Draka

For other uses, see Draka (disambiguation).

Draka
Title	Baroness, Warlord Formerly: Warrior of the Frostwolf Clan
Gender	Female
Race(s)	Maldraxxi, formerly orc (Humanoid / Undead)
Level	53-60 Normal / Elite
Class	Warrior (in life), Rogue (in death)
Reaction	Alliance Horde
Affiliation(s)	House of the Chosen, Undying Army
Former affiliation(s)	House of Eyes, Frostwolf clan, Old Horde
Occupation	Baroness of the House of the Chosen, Spy
Former occupation(s)	Warrior of the Frostwolf clan
Location	Maldraxxus
Status	Active
Relative(s)	Rhakish (paternal grandfather) Kelkar and Zuura (parents) Lokra (sister, fate unknown) Garad and Geyah (parents-in-law) Durotan (mate) Ga'nar, Fenris Wolfbrother, Karg Bloodfury (brothers-in-law) Thrall (son) Aggra (daughter-in-law) Durak & Rehze (grandchildren)
Mentor(s)	Margrave Akarek, Margrave Krexus
Companion(s)	Deathfang (companion), unnamed flayedwings (mounts)

“I am Draka, once of the Frostwolf clan, now Baroness of the House of the Chosen. And most of all, a protector of Maldraxxus.”

— Draka

Draka was a courageous warrior of the Frostwolf clan, the mate of Durotan, and the mother of Go'el. After her death, she was sent to Maldraxxus where she became a baroness of the House of Eyes. She later joined the House of the Chosen following the Eyes' destruction, and she now acts as a leader of the Necrolord Covenant in their battles against the traitorous Maldraxxi houses.

Biography

A Warrior Made

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When Draka was born, she was a weak and sickly orc. Not only did her Frostwolf clan-mates discriminate against her, orcs from other clans claimed she was a dishonor to the orcish race. Blackhand said that if she was born in his clan, she would have been drowned at a young age. Draka and her family were forced to move to the outskirts of the Frostwolf village by Garad.

As a teenager, Draka asked Mother Kashur if there was any way to strengthen her sickly body. Visited by a vision of the ancestors, Mother Kashur told Draka that there was a way, but it could mean death. Kashur sent Draka on a hunt to obtain a wing feather of windroc, horn of talbuk, and fur of clefthoof. From the three ingredients, Kashur claimed that she could make a potion to cure Draka's illness.

Young Draka started her adventure alone. She had never been allowed to join any orcish hunts, and now she had to learn from the world itself. As time passed, Draka's skill increased and, although still weak, she defeated and claimed her first kill of windroc.

Draka was successful in defeating a talbuk and a clefthoof and obtained all the ingredients she needed. She returned back to Kashur, who revealed the true meaning of Draka's hunt, that the ingredients and potion were not truly needed. The hunt itself had been intended to make Draka a strong and determined Frostwolf orc. In the end, now proud and beautiful, Draka joined a celebration, where she was noticed by Durotan and Orgrim.

Rise of the Horde

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Draka as she appeared in life.

Durotan met Draka at the celebration. He was surprised to see her and was not sure whether she was of the Frostwolves. But then he remembered that she and her parents were exiled from the Frostwolf village because she was very sick. But now it seemed that she had overcome her illness.

The next day, Durotan asked her to join him on a hunt, something which often meant that a male orc intended to choose a female mate. Draka responded that she was too young to be anyone's mate. Durotan then insisted that it would be simply a hunt and nothing more.

They set out on their first hunt, where Durotan was injured by a wolf. However, together the two orcs were able to kill the beast. Draka said that she reached her adulthood today. They kissed, marking the beginning of their relationship.

After this, Draka stood by Durotan and his decisions through the years, although she did not like the situation of the orcs. She stood by Durotan when orcs accepted the demonic curse and when the Dark Portal was created. Draka, Durotan, and their clan were exiled and found their homes in Alterac Valley.

