Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans character summaries
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This article contains lore that is taken from the canceled game Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans and is therefore non-canon.
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Character summaries of Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans.
Thrall
Thrall would have been the main character. Raised by humans in servitude, he escaped his shackles and began his journey to discover his heritage and reunite the scattered clans of the Horde and forging new alliances, for example with Alexstrasza by killing Deathwing.
Some notable differences are that he was depicted as having a more wise cracking personality, and learned how to use dark magics in addition to shamanism.
- Played by Clancy Brown (of Highlander fame), which would later portrays as Blackhand in the Warcraft movie.
Lieutenant Blackmoore
Blackmoore was the main antagonist. Having the rank of lieutenant, he secretly raised the orcling Thrall within the confines of his prison fortress Durnholde. He planned to mold the orcling into the perfect warrior: a warrior conditioned to human thinking, but with all the savagery of an orcish heart. He had also partnered with the murderers of Thrall's father, Rend and Maim, who were traitors to their race and collaborated with the internment camps system for gold and favors. During the finale sequence of the game, Thrall stopped Blackmoore from making a blood pact with Rend and Maim. The human officer fled, but his former slave managed to catch him on the walls of the keep. Thrall eventually decided that he wasn't worth killing, so Blackmoore waited for him to turn his back to him and tried to backstab the orc, but he was stopped by Grom Hellscream, who threw his axe at him. The human officer died by falling off the walls.
In his game incarnation Blackmoore was from Alterac, indicating that the canon story about his father's betrayal might have originally be the one of his entire kingdom.
Durotan
Durotan was Thrall's father. It was mentioned that Durotan, Blackhand and Orgrim Doomhammer were three blood brothers.[1] However, after Gul'dan started manipulating Blackhand, Durotan and the Frostwolf clan were sent north to await orders that were never intended to arrive instead of being straight-up and officially exiled. Rend and Maim, the sons of Blackhand, later assassinated Durotan. He left behind his axe, which would be found by his son Thrall years later after his death.
Orgrim Doomhammer
Orgrim first appeared as a hermit living alongside several hell-hounds. As he, Durotan and Blackhand were three blood brothers,[1] he warmly greeted Thrall and explained him the story of his father and the Old Horde. After the scattered clans were united, Doomhammer supported Thrall's rise as the new warchief.
Unlike his canon counterpart he was to survive the story, and was to be played by Peter Cullen (of Optimus Prime, Transformers fame), which would later narrate one of the Warcraft III trailers.
Drek'Thar
Drek'Thar was an old fogy who had a role similar as in the novel. He had a vision of an orc raised in slavery which would later rise to lead the clan, and taught Thrall in the shamanistic ways. He had a son named Kal'Thar and was to be played by Tony Jay. He also narrated the trailer of the game.
Rend and Maim
Rend and his brother Maim were the two who killed Thrall's father Durotan. They were traitors to their race, as they collaborated with the internment camps system for gold and favors. They paid a fortune for the gnomes to create the black ale which would keep the orcs pacified, and were about to make a blood pact in agreement to aid Lieutenant Blackmoore with the forces of their Black Tooth Grin clan. Thrall interrupted the meeting by setting the room ablaze, and Rend and Maim were trapped between the fires, confronted by the orc whose family they had murdered. Rend, reduced to begging, tried to claim he was forced to by his father, but Thrall failed to fall for Rend's lie, and used their blood mixed together to kill them with the Eternal Damnation spell, causing their flesh to melt and their souls being sent to hell for all eternity.
Rend was described as the brains of the two by Thrall, a description that still seems to apply in modern lore.
Grom Hellscream
Grommash was resisting against the humans. He hid in an orcish reservation and had a pseudo-dragon called Singe. Because he wanted to unite back the scattered clans of the Horde, he got captured by the orcish traitors Rend and Maim, who drugged him with black ale and had their henchman Uglaz bring him to Aedelas Blackmoore. Thrall saved him, and Hellscream was the one who provoked Blackmoore's death in the end.
According to the game, Grommash was also the one who killed Dentarg for the betrayal of his clan during the last battle for the Second Portal.
Gazlowe the Goblin
Gazlowe was a pilot and engineer who built his own zeppelin during the Second War and flew it in over ten missions. The young Thrall helped him foil the "ground-breaking" engineering plans of a group of nearby gnomish inventors that Gazlowe wanted to stop. In thanks, Gazlowe helped him travel around the Eastern Kingdoms in his zeppelin.
Alexstrasza the Dragon Queen
Alexstrasza was a huge red dragon depicted as far less kind and life-loving than her World of Warcraft incarnation.
