Thraina

Thraina is the het ship between Thrall and Jaina Proudmoore from the Warcraft fandom.

Thrall first becomes aware of Jaina when he encountered her forces enroute to an oracle in the. Thrall and his forces eventually reach the Oracle's cave and finds Jaina in the main chamber. The two are about to fight each other, but are stopped when the Oracle arrives and reveals himself to be a mysterious Prophet that had approached both Thrall and Jaina on. The prophet explains to Thrall why Jaina was there - she and her people were refugees from the recently-fallen - before urging the two to worked together to beat back the oncoming. The two are understandably against working with their mortal enemies, so the Prophet persuades Thrall by revealing his comrade Grommash Hellscream has already been corrupted by the Legion. With persistence from the Prophet, Jaina ultimately relents to helping Thrall, even giving him a soul gem that can be used to free Grom from his demonic control. After Grommash was freed (only to sacrfice himself shortly afterwards), Thrall and Jaina continued northward toward - guided by a vision that Thrall had. Arriving at the base of the mountain, the two are met by the night elf leaders Tyrande Whisperwind and Malfurion Stormrage, who're ready to fight them. This is once again interrupted by the arrival of the Prophet. With all four gathered, the Prophet reveals his true identity as the spirit of - the mage that brought the Orcs, and the Burning Legion, to Azeroth - before pleading with them to join together in stopping the Legion or Azeroth is doomed. Seeing the Legion's leader approaching, Jaina and Thrall agree to have their forces hold him off while the night elves enact a plan to stop him. During the, Archimonde manages to break through both of their forces - with Jaina managing to teleport herself and Thrall to safety - only to be killed by Malfurion's gathered wisps upon reaching.

Following the battle at Mount Hyjal, Thrall and Jaina went their separate ways. During that time, they each founded a new city: Jaina and her Lordaeron survivors founded on an island near  while Thrall founded  in  alongside his fledgling. Things were peaceful for the two cities until reports of attacks by human forces began cropping up in Durotar. Wanting to get to the bottom of why Jaina is seemingly attacking for no reason, Thrall has sneak into Theramore to arrange a face-to-face meeting with her. When Jaina is informed of what Thrall's asking for, she's confused that he thinks she's attack them and agrees to find out the truth. The investigation reveals that the attacks are actually from a force led by Jaina's father - who ends up capturing Theramore with the intent of using it as the starting point for his attack on Orgrimmar. Jaina manages to escape the city and eventually reconvenes with Thrall after the Horde had been strengthened to assault Theramore. Jaina tells Thrall that she didn't want the Horde to be put in this situation, only for the Warchief to affirm that they are allies but her father must be dealt with to ensure the Horde survives. With that, Jaina not only lets Thrall's forces commence the attack, she even directs them to a way to deal with her father's blockade of ships. The battle ends with Daelin's death and the retreat of his forces. As Jaina mourns her father's death, Thrall agrees to pull his forces out as they have no more problems for the time being while also hoping that the two never meet like this again.

For three years after Daelin's death, Jaina, Thrall, and their cities continued having peaceful relations. However, trouble would arise when a Horde trading vessel was attacked by pirates and a nearby Theramore patrol ship didn't help in repelling the attack. Meeting secretly at, the two leaders tensely discuss the incident - and the pressure they face of leading their people in a peaceful time - until Jaina agrees to have an investigation done. The two also agree to draft a treaty between their cities once everything is sorted out. With everything sorted, the two part ways. Jaina and Thrall continued investigating separately while also defending the other from subjects - from Thrall's chief warrior to  - that spoke badly about them. All the while, additional situations begin cropping up with the humans and orcs blaming each other for it. Thrall personally informs Jaina about one of these - the overcutting of trees in resulting in the native thunder lizards causing havoc around nearby farms. Jaina dealing with this leads her to the truth of what's going on: the humans and orcs instigating these problems - including the aforementioned chief warrior and chamberlain - are part of a cult led by intending to weaken both Orgrimmar and Theramore to conquer both. Jaina relays this information to Thrall just as Burx was launching an attack on the key Theramore base of. The two separately deal with the problem: Thrall stops the attack on Northwatch and kills Burx while Jaina - with some assistance - banishes the demon. With the cult defeated, Jaina and Thrall reconvene at Razor Hill to confirm with each other that the threat is over and to set up making the treaty that they promised earlier.

