Hello guys this is Doronsmovies and today
I will be talking about the Scarlet Crusade
and their whereabouts.
Briefly covering their history and then discussing
their current state and if they could ever
return.
So without further ado, let's get into the
lore.
So the Scarlet Crusade are like the good guys
that had noble goals, but turned bad and ultimately
it lead to their destruction.
After Lordaeron fell in the battle against
the Scourge, the paladins of the Silverhand
had united to cleanse the land and to get
rid of the undead.
All with very noble goals to save their homeland.
However not only did they not succeed in that
but they went in a completely different direction
and were attacked from all sides.
Since their creation, the Crusade has been
plagued by the nathrezim that constantly manipulated
them which led to many of the bad things they
had done driving a lot of the crusaders mad.
Initially, they swore to fight the undead
and as the Forsaken were formed they were
now fighting on two fronts although they had
seen all the undead as one enemy.
The troubles really began when the living
became the enemy as well.
They refused to ally with other races as they
saw them as unclean and they figured only
men could save Lordaeron.
It turned out though that not even all men
could be trusted and they would just starting
purging everything and everyone.
This is partly attributed to dreadlords, partly
to fanaticism and ultimately to insanity.
The Scarlet Crusade turned from an order of
paladins into a religious sect where leaving
would mean death.
This is exactly the fate Tirion's son Taelen
Fordring encountered when he attempted to
join his father.
The Scarlet Crusade use to be pretty powerful,
mainly pre-wrath of the lich king which was
the peak of their strength.
They had control over much of Lordaeron at
least what wasn't infested completely by the
Scourge and they even managed to develop a
fleet and to send an expedition into Northrend
to battle the Lich King.
They must have been pretty strong at the time
if they felt like they could take on the Scourge
on their own home continent.
However, everything would go terribly wrong.
When Wrath of the Lich King came around, they
were once again manipulated by dreadlords,
got destroyed by Arthas's death knights as
well as the Alliance and the Horde both in
the Eastern Kingdoms and Northrend.
Now it doesn't make much sense that we really
fought them as after all we had a common enemy
but the narrative was that they were so corrupted
and insane that they were beyond help and
were more of a detriment in the effort against
Arthas then they were help.
There were noble souls and dissidents within
the order but generally the upper echelons
were fanatical.
By the time of Cataclysm, most of their forces
were obliterated.
The Northrend expedition severely weakened
and they lost much of their possessions within
the Eastern Kingdoms.
As the Lich King was defeated the Argent Crusade
became their successor whom they had a very
strained relationship with.
Sometimes friendly sometimes hostile.
Many of the surviving members fell to undeath
or were just gone.
This makes sense as they had almost no economy,
they were located in the middle of undead
territory and after their atrocities became
widely known very few wanted to pledge themselves
to the Scarlet Crusade, especially as the
Argent Crusade was there as a much better
alternative.
Now with the new paladin order there are even
less reasons and much of their growth came
from the shock of the fall of Lordaeron which
is now a distant threat.
By the time of Mists of Pandaria most of their
power was within the Scarlet Monastery and
they actually started to rebuild and regain
their power.
However, by Legion the monastery was attacked
by the Ebon Blade that swore they would wipe
out every single one of them.
Now we have also heard that there were some
Scarlet Crusaders left as a part of the Onslaught
which was their Northrend expedition.
The onslaught is a bit different as they had
splintered off from the crusade and they even
employ death knights and shadow priests which
is like the number 1 sin by their rulebook.
Still ultimately almost the entirety of the
leadership and not just leadership but even
the higher ranks were almost completely wiped
out.
Some dissidents managed to join the Conclave
and abandon them.
Things even got so bad that there was a scarlet
crusade quartermaster at the Darkmoon island
selling paraphernalia in order to fund their
campaign.
What is certain is that they are severely
crippled but exactly how strong they are is
not confirmed.
Seeing that the Scourge will soon be all but
defeated and much of Lordaeron was cleansed
their purpose is slowly becoming obsolete.
However, with the Shadowlands and undeath,
it is entirely possible that they might return
in some other way.
We might see some of their prominent characters
in the afterlife and they might join us in
other ways.
Nonetheless, I don't ever seem them returning
near their power level of Wrath of the Lich
King and them becoming a significant order
ever again.
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