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The War of the Spider was a conflict between the fledgling undead army of the Lich King and the Nerubian kingdom of Azjol-Nerub in Northrend.

The war began when the spider-lords send their elite forces to attack the Icecrown. The Nerubians were immune to the Lich King's Plague of Undeath and powers of mental domination, so in the following ten years the Nerubians fought with a strong and effective guerilla-tactic which the Lich King could battle against hardly. After that ten years Ner'zhul and his dreadlords won by invading their subterranean capital Azjol-Nerub with enormous mass of undead and the cunning Nathrezim, destroying the crypts and tunnels of the spider empire.

The Nerubian corpses weren't immune to resurrection, so following the conflict, the Lich King incorporated the Nerubian crypt fiends and crypt lords into his ranks, and adopted the Nerubian architectural style as his own.

For the in-game book and section of the History of Warcraft providing an official account of this event, see War of the Spider (History of Warcraft).

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