#Zul'Jin

[little-viking-draw]

Zul'jin: " Quick tour-"

[anielina13]

The chieftain and his children

[problematic-faves-appreciation]

Thinking about designated villains. I'm reminded in World Of Warcraft that the lore has settlers come to the land of natives that have lived there for thousands of years, immediately start colonizing the native's holy land, & than massacre the natives when they resist. The natives, Forest Trolls, and their leader Zul'jin are in the wrong according to the game, whilst the white humans and elves are "Right" apparently. The trolls are PoC Coded. Is it any wonder I prefer the "Villains"?

Yeah, it's pretty messed up how they are seen as "the ones in the wrong" by WoW lore.

[shameshameknowyourname]

Where can I get some a that good marijane?

Nevermind, I found it on Zul’jin.

[lendasdeazeroth]

Zul'jin

Introdução de Zul'jin: O Feroz Senhor da Guerra do Império Amani Zul'jin, conhecido como o feroz líder dos trolls da tribo Amani, é uma figura lendária marcada por sua resistência, inteligência astuta e profundo ódio contra os elfos de Quel'Thalas e a Aliança de Lordaeron. Originário da selva densa de Zul'Aman, Zul'jin foi de grande importância na história dos trolls da floresta, elevando seu ...

https://lendasdeazeroth.com.br/personagens/zuljin/

[crash-likes-cookies]

The Gods of Zul'Aman - Trailer Remastered

"You wanna stay? You stay forever! We gonna bury you here..."

[lasnevadaslaborunion]

Sorry but I will NEVER miss an opportunity to complain about how the trolls from World of Warcraft are treated

[byrjl]

The Ama- Null Sector never gives up!

Been holding onto this thing for ages. I finally decided to just make Set look like crap in the last frame... because they kinda feel like crap after that impact.

[bluesunsdusk]

I had bad mental today, so have Human Set being annoyed with everything and nearly being mean to Human Ramattra.

(Too lazy to switch to my art blog for a doodle, so uh...)

[thasdorah]

the thing with elves is i think all of them care more about their little elf groups than factions or whatever

[vepaluiron]

So my friend (B) and I realized that the Warcraft mod for Crusader Kings 3 (Guardians of Azeroth 2, its very cool) updated recently with a few new mechanics. We had a longer running game where I played as Sylvanas and B played as Vereesa, but that game had gotten so slow it refused to run. So, we decided, why not restart? We picked the earliest start point, I picked Sylvanas and B picked Alleria.

Interesting moments from our game so far:

alleria becoming a witch and then instantly turning sylvanas into a witch

me: SOMEBODY IS PLOTTING AGAINST MY SIS--- wait. is it you?

B: yeah its me LOL

sylvanas has ptsd, feels canon

zul'jin and sylvanas ended up becoming rivals. sylvanas lost this duel so hard she had a mental breakdown, which led to her becoming a gym rat

B: Is our grandpa spending our legacy points? me: No... Wait. *I* am the family heir. B: Wait, really? Oh.... me: Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

sylvanas being an incredible aunt, as expected

the scream i scrumpt, i was just trying to get her to not hate me after grandpapa's untimely demise

i saw this and was like. bro we have to take this man down, this is the last straw

cant avoid tragedy. at least lireesa's still alive?

and to round out the night, all hail the new regent-lady of quel'thalas!

other fun moments:

me deflecting the windrunner curse like my life depends on it. i dont know where all these men are coming from but BACK YOU VILE BEASTS

lirath's wife tried to kill him. in retrospect, her name was shar so i should've known this would've happened.

our uncle threw shit on me (because i killed grandpapa) so sylvanas now has the nickname "the Stinky". i will figure out how to change this, but unfortunately uncle paus windrunner will never see this >:)

i have a permanent religion debuff because B made a new religion that made polygamy holy, and sylvanas has a permanent "refusing to marry" trait

conversely, alleria has 3 husbands who wont stop accusing her of cheating despite polygamy being legal and encouraged

sylvanas finally ended up hooking up with a random elven woman in the woods during a hunt. good for her.

arthas somehow ended up being alleria's prisoner. he was in prison for 16 years before either of us realized it happened.

most of the original warcraft cast is dead. it has only been like 50 years. neither of us have any idea how this happened.

[little-viking-draw]

-Incorrect Zul'jin qoute that I think suited him so I drew it-

[anielina13]

Fektess földbe édes párom

Boruljon rám örök álom

Eső mossa el a vérem

Fogadjon be avar mélye

Szellőtestvér szórd szét hamvam

Csermelyhúgom messzehordjad

Legyek magva új életnek

Bölcsője a születőnek

Ne sirassál édes párom

Itt maradok e világon

Megszületek, csillag leszek

Éjnek keblén megpihenek

__________

Не плачь обо мне, друг мой милый.

Хоть взор мой сном вечным затмило,

Лишь кровь обернется водой,

А дух воспарит над землей.

