Baron Rivendell was the lord of Stratholme. As an early pioneer in joining the Silver Hand, he and paladins such as Tulayan were seen as the hope of the Alliance. The reason why the Knights of the Silver Hand have won unanimous praise is precisely because they embody the precious qualities of humility, honor, sacrifice, valor, mercy, spirituality, honesty, and justice possessed by knights.

Despite the victory against the Orcs, the Alliance's vitality was greatly damaged by the long period of warfare and subsequent expeditions, and Rivendell devoted himself to the restoration and development of the realm. Later, when the plague raged, even the mighty paladin, unable to do anything about it, traveled to the royal city of Lordaeron to ask for help. But during his absence, Stratholme became a dead city.

Half a month later, he returned to the realm, only to see ruins, and when he learned that King Terenus had been killed and that Uther, the founder of the Silver Hand, was buried in Andorhar, he bravely stood up and challenged Arthas with great anger. At the same time as he drew his sword, the slogan of the Knights of the Silver Hand rang in the ears again, but this time it was a mournful elegy for the knights. Rivendell fulfilled his oath with his life, but Arthas didn't let him go - Rivendell became a death knight.

When Sylvanas led a free-will undead uprising, Rivendell was reappointed lord of Stratholme, but the familiar slogan was no longer heard from him.

Later, after the Scourge invaded the continent of Azeroth, Naxxramas, the flagship of the Lich Kel'thugad, appeared in the skies above the Eastern Plague in an attempt to destroy the Alliance and the Horde. In the counterattack of the Alliance and the Horde, the leader of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Grand Lord Mograini, was killed, and Kel'thugad was beaten back to his soul state, and when he fled back to Northrend to recover, he ordered Baron Riardel to take Mograine's place and become one of the new Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

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Thassarian was born into a military family in the kingdom of Lordaeron, where his father, Killoren, was a veteran of the Alliance and one of the heroes of the Second World War, and at the end of the day, he gave his life for his country. As a result, Thassarian was full of admiration for his father, and he not only regarded Killoren as a hero of the Alliance, but also put everything he taught in the first place in his heart, and aspired to be a hero like his father from an early age. During his lifetime, Killoren often taught Thassarian that the most important thing to be a soldier is to obey, to trust the leadership of his superiors, and to unite the whole army so that he can defeat the invading enemy and protect his homeland.

With the peace that followed the Second World War, Thassarian overcame his grief and grew up to be a tall young man despite the loss of his beloved father, and then did not hesitate to enlist in Lordaeron's army. Thassarian quickly became a skilled swordsman through his training in Lordaeron's troops under his father's tutelage and training, but his true desire was to be a leader, to command his troops to defeat the invading enemy and bring his name and his family's name to life. So after completing the training, Thassarian took part in the captain selection test of the unit and showed everything he had learned, passing one level after another, but he did not expect to lose the final level against his rivals.

Thassarian was confident in his swordsmanship, and he had the upper hand in the fight, but just as he thought his opponent was going to surrender, he was counter-attacked, and his opponent took the opportunity to take out the hidden dagger that had been forbidden to be used in the test, and suddenly attacked him and knocked him to the ground. Although the despicable creature was immediately disqualified, the Thassarian commanders also ruled that he could not be promoted because of his defeat and could not become the captain of the army. Although Thassarian angrily protested that it was an unfair test, his commanders replied that the battlefield was an unpredictable world, that anything could happen, and that he had to deal with unexpected tricks to save himself from a bad decision by one leader. Sasarian also knew that he was too complacent at the beginning, and he didn't expect that someone would play tricks on this kind of exam, so he would be too late to be recruited. Accepting his fate calmly, Thassarian remembered his father's words that being a soldier means obeying his superiors, and he buried this ambition deep in his heart, intending to be just a soldier who killed the enemy on the front line.

