A Will Eternal Chapter 1372
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Wanghai Town has a wide stone road street. Because it is relatively a new town, the streets are horizontal and vertical, and the planning and layout of the buildings are also very reasonable. square.
On the round platform in the center of the square, there is a stone statue more than ten meters high. It is a graceful and resolute female man. On the base stone under the front of the stone statue, there is a bronze plaque with the name of the person etched on it. The founder of the town - Rhona Crowley.
Kane is very familiar with this surname.
The Crowley family was once the great lord of Gilneas after the royal family Greymane. When it was passed down to the generation of Lorna's father, Darius, a major event occurred.
At that time, King Gene Greymane, after the second human-animal war, played a tough strategy of closing the country.
This strategy, on the surface, is unwilling to bear the cost of orc imprisonment initiated by Menethil, the leader of the country at that time, after the second human-beast war. In fact, it is resisting Lordaeron's opening The act of annexation is somewhat like the isolationist strategy played by the John Bulls in the history of the original world.
The most representative object of this strategy is the Wall of Greymane.
This wall is not as natural as the English Channel. It is man-made, and it is based on topographical considerations. It roughly divides the territory of the Crowley family into two.
The more representative land that was allocated was Baron Silveraine's Castle and Pyrewood Village, which later became Shadowfang Castle. It was a baronial territory above the standard, and the monarch Silvaline was loyal to was the Duke of Crowley.
In fact, even Sepulcher and Amber Mill were once the land of the Duchy of Crowley. It's just that they have territorial disputes with the Kingdom of Lordaeron and the Kingdom of Dalaran respectively.
Long story short, let's just talk about Jean Greymane violently splitting the Duke of Crowley with a high wall. Darius couldn't bear it anymore and launched the famous 'North Gate Rebellion'.
The reason why it is famous is that this event is closely connected with major events such as the curse of the werewolf, the cataclysm, and the invasion of the Forgotten. Fleeing, the regime also went into exile overseas.
From Kane's perspective as a bystander, he believes that the Crowley family is blameless in the overall situation. After all, in the face of national crisis, Darius, who has been imprisoned for the failure of the North Gate Rebellion, is very happy. The two Jeans reached an agreement to fight against the enemy together.
The first thing he did was to contribute his family's secret arsenal in Gilneas King City. It was originally used to rescue Darius and overthrow the kingdom.
The second thing is that Darius contributed his own wolf soldiers.
That's right, when it comes to adapting and utilizing the werewolf curse, the Crowley family is ahead of the Greymane family.
At that time, because of political correctness, Gene Greymane, who had already been cursed by the werewolf and had not lost himself, had to carry out the national policy of 'suppressing bloodthirsty beasts'.
The combat power of the kingdom was first severely injured in the "North Gate Rebellion", and before they had fully rested, they began to exterminate werewolves everywhere. As a result, more and more soldiers were bitten and became werewolves. Later, the wounded barracks had to Changed to a cage style, because many injuries often escape from the camp in the middle of the night after experiencing a coma, and they are already a member of the werewolf when they meet again.
Then came the attack of the Forsaken, and the kingdom's combat power struggled with five labors and seven injuries, and the result can be imagined.
So when the situation was most critical, Jean Greymane actually had no soldiers left. If it weren't for Darius' wolf soldiers, the Gilneans might not even be able to make the final evacuation.
At that time, there was another point worth mentioning, that is, because the kings adopted a firm resistance to the werewolf curse and had an attitude of killing one by one, the night elves who wanted to help were more pragmatic first. Crowley family.
In other words, the night elves are indeed the saviors of the Gilneans, but as the rulers, the Greymane family has to accept a big favor from the Crowley family. The completion of the exile government's excessive.
Darius, however, did not flee overseas with the government-in-exile, but stayed and led his subjects to continue to fight against the Forsaken in the ruins of Gilneas and Silverpine Forest in the form of guerrillas.
This is also an important reason why although the Forsaken captured Gilneas, they still failed to digest and utilize it in the later stage.
It was precisely because of these secrets that Kane felt that there was nothing wrong with Darius as the lord. It can even be said that the international image of the Gilneans was mainly constructed by the Darius family, and Genn Greymane was just a front-end figure who inherited his political legacy.