Before leaving Draenor, Draka and Durotan visited Durotan's mother Geyah. Draka told her she was pregnant and Durotan added that the child would be named Go'el.

Death

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Draka fighting against the assassins.

In the year 1, Draka gave birth to Go'el, child of Durotan, shortly before joining her chieftain on his secret meeting in Loch Modan with their old comrade Orgrim Doomhammer. There Durotan explained what he knew - about Gul'dan, the Shadow Council, the demonic bargain and Orgrim decided it was time to stop the evil warlock. He urged Durotan and Draka to take shelter in the north until he sent word to them. Orgrim commanded his guards to accompany the Frostwolves on their journey home and keep them safe. That would be a mistake that Orgrim would regret to his dying day. His guards were not loyal to him, but to the Shadow Council.

The guards had heard every word between Orgrim and his visitors. They decided they didn't need Gul'dan's permission to eliminate the Frostwolves - clearly, he would want Durotan, Draka, and their child dead. After traveling north for several days, the guards fell upon Durotan and Draka. The Frostwolves fought bitterly against their attackers, killing one of them. But the remaining guards struck down Durotan and Draka, and Go'el was left to die in the frigid cold.

Afterlife

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Following her death, Draka's soul traveled to the realm of Maldraxxus in the Shadowlands, where she became a member of the House of Eyes. As a warrior, Draka initially found the house's ways of subterfuge and stealth to be a strange fit for her. However, under the training of Margrave Akarek, she eventually grew comfortable with her new role and gained the skills of a master spy in addition to those of a warrior. Her training included spying on the Burning Legion on another world outside the Shadowlands. Draka eventually became one of the house's two baronesses. The other baroness was Vashj, but she and Draka did not get along.

Following the mysterious destruction of the House of Plagues, Akarek suspected that Maldraxxus' purpose was in peril and sent Draka to deliver a vital message to Margrave Krexus of the House of the Chosen. However, shortly after Draka set out on her darkhound, the House of Eyes exploded behind her, taking Akarek with it. Draka found herself surrounded by traitorous Necrolords but managed to fight her way through them and reach the House of the Chosen, where she delivered her lord's final message to Margrave Krexus. The message stated "I offer the key to saving Maldraxxus". Draka was at first confused by this, telling Krexus that Akarek hadn't given her a key, but Krexus realized that Draka herself—being an unyielding warrior and master spy—was "a key to many things". That day, Draka joined the House of the Chosen as its Baroness to continue protecting Maldraxxus. She took the place of Alexandros Mograine, who had been lost to the Maw.

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  Draka and the House of Eyes.

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  Draka as a member of the House of Eyes.

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  Draka training in the afterlife.

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  Akarek briefing Draka.

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  Draka on her darkhound.

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  Draka witnesses the destruction of the House of Eyes.

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  Draka facing the traitorous Necrolords.

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  Draka with Margrave Krexus.

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  Draka as a member of the House of the Chosen.

Baroness Draka in Maldraxxus.

When the Maw Walker arrived in Maldraxxus' Theater of Pain, they found themselves in the middle of a confrontation between Krexus and the margraves Gharmal and Sin'dane—the leaders of the House of Constructs and House of Rituals, who had betrayed the purpose of Maldraxxus by sending their forces to invade Bastion. Draka rescued the Maw Walker from the battle and began transporting them to safety on her flayedwing mount, but the group was shot of the sky and crashed in the Iron Trench. After taking the opportunity to recruit nearby scavengers to the Chosen and dispatch local threats in the form of deathwalkers, Draka and the Maw Walker arrived to the House of the Chosen and met up with Margrave Krexus. While Draka and the margrave discussed strategy in Vortrexxis, the Maw Walker was sent to report to Draka's fellow baron Vyraz. Krexus sensed great potential in the Maw Walker and soon commanded them to take on the trial of reaching the standing stone at the center of the Chosen's citadel, which resulted in the hero uncovering an unfinished blade and a message from Maldraxxus' missing ruler, the Primus. Realizing that this had a deeper meaning, Draka sent the Maw Walker to Bonesmith Heirmir, who helped them forge the object into a finished runeblade. Krexus subsequently concluded that the runes covering the blade were the same as the runes on the Seat of the Primus and sent Draka, Vyraz, and the Maw Walker to investigate. The blade proved to be a key to the Seat, but Vyraz insisted that unlocking the fortress would do the Chosen no good if they lost the war against the other two houses.