Theramore peace summit
With Thrall and Jaina having established peace between their cities, the latter turns to getting the rest of the to join in. She contacts the Alliance's high king - Varian Wrynn - and asks for him to join her and Thrall for a peace summit. Despite initial resistance, Varian agrees but disappears enroute and stayed missing for several years. Varian would eventually return and the situation that led to his disappearance would be dealt with thanks to help from Jaina. As Jaina and Varian were making their way back to Theramore, she implores Varian to retry the peace summit with Thrall - which he ultimately agrees to. At their usual meeting spot at Razor Hill, Thrall thanks Jaina as she pulled him away from an argument between his advisors and Garrosh Hellscream. Getting to the reason of the meeting, Jaina informs Thrall about Varian's return, the circumstances that surrounded it, and how the peace summit was on the table again. While he agrees to start the talks again, Thrall tells Jaina his worries that the Horde is becoming impatient with him wanting peace, right up to saying that he shouldn't be away from Orgrimmar for a long period. Jaina assuages Thrall's worries by noting that Varian was just as antsy about the meeting but feels the two of them talking will help them both out and it would only be a few days. Thrall ultimately agrees, but notes that he's only doing it because she asked - and fears for the catastrophe it could become. The night of the summit, Jaina greets Thrall outside Theramore Keep, although quietly asks him why he brought guards - with Thrall just as quietly answering that it's for ceremony and they'll be sent back to Orgrimmar when it's done. With that, Jaina introduces Thrall to King Varian Wrynn before reminding the both of them that the summit is for peace and mutual gain. After both sides lay down their weapons, Jaina gathers them inside Theramore Keep to get things underway. With Jaina acting as mediator, Thrall explains the Horde's situation to Varian and the two rulers, with input from others, begin making headway on an agreeable arrangement until the next morning when Varian has to leave due to reports of attacks near. The exit is stymied, however, when a group of cultists descend and attack him and Thrall. Thrall joins the others in fighting off the cultists, and is soon joined by Jaina as she deals with the. Ultimately, the cultists retreat with while leaving one of their's behind. In the aftermath, Jaina and Thrall attempt to keep peace when Garrosh tries to kill their prisoner and then Varian - who's now convinced the attack was an assassination attempt on him (as he knows ). As Thrall makes ready to depart Theramore, Jaina admits that the Warchief was right that there would be trouble with the summit and Thrall wishes he was wrong since their chance at peace between the Alliance and Horde had been extinguished. Jaina gives some final advice to Thrall - keep watch on Garrosh since she sees he's struggling with leadership - before he and his group depart.

Broken Peace
Following news of the at  during the war against the Lich King, Varian allows Jaina to go to Orgrimmar and question Thrall why the Horde attacked their forces there. Upon arriving, Jaina learns from Thrall that it wasn't the Horde that caused the attack - it was a splinter group of that has taken control of the. After Sylvanas Windrunner corroborates the information, Thrall informs Jaina that the Horde will soon be attacking Undercity to get it back before telling her to inform Varian since it was clear the situation was meant to divide their forces. Jaina agrees to do so but points out Varian will be out for blood since one of the Wrathgate's casualties was. Before leaving, Jaina expresses her hope to Thrall that they'll be allies the next time they meet. Despite being explained what was happening, Varian - proving Jaina's fear right - decides to attack the Undercity to try and reclaim it for the Alliance. With Jaina coming along, the Alliance force infiltrates Undercity just behind Thrall's force, which had already began their attack. The two groups separately kill  of the coup before Thrall's group manages to reclaim the city. The celebration is cut short when Varian's group arrives and prepare to fight the Horde. Before anymore blood is shed, however, Jaina freezes everyone and teleports the Alliance out of the Undercity - but not before lamenting that this isn't how she wanted it to go.

