User:Warlordhochiminh/History of Draenor

Rise of the Gorian Empire
In undocumented times, powerful ogre clans of the Gorian Empire traveled from their continent of O'Gror to the smaller continent later known as "Draenor", they founded the stone-walled fortress of Highmaul in an island on Nagrand. The fortress grew into a city as the imperial army seized territory over all continent, waging war and enslaving the "uncivilized" orcs.

Rise of the Orcish War-Clans
The orcs of Draenor were divided in over a hundred clans, most of them nomads, waging war against each other. When the Ogres came, the orcs had no knowledge of metal-smith nor of stone buildings, most of them fell quickly to the Gorian Empire and became slaves.

Many orcs, and sometimes entire clans, travelled over the years to the cold wastes of Frostfire, in exile in the snowy mountains, these orcs formed the Frostwolf Clan, with great knowledge of the spirits and shamanism. The many clans of the Tanaan swamps held the peninsula from the Gorian Empire, facing a genocidal war with heavy losses, the clans gathered beneath the great Mount Ta'n and unified their clans into a great War-Clan, later known as the Bleeding-Hollow Clan, during the war against the Gorian Empire, the Bleeding Hollow shamans saw their sacred swamps covered in blood and learned from their spirits many rituals of blood magic to increase their strength, using this knowledge they managed to turn the tide of the war and were never defeated by the ogres.

Most of the orcs, however, were enslaved, their clans destroyed with their traditions, clanless, these slaves only learned torture and heavy work. The most unfortunate were brought to the "Blackrocks" - the complex of mines administrated by the Empire in the mountains of Gorgrond. Thousands of enslaved orcs died from work exhaustion or torture. During the first Gorian Civil-War, when the slave-trade caravans stopped and the slave-overseers abandoned their posts to go to battle, a great slave rebellion broke out and all the ogres in the Blackrocks were killed. The now liberated orcs fell into civil war of their own, until a brutal dictator unified them all into the Blackrock War-Clan, enslaving again a great part of the dissidents and all who were not strong enough to be warriors.

The Blackrock Clan grew each day as they managed to enslave the other small clans of Gorgrond, the newly constructed Blackrock Foundry used slave work to enpower their war-machine, smiting weapons for their conquers, despotically ruled by a long line of tyrants assassinated by their successor tyrants. The Blackrock Warlords managed to seal a deal with the Gorian Empire, trading slaves and iron with them.

The most feared orcs were the Warsong War-Clan, the unification of three minor clans of nomadic warriors mounted on giant worgs that ruled Nagrand with blood even before the coming of the Gorian Ogres, they were masters in quick attacks and in hiding untraceable in the valleys of the land. The Gorian empire spent centuries trying to eliminate the Warsong, but never managed to.

A Star that Falls - The coming of the Draenei
Acording to an ancient Shadowmoon legend, Rulkosh, Elder Shaman and Chieftain of the Shadowmoon Clan, sensed the spirits drifting away wandering in the Spirit World like in a great peregrination, he had a dream that a mountain would fall from the sky in Nagrand, guided by a great spirit of hope. He went wandering alone, as an hermit, to the mountains of Nagrand, there he spent many sleepless nights watching the stars and discussing astronomy with the Elder Spirits of his clan.

One night he saw a flaming star, falling to the earth. He went south, guided by the falling star and saw a White Mountain in flames, with strange creatures spawning from the wreckage. This was the first encounter between orcs and the draenei, the exiled eredar from Argus fell in Draenor, the wreckage of their ship, the Genedar, became known as Oshu'gun (Mountain of the Spirits) by the orcs. Legends said that Rulkosh entered in a deep spiritual trance singing a healing song to heal the injuried draenei. During his spiritual trance, Rulkosh saw the orcish ancestral spirits communing in a festive gathering with a giant spirit of light, Rulkosh realized that the sacred mountain was a rift between the physical and the spiritual world.

