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* DropTheHammer: The Doomhammer, which becomes Thrall's iconic weapon.
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The book tells the tale of Thrall, a young orc orphaned by assassins who kill both his parents. After being found by a human named Blackmoore, Thrall is taken to his castle, where he is raised to fight in gladitorial games to earn the alcoholic Blackmoore money. After escaping the castle with the help of a human girl, Taretha, Thrall travels to reunite the orcs.
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The book tells the tale of Thrall, a young orc orphaned by assassins who kill both his parents. After being found by a human named Blackmoore, Thrall is taken to his castle, where he is raised to fight in gladitorial gladiatorial games to earn the alcoholic Blackmoore money. After escaping the castle with the help of a human girl, Taretha, Thrall travels to reunite the orcs.
orcs.
The book has an unofficial, relatively faithful, adaptation as a ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'' Custom Campaign, [[https://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads/lord-of-the-clans.80448/ created by OutsiderXE]], voiced mostly by AI and played as an ActionRPG. An official playthrough can be watched [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGUOrxwF3mg here]].
The book has an unofficial, relatively faithful, adaptation as a ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'' Custom Campaign, [[https://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads/lord-of-the-clans.80448/ created by OutsiderXE]], voiced mostly by AI and played as an ActionRPG. An official playthrough can be watched [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGUOrxwF3mg here]].
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* HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrier: An orc tries to tell Thrall [[spoiler:to run while he protects him]], but this fails because Thrall doesn't know Orcish.
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* HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrier: HeroicSacrifice: While Thrall is being used as a training subjects with other human trainees, an orc manages to break free of his chains and moves over to him, yelling at him which Thrall only interprets as an aggressive statement before the other humans subdue and kill the orc. [[LanguageBarrier As young Thrall didn't speak Orcish]], [[spoiler:he only learns much later from Grom by telling him what the Orc yelled that the orc was yelling at him to run and he would protect him, causing the orc to have been tragically killed by the other humans [[SenselessSacrifice entirely pointlessly]], likely assuming that the other humans were going to gang up on Thrall to hurt or kill him]].
* LanguageBarrier: An orc tries to tell Thrall [[spoiler:to run while he protects him]], but this fails because Thrall doesn't knowOrcish.Orcish, [[spoiler:[[SenselessSacrifice and costs him his life]]]].
* LanguageBarrier: An orc tries to tell Thrall [[spoiler:to run while he protects him]], but this fails because Thrall doesn't know
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* LanguageBarrier: An orc tries to tell Thrall [[spoiler:to run while he protects him]], but this fails because Thrall doesn't know Orcish.
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* IdiotBall:
** Durotan, why did you think taking your wife and child with you on that perilous journey to Doomhammer was a good idea? Needless to say, this act leads to his son being enslaved by humans.
** His wife, Draka, insisted that she accompany him and that she would not be left behind. And they brought their son because he was a newborn and needed to be with his mother.
** Durotan, why did you think taking your wife and child with you on that perilous journey to Doomhammer was a good idea? Needless to say, this act leads to his son being enslaved by humans.
** His wife, Draka, insisted that she accompany him and that she would not be left behind. And they brought their son because he was a newborn and needed to be with his mother.
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** A more literal example occurs when Blackmoore mercilessly beats up a heavily wounded Thrall because his loss against an ogre in a gladiatorial match cost Blackmoore a lot of gold. To twist the knife further, Blackmoore then invites all the angry spectators who lost their bet on Thrall and have each of them savage beat the helpless orc until he passed out.
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** A more literal example occurs when Blackmoore mercilessly beats up a heavily wounded Thrall because his loss against an ogre in a gladiatorial match cost Blackmoore a lot of gold. To twist the knife further, Blackmoore then invites all the angry spectators who lost their bet on Thrall and have each of them savage savagely beat the helpless orc until he orc, who passed out.out long before the beatings finally stopped.
