The Cult of Shargaas

"Not all orc weaklings are taken by those who serve Shargaas. Some are sent forth into the cities dominated by humans, on dark missions. Beware them."

Public Agenda

Culling the Weak. Although most followers of Shargaas, “the Night Lord” are exiles, living in the farthest reaches of Azgrimmar, away from the rest of the tribe, others remain within the main body, posing as ordinary warriors. These agents single out the weakest members of the fighting force, because removing these weak links strengthens the rest of the group. Soon after being born, an orc must be able to show that it will grow into a capable warrior, or else it will be visited by the cultists of Shargaas. The cultists also waylay orcs that have proved themselves ineffectual in leadership or combat, then drag them into Shargaas’s dark caverns to be ritually murdered and devoured.

History

Shargaas is a god of darkness and the unknown. He is a secretive and murderous deity, dangerous to all who is concidered to weak. His realm is the darkness that no creatures but those devoted to him can see through. To other orcs, the followers of Shargaas are depraved and twisted creatures that have no honor and skulk in the shadows. Rejected as too unsuitable to serve in the orchish society, these orcs take homes in the most remote secluded parts of the city or in hidden caverns in the mountains surrounding The City of Azgrimmar. There in the darkness, orcs exiled to meet their fate are either brought into the fold as members of the tribe’s Shargaas cult, or are torn to pieces and devoured as sacrificial tributes by the worshipers of the Night Lord.

Tenets of Faith

"The weak must be sacrified in order to preserve the strong. "They dont deserve a warriors death, and therefore they must be slain with silence in the dark"