In order to storm Durnholde, Thrall had to secure the aid of Alexstrasza and her dragons. He headed to her cave, hidden at Crestfall. During the encounter, she let loose on Thrall with fiery blasts, which he blocked with a special dwarven shield fortified with Alexstrasza's own scales. Alexstrasza was understandably unwilling to help Thrall, since she still hated the orcs for enslaving her during the Second War. She told Thrall that she would only agree to help him and his orcs if he managed to kill Deathwing, a feat that the young orc eventually managed.
Deathwing
Thrall would have met with Deathwing in order to match wits.[2] Deathwing had his lair in upper Blackrock Spire, and Thrall had to kill him in order to gain Alexstrasza's trust. Thrall killed him by closing shut his fire-breathing organs from inside his very body with a metal trap, leading to the evil dragon exploding when trying to use his fire breath against the orc.
The fact that Deathwing was seen smoking a hookah was blamed on a "miscommunication",[3] but Blizzard chose to keep it anyway.
Deathwing was said by Alexstrasza to be one of his sons. He was served by trolls which had mottled and grey skin, a fact that might have inspired the description of the trolls later said to have served him during the War of the Ancients,[4] and maybe even the drogbar.
Mugg'roth
Mugg'roth was a two-headed ogre mage who guarded Grom Hellscream's quarters. The game's interface simply referred to Mugg'roth as Ogre. According to the bearded head, the one-eyed head was made dumb the day an ogre mound fell on them.
The two heads did not get along as the dumber head traded their spell book to Zul'jin in exchange for a leg of meat. After stealing their playing cards, Thrall ended up returning their spell book and tricking them into walking on their own runes spell due to their lack of gratitude.
Nazgrel
Nazgrel was the captain of the Wolf Riders of the Frostwolf clan. Thrall had interrupted his sacred hunt of a ferocious wendigo that cost him the life of his mount, for which Nazgrel was furious, but the raider eventually accepted Thrall once he proved his worth to him. Thrall later made him general of the force that would attack Durnholde Keep.
Zul'jin
Although once "the fiercest troll ever to flay an elf" and mastermind behind the alliance of the orcs and trolls, he now ran a run-down trading post in an orcish reservation after the Horde was defeated. He was fond of collecting the blade hands of Shattered Hand warriors who traded their most prized possessions to him for black ale.
Kargath Bladefist
Kargath was depicted as looking much younger than in Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal. Like Grom, he was depicted as stranded on Azeroth after the Shadowmoon clan betrayed him and the Dark Portal was destroyed by Khadgar following the events of Warcraft II's campaign. He was one of the clan leaders, along with Orgrim Doomhammer and Kilrogg Deadeye, that met at a convocation at Grim Batol, lamenting that the Horde couldn't use dragons anymore.
Kilrogg Deadeye
Kilrogg Deadeye was still the leader of the Bleeding Hollow clan. After Grom Hellscream convoked all the free clans to Grim Batol, Kilrogg met with Thrall, Doomhammer and Kargath on an Altar of Storms. Thrall then convinced them all to work together to free the rest of the orcs and reunite the Horde.
Clawhand
Clawhand was an orc with a mechanic claw hand, he led a group of lethargic Shattered Hand clan drunkards who, unlike him, all traded their blade hands to Zul'jin for black ale. Trying to trade Mugg'roth's playing cards with him resulted in the drunkards assaulting him to forcefully take away his claw hand.
Uglaz
Uglaz was one of the orcs who made a pact with Lieutenant Blackmoore along with Rend and Maim. He appeared near the end of the game, presenting Grommash Hellscream as a captive to Blackmoore. Since he was with Rend and Maim, he was presumably a member of the Black Tooth Grin clan as well.
Singe
Singe was a black pseudo-dragon that served as a pet or adviser to Grom Hellscream. Its unknown if he was meant to be an enemy (perhaps manipulating Grom) and perhaps having connections to Deathwing who was also in the game.
Other characters
- Blackhand and Gul'dan briefly appearing in flashbacks.
- Mathers, the sleepy human chaplain of Durnholde.
- A group of gnomish inventors and their crazy devices. Among their inventions were the Homing Chickens to revolutionize communications and some jetpacks to quickly deliver pigs to the slaughter. They also had in their possession a cask of black ale.
- Several members of the Frostwolf clan, including Kal'Thar, Baelgun, Zar'gil and Gath'ras.
- A sleeping death knight residing in a Temple of the Damned. After neutralizing him, Thrall had to learn the Death and Decay spell.
- A blue dragon was supposed to appear for the first time ever. Little is known about this dragon, not even its name.
References
- ^ a b Bill Roper on Gamespot
- ^ Bill Roper. Warcraft Adventures. PC Gaming Graveyard 3. GameSpot. Retrieved on 2007-08-15.
- ^ GameSpot: Warcraft Adventures
- ^ The Sundering, pg. 67