Long ago the realm was ruled by the nine Archons and their nine old Kingdoms. Their high technology tapped into the fundamental components of reality, cracking them for their limitless energy. While the Archons ruled the realm was peaceful and serene. Across the void though, envyus onlookers with skin of olive and Jade lied in wait. Upon their wrathful gaze we did draw, and for that their savagery knew no bounds. Orik'I
They rendered the sky asunder and descended upon the Old World, unrelenting, giving no quarter, and allowing no respite. Their very presence poisoned the soil, sullying it like a filth onto the filth of the earth. As their armies spread like the wind so also did disease spread by the summer breeze. The battles were long and argues, The mighty Archons of the Old Kingdoms gave no ground without cataclysmic consistences to these voidborn marauders or Orik'I as they were known, and Orcs as they are now. In the end though, all fell to the Horde's Legion for they were many and we were few.
All but the Last City, Founded by our Eternal Emperor a millennia ago, it's walls impenetrable, it's defense insurmountable, it's guardians ever vigilant. Here is where our story begins, or should I say, your lives end.
You've all committed a grave crime against our Holy Empire, let it be treason, murder, heresy, theft most grievous, or perhaps crimes you yourself do not know, you all regardless have been cast out beyond the Outer Wall, into a forest most treacherous and dangerous. A place where the feral descendants of our once Invaders lie in wait, hopping for one, last, final, opportunity to see our people extinguished.
Your task, and only hope of redemption. Retrieve an artifact long forgotten, the holy hilt of our emperors lost blade, it's presence gallivanted crusade after crusade to even greater heights of glory and Righteous Victory. But alas Alexander The Reclaimer, Son of Sirius The Valiant was stricken low, and his army routed by Chieftain Rook of Tribe Kall'Sh from the valley with no rivers. Since then the hilt has been lost to us.
You've been given a map leading to the site of that last battle, find The Reclaimer's resting place, retrieve the hilt, deliver it upon the Hot Gates, and earn your redemption... or die trying.