The point is made, and agreed with. Kil'jaeden screwed up royally. The first Orc war was lost because of internal strife among the orcs, which is something Kil'jaeden should have dealt with. Gul'dan was controlling things behind the scenes, but he tried to extract information from Medivh's mind before his first death, only he got caught in the psychic backlash.
Fast forward a few months. BlackHand the destroyer, commander of the orcs, was killed by his strongest general, Orgrim Doomhammer. Doomhammer found Garona the half-orc, Gul'dan's agent, and found out about the shadow council.
Gul'dan's forces were wiped out, and Gul'dan pledged loyalty to Doomhammer and promised to create new sorcerers and an undead army. The first efforts were the ogre-magi, and later, the Death Knights.
Gul'dan found Sargeras's tomb, but was killed by the demons within. The orcs lost the 2nd war, however, Doomhammer attempted a parley. They were ambushed by the sons of Blackhand, and forced to fight them and the Lordaeron peacemakers, among them, Sir Anduin Lothar.
Fast forward another generation. Thrall escapes from Durnholde keep. He finds Doomhammer and becomes the new warchief and moves everyone to Kalimdor. While this is going on, Mannoroth and Archie come to town. Mannoroth spikes a fountain of life with his blood. Hellscream drinks said blood. The Fel Orcs start wrecking the surrounding area. Thrall and a slightly deranged Hellscream, manage to kill off Mannoroth. Boom, no more blood curse. However, some of the fel orcs survived the upheavel of Draenor, and became servants of Kil-jaeden.
Ner'zhul, as the lich king, looks around and finds a powerful, but stupid, paladin, known as Arthas Menethil. Arthas, being the schmuck that he is, is drawn to Northrend, where he claims the runesword, Frostmourne. He kills off a few of the Dread Lords, who are only now starting to realize they have been duped. Tichondrius was onto the Lich King's plan, but he was killed by Illidan before he could relay the info. At this point, Archie is now marching on Yggdrasil, and the night elves, orcs and humans, have teamed up to try and stop him. The wisps, druids, dryads and other sorcerers, set the trap. Archie, in his greed for the power of the well of eternity, doesn't notice the power build up. He is subsequently nuked. 😛
Aftermath: Things are looking up for the orcs. But the night elves and humans are kinda screwed. The night elves have lost most of their power and the forests got ****ed up by the burning legion. The humans on the other hand, are attempting to stop King Arthas's rampage throughout Lordaeron. While Maiev Shadowsong attempts to rejail Illidan, Sylvanas leads a rebellion against Arthas, who is experiencing a serious power drop for reasons that will soon be related.
Maiev finds Illidan has acquired 'The eye of Sargeras', and is doing something that may destroy the world. She goes and finds Illidan's brother, Furion and the two stop Illidan and smash the eye. This turns out to be a serious ****up. Illidan had cut a deal with Kil'jaeden to kill the Lich King in exchange for power and more magic for his addiction. But, now Illidan has to run like hell because he didn't get the job done. Maiev follows him into outland.
The High elves, now called Blood elves, are not dealing with the fall of Silvermoon very well. Without magic, they are starting to crack and turn into junkies without a fix. Kael'thas Sunstrider, Prince of the blood elves, cuts a deal with Vashj of the naga to get out of a nasty situation after racist humans deprive him of needed forces. Said humans find out about the naga, and promptly jail his ass. Vashj shows up to bust him out, and offers him a place serving Illidan, who can supply him with magic. (And possibly the opportunity to be her boyfriend. Hot elf/naga action! 😆 😘 Yeah, it creeps me out too.) So they go to Outland and bust Illidan out from Maiev's grasp. Unfortunately, Kil'jaeden shows up, and he is royally pissed. Illidan begs for his life and shows him the forces he has gotten. Kil decides to give him another shot. So, they head off to Northrend, to reluctantly fight the scourge yet again.
Meanwhile, Arthas finally shows up in the north. (Amazing how all these events seem to coincide, you'd almost think there was a script 🙄 ) He gets met by a giant beetle called Anub'arak. Anub (pronounced 'A newb, 😂 ) takes him to the lich king, after meeting a few rejects from an H.P. Lovecraft story. Ner'Zhul tells him that Icecrown is under attack, and he needs his go to guy (aka Arthas), to clean house. So he restores all of Arthas's power (you had to fight the last couple of stages with falling levels, which was kind of gay.....) and tells him to go beat some ass with Anub. They proceed to demolish the blood elf and naga bases. This leads to the all important and very cool, showdown. Illidan stormrage, bitchboy for Kil'jaeden, vs. Arthas Menethil, the Lich King's host body/hitman. Naturally, Arthas whups Illidan and ascends to the top. At the top, he returns the sword to the throne, breaking the ice. He puts on the armor and merges with the Lich King.
And that's where this story ends, and WoW begins. How did I do? Btw, Arthas is supposed to be so powerful, that only a level 90 40-man raid will have a chance of beating him. But, that still doesn't mean Kil'jaeden won't be worse. Of course, it is possible that Arthas is more powerful, but nothing so far indicates this.