Zandalari Trolls - 9 Facts You Should Know About Them | WoW BfA Allied Races
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- Опубліковано 2 сер 2024
- Zandalari trolls are going to be the new Horde Allied Race in Battle for Azeroth! if you're thinking of picking this race, find out more in this video to make sure you're making the right choice for your character, mon!
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00:44 - 1. Original Trolls (16000+ years)
02:45 - 2. 'Loa' Worship (16000+ years)
04:37 - 3. Aqir War (16000 years)
05:49 - 4. Allies of the Mogu (12000 years)
06:34 - 5. Location of Zuldazar (10000 years)
07:27 - 6. First Fight against Hakkar (1500 years)
08:26 - 7. Reuniting the Troll Empire (Near Present)
09:31 - 8. Retaking Pandaria (Near Present)
10:28 - 9. Horde recruit the Zandalari (Present)
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![The Story of The Zandalari [Lore]](/img/n.gif)
The Zandalari also had conflicts with the elves. First with the night elves shortly before the War of the Ancients. The Zandalari lost many of their northern territories to Queen Azshara, but managed to hold the areas surrounding Zuldazar. The second time was during the Troll Wars where they aided the Amani against the high elves. As the war turned to the high elves' favor, the Zandalari didn't want to sacrifice anymore warriors, so they returned to their ships and sailed home. The Zandalari have been involved in many key events of the Warcraft lore.
Bwonsamdi is SOO cool in BFA. I kind of wish Vol'jin could become a "saint" loa somehow but only because he's awesome and I feel like he didn't get enough face time in the game xD
He probably will in SL
@@jam34786 Can confirm, during the Winter Court campaign Vol'jin takes Rezan's position as the Loa of kings and is being reborn as we speak
I am so excited to play as a Zandalari Troll. Easily my most anticipated allied race.
Did you already now or did you stop in the meantime ?
Love playing my paladin as a Zandalari!
I remember a few Zandalari npces at Booty Bay and Zul'Drak even before Cata. We waited for so long!
the elf races come from trolls. like dogs come from wolfs. :)
This 💪
Wow, you give so much detail, I really appreciate that! Thank you.
Thanks! Very glad that you enjoyed it too :)
One of the better lore videos on the Zandalari. Great vid keep it up.
Thank you. I very much appreciate the compliment. Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video man! These are all really interesting tidbits of lore to bring up in anticipation for the expansion. Would be kinda cool to get a video like this about the dark iron dwarves!
Thanks very much! Yes I'm most certainly going to do one for the dark irons. Dwarves are my favorite alliance race by far. Glorious beards
so excited for zandalari trolls got my guy all planned out. now that i learned even more about them im even more excited. thank you so much Lorewalker Cho for the awsome video peace fam :D
thanks very much :) I love that panda haha.
Alpha info on BfA is out now too! Check out the Zanda's totally awesome druid travel forms!
Great job man, you go into great detail. Subscribed.
good video mon
Thank you mon. Stay away from da voodoo!
Really great video, keep it up!!
Thank you very much! Glad that you enjoyed it :)
Thought I'd make it 200, good job dude and nice vid. I can't wait to play the zandalri! they look so cool
Thank you for the support, I appreciate it very much. Me too mon! Cant wait for them :)
Loved your video, keep continuing the excellent work!
Thank you very much :)
Zandalari Druid or any other class is why I want to play BFA, I hated the trolls they released for wow to play and been looking forward to this race for a long time, spot on bud, good job.
Thanks very much! Am very much looking forward to playing a zanda druid too, especially with their new upright humanoid models and (possibly) dino forms
Im going for a zandalari shadow priest. Stay awaaaaaay from da voodoo
good choice mon :) priest is the de facto zanda class too!
I plan on playing a Zandalari Shaman, probably Enhancement. I really like the idea of my Zandalari Shaman sort of channeling the fury of the Loa through his weapons. I actually didn't know that the Trolls had Loa associated with the elements until I came up with the idea for my Shaman.
That sounds awesome :) Yup, they channel the powers of the Loa in all forms, whether they be troll shammies, priests, druids, etc.
Brilliant content with lovely narration, keep it up! +1 sub
Thank you! Very glad that you enjoyed it :)
Awesome video! Very informative, thank you. Can't wait for my druid
Thank you! Very glad that you enjoyed it. I can't wait too, for our zanda dinomancer druid to come out :)
Great video!!!
