īut Azeroth was not able to be in peace for long, as soon after came the Elemental Unrest and the Cataclysm. With him gone, the nature and dreamform armies were able to rout and defeat the Nightmare, though a small pocket of it remained unconquered.

On the waking world, and with the help of several druids, Malfurion was eventually able to destroy the Nightmare Lord's power source, both on the Emerald Dream and in Azeroth. The shrinking dreamform army could only hold on until Malfurion and his comrades were able to defeat the Nightmare Lord directly. Yet things took a turn for the worse when the Emerald Nightmare started sending sleepwalkers to kill the dreamform armies' corporeal forms in the waking wold, causing their deaths in the Emerald Dream. The dreamform army pressed on even when the Emerald Nightmare used a psychological tactic that had the enemy taking the forms of fallen comrades and loved ones of Azeroth's defenders. In the Emerald Dream, the dreamform army battled against the Emerald Nightmare's army of corrupted Nightmare creatures. The dreamform of Varian Wrynn led the troops. Contacting every sentient and wild being that eluded the forceful slumber and remained awake in the physical world, Malfurion asked the survivors to fall asleep and lend their dreamforms to attack the Emerald Dream.

Malfurion Stormrage himself was trapped in the Nightmare, though with the help of some of his friends he was able to escape. Meanwhile, the Nightmare Lord had turned a great part of the Emerald Dream into the Nightmare, and though nature's defenders did not stop in their attacks, they seemed to have no effect in stopping the corruption, while some became corrupted themselves. It details the second invasion of the Burning Legion and the origins of the Scourge, along with the fall of Lordaeron and the awakening of the night elves. It is a real-time strategy computer game, the second sequel to Warcraft: Orcs & Humans and the third game set in the Warcraft universe. Later, the sleepers themselves turned into sleepwalkers, attacking everybody nearby as they relived their worst nightmares. Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos is a computer game released by Blizzard Entertainment on July 3 2002. Shadowy figures started appearing throughout the world, and eventually even attacking the people. A strange mist spread through the lands, a herald of the Nightmare.

People could not wake up, and were lost in nightmares, without any way to let them out. The War Against the Nightmare was a conflict fought against the Emerald Nightmare started by Xavius as he attacked Azeroth soon after the end of the War against the Lich King. This article contains lore taken from Warcraft novels, novellas, or short stories.

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