Post by Trehmar on Mar 8, 2010 19:45:18 GMT -5
Before you is the very extensive history of the Banepaw Fellowship, starting with our ancestors years ago. Note that legend is passed down strictly through the sacred oral tradition, never to be written upon scroll or rock. What you will find here is only the history our living elders (and many others) witnessed.
Timeline
Please note that it is currently (in-game) 7 years after the Battle of Mount Hyjal. That means 3 years after World of Warcraft starts. If you see any inconsistencies, please tell me.
If you would like your character's birth / important life events relating to the guild included in the timeline, let me know.
Countless Generations Ago
- The tauren are born into Mulgore by the Earthmother
- The centaur invade Mulgore
- The tauren go into exile in the barrens
- The Banepaw Tribe is formed
99 Years Before The Battle of Hyjal / Warcraft III (107 Years Ago)
- Future Chief Plainswalker is born to Lady Nuh and Chief Bloomhoof
81 Years Before WCIII (89 Years Ago)
- Future Chief Plainswalker comes of age
- Future Chief goes on a vision quest into the barrens, returns with a rare healing salve used to save the mother of his future mate
- Naya/Future Lady Plainswalker is born
79 Years Before WCIII (87 Years Ago)
- Chief Bloomhoof dies by Kolkar Centaur
- Plainswalker becomes new chief
- Chief Plainswalker begins trying to unite the tribes against the Kolkar Clan
77 Years Before WCIII (85 Years Ago)
- Gahn (Trehmar's Father) is born
59 Years Before WCIII (67 Years Ago)
- A traveler from Stonetalon arrives. She and Gahn mate.
- Trehmar is born
- Banepaw Tribe and several allies go to war with Kolkar
49 Years Before WCIII (57 Years Ago)
- The Tribe is defeated by the Kolkar
- Gahn takes Trehmar to join the Bloodhoof Tribe
- Lady Plainswalker wanders off with her daughter, never to be seen again
32 Years Before WCIII (40 Years Ago)
- Trehmar and Feather mate
- Feather and her unborn baby die
- Trehmar leaves the Bloodhoof Tribe
Warcraft III (8 Years Ago)
- The Horde retakes Mulgore
- The Confederated Tribes of Mulgore is created
1 Year After WCIII (7 Years Ago)
- Thunder Bluff is built
- Orgrimmar is built
5 Years After WCIII (3 Years Ago)
- The Dark Portal Opens; War in Outland Begins
- The <Banepaw Fellowship> is formed by Trehmar
6 Years After WCIII (2 Years Ago)
- Trehmar leaves the Banepaw Fellowship
- Illidan is defeated
7 Years After WCIII (1 Year Ago)
- Trehmar dies defending Thunder Bluff from the Scourge
- The Scourge War begins
8 Years After WCIII
- The Scourge War ends
- The Banepaw Fellowship is reformed
Written History
The most important parts of the story are in bold, everything else is for posterity.
Chapter I - The Banepaw Tribe
Chapter II - Trehmar Banepaw
Chapter III - The Banepaw Fellowship of the Horde
Chapter IV - The Renewal
Chapter I - The Banepaw Tribe
Far from the destructive conflicts of humans, elves, orcs and demons, the tauren of the Banepaw Tribe once roamed the endless plains of the barrens, always following the mighty kodo and the will of the ancestors. With their great faith in their shamanic lifestyle and strong kinship with their raptor allies, the Banepaw Tribe thrived despite the constant threat of attack from centaur, quilboar and harpies.
As time passed, the tales and history of the Banpaw only further strengthened their collective will and character. Known to all to be a relatively safe haven for those without tribes and travelers, the tribe became a diverse yet intensely tight-knit group of tauren from all walks of life. Despite this, they always retained their traditions and customs.
When Chief Bloomhoof, a well-liked and level-headed chieftain passed to the sky during a Kolkar raid, his son - called Plainswalker - became chief. Plainswalker and his tribe agreed that the Kolkar would have to fall if safety for the tauren could exist. For twenty years he campaigned his cause to all who would listen.
