The Orc War was a conflict fought between the orcish clans on one hand, and the humans and elves on the other hand.
History
Prelude
The
Orrin Empire was a prosperous human empire, bordering the
Kingdom of Lórien. The humans empowered by the widely available
Weave were romaing far and wide. And the well-trained armies of the empire were maintaining a lasting peace.
But, due to the manipulation of a mad orc,
Gul'dan, the Orcish Horde started to attak the humans and elves. The humans and elves were not prepared for the terror the horde spawned. Rumors spread through the streets that they were either vengeful spirits. Their warriors wielded axe and spear with deadly proficiency, while others rode dark wolves as black as the moonless night. Unimagined were the destructive powers of their evil magic.. Filled with the demonic blood of Baphomet, these creatures lusted for war and would destroy anything that prevented them from reaching their goal; to conquer the west of Toriel.
With an ingenious arsenal of weaponry and powerful magic, these two forces collided in a contest of cunning, intellect, and brute strength, with the victor claiming dominance over the other.
The War
Early stages
The orc assault and raid were numerous and common those since Gul'dan started to corrupt the orcs. But, now the orc started to march as a united force. a small force of knights were first sent to scout the movement of the orcish army, resulting in the Knights clashing with the orcs in a series of bloody skirmishes. The humans scored a number of small victories, yet for every orcs killed two more seemed to take its place. The humans were more outnumbered in each subsequent battle, and eventually forced to pull back. The Orrin Empire readied itself for a full-scale war.
Warchief Blackhand ordered raiding parties to cut deep into the empire's lands to drive panic into the human populace. Entire village fell, their inhabitants either killed or forced to flee. By the time thee Empire's patrols rode to defend the villages, the Horde was already gone. Studyin the pattern of targets the Horde would strike, the human retaliated, setting up ambushes along their paths of retreat. In some cases, small units of human knights were able to bring down entire orc raiding parties without any casualties.
Messengers were dispatched to the other elven kingdoms, warning of mysterious, fearsome red-skinned invaders. And many of their kingdoms, having faced orcish raids in the past, answered their call.
The siege of the Orrin Empire's Capital
Three years after the beginning of the war, in 1212 BD, the orcish raids on the countryside had razed farms, towns, villages, forges, and trade houses, causing ruin to the Orrin Empire's economy. Even more dire, many sources of food supply had been destroyed or fallen into the Horde's control. With this knowledge in mind, Warchief Blackhand decided to bring the Horde to surround the human capital. Thousands of Horde soldiers marched and encircled the capital, cutting off all access except for the sea. As it seemed the capital would fall that day, there were suddenly cries of an attack from the Horde's rear lines. The majority of the capital's knights had moved around the Horde by sea. As the orcs tried to push back the knights, the capital's large gates opened and soldiers poured out of the city to flank the orcs in a counterattack. Outflanked on both sides and suffering many casualties, the orcs were left with no choice but to flee. This was the greatest disaster to ever happen to the Horde. THe humans and elves had received information about the Horde's battle plans from
Khadgar, who had learned them from
Garona Halforcen.
The Empire retaliates
The kingdom of Stormwind sent emissaries to the orcs hoping to negotiate with them but if any returned, they did so in pieces. he hmans, with the elves help, started a campaign of guerilla against the orcs outpost, whipping their raiding party, and securing the border of the capital. A group of scouts were sent into the remnants of the cities wipped by the orcs; they reported back that the survivors had been taken to a hidden orcish compound to serve as slaves. Intelligence had also confirmed that all the slaves were grouped together in a offsite location and that an enclosure had to be destroyed in order to make a path for the prisoners from which they could escape from. A detachment of warriors was sent and managed to crush all opposition, destroying the orcish encampment in the process. With the peasants set free, the rebuilding of the region could start.
Human also started to experiment with war mages. With this power in their hands, the time was ripe to burn the orcish occupation from the nearby lands. The Horde held two outposts south of an important orcish encampment. After a reconnaissance of the area, elven scouts reported that the key to a victory for them in this confrontation would be to hold back the orcs forces at their bridges while strengthening the human's attack force to prepare for a massive all-out attack. After all the troops were prepared, the attack commenced; the outposts were laid to waste and all the orcs troops were slain.
The humans and elven troops gathered like buzzards to carrio, as the moment of destiny was close at hand. The earth shook as the knights mounted griffin and horses. fiery rocks falling from the sky thanks to humans' mage as the bulk of the knights marched to the orcs camps. Within moments, the horde's camp was ablaze with shadow dancing on the walls. While orcs were busy trying to put out the fires, and the orc started to flee, the orc had lost their morale and will to fight, the war was lost.
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