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**A more literal example occurs when Blackmoore mercilessly beats up a heavily wounded Thrall because his loss against an ogre in a gladiatorial match cost Blackmoore a lot of gold. To twist the knife further, Blackmoore then invites all the angry spectators who lost their bet on Thrall and have each of them savage beat the helpless orc until he passed out.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Thrall, after fighting through over dozen battles against increasing dangerous opponents in GladiatorGames, is pit against ogre while only using an EpicFlail. The narration notes is poor choice of weapon against an ogre. Exhausted, his attacks only make his much larger, stronger opponent angry and is nearly killed until the humans running the game intervene.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Thrall, after fighting through over dozen battles against increasing dangerous opponents in GladiatorGames, is pit pitted against an ogre while only using an EpicFlail. The narration notes is poor choice of weapon against an ogre. Exhausted, his attacks only make his much larger, stronger opponent angry and is nearly killed until the humans running the game intervene.
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* KickTheDog: Blackmoore has dozens of moments like this in his treatment of Thrall and Taretha Foxton. However, the standout example has to be executing Taretha and throwing her head at Thrall's feet to cruelly taunt and hurt him.
Thanks to this, it is ''immensely'' cathartic when Thrall finally corners Blackmoore and puts an end to him.
Thanks to this, it is ''immensely'' cathartic when Thrall finally corners Blackmoore and puts an end to him.
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* KickTheDog: Blackmoore has dozens of moments like this in his treatment of Thrall and Taretha Foxton. However, the standout example has to be executing Taretha and throwing her head at Thrall's feet to cruelly taunt and hurt him.
him. Thanks to this, it is ''immensely'' cathartic when Thrall finally corners Blackmoore and puts an end to him.
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* KickTheDog: Blackmoore has dozens of moments like this in his treatment of Thrall and Taretha Foxton.
%%* : It is ''immensely'' cathartic when Thrall corners Blackmoore and puts an end to him.
%%* : It is ''immensely'' cathartic when Thrall corners Blackmoore and puts an end to him.
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* KickTheDog: Blackmoore has dozens of moments like this in his treatment of Thrall and Taretha Foxton.
%%* : ItFoxton. However, the standout example has to be executing Taretha and throwing her head at Thrall's feet to cruelly taunt and hurt him.
Thanks to this, it is ''immensely'' cathartic when Thrall finally corners Blackmoore and puts an end to him.
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Thanks to this, it is ''immensely'' cathartic when Thrall finally corners Blackmoore and puts an end to him.
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* TragicKeepsake: Teratha's crescent moon necklace.
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* TragicKeepsake: Teratha's Taretha's crescent moon necklace.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Blackmoore has been incredibly abusive to Thrall and Taretha for a good chunk of their lives, but both have also turned out to be good, compassionate people despite their awful circumstances. However, executing Taretha and throwing her head at Thrall's feet to try and break his spirit [[BerserkButton proves to be a horrible, horrible mistake on Blackmoore's part.]]
* BigSisterInstinct: After Thrall was savagely beaten for losing in the arena, Taretha helped him escape Durnholde at great risk to herself. She also continued to slip him notes in military books throughout his slave years in the arena, giving Thrall his only consistent point of human love and kindness.
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* TheSiege: Completely subverted. The bad guys are the few defenders manning the great fortress, while the hero is leading the massive horde trying to rip the place down. They even succeed too.
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* TheSiege: Completely subverted. The bad guys are the few defenders manning the great fortress, while the hero is leading the massive horde trying to rip the place down. They even succeed too.succeed, too.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Without Taretha, Thrall would've never escaped Durnholde and ensured the future of the Horde by becoming their new Warchief. Her sisterly relationship with Thrall also proved that friendship and trust could exist between humans and orcs, something that stayed with Thrall for the rest of his life.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Without Taretha, Thrall would've never escaped Durnholde and ensured the future of the Horde by becoming their new Warchief. Her sisterly relationship with Thrall also proved that friendship and trust could exist between humans and orcs, something that stayed with Thrall for the rest of his life.
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* TragicKeepsake: Teratha's crescent moon necklace.
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* RealityEnsues: Thrall, after fighting through over dozen battles against increasing dangerous opponents in GladiatorGames, is pit against ogre while only using an EpicFlail. The narration notes is poor choice of weapon against an ogre. Exhausted, his attacks only make his much larger, stronger opponent angry and is nearly killed until the humans running the game intervene.
