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Prince Arthas Menethil was barely born in the Second War, and he grew up amongst an Alliance that was falling apart and a world ravaged and trying to repair itself.

As a youth, Arthas was trained in combat by Muradin Bronzebeard, the brother of the dwarven king, Magni Bronzebeard. Arthas became an adept swordsman, and a disciple of the Silver Hand at the young age of nineteen under the tutelage of Uther Lightbringer. Despite his rash and headstrong behaviour, Arthas became a renowned warrior, one of his more famed exploits being the hunting of the trolls attacking Quel'Thalas from Zul'Aman.

During this time, Arthas had a relationship with the youngest daughter of Daelin Proudmoore, Jaina. However, Jaina's devotion to her studies of magecraft in Dalaran, plus all the unwanted public attention their lives were getting, demanded that they put an end to their affair, but they continued on with a strong friendship.

As troubles began to arise in Lordaeron: the rising of the Horde coupled with the plague that had gripped the northlands, Arthas was sent to Strahnbrad to defend the town, along with his teacher, Uther, from the Orc raids in the area. However, soon a much more vile threat arose. Jaina was sent to join Arthas, and they were to investigate the strange plague. Instead, they found Undead armies, and a plague-infested grainery. There, they first saw the Necromancer, Kel'Thuzad, in the town of Brill. They followed him to Andorhal.

Kel'Thuzad infected grains in Andorhal and shipped them out to outlying villages.

Before Arthas killed him, Kel'Thuzad spoke of Mal'Ganis, a demon of the Nethrazim who was at the heart of the conflict. Jaina and Arthas travelled north to confront him in Stratholme, stopping in Hearthglen, where thy hoped to rest. Instead, they found the town being attacked by masses of Undead led by a pair of scheming Liches. Then, to their horror, Arthas and Jaina discovered that the plague was not the means of mass murder, but rather, the means of turning innocent townsfolk into scheming Undead creatures.

Arthas stayed behind as Jaina fled to find Uther. Arthas barely held out, and was on the verge of defeat when Uther arrived with reinforcements and saved the village.

Arthas, humiliated, vowed to go to Stratholme to have his revenge on Mal'Ganis, who he believed was behind everything, whether Uther agreed or not. Uther, however, went along anyway.

While going to Stratholme, Arthas was met by the enigmatic Prophet. He gave him the same advice he gave Terenas, to go to Kalimdor. Arthas argues that his place is with his people, and vows that he will not abandon them. Jaina, however, disagrees, and believes that perhaps the Prophet does have some insight. Arthas is heedless, and continues to Stratholme.

Upon arriving at Stratholme, Arthas found that the grain had been distributed already, and knew that soon they would become Undead. He orders Uther to destroy the entire town. Uther, horrified, rebukes him.

Arthas ordered that Uther has committed treason, and demanded that only the soldiers loyal to him join him and carry out his orders. To his surprise, Jaina went with Uther.

As Arthas began to slay the corrupted townsfolk of Stratholme, he was met by Mal'Ganis himself. Mal'Ganis began to corrupt the townsfolk further, and then claimed their souls. Arthas worked to destroy the townsfolk before Mal'Ganis got to them.

Finally, Arthas demanded a final showdown with the Dreadlord. Mal'Ganis, however, slipped away, vowing to meet him in Northrend.

Arthas followed him with a detachment of his troops. They arrived a month later in Daggercap Bay. As they searched for a proper place to set up camp, Arthas came upon his good friend, Muradin Bronzebeard. Muradin thought, at first, that Arthas was a rescue party come to rescue his men, who had been besieged by Undead as they searched for the runeblade Frostmourne.

Muradin and Arthas destroyed the nearby Undead camp, but there was still no sign of Mal'Ganis.

As Muradin and Arthas went out to look for Frostmourne, a goblin zeppelin arrived, dropping an emissary who gave his order from Uther and Terenas to Arthas to return home with his men. When Arthas returned, the men had abandoned their posts, and were making their way through the forest towards their boats. Arthas would not have that. Outraged, and despite Muradin's leeriness, Arthas burned the boats with the help of some indigenous mercenaries. When his men arrived, Arthas betrayed his mercenaries, blaming them, and they were killed. Arthas then told his men that they had no means of going home, and the only way they were leaving Northrend was through victory.

Arthas and his troops continued to press on to Draktharon Keep in search of Frostmourne. As he arrived, Mal'Ganis appeared to him, and foretold his death. Arthas heedlessly went to search for Frostmourne with Muradin, leaving his captain to defend the camp.

Arthas soon found the Guardian, who tried to keep Arthas from Frostmourne, apparently for his own protection. The Guardian fell, and Arthas and Muradin claimed their prize. But Muradin, reading an inscription, reported that the blade was cursed. Arthas heedlessly took up the sword, willing to bear any curse to save his people. And as he took the sword, the last vestiges of compassion were stripped away.