After these twenty years, several tribes had assembled. Each winter they would gather and attack the Kolkar. For ten winters they warred.
Until the Kolkar had enough. Organizing against the Banepaw Tribe specifically, they attacked one night while the hunters (led by Lady Plainswalker) were away. The Kolkar left little for the hunters to return to. And though Lady Plainswalker tried to keep those alive united, she was unable to rebuild the tribe.
The Banepaw scattered like leaves to the wind. Many joined what ever tribe would accept them. Many more braved the barrens alone, in exile.
Chapter II - Trehmar Banepaw
A hunter by the name of Gahn was out with Lady Plainswalker’s party when the Kolkar decimated his home and killed his loving mate. Despite Lady Plainswalker’s plea for unity he left for the Bloodhoof encampment, where he had an old friend. With him, Gahn brought his son, Trehmar, who had been on his first hunt when the tribe was purged.
Trehmar was raised in the Bloodhoof Tribe, but often found himself feeling like an outsider. He stuck to the plains and hills near the camps with his only true companion, a Banepaw Raptor hatchling named Helisk.
As he grew older, Trehmar wanted to know more about the tribe he had been born to, and about his mother, who was a shaman of the Banepaw. However, his father’s heart was forever broken, and he rarely spoke of the Banepaw Tribe. Trehmar asked the Bloodhoof, but the tribes were isolated from one another, and Trehmar was graced only with scant details. He didn’t even know whether or not there were any other survivors.
Despite his partial, self-imposed ‘exile’ from the Bloodhoof, Trehmar was taken by one of the young shaman; a girl named Feather. They fell in love, for she found his mysterious ways intriguing. And, despite evoking the ire and shame of the entire tribe, conceived a child.
But the Kolkar were relentless. As if by the fist of an angry god, Feather was poisoned by a Kolkar shaman. Despite the taurens’ greatest efforts to cure her, she and her unborn child died. Trehmar left into the wilderness, exiled like the tribal kin he never knew.
Years passed and the Kolkar grew ever-more aggressive. Many tribes were near their breaking point when news began to spread of green-skinned men and their savage, blue-skinned allies willing to go to war alongside the tauren to retake the ancient grasslands of Mulgore. Perhaps this Horde of strange people could succeed where the Banepaw Tribe had failed.
Trehmar heard that his old tribe, the Bloodhoof, were spear-heading the union with the Horde. He was passing near the Stonehoof Tribal camp and saw them preparing to do battle. He joined them, and marched with them into fabled Mulgore to claim victory for the tauren and the Horde.
Many tauren joined the Horde the day they retook Mulgore. Many more began constructing some of the first permanent settlements in tauren history. Trehmar aided in the construction of Camp Narache and Thunder Bluff. Over the next year, the wise Chieftain Cairne Bloodhoof united all of the tauren tribes under the banner of the Horde.
Chapter III - The Banepaw Fellowship of the Horde
A tauren was born of the Banepaw Tribe ten years before the Kolkar’s final victory over it named Trehmar. Trehmar became loyal to the Horde when the tauren surrendered their tribal differences and united as The Confederated Tribes of Mulgore.
Spurred by his newfound love for the Horde and memory of his tribe, he sought to apply the philosophy of the Banepaw Tribe into the Horde. Journeying to Orgrimmar, he spoke with the elder shaman in Grommash Hold. He had seen the value of each Horde race and their allies in the five years of its existence, and he had seen much racism and closed-mindedness based on petty differences getting in the way of progress. To solve this, he proposed an organization to uphold the cultural ideals of the Horde and strengthen the bond between races.
Trehmar named this guild “The Banepaw Fellowship” after the late tribe he was born into.
As the war in Outland raged, the Banepaw Fellowship grew into an idealistic collective of Horde individuals. From the rescue of Grimtotem refugees to the valiant defense of Horde homelands, the Fellowship took an active role in the Horde.
Many successful months passed and word had spread about this guild. Seemingly from no where, a young tauren shaman came to the Sun Rock Retreat where the guild was gathered one day. She called herself Nahlhana Banepaw, claiming to be the student of a surviving Banepaw elder. The Fellowship had all heard much from Trehmar about the tribe, and were surprised, and somewhat cautious.