** Blackmoore tries fighting Thrall himself when confronted by him. Blackmoore is a nobleman who relies on others to fight for him and hasn't engaged in combat himself for years (not to mention he's had more than a few drinks). Thrall was raised to fight in GladiatorGames and his only loss was against the above mentioned ogre. [[spoiler: Blackmoore dies.]]
** Blackmoore tries fighting Thrall himself when confronted by him. Blackmoore is a nobleman who relies on others to fight for him and hasn't engaged in combat himself for years (not to mention he's had more than a few drinks). Thrall was raised to fight in GladiatorGames and his only loss was against the above mentioned ogre. [[spoiler: Blackmoore dies.]]
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Thrall, after fighting through over dozen battles against increasing dangerous opponents in GladiatorGames, is pit against ogre while only using an EpicFlail. The narration notes is poor choice of weapon against an ogre. Exhausted, his attacks only make his much larger, stronger opponent angry and is nearly killed until the humans running the game intervene.
** Blackmoore tries fighting Thrall himself when confronted by him. Blackmoore is a nobleman who relies on others to fight for him and hasn't engaged in combat himself for years (not to mention he's had more than a few drinks). Thrall was raised to fight in GladiatorGames and his only loss was against the above mentioned ogre. [[spoiler: Blackmoore dies.]]
** Blackmoore tries fighting Thrall himself when confronted by him. Blackmoore is a nobleman who relies on others to fight for him and hasn't engaged in combat himself for years (not to mention he's had more than a few drinks). Thrall was raised to fight in GladiatorGames and his only loss was against the above mentioned ogre. [[spoiler: Blackmoore dies.]]
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Subversion is the whole point. This is the beginning of the the end for Orcs' long-standing reputation as the embodiments of nastiness.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Subversion is the whole point. This is the beginning of the the end for the Orcs' long-standing reputation as the embodiments of nastiness.
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** Blackmoore tries fighting Thrall himself when confronted by him. Blackmoore is a nobleman who relies on others to fight for him and hasn't engaged in combat himself for years (not to mention he's had more than a few drinks). Thrall was raised to fight in GladiatorGames and his only loss was against the above mentioned ogre. [[spoiler: Blackmoore dies without putting up a fight.]]
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** Blackmoore tries fighting Thrall himself when confronted by him. Blackmoore is a nobleman who relies on others to fight for him and hasn't engaged in combat himself for years (not to mention he's had more than a few drinks). Thrall was raised to fight in GladiatorGames and his only loss was against the above mentioned ogre. [[spoiler: Blackmoore dies without putting up a fight.dies.]]
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** Blackmoore tries fighting Thrall himself when confronted by him. Blackmoore is a nobleman who relies on others to fight for him. Thrall was raised to fight in GladiatorGames and his only loss was against the above mentioned ogre. [[spoiler: Blackmoore dies without putting up a fight.]]
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** Blackmoore tries fighting Thrall himself when confronted by him. Blackmoore is a nobleman who relies on others to fight for him.him and hasn't engaged in combat himself for years (not to mention he's had more than a few drinks). Thrall was raised to fight in GladiatorGames and his only loss was against the above mentioned ogre. [[spoiler: Blackmoore dies without putting up a fight.]]
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* AdaptationalSelfDefense: While the novel's depiction of humans is bad, the novel is set after two wars the orcs started first, and the orcs were still responsible for mass murder and enslavement of intelligent beings (the dragons). Even the current {{retcon}} paints the orcs as invading Azeroth because they very nearly destroyed their own world, which could have been avoided by refusing to cooperate with the Legion.
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* {{The Dog Shot First}}: While the novel's depiction of humans is bad, the novel is set after two wars the orcs started first, and the orcs were still responsible for mass murder and enslavement of intelligent beings (the dragons). Even the current {{retcon}} paints the orcs as invading Azeroth because they very nearly destroyed their own world, which could have been avoided by refusing to cooperate with the Legion.
