Ragefire Chasm

Ragefire Chasm is a system of volcanic caverns under Orgrimmar, the orcs' new capital in Durotar. Its entrance is in the city's Cleft of Shadow, beside the tent of the warlock Neeru Fireblade. Lava-filled tunnels connect the chasm to depths far below.

Not long ago, a trogg clan called the Ragefire started coming up from those depths. Magatha Grimtotem of the tauren sent envoys to make peace, and the troggs killed them. Magatha now counts the troggs a danger to the whole Horde. A sect of the Shadow Council, the Searing Blade, has also taken shelter in the chasm.

The Searing Blade holds the deeper caverns under three leaders: the felguard Taragaman the Hungerer, the warlock Jergosh the Invoker and the satyr Bazzalan. From hiding, the cult plots to tear down all the Horde has built and works in secret to win members of the Horde to its cause. The Ragefire troggs and their chieftain, Oggleflint, are too weak to drive the cult out and keep to the tunnels near the entrance.

Thrall knows that Neeru Fireblade, a warlock who thinks he has the Warchief's trust, secretly leads the Burning Blade. Once an adventurer passes as a Burning Blade member in front of Neeru, Thrall sends them to kill Bazzalan and Jergosh, the leaders Neeru values most; Neeru himself asks for Taragaman's heart. In Thunder Bluff, Rahauro passes on Magatha's orders to cull the troggs and to find the body of her servant Maur Grimtotem, who found something odd in the chasm and never came out. In the Undercity, Varimathras wants two powerful spell books from the cult for the Dark Lady.

Neeru's request hides a double aim: he sends Thrall's loyalists into the chasm to get them killed and to test whether the Searing Blade is worthy or merely expendable. Many believe Thrall lets the Burning Blade survive in the hope that its members will lead him to the Shadow Council itself.