Short version: In legion Darkshire is taken over by a cult, the Nightswatch becomes a part of this cult (save for one member who joins the hunter order hall but that’s irrelevant to the tale). Many of the civilians are killed by this cult and the only living people are cultists. The assassination spec Rogue comes running through and the questline ends with the woman leading the Nightswatch being slain and the Nightswatch leaderless. Though from what I’ve seen not much becomes of this.
What happened to Darkshire? I just assume with the Legion defeated along the Nightswatch and Cult having their leadership cut up like cheese that they just scatter or something. Or hide in hovels. So is Darkshire just abandoned now? Is this little quest hub now a ghost town in terms of the storyline? Duskwood was never exactly a safe place to live in the World of Warcraft and its only defenders have gone crazy and many of them were slain by the Rogue like adventurer seeking the Kingslayers.
No, actually. There are several civilians, and even one member of the Night Watch (Sarah Ladimore, Morgan Ladimore’s daughter), who didn’t turn to the cult, and are seen holed up defending themselves in a house. Presumably since the Veiled Hand was scattered somewhat and their leader chased away by the Shadowblade’s arrival, they survived this ordeal.
I made a list of everyone who survived the Darkshire attack here:
As for Darkshire today? We don’t know. We know that its population is largely dead and its militia likely as well, so on paper it doesn’t sound so good. But as far as we know, Darkshire’s still standing, just with dwindled numbers.
Thank you, apparently I wasn’t as observant as I thought I was. I didn’t come across the house with the survivors defending themselves. I just figured the ones that weren’t killed were converted to the Legion worshiping cult. My mistake.
Abandoned at this point since I doubt the few remmaining civilians would stay in that place after the events of Legion and also they would need at least a good numbers of guards to help in securing the town
Night Watch members not in Darkshire and not shown to be part of the Veiled Hand (minus Sarah Ladimore):
Watcher Blomberg*
Watcher Callahan
Watcher Corwynn**
Watcher Cutford
Watcher Danuser
Watcher Dodds
Watcher Gelwin
Watcher Hutchins
Watcher Merant**
Watcher Paige
Watcher Sarys**
Watcher Selkin
Watcher Thayer**
*Status unknown after Wrath.
**Status unknown after Cata.
There’s also Deputy Mayor Role Dreuger who also wasn’t present during the scenario, so depending on the affiliations of these individuals, there may still be a local government and guard in place, just fairly diminished and not stretching as far in Duskwood as they used to due to being recalled to Darkshire.
Probably very little. Without phasing or attention beyond what was a class quest, it will probably be paved over by more prominent events. In a world where we some day see a post-cata re-vamp, perhaps we’ll know. But, assuming one way or another is just an exercise in personal preference.
My personal preference for hypothetical revamp portrayal? After the subversion in Legion, the population begins to be overrun by Worgen, and becomes infected by the Worgen curse. Gilnean Worgen arrive in force, and you quest with them to rescue the region, grow one of those cool Gilnean trees, and help the population deal with the curse.
Region is left sustainable, and we get more sweet Gilnean architecture in a region where it is entirely thematic.
It’s been fertile ground for RP and RPPVP intrigue on my server.
My Forsaken centric guild is trying to turn it into a puppet state so it has free reign over the area, and also to insight domestic drama near SW should they mess about in Lordaeron.
Another Alliance guild has a whole plan to rebuild it and refurbish it into the thriving region of Grand Hamlet it used to be.
Other guilds are wrapped up because it’s lack of stability means lucrative security work or simply because it’s smack dab on a main artery between Stormwind, Booty Bay, Karazhan and the Dark Portal.
The land itself also has a bunch of weird lore relevant to a bunch of different races built into it.
This is actually something I’m very fine with Blizzard just leaving as is. A hanging plotthread in an interesting zone can be a field day for user created content.
I’d rather we just finally end that curse and turn the region back into Grand Hamlet! While I do think worgens need more lore, I would prefer this be an actual Stormwind human victory.