i had an orc, not so long ago, that would be awful for the leadership position of orcs. but who cares!
Thrall is dead. A black fist was thrust through his heart, a single sentence uttered by his attacker as he fell, a shocked look on his face. “Suffer in death, destroyer of the Horde.” A dark army rises from Orgrimmar, their drums beating a deathly heartbeat of terror through the land. It is as if Durotar has gone mad, flipped on its head by this sudden treachery. Xagroth Blackfist has died twice before, only to return again, unshackled by the chains of mortality.
Blackfist has no title, as his new army understands that his name alone stands for power. Black-steel holds and walls, sputtering smoke-spewing forges sprout across Durotar. Once a symbol of the orcish people’s potential redemption, even Durotar’s name is ripped from beneath it. Orgrimmar as well. A dark citadel is erected from the ruins of what was once Orgrimmar, a citadel from where a new dark overlord reigns over the orcish people. Grahkgul stood high over the newly named Gulmar, resting within a darkened Durotar, now named Gothgor. (Translations. Grahkgul: Eye of the Wraith. Gulmar: City of Gul; Likely a reference to Gul’dan. Gothgor: Great Chaos.)
Within the year, through the power of Xagroth’s Black Legion and a powerful artifact, the orcish people’s minds and souls have been attuned to their new leader. From where orcs rule, new garrisons and positions of power are created. Towers with powerful sorcerers atop them, giving their master sight from Grahkgul. Manipulating the Horde’s weakness at the end of the Fourth War and the inability of the Alliance to act united, this monstrous and despicable warlord of a forgotten army of fiends was able to almost effortlessly return the Dark Horde to this world.
Soon, ogres and ogron appear within his ranks, as do ettin, the Rogue and Feral Scourge, Twilight Dragons, Amani trolls and so many more terrors that this world has tried to move from. The Northern Barrens, Azshara, much of Ashenvale, Dustwallow Marsh, a great deal of the Southern Barrens, the Blasted Lands, the Swamp of Sorrows, and what was once Durotar now belong to Blackfist. Whipped up into a frenzy, the free peoples of Azeroth start to know a renewed fear of the Dark Horde. Necromancy, dark shamanism, blood magic, and renewed efforts into fel and shadow magic color this Dark Horde as something more than a rebirth. It’s a dedication to Gul’Dan and his Shadow Council.
Fitting, as Xagroth is one of the last orcs who sat in that Council. Perhaps he is the true successor to his master, the orc who will finally see the orcs as true conquerors of worlds.
(tl;dr, Xagroth’s an evil boy who’s made a terrifying army through Thrall’s murder at his own hands.)
