Titans on Draenor

First off, a lot of this is seriously speculative, and based on screenshots from the Warlords Alpha. What that means is that it's subject to change and subject to renaming and reconceptualizing.

The Titans are possibly the most powerful entities in the Warcraft universe. Both the Old Gods and the Burning Legion have it out for them and their creations. Five of the thirteen playable races can trace their lineage directly to Titan creations, and there are plenty of hints that some of the other races were either created or altered into their current form by the Titans or their creations.

We also know that the Titans are not from Azeroth, and that Azeroth is one of many planets that they have put to order. Azeroth appears to be a special case, and is important for reasons that we have not yet learned, but the Titans have traveled throughout the universe.

Draenor is the second-most important planet in the Warcraft setting. The Orcs and Ogres are from there originally, and the Draenei lived there for several centuries. Without the Orcs and the Horde that they formed, Azeroth would look very different. So what is the history of Draenor?

We know a lot about the history of Azeroth. Either the Titans showed up an usurped it from the Old Gods, or (if you ask me, more likely) the Old Gods came and infected the world after the Titans originally set up shop there. But even beyond that radically distant history, there are tens of thousands of years of history, and many beings, such as the Dragon Aspects, the Loa, the Ancients, or Titan Guardians, who actually remember some of those early days.

In Draenor, we just don't know much about the world. The only version of Draenor we've been able to really explore in-game in WoW is Outland - a shattered wreck of a planet that is floating through the Twisting Nether. Shockingly, it is still habitable, but most of the planet has been destroyed, and that which remains has been ravaged by demons and Fel-tainted Orcs, or just the chaos of the Twisting Nether.

We will be traveling to a nearly-pristine Draenor, though. Apart from the industrial pollution of the Iron Horde, this Draenor will be essentially intact.

So, now into the spoiler/subject to change stuff:

There are screenshots of Gorgrond that show a Dark Iron Dwarf stronghold built into the earth that is being assaulted by creatures called "reclaimers." Now, it's certainly possible that the reclaimers are reacting to this newly-built stronghold of the Dark Iron Dwarves (which are now part of the Alliance) and trying to restore it to nature. On the other hand, there are also some examples of creatures in that area of the zone called "Titanic Megabeasts." Certainly, "titanic" just means large, but it makes you wonder: was Draenor also touched by the Titans?

Take the Ogres as an example:

The Ogres have gone through something that resembles the Curse of Flesh. Their distant ancestors include the Gronn. We now see in some of the Draenor screenshots and content that there appears to be some middle-step called Ogron. Initially rocky, near-elemental-like giants, the Ogres are now your standard soft and fleshy humanoids.

It's also suggested that the Arrakoa might worship something akin to the Old Gods. In BC's Shadowmoon Valley (as cool as it is to see an alternate version of the zone, it might have made it easier to distinguish if it was given a different name, like Tanaan Jungle/Hellfire Penninsula or Talador/Terrokar Forest) we see the Arrakoa summoning in something that looks a lot like C'thun.

But where there are Old Gods, there could very well be Titans.

Indeed, while they used a modified Draenei model, the Mogu felt very similar in culture to the Orcs, and in fact, the whole Mogu history seemed like a cautionary tale for Garrosh (that he ignored, and reaped the same reward.)

What would it mean for the Orcs to be a Titanic race? In a sense, it would make it less weird for them to be a major population on Azeroth. Another interesting thing to note is that the Alliance is comprised mostly of Titanic races (Human, Gnome, Dwarf, Worgen - which are human - and Night Elves were created because of the Titanic Well of Eternity) whereas the Horde has only a couple of races with clear ties to the Titans (Undead - which are human - and Blood Elves, who are descendants of the Night Elves and thus related via the Well of Eternity.) The Old Gods and Burning Legion are clearly evil, but the Horde has not had a huge impetus to side with the Titans.

As of yet, we haven't seen anything of the Titans on Draenor. The most impressive structures have tended to either be only a few hundred years old Draenei architecture or the far-more-recent Tempest Keep and Mana Forge facilities built by the Naaru.

But Outland is a wreck of a world, and no one has really done a whole lot of archaeology there. But if we go to Draenor B, we're presented with new possibilities that could really shake the sense of who the Orcs are in relation to Azeroth and the cosmos.