Human History

(since the end of the second war)

Aftermath of the Second War

The devastating Second War against the orcish horde left the Alliance of
Lordaeron in a state of shock and disarray. The bloodthirsty orcs, led by the
mighty warchief, Orgrim Doomhammer, not only smashed their way through
the dwarf-held lands of Khaz Modan, but had razed many of Lordaeron’s central provinces as well. The unrelenting orcs even succeeded in ravaging the
elves’ remote kingdom of Quel’Thalas before their rampage was finally
stopped. The Alliance armies led by Sir Anduin Lothar, Uther the Lightbringer,
and Admiral Daelin Proudmoore pushed the orcs south into the shattered land
of Azeroth – the first kingdom to fall before the orcs’ ruthless onslaught.

The Alliance forces under Sir Lothar managed to push Doomhammer’s clans out
of Lordaeron and back into the orc-controlled lands of Azeroth. Lothar’s forces
surrounded the orcs’ volcanic citadel of Blackrock Spire and laid siege to their
defenses. In a last-ditch effort, Doomhammer and his lieutenants staged a daring
charge from the Spire and clashed with Lothar’s paladins in the center of the
Burning Steppes. Doomhammer and Lothar squared off in a titanic battle that left
both mighty combatants battered and drained. Though Doomhammer narrowly
succeeded in vanquishing Lothar, the great hero’s death did not have the effect
the warchief had hoped for.

Turalyon, Lothar’s most trusted lieutenant, took up Lothar’s bloodstained
shield and rallied his grief-stricken brethren for a vicious counterattack. Under
the ragged standards of both Lordaeron and Azeroth, Turalyon’s troops
slaughtered the bulk of Doomhammer’s remaining forces in a glorious, but
terrible rout. There was nothing left for the ragged, scattered orc survivors but
to flee to the last standing bastion of orcish power – the dark portal.

Turalyon and his warriors chased the remaining orcs through the festering
Swamp of Sorrows and into the corrupted Blasted Lands where the dark
portal stood. There, at the foot of the colossal portal, the broken horde and
the rugged Alliance clashed in what would be the last, bloodiest battle of
the Second War. Outnumbered and driven mad by the curse of their bloodlust, the orcs inevitably fell before the wrath of the Alliance. Doomhammer
was taken prisoner and escorted to Lordaeron while his broken clans were
rounded up and hauled north - back to Lordaeron.