Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Lore, Know your Lore
The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe. You"re playing the game, you"re fighting the bosses, you know the how -- but do you know the why? Each week, Matthew Rossi and Anne Stickney make sure you Know Your Lore by covering the history of the story behind World of Warcraft.
It is a fact that once, in the distant past, it was the imperial power of the trolls that broke the aqir and nearly ruled Azeroth entire. From the day that a clan of unknown wanderers discovered the Well of Eternity and began their transformation into what we today call night and blood elves, the trolls have found themselves pushed back. They"ve been driven from their homes again and again. Trolls are often decried for their cannibalistic ways -- but to a troll, is it and can it be cannibalism to eat the flesh of the beings that have never shown kinship or respect for your people? The beings who have stolen your homes, time and again, ever harrying you out of your sacred places and ancestral territory?
Trolls know many secrets. They know much of magic and ancient power. They have lost more than some races can ever claim to have had. Even as they fractured and divided, even as Gurubashi turned against Amani, Drakkari against Sandfury, trolls have never forgotten this one fact.
All land was troll land once. And it will be again, if some have their way.
Ecce Zul"jin, leader of the Amani. Quite possibly, this is the greatest troll warrior who has ever lived. With a certainty, this is the greatest troll warrior of the past several thousand years.
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Know Your Lore: Zul"jin and the Amani originally appeared on WoW Insider on Wed, 13 Oct 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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