Thassarian's family consists of an elderly but loving mother, Vivian, and a younger sister, Leryssa, with whom she has loved to fight since childhood. However, although the brother and sister always like to stimulate each other on the surface, such as often using the other party's inability to ask for the other half of the object as a reason for quarreling, but in the bottom of their hearts they always care about each other, and Sasarian especially takes special care of this sister who has no father since she was a child, so that Leresa actually loves this brother very much in her heart. So when news of the war reached their home in the capital, Riresa and Vivien could barely shed tears, and the mother and daughter feared that Thassarian might never return. But Thassarian knew that fate was calling him, and although he did not join the war as a leader, it had always been his desire to be a hero who could protect his homeland from a young age, and now this opportunity was in front of him.

At the beginning of the Third World War, Prince Arthas Minethir began with a mission to investigate the plague and step by step came to the choice of slaughtering the city, and the young prince vowed to hunt down the evil demon Melganis to the ends of the earth. However, the expedition required greater force, so Arthas returned to the port to take the entire fleet and the remaining forces to the icy continent of Northrend. Thassarian was also one of the troops taken by the Prince of Arthas, and his blood boiled when he saw the prince he served heroically stand up and lead the people against the evil enemy. Thassarian began to faithfully follow the prince on his northern expedition, unaware that the fleet had already embarked on a cursed path of no return.

Along the way, Thassarian followed the prince on an expedition of the dwarves, explored the icy lands of the dead, slaughtered the mercenaries who burned the fleet's ships, and stayed behind with his captain Falric to hold on to the base of the entire army while the prince went out in search of a powerful and mysterious weapon. However, despite the urgency of the war, Thassarian did not forget his family, especially his lovely sister, who took time out of his evening break to write many letters to Reressa, telling her what had happened to her and what she had seen, and telling her that the prince was led by a righteous prince and that the safety of his home was not to be feared.

The Northern Expedition ended with Prince Arthas defeating the demon Melganis with the Rune Sword Frost Sorrow, but the Prince disappeared into the blizzard with the victory, and even the captain of the team, Falik, who had gone to find the Prince, lost contact with him and lost his whereabouts. The whole army was suddenly lost and everyone was at a loss, so Thassarian decided to stand up and ask everyone to stay in the camp, and he would go alone to search for the traces of the prince and the captain, so please wait for his news. Thassarian then followed the captain's footsteps through the snowy lands to the Cave of Frostmourning, where the Prince of Arthas had obtained the Rune Sword, and then heard some murmuring in the depths of the cavern. When Thassarian stepped further, he found that it was his captain, Falik, who had suddenly ordered him to come up to him, saying that he had something to tell him. Feeling a little strange, Thassarian obeyed the order, but suddenly Falik drew his sword and stabbed Thassarian's body with it.

Lying on the ground, Thassarian watched his life fade away, and gradually his consciousness could no longer be controlled. Falik gave the soldier's body to Arthas, who was hiding behind, so that the loyal soldier could continue to serve his master after death. Tassarian stood up again as a death knight and returned to the camp with Prince Arthas as promised, only this time with not pleasant news, but death news. The Prince of Arthas killed all the soldiers and officers in the camp and resurrected them as minions of the Scourge Legion.

The Scourge had brought Lordaeron back to Lordaeron, and while the people were busy fleeing, Arthas tasked the ghouls to capture Thassarian's mother Vivien alive, intending to remove the little surname that still existed in Thassarian's heart.

Alsace:

Vivien, wife of a deceased hero, you must meet my lieutenant. Take a step forward, Death Knight.

Thassarian:

Yes, my master. What do you ask for?

Alsace:

I sense a little bit of a conflict in your heart, Lieutenant. Very small little bit...... It's weak, but it's still a struggle with people's last names, and now there's a perfect chance for you to prove your loyalty to me: kill this woman.

Vivien:

No! No, you can't do that!

Alsace:

I've pierced Frost Sorrow into my father's heart, so this show of loyalty and obedience is the least you can do.

Vivien:

Son...... Sassarian... My baby...... My baby baby...... No matter what they did to you before, you can resist, you must resist him, don't let them take away your original good surname!

Thassarian:

I...... It's a ...... Soldier!

Alsace:

Exactly, Lieutenant, and now I order you to cut off this woman's head.

Vivien:

Thassarian ...... No...... No, don't ...... Don't let this demon win.

