Battle for the Undercity

==Prelude==
Shortly after the battle for Angrathar the Wrathgate began and Dranosh Saurfang was slain by the Lich King, Grand Apothecary Putress appeared on a cliff overlooking the battlefield and used Forsaken catapults to unleash the New Plague on the forces gathered below. The losses on all sides were great, and for the Alliance, it was the presumed death of Highlord Bolvar Fordragon, leader of the Valiance Expedition.
Soon after, it was revealed that Putress had betrayed Sylvanas Windrunner rather than acting under her orders, and with several members of the Royal Apothecary Society they sided with Varimathras, who had secretly remained loyal to his nathrezim brothers and the Burning Legion while serving under Sylvanas. Together, the two had orchestrated a coup d'état and forcefully taken control of the Undercity, nearly killing the Dark Lady in the process.
==Battle for the Undercity==
===Horde===
Determined not to allow the dreadlords a foothold in Horde territory, Thrall and Sylvanas planned an immediate counter-attack.The Battle For The Undercity (Horde) In the midst of their planning, Jaina Proudmoore arrived bearing terrible news: in the wake of Bolvar Fordragon's death, King Varian Wrynn was preparing for a possible war with the Horde. Thrall assured Jaina that the Horde had no official interest in war unless provoked and that he would ensure that justice would be done.
After informing the Alliance diplomats that the Horde was not responsible for Grand Apothecary Putress' treachery and that only the Lich King would gain if the Horde and Alliance were to fight one another, Thrall along with Sylvanas and Vol'jin led the assault into Undercity itself to reclaim it for the Horde. After fighting the Forsaken rebels and the demons within, the combined might of the Horde defeated the enemies, with Sylvanas slaying the traitorous demon Varimathras.
===Alliance===
After receiving word of Bolvar Fordragon's death, King Varian Wrynn was overwhelmed with anger and sorrow, having considered Bolvar a brother ruling his kingdom and raising his son for years. He sent Jaina Proudmoore to Orgrimmar to discover the reason for the Horde's betrayal, which he deemed an act of treason and demanded retribution for his friend's death. Jaina returned and informed Varian that Varimathras and the Royal Apothecary Society had betrayed them all and the Horde no longer controlled Undercity. Having already ordered an assault on Undercity while Jaina was away, King Varian deemed that not only was it the perfect time to bring Bolvar's murderer, Grand Apothecary Putress, to justice, but to also retake Lordaeron for the Alliance as well.
Varian and Jaina gathered the Alliance army and attacked Undercity, hoping to reclaim it as Lordaeron for the Alliance and bring Putress to justice. When entering Undercity, Varian becomes disgusted by the condition of the once great city, which he knew since childhood. Tracking Putress to the Apothecarium, Varian and Jaina defeated him. But, to Varian's horror, they also discovered dozens of mutilated and defiled human corpses, on which the Apothecary Society experimented to create the New Plague; realizing that although the Alliance and Horde agreed to a small truce over the years, the Forsaken had been secretly creating a means to kill them all.
==Aftermath==
Ultimately, both Varimathras and Grand Apothecary Putress were killed, and Varian confronted Thrall and Sylvanas in the Royal Quarter. Battle ensued, though Lady Jaina Proudmoore intervened by freezing the combatants solid and teleporting all Alliance forces out, or both faction would have destroyed each other.Exploring Azeroth: Northrend, pg. 145
The Battle for the Undercity ended the cold-war between the Alliance and the Horde, with King Varian's declaration of war.
Meanwhile, in order to ensure that no more Legion-aligned abominations crawled out of the Apothecarium, Thrall sent a legion of Kor'kron Guard led by to occupy the Undercity, guarding it from threats outside, and from any that may remain within following The Battle for the Undercity.
Years later, during the Fourth War, the Alliance would attack Lordaeron and the Undercity once again in the Battle for Lordaeron.
==Units==
;Burning Legion
*Legion Dreadwhisperer
*Legion Overlord
*Legion Invader
*Treacherous Guardian
*Perfidious Dreadlord
*Failed Experiment
*Apothecary Chemist
*Apothecary Collaborator
*Plagued Felbeast
*Blight Spreader
*Blight Slinger
*Ravishing Betrayer
;Horde
*Warsong Battleguard
*Horde Demolisher
**Horde Demolitionist
;Alliance
*Stormwind Elite
*Alliance Siege Vehicle
*Alliance Flying Machine
===Forces===
;Alliance
*1 Warrior
*1 Archmage
*Adventurers
*Footmen, riflemen and gyrocopter(s)
*1 Night elf druid
*1 Blood elven rogue
;Horde
*1 orcish shaman, Far seer and Warchief
*1 Dark ranger
*Orcish grunts
*Horde Demolishers
*Adventurers
*1 Shadow Hunter
;Burning Legion
*1 Dreadlord
*1 Dark Apothecary
*1 Flesh giant
*1 Doomlord
*1 Engorged Blight Worm
*Hundreds of lesser demons and undead
==Notes==
;Dave Kosak on a solo scenario to relive the Battle for the Undercity
It's kind of a bang for the buck thing. Like say we redid Battle for the Undercity - we could do it now with much better tech, right? That's a lot of work, and who would want to go back and play the Battle for the Undercity - we'd almost have to create a heroic so you'd revisit it again. Maybe if we could make a really cool compelling gameplay scenario it might be worth it, to do it as a fun little Caverns of Time thing, but I'd rather spend that time - it's the same resources - doing a current, modern-day scenario that tells you what happened with Sylvanas. I think that's probably more exciting than revisiting old content. We're committed to having these patches come out faster, so we have to be really picky and choosy about where we spend our time, so we can get content to people as fast as possible.Patch 5.2 and beyond with Dave Kosak
==Gallery==
File:Battle for the Undercity.jpg|Varimathras in the Battle for the Undercity.
File:GrandApothecaryPutreeUndercity.jpg|Grand Apothecary Putress in the Battle for the Undercity.
==References==
Category:Battles
Category:Escort quests