History Characters / WarcraftKnightsOfTheEbonBlade

'''Other factions:''' [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeOldHorde The Old Horde/Iron Horde]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheScourge The Scourge]] [[Characters/WarcraftArthasMenethil (Arthas Menethil)]]| [[Characters/WarcraftSylvanasAndFollowers Sylvanas and her followers]] [[Characters/WarcraftSylvanasWindrunner (Sylvanas Windrunner)]] | '''Knights of the Ebon Blade''' | [[Characters/WarcraftIllidanAndFollowers Illidan and his followers]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeGarroshsHorde Garrosh's Horde]] | [[Characters/WarcraftPandaria Pandaria]] | [[Characters/WarcraftOthers Other mortals]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheOldGods The Void (The Old Gods)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheLight The Light]] | [[Characters/WarcraftEternals Eternals]] | [[Characters/WarcraftShadowlands Shadowlands (Death)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTitans The Titans (Arcane)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheBurningLegion The Burning Legion (Fel)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheDragonflights The Dragonflights]] | [[Characters/WarcraftWildGods Wild Gods]] \\

'''[[Characters/WarcraftTheAlliance The Alliance]]:''' [[Characters/WarcraftTheAllianceStormwind Stormwind (Humans)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheAllianceLordaeron Lordaeron (Humans)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheAllianceGilneas Gilneas (Humans/Worgen)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheAllianceKulTiras Kul Tiras (Humans)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheAllianceHumanKingdoms Other Human Kingdoms]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheAllianceIronforge Ironforge (Dwarven Clans)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheAllianceGnomeregan Gnomeregan (Gnomes)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheAllianceQuelThalas Quel'Thalas/Telogrus Rift (High Elves and Void Elves)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheAllianceDarnassus Darnassus (Night Elves)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheAllianceExodar The Exodar (Draenei)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheAllianceTushui Tushui (Pandaren)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheAllianceVindicaar Vindicaar (Lightforged Draenei)]] - [[Characters/WarcraftTheAllianceMechagon Mechagon (Mechagnomes)]]\\

'''Other factions:''' [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeOldHorde The Old Horde/Iron Horde]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheScourge The Scourge]] | [[Characters/WarcraftSylvanasAndFollowers Sylvanas and her followers]] [[Characters/WarcraftSylvanasWindrunner (Sylvanas Windrunner)]] | '''Knights of the Ebon Blade''' | [[Characters/WarcraftIllidanAndFollowers Illidan and his followers]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeGarroshsHorde Garrosh's Horde]] | [[Characters/WarcraftPandaria Pandaria]] | [[Characters/WarcraftOthers Other mortals]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheOldGods The Void (The Old Gods)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheLight The Light]] | [[Characters/WarcraftEternals Eternals]] | [[Characters/WarcraftShadowlands Shadowlands (Death)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTitans The Titans (Arcane)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheBurningLegion The Burning Legion (Fel)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheDragonflights The Dragonflights]] | [[Characters/WarcraftWildGods Wild Gods]] \\

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/{{David Lodge|Actor}} (English), Oleg Kutsenko (Russian)

* AnAxeToGrind: Like most orcs, a large two-handed axe is his weapon of choice. Even when raised as a Death Knight, he still uses an axe and is the only one of the Four Horsemen to do so.

* AnAxeToGrind: Despite carrying [[CoolSword Trol'kalar]], his preferred weapon of choice was a large double-headed axe.

* AnAxeToGrind: Preferred to wield a two-handed axe when he was under the Lich King's control.

** Finally he made his actions painfully obvious to the Ebon Blade would kill him, because when Sylvanas does make her move he'd have to fully give into the Helm's power, which would eventually turn him into a monster like Arthas. By having the Ebon Blade move against him, they will be ready to kill him should he succumb to the Helm's power, or Sylvanas if she manages to take it from him.

'''Other factions:''' [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeOldHorde The Old Horde/Iron Horde]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheScourge The Scourge]] | [[Characters/WarcraftSylvanasAndFollowers Sylvanas and her followers]] | '''Knights of the Ebon Blade''' | [[Characters/WarcraftIllidanAndFollowers Illidan and his followers]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeGarroshsHorde Garrosh's Horde]] | [[Characters/WarcraftPandaria Pandaria]] | [[Characters/WarcraftOthers Other mortals]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheOldGods The Void (The Old Gods)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheLight The Light]] | [[Characters/WarcraftEternals Eternals]] | [[Characters/WarcraftShadowlands Shadowlands (Death)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTitans The Titans (Arcane)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheBurningLegion The Burning Legion (Fel)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheDragonflights The Dragonflights]] | [[Characters/WarcraftWildGods Wild Gods]] \\

* NiceHat: She wears a really nice priestly hat, as part of her position. Players are able to loot it for themselves after killing her.

* BaldOfAwesome: He loses his hair after his ordeal with dragon fire.

* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: Uses his shield to great effect to protect himself. It's also the one item left behind at the Wrathgate after his presumed demise. The player brings it back to Varian.

* BadassBeard: Kept a close-cropped beard prior to his encounter with dragon fire.

