Character Brief: Ravenholdt Guild

(Note: Okay, I know a guild isn't technically a character, but Ravenholdt includes several key people.)


Little is known about the man named Jorach Ravenholdt, and little more is known about the company he keeps. What is known is this: Jorach oversees a guild of rogues, spies, thieves and assassins, who operate outside the limits of any organized government (Jorach's mansion, located somewhere in the mountains north of Hillsbrad, is pictured above). How long the guild has been in operation, no one outside the organization knows (even some on the inside don't know). But the guild appears to be sympathetic to the Alliance and its allies, while at the same time showing no open hostility to the Horde. There are, in fact, members of the guild who are of the Horde races. The guild doesn't seem to support the Horde, it just doesn't actively operate in opposition to the Horde.

Most operations carried out by Ravenholdt's rogues target a criminal organization known as the Syndicate. The Syndicate comprises displaced citizens of the fallen kingdom of Alterac, punished by the Alliance for its treachery during the Second War. Seeking to preserve his people and grow his power, Lord Aiden Perenolde, ruler of Alterac, made a deal with Horde commanders: in exchange for his kingdom's safety, Perenolde would allow the Horde to pass through his lands unhindered. This and other acts committed by Perenolde and his ilk amounted to high treason. As punishment, Perenolde and his people were exiled, and their lands annexed by the Alliance kingdom of Stromgarde. In the years since, Perenolde slowly and quietly began to rebuild his forces, organizing them into the Syndicate. When the Scourge attacked, Perenolde took advantage of the Alliance's distraction to move in on his former lands. With the Alliance forces lessened after the brief war with the Horde, Perenolde's actions went nearly unchecked, to the point that now a sizeable portion of the lands near Hillsbrad, most of Alterac and much of Stromgarde are firmly under Syndicate control.

Why, exactly, Ravenholdt focuses so much on countering the Syndicate's operations is not clear. Perhaps Jorach has some grudge with Perenolde or other Alterac nobles; or it could just be that Jorach understands the magnitude of the threat that the Syndicate poses to the Alliance, in Hillsbrad and beyond. Whatever the reason, the Ravenholdt guild has proven itself willing and able to be a counter to the Syndicate's efforts.

Likely because of his age, Jorach doesn't often take an active part in carrying out operations; rather, he is the chief mind in planning the guild's actions. A man known only as Fahrad is the chief of operations, Jorach's right hand man and the lifeblood of the guild. His passion is unparalleled, though again the reasons aren't clear. One of Fahrad's best lieutenants is a blood elf named Myrokos Silentform. Clearly Myrokos, at one point, took up the cause of the high elves who renamed themselves "Sin'Dorei" following the devastation of Quel'Thalas by the Scourge. When or why he left the blood elves, or if he even followed them to Outland, is a mystery. His loyalty to Ravenholdt is beyond question, though, and both Jorach and Fahrad know that Myrokos is one of their best and most reliable assets.