Развеют ветра в диком поле

Мой прах, ни о чем не жалея.

Средь скорби, печали и горя

Трава да цветы пусть созреют.

Не плачь обо мне, друг мой милый.

Душа моя небом хранима.

Она станет яркой звездой,

И каждую ночь я буду с тобой.

[do-you-know-this-queer-character]

For reference if you're a non Warcraft fan or haven't been keeping up with WoW, Warcraft has blatantly racially coded fantasy races like the trolls have jamaican accents, wear tiki masks and grass skirts, and practice voodoo in Jungles, whilst the tauren (Minotaurs) have feather headdress, smoke peace pipes, have totem poles and tepees, ETC.

Warcraft's so called new "woke" writers have doubled down on the "PoC coded monsters are evil" stuff with the very few good characters from those races being depicted as the "good ones" because they reject the savage ways of their people and side with white humans.

They've also whitewashed any bad actions from white characters.

Around the same time, Mathias Shaw was confirmed as gay, we got 2021's Shadowlands where:

There was a story with the pure and good white colonizers vs the completely evil savage natives that deserved to be wiped out because they didn't want to share.

Confirmation that the gods that the white races worshipped were real, whilst the gods of the tauren and other PoC coded races were fake.

An afterlife where all spirits are converted to bodies resembling caucasian humans.

A POC coded character (Zul'jin) that fought against the white colonizers that stole his land and treat his people as vermin to be exterminated, being one of the only characters being sent to Hell, whilst white characters whom did far worse weren't.

Real world revered voodoo loa Dambala being depicted as a God of evil that players are sent to kill.

So I think more people should've voted negatively on Mathias Shaw because whilst the character himself isn't racist, he's closely associated with horrible racist writing that thought throwing a white gay character in to their broke ass script script would somehow make it "woke".

I encourage people to interpret the poll options in whatever way they want, whether that's the character's writing, the strength of the representation, or their overall feelings on the media. I've talked about this before, but at the end of the day I am not trying to be an arbiter of what media is good and what's not, because I am simply not qualified to be. I sincerely appreciate when people send in asks like this detailing the issues with a piece of media so that other people can be more aware in the future. All posts like this are tagged with "media critical"!

[darkspear-dancers]

Your OC as a raid boss and all the fun details about location, phases, and abilities. (Ahua is not allowed to ever actually be one because she's living forever)

The Dance of the Darkspear

Akin to Legion's Trial of Valor, the Dance of the Darkspear is a three-boss raid that explores more troll lore. [Yes, yet another troll raid!] The raid is presented as a proving grounds and a history lesson at once, taking players from Dazar'alor to the Other Side on a mystic crucible.

Ahuatli and the Veildancers

The first encounter is a ceremonial performance of the sacred sisterhood, the Veildancers, located in the Loa's Sanctum of Dazar'alor.

Designed in the style of Lorewalker Stonestep in the Temple of the Jade Serpent, this encounter would select one of the veildancers to lead the performance, and each veildancer would tell their loa's tale.

From Bwonsamdi and Rezan to Xolotal and Xibala, well-known and obscure loa would both get their chances to shine, with specters and voodoobound golems opposing the adventurers.

Azae'latl and the Jaguar Warriors

Players would be whisked away from the holiest temples to the jungle primeval, where Azae'latl would enlist the reforged Order of the Jaguar Warriors to test the mettle of the adventurers.

The second trial would begin in a sacred cenote, against Jaguar Warriors of the past and present, in an encounter inspired by Master Snowdrift of the Shado-Pan Monastery.

In the final phase, the commotion would summon forth Tloque'Rakir, the jaguar loa of bloodlust, and all would have to battle the loa back into the depths of the cenote, sending it back to the Other Side.

Zul'Jawa and the War Dance

Players would remain in the underworld for the final fight, guided by Zul'Jawa and his ghostly greatfather, Zul'Izotl, both War Dancers welcoming the party to the final trial.

In this last lesson, a gathered host of ghostly trolls would engage all players in ritualistic combat. Deceased trolls of legend would return, with players having to remember time-tested tactics of Dazar from King's Rest, Zul'jin and Daakara from Zul'Aman, Tharon'ja from Drak'Tharon Keep, Jin'rokh the Breaker and High Priestess Mar'li from the Throne of Thunder!

The instance's final boss would be the dreaded Hakkar, again trying to escape from the realm of death and descending upon the players in a storm of blood. Only by enacting the War Dance, replicating the lessons learned from the history of trollish warfare over the ages, can the players outlast and overcome the Soulflayer a final time.

Lucky players might leave the Dance of the Darkspear with a rare jaguar or wind serpent mount, and achievement hunters would return to the Dance to complete side-objectives - winning dance-offs against each veildancer, winning games on an otherworldly ball court, or catching axolotls in the waters of the cenote!

[ Thank you so much @zeehva for this ask, I had an absolute blast with this! ^^ ]