Dragonblight (Campaign)

The first deployment under Narkol Wolfarrow was to Northrend; an advance ground-laying mission to take reconnaissance of the Scourge strength there. Narkol was entirely unprepared for such an undertaking, committing multiple errors such as taking insufficient supplies, overtravelling the Company, and failing to use scouts at key points in the mission. The result was a cold, hungry and tired band, half of which were hired mercenaries with little investment in success.

Arriving in the dragon-wastes tired, cold, hungry and wholly demotivated, the Outriders made camp without sufficiently scouting the area. Doing so exposed them to a nighttime raid by not the undead, but by the Moonglaive Outrunners, who had come to close off their conflict while the Outriders were vulnerable.

Escaping with losses, the Outriders fled into the snowy wastes south of their position without map or compass. The location was called Dragonblight, and they were harried over two weeks of snow-blind wandering by tireless ghouls. That time period was fraught with deaths to hypothermia and starvation. Notably, one mercenary elected to remain behind and be torn apart by ghouls rather than suffer the slow deaths.

When the Outriders finally found their way to the Grizzly Hills, and thereby to the zeppelins of the Howling Fjord, there remained only Narkol Wolfarrow, and Roat Daggerfang, a sniper who had joined the Company in Silithus. The eight accompanying members had all perished.