After an adventurer is made one of the leaders of The Uncrowned in the Hall of Shadows and Jorach Ravenholdt proposes a toast, Vanessa attacks with poisoned brew that incapacitates the rogues. Vanessa had easily faked her death in the Deadmines because her opponents' minds had been affected by her neurotoxin. The forces of Stormwind then attacked the Deadmines and defeated Vanessa. Stoutmantle, Laine and the other leaders were tied up and forced to watch as the Defias burned Sentinel Hill virtually to the ground. Once her forces were sufficiently bolstered, she revealed herself to Marshal Gryan Stoutmantle as the newly reconstituted Defias Brotherhood mounted a surprise attack on Sentinel Hill. The investigations of Lieutenant Horatio Laine into a murder at Furlbrow's Pumpkin Farm led to incremental revelations about Vanessa VanCleef's dealings, disguised as a 'Shadowy Figure'. Vanessa personally delivered a rousing speech to the masses in Moonbrook, denouncing King Varian Wrynn among others and the toll the war in Northrend had taken on the people of Westfall. When the gnolls proved ineffective, she resorted to anti-Stormwind propaganda, targeting the homeless masses in Westfall. Soliciting the help of such unsavory characters as the ogre Glubtok and the goblin Helix Gearbreaker, she used gnoll attacks to distract the forces of Sentinel Hill so the Defias could rescue the worgen Admiral Ripsnarl from his imprisonment there. Having learned or known that the Furlbrows recognized her face from when she was a baby, Vanessa arranged their deaths to prevent any possibility of the couple prematurely identifying her, something she considered regrettable but necessary for her plans. However, she secretly began plotting the resurrection of the Brotherhood. At some point Hope started caring for the poor and destitute and ended up at Sentinel Hill. The poor thing had no recollection of who she was or where she came from - truly a lost soul.' The Saldeans adopted her and named her Hope due to the hard times that had fallen on them. According to Salma Saldean, 'in the dead of night, a little girl walked right into our farmhouse and collapsed on the floor. Approximately five years prior to Deathwing's return, she watched from the shadows as her father was defeated by a group of adventurers on the orders of Gryan Stoutmantle. Apparently the only people who knew about her birth were Theodore and Verna Furlbrow, having seen her as an infant. Little is known about Vanessa VanCleef's early childhood except that she was the daughter of Edwin VanCleef, leader of the Defias Brotherhood and ruler of the Deadmines.

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