Durotan

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Durotan

Gender	Male
Race	Orc
Character class	Chieftain
Affiliation	Frostwolf clan
Occupation	Chieftain

Durotan is the father of the Orc warchief Thrall from the Warcraft computer game series.

Durotan was the chieftain of the Frostwolf clan and the only chieftain to refuse to drink the blood of the demon Mannoroth. He was the first Orc to question the use of necromancy. Because of his suspicions, he and his clan were exiled shortly after the First War which ended with the fall of the kingdom of Azeroth. Durotan was good friends with the warchief Orgrim Doomhammer, and went to speak to the warchief about the dark magic. His interference unnerved Gul'dan, who sent his assassains to kill Durotan and his family. Doomhammer is widely speculated to have planned the assassination, but it turned out to be false. These assassins are actually Rend and Maim, sons of Blackhand from the Blackrock clan (from the first Warcraft), sent by Gul'dan to "silence" Durotan. The only survivor of the attack was his infant son, who would grow up to become Thrall, Warchief of the Horde after the second war.

Thrall later used his father's name as inspiration for the name of the new Orc nation, Durotar.

On his grave, in the frost Alterac Valley, there's a memorial rock to honor Durotan that says:

Here lies Durotan - first Chieftain of the Frostwolf Clan,
and father of our honoured Warchief, Thrall.
He was the bravest of our kind - betrayed by those who would see our people enslaved.
Durotan Gave his life that our freedom might be gained.
We honor him - and the legacy he passed on to us through his son.

Drek'Thar, Far Seer of the Frostwolves.