is undead I think she could be key to this entire process. As Sylvanas essentially abandoned the Horde they are now leaderless and seeing the interactions with Thrall, Varok and Anduin it doesn't seem like the Horde wants to actually continue an all-out war and conquering Silvermoon and all of the Horde areas would cause way more bloodshed than what the recent campaigns caused.

So here is my speculation that makes sense to me. Calia Menethil as the daughter of Terenas and the rightful ruler to Lordaeron could take over and lead the Forsaken, either by herself or with a council which would essentially rebuild Lordaeron just in a different Light and seeing that the Horde and the Alliance would be on better terms maybe the Gilneans are allowed to rebuild their Kingdom and the surrounding areas.

I think this could be a possibility and I honestly doubt that there would now be a new all-out war in order to restore Lordaeron, especially since Lordaeron was completely obliterated in the conflicts and there isn't much left of the foundation to rebuild on.

Or Blizzard could completely forget about this, patch only a part of the story with the Forsaken and would leave this hanging for the next 10 years as was the case with Gilneas. Thank you for watching. Check out why Sylvanas was so powerful by clicking on the screen and also check out the second channel Doron's Academy for videos on real-world history and science.