Battle for Ironforge I

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The Battle for Ironforge I was a major battle between the renegade Horde guild Pie Chart and The Alliance which premeditatedly occured concurrently alongside a political coup of the Horde performed by the guild's leader, Marco, back in Kalimdor at a Summit meeting between Horde and Alliance faction leaders, who were deciding on how to deal with the increasingly more threatening Marco. These two simulteneous events now mark the beginning of the conflict known as the Second Great War.

Prior to a second invasion two years later in 11 CE, it was simply known as the Battle for Ironforge. The attack was the climatic result of a series of violent provocations by Pie Chart during peacetime following the

Although The battle was the climactic result of a series of provocations conducted by Pie Chart, devised by Marco to draw Alliance retaliation as well as Horde support to his cause,

and was initiated by Pie Chart invading Ironforge while Magister and several other faction leaders from the Alliance travelled to the Eastern Kingdoms to persuade the Horde establishment to take action against the rogue guild. Kenji, a former member of the Alliance and Marco's second-in-command, exploited a glitch in the game and led a small force into Ironforge on top of several buildings overlooking The Commons Quarter, which they used to safely strike the Alliance below while Marco and Nephron, another high-ranking member of Pie Chart, led two seperate ground invasions through the Gates of Ironforge and the Deeprum tram, respectively, into the city.

Although the Alliance manage to push eventually back Pie Chart, with Magister gone and all the invaders having escaped,

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