Secrets of Ulduar
When word reached them that the Old God was awakening within, Jaina and  leader  called for a meeting to discuss the threat. To Jaina's horror, Thrall arrives at both with Garrosh in tow and while Varian was being briefed by Rhonin. Teleporting to them, Jaina asks why they were so early, to which Thrall noted the summons sounded dire before asking what was happening. Jaina soon explains the situation to Thrall, only for Garrosh to walk in wanting to see if the information was correct. Jaina and Thrall were left helpless as Garrosh and Varian soon began fighting each other until Rhonin manages to break them up. Thrall expresses his disappointment in Garrosh while Jaina wonders who can help deal with Yogg-Saron since Varian and Garrosh expressed scorn at the idea of working together.

Following the conflict with the Lich King, new troubles began to arise when a group of orcs horrifically slaughtered some in  - an act that violates the new treaty that the Alliance and Horde had. Upon hearing this, Jaina defends Thrall from Varian by noting there's no proof the Warchief ordered the attack and she knows he wouldn't do it, anyway. Jaina soon meets with Thrall in the swamps of Dustwallow Marsh, where she learns that Thrall really was innocent of the attack. However, Thrall reveals to Jaina he can't follow Varian's demands of condemning the attack and handing him the perpetrators because doing so would hurt the Horde's trust in him - and the attack wasn't without merit as the Night Elves had been preventing the Horde from getting resources. Nevertheless, Thrall agrees to affirm to Varian that he'll uphold the treaty - which Jaina accepts, but saddens her that he's not willing to go further, before leaving.

Following the defeat of, Jaina becomes increasingly concerned that Garrosh - who Thrall had named the new Warchief during the early days of the Cataclysm - was starting to inflame relations between the Alliance and Horde. As such, she and Thrall - who now goes by his birthname Go'el - meet secretly at so she can get him to do something about Garrosh. Despite Jaina's pleas, Go'el reveals he can't help with Garrosh as his new duties as leader of the were too important to just drop. This news disheartens Jaina, as she feels she's now alone in trying to bring peace in an ever-changing world, to which Go'el advises out that finding a new path is the best way to deal with it. The two move topics to Go'el's mate - the wedding of whom Jaina saw - with Go'el hoping that Jaina can find someone like her to be with. It's back in the when Go'el receives word that Theramore was  thanks to Garrosh dropping an empowered  on the city. While the letter explaining what happened was read to his fellow shamans by its courier, Go'el realizes that - if no one in the city survived the blast - it means Jaina was killed. This thought devastates him, and it makes him think that she may have been right - he could've stopped Garrosh but was too focused on the Earthen Ring. Seeing Go'el's pain, and knowing of his bond with Jaina, notes the Earthen Ring would understand if he left so he could grieve. Despite his internal pain, however, Go'el refuses to leave as what they're doing is too important - and notes that not even Jaina's ghost could pull him away. Sometime afterwards, Go'el experiences a vision of Orgrimmar destroyed by a literal flood of enslaved s. Figuring out it would start at, he goes there to stop the flood from happening. It's at Fray Island that Go'el discovers with joy that Jaina had survived Theramore's destruction - only to realize with horror that she's the one enslaving the water elementals and is the one that would cause the flood from his vision. When Jaina explains she needs to do it to avenge Theramore, Go'el sympathizes with her, even telling her to blame him for making Garrosh Warchief in the first place, but points out that Orgrimmar is innocent and destroying it won't bring anyone she lost back. Jaina is unmoved by Go'el's pleas and unleashes her tidal wave, forcing him to use his shamanic powers to hold it back. The two soon begin fighting, but Go'el finds himself barely able to fight Jaina on equal footing thanks to a combination of his focus on stopping her wave, she's using to empower herself, and his attempts at talking her down being met with her anger. Go'el eventually is forced to focus entirely on the wave, daring Jaina to kill him and turn her back on everything they've worked so hard to achieve. Jaina nearly goes through with it until the blue dragon arrives and manages - with Go'el's help - to talk her down. Go'el is glad to see Jaina stand down, but she tells him point-blank that there will never be peace between the Alliance and Horde as long as Garrosh leads the latter - while also iterating that he doesn't know her, anymore.

