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The Secret Of The Blackrock Clan

The Blackrock clan’s unique ability to smelt the black ore, a substance so dense that ordinary flame does not even soften it, has always been their most closely-guarded secret. Deep within the Foundry, their furnace contains a primal force as old as Draenor itself, raging within the confines of its prison as it emanates a …

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The Evil That Orcs Do

With little opportunity to exercise her tactical brilliance under the ancient social structure of the orc clans, Gar’an was thrilled to be one of the first warriors to volunteer for naval duty under the Iron Horde. Instantly successful in battle, she was named Admiral of the Iron Horde fleet and selected Marak and Sorka as …

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First Fire And Then Earth

The magnaron are mysterious in their ways, ancient and inscrutable. Miners excavating an expansion to the Foundry, in support of the Iron Horde’s massive production needs, were horrified to unearth a chamber containing a living magnaron. To their astonishment, Kromog began to assist in their endeavors, and now uses his massive stone fists to hammer …

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The Trains Do Not Run On Time

Known more for his cruelty and cleverness than for brute strength, Thogar oversees the operation of the Grimrail. From the Foundry’s depot, he coordinates the ongoing ground battle against the draenei in Talador, with entire battalions of troops and artillery at his beck and call. While some may consider Thogar a quill pushing desk jockey, …

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Bring The Steel

Under the banner of the Iron Horde, Blackhand has enlisted Flamebender Ka’graz of te Burning Blade to imbue the Blackrock-forged armaments with the essence of flame.  Along with her assistan, Aknor Steelbringer, Ka’graz toils before an everburning forge in support of the Iron Horde’s conquest of Draenor. The Burning Blade champion, Flamebender Ka’graz has thrown …

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The Heart Of A Beast

As a young orc, Darmac quickly rose through the ranks of the Thunderlord as a gifted trainer of beasts. Where others only saw animal instincts, he recognized intellect and drew forth untapped potential from brain and muscle and bone. When the Iron Horde demanded his service, Darmac saw no greater honor than to outfit and …

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Brothers In Arms

Hans’gar and Franzok are twin brothers raised and trained as masterful brawlers of their clan. Both carved paths of glory as warriors, but destiny had other plans. The brothers, each unwilling to slay the other in the rite of mak’gora, were banished from their clan and left for dead. They survived as outcasts in the …

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Fat, Drunk and Stupid Is No Way To Go Through Life Oregorger

The storehouses of the Blackrock Foundry, laden with heaps and pallets of unprocessed Blackrock ore, represent a grand banquet feast for the ravenous rock-eating goren who have burrowed into the chamber.  Oregorger is by far the largest of the invaders, gluttony swelling his frame far beyond the size of any goren previously seen in Draenor. …

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Blackrock Foundry & A Dragonkiller No More

This foundry was the ancestral home of the Blackrock orcs, wherein master smiths smelted and worked the impossibly hard ore that is the clan’s namesake. Now, massive giants captured and broken by the Thunderlord heat the great forges, flamebenders of the Burning Blade imbue the ore with an inner fire, and engineers shape the slag …

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Highmaul Heroism

The Grim have been continuing to battle the Ogres and other denizens of Highmaul even after besting them and clearing the city once already.  The Grim do not have the manpower to occupy such a place, and the city is not something that can just be eradicated from the planet.  After we left with our …

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