As the daughter of the Amani chieftain, Zul’jarra has spent her life in preparation to shoulder the heavy burden of leadership. Her grandfather, Zul’jin, lost to the forest trolls what little they had left after centuries at war with their elven neighbors. Today, the tribes are fractured and friendless, without even the loa to pray to, and when a rival tribe’s leader challenges her claim, Zul’jarra must undertake a desperate journey to prove herself and face the usurper head-on.
Join Chieftain Zul’jarra for a special fireside telling of our newest short story—Legacy of the Amani—and find out if Zul’jarra is equal to the task ahead of World of Warcraft: Midnight .
(Audio version on youtube, short story download in the link)
You would think a tribal society like trolls would always elect male leaders but I am not angry at all I am happy for any troll content. If Zul’jan can avoid becoming evil for no reason we might see a solid epic duo of Amani that carry the future.
Tribal societies didn’t always elect the strong, infact not all tribal societies had elections at all, You are also assuming trolls have a strength gap between their genders
Unsurprisingly, the woman who previously stated they believe in racial hierarchies believes that “Amani good Arathi bad” is “Thirdworldist” because not believing in the inherent superiority of the Western races means you side with what she perceived to be racial inferiors (Global South)
It is deeply funny to me that while 3 years ago all of you pretended to not believe in these things are now openly using these terms casually to describe the lore now that it’s not feeding your racial fantasy
User whose post was deleted by the mods who was agreeing with another user that WoW’s writing of the Amani this expansion while “villain batting” the Arathi is “thirdworldist”
Were people missing something? This has always been the case since its earliest references:
The Amani empire stretched across most of northern Lordaeron, and the trolls fought hard to keep unwanted strangers from their borders. The elves developed a deep loathing for the vicious trolls and killed them on sight whenever they were encountered.
After many long years, the high elves finally found a land which was reminiscent of Kalimdor. Deep within the northern forests of the continent, they founded the kingdom of Quel’Thalas and vowed to create a mighty empire which would dwarf that of their Kaldorei cousins. Unfortunately they soon learned that Quel’Thalas was founded upon an ancient troll city that the trolls still held to be sacred.
Indeed there has never been anything in the lore that presented Azshara’s Kaldorei Empire as having destroyed settlements outside what was considered part of their empire. Nor did they even destroy settlements that were inside their territory, as the Vrykul/Human lands of Tirisfal were within the Kaldorei Empire’s borders pre-Sundering, and remained with the Humans post-Sundering.
Alas, the Blood Elf wiki page stated otherwise and it was a struggle for over ten years to get that line removed.
This text helped me finally remove that line and attribute the pushing back of the Amani into Zul’Aman by the highborne exiles who colonized their lands.
Blizzard refusing to commit to canonicity is the bane of my existence
But anyways
I really loved this short story
The Rommath/Umbric short story felt forced; at the end of the day Void Elves were just one developers OC that stole all the “edge” from Blood Elves
The K’aresh short story was excellent, but it’s not something that was “real”
But a people struggling to survive both in the context of internal displacement and refugees in the context of colonization (now explicit) and genocide, with generational guilt due to the political choices of one’s recent family, trying to find a way forward despite living under colonial-imperial subjugation due to the shared fate of the lands you live on next to the colonial state
That’s real
That’s the reality of Amerindian peoples across the continent
That’s the reality of why in Latin America there’s been such a strong “land back” movement.
That’s the reality of why in the US and Canada, the treaty disputes from 200 years ago are still ongoing.
People should not be using a wiki as a lore source.
There’s very little information about this war, or even how far the Night Elves had expanded before Azshara’s time. We now know that the Night Warrior was first invoked on Azeroth as vengeance against Trolls, while the defeat of the Trolls had previously always been attributed to the arcane magic from the Well of Eternity.
I was hyped hearing there was an Amani story to read, (well, listen, in my part, because I wanted to hear the voice actress narrate it.) I really like the Amani, and always have.
I dig ‘em, and I’ll typically go back and watch the Gods of Zul’Aman trailer every few months.
Sounds like some form of drama happened and it got deleted? Oh well, probably better not to get caught up in it.
I’m digging Zul’jarra and Zul’jan. I also REALLY liked how there were some subtle links into being able to guess what each class the characters are, (although half the time Blizzard NPCs aren’t an exact equivalent to the playable classes).
It got me incredibly hyped for their part of the story. Also, if you read the YouTube comments, it’s page after page begging Blizzard to make either Forest Trolls or the Amani as a whole, playable.