Garrosh would eventually be defeated and deposed as Warchief, resulting in a trial held in to judge him, with Jaina and Go'el participating. During the trial, both Jaina and Go'el offer testimony about Garrosh's actions and whether he should be made to repent or to execute him. On the final day of the trial, when Garrosh is supposed to be sentenced, chaos ensues as a force of Garrosh' loyalists arrive to attack the trial at the same time as - a bronze dragon helping the trial - unleashes temporal clones of the participants on them, buying the former Warchief time to escape. Go'el and Jaina begin fighting the temporal clones until Jaina defeats her's before going outside to assist with the loyalists - only to get shot in the chest. Once the loyalists retreat and the clones defeated, Go'el sees Jaina dying from the wound and desperately works with Aggra and Varian's son Anduin to heal her - only to see it's not working. As he comes to realize that Jaina is about to die, Go'el is most devastated by the fact that she would die as an enemy instead of a friend. Go'el stopped when he realized nothing could stop her death, but Anduin refuses to stop trying, prompting - one of the  that was there to decide Garrosh's fate - to heal her and all the other wounded. Go'el could see Jaina's happiness when she came to and saw him.

It would be several years before Jaina and Thrall would meet again after the trial. In that time, Sylvanas Windrunner became the Horde's new Warchief and led them into with the Alliance. Not all of the Horde was on board with the war - including Baine Bloodhoof, who Sylvanas imprisons with the intent of executing him. Hearing this news, Jaina - accompanied by SI:7 spymaster Mathias Shaw - infiltrates the to free him. Meanwhile, Thrall accompanies Varok Saurfang - who also opposes Sylvanas - in his own rescue attempt. Much to their surprise, the two groups end up meeting each other. Jaina and Thrall quickly realize they're in the Underhold for the same reason and decide to work together to free Baine. They continue on, with the two needing to stop Shaw and Saurfang from squabbling at one point, and ultimately find the chained-up Baine - only to discover it's a trap as the group get's locked in with a force led by a blood elf with a grudge against Jaina. With Baine's chains warded against magic, Jaina and Thrall work together in buying Shaw time to free him. After Baine is freed, Jaina manages to teleport the group out of the Underhold. The group appears just outside of Baine's home of, giving the tauren time to recover. As he does so, Thrall sees Jaina looking at the sunset in contemplation, prompting him to approach. Side-by-side, Thrall thanks Jaina for the help as he couldn't fail Baine like he did his, before admitting he feels like he's failed everyone with his actions and it'll cause Sylvanas to burn Thunder Bluff. For her part, Jaina points out Thrall isn't the only one with blood on their hands, and also reminds him that they united before at Mount Hyjal - where Alliance and Horde joined to protect Nordrassil. At that, however, Thrall points out that the Alliance and Horde have worked together several times since then and it always ended with them fighting again. Thrall asks Jaina point-blank what's different this time where things will be different - to which Jaina says that "they are". Jaina soon leaves to inform Anduin - who became king of the Alliance at that point - about the mission's success. Thrall and Jaina would later participate in that ultimately ends the war and sends Sylvanas into hiding.