* BadassMustache: Depicted with one in the ''Warcraft II'' manual.

* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: For a given value of '[[AntiHero Bad Guys]]' anyway; they are fully aware that they are 'monsters' who CameBackWrong - but with them already scorned by the living because they are no longer capable of empathy and morality, they are capable of [[PayEvilUntoEvil performing heinous acts upon their enemies]] without taking a hit on the reputation meter; because no one expects otherwise of 'monsters'.

* FourStarBadass: Every zone you see him in, he has risen from rank to rank, beginning as a Grunt, to a Sergeant, to a Legionnaire, and finally a General in Mists of Pandaria.

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!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/GreyDeLisle (English), Olga Shorokhov (Russian)

## If the battle isn't going well, he will need to give into the Helm of Domination's power. This means he will be a FallenHero even if he wins, so it no longer matters who wins or loses; in the end, the victor will be either spent or unexperienced, and unable to command his Four Horsemen even with the Helm. Therefore, the Horsemen have explicit orders to kill whomever survives the encounter. whether it's him or her, Sylvanas dies.
## If Sylvanas powerful enough to defeat him ''and'' his Four Horsemen, his death knights have been purposefully scattered around the world and Sylvanas won't be able to claim them. After that, he knows [[WeDoTheImpossible It's only a matter of time before Sylvanas dies at the hands of them and their companions]]. Sylvanas dies.

'''Other factions:''' [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeOldHorde The Old Horde/Iron Horde]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheScourge The Scourge]] | [[Characters/WarcraftSylvanasAndFollowers Sylvanas and her followers]] | '''Knights of the Ebon Blade''' | [[Characters/WarcraftIllidanAndFollowers Illidan and his followers]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeGarroshsHorde Garrosh's Horde]] | [[Characters/WarcraftPandaria Pandaria]] | [[Characters/WarcraftOthers Other mortals]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheOldGods The Void (The Old Gods)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheLight The Light]] | [[Characters/WarcraftEternals Eternals]] | [[Characters/WarcraftShadowlands Shadowlands (Death)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTitans The Titans (Arcane)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheBurningLegion The Burning Legion (Fel)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheDragonflights The Dragonflights]] | [[Characters/WarcraftWildGods Wild Gods]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheArtifactWeapons The Artifact Weapons]]\\

** Applies to the entire faction in Shadowlands, big time. While they were merely one of the prominent forces during the war against the Lich King, in Shadowlands they become the primary force from Azeroth that represents the mortalkind in the conflict against the Jailer, aside from the Maw Walker and the [[spoiler: heroes that were abducted by the Mawsworn]].

** So he had the Ebon Blade travel the world, collecting bodies and he raised them into death knights before sending them out to the world to grow and get stronger.
** Then he started gathering an army of Scourge around Northrend to come to Icecrown and prepare
** Finally he made his actions painfully obvious that the Ebon Blade would prepare to kill him, because when Sylvanas does make her move he'd have to fully give into the Helm's power, which would eventually turn him into a monster like Arthas, so the Ebon Blade would need to be ready to fight and kill either him, or Sylvanas if she managed to beat him.

* BloodKnight: Like many orcs, Nazgrim is always eager to test himself in a fight. When he and Thassarian show up as TheCalvary in the Exodar, Thassarian admits they would have arrived sooner had Nazgrim not chosen to kill ''every'' demon they ran across on the way to the Deathlord.

'''Other factions:''' [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeOldHorde The Old Horde/Iron Horde]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheScourge The Scourge]] | [[Characters/WarcraftSylvanasAndFollowers Sylvanas and her followers]] | '''Knights of the Ebon Blade''' | [[Characters/WarcraftIllidanAndFollowers Illidan and his followers]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeGarroshsHorde Garrosh's Horde]] | [[Characters/WarcraftPandaria Pandaria]] | [[Characters/WarcraftOthers Other mortals]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheOldGods The Void (The Old Gods)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftEternals Eternals]] | [[Characters/WarcraftShadowlands Shadowlands (Death)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTitans The Titans (Arcane)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheBurningLegion The Burning Legion (Fel)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheDragonflights The Dragonflights]] | [[Characters/WarcraftWildGods Wild Gods]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheArtifactWeapons The Artifact Weapons]]\\

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Carlos Larkin

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TaliesinJaffe

!!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/GreyDeLisle

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Creator/{{David Lodge|Actor}}

When the Burning Legion attacked in the Third Invasion, the Lich King decided that more powerful warriors capable of doing what living men could not where needed. At his command, the Deathlord and the Knights of the Ebon Blade set out to raise four specific warriors of Azeroth to turn them into the Four Horsemen.

* HorsemenOfTheApocalypse: Although they don't use the full title or share affinity for the four aspects they normally represent, the Four Horsemen are the strongest Death Knights under the Lich King and ride out to bring devestation to their enemies. As a nod to the original trope, the Four Horsemen's mounts wear cloth colored after the four horses (red, black, white, and green).

* RedeemingReplacement: The original Four Horsemen were the elite personal guard of Kel'Thuzad and loyal agents of the Scourge. The Horsemen of the Ebon Blade are devoted defenders of Azeroth.