First Stockade Riot

The First Stockade Riot was an attempt to break out of the Stormwind Stockades instigated by Defias Brotherhood member Bazil Thredd.

Prelude
Even before the beginning of the First Defias Conflict, the Stockades kept some of the Kingdom's most dangerous criminals locked up. With the beginning of the conflict, the Defias were quickly filling up the cells. Between the execrable conditions of the prison and the rebellious Defias contained, a riot seemed inevitable.

For some time after Bazil Thredd's capture, he never recieved any visitors, many thinking the Brotherhood discarded him and leaving him for dead. However, some time before Edwin VanCleef's death, Thredd started recieving a visitor from a man named Maelik. In truth, he was an assassin under the name of Marzon, and he worked for the Brotherhood.

For some time, Marzon worked as a three-way messenger between VanCleef, Thredd and Lord Gregor Lescovar, and they planned a mass breakout of Thredd and many other Defias members locked up. Lescovar presumably suspended the death sentances of Dextren Ward and Targorr the Dread, other prisoners found in the Stockades.

One of the first signs of the riot approaching was the Defias prisoners crafting their signature bandanas with ripped pillowcases, many of which had been chastised by guardsman Mac Raskol. When the riots began, Raskol was one of the first casualties, stabbed in the back by one of the Defias he punished.

The Riot
Armed with makeshift weapons and the element of surprise, the convicts outnumbered the guards, who were unprepared for a riot on such a scale. At the start, the guardsmen fell quickly, and the prisoners ganged up on them one at a time. Warden Thelwater and his men did what they could, but he was eventually forced to pull back to the entrance of the prison.

By holding a chokepoint at the entrance, Thelwater was able to prevent the breakout, but the prison was in chaos. Almost every prisoner in the lower complex had broken out of their cells, and they would surely attempt to escape eventually.

Rallying what men could fight, they started pushing the criminals back, and slowly advanced in the complex. They were outnumbered, but they were much better equipped than the rioters in cloth wielding makeshift weapons. There were many who surrendered, but the majority were slaughtered, including Thredd himself.

Aftermath
In the end, the breakout was a disaster for the Brotherhood, for not only did they fail to get anyone out, but the link between them and Lescovar was discovered, which led to his assassination not too long after the end of the riot.

Of the prisoners that surrendred or didn't even participate, a large portion was executed, and the others were tortured. Many of those who survived until the Cataclysm, if they weren't slain by the fire elementals erupted, participated in the Second Stockade Riot.