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Grand Inquisitor Isillien is a level 63 elite human in the Western Plaguelands. Isillien is the spiritual heart of the Scarlet Crusade.

The Grand Inquisitor is the spiritual heart of the great Crusade. Once a devoted priest of the Holy Light, he now sees his dedication to the Crusade as an even greater purpose. This dedication is real; it’s a powerful and total commitment to something that has measurable results — something the Holy Light never gave. Early in the life of the Crusade, he developed techniques for inquisition and questioning, as well as holding cells and torture chambers to extract information or to hold prisoners or initiates to see if they are infected by the plague. Undead are also held in these cells, and Isillien often visits them late at night, always alone. Crusaders say he enters the dungeon looking angry and almost mad (“mad” relative to the average crusader, which would be justifiably insane to the average eye). He exits calm and smiling, and speaks to no one about what he has been doing, and no one cares enough about the undead to wonder too much. He is 55, short and thin with a balding head and wide, green eyes.^{LoC 167}

Biography

The priest Isillien was formerly a priest of the Holy Light in Lordaeron, assigned to be the liaison for the Knights of the Silver Hand. There he worked closely with the elder High General Abbendis and his youthful charges, tutoring the young paladins in their quest for truth. He fled with Abbendis as Lordaeron fell to the Scourge. Priests and paladins fought as the Scourge attacked the city, but they fled as Lordaeron fell around them. Some whisper it was the wounds both men received in battle, or perhaps just the shock of seeing their whole purpose destroyed, but since that day both Isillien and Abbendis have been quite insane. Isillien and Abbendis wandered the area as the Scourge defiled the land, destroying what undead they could, gathering what warriors would join them. They had but one concern: eradication of all that had destroyed Lordaeron. Isillien became the spokesman for the group, his ravings gaining more followers than repelling them. Isillien is the heart of the Crusade. Abbendis and Isillien felt that although they had a good base, they really needed to attack the Scourge where they were the thickest: in the Eastern Plaguelands. Isillien took on the title of Grand Inquisitor and control of the Western Crusade, while Abbendis led the majority of the forces to Tyr’s Hand in the east to strike at Stratholme. Isillien guides the priests in the Crusade in their new roles as inquisitors, based in the Western Plaguelands. He is in charge of questioning undead and mortals alike to ferret out whatever information he can on the movement and settlement of the undead. Isillien controls the warriors through his impressionable paladin Taelan in the west. Isillien taught Taelin Fordring about the Holy Light and what it was to serve.^{LoC 165-167}

During a meeting of members of the Knights of the Silver Hand in Southshore, he tried to destroy the dark crystal then-Commander Mograine had recovered after the Battle of Blackrock Mountain with Smite - only to find out it absorbed the Light. This discovery led to the creation of the Ashbringer.

Quest involvement

Spoiler Alert! The following reveals major plot details from the Warcraft series ... read at your own risk!

 [60+] In Dreams

Tirion Fordring attempts to rescue his son, Taelan Fordring, from the clutches of the Crusade. Entering the Keep you escort Taelan Fordring after revealing his father lives, and that the Scarlet Crusade is corrupt. Down the road, however, Taelan Fordring is confronted by the Grand Inquisitor himself. Taelan Fordring takes the fight to the Grand Inquisitor as the player is forced to content with the elite guard from behind. The conversation is thus:

Taelan Fordring: This is not your fight stranger. Protect yourself from the attacks of the Crimson Elite. I shall battle the Grand Inquisitor.

Grand Inquisitor Isillien: You disappoint me Taelen. I had plans for you... grand plans. Alas, it was only a matter of time before that filthy bloodline would catch up with you.

Grand Inquisitor Isillien: It is as they say: Like father like son. You are as of weak of will as Tiron... perhaps more so. I can only hope my assassins succeeded in ending his pitiful life.

Grand Inquisitor Isillien: The Grand Inquisitor has charged me with destroying you and your newfound friends, Taelan but know this: I do this for pleasure, not of obligation or duty.

Grand Inquisitor Isillian calls for his guardsmen.

Grand Inquisitor Isillien: The end is now, Fordring.

Grand Inquisitor Isillien: Enough!

He quickly strikes down Taelan Fordring.

Grand Inquisitor Isillian laughs.

Grand Inquisitor Isillien: Did you really think you could beat me? Your friends are soon to join you, Taelan.

Grand Inquisitor Isillian turns his attention towards you.

At this point his father arrives.

Tirion Fordring: What have you done, Isillian? At one time you have fought for honor, for the good of our people... now you have murdered my boy.

Grand Inquisitor Isillien: Tragic the elder Fordring lives on... you are too late, old man. Retreat back to your cave, hermit, unless you wish to join your son in the Twisting Nether.

Tirion Fordring: May you soul burn in anguish! Light give me the strength to battle this fiend!

Tirion Fordring: Face me coward. Face the faith and strength that you once embodied.

Grand Inquisitor Isillien: Then come, hermit!

Isillien and Tirion Fordring engage in combat, and here Isillien falls. The impact this fight has is very long-reaching.

Tirion Fordring: A thousand more like him exist. Ten thousand. Should one fall, another will rise to ake the seat of power.

Highlord Tiron Fordring falls to one knee.

Tirion Fordring: Look what they did to my boy.

Highlord Tirion Fordring holds the limp body of Taelan and softly sobs.

Tirion Fordring:Too long have I sat idle, gripped in this haze... this malaise, lamenting what could have been... what should have been.

Tirion Fordring: Your death will not have been in vain, Taelan. A new order is born on this day... an order which will dedicate itself to extinguishing the evil that plagues this world. An evil that cannot hide behind politics and pleasantries.

Tirion Fordring: This I promise, this I vow.

It is here the Order of the Silver Hand is reestablished to bring the fight to the Lich King in Northrend.

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