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Chapter 272 The Tragedy of Alterac
The Alterac Mountains have a rugged terrain and their peaks are covered in snow all year round, which is not ideal for human habitation.
The Orange Alterac Mountain Kingdom has a very advantageous geographical location. Nobles living in majestic castles atop the mountains own vast estates and lands at the foot of the mountains, and many farmers serve as their servants.
They control the passes leading north to Lordaeron and south to Stormwind and Ironforge.
In a sense, the Syndicate leaders are determined to reclaim Hillsbrad Foothills, Southshore, Tarren Mill, and Durnholde Keep because this once prosperous land was the property of the Alterac nobles...
Syndicates are adept at navigating complex relationships, buying and selling, controlling transactions, occupying key locations, and facilitating trade with all sides.
Pirates at sea, powerful warlords from various regions, royalty from other countries, mages of Dalaran...
Alterac had always been adept at navigating complex social dynamics, even managing to maintain its industries through trade when orcs attacked. It was precisely because of this fear of losing its wealth that King Aiden of the Perenold royal family of Alterac judged during the Second War that the Alliance was no match for the raging beastmen.
Alterac Valley is strategically located and primarily focused on trade; its military strength is indeed weak...
They secretly made a pact with the orcs, clearing a path for them to raid Lordaeron.
Alterac had been dealing with criminal gangs for a long time... The Shadow Council, the Cult of the Damned, and the League of Assassins were frequent envoys in their banquet halls.
Few people know who the middleman is.
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Lorraine received the answer from the last prince, Oridon: the Twilight Church, the Shadow Council, and the Cult of the Damned had risen to prominence across the continent many years ago, before the orc invasion, and flourished during the Scourge undead war.
The Shadow Council trained numerous shadow mages for the Syndicate...
Enhance their combat effectiveness.
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Even so, these descendants of Alterac, forming bandits, still dared not fight the ogres who occupied the ruins of the royal city.
Not to mention the caves where the Bigfoot inhabits, which were once ideal refuges but are now dens of demons and monsters.
After a large number of Alterac civilians were purged by the Alliance, the ogres attacked again, taking over the last houses and making it impossible for them to survive. They had no choice but to flee to the other side of the foothills, where they were all captured by the Grand Duke and forced to join the Syndicate.
Where do cannibals come from?
The story is long, but ogres and orcs once came from the same world, which is now the shattered planet of Outland. Their history may be traced back to the origins of the orcs. Orcs, ogres, and Gruul are said to share the same bloodline, but evolved into different species due to differences in their living environment and beliefs.
Ogres have lower intelligence than orcs, stronger bloodlust, and more direct and primitive minds. They submit to the strong... They have a larger physique, like a fat man covered in muscles, but with fangs and a single eye on his head.
Their ancestors appear to have evolved from Cyclopes. Legends of Gruul still exist near Blade's Edge Mountains in Outland, where large numbers of ogres and some orcs are still ruled by these one-eyed behemoths...
Even so, the ogres were still coerced by the orcs, and together they passed through the Dark Portal and invaded Azeroth...
They obey Gul'dan's commands, and many of the powerful ogres were shadow mages trained by Gul'dan... Two-headed ogres possess twice the intelligence of ordinary ogres.
They were among the earliest members of the Shadow Council... joining the orcs in killing, burning, and looting, wreaking havoc in the region.
The ogres were mercenaries, mere thugs with little intelligence...
They were sent to the front lines to lead the charge, serving as servants of primitive tribes—in reality, they were powerful tools... They were enormous, bloodthirsty, and tyrannical, enjoying torturing their opponents before killing and eating them.
Almost equivalent to a corrupted, mutated orc, a synonym for evil, and to humans, nearly a low-level demon...
After Gul'dan's death, the old Horde disintegrated. Without Gul'dan's control, ogres followed in the footsteps of the orcs and wreaked havoc across Azeroth. In human territory, the threat of ogres once surpassed that of orcs because these creatures were utterly mindless and loved to eat people, both orcs and humans!
In contrast, the small, cunning, and greedy goblins are a hundred times smarter than the fat, large-headed ogres.
Humans believe that ogres pose a greater threat than trolls...
