friendly zandalari

[Proskill]

why are they friendly ?

we fought them in MOP both the alliance and the horde
they were clearly hostile to all, what has changed ?

[JMitchy96]

Afaik those we fought in cata/MoP were followers of Zul, not Rastakhan. Apparently the two had a falling out and in BfA there's a sort of civil war going on between them

[Alanar]

Afaik those we fought in cata/MoP were followers of Zul, not Rastakhan. Apparently the two had a falling out and in BfA there's a sort of civil war going on between them

Pretty much, also in one of the demo vids I saw a boss quote something about Zul need to get ready?
I hope that King Rastakhan will stay king and just help these guys out trying to find Zul and stopp him from summoning Hakkar (own theory there)
Also any news about Bwonsambi? is he ressing Vol'Jin or what will happen with Thral and hes urn..

[Venziir]

We don't really know yet. Time will tell.

[Maljinwo]

Zandalar is basically facing a Civil war between followers of Rastakhan and followers of Zul.
We ally with Rastakhan and help put and end to Zul and his schemes.

I only hope Darkspear trolls get a unique dialogue option, considering they were the only troll tribe to oppose them before

[Powerogue]

As far as I'm aware every Zul'Something (Zul'Aman, Zul'Farrak, Zul'zul'zul'zul'zul'zully'zul) are followers of Zul, the prophet who you might remember from MOP as warning Rastakhan of the cataclysm and ultimately leaving him to watch his nation be ripped in half down the middle.

[Kufell]

The Zandalari we fought in Cata/MoP were followers of the Prophet Zul. From what I recall; Zul had seen visions of the Cataclysm and the effect it would have on Zandalar, Rastakhan dismissed this vision initially, and after Zul kept pressing the issue, Rastakhan granted him access to the fleet. Eventually this came to pass and many of the Zandalari turned to Zul and they left with much of their ships to unite with what remained of the other Troll empires before going to claim more land as their own.

There's a Lorewalker Cho story about this in game you can view, pretty sure it's also on YouTube somewhere. Before Cata; the Zandalari were quite friendly towards the Horde and Alliance, willing to work alongside them to seal Hakkar away. There was also a couple of Zandalari in Cata who were still on good terms with the factions.

[Zuben]

If I understood correctly, Cataclysm fucked their shit up, so Rastakhan was willing to go with Zul's plans to get them out of their predicament, but by BfA it seems Zandalar has divided into a religious sect led by Zul, and a conventional sect led by Rastakhan. The latter is willing to accept aid from outsiders.

[tristannarutofan]

same with void elves, lightforged and highmountain, we are going to find out all the lore behind it in the quests to recruit them. its not going to be a "go click on them to join the horde"

Maybe we go to them, maybe they come to use, maybe its just a faction of em, maybe we only get the quest to get em to join us after we save their entire kingdom

[Al Gorefiend]

Wasn't MoP canonically half a decade ago at this point?

[Skoll Shorties]

My guess is Prophet Zul leads the faction against the Horde and Alliance. While as Rastakhan was perfectly fine with working with the Horde, as for the Alliance well something clearly happened to rustle their jimmies against them. Probably realized Horde was superior or just because we have trolls on our side.

[Proskill]

dang garrosh is so alpha
that eyebrow lift gets me everytime

why did he have to go

[Deleted]

Rastakhan's faction needs help, the Horde give it. It's nothing more than an alliance for survival, much like Sylvanas in the past.

[Poppets]

People keep asking how we can befriend a once enemy state....and all I have to ask is, Dark Irons? Its the same situation. Both factions have at one time or another attempted to take back control of Azeroth or summon a Malevolent Fire Elemental Lord.....The Thorium Brotherhood were always a faction of Dark Irons that were friendly-ish with players, as was a small group of Zandalari when the original ZG was out. They were against the Blood Magic the Gurubashi were practicing (hakkar controlled) and helped with enchants/gear for tokens found in the raid. You can never generalise an ENTIRE population based on a few degenerates. Also the Zandalari we fought and killed aren't the same trolls that stayed behind with King Rastakhan on Zandalar, the ones in MoP were the followers of Zul.

[Kaleredar]

I don't know but I'm still sitting at exalted with the Zandalari and it's never gotten me anywhere, so...

[Lochton]

why are they friendly ?

we fought them in MOP both the alliance and the horde
they were clearly hostile to all, what has changed ?

I felt a bit weirded out by it too, especially since I used to be a fan until the cut themselves away from us by uprooting their little camp. I guess we are having them join as the king lost too much with people going with another to help with the Thunder King, and now he's vulnerable to threats and needs help.

[Captain Douchebag]

As far as I'm aware every Zul'Something (Zul'Aman, Zul'Farrak, Zul'zul'zul'zul'zul'zully'zul) are followers of Zul

There are some specualtions about the meaning of the Zul' prefix in the troll language, such as it meaning "great", but it doesn't seem to necessarily be tied to Zul the prophet.

[Sangris]

Also any news about Bwonsambi? is he ressing Vol'Jin or what will happen with Thral and hes urn..

Bwonsamdi will play a role in Nazmir. He also got a new model for BfA.

[Maljinwo]

Rastakhan's faction needs help, the Horde give it. It's nothing more than an alliance for survival, much like Sylvanas in the past.

So... Warchief Rastakhan then?
That sounds cool

[Rustedsaint]

Pretty much, also in one of the demo vids I saw a boss quote something about Zul need to get ready?
I hope that King Rastakhan will stay king and just help these guys out trying to find Zul and stopp him from summoning Hakkar (own theory there)
Also any news about Bwonsambi? is he ressing Vol'Jin or what will happen with Thral and hes urn..

He’s Gona pull a cartman and drink the ashes mixed with milk