Regarding Genn Greymane, Kane has a lot to complain about.
In a word, Jean is not a qualified king. I won't talk about him for all the stupid operations before losing the country. In other words, after the loss of the country, Jin did not focus on reuniting the hearts of the people and restoring the country again, but like a vengeful old wolf, biting the Forsaken headed by Sylvanas until the Legion returned, and even later During the Battle for Azeroth period, it was still very targeted.
Although for them, national hatred and family hatred are basically the same thing. But Kane still felt that he couldn't tell the priority. Just disregarding his own situation, resorting to military action and insisting on revenge, in Kane's view, he is stupid.
To put it bluntly, when you owned the kingdom, you failed to win the Forsaken in the local battle, but under the background of almost all the exiles, you relied on the war resources sent by the alliance to organize manpower to win on the battlefield and use whatever means to win What level of illusion is this, the Forsaken who are omnipotent with , plague, and evil energy?
As a result, there is a group of Gilneas exiles on the side of the rotten scar in the cursed land, Valsharah in the Broken Isles, there is also a group of Gilneas exiles, and even the snow-capped Grizzly Hills of Northrend has a Moon Creek werewolf...
The people of Gilneas are like dandelions, scattered all over the world, struggling to survive. Isn't this the most important problem for a qualified king? As time goes by, people's hearts will become more and more scattered, and the team will become more and more difficult to lead. Don't you understand this truth?
Kane even felt that maybe it was because Jinn died of his heir during the national war, so he had no reason to think about the future of the title of King of Gilneas.
As for Rona Crowley, a one-sentence evaluation: A tiger father has no dog daughter.
When Darius was imprisoned, it was Lorna who led Darius' old department. While continuing to confront the king's faction softly and hard, while secretly raising and actively planning the rescue of Darius. Later, he was one of the key figures for the government-in-exile and refugees to be able to evacuate Gilneas smoothly, and he was specifically responsible for a series of down-to-earth command work.
Therefore, the founder of Wanghai Town is Rhona Crowley, which is reasonable for Kane.
Perhaps because it had been standing in front of Lorna's sculpture for a long time, a woman in a poncho came over and asked, "Outsider, if you are feeling in front of this sculpture, you might be someone who knows the Crowley family. "
Kane glanced at the other party. His long black hair was slightly curly, and his appearance was outstanding. At first glance, he was somewhat similar to Rhona Crowley.
He shook his head, "I don't know, I'm just remembering that era."
The woman said jokingly: "If I were you, I would say that I am indeed having an affair with a certain Crowley. In this way, people in this town will treat me as friends. Knowing the locals can be quite exclusive.”
"Xenophobia, this is one of the most common problems in this world. I don't care, if you are not welcome, then go."
The woman didn't twitch anymore, but said bluntly: "But I think you are a powerful guy, so I want to keep you instead of everyone."
"Really? Where did you see it?" Kane asked with great interest.
"Attitude." The woman said firmly: "A fool can see the depression and panic here, but you don't care at all. It's not a pretentious gesture, but a strong heart. I hope this kind of inner strength is Because I have a good career. Because now Wanghai Town needs the help of powerful fighters."
The woman's honesty made Kane willing to chat with the other party for a while: "So, this is you representing the local people who are reserved and self-respecting, and at the same time don't trust foreigners very much, asking me for help?"
"Yes. Compared to the crisis we are facing today, I really don't mind begging for help."
"Well, you achieved your goal with honesty. I decided to help you, but I'm used to putting ugly words first, what can I get?"
"The friendship of the people in Wanghai Town, as well as considerable financial rewards. Of course, it is mainly gold, silver and jewelry."
"Slightly uninteresting, but I accepted it theoretically."
"Theoretically?"
"You have to know exactly what kind of contribution it is, right?"
The woman let out an 'oh', nodded and said: "Although I prefer you to be the kind of hero who is so strong that you don't care about specific issues and take care of everything, but a combatant with a pragmatic style is also good, my name is Sasha Crowley , is currently acting mayor, welcome to Wanghai Town."
Kane showed a proper expression of surprise, pointed to the sculpture, and asked, "This Crowley."
