Lord of the Clans

Lord of the Clans is a novel by Christie Golden telling the story of Warchief Thrall's rise to glory after the collapse of the Horde. It is an adaptation of the cancelled Blizzard game Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans.

An audiobook version read by Dick Hill will be released in February 2009.

Back-of-book description
Slave. Gladiator. Shaman. Warchief. The enigmatic orc known as Thrall has been all of these. Raised from infancy by cruel human masters who sought to mold him into their perfect pawn, Thrall was driven by both the savagery in his heart and the cunning of his upbringing to pursue a destiny he was only beginning to understand—to break his bondage and rediscover the ancient traditions of his people. Now the tumultuous tale of his life's journey—a saga of honor, hatred, and hope—can at last be told....

Locations

 * Alterac Mountains
 * Arathi Highlands
 * Hammerfall
 * Hillsbrad Foothills
 * Durnholde Keep

Trivia

 * An unofficial Warcraft 3 campaign has been made to cover the events of this book.
 * Players take part in Thrall's escape from Durnholde Keep in a Caverns of Time instance in World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade. The events depicted in-game are very different than the events portrayed in the book.
 * Golden later wrote Rise of the Horde, a prequel to the book Lord of the Clans, which was partly narrated by Thrall. In it, it describes the early history of both the draenei and the orcish clans, the friendship of Durotan and Doomhammer, and the demonic corruption that led to the extermination of the draenei.
 * Members of the Shadow Council make an appearance in the novel's prologue.