Order of the Silver Hand

Glossary

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The first order of paladins, founded in Lordaeron during the Second War.

Archbishop Alonsus Faol saw that clerics alone could not survive the Horde, so he trained warriors in the ways of the Light. Uther the Lightbringer became the first of the Knights of the Silver Hand. The order fought through the Second War, but Arthas’s fall broke it: Uther died at the hand of his former student, and many survivors drifted into the Scarlet Crusade.

Related lore

Glossary

The Holy Light

The power of hope and virtue that paladins and priests channel.

Glossary

Scarlet Crusade

Zealots who hunt the undead and anyone they suspect of plague, secretly led by a dreadlord.

Legendary items

Ashbringer

A holy blade forged in Ironforge to burn the undead to ash, then betrayed and corrupted in the Plaguelands.

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Knights of the Silver Hand

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