Venture Company

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The Venture Trading Company, harvesting the forest

The Venture Company is the most notorious goblin organization, it deforests and plunders the world for its natural resources. Mogul Razdunk, owns and runs the Venture Company.Template:Cite it is an independent faction (although most of its members are hostile to everyone in-game for quest purposes. Mainly tauren and night elves are hostile to them in published lore) that operates in Undermine, Ratchet, Mulgore, The Barrens, Azuremyst Isle, and Stonetalon Mountains regions of Kalimdor, as well as Stranglethorn Vale in the Eastern Kingdoms. Largely run and managed by goblins, it employs a few gnomes in high engineering positions. It provides employment to all of the sentient races of Azeroth as laborers, even (perhaps especially) the less intelligent ones such as ogres and gnolls.

Background

The Trade Coalition is huge, far-reaching and massively complicated. In addition, numerous other, smaller goblin companies, created and run by entrepreneurs called moguls (the hands of the trade princesTemplate:Cite), operate throughout Azeroth. Perhaps the most famous of these smaller businesses is the Venture Company, founded and ruled by Mogul Razdunk.Template:Cite The corporate group is a collection of greedy entrepeneurs who keep both eyes on the bottom line at all times.Template:Cite

The headquarters of the Venture Company is located in Undermine. Ratchet also serves as a base of operations for many members of the company.Template:Cite Ratchet is run by members of the Venture Company; Template:CiteTemplate:Cite A complex device known as a Truth Detector is employed in the City of Ratchet when the Venture Company is making an important deal with a new supplier and wants to ascertain whether or not the supplier is trustworthy.Template:Cite

The Venture Company is known for spearheading the efforts to reestablish trade routes across eastern Azeroth, to connect isolated goblin trading posts. A growing number of shops in Azeroth have signs declaring that they are owned and operated by the “Venture Company,” which the proprietors claim is headquartered in a faraway city ruled by goblins.Template:Cite The Venture Company sometimes hires heroes to build new trading posts in the wilderness — a job that could take them anywhere in the world.Template:Cite The Venture Company is infamous for its massive numbers of goblin shredders.Template:Cite

The trade princes have recently caused problems for the Venture Company, and it is looking increasingly likely that the goblins will turn on each other soon.Template:Cite Ziz Fizziks, a goblin who works with the trade princes, works to retrieve plans that a disloyal goblin stole and sold to the Venture Company.Template:Cite

Projects in Central Kalimdor

The goblins of the Venture Company threaten to reduce the entire Central Kalimdor section into an uninhabitable wasteland.Template:Cite

Mulgore is rich with iron and tin, which has attracted the attention of the Venture Company. With the centaur gone, the Venture Company has taken advantage of the tauren’s peaceful nature and have set up mining operations throughout the region.Template:Cite The Venture Company’s presence here is for profit, plain and simple. Driven by profit, the Venture Company mines for the iron and tin in eastern Mulgore, depleting the land’s natural resources, and hording the region’s water supplies. They are disturbing the balance of nature in the region, and drawing the anger of the tauren.Template:Cite Although the tauren have tried to share their land, the continuous encroachment and lack of respect shown by the Venture Company has resulted in escalating conflict in the region.Template:Cite The Venture Company buys poached hides from Palemane gnolls near Palemane Rock.Template:Cite The goblins intended to capitalize on the peaceful nature of the tauren and steal the resources of their home, and that plan has begun to fall apart only recently. It is believed if the goblins are pressed hard enough, they will eventually get the picture and withdraw.Template:Cite Quests relating to the struggle between the two factions are found in and around Bloodhoof Village. Baine Bloodhoof, the son of Cairne, leads an investigation into Venture Company operations to the east of the village.Template:Cite

Agents of the goblin-run Venture Company have also been sighted Stonetalon Peak area, searching for potential tracts to deforest and streams of precious ore to plunder with their mining machines.Template:Cite They have a significant presence in the Stonetalon Mountains, chopping down trees and burning huge stretches of forest in the Windshear Crag basin. The goblins of Stonetalon are among the finest engineers of their race, and their inventions have allowed them to remove massive chunks of the forest in a few short months. The Venture Company is gradually destroying the remaining trees and taking the remaining resources from the earthTemplate:Cite There has been a near-complete annihilation of sections of the Stonetalon Mountains (the Charred Vale in particular) with lumber-cutting machine by the Venture Company.Template:Cite The Venture Company’s expeditions and mining operations changed much of the landscape to dusty, barren canyons and desolate cliffs.Template:Cite If this process continues, Stonetalon could soon become as much a wasteland as Desolace in the south or the Barrens in the east. This endeavor draws ire from the night elves and tauren alike, who find the deforestation barbaric and dangerous. Many of the tauren still hold the unrealistic hope that the Venture Company can be reasoned with, and this belief prevents progress. While the majority of the night elves and tauren take defensive roles, the Grimtotem tribe strikes back against the goblins.Template:Cite

The Venture Company has an operation in the Sludge Fen, in the Barrens’ northern hills.Template:Cite They also can be seen in Boulder Lode Mine, close to the shores of the Southfury River (and the oft-overlooked western entrance to Orgrimmar).

