![]() ![]() And he took his place among the Blackrock, following Blackhand into war, intensely loyal to his chieftain. The orcs were rallied into a war against the draenei - the very people that told Orgrim Doomhammer of his weapon’s legacy in the first place. And they gave him one more thing - a scorched, burned, disfigured hand that glowed with the fury of the elemental lava pool.īlackhand became who he was because of the Doomhammer’s destiny, and became as much a part of the Doomhammer’s legacy as Orgrim himself. They also gave him a gift of knowledge, teaching him the secrets of imbuing weapons with elemental power. But the elements of the pool saw something different in the Chieftain, and while he was not destined to carry the Doomhammer, they allowed him to take it, wield it for one battle, and return it to its rightful owner. Instead, he thrust his hand into the pool to retrieve the Doomhammer himself, willing to sacrifice his own life to return Orgrim’s weapon, urging Orgrim to lead the Blackrock to victory. The Chieftain wouldn’t let him accept it. Instead, he was sitting at the pool and contemplating his death. If he hadn’t tried to outwit destiny, perhaps he and the Doomhammer would’ve been enough to turn the tides of battle in his clan’s favor. They were on the precipice of extinction, and Orgrim blamed himself. It was at this pool that the Blackrock Chieftain found him, after a series of ogre attacks had nearly destroyed the clan for good. And they wouldn’t return it - punishment, a shaman later told Orgrim, for his pride. But he didn’t expect the elemental spirits within the pool to get angry, and he certainly didn’t expect them to take the weapon back. He thought he could somehow unmake its destiny and forge a new one in the place where the weapon was created. ![]() Because that prophecy was loaded with all kinds of unpleasant implications, and Orgrim didn’t want to be the last of the Doomhammer line, and certainly didn’t want to be the one who brought salvation and then doom to his people. Years later, after his father’s death and after he inherited the weapon and became the Chieftain’s second-in-command, he chose to take it back to the elemental pools in which it was forged. That prophecy spoken by the wise, ancient Prophet proceeded to haunt Orgrim for the rest of his life, whether he acknowledged it or not. Then it will pass into the hands of one who is not of the Blackrock clan, all will change again, and it will once again be used in the cause of justice.” “The last of the Doomhammer line will use it to bring first salvation and then doom to the orc people. He would one day inherit the Doomhammer, a mighty weapon his father carried, and he looked forward to that day until a chance meeting between himself, Durotan, and the Prophet Velen revealed a prophecy the weapon carried. But Orgrim’s destiny was another matter altogether, and something he never really had control of. Despite the fact that this was clearly against tradition for both the Blackrock and the Frostwolf, Orgrim and Durotan became very close, and never stopped being friends throughout their lives. ![]() Orgrim Doomhammer was a different kind of child, choosing to ignore clan lines and inexplicably befriend a member of another clan - Durotan of the Frostwolf - when they met at the biannual Kosh’harg festival that brought all the clans together in Nagrand. The most truthful answer I can give you is “Yes.” Doomhammer’s destiny Which leads most people to ask a natural question: Is Orgrim Doomhammer a good guy, or a bad guy? It may not be exactly the orc we know from history, but another representation. And in a little over a year, we’re going to see a third iteration of Orgrim Doomhammer in the Warcraft movie. ![]() But his history also spans the original RTS games and novels, in which he was known as the Betrayer by his own kin, the orc that slew Anduin Lothar by the Alliance. We caught the smallest glimpse of Draenor’s version of Orgrim while playing through Talador before he was abruptly snuffed out. Not only does Thrall wield his legendary weapon, he even named the capital city of the orcs in honor of the former Warchief of the Horde - Orgrimmar. Of all the heroes of the new Horde that Thrall forged in the wake of imprisonment, none stand out quite so much as Orgrim Doomhammer. ![]()
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