Thassarian:

The idea of Alsace is the first priority! ……

Vivien:

Have mercy!

Thassarian:

And most importantly! ……

Tragedy struck, as Arthas instructed him to cut off his mother's head, discarding the amulet his mother had given him before his expedition, and looking like he had given up his last bit of surname. However, in fact, Arthas underestimated the soul of the Death Knight, because Vivien's pleas and tragic death had a shock and imprinted on Thassarian's heart, becoming a lingering nightmare for him, planting the seeds that he often failed to do to those who could not fight back.

The next son, Thassarian, followed his prince on his quest and entered the High Elf kingdom of Quel'Thalas, but here they were hindered by the High Elves resisting more fiercely than they had imagined, and using their magic to set up protective enchantments to stop the undead from invading. In order to break the High Elves' defenses, Thassarian raided three temples containing the keys to the enchantment on the instructions of the traitor Dar-Khan, and in the temple of Ann Orn, Thassarian met an important person who would accompany him in his death.

Koltira is the Ranger General who guards the temple, and together with his brother Faltora, he protects the defense of the homeland, but the temple is in danger when a traitor leaks secrets. Fatola heroically challenged Thassarian, the leader of the Scourge army who attacked the temple, but was defeated by his swordsmanship, and his weapon was already unwielded, leaving him unable to fight back. Finding out that his brother was about to be killed, Kurdila tried to get close to Thassarian, but he could only watch the tragedy because he had no time to separate, but he found that the death knight was unable to do so. The inability of Fatola to fight back sent Thassarian's mind back to the day of his mother's death, and Vivien's situation before her death overlapped with Fatola's image. In the midst of such hesitation, Kurdila seized the opportunity to rescue her brother, and then, realizing that the temple's defenses had broken down and the Keystone had fallen into the hands of the enemy, they decided to retreat to warn the others. Unfortunately, Fatola was not favored by the god of fate, and was killed by the other undead in the process of escaping.

After the briefing, Kurdila went back to follow Thassarian, and continued to use sneak attacks to lure the Death Knight out. Eventually, Thassarian couldn't stand Kurdila's harassment and rushed out, intending to rid him of the pesky bug, and a human death knight and a High Elf ranger began a forest chase. Kurdila's fight-and-run tactics, combined with his familiarity with the terrain and the agility of the Ranger in the forest, completely suppressed Thassarian's every move, and sealed the hands of the Death Knight and held his sword against the neck of his enemy, knowing that the moment to talk to his enemy was now.

Kurdila:

Trying to survive and then fighting for your future is not cowardly or reckless.

Thassarian:

Probably not, but I can only be called brave and unscrupulous when faced alone.

Kurdila:

Listen to me, I've been following you since the fall of the Temple of Ann Orn...... Observing you, I know your name is Thassarian. You could have killed my brother at the temple before, and I believe you almost killed him, but there are things in your heart that make you hesitate, and some of you suppress this behavior, so I believe that your soul is still alive in your body...... Constantly shouting and struggling to resist what your prince is forcing you to do. Free from his influence, Thassarian, join us, and then fight with me, for the memory of your past, for the memory that lies deep within, be a righteous and sincere person.

Thassarian:

You don't know what's inside of me, elf. But I ...... will let you go, not finish you out tonight. But understand this: the next time we meet, I'll aim this sword at you.

Kurdila:

Whatever you want, let the strong win.

Although Kurdila's sincere conversation did not shake Thassarian's heart, it did change the death knight, and made Thassarian realize that even if he was dead, he still had someone to identify with him, and someone to make friends with him—even if it was a hostile friend. Next, with the march of the Scourge step by step, the High Elf Kingdom of Quel'Thalas could not escape the fate of destruction. Thassarian also had an agreed final duel with Kurdila, but direct face-to-face sword combat was not the forest hiding battle that the rangers were good at, and this time Kurdila was defeated. He begged Thassarian to give him a good time, and this time Thassarian did not hesitate, and he overcame the shadow of mother-killing in his heart and stabbed down, making this respectable opponent a part of death.

