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107 recovered posts across 29 threads.
A castaway letter sets the young troll Zaa’nu on a search for one-armed orc Yagyu, presumed dead after Ironforge. Their journey and Bellmont’s competing hunt force Yagyu to confront loss, survival, and what remains of the Blacktooth Grin.
Bellmont, Pokez, Unknown, Yagyu
After an Outland battle, Felora shares a quiet victory with Yalim and tries to draw a subdued Faquarl into the celebration, only to leave her warlord alone with his burdens.
Felora, Yagyu
Grimnir wakes after a two-day haze with unexplained wounds and a spreading internal ache. He revises his prognosis to only two or three combat-capable months, hides the pain, and joins an expedition to Auchindoun.
Grimnir, Yagyu
Etamsin staggers into Stonard with poisoned Alliance arrows in his back, and the Grin's medics fight to stop his worsening internal injuries. The thread ends while Vord is still calling for Felora and Yalim's help.
Etamsin, Vord, Yagyu
Yagyu returns to Stonard after paying respects at Gorfrunch and Faquarl’s graves, prompting Felora, Shadiel, and Bellmont to reckon with the clan’s losses and uncertain renewal.
Bellmont, Felora, Shadiel, Yagyu
As Vord repairs his old death-knight armor, residual Scourge hunger returns and he secretly works to stop Kaylish from assassinating Xylien. Once the secret emerges, the Grin rides into the Plaguelands and faces Fenris's ambush while Xylien and Kaylish prepare to settle their feud.
Bellmont, Felora, Shadiel, Sharkfyn +3
Back in Stonard after Dread Horde raids on the Exodar and Darnassus, Yagyu assesses the coalition’s discipline, mourns Faquarl and Gorfrunch, and nurses his hatred of Arkonn. As he begins a report for the new Warchief, Crunck enters the inn and asks what he is doing.
Crunck, Yagyu
Grieving Gorfrunch and uncertain of Ashenrock's leadership, Yagyu seeks counsel from Lantresor and Galvangar while Bok'theg secretly works to turn him against the clan. Battles and service restore Yagyu's sense of purpose, even as the warlock's manipulation closes in.
Ashenrock, Crunck, Shadiel, Yagyu
As Ashenrock shoulders the Grin’s leadership and Felora’s disappearance, his son Demonaro pursues death-knight power with grave consequences for the family. Ashenrock turns toward warrior training and blacksmithing while a mysterious force leaves Demonaro’s fate unresolved.
Ashenrock, Felora, Shadiel, Yagyu
A letter from former master Sylvos draws Shadiel away from his Grin duties for a dangerous final test in Azshara. The journey pits his ambition and pride against Xylem and Azuregos while revealing what his blood-mage training truly demands.
Shadiel, Yagyu
Bok'theg recalls the agonizing trials he endured under Al'arr to earn a place among the Shadow Council. Back in Stonard, the warlock hides the lingering physical cost of the forbidden knowledge he sought.
Yagyu
The Grin's officers and fighters face Fenris, Kaylish, and an undead host in a prolonged battle that strains their combined strength. The aftermath tests Vord's faith in a former comrade and leaves the clan confronting the power of the death knights ahead.
Ashenrock, Bellmont, Shadiel, Sharkfyn +4
Drak’nora remembers losing her family in the orc internment camps before reuniting with her brother Grimface and finding a new home in the Grin. Her growing bond with the former death knight Vord leads through battle, courtship, and a hard-won family blessing as both struggle to balance love with clan duty.
Crunck, Grimface, Sharkfyn, Signe +3
As Demonstrike trains under a sinister new master and the Pumastrike family faces abduction and injury, Ashenrock decides he can no longer lead the Grin. He asks Felora to leave with him and prepares to pass the clan to Yagyu.
Ashenrock, Felora, Grimnir, Yagyu
A drunken night draws Zarly and Bogtha into a tentative romance while Zarly works to regain his magic and Bogtha travels to visit family in Winterspring. Demonic violence sends Bogtha on a revenge campaign that eventually leaves the Grin fighting to bring her safely home.
