 Stormwind Army | |
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| Main leader | King Varian Wrynn |
| Secondary leaders | General Marcus Jonathan, Field Marshal Afrasiabi, Major Mattingly |
| Race(s) | Humans (majority), dwarves, high elves |
| Capital | Stormwind City |
| Theater of operations | Elwynn Forest, Westfall, Redridge Mountains, Swamp of Sorrows, Northrend |
| Language(s) | Common |
| Affiliation | Alliance |
The Stormwind Army is the backbone of Stormwind's Armed Forces. Considered by many to be the proudest men and women in service to the King, these soldiers defend the interest of Stormwind and the Alliance. Before the return of King Varian Wrynn, the army had been thrown into disarray and scattered due to the efforts of the broodmother Onyxia of the Black Dragonflight who at the time was masquerading under the guise of Lady Katrana Prestor. With the Varian back in command of his army, reinforcements and aid were sent throughout the Kingdom of Stormwind to help secure them once again.
The Armies of Stormwind have seen fighting in Outland, Northrend and with the start of the Alliance-Horde War have been dispatched to strategic fronts to reinforce their allies or to secure the home line across their kingdom.
Organization
The Stormwind Army is compramised of several distinct units that involve the actual armed forces that get dispatched to reinforce or even invade other territories and the Stormwind Guard which takes care of problems on the home front throughout the Kingdom of Stormwind. SI:7 tends to work very close with the army aswell as the rest of the entire Alliance.
Notable NPCs
- General Marcus Jonathan is the High Commander of Stormwind Defense. He is responsible for the day to day operations of the Stormwind Army, and commands it with great honor.
- Reginald Windsor was a high ranking Marshal in the Stormwind Army. He was a legendary commander who wielded the epic hammer
[Ironfoe], and he had been a living legend in Stormwind. He was later assigned the post of commanding all Alliance forces in the Burning Steppes. He was taken captive by a dark iron raiding party, and eventually was rescued and traveled to Stormwind, and revealed that Lady Katrana Prestor was actually Onyxia of the Blackdragon Flight. Marshal Windsor was killed by Onyxia in the keep, and is remembered as one of Stormwind's greatest heroes.
- Gryan Stoutmantle has been promoted to the rank of Marshal for his leadership during the armies dis-organization and involvement with leading the Westfall Brigade in Northrend. It falls to him for commanding the army in Westfall and ensuring the law is upheld. Considering the mass transients seeking refuge in Sentinel Hill and the rise of organised crime in the region once again this is no easy task.
- Marshal Marris is the leader of the Stormwind Army unit in Lakeshire. He sits by the Lakeshire Bridge overseeing the day to day defense of the town.
- Marshal McBride is in charge of the military forces in Northshire Abbey, the human starting location. He is the quest giver for all of the class-specific introductory quests for humans. With Blackrock Orcs attempting to invading the small enclave, his job has become much more dire than it use to be.
- Marshal Haggard is a former leader of the Stormwind army, and lives in a house near the Eastvale Logging Camp.
Reactions to the neglect before Varian's return
The Stormwind army was criticized harshly by the leaders of the surrounding zones, Westfall's Gryan Stoutmantle, Redridge Mountains' Magistrate Solomon, and Duskwood's Lord Ello Ebonlocke, for their lack of response to the zones' troubles. In Redridge, and Lakeshire in particular, there was at least a presence of the Stormwind army, even though the soldiers there, like the ones in Elwynn Forest, give many quests to help alleviate the problems in the zone. In Westfall, the people have formed The People's Militia to fight against the Defias Brotherhood and the gnolls and mechanical monsters that have taken over their fields and the town of Moonbrook. In Duskwood, the people have formed a militia called The Night Watch, assembled to battle the undead, worgen, ogres, and vicious spiders that have taken over most of the zone outside of the town of Darkshire.