Sylvanas would come out of hiding with a new ally - - and use his forces to  on Azeroth. As a part of this, Sylvanas had her capture some of the individuals that resisted her and bring them into the  - with Jaina and Thrall being among those captured. Now trapped within the, Jaina and Thrall did their best to hide from the Mawsworn but were forced into several fights, one of which severely injured Thrall. Their luck turns when an adventurer assisted by a platoon of the manages to locate them. Now with help, the two battle through the Mawsworn into a cave that Jaina had been using to rest. Now out of danger for now, Jaina and Thrall explain to the rescue party about what they've experienced - that they've been captured for a reason and being tortured endlessly by the Jailer, personally. After resting, the group moves out and manages to rescue Anduin (another of Sylvanas' captives) and capture one of the tormented souls in the area for interrogation. With Thrall now healed thanks to Anduin, the group learn from the tortured soul there's a Waystone that can take them out of the Maw. Jaina also notes that the last captive, Baine, is held where the Waystone is - so she, Thrall, Anduin, and the adventurer decide to go there while the Knights of the Ebon Blade hold their safe haven. Crossing a bridge, however, the four are met by another of the Jailer's allies - the fallen  - who begins taunting them that their "wretched souls will feed the coming darkness". Jaina, however, notes that Helya was by "wretched souls" before - which Thrall helps illustrate by throwing his  at her. All this does, however, is cause Helya to knock the group off the bridge and into the river below. Recovering from Helya's attack, Jaina and Thrall watch with horror as the Jailer throw Baine to the ground. Reaching Baine, they discover his soul is being rotted away by his torment. When he notes the curse is similar to one used by the, Thrall goes with the adventurer to find the cure while Jaina and Anduin stay with Baine. After finding the dagger used on Baine (and a new axe for him to use), Thrall returns and - together with Jaina and Anduin - draw out the curse for the adventurer to destroy. With Baine recovered, the group finds their way to the Waystone and has the adventurer attempt to activate since it seems to react with them, only. The Jailer, however, sends a massive force of Mawsworn against them that Jaina and Thrall help hold off. Ultimately the adventurer is able to escape, but Jaina, Thrall, and the others are left at the Jailer's mercy and subsequently recaptured. Jaina, Thrall, and the other captives are all taken to the Jailer's tower, where they're subjected to many kinds of torment. The forces of Azeroth - after establishing their operations within the Shadowlands - soon begin sending forces in to rescue the captives. Jaina is soon saved from captivity, though is eager to return to find both Thrall and Anduin - but heeds Bolvar's order to rest. It's not too long before Thrall is rescued, with Jaina and Baine (the first captive saved) thankful for his return. When Thrall begins trying to talk about what he experienced, Jaina calms him by saying it's not the time to talk about it. Thrall soon tells Jaina and the others that Anduin was being kept even deeper in Torghast, but no search party is able to reach him despite the information. The two are later shown a vision from Bolvar of Anduin being threatened by Sylvanas holding a mourneblade, only to need to help the highlord when the Jailer tries to control him. When Baine demands an army raised to attack Torghast and save Anduin, Jaina and Thrall convince him to hold off as their forces are too weak to do anything. Instead, the Azerothians continue building up their efforts in the Shadowlands.

Chains of Domination
It isn't long before the Jailer starts his plan as he has his forces start striking at the other regions of the Shadowlands to attack their rulers and claim their. Jaina and Thrall join the defense of the Azerothians' main foothold in following the Jailer's assault on. After the forces of Azeroth fruitlessly continue to fight the Jailer's efforts, Jaina and Thrall finally join Bolvar and a team of adventurers in assaulting Torghast's deepest reaches in the hope of finally defeating the Jailer. After defeating, Jaina is able to use its power to open a portal into the above with Thrall noting the Jailer will throw everything at them but that they can't falter. Battling through the Sanctum, the group is eventually met by Sylvanas - who holds off the group as the Jailer goes to the in Oribos. The army pursues them, with Jaina and Thrall using their abilities to create bridges of ice and earth, respectively, across the great chains connecting Oribos and the Maw. Once at the Crucible, Jaina, Thrall, and Bolvar confront Anduin - whose been made a pawn of the Jailer - while Sylvanas continues battling their army. Ultimately, however, the Jailer is able to destroy the and claim her power - letting him open a portal for him and the dominated Anduin into the realm of  but leaving a defeated Sylvanas behind. The duo leave the Sanctum to report their failure to stop the Jailer and investigate something that Anduin left behind - which turns out to be a message magically bound to that serves a final farewell. Both Jaina and Thrall, however, are now more determined than ever to save Anduin and stop the Jailer.

