Rehze
 Amarehz (Rehze) | |
|---|---|
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| Gender | Female |
| Race | Orc (Humanoid) |
| Level | 50-70 |
| Reaction | Horde |
| Affiliation(s) | Orgrimmar, Frostwolf clan |
| Location | Frostwolf Keep, Alterac Valley; Valley of Strength, Orgrimmar; Razor Hill, Durotar |
| Status | Alive |
| Relative(s) |
Sarrak (great-grandmother) |
| Companion(s) | Spring (wolf, presumed) |
Amarehz, more commonly known as Rehze, is the daughter of Go'el (Thrall) and Aggralan (Aggra), and the younger sister of Durak. She takes after her mother, both in appearance and in her fierce and thoughtful manners. Her father affectionately calls her "Little Bug".[1]
Biography
Early years
Aggra was pregnant with Amarehz during the trial of Garrosh Hellscream after the Siege of Orgrimmar.[2] The girl had been born by the time of the war in Draenor. Aggra initially stayed on Azeroth to care for her and Durak,[3] but she later joined her life-mate on Draenor.[4]
Following the invasion of the Burning Legion, Thrall and his family moved to a farm near Oshu'gun in Nagrand.[5] Rehze and Durak often played in the pools near the farm, and Aggra taught both of them to weave. When Thrall returned to Azeroth to join the Horde Council at the end of the Fourth War, his family stayed in Nagrand.[6]
Dragonflight
Years later, Rehze and her family were among the guests at Lor'themar Theron and First Arcanist Thalyssra's wedding at the Lunastre Estate in Suramar. Wrathion noted that the youngsters seemed to be well behaved.[7] As Durak approached the age for the om'riggor rite, his parents brought him and Rehze to Alterac Valley to introduce them to Drek'Thar and the rest of the Frostwolf clan. Meanwhile, Eitrigg and an orc adventurer came to Drek'Thar to discuss bringing back the Kosh'harg festival. Young Rehze was still shy at this point: she hid behind her mother when Aggra asked her to say hello to Eitrigg, and she blushed and looked away whenever the adventurer tried to talk to her.[8]
The meeting resulted in the decision to bring back the Kosh'harg as well as introduce the om'gora rite. While Thrall and Eitrigg gathered the clans, Rehze, her family, and the adventurer returned to the Broken Tusk in Orgrimmar.[8] Aggra left to prepare the om'gora while the adventurer flew with Rehze and Durak to Razor Hill on the family's wyverns. On arrival, Durak stayed to keep an eye on his sister while the adventurer went to begin the om'gora.[9] By the end of the Kosh'harg, Rehze had somewhat warmed up to the adventurer and thanked them for being kind to Durak.[10]
Trials
As Rehze grew older, she spent her days pestering her brother, avoiding chores, ambushing her father, or running through the streets of Orgrimmar and playing at war with other children. Thrall noted that although Rehze enjoyed stories of battle and fighting, she was also reflective and clever, always finding beauty in nature and simple things, and he wondered if she might become a shaman in the future.
At one point, Durak snuck off to the Wailing Caverns to kill the hydra Trigore to avenge the death of a friend and prove to his parents that was ready to undergo the om'gora; he made Rehze promise not to tell and she instead told their parents that Durak was off fishing. At Aggra's suggestion, Thrall took his daughter for a walk through Durotar to tell her about the om'gora, which she had long wanted to know more about thanks to Durak and her friends often talking about it. Thrall walked Rehze through the different steps of the om'gora and how they were meant to teach orcs about their culture's virtues and their place in the world. Rehze eventually admitted where Durak had gone, and the family raced to the Wailing Caverns to find him wounded but alive and victorious. Rehze aided her parents in helping Durak recover by gathering healing herbs from the Lushwater Oasis.[1]
Quotes
- Main article: A People in Need of Healing#Stage 1: A Family Visit
- Main article: Honor and Glory#Gossip
Notes and trivia
- As of Dragonflight, Rehze is 9-10 years old.
- Spring, who appears alongside the rest of Thrall's family's wolves during
[50-70] A People in Need of Healing, is presumably Rehze's wolf. - Rehze enjoys lok'tra songs, knows the lyrics to many of them, and often sings them while playing, whereas Durak prefers lok'vadnods. Thrall reflected that this difference shows that while Durak yearns to be a hero, to Rehze such things are only an abstraction, and at her age it is easier to play at war.[1]
- In
[35] Elemental Bonds: Desire, Thrall's desire to have children is represented by a vision of a boy and a girl, hinting that his second child would be female. - In November 2019—before the name and gender of Thrall's second child were officially confirmed—Chris Metzen privately commissioned a piece of art of Thrall's family from Alex Horley, depicting Thrall, Aggra, Durak, and Durak's sister in Nagrand.[11][12] Metzen stated that he liked to think the girl was named "Gaia", after Greatmother Geyah, but he "never officially wrote it down" during his time at Blizzard.[13] As the artwork was a personal artist commission and had no official involvement from Blizzard, it is non-canonical.
- The name "Rehze" was officially revealed in the July 2020 novel Shadows Rising.[6] The book's author Madeleine Roux didn't consult Chris Metzen or ask permission from Blizzard before naming the character and instead "just went for it". Roux has stated that she dislikes fan service in the form of characters naming their children after other characters, and so she instead opted for a simple orcish name.[14] The character's full name was revealed another four years later, in the short story Trials.
Gallery
- Fan art
Thrall and his family.
Patch changes
- Patch 10.0.7 (2023-03-21): Added.
References
- ^ a b c d Trials
- ^ War Crimes, chapter 1: "Jaina had heard Go'el had become a father, and there was word that Aggra was again with child."
- ^ [10-40] Return to the Pack: Thrall says: I do. I saw that my mate remained behind to care for our little ones.
- ^ Aggra's Wor'var dialogue
- ^ Safe Haven
- ^ a b Shadows Rising, pg. 130 - 132
- ^ The Vow Eternal
- ^ a b [50-70] A People in Need of Healing
- ^ [50-70] The Kosh'harg
- ^ [50-70] Honor and Glory
- ^ Chris Metzen on Twitter (2019-09-10). Retrieved on 2019-09-11. “So @kathunter and I commissioned this piece from the great Alex Horley a few months ago. @AlexHorleyArt Art imitating life, huh? :) Thanks again, Alex!!!!”
- ^ Alex Horley on Twitter (2019-09-10). Retrieved on 2019-09-11. “It was a total honor to create this Art Imitating life private commission for @ChrisMetzen and @kathunter.”
- ^ Chris Metzen on Twitter (2019-09-10). Retrieved on 2019-09-11. “Gaia. Different spelling, but named after Greatmother Geyah, Agra’s teacher from Garadar. However... not sure if Blizzard holds that as cannon... since I never officially wrote it down before leaving..............:)”
- ^ Box and Jacquilope 2020-07-03. The Kun-Lai Campfire: Shadows Rising Interview with Madeleine Roux (20:35 - 23:05). YouTube. Retrieved on 2020-07-14.