死亡骑士官方故事背景设定

Shadows of Justice
正义的阴影

Orgrim Doomhammer's first act as warchief of the Horde was to crush the orc warlocks of the Shadow Council. He grudgingly spared the council's former master, Gul'dan, in exchange for the warlock's servitude; in turn Gul'dan promised to create a host of powerful new warriors to serve the Horde. After experimenting at length with the souls of the recently slain council members, Gul'dan successfully instilled the spirit of the necrolyte Teron Gorefiend into the corpse of a fallen knight of Stormwind. Thus, the first terrifying death knight was born. Gul'dan transformed other council members as well, creating unholy warriors who sowed chaos and fear throughout the land of Azeroth during the Second War.

在摧毁暗影议会兽人术士的战斗中，奥格瑞姆曾经是部落的酋长。他很不愿意赋予了当时的议会首领古尔丹使用术士的全力，同时古尔丹承诺会练出一批更强大的战士为部落效力。经过议会无数次的活体实验，古尔丹最后终于成功的把一名在做泰隆-血魔的死灵法师的灵魂，灌输进了一具已故的前暴风城骑士的尸体中。从此之后，第一位强大的死亡骑士诞生了。之后古尔丹也对其他的议会成员做了实验，在第二次战争中制造了大量的邪恶战士，在艾泽拉斯的土地上传扬着恐惧和混乱。

Following Gul'dan's desertion and death, part of the Horde, including the death knights, retreated through the Dark Portal to Draenor. Most of the surviving death knights disappeared after Draenor's destruction, with the exception of Teron Gorefiend, whose restless and embittered form resides now in the Black Temple of Outland.

随着古尔丹的陨落，一部分部落，包括那些死亡骑士，从黑暗之门撤退回了德拉诺世界。自从德拉诺崩溃之后，大多数幸存的死亡骑士跟随着泰隆-血魔深深地隐藏进了外域的黑暗神庙。

Champions of the Lich King
巫妖王的爪牙们

Years after the destruction of Draenor, the immensely powerful Lich King created a new breed of death knights: malevolent, rune-wielding warriors of the Scourge. The first and greatest of these was Prince Arthas Menethil, once a mighty paladin of the Silver Hand, who sacrificed his soul to claim the runeblade Frostmourne in a desperate bid to save his people.

很多年後，无比强大的巫妖王制造了新一代死亡骑士：那些燃烧军团中险恶的，挥舞着符文的战士。那位曾经是白银之手的圣骑士，那位战斗中牺牲一切哪怕是灵魂都要用霜之哀伤来挽救族人的阿尔萨斯王子，成为了第一位也是最强大的第二代死亡骑士。

Unlike Gul'dan's death knights, modern death knights consist mainly of paladins who lost their faith and pledged their souls to the Lich King in exchange for the promise of immortality. Death knights who fall in battle are soon raised again to continue in their master's service.

不同于古尔丹的死亡骑士，现在的死亡骑士大多数由那些堕落的圣骑士而组成。他们早已抛弃了信仰以及自己的灵魂，作为交换条件巫妖王向他们许诺了赋予他们力量以及不朽的身躯。为了尽忠与他们的主人，死亡骑士们已经被总动员，并且在那黑暗的角落蠢蠢欲动

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作者：salamina 来源：NGA