While trying to collect the Rare Monsters drops for the Thalassian Leather Armor transmog set I learned that one of the pieces drops from a rare called Skullcrusher Harak, and that he is of a race called Gnarldin that live in Zul’Aman, which are a wood version of their lava based Djaradin cousins.
And we’ve just never seen them before. But I suspect we’re going to end up seeing more 'Dins, probably of various different elemental flavors, that just supposedly will always been around.
The remind me of the Ettin that showed up in the game, though we had never seen them before Cataclsym, but now just show up wherever as if they’ve always been around as well.
And like the Ettin, I’m going to guess that we just won’t ever hear the origins of these 'Din, or that the setting would even treat their origins as mattering.
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This actually had me a bit curious about if there was any connections between the “Dins” and the Ettin.
Apparently in the RPG (so, non-canon old lore) they were the prototypes for what would later become the Abominations, with them having been made by necromancers. This is pretty clearly not the case anymore, since we’ve seen them have clans and families over the years.
That said, potentially more interesting is that at one point they were potentially being considered to be a relative of the Ogres, but since Highmountain, have been pretty clearly established to be Azeroth natives (or at least, that they’ve been here since before the Dark Portal opened).
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I hate these stupid mobs
They never existed until DF and now they will just show up everywhere like they always were there
ITs such an awful terrible display of worldbuilding, you just keep recreating the same race in different skin
Would be so much better to make these dumb things just different tribes of vrykul like the drust, but noo
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These dudes are djaradin. I don’t know why they call them whatever it is they’re calling them because they’re obviously djaradin
You see, because instead of fire they are grass, so “gnarladin”
so stupid
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Seriously. I don’t even see the point because djaradin have firmly established lore and everyone knows who they are
What you mean, they ALWAYS were there in zul’aman, we just never saw them cause they were too small /s
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They were in their introvert era and never came outside
I mean, the only players that would even find out that the Drust were Vrykul was those that took Enchanting, so I’m not sure the Drust are a very good example, either.
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They are, because fundamentally, the difference is just the name.
It makes sense that vrykuls would travel around the world, they are vikings, they travel by ships going into places no one could think off
So if a vrykul tribe reach the shore of zul’aman from that side, hell, that would be dope, you get more lore about vrykuls in general, how they were able to do that and their tales of what is it in that side of azeroth
but why do that when we can just make up a new entire different subrace of these dumb-looking giants that we made up in DF and say they always lived there?
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I thought they were awakened from the opening of the dragon isles. Not sure if these guys also got affected from the isles or were awaken from sunwell tampering. It is geographically close to the isles.
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They shouldve just been a tribe/group of vrykull
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Hm. The gnarldin are giant, hulking creatures that use tree trunks for clubs and block roads…
They’re trolls, to the trolls!
(I don’t mind them much - it’s nice to have bits of lore and history and xenoanthropology to actually speculate on. But I do hope there’s some Reliquary/Explorer’s League/researcher character who theorizes on the relation between gnarldin and djaradin, just to make it clear that it is an intentional similarity in-universe and not just a throwaway model re-use, because that happens often enough that it’s worth the story actively noting.)
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vykrul that strongly associate themselves with the element of fire instead of ice, damn, that really works in my mind… and hell, they even use (equally fiery) wooly mammoths as mounts. and since it’s just an adaptation of a pre-existing race any lore-twisting to explain their existence is pretty minor
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yeah
Like main vrykull we know coudl favour ice because theyre from Northrend adn with lich king, but some groupm in past landed on teh dragon isles can even be after alkreayd went inactive (as dumb i think that still is)
And favour fire because like wlel tis alot more tropîcal land
and like more elementaly active genelry then northrend
and like northrend ones have ritual to become valkyr even before lich king, so fire infusion coudle alsy be their own ritualm they created with elementaly active draogn isles
I mean, if I were to give them some benefit of the doubt here, I’d note how the only places we’ve seen the ‘Dins show up in are the Dragon Isles and in Zul’Aman - while there’s a pretty big gap from the Dragon Isles (west of the Eastern Kingdoms) and Zul’Aman (north-eastern part of the Eastern Kingdoms) - it’s worth noting that the Dragon Isles were never a part of the mega-continent of Kalimdor (we effectively see this in the DF cinematic trailer).
For that to make any sense, during the time in which Kalimdor was 1 continent, the Dragon Isles would have to be to the east of it.
This would mean, that at one point in Azeroth’s history ZA was pretty much as close as you can possibly be to the Dragon Isles while still being in this region of Kalimdor.
It’s not as if we’ve seen them natively pop up in Khaz Algar or somewhere else that far (yet).
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Just you wait and they will show up in northrend like they were always there as well
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wouldnt suprise if they go with ACHULLY THEY ALWAYS EXCISTED!!!
OH and vrykull are actulyl offshoots from the djardin are orginals and the evil evil evil titans Ordered them into the iron vrykull, and the benevolentn void via odl gods gave them free will again via curse of flesh
To be fair, Vrykul ended up the same way. Originally “What are all these giant people that are being unearthed from under Northrend we’ve never seen before!?” to getting to the Broken Isles and the Night Elves there just going “Vrykul? Oh, yeah, they’ve always been over there in Stormheim.”
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