World of Warcraft Community Magazine Issue 4 | Page 9

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some astrological difference in
Azeroth and Draenor’s calendars.
Nevertheless, Garona states
that the first meeting between orc
and human did much to illustrate
the disorganization of the orcs in
the face of the regimented order
of Stormwind’s knights. This is a
mistake that the Horde would never
make again. It was during the First
War that orcs and humans would
gain the measure of each other,

the king’s encircled fortress. I have

the Burning Legion. Much is left

ushering in the Age of Chaos, an

visited the bandit-haunted ruins

unanswered by the scant sources

era that both races would stand

of Moonbrook myself; the town’s

left to us by those who fought in

astride like blood-soaked Titans.

remains stand as an eerie testament

this war of first contact; were the

to the horrors of the First War.

orcs simply conquerors, eager to

Stormwind, of course, famously
fell to the orcs, and King Wrynn

Blackhand would prove to be a

seek out new territory and booty,

to the assassin Garona, but only

puppet of Gul’dan’s Shadow Council.

or were they desperate refugees

after the villages of Sunnydale,

Behind the Council was a force

from a dying world, misguided by

Grand Hamlet (now Darkshire) and

that would make the war between

agents of the Legion? It matters

the twin cities of Goldshire and

man and orc seem like the trivial

not; orcs and humans would

Moonbrook cut off any lifeline to

squabbling of minor border-barons:

remain enemies forevermore.

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