Waking in the Crypt at Deathknell
A Forsaken paladin rises into the dawn of Tirisfal Glades, learns who freed him from the Lich King, and is handed a grim first duty.
Discovered Shadow Grave
The Road
My first sight of the world was Shadow Grave, in the pale dawn of Tirisfal Glades. I stopped a moment to take in the view. Then I walked on to Deathknell, where the dawn light lay cold over the place, and I paused there too.
Deeds
At Deathknell, Undertaker Mordo gave me my first task, called Rude Awakening. "About time you woke up," he said. By his telling, they had been ready to toss me into the fire with the others, but I had made it. He is the caretaker of the crypt, and he told me I was the Lich King's slave no more. He sent me to speak with Shadow Priest Sarvis in the chapel at the base of the hill.
Sarvis took my report and finished the task. He called me another of the walking dead and guessed that waking in the crypt with only the cold and Mordo had been a shock. He saw the confusion on my face and set out our situation. Lady Sylvanas, the Dark Lady, has freed us from the Lich King's control. She now leads us in war against the Scourge and the holdouts of humanity who dog our steps.
He gave me a new task at once, The Mindless Ones. The northern part of the village is overrun with them, and he wants them destroyed without mercy, whatever they once were. I am to kill eight Mindless Zombies and eight Wretched Zombies.
Fellowship
Sarvis greeted me as "paladin" and said that no other race on Azeroth has suffered as much as ours. To laugh in the face of death, he said, has become second nature to us. Before I left the chapel, Aramis Hammerhand welcomed me back to the light and asked whether I needed training.