Frostmourne

Frostmourne is a sword cursed in the world of Warcraft III - translated into French by Deuillegivre (updated 2.03)

This Artifact imposes to Prince Arthas the will of King Liche and forces it to fight its own people, as well as the elves of the ground of Azeroth.

This runic sword was forged by the King Liche and was magic so as to capture the hearts. That of Prince Arthas is the first which she asserted. Prince Arthas seized some and, to the price of the sacrifice of his companions and his hearts, he managed to save his native soil, Lordaeron. Being private of his heart, Prince Arthas loses his humanity and becomes completely the slave of the desires of King Liche.

The name and the function are probably inspired by the twin swords Mournblade and Stormbringer of the cycle of Elric the necromancian, by Michael Moorcock.

Extract of the history of Warcraft: " Whereas the rows of death-alive swept Lordaeron and into broad longitudinally, the prince Arthas, only sons of Terenas, started to fight the Plague. Arthas managed to kill Kel' Thuzad, but even without him, the rows of death-alive inflated with each soldier who fell for defense from the country. Frustrated and limited by an enemy who seemed unbeatable, Arthas took more and more risks to overcome them. The allies of Arthas ended up preventing it that it was losing its humanity. Muradin Bronzebeard, a dwarf King of the Mountain which fought with dimensions of Arthas, had spoken to him about a runic sword, Frostmourne, sufficiently powerful to be able to tip the scales on the side of Arthas. Arthas decided to recover the sword, which he managed to do. Thanks to its capacity, it succeeds in overcoming Mal' Ganis. However, the sword was cursed: Muradin had died when Arthas had recovered it and especially, it had been enchanted by King Liche Ner' zhul, ordering Plague, so as to capture the hearts of the men. King Liche spoke in Arthas through Deuillegivre and could give him orders. Arthas became completely insane.

The fear and the resolution of Arthas were going to cause its loss. It went up the track of the plague until its source in Norfendre with the firm intention to finish some with the threat for always. Instead of that, the prince Arthas ends up falling between the claws from the king-liche and his extraordinary capacities. Thinking that would save its people, Arthas holds up Deuillegivre, the cursed runic sword. Although this sword granted incommensurable capacities to him, it also stole its heart and made of him largest of the Knights of died of the king-liche. Demolishes of its heart and of its mental health, Arthas carried out the Plague against its own kingdom. Arthas returned in Lordaeron, where a triumphing reception was held for him, and ends up assassinating his/her father, king Terenas, and by crushing Lordaeron under the iron domination of the king-liche.

Thereafter, it was not more doubt for anybody than it had definitively joined the camp of Death-alive, and had become Chevalier of Death. One day, a Lord of the Fear of the name of Tichondrius gave him his instructions. It ressuscita Kel' Thuzad, so that this one can launch the invocation of Archimonde, ordering Burning Legion, after having massacred the people of Quel' Thalas and having transformed Sylvanas Windrunner into banshee. Thanks to the assistance of Arthas, the invocation succeeds.

After the defeat of Archimonde, Arthas took again the command of the Plague. The power of King Liche starting to weaken, it was victim of plots of the Lords of Fear and Sylvanas Windrunner, but which been able to count on the assistance of its majordomo, Kel' Thuzad, like on the assistance of Nerubiens in order to defending Ner' zhul, King Liche, against a imminant danger: Illidan Stormrage which had received the order to destroy it. Finally, Arthas succeeds in defending King Liche, and after having climbed the Throne of Ice, brought Frostmourne to King Liche and released it from its prison of ice. Starting from this moment, Arthas and King Liche did nothing any more but one, rêgnant on the Plague… "

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