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Undeath Conquers All

Cover art.

Undeath Conquers All is the first-ever official Hearthstone web comic, released on July 21st, 2017 in preparation for the release of the upcoming Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion. The script is written by Robert Books, while the illustrations are made by Miguel Sepulveda, Bit and Javier Mena.

Plot

The comic upons upon the Hearthstone tavern, in which a night elf (likely a One Night in KarazhanPompous Thespian) is entertaining a group of patrons when he overhears a human couple, one of them a pirate, on the other side of the room discussing their upcoming journey to the Frozen Throne in search of the power there. The night elf warns the couple that only horrors await those who seek the throne. In response, the humans ask if the elf has any stories about the location. Though initially reluctant to comply, the night elf is swayed by the offer of gold coins and begins telling the tale of the Scourging of Lordaeron, when the Plague of Undeath laid waste to the human kingdom of Lordaeron and turned its populace into mindless undead, and of how Lady Hero SkinsJaina Proudmoore and Prince Arthas Menethil rushed to face the undead threat. Just as the elf is telling of the death of the necromancer NaxxramasKel'Thuzad, however, he is interrupted by a patron in a red shirt who points out that the elf's lore is inaccurate, since he is portraying Kel'Thuzad as skeleton. The female pirate complains that the attendees already know the story, but the night elf replies that they shouldn't spoil it for those unfamiliar with the story and continues with his tale, describing the dilemma faced by Arthas, Jaina and Hero SkinsUther Lightbringer at the city of Stratholme, which had been reached by the Plague but whose inhabitants had not yet turned into undead.

When the pirate complains again that they already know the story, the night elf changes the story by stating that Jaina decided to aid Arthas in purging the city, and that they decided to stay together on their path of damnation. The elf continues by telling of how the Frozen Throne whispered to Jaina and promised her the power to battle evil, and of how Arthas and Jaina knelt before the Frozen Throne together to offer fealty to the dark force that had drawn them together again. The storyteller skips ahead to Jaina and Arthas, now a pair of death knights, waging war against the living, causing the world to cry out for heroes to stand against them. The elf reveals that Hero SkinsThrall answered the elements' call and began the long journey to Icecrown, while across the sea, Uther the Lightbringer tracked down his former pupil. Arthas and Jaina easily defeated Uther together, but that the paladin's story did not end there, for the power of the Frozen Throne reached out once more. The elf asks the listeners if Uther would slip away into the peace of death or if he would accept a new power to achieve vengeance.

The pirate replies that she doesn't pay the elf for a story of peace. The night elf replies "Vengeance it is" and relates how the Frozen Throne transformed its new servant while Jaina and Arthas continued to destroy in its name. However, the Frozen Throne called for them to return to Northrend, telling the two death knights that it would choose only one of them to inherit its power. When they arrived, they discovered that the Throne had a surprise in store in the form of Uther, who leapt forward to attack Arthas and Jaina. However, he was suddenly interrupted by the appearance of Thrall, who urged the two death knights to return to being the heroes they once were and told them to surrender. The shaman was silenced by an icy blast, and Uther tried to continue exacting his vengeance, but was suddenly interrupted yet again by Thrall, who was now a death knight. The night elf's story finishes with a massive battle between the undead Jaina, Uther and Thrall, and again urges the pirate to not seek the Throne for her family's benefit, as it will only bring them to ruin. However, the pirate replies by inquiring who won the fight. The night elf begins to say that that is not the point of the story, but after being offered more gold he concedes that Jaina won.

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