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Warcraft movie about first Orc invasion

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LeeC:
Anyone else notice green skinned orc females in the charge?  Call the Horde what you want but they seem to be equal opportunity employer.

Sad thing is I know they are stream lining the story so I doubt Gul'dan will be the main villain but Blackhand.  On top of that instead of craving conquest its now a "our planet is dying".  Looks like Ner'zhul showed up once or twice unless, as part of the streamlining, they combined his and Gul'dan's character into one.

This is really going to be like watching a movie after experiencing the book type deal for me, isn't it.

Neko_Ali:
I feel you there. Even given Blizzards habit of changing their lore on a regular basis, this seems to make even more changes. Notably, many of the orcs are brown skinned. It could be just that they were showing the Frostwolves mostly. The whole 'our planet is dying' was something they changed long ago, but it was their own fault. Overuse of fel energies was destroying Draenor.. It literally split the planet apart and left it as floating chunks in space. I will say that they did fantastic work on the orc CGI. They are very expressive. That's something I had a little bit of fear of. But honestly given the quality of Blizzard's trailers and cutscenes in recent years, I imagine they would accept nothing less for their flagship movie.

hedgie:
Even from the trailer, it seems as though white and brown aren't too big of an issue, they turn around and go after green (apologies to Pterry on that).  It reminds me of that one zone in BC with all of the brown orcs, who seemed to live a life rather similar to that of the Tauren.

Neko_Ali:
Right, that's what the orcs were like before they were corrupted by demon blood. They were pretty warlike then still, but it was more 'prove who is the toughest' than 'slaughter everyone'. That's why the women fight right alongside everyone else. To them strength and honor are everything. A good mate for both men and women is someone who is strong and fearless. Then the Burning Legion showed up and through manipulation and promises of even greater glory they bound the tribes together and got most of them to drink demon blood, driving them mad with battle-lust and turning their skins green. Some clans refused to join in. Durotan and the Frostwolves joined, but refused to drink the demon blood. Most likely he's the heroic looking brown orc we keep seeing. Which would make the baby he's holding lil Thrall.

Eventually they got sick of slaughtering the draenei and natives of their world and Gul'dan convinced them he could open a portal to a new world for them to conquer; Azeroth. The massive use of fel energies was destroying their world and making it unsuitable to live on anyway. Eventually shattering it into what is Outland from the Burning Crusade expansion. That is the point of the first Warcraft RTS game, and where this movie takes place, during the first orc invasion. Of course when the game first game out it was nothing more complex than 'humans and orcs fighting'. A lot of the backstory came later. Brown skinned orcs and all that in particular were not invented until Burning Crusade as far as I  know.

This has been your Blizzard Lore Moment by a nerd.  :claireface:

Lines:
Just to confirm, yes, that is Durotan and baby green orc is Thrall.

I think the movie looks interesting and the cgi for the orcs looks great.

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