Honor Hold

Honor Hold stands to the south of both the Path of Glory and Hellfire Citadel. After the Second War, an expedition was sent through the Dark Portal to put an end to the orcish threat once and for all. Led by the valiant General Turalyon and the archmage Khadgar, the expedition did its best to fulfill its mission, waging fierce battles on the orcs of Draenor. Yet when reckless magic began to tear Draenor apart, the expedition members had to sacrifice their only chance of returning home by closing the Draenor end of the Dark Portal. Back on Azeroth, the expedition members were honored for their sacrifice and presumed dead.

Cut off from Azeroth for almost twenty years, the expedition fought to maintain a foothold on Outland. They took to calling themselves the Sons of Lothar in honor of the late Anduin Lothar. The recent reactivation of the Dark Portal brought turmoil to Outland, but also led to Azeroth's discovery that there were survivors from the long-lost expedition. Reinforcements from Azeroth hastened to aid the Sons of Lothar, who were still holding several strongholds on Outland, including Honor Hold. Although the orc race remains undefeated, the Sons of Lothar, including those in Honor Hold, have new hope. Bolstered by fresh troops, the expedition members struggle to complete their original mission and return home to Azeroth at last.

Such a task remains fraught with peril, though, for Honor Hold is caught between two dangerous enemies. In Hellfire Citadel, orcish forces are assembling once again. Whatever the reason for the fel orcs' presence at the citadel may be, their growing military strength could have dire consequences for both Outland and Azeroth. Furthermore, the Burning Legion has arrived in Hellfire Peninsula. Demons are pouring out of Legion gateways near the Dark Portal in alarming numbers, threatening to overrun the portal. Fresh troops from Azeroth, both Horde and Alliance, are fighting to keep the demons from entering the portal.

Thrallmar

The Horde's newly established base of operations in Hellfire Peninsula is Thrallmar, which overlooks the Path of Glory and Hellfire Citadel from the north. Shortly after arriving in Outland, a Horde expeditionary force set up this new base, but they were soon cut off from Azeroth by Legion forces that moved in to retake the Dark Portal. Now the people of Thrallmar are caught between a rock and a hard place.

To the north and east, the Burning Legion has constructed forge camps that provide the Legion with regular reinforcements. These camps are fortified by powerful cannons, and the demons there are a constant threat to Thrallmar. If the forge camps are allowed to remain, it will be only a matter of time before Legion forces invade Thrallmar. To the south of Thrallmar, at the massive stronghold dominating the Path of Glory, an orcish army is forming once again. However, these orcs are different from the original occupants of the gargantuan fortress: the forces amassing at Hellfire Citadel are red, furious fel orcs. Whatever authority these orcs answer to is unknown, but it is a strongly held belief that they are not working for the Burning Legion.

For the most part, Thrallmar has been cut off from regular reinforcements. As a result, its inhabitants are forced to rely on the help of Horde adventurers to aid Thrallmar in its struggle against the many threats of Hellfire Peninsula.

The base for the reputation rewards and quests in Hellfire Peninsula are the towns of Honor Hold (Alliance) and Thrallmar (Horde). You can gain reputation for Honor Hold or Thrallmar by completing quests in Hellfire Peninsula and by killing monsters in Hellfire Citadel.

The most efficient way to gain reputation is to first kill monsters in the first two wings of Hellfire Citadel, Hellfire Ramparts and Blood Furnace, until you reached Honored – without doing the quests in Hellfire Peninsula. You can also repeat the PvP quest, "Hellfire Fortifications", to gain a slight amount of reputation until you are partly through Honored. After you reach the maximum rep level from these methods, then you should try to complete every quest you can in Hellfire Peninsula. Once you run out of quests, doing Shattered Halls (the level 70 wing) will be the primary method to continue to gain reputation in Honored and Revered. You will probably have to leave Hellfire Peninsula, then level up to 70 and come back and finish getting your reputation in Shattered Halls.

The above methods are not required; however, power players might want to use them to maximize their results. You can also simply do all the quests, and then run Hellfire Citadel. Once you can unlock Heroic Hellfire Citadel, you can gain even more reputation per run of the dungeons within.