Ogres (Warcraft)
The Ogres are a species that feature in Warcraft.
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History
The Ogres were a race of giant humanoids that were native to the world of Draenor. Their kind traced their lineage back to Grond, the enormous stone giant created by the Titan Aggramar to defeat the Evergrowth and the plant-like Sporemounds. As Grond and the Sporemounds fought, pieces of the battling leviathans fell to the earth and gave rise to the colossals, children of Grond, and the genesaur, children of the Sporemounds. After Grond's death, the colossals continued fighting the Sporemound Botaan and its minions, but over time many of the stone giants succumbed to their foes. From the colossals' remains, new creatures known as magnaron emerged. After the colossals sacrificed themselves to destroy Botaan in a massive explosion, spores from the plant creature's body, teeming with the Spirit of Life, drifted back to Draenor's surface and clung to the hides of the magnaron, weakening their bodies. Some of the magnaron devolved into beings called gronn, and due to the lingering effects of the spores, a small number of gronn continued degenerating into the ogron. Over thousands of years, the residual spores transformed a number of ogron into the ogres. The ogres were smaller than their progenitors, and many of them would become enslaved to the ogron. Finally, from the ogres arose yet another race: the orcs. The ogre lords are the only ogres known to retain some of the physical traits of their gronn progenitors, such as the bony, calcified protrusions on their head and back, as well as a portion of the gronn's immense size and strength. The ogres themselves would later claim that they were born 'at the beginning', and that when the great Forgers squeezed the light from the ball of fire that would become Draenor, they also shaped the ogres from the same smoking clay, granting them dominion over stone and earth. Thus, the ogres consider themselves the rightful rulers of Draenor. The first great technological innovation in ogre society was the concept of attaching a rock to the end of a very long stick to smash your enemies, rather than attempting to bash them with a rock held in your hand. The schism this innovation created amongst ogre society resolved itself only when the now-forgotten tribe broke into the Warmaul and Boulderfist clans. By the time the arakkoan Apexis empire fell, the children of stone had grown in number and spread across the land. The ogres and orcs quickly learned to fear the ogron's attention. The best fate a conquered ogre clan could hope for was to be sent into battle as disposable combatants against other ogron tribes, while their sick, weak, and elderly clan members were typically offered as living sacrifices to appease the mighty gronn and keep them from attacking ogron territories.
Overview
Unlike their orc relatives, ogres are skilled seafarers. The people of Goria thought themselves able to outlast any siege thanks to their ocean port, but the city's ships were burned down when the city was destroyed by the elements.
Members
- Gorgog : the Gronnslayer
- Cho'gall :
- Dentarg :
- Dagg'um Ty'gor :
- Kor'gall :
Notes
- The Ogres were created by Blizzard Entertainment and featured in the setting of the Warcraft universe.
Alternate Versions
In other media
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Appearances
- Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness:
- Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos:
- Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne:
- World of Warcraft:
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