Hello everyone! Chapter 2 of hearthstone’s book of heroes is focused upon the mok’nathal,
Rexxar –Champion of the Horde. Over the years,
this solitary traveler has found his place among the beasts and the wild.
“I have wandered a long way...across world and wars...bonds forged and broken. There is much
to learn from this journey, if you have the strength to follow it. I was born on Draenor.
As war broke out around us, my people, the mok’nathal, remained peaceful. And unprepared.”
“Trust in our ways. THey have always served us well.”
“The rise of the Horde changes everything. We must take a side.”
To be mok’nathal is to be half orc – half ogre, the result of forced unions between ogres and
enslaved orcs before the days of the Horde. These mok’nathal would eventually be set free, settle in
a remote corner of Gorgrond. Resources were a bit scarce, but they would be able to live in peace.
They disavowed fighting and swore to take up arms only to defend their meager lands from threats.
“We are half ogre-half orc. Outsiders will never accept us.
Still...we must try.”
But that was before the Rise of the Horde. Before the world of Draenor became corrupted,
before the orcs draenk demonic blood, before enemies surrounded them from all sides. Rexxar had
tried to tell his father, Leoroxx who had his son with an orc female, about the dark portal the orcs
were building; about the chance to find a fresh new world, plenty of food and water, but Leoroxx
saw only that his son was not staying where he had been born, to fight to protect his homeland.
Both had the goal of helping their people, but in the end, father and son did not see eye to eye...
“I have proved my point!”
“You have proved you do not belong here. Leave me.”
“I was banished from my only home. Unable to convince my clan to act,
I would have to confront the Horde by myself. Should they listen, my loss would not be in vain.”
“Warchief blackhand! May I have a word? Words are weak. You must fight to be heard.
Then we fight.”
Warchief Blackhand was considering annihilating the mok’nathal, as they had with so many other
races on Draenor, but Rexxar manages to fight his way through it, convinces the warchief to spare
his people. This allegiance would take him and his companion wolf Haratha through the dark portal and
unto Azeroth. Not all the members of the Horde lined up with Rexxar’s sense of honor though.
There was a warlock that suffered great injury in battle. Seeing the half-breed, he decided to heal
himself by draining the life out of Rexxar. Before he could, Haratha jumped in between, taking the
hit. Rexxar’s friend shriveled shriveled before his eyes, the powerful wolf shrinking in upon
himself in an instant and then collapsing, his body turning to dust that the wind carried away...
That warlock’s wounds were healed, but he wouldn’t keep standing for very long.
After avenging his friend, our mok’nathal would soon see the dark portal shut down.
Believing Draenor to be lost, believing the rest of his people had perished,
he saw little reason to keep fighting the alliance. He saw no honor in it,
what was the point when it was not to defend his people or save them so he turned away from
the betrayels and deceit he experienced within the Horde to live out a life in the wilds of Azeroth.
“Fighting for the Horde took me through the dark portal to the distant world of Azeroth.
I knew nothing of the people there. Only that the warchief wished them gone, but even he fell
in time. After 2 of their wars, I had no more taste for it. My only solace was in the wilds.”
“BIG GROWL”
“What a magnificent beast! I will tame you, though it may take some time.”
“YOu are the first ‘civilized’ being I’ve met for a long while.”
For around 20 years Rexxar would hang out in the wilds, but not entirely alone. He
found new animal companions, amongst them Huffer the Boar or as we can see here, the bear Misha.
“We ought to be friends. I have no others.”
Winning the trust of a bear isn’t easy. You need patience. And snacks. And in
this hearthstone game you need to get rid of the vicious bear before it kills Misha.
Destroy trap: “I knew you’d come around.
I will look after you now. Neither of us has to be alone anymore.”
“I left the Horde. With Misha at my side, we journeyed through the Kalimdor wilds. I was
careful to always avoid the cities. Until one day, I had no choice...”
“What is that commotion? A battle?” “Come, you quilboar mongrels!
Taste the steel of Mogrin’s axe!” “Hold fast, stranger! You shall not stand alone!”
While roaming the wilds, the world around him didn’t stand still. An orc slave gladiator by
the name of Thrall rose up to reform the Horde, not like it was. Not corrupted and infected by
demonic influence, but a pure horde aimed at having a peace of the world to call their home.
