Gerd began her conscription in the Scourge at the very beginning of the Third War, when the Cult of the Damned were spreading the plague of Undeath through Lordaeron. Siezed by the undead legions as they began marching on Tirisfal, her intelligence and resolution earned her an officer's place, rather than joining the mindless infantry. Held under the iron sway of the Lich King, Gerd did many terrible things. She remembers all of them.