So the orcs are this peaceful, shamanistic race
of brown people living in quiet and simple prosperity on Draenor, right?
Well Kil’jaeden apparently sees them as a useful tool, so he contacts
the shaman Gul’dan and fools him into thinking he’s a nice spirit with
lots of power. Kil’jaeden slowly teaches him how to be a warlock. At
first he’s all enthusiastic, but then he realizes what’s going on and
refuses Kil’jaeden’s command to make the orcs drink demon blood.
Kil’jaeden gets all pissed off and uses Gul’dan’s assistant, Ner’zhul,
instead.
Ner’zhul doesn’t have any of Gul’dan’s cumbersome conscience or compassion, so he makes a great pawn. He convinces the orcs to drink the blood of Mannoroth the pit lord, and they all get corrupted and turn green (extended exposure and continued corruption turns them red, an irreversible condition). The orcs, along with their only allies, the ogres, attack and overwhelm the Draenei. This attack is the spark that unites the orcs under one banner, and the Horde is born.
Gul’dan is a power-greedy bitch, so in addition to manipulating the Horde he founds the Shadow Council, a who’s-who of the baddest of all warlocks. Together they manipulated the Horde completely. At this point the blood and fury of the Horde was rising and Gul’dan realized that they needed a new enemy or else the Horde would end up destroying itself in its bloodlust. Conveniently, he was contacted by Medivh, and together they opened a portal to Azeroth, and the orcs came through looking for new cultures to encounter and discover, interact with, and disembowel. The warchief of the Horde at this time is Blackhand, but the Shadow Council is manipulating everything.
First contact with humans provided easy victories, and bolstered the orcs’ sense of superiority. The orcs had expected every human settlement to be armed but found little resistance, so Gul’dan had them march on Stormwind to crush the human kingdom. For the first time they met resistance, but forced their way into the city – too late to realize it was a trap, and the human cavalry overran them. Using mounts in combat was completely foreign to the orcs and they were outmatched. The orcs were defeated so badly that the Horde might have been destroyed if not for a fog that Gul’dan conjured to hide their retreat.
Worried by this new threat to their existence, he mages of the Kirin Tor and the priests of Northshire added their power to the human army. They had the orcs on the run, but General Lothar disappeared, getting captured while trying to infiltrate the Deadmines, which was controlled by orcs. It took 20 months for him and his men to escape. While he was gone the human forces lacked leadership and retreated to Stormwind. Lothar then went with Khadgar and the orc Garona to kill Medivh, and while he was dying Gul’dan tried to grab the secret of Sargeras’ Tomb from his mind but failed, and suffered a mental backlash.
After Garona helped Lothar sneak into Karazhan she went to Stormwind and assassinated king Llane, and the humans were all sad and depressed, and Stormwind fell to the orc armies. Llane grabbed his men and retreated to Lordaeron, and the orcs won what has become known as The First War.
Orgrimm Doomhammer was an orc warrior who discovered that the Shadow Council was manipulating the Horde, so he killed Blackhand and claimed the title of Warchief, and led an assault on the castle where the Shadow Council was. They killed most of the warlocks and Gul’dan awoke from his trauma at Doomhammer’s mercy and was forced to swear fealty to the new Warchief.
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