It also doesn’t say that the centaur were slaughtering Tauren noncombatants directly, only that they killed Tauren for sport, but we know they did. In the same vein, we know Elves have tortured Trolls sadistically in the past, see Zul’jin yet again, who says they didn’t do it to many more? While not outright said, it certainly seems to be implied by the amount of land lost, Elf attitude towards the Amani, and the severity of the loss of troops. Even if Quel’thalas did not expand much, they still DID expand into and found their nation on Amani land.
What Amadis said. While not a large sprawling city like Darnassus, all of those villages are far betetr off than Zul’aman because…
No you can’t. Because it’s implied that Zul took most of them away, much like he did with all remaining Drakkari, and the remnants of Lei’shen’s army. If this is true, all if not most remaining Amani currently reside in Zulduzar in the Tal’aman district. This would explain the reason for the large number of Farakki (Who we know served Zul in Pandaria via Jakra’zet), Gurubashi, and Amani shown in Zulduzar.
I won’t disagree with the portrayal of hostile factions, but there are caveats about them.
The Scarlet Crusade I agree have always been shown to be evil, if not due to completely understandable events.
The Sunfury Elves did indeed fight for what they thought was right, but the game acknowledges that not all did when the Scryers broke away. There was humanization there. With the Illidan book apparently those who stuck with Illidan were all serving the greater good.
The Dark Iron were enslaved at the time by Ragnaros, who commanded them to start a war. Can’t exactly say no to that. Then you get the whole Moira thing in which we learn Thaurissan was apparently a misunderstood guy who wanted to be free. They were never actually evil apparently, just jerks.
The leper gnomes are legitimately insane due to the radiation. What that madness means hasn’t really been explored, but the game makes a point that they aren’t the Gnomes they used to be. I believe a Forsaken once refers to them as plagued in a different manner than he is, but Forsaken nonetheless.
The Amani get no such treatment outside of “We want our stuff back.” There is no attempt at rationalizing the conflict further, because that’s all it is.
Vol’jin isn’t an Amani or even a Forest Troll. He had no loyalty to them either time. The Gurubashi would have been a better one, but the Darkspear are much closer tied to the Horde than they are the Gurubashi now. That was a huge plot point in Shadows of the Horde.
Because people are on their land. They fought and died on it during the Aqir Wars and settled it afterwards. The aggression towards the Alliance is obvious, but the Horde allied with the Sin’dorei, whom we recall are the Amani’s nemesis. That’s what led to the whole “spit on the Horde” thing. They were attacking Horde forces for the same reason they always fought the Elves. Because they were on their land.
Trolls in general are. Jintha was appointed by the Zandalari because they couldn’t work it out themselves. You see this a lot in Zulduzar, Zolani even mentions Troll politics more resemble a blood sport. Trolls generally respond to what they perceive as a outside problem by removing it or with general violence. In this case, the Elves were a problem that they were already familiar with and wanted gone.
That aggressive streak doesn’t condone their slaughter and theft of any of their ancestral home which both Human and Elf partook in.