The Draenei took Rulkosh as a guest, and the prophet Velen himself took great interest in his spiritual knowledge. In the same night, orcish hunters came offering Clefthoof hunt to the sacred mountain from the skies and later came the Warsong and other clanless orcs who saw the falling star. Rulkosh explained that those "godlike blue-skinned horned orcs" were a peaceful race, and that the ancestral spirits all came to Oshu'gun for a reason: a new dawn of hope for the orcish race was announced. By the dawn of the day however, the Warsong Warlord said that an army of Highmaul ogres were coming to seize the sacred mountain.

Oshu'gun - The Orcs, Draenei and the Naaru
A day after the crashing of the Genedar the Highmaul Army came marching. The injured draenei hided in Oshu'gun. Orcs and draenei warriors amassed a small army and Rulkosh - along the Warsong battle-drummers - sang the most powerful warcry in his battle-meditation. The Highmaul raiders were defeated and the Warsong even managed to successfully strike some Gorian Empire's fortresses, freeing many orcish slaves.

Prophet Velen and the Draenei Exarch's knew that they were not safe in Oshu'gun, more ogres would come and some exarchs did not trust their new orcish allies, also the ruins were not habitable and the orcish spirits were dwelling in that place, which became sacred to the orcs. The draenei decided to stay in the planet they called Draenor and decided to abandon Oshu'gun and K'ure in favor of the orcs to find a new place they could call "home". Rulkosh was glad with the decision of the Draenei, and offered them to stay in his clan's lands, in the Shadowmoon Valley. Rulkosh then spoke with the orcish clans in the shadows of Oshu'gun, telling that the Draenei presented them and their ancestors's spirits with the sacred mountain, he told all the orcs to go away for their clan homelands to tell about the Mountain, he told that the tales about the draenei should remain in secret and also ordered that all the orcish warlords should come to Oshu'gun for a meeting in two moons, the first Kosh'arg Celebration. The clanless orcs and the freed slaves choose to remain by the mountain, they formed the Falling Star Clan.

The draenei needed a secret rout, however, as there only were a very few of them who survived the crash. Rulkosh came along with them, and guided them into the dead forest of Talaador - in that time the river-forests of Talaador were dead by the poisonous parasite fungus that covered them, giant mushrooms sprouted from the dead fallen trees and the waters were polluted and poisonous. The Draenei caravan was taking with them a very powerful presence, the remnants of the dead Naaru, D'ore. The Auchenai order was created to protect the dead Naaru, to maintain it pure.

The sacred energies that came from D'ore's remains cleansed the path from the poisonous mists and began slowly cleansing the dead forests. Prophet Velen knew now that the destiny of the dead Naaru would be to bring life to the dead forest, he ordered the sixth Exarch and the Auchenai to stay on Talaador, bury the remains of D'ore and began constructing a city for the dead, the Auchindown. He would return later with the Draenei to then build a city for the living, Shattrath. The Draenei arrived on Shadowmoon Valley and their they build a sacred temple for A'dal, they named it Karabor.

The Kosh'arg and the Oshu'gun War
Almost all the clans - with the exception of the Blackrocks and some minor clans - came to the first Kosh'arg Celebration to commune directly with the spirits and decide political questions. Rulkosh and the Shadowmoon Clan wrote a great star-calendar with the Draenor Zodiac around the Sacred Mountain, this calendar determined agriculture and hunt seasons and was said to predict the future - Glory and Fall of the orcish race.

The Clans trained gladiatorial arts there, offering blood to their ancestors and training for battles to come against the Gorian Empire. In the first meeting of the warlords it was proposed to unite all the clans into one big War-Clan, into one Horde, however most warlords were against the idea and a fight broke down that almost managed to become a battle or a massacre, the meeting stopped and the clans attended their peace pact.

In the next day the Empire troops came. It was the longest, bloodiest and bigger battle before the Rise of the Horde. With heavy casualties however, the orcish clans won and the ogres from Highmaul started to fear the secret powers of that haunted mountain. The clans decided not to unite into one horde, but managed to unite under one banner - the fall of the Gorian Empire - and vowed to protect the Sacred Mountain of Oshu'gun.

