Work work! Once the resigned cry of orcs in Warcraft will now be Chris Metzen’s new mantra as he emerges from retirement to rejoin the group at Blizzard. Today, John Hight, senior vp and normal supervisor of World of Warcraft, introduced that longtime WoW veteran Metzen, additionally identified for his work throughout Diablo, StarCraft, and Overwatch, would return to the corporate.

Metzen began on the firm in 1994 as an artist on the unique Warcraft. From there, he lent his inventive abilities to different Blizzard video games, contributing to lore, storytelling, and cinematics. He additionally lent his voice, as Metzen is the longtime voice behind the orc hero Thrall. He even co-produced the 2016 Warcraft film.

“I offer you my very deepest apologies for the part I played in a culture that fostered harassment, inequality, and indifference,” he tweeted. It doesn’t seem that Metzen was named in any of the lawsuits dealing with the corporate.

Metzen will return to Blizzard as a artistic adviser on World of Warcraft earlier than branching out to different WoW-adjacent initiatives, in line with Hight’s social media announcement.

“We are so happy to be reuniting him with the world he helped create,” Hight tweeted.