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These soldiers of darkness were created by [[Gul'dan]] to replace the slaughtered [[Warlock clan]]s. Assembled from the corpses of the [[Brotherhood of the Horse|Knights of Stormwind]] slain in the last battles of the [[First War]], these abominations were then instilled with the ethereal essence of the [[Shadow Council]] now serve the Horde in a [[Blasphemy|blasphemous]] state of eternal [[Undead|undeath]]. Further empowered with magical energies culled from the slain [[necrolyte]]s, the death knights wielded an arsenal of [[Necromancy|necromantic]] and elemental spells that mete out all but certain death to the enemies of the [[Old Horde|Horde]].<ref>''[[Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness]]'' manual, ''[[Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness manual#Ground Units of the Orcish Horde|Ground Units of the Orcish Horde]]'', Death Knight</ref>
The original death knights were created for [[Orgrim Doomhammer]] by [[Gul'dan]] as powerful soldiers of the [[Old Horde|Horde]]. These death knights were created by placing the souls of the slain [[warlock]]s of the [[Shadow Council]] into the corpses of fallen [[Stormwind (kingdom)|Stormwind]] [[knight]]s, the first of whom was [[Teron Gorefiend]]. Unlike modern death knights of the Scourge, these ghoulish fiends were not battle hardened warriors; they were insidious necromancers who possessed superior intellect and tremendous magical power. They often favored the use of terror tactics and reanimated the corpses of enemy soldiers who fell in battle to serve them as mindless undead minions.
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