Chapter 47: The Song of the Primordials

Nominally joining the Alliance, Kazmodan's originally loose tribes were brought together. Due to the fact that this vast area has never been unified in history, and because of the complex terrain, severe cold climate, and poor transportation conditions, human economic plunder encountered many difficulties at first.

In order to further open up the market, establish an industrial system for the supply of minerals, agricultural and animal husbandry resources, and ensure that the pro-alliance forces are in power, the upper echelons of the Alliance and the Church of Light came up with a brilliant idea;

They took advantage of the large number of missionary priests who went deep into the mountains to spread the teachings of the Holy Light, distorted the customs and primitive beliefs of the Kazmodan people, and forcibly divided the inhabitants of the place into three major ethnic groups; To be exact, the three major castes, namely the Copperbeard, the Brute Hammer, and the Black Iron.

The copper whisker represents the army and the bourgeoisie, the brute hammer represents the peasants and small merchants, and the black iron is the name for the miners and industrial workers.

The Church of Light has created a whole set of myths for this purpose, known as the Song of the Primitives, claiming that the Titans Kazgros shaped the mountain range and finally collapsed. Later, the head of the god king was transformed into the Copperbeard Tribe, the arms into the Brute Hammer Tribe, and the legs and feet into the Black Iron Tribe. Due to the different bloodlines, the high and low are different; The tribes are born from generation to generation, and the caste is hereditary, and it cannot be changed.

There is actually very little difference between the three castes in appearance (if any dwarf is thrown into the source mine for more than a year, he will also receive the dark and chapped skin of the black iron dwarf if he keeps it), but according to the teachings and the laws of Ironforge, the rights, status, and occupation of the upper and lower castes are determined and cannot be transgressed;

Of course, intermarriage is not allowed, otherwise they and their descendants will be treated as lower castes. The most famous person who has been punished for violating this rule is Princess Moira Copperbeard.

During the Enlightenment, this rhetoric was repeatedly lashed out at and reviled by various schools of thought as a prime example of the absurdity and shamelessness of the doctrine of the Light. There is no shortage of fragrant words, which will not be repeated here.

Time came to modern times, as the magical industrial revolution of the human world was in full swing, as the source ore mining area with the richest reserves in the entire continent, Kazmodan was inevitably swept into the wave of industrialization. This ancient mountain range and the people who live in it have begun to shed black blood as they did when they were ruled by the Titans.

In the deep source mine cave, the miners work and live underground, and they can not see the sun for several years. Breathe air full of foul slag and drink water mixed with excrement and toxic waste. Water permeability and collapse accidents occur one after another, and the average life expectancy of workers is less than 30 years;

After repeated expansions, the Iron Fort was called the "Source Capital", with seven floors above and below, making it the largest source ore smelter in Kazmodan and the whole of the Union. In the melting pot cities, workshops and residential quarters are mixed, and the interior spaces are crowded, with simple houses one after another, impermeable, narrow courtyards connected to narrow courtyards, and narrow streets close to narrow streets, like a labyrinth.

Workers who toiled in the dark of the mines and the scorching furnace factories were inevitably subjected to severe radiation and curses for a long time, in addition to the harsh working conditions; Suffering from all kinds of unbearable ailments, he survived on alcohol and drugs. Most of them are low-caste dwarves, but there are also a few ice trolls and orcs.

As for the gnomes, they are not an officially declared mysterious race, but the Kazmodan people who have been subjected to source energy radiation since birth and mutated and dwarfed; It is a group of child laborers with withered faces, weak bodies, who do not grow up, and do not live to adulthood.

Normorigan is another hellish refinery and testing site for illegal chemicals, which is now abandoned. Because in a catastrophic leak a few years ago, more than three-quarters of the area was occupied by radioactive contaminated elements and crazy leprosy patients.

In the Coalition's humming industrial and war machine, the Kazmodans are at the bottom of the chain, weighed down and worn like cogs. And in the industrial areas of the human world, the situation of the workers is not much better.

In the face of the Alliance's great achievements in conquering the world, the mage tower workers, who are the proud sons of the sky, cannot hold their proud heads high.

Although the invincible military power and prosperous economy of the Human Alliance were forged by the hard work of countless low-level mages, these creators did not have the power to freely use magical power; Because it's too expensive.

Since the promulgation of the first constitution to protect the sanctity of private property, after many years of free annexation, the gap between the rich and the poor in the human world has become very serious. Since Stormwind City succeeded Lordaeron as the head of the alliance, due to too many debts in industrialization, it has been completely extensively developed, and 90% of the current source energy reserves are concentrated in the hands of 10% of the upper level;

Most of the people who are actually engaged in production are abjectly poor, earning only enough to support their families. The vast majority of the wages of ordinary workers are plundered by high prices, medical care, taxes, etc., and there is not much left except for expenses; After a lifetime of hard work, he couldn't afford to buy a cramped house in Stormwind City, where every inch of land was at a premium.

In addition, their working conditions are equally harsh. Mage workers need to work more than ten hours a day, relying on inferior magic powder that is seriously addicted and shortens their lifespan to replenish their magic power; And once they are over age or lose their ability to cast spells due to injuries and illnesses, they will be immediately expelled and abandoned, and eventually become disheartened or die miserably and silently because they can't get enough magic fans.

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance. About a year earlier, in the year 28 of Stargate, Alwyn had a great revolt of mage workers. At one point, the workers stormed the main city of Stormwind, forcing the royal family to flee to Stormwind Fortress, hundreds of miles away. The rebels then proclaimed a Second Republic, confiscated the nobility and ecclesiastical assets, and hanged the rich;

However, due to the lack of unified command and heavy magic equipment, the ruler reacted a few weeks later, and the revolt was quickly crushed by the counterattacking Stormwind army.

As closely connected workers, the Black Iron Dwarf miners in the Black Rock Mountain area united with some barbarian hammer farmers and herdsmen to carry out a massive riot to generate sound;

They were also suppressed by the Copperbeard authorities, but Ironforge's ruling power was clearly much weaker than that of Stormwind, and the revolt did not stop there, but was more fruitful than Elwin's.

After a bloody battle, the Blackstone Mountain rioters routed the Ironforge army and marched north, capturing the eastern barrier of Kazmodan and the southern part of the wetlands, threatening the core area of Danmoro.

Along the way, the rebels expelled the local copperbeard workers and farmers, liberated slaves of all ethnic groups, and returned property and natural resources to trade unions and peasant associations, which were equally distributed among farmers and herdsmen. The momentum was huge, shocking the ironforge castle government and the opposition.

Many slave owners, mining and farming owners fled to Danmoro with their families to cry out to the king. For a time, the rugged mountain road of the East Gate Pass was crowded with a convoy of rich goats who refused to give up their possessions and filled as much as possible with Mithril and diamonds;

Car accidents and robberies continue to occur, and from time to time, people with sheep and carts scream and fall off the cliff. The scene is similar to that of World War II, when East Kazmodan was captured by the Orc rebels.

Faced with the familiar scene, the Copperbeard royal family was terrified. In order to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, they made an extremely mediocre decision; Ordered to blow up the megalithic dam, flooding the area occupied by the rebels.