Nardreg

"Few remember the honoured ancestors of the Whiteclaw. Do not forget of their sacrifice, for we fight in their name; to build a Horde they would have wanted to see! A Horde who's values and culture they died to protect! When you die and join the ancestors in their vast halls, you will die with a curse to Gul'dan upon your lips and blood upon your tusks! Lok'tar Ogar!" - Nardreg Dwarfbane

Nardreg Dwarfbane was an orcish warrior of Thrall's Horde during the Cataclysm, and one of the few survivors of the Whiteclaw clan's destruction. During the rise of the Horde he opposed Gul'dan's methodology along with the Whiteclaw and Frostwolf clans. He joined with the Bleeding Hollow clan's warriors for much of the first and second wars; spending the most of the latter guarding the orc-controlled mines of Khaz Modan. His feats against the dwarves earned him the name 'Dwarfbane'. After the dark portal was closed, he was placed into the Lordaeron internment camps with the majority of the Bleeding Hollow, before eventually being freed by the young Thrall and sailing to Kalimdor. Following the culmination of the Third War, Nardreg's support from Bleeding Hollow warriors earned him recognition and by the beginning of the war against the Lich King he was placed into the role of a Horde Battlemaster. His tale continues with the return of Deathwing the Destroyer.

Appearance
Well upon his way to venerable age, this warrior's build is typical of most orcs albiet with toughened pale-green skin and greyed hair. Standing slightly shorter than most, Nardreg is nonetheless an imposing figure with a life evidently honed by bloodshed and warefare; a toughness bred from the harsh cold of Khaz Modan. His tusks are mottled and dull, the left wrapped with a thin orange cloth at the base of the tusk to presumably ward against infection where a crack would lie. Red eyes, no longer blazing with fury, promise a firm hand and wise counsel.

Orcs & Humans; The First War
Following Gul'dan's proclamation over the destruction of the Kingdom of Stormwind, Nardreg was part of the Bleeding Hollow clan's assault on Stormwind City. Wielding tactcs learned from the slaughter of the draenei in their own cities such as Shattrath, the Bleeding Hollow barrelled into the walls of Stormwind with the Twilight's Hammer following close behind. The orcs hadn't counted on the mighty steeds of the human knights, and the assault ended in disaster with each chieftain blaming the other. While Gul'dan reinstalled Blackhand as warchief, the orcs fled to the Black Morass to regroup. Nardreg remained in the fortified village of Stonard, seperated from the flared tempers of the Twilight's Hammer stationed in Rockard. The war came to a eventual conclusion after multiple farmsteads and small villages were put to the torch, and Stormwind City itself sharing the same fate after the willpower of the defenders diminished with the assassination of their king. As the survivors of Stormwind hastily fled north in their ships, the Horde celebrated in the sacked city with the bounty of their spoils.

Nardreg accepted the friendship of Bleeding Hollow warrior Kazagg Tornscar who, although seven years his younger, was nonetheless an imposing and fiersome warrior; standing a full head taller. The two swore powerful oaths of honour after several bouts of duelling and feasting, sharing in the loot they had claimed from a knight who had elected to stay behind and protect the fleeing citizens of the city, who'm also had been slaughtered.

"Dwarfbane":
"He's filled with as much grit as those rock-eaters in the mountain is old Nardreg. He'll be the bane of the dwarves if that gate ever cracks open." - Kazagg of the Bleeding Hollow clan

During the Bleeding Hollow occupation of Khaz Modan, the realm of the dwarves, Nardreg gained important firsthand experience of the grudging tenacity of the mountain dwelling warriors. Razing hold after hold, the orcs drove the dwarves out; each of who'm would flee into the towering gates of Ironforge. Their mighty capital itself stood unfazed, unbreachable by the orcish horde.

Together with his companions from the shattered Whiteclaw clan, and the mighty warriors of the Bleeding Hollow clan, Nardreg began an inticement effort to aggravate the dwarves into charging from the safety of Ironforge. Bounding upon dwarven survivors and military units from the mountain city sent to rescue them, Nardreg reaped a bloody harvest of kills, tallying the number of dwarven lives his axe had felled by collecting the beards of the dead as trophies. The beardless corpses lay in the shadow of the Ironforge, an insult and a warning to the staunch defenders of Khaz Modan who dared to resist the Horde.

In the face of the grudge between Whiteclaw and Bleeding Hollow over the Frostwolf opposition to Gul'dan's offer of power, Kilrogg's warriors were unable to deny their admiration of the visible grudge held by their guest; bestowing the name "Dwarfbane" upon him. The aged warrior carries his name to this day, along with his respect and friendship of former Bleeding Hollow warriors.

The Whiteclaw Clan:
"The Whiteclaw clan was considered to be one of the oldest and proudest of the orcish clans. Before the First War, it protested the changes to the orcish way of life by Gul'dan and the Horde. As a result of their sympathies to the Frostwolf clan, they were easy targets for the bolder and more violent clans, and were consequently attacked. The Whiteclaws were destroyed, and any surviving members were scattered. The clan was believed to be no more. They became little more than clanless savages." - Orgrimmar elder

The Whiteclaw clan, barely recollected amongst the modern Horde, was one of the many orcish clans upon the homeworld of Draenor.