Killing Ground Killing Ground is the second installment of the comic . Description . Now battle - tested , Rehgar ' s gladiators head to Dire Maul where they will square off against the reigning champions , the Gor ' Dok Ogres ! The mysterious fighter begins to unravel his past , but lucky for him and his unlikely elvish allies , he doesn ’ t need his memories to fight to the death ! This issue featured two covers that may be ordered separately . Cover A is by Blizzard Art Director Samwise Didier , and Cover B is by Jim Lee . A third cover , C , is a black and white version of Cover B by Jim Lee as is only found on second print copies . Plot . Croc - Bait duels the orc blademaster Hyku Steeledge . The orc overreaches , is smacked with Croc - Bait ' s cudgel , then bisected with the human ' s sword . Valeera ponders where he learned to fight while Rehgar heals her wounds . He tells her he had arranged the battle for the team to expect the unexpected . Valeera apologizes to Broll for mana tapping him earlier . Croc - Bait is awarded Hyku ' s twin swords for being the winner of the fight . In the Hall of Legends , Rehgar and his gladiators enter the Crimson Ring ' s secret armory containing spoils of war . Valeera , Broll , and Croc - Bait get to pick something for themselves to use in the arena match at Dire Maul . Valeera picks twin orc daggers , Broll picks a stag - head staff , and Croc - Bait picks a lion ' s head belt . When he touches it , he gets a flashback . A bald , bearded man stands on the deck of a boat on the ocean in a storm . He is wearing the lionhead belt , and calls Croc - Bait " lad " and refers to an ongoing war . The goblin Captain Grizzgear transports the team to Dire Maul via zeppelin . Underway , he talks of Sparkeye , the leader of the recently bested arena team , and of Rend Blackhand ' s Blackrock orcs wreaking havoc beyond Grim Batol and skirmishing across the Burning Steppes with Dark Iron dwarves who are moving from their deep caverns out into the world . Valeera mentions that Croc - Bait never smiles . Dire Maul was built 12 , 000 years ago as Eldre ' Thalas . The ogres stage yearly games in a small pocket near the city ' s northeastern wall . Rehgar ' s team is met with mockery and insults . An ogre boy throws a rotten pear on Broll , who enrages and goes into bear form . Only Croc - Bait keeps him from killing the ogreling by appealing to the night elf ' s conscience . Last year ' s Dire Maul champions are the " Gordunni Clan of Ancient Draenor " . They are three ogres named Two - Heads , Giago and Brlee . They are all melee fighters , and Giago has ogre boss armor . In individual trials , Broll defeats a centaur , Valeera kills a quilboar , and Croc - Bait offs a Frostmane troll by throwing his blademaster sword through its throat . The crowd is angered and keeps betting against the team while taunting them . The next day , the team faces the ogre trio . Brlee engages Croc - Bait , Two - Heads attacks Valeera , and Giago goes for Broll . The ogres attack , and only Broll doesn ' t manage to avoid the blow , taking the flail to the shoulder , then going bear form and hamstrimming the ogre boss . Croc - Bait lures Brlee closer to them and makes him accidentally kill Giago with a wide axe - swipe . Broll then gets trapped under the corpse . Valeera tricks Two - Heads ' two heads into arguing with each other . As he headslams himself , she slips away and helps Broll up . Meanwhile , Brlee ' s managed to cut up Croc - Bait ' s thigh , but a second blow is parried . Valeera runs in to help , but gets hit by Brlee ' s third swing . Croc - Bait , furious , drives his sword through the ogre ' s head . A purple ( dark ? ) troll in the stands yells in surprise that the human moves like the spirit of Lo ' Gosh himself . Broll carries Valeera away to heal her while Croc - Bait attacks Two - Heads who ' s just realized he ' s been duped . Croc - Bait leaps up , avoiding the ogre ' s blow , and cuts one of its heads off . The troll excitedly calls him Lo ' Gosh , and the chant gets picked up by the crowd . The newly renamed human kills off the formerly two - headed ogre with a solid stab . The crowd screams Lo ' Gosh repeatedly . Rehgar explains that " Lo ' Gosh " is orcish for " Ghost Wolf " . Two days later , he sells Valeera for 2000 gold to Helka Grimtotem , who likes the blood elf ' s spunk , intelligence , and unpredictability , to use her as leader for an all - female arena team .