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the wayward orcs
The power-hungry Gul'dan, obsessed with obtaining
godhood itself, set out on a desperate search for
the undersea Tomb of Sargeras that he believed held
the secrets of ultimate power. Having already doomed
his fellow Orcs to become the slaves of the Burning
Legion, Gul'dan thought nothing of his supposed duty
to Doomhammer. Backed by the Stormreaver and
Twilight's Hammer clans, Gul'dan succeeded in
raising the Tomb of Sargeras from the sea floor.
However, when he opened the ancient, flooded vault,
he found only crazed demons awaiting him.
Seeking to punish the wayward orcs for their costly
betrayal, Doomhammer sent his forces to kill Gul'dan
and bring the renegades back into the fold. For his
recklessness, Gul'dan was torn apart by the maddened
demons he had set loose. With their leader dead, the
renegade clans quickly fell before Doomhammer's
enraged legions. Though the rebellion had been
quelled, the Horde was unable to recoup the terrible
losses it had suffered. Gul'dan's betrayal had
afforded the Alliance not only hope, but also time
to regroup and retaliate.
Lord Lothar, seeing that the Horde was fracturing
from within, gathered the last of his forces and
pushed Doomhammer south, back into the shattered
heartland of Stormwind. There, the Alliance forces
trapped the retreating Horde within the volcanic
fortress of Blackrock Spire. Though Lord Lothar fell
in battle at the Spire's base, his lieutenant,
Turalyon, rallied the Alliance forces at the
eleventh hour and drove the Horde back into the
abysmal Swamp of Sorrows. Turalyon's forces
succeeded in destroying the Dark Portal, the
mystical gateway that connected the Orcs to their
homeworld of Draenor. Cut off from its
reinforcements and fractured by infighting, the
Horde finally buckled in upon itself and fell before
the might of the Alliance.
The scattered Orc clans were quickly rounded up and
placed within guarded internment camps. Though it
seemed that the Horde had been defeated for good,
some remained highly skeptical that peace would
last. Khadgar, now an Archmage of some renown,
convinced the Alliance high command to build the
fortress of Nethergarde that would watch over the
ruins of the Dark Portal and ensure that there would
be no further invasions from Draenor.
The Invasion of Draenor(Warcraft 2: Beyond the Dark
Portal)
As the fires of the Second War died down, the
Alliance took aggressive steps to contain the Orcish
threat. A number of large internment camps, meant to
house the captive Orcs, were constructed in southern
Lordaeron. Guarded by both the paladins and the
veteran soldiers of the Alliance, the camps proved
to be a great success. Though the captive Orcs were
tense and anxious to do battle once more, the
various camp wardens, based at the old
prison-fortress of Durnholde, kept the peace and
maintained a strong semblance of order . .
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