Draka kneeling before the statue of the Primus.

Draka admitted that her fellow baron was right and sent the Maw Walker to recruit the aid of her old rival Vashj, search for survivors at the destroyed House of Plagues, and help Vyraz defend the Chosen forces at the Spearhead from the House of Constructs. These efforts resulted in three more runes being awakened on the Blade of the Primus, meaning there was only one left before the Chosen could enter the Seat. Draka and the Maw Walker returned to the House of the Chosen to inform Krexus of their progress, but when they arrived, they found that the citadel had been attacked by Constructs and that Krexus had been killed. Draka insisted that the Chosen now had to open the Seat of the Primus if they were to have any hope of victory, but Vyraz claimed that the Seat was a fool's errand and that the Chosen instead had to gather their mightiest forces, including the missing baron Alexandros Mograine. The Maw Walker traveled into the Maw and managed to rescue Alexandros, but when he was brought to Draka in Oribos, Mograine revealed that Vyraz was a traitor and that it must have been he who slew Margrave Krexus. Draka sent Alexandros and the Maw Walker to confront Vyraz at the House of the Chosen while she returned to the Seat to warn their allies, but the Seat soon came under siege from Vyraz's forces and Draka turned back to bring Alexandros and the Maw Walker with her to defend the fortress. The Maw Walker subsequently used the Blade of the Primus to open the way into the Seat, unleashing the Primus' power and forcing Vyraz's forces to retreat. Inside, the hero and their allies discovered a dire warning from the Primus. Draka asked the Maw Walker to return to Oribos and deliver the warning to the other Eternal Ones. Before parting ways, she told the hero that it would be an honor to fight with them again.

Draka and her forces remained entrenched at the Seat of the Primus even as the combined forces of the Constructs, Chosen, and Rituals moved against them. The baroness welcomed Maw Walkers who had chosen to side with the Necrolords into the Seat and guided them into receiving the power of the Primus. In addition, she welcomed the allegiance of Emeni, Rathan, and other Construct defectors who chose to join the Seat. The baroness later tasked the Maw Walkers with driving back the forces besieging the Seat with help from Ragewing, Bonesmith Heirmir, and Plague Deviser Marileth. This was no long-term solution, since Draka's forces could not hope to continue keeping their enemies at bay using only air strikes, but Vashj devised a plan to more permanently bolster the Seat's defenses: stealing a necropolis. Draka asked the Maw Walkers to assist Vashj with her plan, since the other baroness was more agreeable toward the outsiders than she was toward Draka. With assistance from surviving members of the House of Eyes and defectors from the other houses, Vashj's plan resulted in the necropolis Zerekriss being captured and brought to the side of the Seat of the Primus. Aboard the necropolis, the Maw Walkers discovered the Bindings of Fleshcrafting—one of the armor pieces that once belonged to the Primus—and brought them to Draka. She declared that they should be returned to their rightful place—the statue of the Primus—and that if any more pieces were found, the Necrolords would claim them for their covenant.

Draka overseeing the battle with Margrave Gharmal from the Zerekriss.