Bogtha, Crunck, Grimface, Yagyu
Bellmont joins the Forsaken’s Northrend campaign, occupies Stonard while searching for the Grin, and clashes with Sinderion before a spreading Scourge plague summons him to a Horde war council. Bok’theg and Vord separately take notice of his return.
Bellmont, Vord, Yagyu
Shadiel returns after twenty subjective years with the Keepers of Time and begins steering the Grin toward Northrend to confront both Arthas and Malygos. Bok’theg’s attempt to uncover the blood mage’s hidden motive proves to be part of Shadiel’s plan to recruit the suspicious warlock.
Shadiel, Yagyu
Vord stages a brutal return to the Scourge as part of a secret mission, leaving Drak'nora and the Grin to untangle whether his betrayal is real. In Northrend, his search for missing allies collides with Urja's grief and the Lich King's hunters.
Ashenrock, Crunck, Grimface, Londra +4
Maccabeus's biography follows a Lordaeron camp cook whose Second War trauma curdles into a murderous obsession with elves. After rising into undeath, he carries that hatred from the Scourge to the Warsong lumber camps and finally toward the Blacktooth Grin.
Maccabeus, Yagyu
Shadiel leads a reconnaissance patrol into Coldarra against Malygos, where Eydrana reports on the Nexus defenses, diverted ley lines, and an encounter with Alliance scouts. Back in camp, Bok’theg watches for his own opportunity to join the operation.
Eydrana, Shadiel, Yagyu
Grimnir and Yagyu separately negotiate a Blacktooth Grin presence at Conquest Hold and Agmar's Hammer, seeking shelter and supplies while promising support against the Alliance.
Grimnir, Signe, Yagyu
Grimnir gathers a divided band of Grinners to search Northrend for the returned Gorfrunch and bring him to Yagyu alive before the rival hunt reaches him. The pursuit tests old loyalties as scattered clues lead from an empty grave to the frozen wastes.
Ashenrock, Cailos, Felora, Grimface +7
Convinced reports of Gorfrunch's return are an Alliance deception, Yagyu dispatches hunters while Dawnmist, Eydrana, and Bok'theg pursue clues through contacts and dangerous soul magic. The search deepens distrust within the Grin and culminates in a confrontation that tests whether the clan belongs to its legendary former chief or its present Warchief.
Ashenrock, Etamsin, Eydrana, Joe +5
Bok’theg records Rawlk’s failed blood-debt challenge against Yagyu and the Warchief’s surprising decision to spare and recruit him. While Rawlk secretly studies Faquarl’s journal in pursuit of power, Bok’theg begins considering how to turn the newcomer to his own advantage.
Joe, Yagyu
Yagyu looks back on the Grin's disastrous first assault on Ironforge, the losses that shaped his rise to Warchief, and the later raid that finally brought him a personal measure of revenge.
Yagyu
Yagyu sends Grimnir and most of the Grin to establish a foothold at Conquest Hold while both leaders wrestle with Gorfrunch's return and Bok'theg's influence. Early victories in Northrend lead Yagyu to redirect the clan toward a symbolic blow against the Alliance in Azeroth.
Crescenthorn, Grimnir, Yagyu
As Eydrana’s failing magic reaches its end, she calls companions to Stonard to settle her affairs and entrust an apprentice’s future to Shadiel. Her death leaves Maccabeus irreverently memorializing her while Bok’theg privately considers what opportunity it creates.
Eydrana, Maccabeus, Yagyu
After an assassination attempt leaves Ashenrock gravely wounded and Yagyu fighting an infected wound, Yagyu uses the attack to reunite the Dread Horde against Stromgarde. The coalition captures Refuge Pointe and begins a brutal siege while the Keepers refuse his demand to surrender.
Reeper, Vosgonar, Yagyu
A redacted informant’s report describes infiltrating a Grin funeral in Stonard and recommends exploiting the clan’s depleted forces and internal divisions. A private note softens the betrayal, but Gorfrunch orders the spy found and punished.
Gorfrunch, Jarle, Joe, Yagyu