Nahlhana spent several days among the Fellowship before coming to the conclusion that the Fellowship was not worthy to call themselves Banepaw because they did not hold to the old ways. Their honor insulted, the various orcs, tauren, Sin’dorei and trolls who made up the Fellowship at the time claimed that they had the right to call themselves Banepaw because Trehmar had been born into the original tribe. They further argued that Nahlhana had no right to speak for the entire Banepaw legacy.
Nahlhana told them that the elder shaman (who they still had not met) would not give them the blessing of the Banepaw. Further, she discredited Trehmar, noting that he was only a child when the tribe broke, and knew little of his heritage.
The young shaman was not seen again.
Despite the insult, the guild continued to proudly serve the Horde. However, their plans to unite the allies of the Horde were a threat to certain schemes by traitors within the Forsaken. An agent of this traitorous group, called Nordithius, infiltrated the guild. Pretending to be a friend of the Horde, Nordithius seeded doubt and mistrust into the guild, managing to weaken the bonds between its members. The vile Forsaken agent had earned the trust of many within the guild, despite his secret doings to harm it.
Feeling the guild lost to corruption, and seeking the return to his roots, Trehmar retired from the Fellowship.
Gulmorgron Siegefist, an elderly orc shaman became the new leader of the guild. Under his guidance, Nordithius was finally revealed after many more months of corrupting and twisting the guild to his will. After several conflicts with him, the Fellowship defeated their deceitful enemy, resuming their peace-keeping ways.
Despite this, Trehmar remained out of the Fellowship, preferring his new life as a brave of Mulgore.
With the Illidari in Outland defeated and relative peace with the Alliance settling in, things began to settle down. The Fellowship aided in many rebuilding projects throughout Kalimdor, and turned to a more tribal lifestyle. They remained this way for over a year.
Then, the Scourge attacked; pouring over the world. It was during their raid of Thunder Bluff that Trehmar Banepaw was slain and tossed over the edge of the city. Many thought the last of the Banepaw to be dead.
When the Horde pulled through the storm with the help of the Argent Dawn and defeated the invaders, the Banepaw Fellowship were among the first to sail to Northrend and take the fight to the Lich King’s domain. In an unsteady truce with the Alliance and the Knights of the Ebon Blade, the Horde claimed victories all across the Frozen Wastes. The Banepaw Fellowship - after many months of battle - returned home on leave knowing victory would come eventually.
It was during this time that Elder Gulmorgron came to Red Rocks, the resting place of Trehmar for advice. He was guided by Trehmar’s spirit, who told him change would always be necessary and led him to the far reaches of the barrens. There, he met a pack of raptors, living in a shaded nook. The spirits of the raptors spoke with him, saying they were the pack raised by the Banepaw Tribe. The elder orc was instructed to dig in the dirt, where he found the horn of a deceased raptor. The spirit of that great beast bound itself with him, as the raptors had done with the Banepaw Tribe nearly 56 years ago.
Excited and moved, the orcish shaman gathered his fellows and brought them to the sacred place. At first, the raptors were hesitant. There was not a Banepaw among them, and but a single tauren. But proving their hearts true, the Fellowship each had a raptor soul bound to them. For the first time in 56 years, the Banepaw raptors hunted alongside mortals.
Time passed, an tension with the Alliance grew. The Banepaw Fellowship became ever more focused on battle with their enemies, including the Scourge. Many great victories were had by the Fellowship in Icecrown, especially by the champion orc warrior, Garrah Wolfrunner. As Elder Gulmorgron left to the elemental plane of Fire, he put Garrah in charge of the guild.
With the young and powerful Garrah in charge the Banepaw Fellowship joined with the Argent Crusade’s final strike on Icecrown Citadel. Glory and honor came to the names of each member when Tirion Fordring, Jaina Proudmoore, and Sylvanas Windrunner slew the Lich King forever, ending the Scourge threat.