Arthas also resurrected Kurdila as a Death Knight, taking him into his own and serving him and Thassarian. The two Death Knights began to fight with Arthas, and over the course of the years the two of them gradually developed a special friendship, which even led Thassarian to rush into the depths of the enemy camp and rescue Kurdila who had been captured because he was outnumbered, for which he had a great conflict with the other Death Knight leader, Orbaz.

Obez:

Why do you care so much about him, Thassarian? It was his weakness that caused him to be captured by the enemy, and only the strong should survive, I don't mean to mention it......

Thassarian:

What are you talking about, Obez? Just because he was a fellow blood elf when he was alive, you don't like him? It's true that we could be enemies while we were alive...... But in death, we are the same cursed children, a bunch of scourge villains, and after death we are brothers.

Obez:

you, Thassarian.

So the friendship between the two men also took to the next level, and as the war progressed, they gave the Scarlet Crusaders a painful slaughter. At this time, the Lich King gave another order: attack the Chapel of Silver Dawn. Because these paladins who were determined to not get lost in the path of the Holy Light moved the bones of many heroes who died in battle to the underground of the Chapel of the Wish of Light, hoping to strengthen the divine power through the bones of the light of these heroes. Therefore, this time the Lich King asked the High Lord Darion to lead the Death Knights to attack the Chapel, retrieve the corpses of these past heroes, and then resurrect them to serve the undead in the service of the Lich King. But the Death Knights don't know that the Lich King has another purpose in the shadows, and they don't know that they have long been betrayed by their masters and used as pawns to lure an important person.

In the Chapel, the power of these Death Knights faded because they stood in the Land of Light, and the presence of Tirio Fortin, the former Patriarch of the Silver Hand, to support them, shocked the minds of these Death Knights. Many of the souls of heroes buried in the ground began to manifest, pouring the power of the Light into the hearts of the Death Knights, awakening their wills under long-term control, and the soul of Thassarian's father, Killoren, was also manifested at this time. Kirloren tells his son that he knows all this tragedy, but he does not blame Thassarian, because he understands that his son was forced to control his body, and because he taught soldiers to obey since he was a child, the tragedy of killing his mother was caused. For this reason, Killoren re-taught his son that even if the duty of a soldier is obedience, it should be done according to the standard of distinguishing between good and evil, rather than blindly obeying. Kirloren then tells Thassarian that despite his mistakes, the Light will give him another chance, a chance to redeem.

Then, with the Lich King's defeat and escape, Thassarian and Kurdila, as well as many of the Death Knights, were completely liberated from the Lich King's control and regained their true sense of self. Next, under Darien's leadership, they formed the Knights of the Ebon and decided to begin reckoning with all that the Lich King had done to them. Darian sent Thassarian as an emissary to visit King Varian in order to conclude a covenant of knighthood and alliance; At the same time, Kurdila was also sent to visit the Grand Chief Thrall to swear the Order's friendship with the Horde. The two friends encouraged each other before parting, looking forward to meeting again in Northrend in the future to complete their revenge.

After a journey, Thassarian made it to Stormwind. But the journey to the palace had brought him great humiliation, with constant insults, spoiled fruits, and spurning at him, but knowing that his task had to be accomplished, and that no amount of insults would be as painful as the sins he had committed before, he finally delivered this important letter to Varian. With Tirio vouching for the redeemed Death Knights, Thassarian successfully completed the mission and became the first Death Knight to join the Alliance, after which he followed the Expeditionary Force to the Alliance's newly established forward base in Northrend.

Thassarian knew that he was just an ordinary soldier now, although he had once been the leader of the legion that led the attack when he was working for the Lich King, but after all, he was controlled by the Lich King and not led by his own will, and his former wish was now returned to this body with his own mind, and he still longed to be the leader of the Legion, and the only way was to prove his worth again. So Thassarian began to fight on the front lines for the Alliance, combining his superb swordsmanship with the power of the Death Knight, and venting all his anger on his enemies, even many other Alliance soldiers were terrified of his power. However, there was another man who was pleased with Thassarian's point, and the advisor Talbot was secretly watching the Death Knight and thought the time he had been waiting for had come.

