Taretha Foxton Taretha Foxton , otherwise known as Tari , was a close personal friend of the future Warchief Thrall during his early life as a slave of Aedelas Blackmoore , and was the closest thing to a family Thrall had . She was instrumental in aiding Thrall break free from his captivity to find his destiny beyond the walls of Durnholde . Had Taretha been born in a major city , her life would have been different . As it was , Tari was the daughter of Blackmoore ' s personal secretary , Tammis Foxton , and despite her intelligence was not allowed to become the woman she might have been . Despite her minor role , a mere footnote in the annals of history , Taretha Foxton ' s actions forever changed the world . Biography . Taretha , a child of five years , ensured Thrall ' s survival as an infant by being the only person in Durnholde to realize he was a baby — he simply couldn ' t eat the meat the guards gave him because he didn ' t have teeth . When she innocently posed this information , Thrall ' s diet was hastily changed to milk and he thrived in the Foxton household , nursed by Taretha ' s own mother . When Thrall was eventually weaned , he was taken away and Tari wept bitter tears for the green - skinned child she regarded as her little brother . Years later , Tari , still in her preteens , was given the task to bring books on military strategy to Thrall , at the suggestion of Blackmoore ' s military advisor , Sergeant , to train the young orc in tactics and war . Tari used the books , by slipping notes inside the pages , to keep up a correspondence with Thrall , still managing to hide her unusually sharp intelligence . At some point , about ten years ago ( from when ? ) , Blackmoore made Taretha his mistress , a position she secretly despised ( there are references to strange bruises on her wrists ) . After Thrall was savagely beaten for losing in the arena , Tari helped him in his desire to escape Durnholde . Tari set fire to the encampment after setting all the animals free as a distraction , then helped her friend escape by leaving him a large cloak with which to sneak out the front gate while the guards were busy . When Thrall spotted her injuries due to her unwilling relationship with Blackmoore , he begged her to go with him , but Tari refused for the sake of her family . Tari gave Thrall a necklace with the emblem of a crescent moon as a means of contacting her should he ever need help . Eventually , Thrall did need help . Tari was asked by her friend , now the Warchief of a new Horde , to help them negotiate with Blackmoore . Tari insisted that it was pointless and when the Orc asked her to come with them , to protect her from his army attacking , she again declined to leave . Unfortunately , Blackmoore had her followed , and when she returned , he questioned and imprisoned her , her tragic fate coming to fruition with the Lieutenant General becoming drunk enough to order her execution . The following day , Thrall arrived with his army and demanded Blackmoore to stand down , and free his people . After a slurred conversation , a very drunk Blackmoore hurled Taretha ' s severed head at Thrall from the battlements . The sight of the dead woman was so shocking that Thrall cried emotional tears for the first time in his life . But the loss of the woman who for years had been his only friend and family enraged the shaman Warchief . Gone was any hope or desire for negotiation with the despicable human . He immediately ordered his army to attack , and eventually fought his way to Blackmoore himself . Despite his pathetic attempt at any sort of defense , Blackmoore was slain by the furious Thrall . After evacuating the keep of humans and sending Blackmoore ' s second in command Langston to the Alliance with a warning , he asked the Spirit of the Earth to destroy Durnholde Keep , leaving it in ruins . World of Warcraft . Tari ' s Necklace . Years later , after Thrall became the new Warchief , he sent a number of orc volunteers to Durnholde Keep on a mission to investigate the Syndicate activity in the area , as well as recover Taretha ' s necklace ( the same one she once gave to him ) now worn by Elysa , a mistress of Lord Aliden Perenolde , the leader of the Syndicate who believed in slavery and sought to subjugate orcs once again . The mission was initially a failure with the leader Gol ' Dir and his companions Drull and Tog ' Thar being captured by the Syndicate . Krusk escaped , however , and enlists the aid of Horde players to help rescue his comrades and recover the necklace , slaying Lord Aliden in the process . Caverns of Time . Taretha was instrumental in allowing Thrall to escape from Durnholde . However , when players enter Old Hillsbrad , they find out that the infinite dragonflight has captured Taretha and is holding her prisoner in Tarren Mill , west of Durnholde . Without Taretha ' s intervention , Thrall would not be able to escape Durnholde . Players must travel through the Caverns of Time , aid Thrall in his escape from Durnholde , and then travel to Tarren Mill to free Taretha from the massive infinite dragon known as Epoch Hunter . " Taretha ' s model in - game is nearly identical to Jaina ' s , corroborating the various sources that note their similarities , however with Jaina ' s updated model with patch 3 . 3 , the similarities are not as apparent . " Her impact . By helping Thrall escape , Taretha ensured the future of the Horde by giving them a new Warchief . Taretha was willing to trust other orcs she met in Thrall ' s company , showing Frostwolf and Warsong orcs that peace ( or at least cooperation ) between the two races was possible . Jaina Proudmoore somehow reminded Thrall of Taretha , and this may have helped Thrall overcome his distaste for humans and trust the Alliance . In any case , it was Tari who first showed Thrall that friendship between humans and orcs was possible , and this lesson enabled the Alliance and the Horde to ally with each other , defeating Mannoroth and later joining the Sentinels at Mount Hyjal to vanquish Archimonde . Taretha Foxton was indirectly responsible for freeing the orcs from their curse and saving Azeroth from the Defiler . To date , Taretha Foxton is the only human who has had a " lok ' vadnod " ( " Song of a Hero " ) composed in her honor .