Know Your Lore: The orcs, part 2

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2-22-2012 @ 8:01PM

Murdertime said...

Well, part of it is that once Orcs had access to the same level of magical advancement as their opponents, they became more than a match for other groups with access to similar levels of knowledge and in many ways, managed to surpass them. It's like you gave a bunch of cavemen some rifles and they came back with detailed notes on how they can improve them.

It's worth considering that the Burning Crusade had previously had all those things and they hadn't been as successful with them as the orcs were. Except Death Knights. Gul'dan invented Death Knights.

But as a group, the Orcish Horde were a more effective threat to Azeroth than Sageras himself. In fact, if Gul'dan hadn't decide he would like, on the whole, to be Sageras rather than taking his orders and cost the horde a third of their number, Azeroth would've fallen.

On that note, there's Orc mages now.

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