Talber is the man responsible for many things the Alliance has to do in this stronghold base, including assigning battle lines and assigning tasks to soldiers. He enlisted Thassarian and assigned him a group of Alliance soldiers to lead a secret raid under the guise of Unit S, with the goal of infiltrating the undead from the Psychic Tower of Sorrow to the Holy City of N'Gila. Appointed to lead a legion, Thassarian was thrilled that his long-cherished wish could finally come true. He followed the information given in the task list and led the raiding force to the target point that he was scheduled to infiltrate, but what was waiting for them there was not a safe passage, but a trap set by the undead waiting for the moths to put out the fire.

Thassarian knew he had been struck, and he tried his best to kill the enemy, but when they had killed all the undead in ambush, there were only three of them left. Thassarian finally learns that this mission was doomed from the start, as Talber had not been at ease from the start, and only wanted to use his wishes to frame the Alliance soldiers. Tassarian then awakens a dead but well-preserved Coalition soldier and re-wanders the world as a skeleton, naming him Lurid, a former Alliance soldier who is happy to return to the world and thanks his leader for giving him another chance to take revenge on the damned Lich King. After returning the remaining soldiers to the camp, Thassarian decided to continue the mission with Lured alone, infiltrating the undead levitation castle of Naxal and breaking into the core of the fortress step by step, but it was none other than his sister Reressa, whom he thought was dead, and his damned advisor Talber.

At this time, Talber revealed his true face, the prince of Valanar of the Greedy Clan, who had been a human and had been lurking within the Alliance for a long time, intending to send the Alliance's soldiers to his death step by step, in order to weaken the Alliance's forces and increase the power of the Scourge. This guy also knew that with Thassarian's strength, an ordinary siege trap would not be easily solved, so he specially took his sister Raresa alive as a hostage to contain the Death Knight's actions. Where has Leresa been in the past few years?

Here's the thing:

When Arthas killed her father and destroyed the country, she managed to escape with the help of some friends, and they made it all the way south to the kingdom of Stormwind, escaping the undead scourge. Varanaar had known this for a long time, so he took advantage of the siblings' affection to kidnap Reetha under the pretext that Thassarian was still alive and fighting in Northrend, and held her hostage.

Sassarian, who had no idea that his sister was still alive, was completely enraged by what Varanaar had done to his only remaining relative, and his frenzied attacks overwhelmed the greedy prince, and the skeletal Rued blamed his death on the villain's schemes. Unable to stop the onslaught of the two enemies, Varanaar gradually felt exhausted, and was finally cut to the ground by Thassarian in a negligent way, and never moved again. After the spell that imprisoned Reetha was unraveled, Thassarian was finally reunited with his loved ones.

Raressa:

Tassarian, you're alive!

Thassarian:

You're not hurt, are you?

Raressa:

What the? Me? Of course, I'm fine! Sa, but look at you! I thought...... I thought you were ...... He's dead. How did your skin get this color? And how can your eyes glow? No...... Oh no......

Sacharian:

I...... There's no way to go home with you, Reresa, it's not time yet. I've only just escaped the Scourge legion's grip on my mind, but there's still a lot of dirt to deal with between me and them.

Raressa:

No, Sa! Don't leave me again! Even though...... Even if you become something different, you're still my brother!

Thassarian:

I'm sorry, Reetha, I had to do this.

Raressa:

Alas. I know what your eyes mean, they are as determined as ever, and I don't think I can stop you. Thassarian, I just felt you come back to me, so if you die again, I don't know if I will be able to bear it.

Thassarian:

Try not to worry, you are my only family now, and the bond and responsibility between me and you will bring me back to you...... And our home.

After putting his dear sister on the ship home, Thassarian's heart was filled with a warm feeling that had passed away years ago, and now it had finally returned to him. Without further concerns, he led Lured into the depths of the frozen earth. Later, despite the tragic incident of the Gate of Wrath, which caused the alliance and the horde to be allied to go their separate ways, Thassarian and Kurdila worked hard to lead the adventurers and their knights to join forces to attack one stronghold after another of the Scourge legions, and gradually forced the Lich King into a corner. Now that the final stop is just around the corner, the time for Thassarian's longing is approaching.