After the fall of the Lich King, the Banepaw Fellowship returned to their homes in Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms. As they rebuilt and reunited with family, the guild became a second priority for most of them. The Banepaw Fellowship - for now - was at it’s end.
Timeline
Please note that it is currently (in-game) 7 years after the Battle of Mount Hyjal. That means 3 years after World of Warcraft starts. If you see any inconsistencies, please tell me.
If you would like your character's birth / important life events relating to the guild included in the timeline, let me know.
Countless Generations Ago
- The tauren are born into Mulgore by the Earthmother
- The centaur invade Mulgore
- The tauren go into exile in the barrens
- The Banepaw Tribe is formed
99 Years Before The Battle of Hyjal / Warcraft III (107 Years Ago)
- Future Chief Plainswalker is born to Lady Nuh and Chief Bloomhoof
81 Years Before WCIII (89 Years Ago)
- Future Chief Plainswalker comes of age
- Future Chief goes on a vision quest into the barrens, returns with a rare healing salve used to save the mother of his future mate
- Naya/Future Lady Plainswalker is born
79 Years Before WCIII (87 Years Ago)
- Chief Bloomhoof dies by Kolkar Centaur
- Plainswalker becomes new chief
- Chief Plainswalker begins trying to unite the tribes against the Kolkar Clan
77 Years Before WCIII (85 Years Ago)
- Gahn (Trehmar's Father) is born
59 Years Before WCIII (67 Years Ago)
- A traveler from Stonetalon arrives. She and Gahn mate.
- Trehmar is born
- Banepaw Tribe and several allies go to war with Kolkar
49 Years Before WCIII (57 Years Ago)
- The Tribe is defeated by the Kolkar
- Gahn takes Trehmar to join the Bloodhoof Tribe
- Lady Plainswalker wanders off with her daughter, never to be seen again
32 Years Before WCIII (40 Years Ago)
- Trehmar and Feather mate
- Feather and her unborn baby die
- Trehmar leaves the Bloodhoof Tribe
Warcraft III (8 Years Ago)
- The Horde retakes Mulgore
- The Confederated Tribes of Mulgore is created
1 Year After WCIII (7 Years Ago)
- Thunder Bluff is built
- Orgrimmar is built
5 Years After WCIII (3 Years Ago)
- The Dark Portal Opens; War in Outland Begins
- The <Banepaw Fellowship> is formed by Trehmar
6 Years After WCIII (2 Years Ago)
- Trehmar leaves the Banepaw Fellowship
- Illidan is defeated
7 Years After WCIII (1 Year Ago)
- Trehmar dies defending Thunder Bluff from the Scourge
- The Scourge War begins
8 Years After WCIII
- The Scourge War ends
- The Banepaw Fellowship is reformed
Written History
The most important parts of the story are in bold, everything else is for posterity.
Chapter I - The Banepaw Tribe
Chapter II - Trehmar Banepaw
Chapter III - The Banepaw Fellowship of the Horde
Chapter IV - The Renewal
Chapter I - The Banepaw Tribe
Far from the destructive conflicts of humans, elves, orcs and demons, the tauren of the Banepaw Tribe once roamed the endless plains of the barrens, always following the mighty kodo and the will of the ancestors. With their great faith in their shamanic lifestyle and strong kinship with their raptor allies, the Banepaw Tribe thrived despite the constant threat of attack from centaur, quilboar and harpies.
As time passed, the tales and history of the Banpaw only further strengthened their collective will and character. Known to all to be a relatively safe haven for those without tribes and travelers, the tribe became a diverse yet intensely tight-knit group of tauren from all walks of life. Despite this, they always retained their traditions and customs.
When Chief Bloomhoof, a well-liked and level-headed chieftain passed to the sky during a Kolkar raid, his son - called Plainswalker - became chief. Plainswalker and his tribe agreed that the Kolkar would have to fall if safety for the tauren could exist. For twenty years he campaigned his cause to all who would listen.
After these twenty years, several tribes had assembled. Each winter they would gather and attack the Kolkar. For ten winters they warred.