The might of the Horde would even unite with Jaina Proudmoore and the humans of Lordaeron.
Together with the night elves they managed to save the world from another Legion invasion
and to keep that fragile peace going, Thrall and Jaina decided to settle close to eachother.
He build up Orgrimmar while she based within Theramore, showing the world that
there’s more possible for the alliance and horde then just killing eachother.
“I was to deliver a crucial report to my chieftain.
But now, I cannot. I have lost my honor.”
I think Mogrin is supposed to die in the hearthstone game
but Iw as able to complete it with the orc still kicking. Just pretend
like his wounds were to severe and Rexxar finished his quest for him.
“A message for you warchief. Mogrin entrusted me with it before the passed.
I see. Youve done us a great service. Please,
accept our hospitality here in durotar. Only if you’ll let me carry my own weight.”
“The new Warchief had many problems. He’d made a pact with a human, Jaina, yet still our camps
were raided. Jaina claimed she had not given that order. Together, we went to find our true enemy.
“The naga destroyed our camp. We have to clear them out. Then we can
discover what really happened here. The seas are ours.”
“I’ll help you as much as i can” – jaina casts spell, mirror image
There was plenty to do to carry his own weight since founding a whole new city in a hostile land
requires a fair bit of work. For example he assists at Thunder Ridge
where Thunder Lizards are going crazy or he kills a couple of harpies or he collects some weed.
At one point he even comes acros a humble brewmaster from pandaria named Chen Stormstout
and gathers some ingredients for him. Hearthstone
didn’t forget about this little detail since now the deck has a youthfull brewmaster in it.
“I hope you trust me – 2x mirror image.” “Thrall does, that should be enough.”
Yet despite the truce between the humans and orcs, they’re still being attacked
but Jaina swears she isn’t the one behind it. Together with rexxar, Chenn and Rokhan
they investigate what’s going on here and that’s when they come across Lady Darkscale.
“We arent so different. I thinkour people want the same things.
That is why we clash.”
The naga has already wiped out most of her kin yet one still breathes, clueing her in on the
man behind the attacks. It’s none other then her own father...Admiral Daelin Proudmoore....
“The naga are gone, but who were the humans attacking us?
Ah, jaina, i ve found you at last.” “Father i knew this was your doing.
You have to understand, the horde is no longer our enemy.
So naive my dear. Step aside, an extermination is in order.
Rexxar, run!”
“Thanks to jaina, I escaped. But war was upon us and worse, we were outnumbered.
Warchief Thrall knew we needed allies. He sent me to rescue a young tauren from the centaur,
hoping it could win his people to our side.”
“You kidnapped baine bloodhoof and devestated his father.
Release him now. The tauren is ours fool.”
Baine is on the battlefield: “My father knows im here?
You must get me to him! I promise to baine.”
The centaur have long fueded with the tauren, fighting over territory and resources. Before
Thrall met Cairne, the old bull worried about the dangers for his people, worried that they
might be exterminated by the marauding centaurs. With thrall and the horde’s aid, things changed.
Their combined might was able to stand up against the maraudors and where ocne the tauren lived a
nomadic life, they now decided to settle in the lands of Mulgore. All the more tragic that his
son has been kidnapped and Cairne lost all will to live, but nothing rexxar can’t fix.
“YOu have lost more warriors than the one you seek to gain.
Shut up.”
He didn’t just recruit the aid of the tauren either. Rexxar also helped out
Vol’jin and the darkspear trolls and claimed leadership of the Stonemaul ogre clan. Truely
a champion of the Horde and worthy of carrying their banner.
“Baine are you alright? Yes my friend i owe everything to you.
Whatever you wish, my father will grant to you.”
“Baine was true to his word. His father, Chieftain Cairne, pledged his warriors to
our cause. We were ready to face Admiral Proudmoore...and all of his old hatreds. ”
“Come, savages! Atone for what you did in stormwind, in lordaeron.
That was a different time. The horde has changed. But some things can not be undone.”
Daelin Proudmoore was part of the Alliance of Lordaeron,
those that rose up against the threat of the first horde, the ones that poored through the dark
portal to try and claim the world. Stormwind fell, Quel’thelas burned and Lordaeron nearly fell.
