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Thrall, born as Go'el, is a fictional character who appears in the Warcraft series of video games by Blizzard Entertainment.Within the series, Thrall is an orc shaman who served for a time as a Warchief of the Horde, one of the major factions of the Warcraft universe, as well as the leader of a shaman faction dedicated to preserving the balance between elemental forces in the world of Azeroth ...
The orc was a sort of "hell-devil" in Old English literature, and the orc-né (pl. orc-néas, "demon-corpses") was a race of corrupted beings and descendants of Cain, alongside the elf, according to the poem Beowulf. Tolkien adopted the term orc from these old attestations, which he professed was a choice made purely for "phonetic suitability ...
Nadine Ribault – translator of The Lagoon and Other Stories by Janet Frame; Madeleine Rolland, translator of Tess of the d'Urbervilles; Boris Vian – translator of The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler as Le grand sommeil (1948), The Lady in the Lake by Raymond Chandler as La dame du lac (1948), The World of Null-A by A. E. van Vogt, as Le Monde ...
Orcish proverbs straddle the fine line between clever and stupid. Not the bad kind of stupid, mind you; the forehead slap, the solemn head shake, a disappointed sigh are our connotations.
Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is a real-time strategy game (RTS). [4] [5] [6] The player takes the role of either the Human inhabitants of Azeroth, or the invading Orcs.[7] [8] In the single player campaign mode the player works through a series of missions, the objective of which varies, but usually involves building a small town, harvesting resources, building an army and then leading it to ...
Warcraft: The Beginning: Orcish, the language of orcs. Draenei, the language of the eponymous species. It was only used for one line. Common, an unused language that was meant to be the humans'. 2016 The Bad Batch: Dialect coach. 2016 Doctor Strange: Nelvayu, a demonic language the Zealots use for incantations. 2017 Conlanging: The Art of ...
The novel explores the events in the orc world before the Orcish corruption. The story is set before the events of Warcraft: Orcs & Humans.The novel details the union of the orc clans into a single horde under Gul'dan and Blackhand, the corruption of the orcs and the destruction of the Draenei by the orcish horde.
Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans is a cancelled graphic adventure game developed by Blizzard Entertainment and Animation Magic from 1996 until 1998. Set in the Warcraft universe after the events of Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal, it followed the orc character Thrall in his quest to reunite his race, then living on reservations and in slavery following its defeat by the human Alliance.