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and there destroyed it.

countless times to the petty games

found death at the hands of crazed

of kingdoms, or the machinations

demons. Doomhammer was

of dragon, demon or aberration.

forced to respond, and engaged

up and placed into internment

Alarmingly, the Orcs would

the renegade clans to force them

camps. Khadgar, Medivh’s

not fight this war without allies

back into the fold. This would cost

apprentice, convinced the Alliance

of theirThe account reveals all

them the War. Lothar heroically

high command to build the fortress

manner of atrocities: that the

rallied the Alliance and pushed the

of Nethergarde to watch over

Shadow Council was massacred by

Horde south, trapping them at the

the ruins of the Dark Portal.

Doomhammer in an opportunistic

seat of their power in Blackrock

strike after the puppet Blackhand’s

Spire. Although Lothar fell, the

death; that Gul’dan feigned loyalty

paladin Turalyon took up the

to the Warchief only to save his skin

charge and pushed the scattered

and that the nightmarish Death

orc clans back to the Portal,

The broken orcs were rounded

BETWEEN THE WARS
It is here that I must posit one
of the great unanswered questions

Knights that proved so fearsome
in the Second War were the souls
of Orcish warlocks bound in the
bodies of fallen human knights.
Most importantly, Gul’dan
reveals his true motivation for
leading the Horde to Azeroth:
the attainment of godhood by
reaching the Tomb of Sargeras.
I need not mention how Gul’dan’s
lust for power would ruin the
Horde’s chances of utter supremacy
over the Alliance of Lordaeron:
when the Horde was ready to tear
down the walls of Lordaeron’s
capital, the warlock ordered his
renegade clans to break away from
the siege in the hopes of raising the
Tomb of Sargeras from its watery
grave. There the warlock did not
find the immortality promised by
his Legion masters. Instead, he
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