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Many years after the Dark Portal
that bound the Orcish homeland of Draenor and the Human world of Azeroth was
destroyed, a young Orc named Thrall was captured and raised as a slave by humans
who followed the ways of treachery rather than those of honor.
Using the skills driven into him by
his captors with his own natural strength and courage, Thrall escaped his wicked
masters and, once free, set out to find his stolen heritage. Finding his kind
forced to live passively in controlled settlements, the young warrior sought out
the few, scattered Orc clans that managed to evade the wrath of the Alliance.
From their camps in the harsh wilderness, Thrall swore to lead his brothers back
to the status their heritage demanded. Under Thrall's leadership as the new
Warchief of the Horde, the Orcs rediscover their abandoned Shamanistic culture
and use this newfound power to revolt against their cruel wardens.
As civil strife rages through the
nations of the Alliance, the lands of Azeroth undergo strange changes, and the
threat of a new, unseen foe draws near. Finally, in an unholy firestorm from the
heavens, the Burning Legion arrives. Cursed to roam the greater realms forever
to consume the primal energies of magic to survive, the Legion has ravished
world after world in its mad lust for arcane power. Cunning, sinister and
seemingly unstoppable, these dark slayers come to not only drain this domain of
its magic, but to eradicate all life within it, as well.
Now, in the face of an even greater
invasion, the reunited Horde and the armies of Azeroth have shifted their focus
from conquest, betrayal, defense or honor to that of basic survival…
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