Kilrogg Deadeye Kilrogg Deadeye was a warrior and chieftain of the Bleeding Hollow clan . He is so named because he sacrificed his left eye . Leading his clan in both the First and Second wars , Kilrogg was one of the more older and cunning orc chieftains . During the Invasion of Draenor , he was killed in a duel by Danath Trollbane . His name and condition have inspired the Warlock spell , the Eye of Kilrogg . Biography . When Gul ' dan promised the orc chieftains unlimited strength and power , Kilrogg was one of the first to accept the offer , drinking the blood of Mannoroth and becoming filled with strength and demonic rage . First War . As an older chieftan , Kilrogg Deadeye had become more unwilling to throw lives away in combat . In orcish politics older orcs become more pragmatic , which is often mistaken for cowardice by the younger generation . Prior to the sacking of Stormwind , Kilrogg had killed three of his sons and two grandsons already who thought they could rule the clan better . At the start of the First War , the Bleeding Hollow clan participated in the first attack on Stormwind Keep , along with the Twilight ' s Hammer clan , led by Cho ' gall . This first attack was an unmitigated disaster for the orcs , and Deadeye and Cho ' gall blamed the failure on each other . A rift soon grew that threatened to rip the Horde apart before it had even begun its conquest of Azeroth . Gul ' dan quickly stepped in to quell the problem , reinstalling Blackhand as Warchief of the Horde . Second War . Kilrogg fought under Blackhand , and then later under Orgrim Doomhammer . During the Second War , his clan was stationed throughout Khaz Modan , where it controlled the Horde ' s vital mining and oil refining operations . When Orgrim Doomhammer was forced to withdraw back into Khaz Modan , after sending a large part of the Horde away to kill the treacherous Gul ' dan and regain the lost honor of the orcs , Deadeye was one of the few that agreed with his decision . At the end of the war with the destruction of the Dark Portal and the defeat of the orcs ; the aging Kilrogg refused to surrender , even after Doomhammer was captured . Kilrogg escaped and managed to avoid capture of his clan by the Alliance forces . Invasion of Draenor . Kilrogg managed to evade the Alliance for two years . He , like most of the remaining orc leaders , was summoned to the site of the Dark Portal to discover that Teron Gorefiend had reopened the portal and that the Horde had united under Ner ' zhul ' s leadership . Kilrogg ' s knowledge of affairs in Azeroth enabled Ner ' zhul and Gorefiend to successfully plan their next move . After recounting the events of the Second War to the old shaman , Kilrogg , along with his old comrades Grom Hellscream and Kargath Bladefist , led the charge back into Azeroth to steal items of power needed to aid Ner ' zhul in his scheme . On the way from Hellfire Citadel to the Black Temple to begin the ritual , Ner ' zhul — accompanied by Kilrogg and Teron Gorefiend — made a stop in the ruined draenei necropolis of Auchindoun , a prospect that frightened the usually - fearless chieftain , believing that it would doom them if they went there . However , he eventually gave in , accepting that it was necessary to rest there for a time on their way to Shadowmoon Valley . It was there , in the depths of the Shadow Labyrinth — slowing the Alliance forces enough for Ner ' zhul to make his escape — that Kilrogg met his end . In a duel with Alliance force commander Danath Trollbane ( honorable , to the latter ' s surprise ) , the human threw his blade at Kilrogg ' s throat , taking advantage of the chieftain ' s half - blindedness . Kilrogg ' s throat was slashed open , but he managed to declare that by his blood the Horde would live and that he was returning to his ancestors . His eye glazed over , and he toppled sideways landing heavily on the floor . Kilrogg ' s tenacity lives on with his son , the Mag ' har Jorin Deadeye . After the War . It is said that Kilrogg Deadeye perished in the final battle at the Dark Portal on Draenor while fighting against Khadgar , but his body was never found . When Ner ' zhul used the items to open more portals , Grom Hellscream and Kilrogg Deadeye realized Ner ' zhul ' s mad plans would doom their entire race . They abandoned Ner ' zhul and rallied as many orcs as they could find , driving them through the Dark Portal to the questionable safety of Azeroth just before Draenor was destroyed . Their clans passed through just before Archmage Khadgar closed it completely . Hellscream and Deadeye hacked their way through the human ranks in a desperate bid for freedom , the Dark Portal exploding behind them . For them , and the remaining orcs on Azeroth , there would be no going back . Though Grom Hellscream and his Warsong clan managed to evade capture , Deadeye and his Bleeding Hollow clan were rounded up and placed in the internment camps in Lordaeron . Warcraft Adventures : Lord of the Clans . In the cancelled " Warcraft Adventures " , Thrall and Orgrim would have freed Kilrogg Deadeye and the Bleeding Hollow from the internment camps . During a convocation on an Altar of Storms , Thrall would have convinced Kilrogg and the leaders of the Frostwolf and the Shattered Hand clans to work together to free the rest of the orcs and reunite the Horde .