Laughing Skull clan
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- Leader: Mogor the Ogre
- Clan Colors: Yellow
The Laughing Skull Clan is a very deceptive and treacherous clan of Orcs that is distrusted by most of the other clans. Their treacherous leader Mogor the Ogre Lord ordered his Clan to remain in Draenor during both of the crossings.
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Known members
| Name | Location | |
|---|---|---|
 Mogor the Ogre
| Laughing Skull Ruins | Nagrand 
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 Obris
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Beyond the Dark Portal
Note: a composite of these events is likely the accepted history of the Clan.
Alliance version
When the human armies invaded Draenor, Mogor sided with them in exchange for the dominance of his Clan in the Blade's Edge Mountains. He promised to deliver to them the Book of Medivh.
Mogor was uncharacteristically true to his word, and managed to escape the wrath of the Shaman Ner'zhul, but he needn’t have worried, for when the world of Draenor deconstructed, Mogor and his Clan went with it.
After helping the Alliance obtain the Book of Medivh, Mogor and his clan apparently remained with their newly won lands as the Alliance continued on to the Dark Portal. And while the Alliance forces shut down the Dark Portal to Azeroth and fled through an alternate portal to some unknown world, there is no sign that Mogor and the Laughing Skull Clan did the same.
Horde version
When Ner'zhul first began developing his plan to open more Dark Portals, he required the knowledge of a specific Order of Death Knights who knew how to rebuild the original Dark Portal. Mogor, the renegade Ogre-Mage of the Laughing Skull clan, had taken control of this group of Death Knights and was using them for some dark purpose of his own.
Ner'zhul ordered a small force of Orcs to attack the Laughing Skull and subjugate Mogor's Death Knights. With the help of Grom Hellscream, who had been held prisoner by the Laughing Skull clan, the attack was carried out successfully and Ner'zhul gained the knowledge required to open to portal back to Azeroth and begin the next stage of his plan.
Current state
Following the destruction of Draenor, a brutal Pit Lord named Magtheridon rallied the surviving Orcs under his rule. After Illidan captured the Black Temple and imprisoned Magtheridon, the forces of Outland (as named by Magtheridon) were once again united under one banner. The present-day Laughing Skull Clan is now based in the northernmost reaches of Nagrand, possibly still under the sway of the aforementioned Pit Lord.
Laughing Skull assassins can also be found throughout the Blood Furnace of Hellfire Citadel, striking from the shadows before adventurers knew they were there.
Sources
| Orcish Clans of the Second War | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clans and Leaders | Black Tooth Grin | Blackrock | Bleeding Hollow | Bonechewer | Burning Blade |
| Rend / Maim | Blackhand / Orgrim Doomhammer | Kilrogg Deadeye | Tagar Spinebreaker | None | |
| Clans and Leaders | Dragonmaw | Frostwolf | Laughing Skull | Shadowmoon | Shattered Hand |
| Zuluhed the Whacked | Durotan | Mogor the Ogre | Ner'zhul | Kargath Bladefist | |
| Clans and Leaders | Stormreaver | Thunderlord | Twilight's Hammer | Warsong | |
| Gul'dan | Fenris the Hunter | Cho'gall | Grommash Hellscream | ||
