Hello everyone! The Djarradin, although looking a lot like the vrykul, are a new race added
to Warcraft with Dragonflight. During our adventures we learn that they love a good
challenge and there’s no better fight to be found for them then that with Dragons making them a big
problem for our allies since with the awaking of the dragon isles, so too did the djaradin rise.
Behind the obsidian sanctum we find Tarjin the Blind who’s willing to share the tales of the
mighty djaradin, masters of magma, slayers of dragons, conquerors of this land... but not for
free. We’ll have to prove ourselves worthy of his time each week by slaying dragons,
but don’t worry. If we don’t have the stomach to fight our precious dragonflight,
we may seek out the proto-dragons and bring their skulls in turn... So sit back,
relax, and listen to the tales of the djaradin as told by Tarjin the Blind...
Gossip How did you lose your eyesight?
I lost my eyesight as any djaradin would wish to... in battle with a massive dragon!
I hid on a mountaintop for three weeks without moving, waiting for the perfect moment to strike!
Finally, I stuck, jumping on the back of a powerful dragon named Fenistrasza flying by.
We wrestled as we plummeted through the sky, hundreds of feet,
until we slammed into the heart of a volcano! Fenistrasza had gouged out my eyes with her talons
during the fall, but I had only begun to fight! I ripped the lava and earth swirling around us
upward, wrapping around the dragon's entire body. Sightless, but filled with fury, I forced the
dragon downward into the volcano's throat, burning it alive as we were both enveloped in lava.
I held Fenistrasza in that volcano for three days straight, until I emerged
with nothing but her skull. Lava still pours out of her
skull's eye sockets to this day. Do you doubt me? It rests there
on the shelf beside me. See for yourself what happens to those who oppose a djaradin
And from the naming scheme we can figure out that Fenistrasza similar
to alexstrasza would be a female red dragon.
And why should I be with the other djaradin? Do not presume to know of our ways, outsider.
After I was blinded in battle with Fenistrasza, I was no longer
welcome on the Qalashi dragonhunting parties. And they were right. I could not keep up with
the other dragonhunters. I was a liability. So I passed my days in camp, as a laborer.
But my strength never waned! I continued down a different path to glory.
I mastered control of earth and fire, bending magma and stubborn fire elementals to my will.
While slumbering deep in the ground with the other djaradin,
my command over earth only grew stronger! When the djaradin awoke, I had no interest
in returning to manual labor in our camp. Here, I can focus on strengthening my command
over earth and fire, without distraction. Usually. Now leave me alone.
I still wonder where the line is drawn between those that fell asleep when the dragon isles were
locked away and thosethat kept on going. Like from the centaur stories we learned that the centaur
kept operating. The dragonkin, the dragonspawn also kept the island turning, the cities upheld
and lal that good stuff yet the djaradin and apperantly some of the titan creatures
they went to sleep so i wodner where that diffence lies and why exactly they awoke.
I imagine it has something to do with their connection to the elements,
but who knows. Maybe something well explore in the future.
Gossip Tale of the Outsider
Long ago, far before my time, legends tell of an outsider ship
landing on the shores of the Dragon Isles. A warband of half-giants, led by their king,
carved their way through the land. The djaradin had not yet united
under the Qalashi banner, and several tribes fell to the fearsome half-giants.
But, like all who face djaradin on the battlefield, they eventually fell.
In the end, their king stood alone in the battlefield against
armies from all of the djaradin tribes. A whirlwind of violence and stubborness,
he refused to fall. For eight days and nights, he fought without rest and without fail.
He had earned his place among the djaradin, and joined the Qalashi tribe as a dragonhunter!
He fought alongside the Qalashi for years, slaying countless dragons
as he proved his worth a hundredfold. Until the day he finally fell in battle
with a powerful dragon a hundred times his size. He arrived an outsider, but he died a djaradin.
Gossip Tale of the Elders
Outsiders have often asked where the djaradin learned to command earth and fire.
Ignorant fools. The djaradin command the earth and fire, because we ARE the earth and fire!
It is said that the djaradin were the first earth giants to walk the surface of Azeroth.
Shaping earth and mountains, they formed this land with their fists.
According to legend, four elders of those ancient djaradin joined their
powers together to burrow deep inside the earth. The legends do not agree what happened down there,
but they all end the same way. The elders emerged, touched by
the fires of the world to be true djaradin, commanding full control over fire and earth!
In turn, the elders empowered all djaradin into the mighty giants you see today!
HEre we are told about 4 of them, 4 elders that went very deep below. Unknown what
happened to them in a world infested by the old gods. Unknown waht happened to them in a
world where the elements were just locked away within their elemental planes. All the same,
they emerged with fire. Fire in their veins and the djaradin were born. Curious
if we’ll ever see the full details as to what happened ot them down below.
Gossip Tale of the Warlord
It is said that the ancient djaradin tribes were disorganized. Rival
warlords battling each other for supremacy. Until one warlord, of the Qalashi tribe,
saw a more worthy path for her people. She ordered her tribe to leave the djaradin
battlefields, and focus their skills only on hunting the powerful dragons nearby.
The other tribes preyed on the weak around them: the tuskarr, gnolls, underdwellers.
