Conquest happened. The hows and what happened to the troll population afterward is in the realm of speculation. Without more details, we cannot make authoritative statements.
What.
Iâve been doing nothing but posting screencaps from Chronicle 1 because you guys keep arguing the dumbest things.
âThere was no war in Ba Sing Se.â
âUh, dude, chronicle very specifically says there was.â
âtHeRe wAs nO wAr iN bA sInG sE!â
Conquest through war happened, with such overpowering magic that utterly decimated every troll empireâs army (and holdings, and the people in those holdings), that the zandalari troll emperor agreed to become police for Azshara.
âPolice your people for me, or Iâll kill all of them and you.â
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This is still what weâre arguing.
This very vague paragraph.
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Baseless claim.
You can find support in that paragraph for UTTER GENOCIDE ENSLAVEMENT OF THE TROLLS BODIES BURNING IN THE STREETS WOE ONTO THE NATION or âAzshara went with a treaty because she really didnât give an (expletive deleted) about fighting trolls and they reluctantly lived within the new bordersâ.
Because itâs really vague.
Small sporadic battles donât make sense, given thereâs umpteen troll empires and the night elves conquered all of them.
No, I know I said I would. I just wasnât anticipating people to be saying there was no Battle in Ba Sing Se, and thus resulting in time I wouldâve spent in War3âs Chronicle on Chronicle 1.
Hardly.
Whereâre all the troll ruins, mi amigo?
So many empires, yet so few ruins left.
Probably underwater, given how much of the lands that was the Troll and Night Elf Empires sank after the Sundering.
I get where youâre coming from though. The kaldorei empire map plus the extremely vague chronicle passages do infer a heavy handed genocide against the trolls at one point or another.
Not everything needs to be explicitly written for most people to understand what took place or at least infer what took place.
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Inference is headcanon, not absolute facts like Dreadmore is claiming.
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In absence if direct opposing cannon, itâs fine to fill in the blanks though. Not saying itâs fact but itâs okay to think or guess what happened
Given that Azsharaâs empire left the Vrykul, Humans, and Dark Trolls in peace to live within her empire there is plausible direct opposition to Dreadmooreâs headcanon.
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But we donât know that for sure.
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And Dreadmoore will not admit he does not know for sure.
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Yet, the nelves have so many.
You donât conquer multiple empires with âSmall, sporadic battles.â
Dark Trolls largely lived in caves.
The dragons ruled over Northrend*, and one would presume that the Night Elves wouldnât press their luck against the Aspects.
I donât know when humans became humans.
*The Roof of the World, which is the portion of Pangea that Northrend includes, whence the Vrykul originated from.
Dragonblight, Howling Fjord, Grizzly Hills and the lands that would become Crystalsong Forest were all within Azsharaâs empire.
It makes sense, because after those just hopeless battles for the trolls, Azshara simply marched into Zandalar and issued an ultimatum, making the trolls give up everything she wanted to claim in exchange for keeping their holy place. That was the dealâŚthatâs why there was never a big troll genocide in the DIRECT way, but what is true is that after the sundering the troll empires suffered a lot of starvation which ended in one case even in civil wars, both the Amani and the Gurubashi suffered (there we learned much more even about the gurubashi case), just because they were many and had very little land leftâŚ
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/739539695578382398/1005200733886500975/unknown.png
Doesnât appear to be the case. AzjolâNerub is in Dragon Blight.
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/wowpedia/images/a/a3/Night_Elf_Empire.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20160428235210
star´s rest is in dragonblightâŚand is litteraly a night elf ruin from 10.000 years ago.
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Chronicles sort of makes it sound like the " openly hostile troll nations" were involved in that most traditional of Azeroth-based pursuits⌠engaging in shenanigans only to discover the lamentable truth.
Anyway, the lore might not make sense, but that passage is the detail we have. We can extrapolate from it however we want, but âsmall skirmishesâ is what weâve got.