To Tame a Land To Tame a Land is the first act of the campaign The Founding of Durotar . The following act is Old Hatreds . Plot . Mok ' nathal Rexxar and his bear companion , Misha spend a peaceful life in Kalimdor , watching the different wars that scar the land . After failing to rescue the orcish messenger Mogrin , Rexxar travels to the nearby city of Orgrimmar and meets the orc ' s leader , Warchief Thrall , and discovers the recently founded kingdom of Durotar . Thrall is thankful to Rexxar for restoring Mogrin ’ s honor and offers him hospitality . Rexxar declines and says he ' ll have to earn it and offers his aid to the orcs , specifically Nazgrel , Captain of the Warchief ' s security force ; Drek ' Thar , an orc who fought alongside Rexxar ' s elders on Draenor ; and Gazlowe , a Goblin engineer . Nazgrel assigns him to kill the leader of a group of pillaging harpies . Drek ' Thar sends him to Thunder Ridge to gather Shimmerweed . Gazlowe sends Rexxar to seal up a tunnel infested with Kobold s . Rexxar is aided by Rokhan , a troll of the Darkspear tribe , and one of Thrall ' s best scouts . In the northern part of Durotar , Rexxar meets the pandaren bremaster Chen Stormstout , who requires some rare and hard to find ingredients for a new brew . After bringing him the required ingredients , Chen joins Rexxar in his adventures . After solving these quests , Nazgrel reports that an small party of human s have established a forward base on the coast of north - eastern Durotar , Kalimdor . Rexxar investigates and sees that the humans appear to be preparing for war . Thrall does not want to harm the humans , due to a non - aggression pact he sealed with Jaina Proudmoore after the battle of Mount Hyjal , but allows Rexxar to take action if they ' re hostile . Meanwhile , Rexxar returns to Thunder Ridge with Drek ' thar to investigate what is causing the native Thunder lizard s to become hostile and migrate . They discover that the humans have set up a lumber encampment which is deforesting the ridge . Rexxar suggests destroying the encampment , but Drek ' thar does not want to anger the humans so they instead kill the remaining lizards . Rexxar reports this to Thrall , who is astounded that Jaina Proudmoore would be so reckless and promises to look into it . The humans then destroy the orc outpost village and kill the inhabitants . Rexxar tracks down the humans and exacts revenge by killing them . Upon returning to Orgrimmar , Thrall sends Rexxar to the Echo Isles , to convince the inhabitant Darkspear troll s to flee for the fleet of the humans . The leader of the trolls Vol ' jin agrees , after Rexxar aided them in the defense of the isles . While Rexxar returns to Orgrimmar , Thrall receives a message for an appointment with a human emissary at a cliffy place southeast of Orgrimmar . Rexxar insists to go instead , because he suspects a trap . When Rexxar arrives at the meeting point , he is ambushed by humans that seek to capture Thrall . The First Act ends as a confused Thrall sends Rexxar to the new established outpost of the Darkspear trolls to take a ride with a Goblin Zeppelin to meet with Jaina Proudmoore and ask for an explanation . Submaps . Beside the main map of the region around Orgrimmar in Durotar , the first act consists of five different submaps :