For the first time ever at Elizabeth Wachowski's WoW Insider "Know Your Lore" column, the history of a group was discussed. The focus was on the five doomed Alliance heroes who went to the Outlands to retrieve the Book of Medivh and close the Dark Portal. Of course, we say doomed because the said five never returned.

The column features the history of Archmage Khadgar, Turalayon, Alleria Windrunner, Kurdran Wildhammer, and Danath Trollbane, and the ultimate fate of the Alliance Expedition. If you're particularly curious about those commemorative statues at the Valley of Heroes at Stormwind, feel free to click on our "read" link below, it should lead to Wachowski's words.

Ah, Stormwind. What do we remember when we hear Stormwind? Oh, yeah. Kruul...

Over at the Alleria server in World of Warcraft, the Risen guild has pulled off a world first. After a lot of work, their guild leader Failure has finished creating the legendary caster weapon, Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian. Who'd they have to beat to get it?

To create Atiesh, they had to go through some of the toughest endbosses in the game. Taking down C'thun in AQ40 as well as Kel'Thuzad from Naxxramas to acquire two of the three items needed to create the staff, they had to return to Stratholme to summon and defeat the weapon's namesake: Atiesh himself.

Only upon defeating him could they cleanse the corrupted staff and acquire the legendary weapon. Congratulations to Failure (how weird does that sound?) on being the first to carry the priest version of Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian!