Alterac palace
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This article's name is unofficial.
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The palace[1][2] or castle[3][4] in Alterac City was the residence of the royal Perenolde family.
The building had a map room featuring a large tapestry-map covering one of the walls. It showed Alterac from edge to edge, with towns and forts picked out in silver thread and the building itself in gold. There was a garderobe in the corner of the room.[3]
During the Second War, King Aiden Perenolde summoned his officers to the castle's map room to inform them of his treaty with the Horde. Shortly after, he murdered an Alliance messenger and hid his body in the garderobe.[3] Aiden stayed in the castle with his personal guard during the Horde's subsequent crossing of Alterac.[4] After the war, the Alliance put Aiden under house arrest in the palace.[1] In the leadup to the Invasion of Draenor, Horde of Draenor forces led by Teron Gorefiend and their black dragon allies traveled to the palace and sent in orcs who killed Aiden's guards and carried the king out the front doors so Gorefiend could bargain with him for the Book of Medivh in exchange for destroying the Alliance garrison occupying the city.[2]
In the present day, the palace is the only relatively intact building left in the ogre-occupied Ruins of Alterac. Mug'thol, the leader of the Crushridge, resides inside it.
Notes
- The building is represented by a Castle building in Warcraft II,[5] is called a castle in Tides of Darkness,[3][4] a palace in Beyond the Dark Portal,[1][2] and is represented by a barracks model in World of Warcraft since there is no intact keep model.
- Aiden described Deathwing, on whose back Gorefiend rode, as being "large as the palace itself".[2]
References
- ^ a b c Beyond the Dark Portal, chapter 7
- ^ a b c d Beyond the Dark Portal, chapter 10
- ^ a b c d Tides of Darkness, chapter 15
- ^ a b c Tides of Darkness, chapter 16
- ^ Betrayal and the Destruction of Alterac (WC2 Human)