After the Maw Walkers and Alexandros helped repel another Construct attack on Bastion, Draka met with Xandria—the kyrian Paragon of Courage—to forge an alliance against their common enemy: Margrave Gharmal. Together, kyrian and Necrolord forces assaulted the House of Constructs with the Zerekriss, with Maw Walkers assisting the two covenants on the ground while Draka remained aboard the necropolis. Once the attackers gained control of the stronghold, the Maw Walkers, Alexandros, and Xandria engaged in combat with Gharmal in order to buy enough time for Draka to focus the Zerekriss' weaponry. During the battle, Gharmal told Draka to face them before mockingly asking if she would beg to join the Constructs the way she had joined the Chosen. The battle ended with Draka using the Zerekriss to fire a single massive bolt of energy at the margrave, killing them. The baroness subsequently investigated Gharmal's private tower for evidence of treachery and made an unsettling discovery: canisters of anima from Revendreth, not plundered but given from an ally. The baroness returned to the Seat to prepare for a journey to Revendreth and asked Alexandros and the Maw Walkers to search the rest of the tower for anything of value, resulting in the recovery of another one of the Primus' armor pieces, the Mantle of Eternal Victory.

Legacy

Family tree.

The Horde warship Draka's Fury was named in her honor by Thrall, as a tribute to the strong orcish women in his life.

Quests

Maldraxxus storyline

•  [53-60] Land of Opportunity
  •  [53-60] Arms for the Poor
  •  [53-60] Memory of Honor
  •  [53-60] Walk Among Death
    •  [53-60] Trench Warfare
      •  [53-60] The House of the Chosen
        •  [53-60] The First Act of War
•  [53-60] Never Enough
  •  [53-60] Through the Fire and Flames
    •  [53-60] Forging a Champion
      •  [53-60] The Path to Glory
        •  [53-60] Meet the Margrave
          •  [53-60] The Seat of the Primus
•  [53-60] A Common Peril
  •  [53-60] Her Rightful Place
•  [53-60] Baron of the Chosen
  •  [53-60] Front and Center
•  [53-60] The House of Plagues
  •  [53-60] Fathomless Power
•  [53-60] Among the Chosen
•  [53-60] A Soul Saved
•  [53-60] In Death We Are Truly Tested
  •  [53-60] The Door to the Unknown
    •  [53-60] Words of the Primus

Necrolords Campaign

Loyal to the Primus

1.  [60] Taking The Seat
2.  [60] Welcome To Our House
3.  [60] Power of the Primus
4.  [60] A Hero of Great Renown

1.  [60] Return to Draka
2.  [60] Bringing It All Together
3.  [60] No Rest For the Dead

Rebellious Souls

•  [60] At Your Service

The House of Eyes

1.  [60] Securing the House
2.  [60] Enemy at the Door
3.  [60] Eyes on the Problem
4.  [60] The Impossible Plan

Grand Theft Necropolis

1.  [60] Eyes to the Sky
2.  [60] The Maldraxxian Job

1.  [60] Search the Place
2.  [60] Bindings of Fleshcrafting

Do Not Forget

1.  [60] Do Not Forget
2.  [60] The Golden Dawn

A Golden Dawn

1.  [60] Machinations of War
2.  [60] Take The Fight To Them
3.  [60] Fight and Flight

1.  [60] An Abominable Discovery

1.  [60] The Mantle Returned
2.  [60] Pride of Place

Kyrian Campaign

Righteous Retribution

1.  [60] Stronger Together
2.  [60] Fight and Flight

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•  [53] Covering our Tracks

Quotes

Dialogue

Maldraxxus storyline

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Main article: Arms for the Poor#Notes