As the sword exploded from its icy prison, a shard shot out and killed Muradin. With Frostmourne at his command, Arthas defeated Mal'Ganis' base, and finally confronted the demon. Mal'Ganis told him that now that Frostmourne was held by him, he was under the control of the Lich King. However, that control was instructing him to destroy Mal'Ganis. The dreadlord was destroyed, and, the voices of Frostmourne still raging in his head, Arthas fled into the frozen north, leaving his troops to die, and was stripped of the last remnants of sanity.

Arthas finally returned home some time later, and all of Lordaeron rejoiced their returning champion. However, as he entered the palace and knelt before the throne of his father, a dark power spoke in his mind. Arthas rose, approached the throne, and slew King Terenas, his own father.

Arthas fled the scene, and was not heard from for many weeks. He reappeared soon in Vandermar village at the bidding of his new master, the Lich King. There, he met Tichondrius, a dreadlord like Mal'Ganis. Tichondrius explained that the sword had been designed to steal souls, and that Arthas was the first. Arthas didn't care.

Arthas assembled the cult of the Damned that was in hiding in Vandermar, and used their magical abilities as he travelled to Andorhal, where he was to recover Kel'Thuzad's corpse. Arthas killed Gavinrad, the paladin who guarded the crypt, and recovered the remains. This brought Kel'Thuzad's ghost into being, and he secretly instructed Arthas not to trust the dreadlords. Arthas quietly contemplated this.

Kel'Thuzad needed to be taken to Quel'Thalas to be revived, and were badly decomposed. Tichondrius sent Arthas to recover the urn of King Terenas' ashes, guarded by Uther himself, to transport the body. Arthas killed Uther and desecrated his father's corpse, then made the long journey to Quel'Thalas.

Arthas met heavy resistance, particularly from the elven ranger-general, Sylvanas Windrunner. As he pushed her forces steadily back towards Silvermoon past the two magical Elfgates, he grew to hate the woman with a strong vengenace. She tried to warn Silvermoon of his coming, but he instead destroyed her camps and killed her, but, to make her further pay for her insolence, he corrupted her spirit, manifesting it as the first banshee.

Arthas destroyed Silvermoon and used the Sunwell to bring Kel'Thuzad back as a lich, an insidious agent of the Lich King, Ner'zhul. As they traveled to Alterac from the burning remains of Quel'Thalas, Kel'Thuzad explained the full extent of the Second Invasion and the plans of Ner'zhul and the Scourge. Kel'Thuzad was in Alterac to destory a clan of Orcs who had taken control of a demon gate, which the lich would use to speak to the demonlord, Archimonde. They destroyed the Orcs, and upon communion with Archimonde, set out for Dalaran upon his instruction to find the Book of Medivh, which would be used to summon Archimonde.

In Arthas and Kel'Thuzad's raid of Dalaran, despite the valiant efforts to repel them by the Kirin Tor, fought through their magical defenses, and killed the Archmage Antonidas himself, and claimed the Book for themselves.

Though Tichondrius appeared, he did not assist, and instead, Arthas repelled all the human forces as Kel'Thuzad began the lengthy procedure of summoning the demonlord. With the Lich King no longer of any use, Tichondrius was placed in command of the Scourge, and Arthas was left to wonder what would become of him and Kel'Thuzad. Kel'Thuzad, however, cryptically replied that all was going as the Lich King foresaw. The pair disappeared.

Upon arrival, Archimonde levelled the city of Dalaran.

Arthas did not reappear for some time. It was during the invasion of Kalimdor, shortly after Illidan was freed. Tichondrius had taken the Skull of Gul'dan and was using its arcane energies as a means of getting demons to Kalimdor.

Arthas, on instruction by the Lich King, told Illidan how to claim the Skull's powers as his own, whereupon he could destroy Tichondrius. All went as planned, and Arthas disappeared again.

Archimonde had left a trio of Dreadlords behind in Lordaeron to make sure that the nation remain under demonic control, and to watch over the fiendishly cunning servitors of Ner'zhul, to ensure that they did not cause any trouble. When the demonlord was defeated, however, they were not aware of it, until Arthas returned, months later, to reclaim his throne.

Arthas threatened the lives of the Dreadlords, who immediately fled, and then called Sylvanas and Kel'Thuzad to him, and used them to crush the remaining human refugees in the area. However, during the battle, he had a painful seizure, and felt the Lich King calling out to him, and his power diminished. Nevertheless, he fought on until all remaining humans were killed.

Little did Arthas know, the Lich King's power had dwindled to the point that Sylvanas was no longer under his control. In secret, she attended a meeting with the three Dreadlords, who told her that the Lich King's power was waning, and so now was the time to claim her vengeance. . .