The warlords gathered in the next day to discuss territories and borders, in the middle of the gathering, Warlord Bloodstar, from the Falling Star Clan, claimed Oshu'gun and it's surrounding areas for his clan only, he also demanded that all slaves from the clans should be freed and fight for the Falling Star, protecting Oshu'gun. This proposal brought conflict and fight in the gathering, and Bloodstar assassinated two warlords before being killed. Legends said that all his clan became possessed by vengeful warrior spirits, in the night of Oshu'gun Massacre all the Falling Star clan died after killing a bunch  of other orcs. Since them the orcs learned that the Sacred Mountain has very mysterious powers and was a very dangerous place.

Colonization of Talaador
The Auchenai survived for years on their own in the Dead Forests of Talaador fighting the mad Pale Orcs that inhabited the Fungus Fields. But their work payed off as the forests began reviving and the deadly mushrooms melted by the sun's heat. In few years the forests became living green again.

In the renewed Talaador the draenei built the Auchidown atop the thumb of D'ore, infused with the protective crystals that guided the draenei spirits and protected the fallen Naaru. In Shadowmoon, Velen and the Draenei built the Temple of Karabor, in magnificent gold carved with immemorial runes. Prophet Velen had forbidden the Eredar Magic, as he knew that it would attract Kil'Jaeden. His idea was to use only heavily protected magic, with runes and power crystals to seal them.

After the beggining of the construction of Karabor took place, the prophet and a great draenei caravan went to the rivers of Talaador, to bless and help the construction of Auchindown and Shattrath. In half a century the Draenei built the three cities, and their culture flourished by the rivers of Talaador and Zangar over two hundred years. The Draenei maintained a cultural trade with their Shadowmoon allies through the chiefdoms of Rulkosh, Zhulk and Ner'Zhul, the Draenei learned shamanism from them and used to master the mists. A heavy mist protected the Draenei in Talaador from the warmongering orc clans, who thought that Talaador was still a poisonous dead-forest. The draenei existance became a secret well guarded by the Shadowmoon Clan, and the stories about the people that came along the crash of Oshu'gun were only legends for the orcs and ogres.

Blood River War
Rulkosh and the Elders Sages of the Shadowmoon saw in their sessions of Astronomy a new star in the skies, a very strange Dark Star (Which was K'ara, a naaru that fell to the Void state during the Genedar crash). Rulkosh and his successors began adoring the Dark Star and learned they could use it's power to master the astronomic and astrological knowledge. Rulkosh's apprentice, Rath'Kul, however, thought the Shadowmoon orcs could use the Dark Star powers for war and conquest.

One night, Rath'Kul draw the powers of the Dark Star and used it's Void powers. This angered the spirits, who attacked the young shaman. Rulkosh was very angry with his apprentice and sent him to exile. Since them, the shamans were forbidden from drawing the powers of the Dark Star.

Rath'Kul, in his exile in Ashran, continued his experiment with the Dark Star void magics, he became mad and learned necromancy. The mad Rath'Kul, in a few years, mounted his own clan, with other mad orcs, ogres and pale-orcs: The Dark Scar Clan. He passed the knowledge of void magic and necromancy to his students - the Order of the Necrolytes - and they marched to conquer all Draenor.

The war lingered for many years, the Dark Scar Clan attacked the shores of Tanaan and Shadowmoon. The Blleding Hollow, the Blood Sun, the Frostwolves and the Shadowmoon united against the Dark Scar, they were led by the legendary clanless warrior, Kash'Drakor. When the tide of battle turned against Rath'Kul, he sacrificed all his clan and created a Blood River - The Blood River is an ancient orcish legend, it's said the river is a passage to the Spirit World - Rath'Kul disappeared in the Blood River to conquer all the Spirit World, no one knows what happened with the mad shaman after that, some say he was forever defeated by the spirits in Oshu'gun.

