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| “ | Can your blood atone for genocide, orc? Your Horde killed countless innocents with its rampage across Stormwind and Lordaeron. Do you really think you can just sweep all that away and cast aside your guilt so easily? No, your kind will never change, and I will never stop fighting you. | „ |
| ~ Daelin Proudmoore threatening to Thrall. |
Daelin Proodmoore was a major antagonist in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne and serving as the main antagonist of the orc campaign.
He was the prideful and stubborn lord admiral of Kul Tiras. Grand Admiral of the Alliance fleet during the Second War and before the Scourge invaded Lordaeron. After losing his eldest son Derek, Daelin developed a hatred for all orcs and doesn't believe that they would change although he spared a few of them in the Second War. After the Third War, he tries to annihilate the orcs both good and evil and he's also Rexxar's archenemy.
He is voiced by Mark Addy.
Biography[]
Daelin fought against the orcs with Anduin Lothar. During the Second War, he stands beside King Terenas Menethil and becomes one of the main leaders of the Alliance of Lordaeron. His daughter Jaina met Terenas's son Prince Arthas and they fell in love.
When the Scourge invaded Lordaeron, Daelin discovered undeads and demons, and a few survivors. After the Third War was over, he sails towards Kalimdor to search for his daughter and the survivors from the Scourge's invasion of Lordaeron. Jaina manages to gain the respect of Thrall, the warchief of the new Horde and they both make a peace treaty. Daelin however was determined to destroy the orcs and their settlements.
Daelin finds Jaina and was happy to see her alive. But he notices that she brought a half-orc half-ogre named Rexxar and other allies of the Horde with her. Ignoring his daughter's pleas, he orders his men to arrest them and takes control of Theramore to continue his genocidal campaign against the orcs. The Horde eventually manages to fend off Proudmoore's attacks and force him to retreat. But Thrall knows that the attacks will never stop as long as Proudmoore lives. Jaina, knowing that her father was blinded by hatred and caught in the past, gives the Horde advice on how to break her father's blockade. In return she asks for them to spare her forces, as they are only following orders. Thrall agrees and leads the Horde in an attack against Theramore. Thrall eventually confronts Proudmoore and tries to reason with him by stating the Horde is not the same one he had fought years ago. Refusing to believe it, Daelin continues to fight them only to be slain by Rexxar. With his death, the rest of the humans stand down and Jaina mourns her father's death and asks why he refused to listen.
In spite of his demise, his actions permanently damaged alliance horde relationships, indirectly resulting in the rise of Garrosh Hellscream and the Destruction of Theramore. After Theramore's destruction, Jaina briefly came to believe her father was right and tried to kill the orcs, but stopped when Kalec and Thrall forced her to realize that she was acting exactly like Arthas and Garrosh.
Quotes[]
| “ | Daelin Proudmoore: I must admit, you orcs are more tenacious than I remembered. I thought you savages would have turned on each other by now. Thrall: This is not the Horde you remember, old man. We have no interest in conquest or murder. We have paid for our sins of our forebears in blood. |
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| ~ Daelin Proudmoore to Thrall before threatening him. |
| “ | Daelin Proudmoore: Jaina. Bless the stars, I've found you at last! When I heard that Lordaeron fell, I despaired. But I knew you'd find a way to escape. I... what is this? An ogre? Jaina Proudmoore: Father, wait! Rexxar: Father? Jaina Proudmoore: The Horde is no longer our enemy! The orcs have their own kingdom now. We... Daelin Proudmoore: You have always been naive, my daughter. You aren't old enough to remember what these monsters did to our homeland. The orcs and their kin cannot be trusted. They must be exterminated like the mongrels they are! Jaina Proudmoore: I won't let you do it, father. You don't understand. (Jaina summons a water elemental) Daelin Proudmoore: I understand more than you suspect, my dear. Perhaps in time, you will too. Seize them all! |
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| ~ Daelin Proudmoore revealing his true nature to his daughter by usurping Theramore's control to serve as a base to wipe out the Horde once and for all since he sent his men to trouble Durotar since Thunder Ridge's deforestation attempt, the destruction of the Gar'thok outpost and the attempted war crimes on Echo Isles. |
| “ | Your loving mother will never forgive you... MURDERER! | „ |
| ~ Daelin to Jaina in a nightmare. |
Trivia[]
- Despite his genocidal motivations towards the Orcs, Daelin wants to annihilate the Horde again when it is the Old Horde led by Orgrim Doomhammer who are responsible for the genocide that happened between Stormwind and Lordaeron. Yet Thrall and his Horde have done nothing wrong to the Humans who are part of The Alliance.
- However, he is also responsible for Durotar's misfortunes since he sent his men to do dirty work (with the example of the attempted deforestation on Thunder Ridge despite Drek'Thar's ignorance, Gar'Thok's outpost destruction and the attempted war crime on the Echo Isles), but he's also took control of Theramore which will serve as a base to annihilate the Horde, althought his army is recognizable by the dark green color and with an anchor as a symbol. Fortunately, Jaina and her Human Expedition never fooled the Horde which was led by Thrall.
- Daelin Proudmoore is the second human with an antagonistic nature who does not appreciate the monster allies of their congeners, the first being Garithos.
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