Stranger in a Strange Land Stranger in a Strange Land is the first installment of the comic . Description . When a human is found unconscious on the shores of Kalimdor , with no memory of who he is or how he arrived there , how will he survive ? Enslaved by an orc shaman , he must fight for survival against members of both the Alliance and the Horde . Will he strike the uneasy balance with the other races he ' ll need to find the secrets of his past ? Plot . Captivity . The story begins with a caravan heading through the wastelands of Durotar . The orc s of the caravan run a successful business fighting gladiators in the arenas of Azeroth , but they ' ve just lost their prize champion ( Bloodeye Redfist ) at Dire Maul . Suddenly , they see a lone , unconscious human on the shore of Bladefist Bay . The survivor is quickly approached by a crocolisk , and seemingly about to be devoured when he rears up and begins fighting the massive reptile . The orcs , true to their business , start betting on the winner . Their boss , Rehgar Earthfury comes out to tell them to get a move on when he sees the human ' s struggle and joins in the betting . The man is strong and agile , and eventually kills the crocolisk ( who Rehgar attacked too , only to discover it hadn ' t been necessary since the human already killed it ) . Rehgar asks the man his name , and the man replies that he can ' t remember anything . In light of this information , Rehgar smiles and Frost Shocks him into renewed unconsciousness . The orcs throw the human into a cage . Although Broll Bearmantle , one of the caged gladiators , warns Rehgar that he ' s " playing with fire " , Rehgar , suspecting that the man may be an army deserter , feels confident enough to use him as his new gladiator without worrying about Alliance reprisal . Cellmates . The human awakes a few hours later in his new home ( a cage ) . His companions in captivity introduce themselves as Broll Bearmantle , a night elf druid , and Valeera Sanguinar , a blood elf rogue . Valeera tells the human that they ' re going to Orgrimmar to become gladiators , and that Broll is one already . Broll and Valeera immediately start fighting ( a recurring trend ) . Neither elf is grateful for their counterpart ' s presence , Broll seeing Valeera as an untrustworthy , betraying , magic addict blood elf , Valeera seeing Broll as weak and subservient . The human comments that Valeera is too young to be a gladiator , and she spits back at him that she was old enough to survive on her own after bandits killed her family . She survived the bandits and the Scourge , but was caught and thrown in jail after trying to steal a shaman ' s talisman . Rehgar bought her from the jail and took her for gladiator training . After more argument between the two elves , the caravan arrives at Orgrimmar . Orgrimmar . In the Orgrimmar arena Rehgar tells Valeera and the human that he ' ll help them channel their inner fury into fighting prowess . They start off by having Valeera and the man fight Broll . After Valeera taunts Broll about the size of his staff , Broll shifts into bear form and they have at it . The human , however , stands on the sidelines and refuses to fight . Another gladiator team - - a tauren , troll , and an undead managed by a goblin - - watch the human and wonder what he ' s up to . They plot to fight Valeera and Broll so that they won ' t be well enough to win the Dire Maul tournament . At night , the gladiator trio huddle around a fire in a dungeon cell . Broll says that they ' ll never become a team , since the human , now dubbed " Croc - bait " , won ' t fight and he and Valeera just want to fight each other . Valeera tells the human that Rehgar picked them to be gladiators since they reminded him of himself in some way . She also tells him that his amnesia seems to be caused by dark magic . Broll offers up an orc meditation remedy , and the man has a brief flash of memory - - he ' s a child , alone in a burning and collapsing city . When he comes out of the fugue state , Valeera and Broll are fighting . . . again . Broll lays into Valeera about the blood elves joining the Horde , enraging her . As the other two sleep , Valeera broods about being betrayed by Garithos , siding with Illidan , and being magic - addicted since birth . The next day , she decides that Rehgar , not Broll , is her true enemy , and that she ' ll kill him when she gets the chance - - but she still has a plan to show Broll up . She casts a spell on him . . . ' Training ' . As the protagonists prepare to train in the arena , the goblin - managed team shows up and tells them to get off the field . The troll calls them " nature luva , coward and turncoat " , which sets off Valeera ' s temper . She stabs the undead and the teams get to fighting . Valeera holds up pretty well against what Broll calls her new Horde allies , but Broll is having some issues - - he can ' t shift into feral forms , and as a feral druid , he ' s pretty much useless . Valeera realizes that Broll ' s problems are from her Mana Tap spell the night before and runs to save him from the tauren , who easily smacks them both out of the way . Meanwhile , the human hacks off the hand of his troll opponent , decapitates the undead , and stabs the tauren in the shoulder . Valeera runs up , hugs him , and thanks him for saving Broll . Broll is mighty pissed about Valeera draining his energy , and it looks like they ' re about to fight again when they ' re faced with a new opponent . Rehgar has brought in an exceptionally large orc to test his team . The huge orc heads over to kill Broll when Valeera runs at him screaming . The orc breaks Valeera ' s arm and throws her into the corner . The human pulls out his sword and tells the orc that the elves are under his protection , telling the orc to throw away his sword or die . As the orc and Croc - Bait get to fighting , Rehgar grins , knowing that he ' s set up a great arena team .