Until the Kolkar had enough. Organizing against the Banepaw Tribe specifically, they attacked one night while the hunters (led by Lady Plainswalker) were away. The Kolkar left little for the hunters to return to. And though Lady Plainswalker tried to keep those alive united, she was unable to rebuild the tribe.
The Banepaw scattered like leaves to the wind. Many joined what ever tribe would accept them. Many more braved the barrens alone, in exile.
Chapter II - Trehmar Banepaw
A hunter by the name of Gahn was out with Lady Plainswalker’s party when the Kolkar decimated his home and killed his loving mate. Despite Lady Plainswalker’s plea for unity he left for the Bloodhoof encampment, where he had an old friend. With him, Gahn brought his son, Trehmar, who had been on his first hunt when the tribe was purged.
Trehmar was raised in the Bloodhoof Tribe, but often found himself feeling like an outsider. He stuck to the plains and hills near the camps with his only true companion, a Banepaw Raptor hatchling named Helisk.
As he grew older, Trehmar wanted to know more about the tribe he had been born to, and about his mother, who was a shaman of the Banepaw. However, his father’s heart was forever broken, and he rarely spoke of the Banepaw Tribe. Trehmar asked the Bloodhoof, but the tribes were isolated from one another, and Trehmar was graced only with scant details. He didn’t even know whether or not there were any other survivors.
Despite his partial, self-imposed ‘exile’ from the Bloodhoof, Trehmar was taken by one of the young shaman; a girl named Feather. They fell in love, for she found his mysterious ways intriguing. And, despite evoking the ire and shame of the entire tribe, conceived a child.
But the Kolkar were relentless. As if by the fist of an angry god, Feather was poisoned by a Kolkar shaman. Despite the taurens’ greatest efforts to cure her, she and her unborn child died. Trehmar left into the wilderness, exiled like the tribal kin he never knew.
Years passed and the Kolkar grew ever-more aggressive. Many tribes were near their breaking point when news began to spread of green-skinned men and their savage, blue-skinned allies willing to go to war alongside the tauren to retake the ancient grasslands of Mulgore. Perhaps this Horde of strange people could succeed where the Banepaw Tribe had failed.
Trehmar heard that his old tribe, the Bloodhoof, were spear-heading the union with the Horde. He was passing near the Stonehoof Tribal camp and saw them preparing to do battle. He joined them, and marched with them into fabled Mulgore to claim victory for the tauren and the Horde.
Many tauren joined the Horde the day they retook Mulgore. Many more began constructing some of the first permanent settlements in tauren history. Trehmar aided in the construction of Camp Narache and Thunder Bluff. Over the next year, the wise Chieftain Cairne Bloodhoof united all of the tauren tribes under the banner of the Horde.
Chapter III - The Banepaw Fellowship of the Horde
A tauren was born of the Banepaw Tribe ten years before the Kolkar’s final victory over it named Trehmar. Trehmar became loyal to the Horde when the tauren surrendered their tribal differences and united as The Confederated Tribes of Mulgore.
Spurred by his newfound love for the Horde and memory of his tribe, he sought to apply the philosophy of the Banepaw Tribe into the Horde. Journeying to Orgrimmar, he spoke with the elder shaman in Grommash Hold. He had seen the value of each Horde race and their allies in the five years of its existence, and he had seen much racism and closed-mindedness based on petty differences getting in the way of progress. To solve this, he proposed an organization to uphold the cultural ideals of the Horde and strengthen the bond between races.
Trehmar named this guild “The Banepaw Fellowship” after the late tribe he was born into.
As the war in Outland raged, the Banepaw Fellowship grew into an idealistic collective of Horde individuals. From the rescue of Grimtotem refugees to the valiant defense of Horde homelands, the Fellowship took an active role in the Horde.
Many successful months passed and word had spread about this guild. Seemingly from no where, a young tauren shaman came to the Sun Rock Retreat where the guild was gathered one day. She called herself Nahlhana Banepaw, claiming to be the student of a surviving Banepaw elder. The Fellowship had all heard much from Trehmar about the tribe, and were surprised, and somewhat cautious.
