Where there was oppression, there was resistance. This principle held true in any world, especially for races that possessed wisdom and strength. Brutal, unreasonable oppression would always kindle the flames of resistance.
Even foolish ogres were no exception.
According to incomplete figures compiled by Ulduar's spies, at least nearly 150,000 ogres lived throughout the Blade's Edge Mountains, divided into a dozen or so small clans and three large ones.
The Bloodmaul and Bladespire Ogre clans lived in Bladespire Canyon. They were savage ogres who wholeheartedly revered the rule of the gronn. By the standards of the civilized world, they were uncivilized barbarians. Thus, after the Sons of Gruul had been caught in one net and Gruul had been lured out of Gruul's Lair, the elites of the Seven Warbands, the druids from the Cenarion Circle, and the forces controlled by Ulduar's spies all mobilized.
Under Dick's orders, they swept through the whole of Bladespire Canyon. For this mission, they had also borrowed part of the Night Watch Burning Legion stationed in Hellfire Peninsula, commanded by the mysterious Death Highlord Mishishirsa, with skilled fighters from around the world lending their aid. Their orders were to destroy every force in Bladespire Canyon within three days.
This was not a difficult task, especially for the warbands' executioners, who already regarded killing as an everyday occurrence. Once brutality became a means of making a living, killing was never difficult.
But aside from these two large, uncivilized ogre tribes, there was another rather unusual clan.
They were Ogri'la, the "Promised Land" in the ogre language. According to reports from the first spies to contact these ogres, they were clearly civilized. At least compared to their savage brethren, these ogres could be called "courteous."
Dick sat in the Ogri'la ogres' distinctive camp-in plain terms, a large