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Races | Draenei, Dwarf, Gnome, Human, Night Elf, Orc, Tauren, Troll, Undead | ||||||
Talent Trees | Protection, Fury, Arms | ||||||
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The death knights of the Second War were powerful undead necromancers created by Gul'dan to replace the warlocks slaughtered by Orgrim Doomhammer. The first and most prominent of the death knights was Teron Gorefiend.
A new order of death knights emerged during the Third War, in service to The Lich King. They were created from living and undead humans (and occasionally other races) who had been granted unholy runeblades, and most were former paladins who had forsaken the Holy Light.