Hope for Draka in Shadowlands

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This is from the novel

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.

They were clearly guards loyal to Gul’dan/The Shadow Council. Not sure where you got your info about them being assassins.

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I was sure they were assassins sent by Gul’dan, maybe got mixed with other sources, was there any mention in the part where Blackmoore finds Thrall?

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That comes later in the novel, when Blackmoore finds baby thrall under the bodies of his dead parents

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I have next to no knowledge about Draka but I always to forward to see old characters get the chance to shine in New lore.
It will all depend on how things are presented. If they let her story develope naturally and not make it feel forced or cringy then I’m sure we will all like it.
What I’ve noticed bad writers tend to do is try to feed information or present scenarios in an unnecessary way almost like they put characters aside and just start speaking to us directly as if otherwise we would not understand what’s going on.

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Having played through Maldraxxis on the beta, Draka proved to be interesting enough. My only real gripe is that she is the only orc around. Obviously blizzard can’t highlight every single person who would fit in a covenant, but orc culture really seems like it would churn out perfect candidates for maldraxxis. All jokes aside if there was a House that formed almost exclusively out of orcs I would not have been surprised.

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It wasn’t. The movie was always meant to be it’s own thing and has no bearing on the lore in game.

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Because they haven’t been consistent about it.

In Lord of the Clans , it’s a single guard Doomhammer sends with them to a nearby verdant clearing by a stream with plenty to hunt, several miles away. When they arrive, they’re ambushed by assassins. Golden goes out of her way to describe their killers as such:

They had come silently, with none of the pride in the hunt that was so integral to orcish honor. These were assassins, the lowest of the low, the worm beneath the foot. Except these worms were everywhere, and though their mouths remained closed in unnatural silence, their weapons spoke with a purposeful tongue.

He stared up into a face frighteningly devoid of good, honest orc rage, indeed of any emotion at all.

As Durotan struggles but eventually snaps the neck of one of the assassins, the traitorous guard pleads for his life, insisting he’s “not the target,” but the assassins decapitate him anyway, his shocked and bloody head flying past Durotan. Draka is dead before Durotan, who then pleads with the assassins to take the baby with them. They spit in his eye and tell him they’ll leave him for the forest creatures. They’re not dead for long before Tammis Foxton and Blackmoore find Thrall, as there is no smell of rot although the blood had congealed.

In Chronicle Vol. 2 , it plays out as you described. Doomhammer sends a group of guards to escort them, and guards decide that they didn’t need permission from Gul’dan to kill them. It ends with Draka and Durotan killing one, and a day passing before Blackmoore finds Thrall.

Then in Chronicle Vol. 3 , they’re “assassins loyal to the Legion” and baby Thrall was “lying in the snow next to his dead parents and some of the assassins who had killed them.”

As for Draka’s role in that fight as its described in Lord of the Clans , she’s fierce but not in focus at all. There’s two mentions of her “shrill scream of rage” and “grunting obscenities”, then Durotan turns around to help her when he can and she’s already dead, “hacked almost to pieces, lying on the forest floor in a widening pool of blood.” Their entire death scene is framed around Durotan, Draka is mentioned only one more time than Sharptooth, their wolf that dies before them.

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That’s fair. Wasn’t she the only child of Durotan and Draka though? So I assumed she had the same role as Thrall and his place, the only child of this couple.
But enough aside here.

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It’s pretty unfair to call her “female Thrall” just because she has the AU version of his parents. Their personalities don’t even match. I do get why people are annoyed that nearly every single orc character in modern WoW seems to be somehow attached to Thrall.

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Why? It’s a alternative version. But that’s just me.

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Dunno, just feels wrong. They’re raised differently and very different experiences. At least call her “AU female Thrall” or smth, lol.

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they probably want thrall to reunite with his mother.

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The story Korzuk was talking about in the OP is about how Draka was born weak and sick and brought shame to her parents, so she worked all her life to become stronger so she could be welcomed among the clan. That kind of strength is what Maldraxxus is all about down to a T.

If anyone being in the zone is confusing it’s Vashj, honestly.

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What? is this real or a joke?

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Been trying to remind people here every other week. Good to see another who remembers!

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So I was right then, there were two things I remembered clearly, the mention of assassins and them being butchered, sadly everything is a retcon of a retcon of a retcon

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Its either him or Some other “Chef cookie” he is in the maldraxxus zone lying on the floor as part of the house of constructs.

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How dare they kill the true leader of the Defias!?

Do you have a screenshot? :frowning:

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Draka in Maldraxxus is why I’m picking Necrolords as my primary covenant. I’m hoping that with Draka’s presence, Durotan might someday make an appearance as well, but even if he doesn’t…It’s still Draka.

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Besides “Captain” Cookie from Deadmines, there’s also this guy:
https://wow.gamepedia.com/%22Cookie%22_McWeaksauce