Warfronts are inspired by World of Warcraft's real-time strategy game (RTS) roots. New Warfronts will open up as the expansion receives free content patches over time, depicting some of the biggest wars in the game's story. environment ( PvE) content that depicts the conflict between the Alliance and the Horde. As a noble, honorable faction, many Horde leaders (and indeed, players), were alarmed by Sylvanas' actions, forming the basis of the Horde story arc moving into Battle for Azeroth. But after the Night Elf leaders were able to escape, rather than cut her losses, Sylvanas ordered the Horde to burn down the entire city, slaughtering hundreds, maybe thousands of innocent civilians. Sylvanas initially planned to simply capture the city, holding its inhabitants hostage. Alarmed, the Horde leader Warchief Sylvanas, resolved to capture the Night Elf city of Darnassus, to the north of the main Horde city, Orgrimmar.

The Alliance began harvesting Azerite for itself, having killed the Horde goblin miners in the desert sands. Early on, Horde players discovered the power and potency of this strange new mineral and sought to extract it before the Alliance could gain knowledge of it. The crystallized essence of the planet, now known as Azerite, is bubbling up all over the land.

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