Zul'ra Jin did not care whether any wind elementals were listening. He broadcast his words three times, and then a whirlwind flew out from beneath a vine and landed before him, transforming into a wind elemental with a head wrapped in cloth, purple-black brows and beard, and a lower body hidden within the whirlwind.
"I am willing to surrender and offer my loyalty to the Warchief." The somewhat translucent wind elemental descended before Zul'ra Jin, remaining afloat as it bowed and pledged its allegiance.
"Swear loyalty to my wand in your own name." Zul'ra Jin looked at the wind elemental, which bore strong Arabian traits and had offered its allegiance for reasons unknown. He did not ask why, merely pointed the steel whip in his hand at it.
"...I am willing to offer my loyalty to the Horde's Warchief, Zul'ra Jin." Seeing how direct the Troll was, the wind elemental's gaze shifted slightly. Cunningly, it omitted its own name, but it could never have imagined that so long as Zul'ra Jin's magic received the oath, it would react.
"Siamat, right?" Through the sensation conveyed by the steel whip, Zul'ra Jin instantly learned the wind elemental's true name.
"Siamat salutes you, Master Zul'ra Jin. Please allow me to introduce myself..." Siamat's horn-like upturned beard trembled as he used respectful language and voluntarily explained his identity.
Siamat had not actually met Zul'ra Jin for the first time. He was the wind elemental imprisoned inside Neferset's obelisk tower, the one Rukstaz and Li Cuisi had released. He had once been the Lord of the South Wind under Skywall.
As for how Siamat, a wind elemental lord, had been imprisoned by the allied Neferset Tol'vir, it began with Deathwing recruiting Neferset.
Neferset was a group of Tol'vir transformed by flesh. They had always sought