Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-7263041-20130520220135/@comment-7246169-20130713094532

http://www.wowwiki.com/Stormwind_(kingdom)

There is no evidence here or anywhere else in any of the books and additional canon content to suggest that Stormwind fought a war against the Empire of Arathor to become a sovereign power. Admittedly, it would be pretty damn cool if that's the way it happened, but it didn't happen that way... Descendants of the Arathi tribes migrated south and formed a Kingdom. They probably contented with gnolls and who knows what else, but they didn't fight some epic war against the Empire of Arathor. So... you've essentially changed the course of history for two Kingdoms by saying it did happen that way. That's not a small addition by any stretch of the imagination, which is why I felt it deserved a disclaimer at the top of the page.

And now I promise, this is the last you'll hear from me on this subject.