Aiden Perenolde Aiden Perenolde was the king of the nation of Alterac . During the Second War , he betrayed the Alliance by assisting the Horde in return for Alterac ' s promised safety . Biography . Aiden was a quiet - cultured looking man with graying brown hair , and hazel eyes . He grew up wealthy , never knowing need . He adored his home in the Alterac Mountains , but had his eyes on Lordaeron City . He held none of the lineage for the throne , even if everyone in Lordaeron died inexplicably . He was one of the human leaders at the councils to form the Alliance of Lordaeron . When the Horde invaded Lordaeron , he saw his chance to ride the wave of their destruction and claim the jewel of the Alliance as his own . His nation was one of weakest contributors to the Alliance during the Second War . Lord Aiden Perenolde and the rest of the ruling families of Alterac secretly sided with the orcs in exchange for power . He feared for the safety of his people , so he betrayed the Alliance by feeding information to Doomhammer and the Horde . Perenolde arranged for a peasant revolt in Tyr ' s Hand to cover Horde mining operations there , kidnapped mages from Dalaran and sent pirates to assassinate Sir Uther Lightbringer ; which would remove the driving force from the Order of the Silver Hand . However , this treachery was discovered and Alterac burned to the ground by the incensed Alliance forces . Perenolde was deposed and put into custody . But soon after was put under house arrest , and confined to his palace and the rest of his family was put on close watch , and the kingdom was put under Alliance control . As a sovereign king he could not be exiled , executed , or simply imprisoned ( in order to avoid worrying the other kings that the same reaction would occur if they disagreed on anything ) . The other kings wanted him to abdicate his position as king , so that he could be executed as a lesser noble . However , he refused , knowing it would mean his death . His kingdom had been put under martial law as a temporary solution . During an orc ish attack on New Stormwind in the aftermath of the Horde ' s defeat , Perenolde had the Book of Medivh stolen by his troops in an attempt to use for future leverage . He ultimately traded it to the Horde to rid his lands of the vengeful troops of Stromgarde and Lordaeron . Deathwing attacked the barracks holding the troops . His son Aliden was disgusted by the action of his father , knowing it would destroy everything he had done to try to clear the family name . After the debacle , Perenolde was declared a traitor . His people were exiled from their lands , and a warrant was put on his head . When the nobles were thrust from their lands into the Arathi Highlands after the Horde ' s defeat , he knew if they didn ' t work together they would die . Lord Aiden Perenolde , realized he had to do something drastic to reclaim his lands . When the Burning Legion and the Scourge began their assault on Lordaeron , he did not make the same mistake twice by allying himself with the enemy ; he simply took advantage of the Alliance ’ s distraction to begin moving on his lands . The harried and panicked citizens , the people they used to lord over , were frightened and confused and put up little fight , more concerned with the hellish creatures that were rampaging over the land . He managed to gain a loose hold on the prickly nobles to organize raiding parties on the local towns . When he regained control of his lands — and his neighbors — after the Third War , he had a burning desire to punish the Alliance ( never mind that it lay shattered with the fall of Lordaeron ) . He managed to urge his fellow nobles into taking more and more surrounding land , and currently the Syndicate holds a good portion of the Alterac Mountains and Arathi Highlands . He knew he was a target for the nobles who chafe under his rule and protected himself accordingly . Perenolde became the first and self - proclaimed ruler of the Syndicate . At the time he was 66 , dark of skin and hair with blue eyes . However , he was ultimately captured and ousted . He was left rotting in prison ( where he would eventually die ) . Now , Lord Aliden Perenolde , Aiden ’ s son , leads the Syndicate to regain the lands . His position and his former lands have been fought over by his eldest daughter , his eldest son , and his nephew . He was known to be addicted to flushbloom . Lord Perenolde ' s name . In the earliest Warcraft sources — the manuals and the novels — Aiden Perenolde is listed as " Lord Perenolde " and no first name is given . Lands of Conflict is the first source to establish his name as Aiden Perenolde . This is confirmed in Alliance Player ' s Guide , and appears in the novel , Tides of Darkness . Speculation . Death knight . It is unknown if Baron Perenolde was meant to be a relative of Perenolde , or Aiden Perenolde himself ( by the programmers ) . But if Aiden was alive after Warcraft III the latter is unlikely , in which case the character may not actually exist . He may also be the nephew mentioned in Day of the Dragon ( who was named Isiden in Beyond the Dark Portal ) .