The allied race I’m most excited to play! Already made myself a mog with the pandaria stuff lol.
Hmm I saw your video today and I think you have great videos :) in the futurr you will have a lot more subscribers :D
thank you very much for that :) will probably be doing a dark iron dwarf one soon so stay tuned for it!
Thanks for the video!! Was really awesome learning about the Zandalari further! I'd like to know if you're planning on making a video regarding the Zandalari's druid forms? I've seen so many people trying to say that the forms are not "lore correct". So It would be cool to see a video discussing weather or not this is true?
That's a great idea! I'll definitely consider it. I only haven't done a "loa" video because much of the current lore is still locked behind BfA content :) But as it gets released and datamined, I'll see what I can research up!
And I'm very glad that you got something about the video :) Thanks for watching!
Zandalari Shaman, maybe even make my troll hunter one aswell, altough i actually like the "hunchback" for troll hunters.
Yea that hunchback is pretty iconic. Keep the hunter as the original Darkspear :) then make a Zanda shammy
This video was surprisingly good you earned my sub mon
Thank you very much my Lord Jaraxus :) Glad you enjoyed the video!
So happy about Allied Races. I LOVED these trolls but lost hope on them ever being playable. Thank god I was wrong about that.
Really looking forward to play them on BfA.
Btw I'm sub #90. So happy x'D
Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it! I love them too, can't wait to experience their storyline and play their race :)
The trolls are older than the Nightelves because they are their ANCESTORS!
Didn't think I'd have a reason to main hop this time from my DH, but yea... Zandalari druid is where I want to be.
This was one of the favorite WoW videos I've seen. I started playing WoW again 4 months ago and chose troll. but now I know I have even more strong reasons to have chosen this race.
Thank you very much, that means a lot to me :) hope you continue to have a great time in Azeroth!
np, i will!
Excellent thenk you.
Eh mon da zandallari be ma favorite race this video be cool aswell but ya must learn how to speak da language of da trolls
Totally agree with ya mon. Will try mah best to do anuther voodeoo in dey language :)
It be finally time ta RP dem, too long have de ugly Darkspear keep me away from dem!
I thought this dude did their accent this entire video...
I thought dis dude did dey accent dis entire video*
Touché.
Awesome job
thank you!
Great video. Only suggestion I could give is the sound is a bit off. Your voice has an echo sound and the music (good choices) would sometimes be too loud. Other than super informative and I enjoyed it to the end! Thanks!!
Hey Rokon Man! Sorry about that, I'm not using the best mic right, so it does that sometimes. Thanks a lot for the feedback though! I appreciate it :)
Gongrongzong completely understandable! Keep up the good work mate!
Thanks :) hope you have a great weekend ahead bud!
You pronounced all the names correctly! :D
Great video
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed it
cool vid :o lots of stuff i didnt know
Zul’Aman was a raid back in TBC, not a 5-man dungeon - that change didn’t come to pass till Cataclysm.
Also; the frost trolls’ first appearance wasn’t in Wrath - they were early mobs in the Dwarf and Gnome starting zone.
We be first mon, truly lookin forward to dis..
me too mon...me too :)
Wish you would make one for the kul tirans too and drust druids
I really want my zandalair shaman now
me too
me hype too :)
Nice video good job
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the video :)
I really can’t wait to be a zappy boi!
Make sure you run solo into Stormwind and one shot zap Manduin!
Zappiboi is Darkspeak though..
So go play a Darkspear troll dude
Before the zul aman and zul gurub being 5 man dungeon in cataclysm, they were both vanilla raids of lvl 60.
Yes they were, you are right. And Zul Aman was during Burning Crusade :) epic raids and memories
Zul’aman was from bc though.
Aye and so a level 70 raid.
The answer is always yes.
bonzamdie my favorite "WHO STIR UP ME BONES " LOL
Do you mean Bwonsamdi?
Fun fact that I learned from the comments, he's not actually a troll, but just took on the guise of one :)
Gongrongzong yup him
Another great video! Thank youxim now decided to start and lvl up a druid zandalari posibbly make it a main. Love the lore
I cant decide if i wanna make my warrior a normal troll or wait for zandalari. My hunter and druid are definitely gonna be ztroll tho
4:37.............NUMBER TREE... I am dying.
