Dreg'tal Stormblast

Warlord Dreg'tal Stormblast, son of Drehta Wyrmbreaker Former Chieftain of the Stormblade Clan Blood Guard of the Dragonfire Brigade. Dragonmaw Orc

Childhood
Dreg was born of the Dregaonmaw Clan to his mother Drehta Wyrmbreaker in the outpost of Rockard during the latter years of the First War. He does not know who his father is, but he has vague memories of a male orc his mother used to see regularly. When he was around two winters old, both he and his mother were captured by Alliance as they swept through the Black Morass routing any Horde forces they came across on their way towards the Dark Portal.

He grew up for the next five years within an internment camp in the Arathi Highlands. When he was old enough to carry things, he was put to work in the the mines under control of the camp. His mother was put to work in the smelters all that time. She used her position to steal gold and conceal it within iron, which she used to pay a goblin caravan led by Swindol Steelyfingaz that routinely delivered supplies to smuggle Dreg out of the camp, and deliver him to his grandfather.

Drehta gave Dreg a necklace of hers, a black dragonscale coated with a black metal, so that her father would be able to identify Dreg as her son. She called it "The Destroyer's Blessing". When Dreg was brought to his Clan, an orc named Shag'rath stole the Destroyer's Blessing from Dreg before anyone else saw it. Thus, no one claimed Dreg as their family, but they took him into the clan nonetheless. Without a family, Dreg grew up within the Clan as a peon.

Five years later, Shag'rath led an expeditionary force of Dragonmaw back to Grim Batol to find a way to retake the ancient Dwarven city. After taking Dreg away from the camp, he gave the young orc a Dragonmaw shortsword and began training the child in combat. After several weeks fruitlessly attempting to break the massive gates down, or find another way in that hadn't collapsed, the Dragonmaw expedition camp was attacked by a flight of Red Dragons. In the chaos, one Dragon descended upon Dreg and simply told him to run far away from there. He did, and the following day he was found by one of the surviving Dragonmaw orcs who took him north.

Dreg had passed hands from one orc to another, who took him to the abandoned keep in Alterac, where he stayed for a few days until he was taken away again and passed into the custody of the Warsong Clan. Grom Hellscream accepted Dreg into his ranks and assigned him to the custody of a warbringer named Brak'gul Deathbringer. Brak not only acted as a surrogate father, but also as Dreg's trainer in matters of combat. Dreg also had an eye for the warbringer's daughter who was only three years older than he was.

Within two years, the Warsong Clan mobilized as a founding clan of the new Horde, moving from internment camp to internment camp freeing as many orcs as they could. When they liberated the camp that Dreg was held in, he looked for his mother only to find that she was killed after his disappearance.

The Third War
Dreg continued to stay with the Warsong Clan, adopting their philosophies, traditions, and habits on top of those he already picked up from the Dragonmaw. He travelled across the Great Sea with the new Horde under direction of Thrall. After landing at Kalimdor, the Warsong came into conflict with humans, and later the Night Elves in Ashenvale after setting up their new camp. They were losing regularly until scouts returned with reports of a fountain that gave them strength beyond measure.

Grom Hellscream ordered that every orc within his clan (which included Dreg) must drink from the pool. All Warsong Orcs turned red from the blood. Even Dreg had, but after the corruption was purged, his skin turned green like those of his peers, rather than back to his original grey.

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