The history of Gilneas and its people is a history of self-sufficiency and
pride in their very real, very notable accomplishments, born out of the
expansion of the first human kingdom of Arathor. Humanity first reached the
Eastern Kingdoms some time after the Sundering that tore ancient Kalimdor apart.
We know that these Runescape Money proto-humans, descendants of the ancient Vrykul, were brought
to these shores by parents who did not want to see their children murdered by
exposure due to their smaller stature. These children were effectively abandoned
(although at least one or two protectors must have stayed with them) in the
region of the Eastern Kingdoms now known as Tyr's Hand, so named for the Watcher
Tyr of the Storm Peaks, who had been a notable figure in the legends of their
ancestors.
These ragged remnants grew over time into a teeming horde, then were united
under the Arathi of Strom. This unified force of humans, this brawling,
swaggering kingdom of rude warriors and canny warchiefs, then allied with the
High Elves of Quel'Thalas and learned magic from them, soon proving every bit as
talented at wizardry as they were in warfare. Together, men and elves pushed
back the Amani trolls and between them, divided the continent. The elves were,
for the most part, content with their magical forest to the north. The Arathi
took almost everything else. It's a wonder it never came down to war with the
dwaves of Ironforge or gnomes of Gnomeregan, but the inhospitable mountains
these two races called home might not have appealed when so much lush, open
ground was available elsewhere for humans to expand.
Humans soon filled almost all of the continent north of Khaz Modan and even
expanded south to modern Stormwind. One group of settlers made its way west to
an unsettled territory on a peninsula and named its new colony Gilneas. After
the death of Thoradin, the great human king of the Arathor who unified humanity
and led their forces during the Troll Wars, Gilneas became independent of a
declining Strom, soon to WOW Gold lose its central position as newer human cities
eclipsed its prosperity and importance. These seven human kingdoms would rise in
the place of the lost Arathor Empire, and Gilneas would be one of them. While
Strom's martial traditions were longer and Lordaeron larger and more populous,
Gilneas was a strong frontier land with plenty of resources, a great deal of
maritime trade (rivaling that of the island nation Kul Tiras), and a strong
ruling house in the Greymane dynasty. It envied no nation.
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