Main article: The House of the Chosen#Notes

Main article: The First Act of War#Notes

Main article: Through the Fire and Flames#Notes

Main article: Forging a Champion#Notes

Main article: The Path to Glory#Notes

Main article: Meet the Margrave#Notes

Main article: The Seat of the Primus#Notes

Main article: A Common Peril#Notes

Main article: Among the Chosen#Notes

Main article: Maw Walker (quest)#Notes

Main article: A Soul Saved#Notes

Main article: In Death We Are Truly Tested#Notes

Main article: The Door to the Unknown#Notes

Main article: Words of the Primus#Notes

Necrolords Campaign

Main article: Taking The Seat#Notes

Main article: Welcome To Our House#Notes

Main article: Enemy at the Door#Notes

Main article: Eyes on the Problem#Notes

Main article: Bindings of Fleshcrafting (quest)#Notes

Main article: The Golden Dawn#Notes

Main article: Take The Fight To Them#Notes

Main article: Pursuit of Justice (Necrolord)#Notes

Main article: An Abominable Discovery#Notes

Main article: Pride of Place#Notes

Kyrian Campaign

Main article: Stronger Together#Notes

Main article: Pursuit of Justice (Kyrian)#Notes

Main article: Return to the Hold#Notes

On-click

Greetings

• Always ready for battle.
• Blood and thunder!
• For the honor of the bladesworn.
• How goes the fight?
• Lok-tar!
• Throm-ka!

Irritated

• Lok-tar ogar. It means "victory or death". In Maldraxxus, it's victory AND death.
• In the House of Eyes, I learned the secrets OF SUBTLETY!
• I am the blade in the dark. I am also the blade in your face!
• Strength comes from loyalty, honor, and-- WILL YOU STOP POKING ME?!

Farewell

• Even here, I protect the weak.
• Every defeat is a lesson.
• For Krexus! For Akarek!
• In the name of the Primus.
• Only the strong survive.
• Strength and honor.
• Strength comes from the heart.

Gossip

Draka (center) with Vashj and Alexandros in the Seat of the Primus.

Iron Trench

We must act swiftly. The other houses are sure to strike against the Chosen soon.

House of the Chosen

Our work has just begun.

Vortrexxis

Maldraxxus will stand united again.

Bleak Redoubt

Victory will be ours.

Seat of the Primus (Covenant Sanctum version)

Maldraxxus will stand united again.

 <Stay awhile and listen.>

• Alexandros Mograine says: Baroness, your original night elf form was restored in the afterlife, was it not? Why abandon it for one akin to the naga?

Baroness Vashj says: When I was kaldorei, I was but a handmaiden to my queen. Prized for my beauty, and little else. As a naga, I was recognized and rewarded for my cunning and resolve.

Baroness Vashj says: But I could ask the same question of you. Why adopt the form of a feeble human, when so many stronger ones exist?

Alexandros Mograine says: This is the form I had when purging countless undead on Azeroth. But I suppose your point stands.

• Baroness Draka says: Have you children, Alexandros?

Alexandros Mograine says: I do. Two sons. One betrayed me to the Scourge. The other sacrificed himself to free me.

Alexandros Mograine says: I saw him again, just recently, in the Maw. He too has risen as a death knight. He too fights to defend our world.

Baroness Draka says: You must be proud. My son was a mere babe when traitors struck me down. I fought to my last breath to save him. But I... do not know if he survived.

Alexandros Mograine says: If he is of your blood, Draka, then I have no doubt that he did.

• Baroness Draka says: I did not abandon Margrave Akarek. I was sent on a mission before our house fell, just as you were.

Baroness Vashj says: Is that why you cowered behind the Chosen's banner while your fellow Eyes were being slaughtered?

Baroness Draka says: The margrave entrusted me with a new purpose, Vashj. Letting go of the past is the only way we can survive.

Baroness Vashj says: Survival is for the weak and timid. Either you prevail... or you perish.

• Baroness Vashj says: I once beheld your world for myself, Draka. Or rather, the shattered ruin it has become.

Baroness Draka says: You seem to know much of broken worlds, Vashj. And of consorting with demonic filth.

Baroness Vashj says: Queen Azshara's machinations brought us untold power. The Sundering was a small price to pay for our ascension.

Baroness Draka says: I have heard tales of your vain, heartless queen. It seems you have a great deal in common with her... in form as well as substance.

• Baroness Draka says: Krexus spoke highly of you, Ashbringer. He did not offer praise lightly.

Alexandros Mograine says: He forged my strength into victories I thought impossible. I will rip out Vyraz's blackened heart for betraying him.

Alexandros Mograine says: It pleases me to know you served Krexus well. He admired your spirit even when you answered to Akarek.