Me be havin a question for ya mon. Do we count Ashamane, Ursol, Ursoc and many others as Loa.
Ya mon, the trolls count them as Loa. They consider them as part of their Wild Gods
Me think you talk zanadlari well mon
Me be thankin ya
I am gonna be playing Zandalari troll druid in BfA. Their animal forms look awesome. And troll lore are incredible. And their architecture and music are glorious. Zandalari are awesome from every point of view.
I totally agree with you. Everything about them just screams awesome, from their back story to their cities. Now if we could only get dino models for their bear/cat forms...heh
Have you seen the new data mined forms? Looks like Dino themed for all forms. SOOOOOO AWESOME!!!
I was blown away buy this turtlezaur or what the hell this is, looks SUPER awesome! Cant wait for cat form... for the love of god, let it be Velociraptor...
The turtle form is actually called an ankylosaurus :) It's an actual dinosaur! The travel form is already a Velo though, so maybe the cat form will be something different
Cat form has been datamined. Not so impressive, if you ask me, but thank god it's not usual cat.
do one of Kul'Tiras!! :D
The answer is just yes
Best video of zandalari, trolls rules
Welcome back lorewalker ... 🐼
when are they coming out??
Probably after we hit level 120 during BfA, we'll have to do some sort of quest chain to unlock them :)
How are the Pandaren, particularly the Horde Pandaren going to react to the Zandalari being welcomed into the Horde? Are the Mogu next?
Yes, you bring up a very legit point. They've been mortal enemies since...forever.
Seeing as how Blizz has kinda given up on panda lore since MoP, I don't really think they'll bother to rectify this :( which I'm sad about. I think pandas have the potential to add a lot of flavor to the game, even if the player base might not really like them.
Pandas are the only race in both factions. BfA is a massive expansion of the battles that took place on Pandaria, battles that the Panda were vehemently against. Why they would support this in any way shape or form...really doesn't make much sense.
If the Zandalari had got their way in MoP, the Pandaren would have been killed or enslaved by the Thunder King. Where would their home been then?
plus the druids forms are amazings
They really are :) can't wait to see the cat form!
I want to Blood troll to be playable so badly :D
lets face it, we choose characters based on how cool they look lol
when do we get these guys anyways?
For most of us sure. But for those like me who love the lore, that is ATLEAST equally important in choosing a race.
It's true! And that's why I hate people that only play Elves in the Horde faction... I always rolled trolls and I'm so proud of my Darkspear buddies! Despite of the fact the are not considered "cool" :) for da horde!
So how's that going to play out when the Zandalari and Pandaren are ancient enemies and now to be allied? I dont understand how that is going to work :D Nice video by the way. Made me wanna play the race even more now!!
Thanks! Very glad that you enjoyed it :)
I've no idea..Blizzard likes to ignore big parts of the lore. And they seem to have entirely forgotten about the Pandaren at that :/
Zandalari - all this extensive back story. High mountain Tauren - Huln being legend as far back as war of the ancients. Void elves - ... Urm..
Zandalari Druid
what's the music? :(
I used quite a few different tracks! Some are from the new zandalari themes coming out in BfA. Others are from Zul Gurub and Zul Aman :)
Dude your voice is so cool
Hey Simon Hoge! Thanks :) glad you like the accent heh
That Amani 5 man dungeon was originally a 10 man raid.
Yea you're right, sorry about that! Said it wrongly :)
My left ear enjoyed this.
i know, so sorry bout that, I don't have the best mic right now. will be getting a new one soon
Wait, these Dark Trolls from Warcraft 3 evolved into the Nightelves? From Warcraft 3? How's that work? Time line wise.
That's right! Copy pasta from wowpedia: wow.gamepedia.com/Dark_troll
Gradually, many dark trolls started to migrate towards the labyrinthine groves at the heart of Kalimdor, encountering creatures such as dryadsand faerie dragons and eventually discovering an enormous lake filled with magical energies at the very center of the continent. Calling the lake the "Well of Eternity", the dark trolls settled upon its shores. Over generations, the energies of the Well transformed them, elevating their forms and transforming them into highly intelligent and virtually immortal beings. The former trolls gradually abandoned their ancient heritage, and the tribe's mystics started worshipping "Elune", a nocturnal moon goddess which they believed slumbered in the Well's depths during the day. The former trolls also discovered the name "Kalimdor" and other titan-forged words from communing with Elune and investigating strange artifacts scattered around the Well. Influenced by this newfound language, they took up the name kaldorei - "children of the stars" - or night elves.
