![]() She exiles Lantresor for his heritage, costing her clan a powerful blademaster and once again showing the folly of Iron Horde racism. One you make contact with Lantresor, help retrieve his banner and blade, and meet him within the depths of the Burning Blade clan's cavern stronghold, you quickly find out how to bring down Warlord Dharl of the Thrice Bloodied Blade, leaving Azuka Bladefury in sole command of the Burning Blade. In their hasty choice to imprison Lantresor, the Burning Blade of this Draenor dooms their leadership to death. If one finds it ironic that a cabal of demon worshippers should be more egalitarian than the Iron Horde, well, no one said hatred had to make sense. In this case, when we meet Lantresor, he is still a half breed orc/draenei, and he is in chains, put there by a clan that is now far more aggressive about racial purity and unwilling to accept a half breed among their ranks. As a result, the Burning Blade that we meet on Draenor is not that cabal of bloodthirsty demon worshippers from the First and Second War - instead, they seem to be oriented around some form of elementalism, going so far as to summon a gigantic magma elemental. This Draenor has not yet known the genocide of the Horde against the Draenei - on this world, Gul'dan failed to convince the orcs to drink the Blood of Mannoroth due to the interference of a stranger. Upon our excursion to the alternate Draenor, we encounter a world much younger than the one we experienced when we went to Outland. We meet again for the first time, Lantresor The next time we encounter Lantresor, he would be much younger. And all it costs him is pulling his people back from territory he no longer needs to encroach upon because he'll soon be able to move on either the Warmaul or the Kil'sorrow at his leisure. This ends Lantresor's story in Outland - he retains control of the Boulderfist and now his two greatest enemies, the Kil'sorrow and Warmaul, are at war without him having to lift a finger to make it happen. After this 'exchange' is made, Lantresor is pleased enough with the player to agree to a cessation of hostilities with whichever town they represent, and goes so far as to exchange a peace offering with them. Lantresor is tired of both the Warmaul, and the demon worshippers of the nearby Kil'sorrow Fortress, and with the player's help, he concocts a way to distract both the Warmaul ogres and the fiend friends of the Kil'sorrow by having the player murder Kil'sorrow and planting Warmaul banners, and then stealing Kil'sorrow armaments and planting them on the slain bodies of Warmaul ogres. Soon, however, the half-orc makes it clear that there is a way both he and his people and the player can get what they want by joining forces and working together. Even if they manage to defeat the Boulderfist, they are standing on ogre land, and the Warmaul will still come for them. ![]() The player is of course sent to quell the attacks of the Boulderfist ogres against their respective towns in Nagrand (either Telaar or Garadar, depending on faction) and after fighting their way to Lantresor the blademaster makes it clear that he's not impressed. It's a very ogrish way to select a leader. He stands as ruler of the Bladefist ogres by right of martial superiority - none of them can stand against him, and so he rules. When we meet Lantresor he's an aged blademaster who has siezed control of an ogre clan, the Boulderfist, and he's quite up front about his past, although he doesn't say much - we learn that he was once of the Burning Blade, that he is a half-breed, and that he fought in the First and Second Wars before somehow returning to Draenor before Ner'zhul tore the world apart. The mostly likely candidates would be Blackhand the Destroyer, first warchief of the Horde, and Orgrim Doomhammer, his betrayer, assassin and successor. It seems likely that the Lantresor we meet in Nagrand was a member during this period, because he says he served under two warchiefs. Who were his parents? How was he conceived? Was he raised by orcs or draenei? The Burning Blade at one point in the history of the First and Second War became host to many orc blademasters who were corrupted by demon blood, going so far as to speak eredun (demonic) to one another - Galtak Ered'nash or All hail the Burning Blade. There is much we never learn about Lantresor - we don't learn how he came to be, for example.
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