In order to compete for the maritime supremacy of Azeroth, the two island nations of Kul Tiras and Zandalar once fought fiercely. In the end, Kul Tiras, with its stronger navy, won the naval battle.
After losing the golden fleet that roamed the sea, Zandalari had to turn its attention to the island and vent its anger on the blood trolls that were already too large to be killed.
Therefore, Zandalari hates Kul Tiras even more than Quel'Thalas, who has repeatedly disrupted their plans.
In the same way, Kul Tiras has never relaxed its vigilance against this powerful competitor for maritime hegemony.
After learning that Zandalari was instigating Dakkar to bring trolls to cause trouble in the Arctic continent, Daelin, who was about to retire, agreed to provide reinforcements to New Shandalara in this war without saying a word, vowing to thwart another Zandalari plot.
*Lu Balancing Plan.
The Continental Balance Plan is a new term mentioned in the barrage. It is said that an island country in their world proposed a national policy that lasted for hundreds of years a few centuries ago. It was originally called the European Continental Balance Plan.
The general policy of this plan is to balance the strength of the European countries, and support those who are too strong to jointly target their opponents. The core point is to prevent any country from having the possibility of unifying the European continent and to avoid infringing on the interests of the island country.
When discussing this topic with Danmu at that time, Sarlayan was a little bit dumbfounded.
It is true that in the past decade or so, with the deepening of domestic reforms, Quel'Thalas, which was originally stagnant in development, has gradually gained new vitality. It has also attended many international events with full attendance, and its presence has become more and more obvious.
However, even so, the national power of Quel'Thalas is still not as good as that of the Dark Night Republic, which has a strong foundation.
Zandalari didn't want to find a way to target the most powerful country in Azeroth. Instead, they picked on the weak and started to attack Quel'Thalas, which had the most obvious upward trend. This made Sharlayan really speechless.
From a strategic perspective, it is not difficult to understand why Zandalar chose Quel'Thalas.
As we all know, during the heyday of the Dark Night Empire, Azshara had been suffocating Zandalari.
The Zandalar Empire, which was once prosperous in its ancestors, temporarily swallowed its anger due to the situation, but this does not mean that they have forgotten their original shame.
After finally waiting for the disintegration of the Dark Night Empire, Zandalar was sadly thrown into an isolated island in the sea.
When they started researching shipbuilding technology from scratch and finally pieced together a fleet that could sail to sea, they were shocked to find that although the strength of the night elves had declined, Azeroth was still the leader.
Compared with the night elves who are at their peak, Quel'Thalas, a country established by the descendants of the highborne elves that split from the Night Empire, will undoubtedly be easier to deal with.
It just so happens that Quel'Thalas has been active around the world in the past ten years. Not only did it cripple the forest trolls headed by Amani, but it also had a bloody conflict with the frost trolls in Northrend.
Zandalari claims to be the master of all trolls, and its younger brothers are bullied by the high elves one after another. If not you, who else can you target?
However, what surprised Zul and Rastakhan was that Quel'Thalas, which had enmity with forest trolls and frost trolls one after another, actually established a good bilateral relationship with a very weak jungle troll clan.
What Zul didn't expect was that this small clan named Darkspear, with the full support of Quel'Thalas, overthrew the patriarch clan of the Gurubashi Empire, and the serfs became masters.
This made Zul very uncomfortable. He originally wanted to use the mentality of the same enemy to unite the three feudal empires to jointly target Quel'Thalas. Unexpectedly, before the plan was formed, a "traitor" jumped out of the jungle trolls' ranks.
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What made Zul vomit blood the most was not this.
The Darkspear Trolls united the large and small jungle troll clans in an upright manner and defeated the Gurubashi head-on. Their superior position could not find any fault in the social rules of the trolls where the strong were respected.
Moreover, this small clan that was once very humble was also very good at being a good person. Just after the throne was established, the new Gurubashi chief Sen'jin sent his son to study in Zandalar, which gave Rastakhan plenty of face.
With his natural charisma and eloquence in talking to people, Vol'jin accumulated a lot of contacts while studying in Zandalari. He was very popular and even integrated into the second generation of Zandalari dignitaries headed by Princess Talanji.
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However, Zul didn't like the Darkspear Prince. He always felt that this guy came to Zandalar with some purpose, not just to learn knowledge.