So time line wise it would be anywhere around 16000 years ago, plus minus a couple thousand :)
Ah, Well cool. Learn something everyday. Thanks for taking the time to explain that to me.
Elves are trolls twisted by arcane magic by the way
Eyy mon der be Forest Trolls in Vanilla dey just didn't have da sweet model den
Can they be a death knight?
Hey Jdollf! Nope, unfortunately there's no news of allied races being able to be death knights yet
I don't really play Horde but I think the Zandalari Trolls are one of the better Allied Races, only behind the Void Elves (cuz ELVES!) and the Dark Irons as nr. 3.
Agreed. You should really come over to horde and try them out! and then you'll never go back :)
sure there are older then the nightelves...because nightelves are descendants from them. here is a lineage chart for better overview. pre00.deviantart.net/1fa6/th/pre/i/2018/100/9/4/lineage_of_the_trolls___and_elves__bfa__by_xyzjin-dc84p2f.jpg
I have a troll now, I'd love to make a zandalari too but we'll see what they do with the faces, so far the female face I saw was ugly, unlike the trolls we can already play, it's a nice mix of angry, badass and pretty.
Yea i agree, there aren't really that much changes to the zanda female trolls from the current ones. the zanda female faces do come across as a bit monstrous in nature.
Definitely stick with your current troll then, if you enjoy it! Not much changes to the current animations too
They look cool af, only their race mount is boring. But using the new toad mount on him 🤪
Wish I had the toad mount :( its so awesome. But so expensive. Hahaha
If one had to choose as a player the choice is between humpback stick figures (Dark Spear clan) (excluding the females) whose only real worthwhile skill is a 10% haste buff that last 12 secs with a CD of 3min. The Zandalari trolls are more muscular, stand straight and tall with several racial skills as well as choosing a Loa to worship offering different benefits to fit anyone's play style. Zandalari after all have their own city/zone where the Dark Spear are more or less refuges.
So the hordes pandaren are just gonna go and recruit the zandalari as allies? After they enslaved them?
Yea, you bring up a great point that's been irking me too. Blizzard seems to have just forgotten entirely about Pandaren Lore after MoP. They've been mortal enemies for thousand and thousands of years. Don't just see them shaking hands and making up.
Plus, the entire BfA conflict is antithesis to what Pandaren believe in. They were already so against the battles occuring on their island between the Horde and Alliance during MoP. Not sure why if ever they would now agree to take part in a world war.
Gongrongzong I'm kind of sad blizz keeps contradicting their own lore, it's the core of what makes wow special! I keep being dissapointed when they do that..
Same here, I agree with you. The lore is pretty important. But I guess it is a game, first and foremost. So unfortunately they'll have to put gameplay reasons first, I understand.
Still, sometimes they do seem to abandon strong lore reasons for very weak gameplay ones, which is when it gets annoying ;)
Gongrongzong youre right.. couldn't have said it better :')
za was not a 5 an dungeon it was a 10man raid back in tbc it was then changed in cata along with zg to dungeons
You are correct, sorry about that! Mixed up the cata version there with the original version for a bit
I wanna point out, Zul'Aman was a 10m raid in BC not a 5 man...
Ah, you are right. Sorry about that! Too many trolls..kept getting them mixed up on my end too.
To you think they will release Troll monk?
I don't think so mate :/ the classes for them seem pretty set in stone. Fingers crossed though!
Ok, sad :/ would be cool if they link it with the background story in mop and the zandalar
the audio quality is still a bit low but otherwise great video :D
also 1:50 you say we see them first in the 5 man dungeon but back then zul aman was a raid :D
So sorry, apologise about that! I was using an old mic for this video too. Have switched to a better microphone now though, so it'll be better from now on. Thank you, am glad you enjoyed the video! :)
np not everyone can afford a high quality mic at the start of their channell and the audio quality is more then ok. btw i also hope you will do a similiar video about kul tiras. because i still hope we get the big humans as playable race :D
Kul Tiras sounds like a great idea! I did a video on the Proudmoores, the rulers of Kul Tiras, but not one specifically of the area. I'll try and see if I can get enough info on the area for a video!
