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Warcraft 1 Orcs were depicted as purely evil, utilizing the dark powers of "Hell" and "Hades" to conquer and destroy their foes, if I remember correctly. It was around Warcraft 2 and especially Warcraft 3 were they began leaning towards the misunderstood "noble savage" archetype.

And then came subsequent retcons were they "explained" how they were like that prior to demons corrupting them leading to the events of W1.