Granville Black

Granville Black was a male Forsaken mage, former Leader of The Sylvanas Loyalist Institute and secondary antagonist in the beginning of the Fourth War Campaign. He was paramount in the Institute's development and creation, and won over many neutral groups and factions with deft diplomacy and veiled threats. In the aftermath of the Siege of Lordaeron, Black was tasked with recruiting The Lamplighters with strict instructions to ensure they would not only support the Horde as they had in times past but also cut off their aid to the Alliance in turn. He was also instructed to retrieve the Horde Agents from the organisation and send them back to Orgrimmar to be reposted as military officers.

A disastrous meeting with Control ended with the Director refusing Black's requests on all fronts, assuring the Leader that the Horde-aligned Agents were independent and udner their personal protection. With pressure mounting upon him and Control unable to be swayed, Black approved a plot for an assault against The Seeker's Library. Working with his second, Dark Ranger Ambrose, Black smuggled canisters of Blight into Dalaran to be released into the Dormitories. After they were dead and turned, he would then capture Control themselves and take them and their Blue Box as a secret weapon in the war.

The plot was discovered and thwarted, with Dark Ranger Ambrose being killed in the crossfire. Before the Agents could capture him however, Black fled the City along with the third member of the leadership, High Executor Laudwine. In response to the scandal surrounding his brazen plot in Dalaran City and the loss of the veteran Dark Ranger, Black was stripped of his rank and placed as an underling within the Institute with Laudwine taking up the mantle of Leader.

He was placed in charge of the Internment Camp in Dustwallow Marsh and tasked (allegedly) with the retrieval of information from the faction members they had interred there who would not bend to Loyalist principles, including several former Lamplighter associates. While there, Granville plotted against Laudwine and began making arrangements to reach his former position once more.

These plans however would not have time to come to fruition. Laudwine leaked the location of the Camp to The Lamplighters, knowing that Control would send their Agents in force to retrieve members of their team. Once dispatched, he ensured teleportation wards were placed around the Camp circumference, stopping all immediate transport to and from the region.

Black fought vigorously against the onslaught of Lamplighters but his men were bereft of equipment and he was eventually overcome. However, his death lent the Loyalists the time they needed to launch a full-scale assault on The Seeker's Library, killing several Agents, wounding their Draconic ally Sathira and injuring Control. Though the Agents were able to make it back just in time to save the Director, the Library was burned to the ground before it could fall into Loyalists hands.