The name of Death Knight refers to a class that is under the control of two organizations of powerful witches. The Death Knights shares a number of common points. For example, the Death Knights ride on horses with horned skulls.
When Orgrim Doomhammer becomes the new warchief, the first thing that he do is to destroy the orc warlocks from the Shadow Council. However, Orgrim spare the life of Gul’dan. In turn Gul’dan will become his servant and create a powerful army of warriors for him. After Gul’dan have researched on the soul of the slain members, he manage to invoke the spirit of Warlock Teron Gorefiend to live in the body of a dead knight called Stormwind. In this way, he successfully instilled the first Death Knight. Later, Gul’dan also transformed other council members into the Death Knight so that a legion of unholy warriors is formed. The unholy warriors are responsible for causing troubles in the land of Azeroth during the Second War.
After Orgrim died, some of the warriors of Horde including the Death Knight make their escapes from the Dark Portal to Draenor. The Death Knights that survived from the Draenor’s destruction also escaped. However, some of the Death Knights including Ner’zhul are arrested by the Burning Legion. After the capture, the Burning legion transformed them knights into liches. The Demon Lord, named Kil’jaeden imprisoned them by taking away their free will so that they can serve the Lich King. In Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, the liches belong to the spell casting hero class units.
Blizzard reveals the location of a powerful Death Knight who manages to escape from the evil Teron Gorefiend. The game starts with Blizzard deceiving the players with a fabricated history so that they will help to release him from prison. Due to the fact that the story is a deceptive maneuver of Blizzard, it can be assumed that there are a number of first generation detah knight who still exist in their original form including Gorefiend.
Many years later, the Lich King invents a new type of Death Knights that are evil. The most powerful Death Knight from the new breed is Prince Arthas Menethil. Formerly, the Prince Arthas Menethil is a champion of the Silver Hand who relinquish his soul to obtain the runeblade Frostmourne. The new breed of Death Knights is different than Gul’dan Death Knights because they don’t have the free will. Their minds are controlled by the Lich’s King’s vast consciousness. These powerful mortals sell their soul to the Lich King in exchange for immortality.
After destroying the Frozen Throne, Arthas join effort with Lich King. Since then, the power of the Death Knights had grown to become more powerful. As a result, Azeroth is once again troubled by the Lich King’s Death Knights.
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