Chapter 682 The Process of Two Worlds
During the first and second Dark Portal Wars, the tribe was so powerful because it seemed to have endless troops. This is largely due to Draenor's increasingly poor natural environment.
The reason why Gul'dan was able to persuade so many orcs to die was because they were all fighting and killing anyway. Instead of letting so many ferocious orc clans fight each other to share a smaller and smaller piece of cake, it would be better if everyone Let’s go to other planets together to grab a bigger piece of cake.
However, with the defeat of the Horde and the defeat of several of the strongest clans in Azeroth, Draenor's scarce resources seem to have become less scarce.
The Blackstone Clan, which was originally the number one tribe, boasted 500,000 soldiers at its peak. Of course, this is an exaggeration. However, the 300,000 adult orc warriors definitely did not escape, and most of these 300,000 had experienced the war with the Draenei. Absolutely elite.
Unfortunately, it was weakened by Duke's tactics many times in a row, and even the last seed was lost to the sea opposite the Sea View Cliff in the southeastern part of the continent of Lordaeron. The only thing left is the Black Fang clan that split off from Blackhand's two sons Red Blackhand and Maimu Blackhand. After they hunted down Gul'dan, they immediately left Orgrim's control.
It can be said that the absence of just one Blackstone clan has freed up living space for at least three first-class clans for the entire tribe.
Then there is the Warsong Clan, second only to the Blackstone Clan. Different from the original history, the Warsong Clan was thrown into Azeroth early in this war. Now, after the repeated heavy losses in Southsea Town and Silverpine Forest, the entire clan The young and old alike were all trapped in Tirisfal Glades.
Next is the Frostwolf Clan, which is also among the first-class clans. They are not much different from their original history. They were directly exiled to the Alterac Mountains before the first Dark Portal War officially began.
Then came the Storm Predators and the Black Scar Clan, the two clans at the end of the first-class line who all knelt down.
Finally, the Bleeding Ring Clan, Shattered Hand Clan, and Dragonmaw Clan were the three first-tier clans that were severely damaged but still returned to Draenor. Unfortunately, due to the significant decline in population and soldiers, they have been reduced to second-tier clans.
A messy calculation showed that the first-rate clans had nearly 1 million people left vacant, not counting the losses of the second-rate and third-rate clans.
If you include the orc laborers who have always been ignored by the chiefs. In the two Dark Portal battles, the tribe's population lost more than 2 million.
If anyone checks carefully, they will find that more than one-third of the tribe's soldiers drowned in the sea. The league has to give Duke a thumbs up.
In tribes, population and warriors are synonymous with territory. Without population and warriors, there is no territory.
There are more vacancies than ever before, leading to a new round of power reshuffle.
When Orgrim was still there, even if they only knew that the warchief was not dead, no one of the major clans remaining in Draenor dared to touch him.
When the news of Orgrim's capture came, the major clans immediately took action against the fat people around them.
For various reasons, such as the White Claw clan being sympathized with Durotan and his Frostwolf clan, they were annihilated.
The Thor, Thunderblade, Laughing Skull, Red Walker, and Bonechewer clans that originally stayed in Draenor for various reasons and had not yet been sent to Azeroth have gained the greatest advantage in this reshuffle.
They generally more than double their territory before winter.
If the winter hadn't been too cold, and if they had some long-term vision, they might have been able to make Kilrogg's Deadeye and Kargath's Bladefist hate them when they returned.
While Draenor was at war, the recovery of various countries on the continent of the Eastern Kingdom of Azeroth continued.
It is obvious that the southern continent is recovering faster than the northern continent of Lordaeron.
In the north, Terenas had no good solution, whether it was the Silverpine Forest that burned to the ground or the Warsong Orcs that haunted Tirisfal Glades. He could only hope for a harvest this year from the fields near Stratholme. After all, it was out of the forest, and the orcs didn't dare come out to face Lordaeron's superior cavalry regiment.
The famous grain-producing areas of Barnir, Firestone, and Maris are Lordaeron's last resort.
He now even had some hope that if Deathwing really became the king of Alterac, at least Alterac's ten thousand acres of fertile land in Hillsbrad would be temporarily available to Lordaeron.
Nearby Dalaran and Stromgarde are finally starting to get on the right track.
But no one can compare with the prosperity of the south.
Even if Terenas doesn't want to admit it, he must admit it - there is no other genius in the world who can create an independent economic system out of thin air like Duke, and can revive the entire kingdom without spending a single gold coin.
"Hell, if Kalia was here, I would marry Kalia to Duke even if it was embarrassing. The only good thing is... Dailin doesn't seem to have gained any benefits."
Terenas once thought of imprisoning Kaliya for the rest of his life because he had disgraced the royal family of Menethil. But when a greater benefit emerged, Terenas wished that his dead daughter could crawl out of the grave so that he could sell it again.
This is despicable royal politics.
When everyone turned their attention to the Kingdom of Storms, one day in mid-May, Antonidas suddenly received an application for a meeting from Duke. It was not an urgent application, but a very diplomatic application, which was personally submitted to the Foreign Affairs Department of the Kirin Tor Council by the former mage of Dalaran, Miss Ilucia Barov.
Even though Antonidas was obsessed with magical experiments, he still received Duke the next day.
"Hey, dear Duke, I thought you had dwarf blood in your blood. Railway? Train? It seems like you're better at being a dwarf than you are a wizard. Well, what's got you? It’s blowing.”
With a little dissatisfaction and a little ridicule, Antonidas had mixed emotions about Duke's embrace.
"I'm so happy to see you so healthy, Master Antonidas." Duke said politely, and then went straight to the point: "Actually, I came here this time to receive unconfirmed news. But the news is too great. It’s important, I have to come here in person.”
"What kind of news?" Antonidas pondered.
He knew Duke well. Even though this young man's arrangements often seemed unreasonable, his arrangements never failed.
From fighting the tribe, to taking the four dragon kings to Lordaeron to participate in the triumphal ceremony. Duke's actions often have a clear purpose. If you ignore his actions, then you will be tricked like Terenas. Don't blame others for not notifying you in advance.
"Ner'zhul, the master of Warlock King Gul'dan, has set his sights on the [Eye of Dalaran]!"