From 00b7cabd80335b82335b7ece752a08fe1ca605df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ariel- <ariel-@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 23:34:59 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] Core/Globals: abort server startup if there are wrong
 factions in DB

Closes #18127
---
 src/server/game/Globals/ObjectMgr.cpp | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/server/game/Globals/ObjectMgr.cpp b/src/server/game/Globals/ObjectMgr.cpp
index 535ef9e0478..8fb7d29ae26 100644
--- a/src/server/game/Globals/ObjectMgr.cpp
+++ b/src/server/game/Globals/ObjectMgr.cpp
@@ -846,7 +846,10 @@ void ObjectMgr::CheckCreatureTemplate(CreatureTemplate const* cInfo)
 
     FactionTemplateEntry const* factionTemplate = sFactionTemplateStore.LookupEntry(cInfo->faction);
     if (!factionTemplate)
-        TC_LOG_ERROR("sql.sql", "Creature (Entry: %u) has non-existing faction template (%u).", cInfo->Entry, cInfo->faction);
+    {
+        TC_LOG_FATAL("sql.sql", "Creature (Entry: %u) has non-existing faction template (%u). This can lead to crashes, aborting.", cInfo->Entry, cInfo->faction);
+        ABORT();
+    }
 
     // used later for scale
     CreatureDisplayInfoEntry const* displayScaleEntry = NULL;