The big humans would be awesome. They should just enable them as an inherent human customisation option haha.
i would prefer them as allied race just to get myself some awesome kultiras heritage armor :D
something like this i could see as heritage armor for kul tirans:
wow.zamimg.com/uploads/screenshots/normal/702615.jpg
zandalar will rise again mon!
You speak de truth mon!
"even older then the night elfs" night elfs evolveed from trolls ~~ of course they are older
sorry i just love this fact too much to not be a bitch about it whenever i get the chance xD
Watching this makes me wonder why zandalari are allowed to be monks. Being allied to the mogu puts them kinda in-between a healthy relationship with the pandaren, making it kind of hard for zandalari trolls to get teached in being a monk.. am I right?
I just want a FUCKIN DEVILSAUR MOUNT GOD DAMNIT
Jordan Washko hey, you never know, it might be a raid boss drop or something :) if they can make brontosaurus mounts, im sure they can make trex ones
11 - The Zandalaris spend every month a fortune buying food suplements and have the most ostensive chain of gyms in Azeroth.
True history.
Jolly Roger speaks da truth mon
Need to sort that audio out bro, then you'd be subscribe worthy.
Yea, so sorry about that! I apologise. Was using an old mic when I first started. Have obtained a new mic now though, so the newer videos should be much better. Still, thanks for watching :)
I like your voice, very pleasing. The accent is not familiar to me. Please excuse my curiosity, what is your origin?
Thanks! No problem at all, I'm from Singapore :) and thanks for asking so politely heh
I don't know about Zanza but Bwonsamdi is not a troll that became a Loa, he just a Loa that took the form of a Troll for whatever reason. He himself said he existed since before the Trolls.
Oh yes, you are correct. Just checked, in the book "Shadows of the Horde" he mentions that he was here even before the trolls.
Sorry about the error. Thanks for pointing that out!
Nice of him though :) to take on the form of his worshipers.
Yeah, I've been thinking about that lately and I do hope we get some details about his past or creation throughout BFA.
Also great video !
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it :)
Yea hopefully we get some story to him! Hopefully he's the one that communicated with Vol'jin, and maybe we'll get some reasons as to why he made him choose sylvanas.
Who’s dat ‘mon?
I can't wait to make a Zandalari philsopher.
What's a zandalari philosopher? Like a scholar? :)
LOL yeah either a priest, warlock or fire mage perhaps? Hopefully we can get beards.
Hahaha. Bearded trolls. That'll be awesome.
Alliance dark iron dwarves would complain though. They are the true kings of the beard department. lol.
Troll supremacy
Dark trolls were the first trolls. All troll tribes come from them according to the chronicles
Yes you're right! Chronicles has a slightly different variation for the dark trolls origins :)
Gongrongzong I believe chronicles was suppose to be the end all be all for lore. But it seems like that might not be the case?
You are right, novels are usually treated as the most canon of lore. Blizzard like to retcon stuff though, and it gets pretty confusing.
In chronicles, Dark Trolls were already a separate group from the Amani even before the aqir war. In the original lore, all the troll tribes gathered together under Zandalar before breaking off after the war.
do you mind if i use this video for my reddit (www.reddit.com/r/WorldOfTrollcraft/) in my lore post?
Your audio keeps making me think my headphones are not plugged in.
Hey Daniel! Sorry about that, I apologise. I was using an old mic for my older videos. The newer ones should be much better :)
I thibk we did see dark trolls in cataclysm, they join the Horde for a time and then they are mauled by night elves in Darkshore
Good point, you may be right! There is speculation that the troll versions of Dark Strand Enforcers in Ashenvale had dark skin, indicating that they may be dark trolls :)
Gongrongzong I didn't even know about them actually but that could make sense for me. Thanks for answering ;)
No worries mon :)
Rolling horde this expac ally got shit on allied races
Maybe! But its still a long time till September. There may be new Kul Tiran druid forms, and also we havent seen what Dark Irons will be able to do yet :)
Trolls are the best race in my opinion
Trolls is master race mon. Even dey night elves came from dem :)
Recorded in the bathroom, for your benefit!
Zandalari Troll like noble.Dark Spear just like beggar no body want to choose.
Your audio needs help. I suggest looking up tutorials for audio editing and quality to improve your channel. Audio should be around -12db and background music around -16 to -18 db. Cheers.
I REALLY hope they’ll be paladins 👀
As long as it's alpha, anything's still on the board :) Fingers crossed!