Lothar and other refugees flee Stormwind. In the years that followed, Lothar discreetly sent dozens of the kingdom's apprentice spellcasters to Medivh, who rebuked all of them. After the conflict was over, Lothar would see only approval upon being raised as one of the military's top commanders. Though frightened by his own power, Medivh would accept Llane's request and destroy the Gurubashi forces (Zan'non included), an act that would ultimately avenge Barathen.

Llane, driven by guilt, would plead with Medivh to unleash his power on the Gurubashi as he had done against Jok'non. Though almost succeeding in claiming Zan'non's head, Barathen would die on the field of battle. As the death toll mounted on both sides, Barathen mounted a desperate counterattack against the Gurubashi. In the face of the troll onslaught, Barathen recalled all his forces to the stronghold's gate, believing that the survival of Stormwind would depend on one colossal battle. Rallying under Jok'non's son, Zan'non, the Gurubashi launched an invasion intent on destroying Stormwind. While none of the Gurubashi who witnessed Jok'non's death survived, it took very little imagination for the trolls to surmise who was responsible. Eventually, the three friends would prove victorious and return to Stormwind, shaken by Medivh's powers. Though initially shielded by Medivh's magic the three friends would end up in the fight for their lives when they battled Jok'non, a Gurubashi Warlord empowered by Hakkar the Soulflayer. This would ultimately prove to be the final straw of Prince Llane, Anduin Lothar, and Medivh, who in defiance of Llane's father's continued de-escalation, journeyed south to bring war to the Gurubashi. While the King's strategy against the Gurubashi was effective it would be unable to stop every attack, one which saw slow, barbaric, and gruesome deaths delivered to the villagers of three towns in Westfall. Skirmishes would erupt between the Gurubashi and Stormwind forces but the elderly King Barathen Wrynn would refuse to order an invasion into Stranglethorn and was focused on fighting a defensive war, much to the outrage of his son Prince Llane. Years after the Gnoll War, Stormwind's farmers and settlers would increasingly push southward claiming territory close to the jungles of Stranglethorn Vale, home of the Gurubashi Tribe. Lothar's renown reached as far as Lordaeron and its kingdoms, including Dalaran. He was later knighted and arose to the position of Armsman in the Brotherhood of the Horse. At a considerably early age, Lothar joined Stormwind's military, quickly becoming part of the King's Honor Guard. The trio shared many adventures in the Azerothian wilderness in their youth such as when they were attacked by jungle trolls in Stranglethorn Vale.

Born 51 years before the First War and raised in the Kingdom of Stormwind, Lothar grew up in the royal court as a childhood friend of both the Prince Llane Wrynn and Medivh.

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