Arthas was ambushed in the Capital City, and was forced to collect what loyalists he could find and fight his way through the Dreadlords' forces. As he arrived on the city's limits, he was saved by a cadre of banshees, who told him that Sylvanas had sent them to see him safely away. However, as they neared an empty spot in the forest, Arthas was attacked by Sylvanas with a paralyzing arrow. Kel'Thuzad stepped in and chased her off at the last moment. But the Lich King's mental cries pierced Arthas' mind - return to Northrend, for forces were working to destroy the Frozen Throne.

Immediately, Arthas fled in an undead fleet, leaving Kel'Thuzad behind to keep Lordaeron under his own control.

Three weeks later, Arthas landed upon the familiar soil of Northrend, and unexpectedly found himself being attacked by Blood Elves, led by Kael'thas, hungry for vengeance at their kingdom's destruction. Arthas was saved by Anub'arak, the former king of Azjol-Nerub. Kael warned that though the preliminary scouting force may have fallen, their main army would not be so easily defeated.

Arthas worried that he may be right, and that they would never reach Icecrown before Illidan, but Anub'arak thought differently. He suggested that they delve into the shattered kingdom of Azjol-Nerub. Seeing little other choice, Arthas agreed.

Anub'arak suggested raiding the hoard of Sapphiron, an ancient blue dragon of Malygos, and equipping themselves with the dragon's treasures. Not only did they slay the dragon, but Arthas used what power he had left to raise Sapphiron into a powerful frost wyrm which he used to fight his way past Kael and Vashj and through the wintry guardians of Nerub - Dragonspawn, Arachnathids, and other denizens of the glacier - in his path.

When he came to the doors of Nerub, however, he found himself being fired upon by dwarves, who revealed themselves to be followers of Muradin who had remained there when their leader died. Now, they were led by Muradin's underling, Baelgun. Arthas battled through Baelgun's dwarves, but also the Nerubian survivors, as he delved into the broken Spider Kingdom. Anub'arak was priceless, as he circumvented many traps which would have cut Arthas' stay fatally short.

When Arthas faced off against Baelgun, the dwarf warned that the shifting earth had released an ancient evil from below the kingdom. Arthas paid him little heed, and slew the Thane without a second thought. However, as they delved deeper into the kingdom, that evil became apparent - the Faceless Ones, a race, according to Anub'arak, only thought to be legend, of great power and viciousness. They even faced off with a behemoth Forgotten One, a fight which nearly ended badly.

As they made their way to the Upper Kingdom, however, an earthquake collapsed part of the passageway they were in, separating Anub'arak from Arthas. The young prince had to rely upon his wits to see himself through several daunting booby traps before Anub'arak dug his way to Arthas.

As they climbed out of Nerub, the Lich King contacted Arthas once again, and explained that he was losing his power, because the Frozen Throne was cracked, and energy was seeping from the wound. The crack had been caused when Ner'zhul forced the blade, Frostmourne, from his prison, so that it might find Arthas and return him to Icecrown. Only by returning the sword to Ner'zhul could Arthas complete the circle. Ner'zhul replenished Arthas' powers, knowing he would need them in the coming battle.

When they finally reached the surface, they immediately had to contend with Illidan's ample forces. Vashj's naga and Kael's blood elves were there to contest Arthas' every turn. Arthas, with Anub'arak's help, battled his way through their forces and magically activated the four obelisks around the Icecrown pinnacle, opening the doors to the Frozen Throne, but Illidan was waiting for him.

After a short, but intense battle, Illidan inadvertently left himself open and Arthas took advantage of it, slicing open the demon hunter's chest with Frostmourne. Illidan collapsed in the snow, dying, as Arthas turned towards the open doors of Icecrown.

Arthas entered the hollow glacier and beheld a winding pinnacle chained to the ice. He slowly climbed the stairs. As he did, the voices of those he had forsaken flooded through his mind. He heard Muradin, Uther, and Jaina calling out to him, but as he neared the top, all that was forgotten. Before him, he saw an icy cask, and within was a set of disembodied armour, arranged as if seated on a massive throne, and only one voice rang true. It was the Lich King, and he compelled Arthas to return the blade.

Finally, giving himself completely over to Ner'zhul's influence, Arthas let out a great cry and struck the Frozen Throne with his runeblade.

With a haunting scream, the Frozen Throne exploded, and the shards of ice scattered on the ground. The thorny helmet fell at Arthas' feet. As the outer wall of Icecrown cracked and fell away, he reached down and lifted the helm, and put it on his head. Ner'zhul's spirit invaded his mind, and the Arthas that once was was no more.

And so, Arthas silently sat upon the shattered Throne, and stared out across his new kingdom, still as a statue, and waited . . .