Knights of the Ebon Blade The Knights of the Ebon Blade ( mirroring the Knights of the Silver Hand ) are an organization of renegade death knight s . Their base is at in the Eastern Plaguelands . Its primary function is to guide new renegade death knights . Freed from the grasp of the Lich King , his former death knights have regrouped against him . During the Legion ' s Third Invasion of Azeroth , Bolvar Fordragon and the Knights of the Ebon Blade came to an agreement , the Ebon Blade would serve as his hand against the Burning Legion and Bolvar would not unleash the Scourge onto Azeroth and The Legion . Bolvar chose a specific adventurer and named them the Deathlord of the Ebon Blade , expecting the Death Knights to follow the Deathlord ' s orders as if they were his own . Bases . The Ebon Blade ' s primary base is in the Eastern Plaguelands , and is the location of the death knight trainers . Two other bases in Northrend are Ebon Watch in Zul ' Drak and Shadow Vault in Icecrown . Creation . The Knights of the Ebon Blade were originally an army of Scourge death knights trained in the halls of Acherus . They were created ( or so they were told ) for the purposes of destroying both the Scarlet Crusade in their enclave east of Tyr ' s Hand , and the Argent Dawn at Light ' s Hope Chapel . In truth , the entire plan was conceived by the Lich King himself not to destroy the Argent Dawn , but rather to use the death knight legion as bait to lure out the Highlord of the resurgent Order of the Silver Hand , Tirion Fordring . During the Battle for Light ' s Hope Chapel , where ten thousand Scourge faced off against three hundred defenders of the Light , the corrupted Ashbringer wielded by the death knight commander , Highlord Darion Mograine , refuses to obey its wielder . When Fordring arrives , his powers of the Light prove too great for even ten thousand to oppose , and Mograine orders his death knights to surrender . Fordring scolds Mograine for his foolishness and tells him that Arthas sent him and his death knights on a suicide mission . As they await the paladin ' s judgment , they witness a vision of Mograine ' s father , Alexandros , the legendary Ashbringer himself . He told his son that he would one day wield the Ashbringer and use it to mete out justice , but " that day is not today " . The Lich King himself arrives not long afterwards and confirms that he had indeed sent the death knights to their deaths in order to bring Fordring out of hiding . Enraged by this treachery , Mograine attacks , but the Lich King swats him aside in one hit and focuses his attention on Fordring , incapacitating him with a crippling spell and knocking back the Argent soldiers who charged in . Remembering the words spoken by his father , Mograine throws the corrupted Ashbringer to Fordring , whose powers of the Light succeed in purifying it . With the purified blade in hand , Fordring charges into the Lich King and throws him back . Leaving their battle for another day , the lord of the Scourge flees back to Northrend , warning Tirion that : " When next we meet , it won ' t be on holy ground , paladin . " After Arthas ' departure , Fordring calls for the union of the Argent Dawn and the Order of the Silver Hand into the Argent Crusade , intended to bring the war to Icecrown itself . Mograine pledges himself and his knights to the same cause , naming his new order the Knights of the Ebon Blade . With their free will restored , Mograine and his death knights return to Acherus and capture it , destroying the Scourge remnants within . With their new base secured , Mograine then sends his knights to rejoin their people , sending them to throw themselves at the mercy of either King Varian Wrynn in Stormwind ( if their race belonged to the Alliance ) or Warchief Vol ' jin in Orgrimmar ( if they belonged to the Horde ) . Reputation . All players , with the exception of death knight s , start out at with the Knights of the Ebon Blade . ( Upon the completion of , death knights are raised to reputation . ) Reputation with Knights of the Ebon Blade can be earned by completing the following daily quests . Additionally , as with some other factions , reputation can be gained through Championing via the , or by trading 1 for 1 at the Emblem of Triumph Quartermaster in Dalaran . Rewards . These rewards can only be purchased after completing the | questline in Icecrown . The questline is available starting at level 77 from on the " The Skybreaker " , on the " Orgrim ' s Hammer " , or from at the Shadow Vault . Rewards are bought from at the Shadow Vault . Quests . Zul ' Drak . Light ' s Breach . < onlyinclude > # Ebon Watch . < onlyinclude > # " or " ( + 195 Knights of the Ebon Blade ) Icecrown . Shadow Vault . 9442 Reputation < onlyinclude > # / ( + 325 Knights of the Ebon Blade ) < onlyinclude > # ( + 13 Knights of the Ebon Blade ) Death ' s Rise . 3211 Reputation < onlyinclude > # ( + 13 Knights of the Ebon Blade ) Started from a drop : < onlyinclude > # + 325 Knights of the Ebon Blade ) < / onlyinclude >