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A HISTORY OF THE
CONFLICT BETWEEN
ORCS AND HUMANS:
20 YEARS IN THE
MAKING - PART I
By Luke Grimish
20 years have passed now since the introduction of Orcs and Humans in the world of
Blizzard gaming; from Warcraft 1 to the newly released Warlords of Draenor.

A

sterian Bluecloak,

THE FIRST WAR

formerly of Silvermoon,

here displays his inquiry, so

that is lost to the ages. My own
race records the First War only as

It is strange to look back upon

rumors of a troll uprising in the far

that the achievements of the

the first meeting of man and orc.

south (an understandable mistake,

denizens of Azeroth – some

Their achievements today are

given the green skin and tusks

by Orcs, and some by the race

so enormous, their conflict so

shared by orc and troll). We must,

of Humans – may not become

destructive, that the First War

then, rely on the account of two

forgotten in time, and great

seems like only the movement of

giants who scrawled their names

and marvelous deeds may
not be without their glory; and
especially to show why these two
peoples fought with each other.
With the march of time, it has
become apparent that these two

“PROBABLY IT WAS SOME
POOR SWAMP FISHERMAN
WHO FIRST ENCOUNTERED
THE HORROR OF THE ORCS”

races have weaved the skeins

little tin Grunts and Footmen across

across the history of Stormwind

of Fate into a tapestry of their

a game-board. When did these two

in a bloody red hand; Lord Anduin

own design. For good or ill, Orcs

races first meet? Evidence is scarce.

Lothar and Garona Halforcen.

and Humans, and their many

Probably it was some poor swamp

quarrels, have been instrumental

fisherman who first encountered

introduction. Lord Lothar tells us

in shaping Azeroth’s destiny.

the horror of the orcs, though

that the coming of the orcs was

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