So as I mentioned in two previous posts via an edit, I need to do some more research when I’m not sleep deprived and get Arathi and Alterac straightened out. In the near future, I’ll work on a scenario involving the Crushridge at a future date. The Boulderfist, looking at them, might be a bit more complicated than I thought, so I’ll have to look at them more as well. That said, I wanted to elaborate a bit more on the Ogre council idea.
So I mentioned in my scenario before that the clans would each have a leader that is represented in this council. The main reason a council occurs is that Tharg, having his Stonemaul clan go through two terrible leaders, wants to make sure that never happens again. At the suggestion of Draz’Zilb, thats the two headed smart Ogre in the Dustwallow Cataclysm quests, a council of the Ogre clan leaders can form and be a counter balance to anyone that may try to usurp leadership.
Tharg can still be the “leader” of the Ogre clans, but the council is what deals with Ogre affairs. After all, I recall the Blood Elves do something similar. The council likely wouldn’t be a huge deal as the Three Hammers, where each Dwarf is represented by completely different types of Dwarves, which is why Tharg can still act as the representative of the Ogre clans. Tharg can also just act as the talking head of whatever the council votes on.
Of course, a problem with my scenario is that Tharg would have put Draz’Zilb as the Gordunni leader, and that could cause some issues with the other Ogre clan leaders regarding trust.
As it is currently, I have four Ogre clans involved. Since it is an even number, it acts as a sort of counter balance. I don’t mean in the way of being adversaries for the sake of snubbing the other clans, but moreso in a way that one clan can’t try to get benefits at the expense of others. It would be real stupid for one of the leaders to try to cause an Ogre civil war. Not only would they have other clans to worry about, but the Horde would also shut them down, causing them to be dubious to the Ogre clans in general.
As such, order needs to be established along with cooperation between the clans that join the Horde. Nothing can be gained with dissension within the ranks. Besides, Horde leaders going rogue is a tired concept at this point, so the council’s leaders should be static and cooperative in general. Also, since we’d be getting Ogre female models, either the Dunemaul or Gorian clan would have a female leader to make the council a bit more diverse.
Ogre civilization evolving into a form of democracy is…an unexpected idea I didn’t really think I would ever consider, but it seems like it would work quite well. As usual, I’m sure there are debatable aspects, so it isn’t perfect.