Ogre ideas The Ogre Rumour was a collection of ideas and discussions which suggested that the new Alliance race to be introduced with The Burning Crusade may be the race of Ogre s . These rumours were quashed upon Blizz ard ' s announcement that the new race would be the Draenei . The Ogre Rumour . Ogres , orcs and Draenei are the three original races from outland . " " The Draenei are one of the three primary races native to Draenor ( the others being the Orcs and the Ogres ) . " " ( source : http : / / en . wikipedia . org / wiki / Draenei # Draenei ) The Horde appear to have minimal association with the Ogres in modern times - Horde friendly Ogre settlements are rare . Ogres are largely scattered throughout the World , splintered into many , " many " tribes , not unlike the Trolls . One of the rumours held belief that if an Ogre race was to be implemented , their capital would be in Kalimdor , perhaps residing within one of the largely mountainous areas in Stonetalon Mountains . This rumour was most likely fuelled by the apparently ill - balanced placement of the current Capital cities in regard to Kalimdor and The Easter Kingdoms . In the build up to TBC , Blizzard announced the new Horde race of Blood Elves before the Alliance counterpart . The Blood Elf ' s apparent attractive , non - brutish appearance possibly caused certain watchful members of the fan base to consider that if the Horde ( typically considered ' ugly ' ) were to get an ' attractive ' race , that the Alliance may get an ' ugly ' race to balance . For the sake of faction balance within realms , it was considered that if the Horde were going to get a slender , attractive model for their new race , that the Alliance would get a rugged , ugly model for theirs . This would aid to solve any balance issues caused by players rolling new characters after the release of TBC to try out the new races . Within the discussions , people argued that ogres would be too tall to be a playable race ; mentioning that either doors would have to be resized , or the ogres themselves would have to be smaller than the NPC or Mob model . However upon release of TBC , smaller , Tauren sized ogres have appeared throughout the World and Outland . Due to there being a number of quests wherein the player assumes to body of an Ogre , ogres have / eat / kneel / sit / laugh / point / wave / fish and mounting animations . This again fuelled the Ogre rumour , with supporters stipulating that the existence of these animations meant Blizzard would not have to create new ones if the Ogres were chosen as a new Race . Once slaves of the Horde it could be assumed that modern world , ' Free Ogres ' , under the leadership of Rexxar , would like to exact revenge upon their once oppressors . The effective way of acting upon their detest for The Horde would be to ally with The Alliance . This theory helped to support the Ogre Rumour . Laughing Skull Theory . The Laughing Skull Clan once allied with the Alliance in exchange for dominance of the Blade ' s Edge Mountains . With the Bestiary on the Burning Crusade website , two new monsters have been revealed : the Gronn and the Rock Flayers . The Gronn are malevolent ogre demigods , that have possibly been causing the big guys some trouble . The Rock Flayers , like the Laughing Skull Clan , are also from the Blade ' s Edge Mountains , and it ' s not hard to believe they are causing the ogres trouble as well . These two threats may encourage the ogres , specifically those of the Laughing Skull Clan , to seek out their old , temporary allies in the Alliance . Strength Bonus Theory . Before TBC , The Horde lacked a race that had naturally high Intellect . Similarly , the Alliance lacked a race with heightened Strength . Upon the announcement of the Blood Elves , and their magical past and inclination , it was considered that they would fill the intellect void on the Horde side and so convincing some that the Alliance ' s race would have heightened Strength . Given their size , Ogres were an obvious answer .