This article or section contains lore taken from Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, the manuals, and official bonus maps.

This article is about a faction led by Lord Garithos during the aftermath of the Third War. For the actual faction, see Alliance.

New Alliance
Main leader	Grand Marshal Garithos
Secondary leaders	Kael'thas Sunstrider
Race(s)	Blood elf  Dwarf  Human  Wildhammer dwarf
Base of operations	Dalaran (Third War)
Theater of operations	Silverpine Forest, Alterac Mountains, Lordamere Lake (Third War)
Affiliation	Alliance of Lordaeron
Status	Kael'thas' loyalists joined Illidan and Garithos' loyalists were annihilated by the Forsaken.

The New Alliance^[1] (normally referred to as simply the Alliance)^[2][3] was a small band of human and elven warriors that fought back against the Scourge in the aftermath of the Third War.^[1] They were led by Grand Marshal Garithos and the force consisted of humans, blood elves led by Prince Kael'thas Sunstrider and dwarves under both Bronzebeard^[4] and Wildhammer.^[5]

Contents 1 History 1.1 Background 1.2 Blood elves 1.3 Divided 1.4 Mind-controlled 1.5 Annihilation 2 Command structure 3 Relation with the Alliance 3.1 Legacy 4 References

HistoryEdit

BackgroundEdit

During the Third War, Dalaran was destroyed by Archimonde,^[6] but many of the Burning Legion demons went to Kalimdor and were defeated.^[7] Lord Garithos became the Grand Marshal of the survivors of the Alliance of Lordaeron and managed to retake Dalaran.^[8]

Blood elvesEdit

Main article: Alliance Remnants

Garithos and his men were joined by Prince Kael'thas Sunstrider and his healthiest warriors^[9] voluntarily, although they were met with suspicions by the prejudiced human Garithos. Garithos assigned the blood elves increasingly difficult missions,^[10] he stationed them throughout Silverpine Forest and would have perished if not for the help of Tyrande and Maiev.^[11] They returned to Dalaran but were scolded by Garithos and ordered them to repair three observatories,^[12] after the repairs Lord Garithos went to the front lines and left Kael'thas to await orders. The next day an emissary sent by Garithos withdraw the human and dwarven troops from Kael'thas control and send them to the fornt lines, then Dalvengyr and an undead army launched an attack to Kael'thas' bases. When the blood elves were going to be defeated, Lady Vashj and her naga appeared and helped Kael'thas. The combined armies attacked the undeads and managed to kill Dalvengyr, but later Garithos arrived and saw the naga, he condemned this action as treason and imprisioned the blood elves for excecuting them later.^[13]

DividedEdit

The New Alliance was divided into two groups: the human and dwarves loyal to Garithos and Kael'thas' forces, the blood elves who were imprisoned.

Imprisoned and sentenced to death, the blood elves were rescued by Vashj. Kael'thas fought his way throughout the dungeons of Dalaran, defeating the Garithos' Enforcers and to his former friend Kassan. The blood elves planned to reopen the portal opened by Kel'thuzad to bring Archimonde to Azeroth and redirect it to Outland, where they would meet Illidan, however, they would need to keep Garithos at bay while his men crossed the portal.^[10][14][15] The portal was attacked by the Garithos' Elite Guard with the suicide mission of destroying it. Kael'thas, Vashj and some engineers planned the defense and managed to hold Garithos.^[16]

Mind-controlledEdit

After the blood elves escaped Garithos continued fighting against the Scourge. But after Arthas had been overthrown and left to help the Lich King, the New Alliance and the last human remnants from Lordaeron were bewitched by Detheroc.^[17] Sylvanas and Varimathras attacked Detheroc's base and managed to slay the dreadlord,^[2] freed the humans and defeated the remaining undead.^[17] Sylvanas proposed an alliance with Garithos, at which he was offended by such an offer as Sylvanas had been part of the undead army that drove the humans out of Lordaeron in the first place. However, running out of military options, he assembled what was left of his forces and met Sylvanas outside of the base.^[2]

AnnihilationEdit

The elves had left the New Alliance^[10] and the Wildhammer dwarves were annihilated,^[18] with just humans and Bronzebeard dwarves left; yet the humans went to the Capital City.^[3]

Sylvanas, Varimathras and Garithos planned to attack the Capital City, they knew that Balnazzar could only be defeated through attrition, so Sylvanas decided that Garithos' men would attack from the rear, while Sylvanas's forces would attack from the front.^[3] Balnazzar was unprepared by an attack of both armies.^[17] Garithos' was informed of the missing Ironforge dwarves, he was infuriated, but went in their search. He found and insulted them, commading them to help him in the battle, right after the dwarves joined his forces. With both arimes attacking from different sides, Balnazzar's Forces, the Dreadlord Insurgents and the Dreadlord Loyalists were defeated.

Balnazzar was "killed" by his brother Varimathras, then Garithos named Sylvanas' undead "wretched animals" and that they should leave his city, however Sylvanas ordered to Varimathras to kill Garithos, he glady done it^[3] and then slew his army,^[17] the New Alliance was annihilated. Sylvanas then renamed her faction as the Forsaken telling that she would slaughter anyone who stands in their way.^[3]

Command structureEdit

• Garithos - Grand Marshal. (Deceased)
  • Kael'thas - Prince and leader of the blood elves. (Defected for Illidan's forces and later the Burning Legion.)
    • Alliance Remnants - A group of humans, dwarves and blood elves. (The humans and dwarves were slain by the Forsaken and the blood elves joined Illidan and later the Burning Legion.)
  • Emissary - Informer to the troops. (Fate unknown.)
    • Kassan - Jailor of the dungeons of Dalaran. (Deceased)
      • Garithos' Enforcers (Defeated by Kael'thas and later slain.)
      • Garithos' Elite Guard (Defeated by Kael'thas and later slain.)
    • Rest of the army.

Relation with the Alliance Edit

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It is known that Stormwind and Ironforge sent troops to the front to repel the Scourge as we can see in Chillwind Camp and Southshore. However if those soldiers were there, they were suppose to take command from their leaders and not from Garithos. We can suggest that those soldiers were sent by their leaders to assist Garithos during the time he repelled the Scourge forces on the Alterac mountains. However when Garithos sent his troops in to the Plaguelands, Stormwind and Ironforge refused to send their troops into the Plaguelands realizing that such act would send their soldiers to their death and offered shelter for the Lordaeron refugees instead.

LegacyEdit

The New Alliance is hardly mantioned in World of warcraft. Unlike the 7th Legion that Fought in the Third War aswell, along side Jaina Proudmoore in Mount Hyjal and the Silver Hand that also Fought the Scourge on Lordaeron, The Humans of Stormwind and Theramore dont seem to adress the troops of the New Alliance as heroes.We can suggest from here that the People of the Alliance arent honoring the troops of the New Alliance at all, probadly because of their corrupted and racist leadership that sent their troops to their deaths and the Horrors they have made to the Blood elfs on the Dungeons of Dalaran causing them to leave the Alliance. Also only little numbers of troops from the New Alliance had survived. most of them were killed by the Forsaken and other may have Joined the Scarlet Crusade.

References Edit