Hello, Miss Alleria

Tonatiuh really went to take a look.

He found that the Amani Troll was indeed an Amani Troll, a Forest Troll from Zul'Aman in the north of the continent. He looked as sturdy as a Zandalari Troll, another Troll subspecies. But the elf who had clashed with this Amani Troll was not the Trolls' ally, a Night Elf.

She was a High Elf from Quel'Thalas—the future Blood Elves.

High Elves, also known as Quel'dorei. In Old Kaldorei, the name meant "children of nobility," while in the Thalassian they now spoke, it meant "children of the highborn." These pink-skinned elves originated from the Highborne who had left Kalimdor and migrated to the Eastern Kingdoms, where they founded the kingdom of Quel'Thalas.

Although they had formed some alliances and cooperated with humans, at this point in the timeline, High Elves had generally remained relatively isolated from other races throughout their several-thousand-year history.

Not to mention that they had dug up the ancestral graves of the Forest Trolls, causing Zul'Aman to wage an endless war against them for millennia. In a sense, the High Elves' hatred for Forest Trolls had also made them loathe all Troll races.

They were an extremely closed-off group, with a comparatively selfish racial character. They stayed in their own kingdom and had no desire to interact with outsiders. If the Scourge had not later shattered their little bubble, there would never have been the relatively open-minded Blood Elves of later days.

Looking across the races throughout Azeroth's history, even if they did not truly need to do so, one or two heroes willing to fight foreign enemies would often emerge from among them. For example, Dazar, the progenitor emperor of the Trolls, who fought the Old Gods his entire life; later, Vol'jin of the Darkspear Trolls. Then there