Kingslayer Orkus

Kingslayer Orkus is a level 80 Orc found within Hillsbrad Foothills, atop his loyal Frost wyrm Kasha.

Overview
Orkus first appears during Quest:Welcome to the Machine, eager to dominate the Alliance in the region (assuming there is "no chance" of harm to him). He later reappears south of the Ruins of Southshore, having attacked Vanndar Stormpike and Balinda Stonehearth after overhearing talk of a meeting at Purgation Isle with one Ivar Bloodfang. Vanndar hurls him into the ocean.

The player finds him on the verge of drowning, though reminds a horrified Orkus that the water is relatively shallow. He quickly composes himself and makes his way back to the shore, where Kasha's own wounds are treated. Orkus, Kasha and the player fly over to Purgation, and fight their way to Vanndar, Balinda and Ivar. Noticing Alliance battle plans, Orkus devises a strategy - killing the Stormpike battlemaster and holding off the trio of enemies, long enough for the player to escape with the plans atop Kasha.

Despite his somewhat cowardly earlier attitude, Orkus charges the trio alone in an attempt to buy the player time, and is defeated - though Kasha returns for him, and flies to Tarren Mill.

Orkus dies during the flight, and asks the player to find somewhere cold for Kasha to live. High Warlord Cromush receives the battle plans, and honors Orkus as a hero of the Horde.

His sacrifice would ultimately pave the way to the destruction of the Stormpike clan in Hillsbrad.

Quests

 * Quest:Can You Smell What the Lok'tar is Cooking?
 * Quest:*Gurgle* HELP! *Gurgle*
 * Quest:Stormpike Rendezvous
 * Quest:Kasha Will Fly Again
 * Quest:The Road to Purgation
 * Quest:They Will Never Expect This...
 * Quest:Heroes of the Horde!

Objective of
Quest:Welcome to the Machine

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Trivia

 * Based on the "Welcome to the Machine" quest, Orkus appears to be Blizzard's mocking representation of player characters who have completed all end-game content and are now mindlessly doing low-level content or harassing low-level opposition player characters out of boredom.
 * Orkus' line regarding the Tarren Mill and Southshore war is a throwback to vanilla Warcraft, where massive scale battles would commonly be experienced around the two towns, now often recalled with fond nostalgia - the "glory days" he references. This largely ended once Blizzard added the battleground system to the game.
 * Orkus mentions that he once had an exciting encounter with the famed Varok Saurfang, and asked him to sign his muscles. Varok backhanded him instead, the force of which apparently results in memory loss from time to time.
 * He also appears to be a big fan of Garrosh Hellscream. His question regarding him, "great Warchief or greatest Warchief?", is a reference to fake TV pundit Stephen Colbert, who often asked guests the same of US President George W. Bush.