The Gorian Wars
After the Blood River War and the third Kosh'arg, the orcish clans started an unified war against the Gorian Empire. Garad, of the Frostwolves came with all his clan, in the traditional winter peregrination, but this time they came to war, he brought to the Third Kosh'arg his preocupation with the growing of the Thunderlord Clan in Frostwolf territory, led by a mysterious warlord, the Iron Wolf. Golmash Hellscream was leading brutal battles against the Gorian Empire, the Warsong clan has freed many orc slaves and killing important Highmaul generals, the Gorian Empire was in crisis, fragmented and with heavy losses of territory. Dharl, of Three Blades, has began amassing clanless orcs, training them in martial arts of the Blademasters, he came to take blessings from the other clans and created the Burning Blade Clan.

In the second day of the Kosh'arg there was a solar eclipse, Warlord Zhulk of the Shadowmoon stepped away of the chiefdom to his apprentice, the elder shaman Ner'Zhul became warlord of the Shadowmoon. Ner'Zhul showed all the orcs that there was the time for them to unite against the Gorian Empire, as the the planet of blood was aligned between the constellation of the twin warriors. All clans hailed the new Shadowmoon Warlord.

For the first time, a delegation of the Blackrock came to the Kosh'arg, the delegation was led by the young Blackhand, Telkar Doomhammer and his son, Orgrim. Initially they were mistrusted by the other clans, but Blackhand told his plan of deposing the Blackrock Warlord, saying he was weak and was selling the clan to Highmaul.

After the Kosh'arg, Dharl, Golmash and Garad led battles deep within Gorian territory, although they suceeded, Golmash was killed. Golmash's son, Grommash began leading the Warsong continuing his father legacy of ogre blood. By the summer, Garad and the Frostwolf Clan went back to Frost-Ridge, but Garad and his elder son Ga'nar were ambushed and killed by the Iron Wolf of the Thunderlords, the young Durotan succeded him into leading the Frostwolves.

When Grommash Hellscream was captured by the Gorian Empire, the Imperator Mor'Gosh called many ogre nobles from O'Gror to Highmaul, for Festival of Orc Blood, a hundred orcs slaves fought in the Arena, only one would survive and gain his freedom, the champion of the Arena was the Kargath, the Orc Killer. Kargath, however was not freed, he was again imprisoned to his death beneath the arena. Kargath managed to cut off his hand, freeing himself from his chains. He told all the other slaves to the same, they then attached their blades in their arms and began a rebellion. Kargath himself killed the Imperator Mor'Gosh, many ogres were also murdered and Highmaul was set ablaze, this was the birth of the Shattered Han Clan. Kargath and the Shattered Hand managed to flee from Highmaul and went to conquer the Spires of Arak. Grommash also managed to free himself and reunite with his clan, leading more raids into Gorian territory

War in Gorgrond
Back in Gorgrond, Blackhand contacted other warlords of the Blackrock Clan and they led an coup against the Dictator of Blackrock, Rak. Blackhand himself called a Mak'Gorah against Rak, the Black, Rak was killed and his dismembered body was given to the Garn Wolves to feast, all Rak's sons were murdered as well. Blackhand became Warlord of the Blackrock and began a surprise attack against the ogres of Gorgrond.

Maulgar, vice-Roy of Gorgrond, requested many times reinforcements for the new Imperator Margok, he was ignored multiple times. Maulgar thought that the Empire was already dead and the Gorian Bureaucracy only served for the interests of the Highmaul Clan, all other clans were they're slaves such as the orcs. Maulgar proclaimed himself King of the Blade's Edge Mountains, he went to the Gronn Canyon and used the ancient ogre runes to wake up the petrified ogre gods, the Gronn and their master, Gruul.

Gruul was furious, a machine of destruction. He and his sons enslaved all the ogres in Gorgrond and began raiding the Blackrock. The orcs were no match for the gigantic Gronn, although they resisted for years in the besieged Blackrock Foundry and killed most of the ogres. But when Gruul himself attacked the Foundry the orcs knew they have lost. Telkar Doomhammer killed two of Gruul's sons, but was killed and devoured by the great Gruul. Orgrim took his father great weapon and planned with Blackhand a way out. Blackhand used the forge fires against the Gronn and dirupted the structures of the Foundry, the shamans called an earthquake destroying the Foundry in an attempt to kill Gruul as the Blackrocks escaped.