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In the fictional Warcraft Universe, Trolls are a race of tall although often crouching, lanky. Trolls are varying colored humanoids, with boar-like tusks sticking out of the lower part of their jaws. Most Trolls sport a natural mohawk in every color imaginable. While some trolls appear well muscled, some others appear quite lithe, all breeds are tall; maybe standing 7.5' in height.

The trolls of Azeroth are generally accepted to be a primitive, savage race. These practitioners of dark mysticism, superstition, and voodoo are, upon closer inspection, much more complex. The trolls are one of Azeroth's most ancient races (even older than the ancient night elf civilization), though the state of present day trolls gives little indication to their complex and compelling history. The trolls are renowned (or made infamous) for their incredible racial ability to regenerate from wounds. Trolls can even regrow severed limbs. They are agile, cunning and completely ruthless when it comes to hunting prey (whether it be animal or person). It would be a grave mistake to cross a troll on a whim, thinking them to be primitive and stupid.

There are actually several different types of trolls in the Warcraft Universe depending on their environment; On the continent of Azeroth, there are grey-skinned Jungle Trolls who inhabit the rainforests of Stranglethorn Vale; In the human-dominated lands of Lordaeron, green-skinned Forest Trolls are a constant threat; On the frozen continent of Northrend and in the dwarven lands of Khaz Modan, ice-blue Ice Trolls are a common sight; finally, in the ancient Ashenvale Forest of Kalimdor, Purple skinned Dark Trolls are constantly at odds with the native Night Elves.

Trolls speak in distinct accents. While Forest and Ice Trolls speak in accents similar to Spanish, Jungle Trolls speak Jamaican (although if you ever ask a troll, he will insist that it is a troll accent).

Forest Trolls were allies of the Horde during the second Great War, where they joined in order to strike against the hated High Elves of Quel'Thalas. When the Horde were defeated, the Trolls abandoned the Orcs, going off on their own. The Jungle Trolls are the present allies of the Horde, a tribe of trolls befriended by the Orc Warchief Thrall when the Horde ended up on the shores of their island while escaping from Human enslavement. After a battle against a Sea Witch, and a subsequent escape from their now-sinking island, the Darkspear Trolls left with the Orcs, ending up in the land of Kalimdor.

The Jungle trolls pledged an oath of loyalty to the Orcs, who let them set up a village off the coast of Kalimdor in the Echo Isles. After an armada of Kul Tiras warships pushed them off the Echo Isles they set up Sen'jin Village. In the game, World of Warcraft, players can choose to play as one of these trolls.

History

About 16,000 years ago before the First Great War, long before the War of the Ancients, trolls lorded over much of Kalimdor (then a single continent). Before the Troll Empire, the world had been ruled by Sithilid and Nerubians. At the time, the two races were known as the civilization of Azi'Aqir. The Aqir sought to eradicate all non insect life from Kalimdor. The Trolls fought them for many thousands of years, but never won a decisive victory. Eventually due to the trolls' persistence, the Aqiri kingdom split in half and its citizens were driven into exile in separate locations. It was the Troll heroes who defeated these great menaces and paved the way for all future races of Azeroth.

However, after their victories rivalry began to split the Trolls. Twin troll empires were formed from this rivalry -- the Gurubashi Empire of the southeastern jungles and the Amani Empire of the middle forestlands. A few small tribes that wanted no part of this rivalry escaped far to the north (in the region now known as Northrend). These tribes founded a small nation known as Gundrak, but never achieved the size or prosperity of the southern empires. The Gurubashi and the Amani empires had little love for one another, but rarely warred against each other.

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