Baroness Draka says: We both learned much from him. And together, we shall see him avenged.

• Baroness Vashj says: Mograine. Given your personal history with the undead, you must find Maldraxxus... distasteful.

Alexandros Mograine says: Slaying the undead was my life's purpose. To be surrounded by them in death... I found myself in the midst of a nightmare.

Alexandros Mograine says: It was Margrave Krexus who showed me that our army is one of honor and acclaim. But the actions of our enemies echo those of the Scourge.

Baroness Vashj says: Then perhaps your life's purpose shall continue.

Alternate timelines

When Thrall fled into a passage in the Caverns of Time to escape an armored assassin, he found himself in the time and place of his parents' murder of an alternate history. Thrall pretended to be one of the bodyguards assigned to protect Durotan and Draka by Doomhammer as they returned home. Draka noticed that he had blue eyes and that he seemed very interested in the infant Thrall she was carrying. When the other bodyguard, Grukar summoned the assassins that attacked Draka and Durotan, Thrall could only watch, as saving them would alter the timeline.

Another Draka appears in the alternate Draenor in the past during the war in Draenor.

Draka from a separate timeline appears in the Warcraft film universe.

Notes and trivia

• In life, Draka had brown eyes.
• The birth of Go'el and Draka and Durotan's meeting with Orgrim was originally stated to have happened in year 0, but the date was retconned in Chronicle Volume 2.
• An unused NPC ID for Draka exists in the game files for The Burning Crusade.
• Go'el's mother first appeared in the intro cutscene of the canceled game Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans. However, she was not given a name until the novelization Lord of the Clans. The author Christie Golden doesn't recall giving her name any intended meaning other than wanting it to sound "Orcish & badass".
  • Perhaps coincidentally, "Драка" (Draka) means 'fight' in Russian.
• The World of Warcraft Bestiary, the Trading Card Game, and Afterlives all consistently depict Draka as having dual-wielded a pair of axes similar to a  [Savage Axe] in life. In Maldraxxus, she is variously seen using either an  [Icy Ebon Halberd] or two copies of Haromm's Frozen Crescent.
• During the development of Shadowlands, the developers realized they had no shortage of famous deceased characters they could feature, but they wanted to avoid making the expansion feel like a simple checklist of deceased characters players would interact with. As such, they wanted to focus on characters that they felt best fit the themes of the expansion's zones, with a mix of some more obvious choices (like Uther in Bastion) and some more unexpected ones where players would have to think about how they fit their respective zones. Draka, an example of the latter category, was picked for Maldraxxus because the developers felt that her story of building herself up to be a warrior in A Warrior Made and dying while trying to protect her son from treachery was the perfect fit for the mentality of the Necrolords. In addition, Draka is a character that, while integral to the storyline of the orcs, had not received a lot of attention in previous material, making her in some ways a blank slate the developers could fill in through the Shadowlands storyline.
• Lead narrative designer Steve Danuser has suggested that while Draka is currently separated from Durotan in the Shadowlands, the two could potentially find an afterlife they could share together after Draka has completed her obligations in Maldraxxus.
• While accompanying players in the Iron Trench, Draka's generic name is a skeleton named Chosen Scrapper. While accompanying the player in Revendreth, her generic name is Maldraxxi Spy.
• Draka is voiced by Debra Wilson in Shadowlands.

Speculation

This article or section includes speculation, observations or opinions possibly supported by lore or by Blizzard officials. It should not be taken as representing official lore.

As Durotan is buried at the Rock of Durotan, Draka may also be buried there or at least near it.

Gallery

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  Draka from the World of Warcraft Bestiary.

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  Durotan and Draka's murder in Legends Volume 2.

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  Draka's final moments with her son in Afterlives.

Videos

• The Story of Draka

Patch changes

• Patch 9.0.2 (2020-11-17): Added.
  

External links

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See also

• Draka's Flag
• Death discrepancies