Other projects

The Venture Company activities can also be discovered in Stranglethorn Vale, where it is involved in various mining operations.

Also, The Venture Trading Company is known to trade with various shady groups. The Defias Brotherhood is especially known for trading for a powerful poison Venture Co. "acquired" from Zanzil the Outcast, such as in the quest chain of Mathias and the Defias.

Elements of the Venture Company have also entered into the service of Kael'thas Sunstrider, via his agent Engineer "Spark" Overgrind, the emissary of the gnomish High Tinker who accompanied Admiral Odesyus. Kael, via Overgrind, hired the Venture Company to recover the crashed Exodar, a portion of Kael's citadel of Tempest Keep hijacked by the draenei to escape from Outland.

Wrath of the Lich King

This section concerns content related to Wrath of the Lich King.

The Venture Co. will make an appearance in the Grizzly Hills of Northrend as they try to deforest the land. [1]

Ranks

The Barrens

These members of the Venture Co. are found in the northeast part of the Barrens, the Sludge Fen.

• Tinkerer Sniggles
• Venture Co. Drudger
• Venture Co. Peon

Known members

Name	Location
Template:Race Icon Goblin Male Small Mogul Razdunk	Undermine	Kezan
Template:Race Icon Goblin Male Small Boss Copperplug	Boulder Lode Mine	The Barrens
Template:Race Icon Goblin Male Small Tinkerer Sniggles	Sludge Fen	The Barrens
Template:Race Icon LeperGnome Male Small Gerenzo Wrenchwhistle		Stonetalon Mountains
Template:Race Icon Goblin Male Small Engineer Whirleygig	Sludge Fen	The Barrens
Template:Race Icon Goblin Male Small Foreman Cozzle	Lake Nazferiti	Stranglethorn Vale
Template:Race Icon Ogre Male Small Enforcer Emilgund	Wildmane Water Well	Mulgore
Template:Race Icon Goblin Male Small Supervisor Fizsprocket		Mulgore
Template:Race Icon DarkIron Male Small Taskmaster Fizzule	Sludge Fen	The Barrens
Template:Race Icon Goblin Male Small Grand Foreman Puzik Gallywix	Sludge Fen	The Barrens
Template:Race Icon Goblin Male Small Geezle	Traitor's Cove	Azuremyst Isle
Template:Race Icon Goblin Male Small Overseer Glibby	Sludge Fen	The Barrens
Template:Race Icon Human Male Small Foreman Grills	Sludge Fen	The Barrens
Template:Race Icon Goblin Male Small Supervisor Lugwizzle	Sludge Fen	The Barrens
Template:Race Icon Goblin Male Small Nizzik	Cragpool Lake	Stonetalon Mountains
Template:Race Icon Goblin Male Small Piznik	Windshear Mine	Stonetalon Mountains
Template:Race Icon Goblin Male Small Foreman Silixiz	Sludge Fen	The Barrens
Template:Race Icon Goblin Male Small Veenix	Windshear Crag	Stonetalon Mountains
Template:Race Icon Goblin Male Small Verifonix		Stranglethorn Vale
Template:Race Icon Gnoll Small Taskmaster Whipfang	Windshear Crag	Stonetalon Mountains

Relationship to Steamwheedle Cartel

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Members of the Venture Company are said to be in charge of Ratchet. It is also said that Gazlowe is the ruler of Ratchet. Gazlowe is affiliated with the Steamwheedle Cartel. Its possible that the cartel may be a subsidiary of the Venture Company, or a splinter group turning against the main company, or a subsidiary company under the same trade prince. Moguls are said to be the hands of the trade princes, perhaps Mogul Razdunk is the hand of Trade Prince Steamwheedle himself (thus making the Venture Company more or less a subsidiary of the Steamwheedles). Though they could be a powerful competitor in the city. Perhaps Gazlowe somehow works for both. ...or perhaps the the Venture Company controls the city as a mafia, manipulating the elected officials and Lawkeepers.