"Yes, but almost one-third of the population of Wanghai Town is named Crowley."
"Oh, that's pretty populous. My name is Brox Whitepaw, and I'm a shaman."
After Kane finished speaking, Sasha's eyes lit up, and he asked, "White Claw from the Orc White Claw Clan?"
Kane didn't answer, but asked instead: "Mayor, you are not only knowledgeable, but also rich in imagination. How did you know the existence of the White Claw clan? You know, even those who participated in two human-beast wars back then, There are very few people who know about this clan.”
Sasha didn't answer Kane's question, but nodded: "I just guessed almost on a whim, but I didn't expect to meet the descendants of the White Claw clan."
Kane became interested: "How are you sure?"
"It's still because of your attitude. In addition, your combat position is a supplement."
Kane didn't continue to dwell on this issue, but nodded, "It seems that you do know the past of the White Claw clan."
The White Claw clan is an ancient orc clan. After the Frostwolf Clan led by Durotan failed to fight Gul'dan, the White Claw Clan showed sympathy for the Frostwolves, while still opposing Gul'dan's change of the traditional life pattern of the orcs. practice.
The result was naturally to be killed by Gul'dan as an example to others, completely annihilating the family.
The clan formation of the Draenor orcs is different from the ancient tribal clans in the original world in that they are culturally recognized, rather than blood-identified.
Therefore, whether it is White Claw or Frostwolf, the key point is cultural inheritance.
This is also the main consideration when Kane chose his surname. The persona he gave to Brooks was the traditional culture of the White Claw clan, and the shamanism he followed was a very pure orc shamanism.
Some people may say that no matter how pure it is, it is just a barbaric culture born on the basis of drinking blood, and there are too many differences in cognition and identity with modern civilization.
That's right, but what Kane wants to say is that the orc culture of Draenor still has some content. It's not that they are too good at themselves, but because of external pressure.
You must know that before the rise of the orcs, they were just slaves of ogres.
The ogres were a race that once established a pan-empire that spanned the entire planet of Draenor.
In addition, the Draenei who fled from Argus to Draenor have an advanced magic civilization based on crystals.
Against such a background, the orcs could stick to their own path, overthrow the ogres, and live in peace with the draenei for a time. Without their own cultural characteristics, it is impossible to do so. And the way of shamanism is a combat job with a strong religious color that was bred on the basis of culture, just like the local religion that was bred by ancient Chinese civilization, Taoism.
It is precisely because of this reason that even if Kane doesn't like the orcs of Draenor, he has to admit that the shaman combat role of the orcs is achievable. At least from the point of view of his experience in the heavens and worlds, he has never seen a shaman combat system that is more complete and deeper than the warcraft Draenor orc shaman combat system in terms of system and basic theory.
Sasha Crowley has prejudices against orcs, but not about power. As she admitted before, in this crisis, anyone who is willing to help Wanghai Town is a friend.
It was only later that Kane found out that there was a lot of coincidence in his ability to meet Sasha.
Sasha had always been in command at the front line. Appearing in the town today, on the one hand, the situation on the front line has deteriorated, and more supplies are needed to fill the hole, so she came back to raise funds. On the other hand, there is a group of ships coming from the port of Menethil to the wetlands today. She wants to see how the method of recruiting warriors in the dwarf kingdom works.
If there is a third reason, the family also has opinions on her, so it's fine to devote herself to work, and the family will not be happy if they take the risk of being shot. In her husband's words: "This generation of mayors are busy, and the price of cabbage is a scapegoat, and their lives are in danger. Can you be more aggrieved?"
Sasha didn't care about these things, and even expressed a little pride that at extraordinary times, extraordinary people must come out to take care of them. Otherwise, a small settlement or a large country cannot last long.
However, the reality is always cruel.
In other words, when adversity is imminent, there are always not enough responsible people, and it is seriously not enough.
When Sasha returned to town this time, she was far from getting what she wanted, whether it was supplies or personnel. On the contrary, there were many sneakers, who were ready to escape from their homeland again.
Until Kane shows up. Sasha felt that this was the only bright spot she saw today. At this time, she hadn't thought that this bright spot was also the only bright spot that could save Azeroth from darkness...