And in time, they grew weak as well. But the Qalashi grew strong from fighting
only the most worthy foes in the Isles. In time, the warlord easily conquered
the lazy tribes, uniting their strongest under the Qalashi banner.
Focused and forged in battle, the newly emboldened Qalashi led a
legendary rampage against the dragons! Never before or since have the djaradin
slaughtered so many dragons in a single day. Some djaradin have forgotten the warlord's
timeless truth: What you fight, you become. This is why true Qalashi seek out strong
opponents. And why weaklings such as you are not worth fighting.
Were familiar wit hthe tuskar ofcourse and we’re familiar with the gnolls. Underdwellers
seemingly new name, there has been a rather interestingt vcreature datamined and we could
look at some of the books that were dropped in the ulkdaman revamped dungeon. Apperantly
there has been some sort of earthen evolutin tat we havent come across but it is similar to the
earthen evolution that we’ve seen before. Interesting. Again with the elders going
underneath the earth and now underdwellers aswell...some hints are being dropped here.
Gossip Tale of the Slumbering
Are you sure you wish to hear this tale? It may make you rethink your
friendship with the dragons... It is said that the four djaradin
elders' mastery over earth and fire caught the dragons off-guard in those first battles.
Dragon after dragon fell, until Neltharion emerged from the Obsidian Citadel with
his armies to halt their advance. The elders were hopelessly outnumbered,
but the dragons were hopelessly outmatched. As the elders battled all challengers with honor,
the so-called "Earth-Warder" revealed his cowardice.
Through honorless guile and trickery, the elders fell that day.
But not before they had secured permanent footholds for the djaradin in the surface of
these lands. Footholds we still hold to this day! Some say that the elders did not die that day,
but retreated deep into the earth, where they slumber and recover their strength.
I do not know if I believe that, but I hope it's true. You and your dragon friends would be doomed.
Neltharions trickery and guile, do they mean the creation of the dracthyr? do
they mean his allegiance to the old gods? Is defeating razageth not the first time
he embraced the powers of the ovid? What exactly did neltharion do to secure victory
against the djaradin? In turen the elders, these epic giants, those that found their
fire connection deep beneath the earth. Rumor has it that they’re still alive.
Say that we do go underground, would make for one heck of an encounter.
Gossip The Magma Pact
Even the legendary Qalashi warlord who united the tribes never matched
the raw power of the four elders. As the years passed, again and again
the warlord lost ground to the dragons. Our people pushed farther back into their
mountain footholds, practically underground! It is said that after her defeat at Scalebreaker
Keep, she withdrew deep into the earth to ask the elders to lend her their strength.
But upon her journey, a massive being of elemental magic approached her. An
Incarnate of the earth itself. This Incarnate, Iridikron,
asked the warlord what she would be willing to do to end the reign of the Aspects.
The warlord answered as any djaradin would: We would do anything.
Iridikron offered not power,
but allies. An alliance of the Primalists and djaradin against the dragonflights.
The warlord agreed. Some djaradin objected, but most saw the truth.
In this would, only the strong survive. And the djaradin must survive.
And I say, if there are to be dragons flying overhead, let it be the ones infused with the
same earth and fire that burns within us. Then, after the dragonflights are no more,
these 'allies' will merely be the last foes left for us to hunt.
An allegiance that we could also see in the vaulkt of the incarnates where the
djaradin showed up to fight with the primalists,
yet at the same time they do make mention like dont trust these dragon worshippers...
Ingame dialogue...
Iridicron has been sset free from its prison now at the defeat of razageth
herself. ALex and the others are quite worried about the hunger of irikron,
khadgar also asks why does iridikron vex you so much?
Ingame dialogue....
This could be most definatly be one of those deals, get the djaradin on their
side increase their army and forces. WIth iridikron on the warpath now,
somewhere deep beneath the earth. One can only wonder what kind of allies and what
kind of armies tnheyre going to unleash and what the story is going to bring.
ANd then the final one...
Gossip Tale of the Weakling
Now this is my favorite tale that the djaradin tell.
Long ago, there was a weak who
believed themselves equal with a powerful djaradin.
The weakling asked many questions and didn't always listen to the answers.
The powerful djaradin commanded the elements of the earth to consume the
weakling and bury them deep in the ground. The weakling begged for their life, promising
to tell the many stories of the great and powerful djaradin they had heard to all who would listen.
The powerful djaradin spared the weakling's life, and the weakling
spent the rest of their days telling everyone of the mighty djaradin of the Dragons Isles!
And I can assure you that this one is a very true story.
So go out there weaklings and share the tales of the djaradin. Its interesting to seee that
theyre dropping some hints on what the future story is going to bring. Some fair few signs
pointing towards down below the earth. IRidikron hiding themselves down there, here we have the
djaradin and the elder s down below. Also had a couple of people tweet me hatches they found
across the dragon isles wondering what that is all about. Also some weird runestones found across
the isles... For now youre up to speed on the tales shared about the djaradin. Again,
similar to how they did all sides of the stories, i like that theyve done more details. I like
how this is a way of unlocking more hsitory behind the dragon isles. It isnt hiding away
the majorstoryline and yet for those itnerested it adds more flavor. It adds more insight. WOnderful
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