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Morec0
There is something that puzzels me about the orcish clans: their names. How did they come up with those names? My guess is that is has something to do with their history, a legend specfic to their clan from which they derrive their name. I'd like to see where you think those names came from, so post your clans name in a fashion that resembles an orcish legend. My example and thoughts on the Frostwolf clan is below.
In a time before time, the first clan was founded by the first of the orcs, and from that we spread across the world. As long as the first lived, all would be well the prophets claimed, and as the first fell ill, their words of omen began to come true.
Tension and hatred spread amongst the clan, rivalries and bloodshed between individual groups, all of this becoming worse and worse the more ill the first became. Finally the first passed on to the next life, and that is when the union of the others split. They went their seperate ways, while our group - a nameless clan at the time - walked to what would later be called western Nagrand.
We were a small clan, barely able to support ourselves. The world was not kind to us either, storms of all kinds, rain, drought, snow, battered us and threatened to erase us form existance. However we persevered, and we grew strong. Then came Lak'tuk'nd - the 'Winds of Suffering'. They destroyed everything we have worked so hard to build, our fields, our homes, all gone because of the Winds.
The Chieftan of our clan when this was occuring - his name lost in time - left our people to venture out into the wilderness, to comune with the elements and ask them to help our people. The elements said they could not stop the winds that were destined to come, but help came all the same.
As they Cheiftan continued to plead with them, a great wolf - fur a white as the snow that surrounded it and the Chieftan - appeared on a hill away. He howled and motioned for the Cheiftan to follow, which he did. More then once he nearly lost the wolf in the blinding storm, but his will to help his clan kept him moving. After some time the wolf stopped, and the storm calmed, revealing the bodies of many Clefthoof - all dead from the Winds.
The Chieftan turned to thank the wolf and elements, but the wolf was gone and the elements had grown silent. The Chieftan then returned to what remained of his village, gathering his people and leading them ot the clefthoof. They took the meat, the hide, the bones, all that they could carry and more with them, returning to their home and begining to rebuild in deffience of the Winds.
Because of the wolf our people survived, and the Chieftan commanded that a banner of a white wolf be raised to show honor for the beast that had saved then. He also named the clan 'Frostwolf' to honor the beast further for its help. To this day we remember this, to this day we honor the wolf that saved our people.
So, how do you think the other orcish clans got their names? Or do you think the Frostwolf's history played out differently?
Post by
Patty
Warsong
is rather self-explanatory, with Grom's rather iconic
Hellscream
, it may just be a tradition of that culture for the chieftain to roar in such a way.
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306612
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Post by
Morec0
Certain clans have already had their names explained, yes, but the other, older clans have not. For instance: Blackrock, Bleeding Hollow, Dragonmaw, Laughing Skull. Those were the ones I was mostly thinking about when this idea came to mind.
Post by
Adamsm
Probably the Blackrock was named that for where ever they came from; might have been mountains of black rocks in there areas. Laughing Skull was due to their way of life; treachery and assassinations and all that over good stuff... in other words, they were suppose to be ape*!@# insane. Dragonmaw.... well, not sure about that, unless they were named after some of the rock formations of Bladesedge Mountain as, as far as we know, there are no resident dragons on Draenor back in the past..... of course, there might have been and they were wiped out by the Gronn and Gruul a long time ago, which might explain his animosity towards the Black Flight when they started up in the mountains.
Post by
Patty
I know the Blacktooth (or something like that) was because of the chief's missing teeth, and the subsequent ritual to have every clan member lose one in that respect. Out of the Warcraft 2 manual, IIRC.
Black Tooth Grin. :P
The Bleeding Hollow stems from Kilrogg's eye being lost. I think a lot of clans were unnamed until the forming of the Horde as a united body, because a lot of them are stemmed from leaders of that era.
Post by
GVHB
The Shattered Hand clan is named that way because of the act of self-mutilation every member must carry. Bonechewers because they were cannibals. Stormreavers maybe because they were keen on using air elemental magic. Shadowmoon... I don't know.
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Post by
Skreeran
I'd like to write a bit about my beloved Blackrock clan later, but right now I'm too wrapped up in planning for the SAT to do much. So, instead, I'll drop a bit that I already wrote about the Flowerpicker Clan:
Long ago, in the North of what is now known as the Blade's Edge Mountains, there was an orcish clan--whose original name has disappeared into the mysteries of time--peaceful and pacifistic in its ways. This clan rarely killed, and instead farmed the land for vegetable crops. They possessed no weapons or armor save the tools they used for farming, and were nicknamed the "Flowerpicker Clan" for their placid ways. Their different and complacent behavior earned them the hate of the nearby clans, who deemed them un-orclike, and in one particularly hard year they were nearly wiped out by the others, their food stolen and their people slaughtered.
Outraged by this unprovoked attack, they slowly turned all their available resources to war, wiping out several smaller clans and adopting their weaponry and tactics. Building an army, they eventually earned their vengeance on the clans that attacked them, but, continuing to feel the new thrill of war, they waged further war on everyone around them. Eventually, as the years pass, the Flowerpicker clan became a force to be reckoned with, nearly able to match the much larger Blackrock and Warsong forces in Nagrand, but never finding opportunity or convenience to launch a full-scale war because of the distance separating them. Instead, they lived off of smaller clans nearby, demanding tribute and taking it by force when it was withheld.
When the Horde was assembled, the Flowerpicker Clan reluctantly joined, wary of the other clans, but eager to crush the weak Draenei race.
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