Eternity's End
Sometime after the Azerothians establish operations within Zereth Mortis, Jaina and Thrall meet with about the still comatose Sylvanas. When Uther suggests fixing her soul as she might be the key to freeing Anduin, Jaina and Thrall reject the idea as she's proven herself untrustworthy to them. Nevertheless, Uther does what he can to help Sylvanas, with Jaina and Thrall leaving the two alone. This effort ultimately starts the chain of events that leads to Jailer's defeat in the. Jaina and Thrall later witness a reformed Sylvanas judged for her crimes and sent into the Maw to repent.

The Shattering: Prelude to Cataclysm

 * expresses pity that Jaina would be a perfect mate for Thrall if she were an orc.

Jaina Proudmoore: Tides of War

 * The elementals that Jaina enslaved only asked Thrall for help.

Fanon
Thraina is a popular ship in the Warcraft fandom, particularly in the era before the Cataclysm expansion. Despite their initial tension against each other in Warcraft III, they quickly showed how far they were willing to work with each other, even doing things that deliberately hurt their own factions in the short-term so that peace down the road can be achieved. What's more, as the first time that the Alliance and Horde worked together, they're seen by fans of the ship as the flagbearers for the two sides making peace with each other. Indeed, it's noted by these fans that several of the times the Alliance and Horde worked together in World of Warcraft were partly instigated by the two being together. Not surprisingly, fans were disappointed in how Thrall and Jaina were pivoted away from each other during the Cataclysm era. Several of them even believed that Thrall's eventual marriage to Aggra was done specifically to sink this ship. This disappointment evolved into anger when the Tides of War novel was released - resulting in Jaina's controversial aggressive personality shift and the fractures it causes in her and Thrall's relationship - seen by these fans as Blizzard further sinking the ship. With all that said, fans found revitalized hope with  finally giving them the chance to reconcile and renewing hope that they can be together. On AO3, despite how popular this ship is, works tagged with this ship only goes up to the 70's range. It's Thrall's most written ship. It's also Jaina's third-most written ship behind Sylvaina and Arthaina.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Jaina Proudmoore/Thrall tag on FanFiction.Net
 * Jaina Proudmoore/Thrall tag on FanFiction.Net
 * Jaina Proudmoore/Thrall tag on FanFiction.Net

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Trivia

 * Chris Metzen, former creative lead for Blizzard and Thrall's voice actor, has commented about this ship at least twice:
 * At the Blizzcon 2010 Lore Panel, when a fan asks about the possibility of Thrall and Jaina being together, Metzen (referencing the recently released Shattering novel) answers with the following: "Thrall is meeting a nice girl from Nagrand and gonna have little brown babies. Let's put it to bed. Funny choice of words there".
 * At Blizzcon 2011, while discussing an, Metzen jokingly said that it hinted at future story events such as Thrall dumping Aggra for Jaina, before quickly saying he was just kidding.
 * The dropped by certain mobs in Gnomeregan (Pre-Cataclysm) has a binary code message that, when translated, reads "Thrall and Jaina sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G".
 * In the trailer for Heroes of the Storm's "Love is in the Air" event, a shot of Thrall's dating profile shows one of his likes is "gorgeous, golden-tressed wizardesses".