Like, taking a good look back at BfA questing, you see that two of the 3 Zandalar Zones are considered instant death by the Zandalari.
Voldun is the place where they exile their criminals. It’s considered a death sentence. It’s also the place where the cutesy little fox people thrive and sing about alpacas.
Nazmir on the other hand is a place where people go and never return… Except the elderly cartoon turtles. They pilgrimage there from time to time to hear a big turtle tell them some stories.
Well, dang! Your logic holds up
Well, they are now.
Kinda like Westfall for Humans
I don’t think you’ve thought this through.
Being sent into a desert is a death sentence, as is being sent into a swamp with cannibals.
The Zandalari are complacent. That’s pretty much the entire conflict. They’ve been at the top of the troll food-chain for so long they’ve forgotten just how much work it took to get there.
Who cares if Nazmir is full of crazy old-god worshiping trolls? Who cares if Voldun is full of snake people?
They’re Zandalari that means they’re invincible. And surely hundreds of years without any meaningful threats couldn’t have weakened them at all. Their position as invincible god-trolls is unshakable and definitely not the result of hundreds more years of work that they no longer feel like doing.
Meanwhile Kul’tiras is controlled almost exclusively by the Kul’tirans, and their main failing is their disunity. Kul’tirans know just how much work it takes to keep their little continent livable, and they don’t seem to trust anyone else to be willing to do the job.
especially since until Hoodie Jaina and Genn showed up to murder him, they’d only had one King for at least a thousand years, maybe more.
It bred an aura and mentality of “nothing could really realistically challenge us so why worry about it”.
Then Hoodie Jaina and Genn showed up, outmaneuvered them, murdered their King and got away with zero lasting consequences. They sacrificed a small amount of their troops for the 4-d Chess move in Nazmir, Jaina got an ouchie (poor Jaina), nothing happened to Genn, and Mekkatorque got an upgrade in the long run.
The fact that they were able bring an army to kill Rastakhan in his own throne room, and get away scot-free should serve as a wake-up call for Zandalar, and the next time we go to Zandalar for an ingame Narrative that updates the zones there, we should see the results of that with Queen Talanji.
if the Narrative team is competent.
Didn’t giant story-time loa turtle get butchered by the deranged god-eating, synethetic-old-one worshiping blood cult?
It’s a pretty dangerous swamp. Even for wild-gods.
I doubt we will ever go back there. BFA was peak faction conflict. Blizzard was really trying to get the players to go to war with each other.
It probably failed hard since they never pushed for it again - SL was about the “scary” jailer, DF was about dragons, now everyone is supposedly BFF.
Doubt Blizzard wants to revisit that unpopular expansion and its setting.
oh we’ll definitely go back to Zandalar and Kul Tiras at some point. just not for faction conflict.
It checks out
Trolls sucks so badly, always losing