The story of Undercity.
The Undercity is the capital of the Forsaken, a vast city of crypts, canals and green-lit sewers hidden beneath the ruins of Lordaeron's royal capital. It began as the crypts, dungeons and sewers under the palace, where the kings of Lordaeron were buried and the city's poorest lived. When Arthas turned on his kingdom, the Scourge began to expand the tunnels into a seat of power for him, but he was called away to Northrend before the work was done.
After the undead of Lordaeron fought among themselves for the ruined kingdom, Sylvanas Windrunner and her Forsaken claimed the half-finished catacombs and completed them as their own. Visitors enter through the ruined throne room above, where Arthas murdered his father, and ride the elevators down into a city laid out in a great ring of quarters around a central plaza.
Sylvanas, the Banshee Queen, rules from the Royal Quarter, with the dreadlord Varimathras at her side, a demon who claims to serve her. In the Apothecarium, the Royal Apothecary Society works on its experiments, which the Forsaken say are meant for the Scourge. Few of the Horde's other members are entirely comfortable here, and the Forsaken prefer it that way.
Written for this site from the game's lore. Further reading: Undercity on Warcraft Wiki.