Thanks too betrayel from within the horde as well as heroes amongst the alliance rising up,
they were able to defeat the orcs and push them back through the portal.
The orcs that had surrendered were placed within interment camps. That’s where Thrall
was forced to fight as a gladiator. Even as a child, jaina never saw the orcs as
monsters and that mindset allowed her to see the Horde differently. Allowed her to set old
hatreds aside and stand shoulder to shoulder with Thrall against the might of the Demons.
“We must put an end to the admiral. Only then will the Horde be safe.”
“Fire the cannon!”
But her father never had that experience and considering all that he lost while
fighting the orcs, like his son Derek... he’s not able to put that all aside,
no matter what his daughter tells him. Jaina makes the impossible choice
and steps to the side while Rexxar leads the Horde into Theramore and does what must be done...
Play cairne: “We are with you rexxar, lead on! “Lok’tar Ogar! For the Horde! For Durotar!”
In World of Warcraft classic, you can find the
mok’nathal patrolling the road from Dasolace to Feralas with of course
Misha at his side, assisting horde heroes with their attunement to Onyxia’s lair.
“You saved us all, rexxar. I can never repay you. Will you stay with us?
I belong in the wilds, amidst the beasts and elements of the land.
But i will always be there when you need me, brother.”
“As time passed, my heart longed for my homeland. With the dark portal restored, i was free to
return. When i finally found my people, it was just as i feared. They were under attack by the
bloodmaul ogres and their leader, a giant gronn. I would use all my years of fighting to save them.”
“Who disturbs Gorgrom? I am Rexxar, Champion of the Horde,
Son of the mok’nathal. You too small to be champion.”
The dark portal re-opened with the Burning Crusade and as it turns out, what they all believed to
have been lost forever had merely transformed. The rift between father and son is still there,
but Rexxar is not about to let his passive clan fall to Gorgrom the Dragon-Eater.
“It is like fighting a mountain itself.”
Gorgrom is a child of Gruul the Dragonkiller, a mighty powerful Gronn that once did battle
with deathwing himself. The fight against the black dragons who you can still see spiked in
the blades edge mountains is what earned him the dragonkiller title. His children
are just as dangerous and require strategy and cunning to take on. In World of Warcraft we got
the aid of the black dragon Sabelian, child of Deathwing. In hearthstone we got powerful
gron trapps which can’t attack but do deal 4 damage to Gorgrom at the start of each turn.
“Your blood weak. YOu smell like ogre,
but small like orc. I am many things.”
“GROAHHHH DEATH RATTLE> ‘
“After the giant fell, my banishment was at an end. My people welcome me...all but my father. Yet
I will give him time. Over the years, i have learned that nothing is more important than
the journey we all take in our hearts. So long as we are wild and free, we will find our way.”
That’s where book of heroes closes the chapter on Rexxar, but his story is still going of course.
That rift with his father still needs mending, but in the meantime our champion of the Horde
has joined the Unseen Path in Legion. The Hunter order hall to defend the world against yet another
demonic threat. While the Horde could have really used his help in the days of Garrosh Hellscream,
he wasn’t really around. Instead he showed up to help out warchief Sylvanas Windrunner in
Battle for Azeroth. Setting foot on kul tiran land which, considering he killed
their admiral, was not that well received. On the horizon there’s a brand new Exploring
Azeroth book, this time focused on Kalimdor. Join famed hunter Rexxar, his animal companions,
and Horde Ambassador Zekhan as they make the perilous journey across the lush and vivid reaches
of Kalimdor to learn the secrets of the realm. Leave no stone unturned and no tracks unfollowed
as Rexxar and Zekhan reveal lore, insights, equipment, and breathtaking landscapes from
the ramparts of Orgrimmar to the golden plains of Mulgore to the wilds of Un’Goro Crater―and share
one final kindness with a friend along the way. Featuring stunning,
immersive artwork and new insights crafted by Blizzard’s own loremaster, Sean Copeland,
Exploring Azeroth: Kalimdor is your next step in a remarkable journey across Azeroth...
I personally really enjoyed exploring azeroth the eastern kingdoms so can’t wait to get my
hands on this new one butttt that will be for the future! For now thank you
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