Nahlhana spent several days among the Fellowship before coming to the conclusion that the Fellowship was not worthy to call themselves Banepaw because they did not hold to the old ways. Their honor insulted, the various orcs, tauren, Sin’dorei and trolls who made up the Fellowship at the time claimed that they had the right to call themselves Banepaw because Trehmar had been born into the original tribe. They further argued that Nahlhana had no right to speak for the entire Banepaw legacy.
Nahlhana told them that the elder shaman (who they still had not met) would not give them the blessing of the Banepaw. Further, she discredited Trehmar, noting that he was only a child when the tribe broke, and knew little of his heritage.
The young shaman was not seen again.
Despite the insult, the guild continued to proudly serve the Horde. However, their plans to unite the allies of the Horde were a threat to certain schemes by traitors within the Forsaken. An agent of this traitorous group, called Nordithius, infiltrated the guild. Pretending to be a friend of the Horde, Nordithius seeded doubt and mistrust into the guild, managing to weaken the bonds between its members. The vile Forsaken agent had earned the trust of many within the guild, despite his secret doings to harm it.
Feeling the guild lost to corruption, and seeking the return to his roots, Trehmar retired from the Fellowship.
Gulmorgron Siegefist, an elderly orc shaman became the new leader of the guild. Under his guidance, Nordithius was finally revealed after many more months of corrupting and twisting the guild to his will. After several conflicts with him, the Fellowship defeated their deceitful enemy, resuming their peace-keeping ways.
Despite this, Trehmar remained out of the Fellowship, preferring his new life as a brave of Mulgore.
With the Illidari in Outland defeated and relative peace with the Alliance settling in, things began to settle down. The Fellowship aided in many rebuilding projects throughout Kalimdor, and turned to a more tribal lifestyle. They remained this way for over a year.
Then, the Scourge attacked; pouring over the world. It was during their raid of Thunder Bluff that Trehmar Banepaw was slain and tossed over the edge of the city. Many thought the last of the Banepaw to be dead.
When the Horde pulled through the storm with the help of the Argent Dawn and defeated the invaders, the Banepaw Fellowship were among the first to sail to Northrend and take the fight to the Lich King’s domain. In an unsteady truce with the Alliance and the Knights of the Ebon Blade, the Horde claimed victories all across the Frozen Wastes. The Banepaw Fellowship - after many months of battle - returned home on leave knowing victory would come eventually.
It was during this time that Elder Gulmorgron came to Red Rocks, the resting place of Trehmar for advice. He was guided by Trehmar’s spirit, who told him change would always be necessary and led him to the far reaches of the barrens. There, he met a pack of raptors, living in a shaded nook. The spirits of the raptors spoke with him, saying they were the pack raised by the Banepaw Tribe. The elder orc was instructed to dig in the dirt, where he found the horn of a deceased raptor. The spirit of that great beast bound itself with him, as the raptors had done with the Banepaw Tribe nearly 56 years ago.
Excited and moved, the orcish shaman gathered his fellows and brought them to the sacred place. At first, the raptors were hesitant. There was not a Banepaw among them, and but a single tauren. But proving their hearts true, the Fellowship each had a raptor soul bound to them. For the first time in 56 years, the Banepaw raptors hunted alongside mortals.
Time passed, an tension with the Alliance grew. The Banepaw Fellowship became ever more focused on battle with their enemies, including the Scourge. Many great victories were had by the Fellowship in Icecrown, especially by the champion orc warrior, Garrah Wolfrunner. As Elder Gulmorgron left to the elemental plane of Fire, he put Garrah in charge of the guild.
With the young and powerful Garrah in charge the Banepaw Fellowship joined with the Argent Crusade’s final strike on Icecrown Citadel. Glory and honor came to the names of each member when Tirion Fordring, Jaina Proudmoore, and Sylvanas Windrunner slew the Lich King forever, ending the Scourge threat.
After the fall of the Lich King, the Banepaw Fellowship returned to their homes in Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms. As they rebuilt and reunited with family, the guild became a second priority for most of them. The Banepaw Fellowship - for now - was at it’s end.