User:Joshmaul/Urgan (alternate universe)

"'There is one who wears my face and sullies my name with his fel magic. He is a weak fool...and a reminder of what could have been.'"
 * - Urgan

Urgan was a Mag'har orc shaman who previously served the Iron Horde during its war of conquest. When much of his former clan, the Bleeding Hollow, turned against Warchief Grommash Hellscream and sided with Gul'dan, Urgan remained loyal to his Warchief and the promise that they would not be slaves. After the fall of Hellfire Citadel, Urgan joined the other survivors to fight against the remnants of the Fel Horde and their Legion masters - and when that was done, against the draenei who sought to convert the orcs to their Light. After the intervention of warriors from the "other Horde", Urgan has settled on Azeroth with his people, discovering unwelcome news - that there is a warlock who wears his face...

Origins
Urgan was born in the Bleeding Hollow village of Gul'rok in Talador, and was raised from an early age to become a shaman. He rejected the dark bargain along with the majority of his people, and rallied to the banner of the Iron Horde under the leadership of Warchief Grommash Hellscream, believing wholeheartedly in the Warsong chieftain's pledge that his people would never be slaves. Urgan took that pledge to heart, even as his chieftain, Kilrogg Deadeye, and many who followed him eventually turned on Grommash and accepted Gul'dan's bargain when the Iron Horde was laid low by the champions of Azeroth. After the defeat of Archimonde, the remnants of Grommash's forces joined with the Frostwolves in a single clan known simply as the "Mag'har"; Urgan settled with them in Gorgrond, as his home village had been consumed by felfire at the hands of Teron'gor and the Shadow Council.

For the next thirty years, Urgan found himself on the front lines, first against the remnants of the Legion forces on Draenor...and then against the draenei and those they forced to follow them, when they showed their fanaticism for the Light. In the course of the wars with the draenei, now leading an army they called the "Lightbound", Urgan gained a hated enemy in Exarch Velenkayn, who had gone to Azeroth to see the "Alliance" who had aided his people during the war against the Iron Horde.

Urgan and Velenkayn battled one another for years until finally, the shaman gained the upper hand and slew the Exarch in single combat - an action that triggered a premonition of things to come. Some time later, Urgan was summoned to Beastwatch during the last great push of the Lightbound into Gorgrond - and discovered that champions from Azeroth had returned after all these years to recruit the Mag'har into their Horde. As Grommash charged into the seemingly endless ranks of the Lightbound, his people were teleported away to the gates of Orgrimmar. They would never see Draenor again.

As he settled in with the surviving Mag'har in this strange world of legends, Urgan noticed the distrusting stares the people in Orgrimmar gave him, and realized that his was a familiar face - worn by one they called the Corruptor. The fact that his "evil twin" was also a vocal supporter of the undead Warchief also gave him pause, especially as he could feel the rage of the elemental spirits unleashed in Darkshore by the Forsaken's campaign of genocide.