To put it more seriously, Zul simply doesn't like the Darkspear clan who rose to power based on their actual merits. He would rather see an easy-to-control jungle troll clan reach the top, so that it would be easier for Zandalari to intervene.
Although Sarlayan has not yet formally met Zul, through the intelligence gathered by allies including Vol'jin and Bwonsamdi, he has already guessed Zul's psychological changes and possible subsequent reactions.
Seven, eight, eight.
Want to combine the three feudal empires to rebuild the Zandalar Empire? I won't let you do that.
No matter what Sarlayan, who does not have much racial discrimination, thinks personally, the troll clan headed by Zandalar still has a deep prejudice against the elves as a whole. A Darkspear clan cannot represent the trolls.
Mainstream thought.
In the eyes of most trolls, the so-called night elves are just an inferior race that evolved from the traitors of the trolls, the dark trolls.
However, the irony is that the inferior race in their eyes has firmly stepped on the troll civilization for tens of thousands of years, and it still has not allowed them to turn over.
Zandalar is now controlled by Zul, who is radical to the outside world. From the standpoint of Quel'Thalas, Sharlayan will not sit back and let them sow discord against Quel'Thalas.
The Gurubashi Empire is dominated by the Darkspear trolls, and Sharlayan is not worried that Sen'jin will fall out with Quel'Thalas without warning.
With the destruction of the Amani clan, Evil Branch became the most powerful forest troll clan.
The Evilbranch clan that settled in the Hinterlands is far away from Eversong Forest and cannot threaten Quel'Thalas for the time being.
Compared with forest trolls and jungle trolls, frost trolls and Quel'Thalas directly border on the continent of Northrend. It is not too common for wars to break out between neighboring countries due to territorial disputes.
It would be unrealistic for Sharlayan not to force the Dakkar trolls, whose territory had been taken away, to put down their dissatisfaction with the high elves.
His main goal is to expel the Zandalari from Northrend, who are jumping up and down behind their backs.
In barrage terms, Northrend's affairs can only be negotiated and handled by the locals of Northrend. What does it have to do with Zandalari, an extraterritorial country like you?
The Frost King Malak was not stupid, and he also knew that Zandalari had other motives for coming to Dhakkar to provide help.
However, before the war with Quel'Thalas began, Malak confidently believed that with the help of Dhaka, the troops accumulated over the years and the help of the demigod Loa provided by Zandalari, there should be a greater hope of regaining the lost territory.
However, the development of the war situation gave the complacent Malak a slap in the face.
To this day, the troll coalition still has not been able to gain an advantage on the front line.
Malak, who was red-eyed at the loss, originally planned to give it a final try and go on a personal expedition to boost his morale and try again.
If that still doesn't work, the pragmatic Malak plans to change his mind and sell Zandalar to seek truce negotiations in Quel'Thalas.
The appearance of Sarlayan only skipped the process of failure of Malak's personal expedition, but instead helped the Dakkar Trolls, who were bound to fail to achieve results, to save a lot of manpower and resource consumption.
Now that the matter was over, Malak walked down the steps offered by Sarlayan.
"That's right, it's the insidious Zandalari who is instigating us behind our backs."
In front of the Zandalari envoy, the Frost King Malak performed a dramatic show of changing his face. He did not hesitate to throw all the blame on Zandalari.
Under the incredulous glare of the Zandalari envoy, Malak, who was determined to abandon his carriage to save his commander, sputtered a lot of nonsense.
The central idea of his blame-shifting rhetoric is... We came to Dhaka with no intention of causing trouble. It was the Zandalari who threatened us with the demigod Loa, and we had to succumb to the Zandalari's power due to the situation.
Everyone present knew that Malak was telling lies, but this was not important. What was important was that his attitude had indeed changed significantly.
Sarlayan was a little bit dumbfounded by Malak's performance, but there was a saying in the barrage that he who knows the current affairs is a hero.
No matter what Malak thinks in his heart, or how exaggerated the performance is, as long as the final result meets expectations.
"I'm glad that your Excellency made a wise decision. In that case..."
Sarlayan turned around with a half-smile and looked at the ashen-faced Zandalari envoy: "Leave this Zandalari envoy who is hiding behind the scenes to stir up dissension to Dhaka to deal with. Warchief, don't let us down.