[The Evolved Desert Trolls]

Year Six of Tonatiuh's reign.

April.

The tenth day.

Clear weather.

Upon the Great Sea.

A massive fleet advanced eastward across the sea beneath the blazing sun.

Standing on the gently swaying deck, Daktin looked out at the enormous vessels filling his view across the boundless ocean, his heart filled with wonder and curiosity.

Daktin was the very model of a successful Zandalari Troll.

Gifted from childhood, he had been chosen by a priest of Rezan at the age of five and sent to study at the Temple of Rezan in Tal'Farrak.

After spending five years in Tal'Farrak, he was selected by King Rastakhan, who had come to inspect the region, and became one of the reserve members of the Rastari Enforcers—the most respected and glorious force among the Zandalari Trolls at the time.

After three years of training in the Rastari Enforcers' reserve force, Daktin's excellent performance and unwavering faith earned him official membership in the Rastari Enforcers, joining Rastakhan's most trusted and powerful troops.

The elders and villagers of his Troll village deep in the forests of Dazar'alor had been proud of him. At the time, producing a Rastari Enforcer was the greatest dream of every ordinary Troll family.

For it meant not only honor, but privilege and profit as well.

And so, as a member of the Rastari Enforcers, the personal force of the previous King Rastakhan, Daktin spent ten years in the military starting at the age of thirteen.

Had nothing unexpected happened, Daktin, already a squad captain, would have retired roughly ten years later. After that, he could have returned to Zuldazar as a senior officer in the city guard; joined the Temple of Rezan's guards as a mid-ranking captain; or simply laid down his weapons for scholarship, entered Zanchul as one of Rezan's priests,