When the first Nightborne appeared in Nighthold, Galen knew that Suramar would not be able to hold out for long.
Back then, Silvermoon City lost its magical barrier and was breached after only a few days. In the end, the king fell while defending the city walls. Suramar was probably not even as strong as Silvermoon City.
The most important factor was population.
The High Elf population was at least close to a million, but the Nightborne of Suramar couldn't even compare to the High Elves.
While complaining, Galen rode on the dragon form of Ancagalon, invisibly watching the situation in Suramar City from the sky.
The Scourge landed on the Bluegill Coast on the east coast, and then, taking advantage of the interruption of the magic barrier's power supply, poured into the Great Barrier from the gap.
Chief Arcanist Thalyssra's manor was instantly breached, and then a storm-like attack was launched on the walls of the Midnight Court.
Galen keenly noticed that there were actually living people in this Scourge army attacking the city!
After Ancagalon got closer, he discovered that these living people were Withered!
He didn't expect that the Lich King not only found traitors in Suramar City to sabotage the power supply of the Great Barrier, but also found exiled Nightborne outside the city!
Exile can be regarded as a unique political habit of the Nightborne.
Suramar once had a population of one million, but for ten thousand years, the Nightborne's population could only be maintained at around 180,000 to 190,000. Once it exceeded 200,000, the nobles would incite the lower classes to riot, and then take the opportunity to exile them.
Why do they do this?
Because there wasn't enough magic!
Magic addiction is an indelible disease rooted in the bodies of the Highborne, unless they don't come into contact with arcane energy from birth.
Although Elisande used the Eye of Aman'Thul to create the Nightwell, providing a source of magic for her people, the Eye of Aman'Thul was, after all, just an inanimate object, not a Titan itself, and its power would be exhausted after ten thousand years.
The people needed more magic and resources, and the ruling class needed more benefits. In order to stabilize the situation in Suramar, mana wine came into being thousands of years ago!
Mana wine is a drink made from the magic of the Nightwell through a series of complex processes, which can replenish the magic needed by the Nightborne's bodies.
Mana wine can alleviate magic addiction, has become a daily necessity for the Nightborne, and is also the hard currency of Suramar City. The mana wine quota has also become one of the means by which Elisande controls Suramar City.
Mana wine is equivalent to diluting the magic, diluting the energy of the Nightwell, which is a means of throttling, but ultimately it is just a temporary solution.
The increase in Suramar's population has made the supply of mana wine tight, and the interests of the nobles have been impacted. Therefore, once the population is too large, it will inevitably lead to riots, and then a wave of exile.
Hey!
The mana wine quota will be freed up, isn't it magical?
Now, those exiled Nightborne have become mindless Withered due to mana depletion, and are being used by the Lich King to become a force attacking Suramar, which can only be said to be extremely ironic.
However, there are not many of these Withered, only about ten thousand.
What the greedy nobles of Suramar don't know is that most of the exiled Nightborne have been gathered by their Chief Teleporter Oculeth and Thalyssra behind him, and settled in the Shal'Aran ruins in northwestern Suramar.
They manufacture mana wine by smuggling magic springs from Nighthold, curbing the exiled from sliding into the abyss of the Withered.
However, their source of magic is not inexhaustible. There are still Nightborne who have not been able to get help, and their magic has been exhausted and they have become Withered, controlled by the Lich King to join the army attacking the city.
Arthas is now familiar with commanding the siege, with meat wagons destroying the ground walls and Crypt Lords digging to destroy the foundations.
Soon, the ancient walls of Suramar collapsed section by section. Facing the city's rich magic, the Withered ran faster than those skeletons and ghouls, and swarmed into the city.
The Duskwatch, could only carry out street fighting in the northern part of the city to block the undead army.
Fortunately, the north of the city is the upper city of the nobles. The main facilities are gardens, zoos, and the Gilded Market. After the atmosphere of war enveloped the city, except for the nobles living here, there were not many people here anymore.
The Duskwatch, in cooperation with the large magical constructs in the city, struggled to curb the advance of the undead and the Withered, buying more time for the people in the city to evacuate.
Thalyssra and Ly'leth Lunastre have been gathering people in the south of the city to evacuate.
The south of the city is the Evernight Commons, where more than 100,000 people live.
It is definitely impossible to send them away in a short time by relying on the portal. It can only be said that Elisande is indeed a person who has experienced the Burning Legion's invasion in ancient times. The ships she arranged in the bay in the south of the city played a role.
With the help of ships from all over Suramar, the remaining people left the city by sea and sailed towards the Aszuna area in the south.
In half a day, in just half a day, the Duskwatch lost its ability to resist, and Arthas led his army from the Midnight Court to the front of the Nighthold.
The gate of the Nighthold was tightly closed, and the long passage in front of the gate was crowded with the undead army.
A purple arcane glow flashed, and the figure of a Nightborne noble appeared, fleeing in embarrassment behind Arthas.
Arthas glanced at this Advisor Vandrois, who had been turned against by the Lich King, and almost blurted out the word "waste."
"Shal'dorei? Submit to the will of the Lich King, and my master will bring you new life!"
As soon as Arthas said these words, there was a change on the Nighthold. A huge magical phantom of Elisande appeared at the gate of the fortress.
"Is this the so-called Scourge of prophecy? A bunch of skeletons!"
"The Lich King? Just a pathetic soul imprisoned in ice."
Here it comes! Here it comes!
Galen's eyes lit up. If he hadn't been on Ancagalon's back, he would have jumped up!
"Let me see who else is here?"
"Death Knight Arthas? Ah ha! An unfilial son who betrayed his country and murdered his father!"
"Kel'Thuzad? A mortal who pursues power, a poor man bewitched by the Lich King, you've come to the wrong person, you don't know that the real treasure is right beside you!"
"Dar'Khan? A Quel'dorei magister who colludes with skeletons and dead people, you are ashamed of the blood of the High Elves and defile the ten thousand years of reputation of the Dath'Remar family."
"Oh, and your new member, the exiled Joe, a loser! And my dear Advisor Vandrois, a Nightborne who was trusted by me and given the task of guarding the Nightwell, but cannot see his own destiny."
"What a bunch of pathetic souls!"
Where's the applause?
Where's the applause?
This is the best contestant in the first phase of the Azeroth Dissing Conference!