They are naturally thick-skinned and robust, standing over three meters tall. If they weren't mindless, intellectually deficient, and morally reprehensible, they wouldn't be able to form a well-trained army. Their threat far surpasses that of the trolls and undead of Azeroth...
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The only exception is Rexxar, the Beastmaster... He was supposed to be the king of the ogres...
Rexxar, the Beastmaster, is half ogre and half orc, a fact he prefers not to discuss.
Growing up in an ogre tribe, he despised these uncouth creatures and was looked down upon by the orc tribes... He always stayed away from his people and avoided crowds, traveling the world with his three pets.
Rexxar, the Beastmaster, always wore a hat made of animal skin to conceal some of his ogre features. Warchief Thrall repeatedly invited him to join the new Horde, but Rexxar always declined, citing his love of freedom.
Rexxar was powerful and had helped Thrall many times, including together they rescued the Tauren chieftain Cairne and Bloodhoof.
Rexxar, the Beastmaster, has three pets: Misha the bear, a boar, and a falcon, who are his only companions... He also followed the ogre tribe from the Dark Portal, wandering throughout Azeroth along the Blasted Lands...
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After losing their leader and the coercion of demons, the ogres roamed the ruins of various human settlements. Selfish and greedy, they yielded to the mighty...
A few operate under the remote control of the Shadow Council, while the rest form their own gangs and occupy cities... They only need simple shelter from the wind and rain, and their presence can be found on snow-capped mountain peaks, deep in forests, in seaside temples, and deep in caves.
On the continent of Kalimdor, in Dire Maul, a group of ogres occupied what was once an ancient night elf city and actually established their own rudimentary nation... though no one acknowledged them.
These ogres in the Alterac Mountains initially fought alongside the orcs all the way to the Arathi Highlands. After the orcs were defeated, they scattered to various places.
After the Second War, Alterac was reduced to ruins. The exile of the Frostwolf Clan coincided with the internal purging of Alterac's original royal family by the Alliance. Subsequent warfare raged, and the Kingdom of Alterac was almost forgotten...
The ogres seized the opportunity to take over the dynasty, and a few clever leaders took control.
The main caves in the surrounding area have been taken over by Yetis, who seem to be guarding something...
The Shadow Mage deliberately set up obstacles, letting these guys block the way and concealing the fact that a large number of Syndicate troops still existed in the Alterac Mountains.
The teacher remembers...
The origin of the ogres is roughly as follows: the crown of the Alterac royal family, the Crown of Will, has been occupied by ogres to this day, and that kid Oridon has never thought of going back to the royal city to retrieve it... to take back the glory of his ancestors, the Crown of Will that symbolizes the Alterac royal power.
At this moment, Lorraine sat on the ruined city wall of Alterac, playing with the old crown inlaid with gold and gemstones, listening to his teacher tell the story of the Orange Alterac Kingdom, the weakest and most tragic of the seven human kingdoms.
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Perhaps out of spite, or perhaps because the teacher was right, besides the lakeside, Lorraine wanted to find a place to store his underlings... The remote summit of Mount Alteran was a good hiding place for his troops...
This attack on the Syndicate bandits has allowed Deathsworn to raise another force for him.
The newly discovered soulless puppets seemed particularly useful. Lorraine fully utilized the Shadow Mage's creation, forming a separate special task force of wraith puppets... They looked identical to Syndicate bandits, but were actually puppets controlled by Lorraine...
With the zombies and skeletons formed from the bandits' corpses, under the command of Death Oath and the newly joined Alissa the Banshee, they cleared out hundreds of ogres and the giant yeti blocking their way in just over half an hour.
Ogres and yetis are both monsters over three meters tall, but they were no match for the undead army. Lorraine happily absorbed many vengeful spirits, and the new species she had initially created...
Ogre Corpse and Yeti Corpse Demon!
This time, they have amassed over a hundred high-level corpse demons... They are enormous and capable of charging into battle.
Previously, relying on frail skeletons and zombies, they were not only slow to move but also extremely vulnerable.
The battle by the lake directly exposed the fragility of low-level summoned creatures; they were utterly helpless against armor and arquebuses!
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