The IC Synopsis:
“A new dawn is approaching for all of humanity! Be ready my friends!” -Joseph the Enlightened
Whispers have begun to ferment of a brewing of great change… These hushed voices hark of a coming tide that will bring about a great dawn.
"The Arathi Highlands have always been a hotbed of tensions." - Danath Trollbane
There is a great trouble brewing in the Arathi Highlands at this present moment.
"Both Geya’rah and Danath have received word of unrest in the Arathi Highlands–civil unrest in Stromgarde, and raids on Mag’har and Stromic outposts.
Danath and Geya’rah are returning to their homes, Stromgarde and Hammerfell, to defuse these tensions."
In the city of Stromgarde, the once Stromgarde and Alliance backed Joseph the Awakened, now calling himself the “Joseph the ‘Enlightened’” and still Champion of the Scarlet Crusade, preaches of great change in Stromgarde City and Arathi Highlands:
“Look at the creatures Lord Danath Trollbane allows into your city! Filthy goblin[s] and other deviants! They are a sign. A sign of the doom of the Arathi dynasty. Of Stromgarde!”
These barbarians of the Horde–tauren, trolls, the undead! They exist only to kill and conquer!"
The orcs are the worst of all-- They are not even of this world yet claim territories on it. Territories they have waged war on us to keep! They have destroyed our kingdoms, and they will again–from Ar’gorok to Hammerfell, where our “Lord” lets them perch like vultures, waiting for us to be weak. They hope to take your homeland, humanity’s homeland, for themselves!"
This fervently preached message would be passed in hushed whispers along the humans of the metropolises far and beyond Stormwind City.
As these fiery sermons rang through the human ears of those who feel a great stirring of their Arathorian blood, propaganda pamphlets reached the good human only stock of all the furthest corners of Azeroth; from the Alterac Mountains and Uplands, to the beleaguered hills of Westfall to the very Moonbrook that was the heart and start of the Defias, all the way to Tirisfal at the Scarlet Monastery where once Joseph fought in a gritty civil war, as well as the Eastweald and beyond wherever the Scarlet Crusade’s flag of a human only Crusade still flapped proudly and to ultimately the very Highlands themselves. The hushed whispered of a new dawn, a new paradise, and new order of humans boldly claiming their proud Arathorian ties and lineages and supremacy that would have made Garithos’s Alliance seem like it had racial equality has taken hold of the Arathi Highlands and plants their very seeds within.
Three variations of pamphlets might find three variations of individuals and sympathizers-- one of Syndicate or Alteraci stock, one of Defias stock, and one of Scarlet stock.
"The Defias, the Scarlet Crusade, and now this “Syndicate”. I’ve been told these aren’t just bandit groups, but once powerful organizations in their own right.
Many are wondering why they are gathering in the Arathi Highlands. It would seem they each once had their own spheres of influence, but have amassed here for an unknown reason.
Does this Red Dawn have something to do with this? None of the people I talked to have ever heard of that group before…" (Faerin Lothar)
To the Defias Sympathizer who reads this…:
This is a piece of Red Dawn propaganda.
"The Defias have been failed by their leadership–first by the Van Cleefs, and now by Ratsbon. These charlatans have been satisfied with banditry and petty thievery. They suffer from a lack of imagination.
The Defias were founded to remove the corrupt nobles of Stormwind. We were to bring justice, honesty, and integrity back to our rulers. We lost sight of that in a quest for revenge.
No longer! Now we have found a new cause and leader. One who will not only clean up the corruption from Stormwind, but from all human kingdoms!
Rise up, my Defias brothers and sisters! Rise up like the morning sun and join the Red Dawn! Rise up and join with the Arathorian Trollbane!"
To the Alteraci and Syndicate Sympathizer who reads this…:
This is a piece of Red Dawn propaganda.
"Many years ago, the Alteraci were one of the first to set out from Strom and build a nation away from Arathor.
The kingdoms of Alterac and Stromgarde have quarreled over the years, but now we must remember our shared history of Igaenaus the Trollbane, Lord of Strom and Chief of the Alteraci Tribe.
It is now time for our people to unite once more like the days of Arathor. We are not the enemies, but cousins… and brothers by Ignaeus’s bloodline. We will take the first step in offering peace and reconciliation to the crimes committed from the mountain folk in the Second War and its aftermath.
I invite the remnants of Alterac, known as the Syndicate, to join the Red Dawn.
We are a faction that will fight for all humans, no matter their kingdom or creed. Let us return humanity to the glory it once had! - The Colonel (the moniker of the writer)
To the Scarlet Sympathizer or Sons and Daughters of Lordain who reads this…:
This is a piece of Red Dawn propaganda.
"Brothers and sisters of the Scarlet Crusade! Long have we fought to eliminate the scourge of undeath from our land! Long have we suffered defeat at their hands!
It is time for a chance! We must seek out allies to help us our glorious crusade! But more than that, we must lend our aid to those with even greater aspirations!
Let us not only save this world from the undead, but make it a paradise for humans everywhere! That is what the Red Dawn stands for! That is what our leader, the True House of Trollbane’s Queen, fights for!
A new dawn for all of humanity! - The Enlightened One (moniker of the writer)
From the smallest hamlets of the most forgotten of realms to the largest of metropolises of the likes of Stormwind and Ironforge to Stromgarde and beyond, these words are reaching the human people of tales of forgotten Arathorian imperial glory and the necessary paths to see it become a reality.
How to Join IC:
To join the Red Dawn, one must simply make a Red Dawn Oath of Loyalty.
Written on these scrolls is an Oath of Loyalty to the Red Dawn.
"I henceforth renounce all allegiances and swear my loyalty to the Red Dawn and its leader, Marran Trollbane.
I vow to serve, protect, and defend the cause of humanity to the exclusion of all else.
I promise to unite the pople of Arathor once more and see them take their place as the greatest nation on Azeroth."
OOC Synopsis AND A LOT OF SPOILERS:
Future events that will kick off for those who will be interested in this RP and the Red Dawn. As of this moment I am the only one who is doing this RP because this is a pretty new faction coming to light, but we will hopefully have events when the questline officially drops. Horde and Alliance factions would likely be involved.
WARNING!!! SPOILER INFORMATION FROM HERE ON OUT!!
This could be involved with us dressing up in Syndicate masks to attack Hammerfell, the Scarlet Crusade annihilation of the Stromic forces at Refuge Pointe, or the Defias attack on Newstead. This could be RP events with roll systems and all, or even RP-PvP infused if enough people truly got on board.
This would likely involve a potential coalition of unified Alliance and Horde forces (like we see with the Mag’har and Stromics of Danath Trollbane) to wipe out the Red Dawn and bring Marram to justice, Joseph the Enlightened who used to lead the Alliance backed Scarlet Renegades, and the Defias.
Your character does not have to be a part of any specific guild but this is more like a secret order forming that will be doing some awesome RP that will be a civil war in the Arathi Highlands between Marram Trollbane who claims the lineage of Ignaeus’s Trollbane bloodline (who was the Chief of the Alteraci) and Colonel Nials mentions this in her letter to the Syndicate welcoming them back into the Arathorian fold.