Chapter XVII: Aboriginal Peoples
The journey was long, and the pack horses had to rest and graze along the way. I asked the driver and it was a two-day drive to get to town.
After eating the legendary Wild West stew in the dining car, Oster returned to his seat. On the side seat, the coolly dressed Night Elf beauty was still sleeping soundly.
The latter was dressed in provincial cloth suits that were in keeping with the customs of the race, revealing large patches of smooth purple skin, and curled up on his seat like a cat. Oster has been asleep since he got on the bus, and has not woken up all day; Maybe the soul is on the side of the Emerald Dream.
It was a pleasing thing to the eye, but she snored like thunder, and from time to time she turned over and took Oster's seat, and she didn't stop farting to smell bad; No wonder when Oster got on the bus, only the seats on this side were still vacant.
That's not good for the HD real world. In fact, anything that is too real will become vulgar, so it's better to have a filter.
In the carriage, there are people talking, playing cards, eating melon seeds, and reading newspapers. An old man on the other side cursed vigorously that the robbers had robbed his caravan, or he would not have been reduced to such a lowly wagon.
In the corner seat, I actually saw a troll with blue skin and fangs, a nose and ears; The businessman dressed up and kept his eyes closed. Isn't that a hostile race, Auster thought to himself?
However, when you think about it, it is not surprising. Although the game gives the optional characters to the Horde, the trolls should be closer to the Alliance in terms of story.
In the game, the player's choice of the Darkspear clan is simply a small tribe that has been pushed out of their home in the Valley of Thorns and crossed the ocean. On the way, he encountered several catastrophes one after another, the island sank, the patriarch hung up, and was killed by the fishmen, almost extinction. Finally settled on a small archipelago off the coast of Durotar, it is the population of a fishing village;
The main body of the troll race lives in the eastern continent, where there are two complete troll empires and several large tribal associations, all of which are next to the alliance countries. Even if the regime is hostile, there should be no non-governmental business contact.
The West is indeed ethnically mixed and inclusive, and the passengers are not surprised by the presence of dark nights and trolls, and some people use fire to light cigarettes with troll merchants.
Because the road is still long, the travelers start chatting with each other. Naturally, we talked about the famine in the west.
Discussing the cause of the famine, one man said, "The archmage of the city has said that this debilitating disease can only be affected by magically modified plant varieties." In the final analysis, it was the immigrants in the west who were insatiable and insisted on planting improved varieties and wanted to get something for nothing, so there was no cure for the epidemic. ”
Someone next to him chimed in, "Heretics just don't have reverence for the Light, and magic itself is something that those Burning Legion demons seduce people to fall, and they deserve to be deceived." As he spoke, he got the approval of several people.
At this moment, the troll in his eyes suddenly spoke, "Da'kasa koraste di'chuka......"
A few people next to him laughed, "Aborigines, what kind of bird language are you talking about?" ”
The troll opened his eyes, revealing a pair of bright golden eyes, and he replied in a standard fluent lingua franca, "This is the Lo'a language, which translates to human language: no one is opportunistic in the face of survival, saying that they get something for nothing, but they are helpless. ”
The men retorted, "What do you know? ”
The troll continued unhurriedly, "The west is dry and rainless, and although it is close to the sea, it lacks large rivers and lakes, and the area south of Jangorod is weathered by the hot winds from the inland from the southeast all year round. On sandy soil, ordinary crops do not survive at all, and can only be cultivated with drought-tolerant varieties that have been magically improved. After the three wars, a large influx of immigrants from the north multiplied the local population, and only high-yielding magical crops could feed these extra people. ”
The person next to him still refused to admit defeat and argued, "Then why don't you go to the sandy land and reclaim other places?" ”
The troll smiled and said, "This is impossible, with the extent of the annexation of the western land, the fertile land surrounded by mountains and rivers has long been occupied." I think you probably mean that you can grow enough food to feed a large population on arable land with better conditions. However, this is not possible.
As far as I know, the human landlords did not care about improving technology, but feared that the peasants and slaves would have the power of rebellion, so they forbade the common people to use advanced magic and construction machinery. A large number of fertile fields have very low yields, and low output will lead to higher food prices, and their incomes will not be reduced.
In this famine, a large amount of the scarce grain was actually hoarded by the largest landlords and conglomerates, who would wait for the price of grain to rise to the peak before selling. Most of you are businessmen and civilians, and I think you should all relate to this. ”
Several other travelers were left speechless. Oster was amazed, such a good conversation, is this a troll known as savage superstition?
He was interested, and just as someone got out of the car, the place next to the troll was vacant, so he moved over there to talk to the other party.
The troll claimed to have come all the way from Gulabash in the south, and the travelers had just called him a "native", confusing him with his fellow citizens living in the reservation area of the Human Kingdom. When the first Arathas refugees crossed the sea to escape the war in the north, it was the local trolls who kindly took them in, lent them the homeless in the rich valley west of Alvin, and taught them to cultivate the crops of the south;
However, peace did not last long, and with the arrival of more and more immigrants, humanity was no longer satisfied with a small territory. After hundreds of years of fighting, Gulabash was eventually defeated by the young and powerful descendants of the nomadic people, and retreated to the eastern part of the Thorn Valley and the Everglades. Most of the current territory of the Stormwind Kingdom, including Stormwind and the Elwyn Forest, was once the territory of the Gulabash Empire. The trolls who originally lived here were either killed and migrated, or driven into the reservation, becoming so-called natives.
But that's all in the past, and in recent years the two countries have signed a contract and started to trade. The Troll Trader praised the vitality of humanity, and since the Stormwind Kingdom launched the Magical Industrial Revolution alone, humanity has created a wealth equivalent to the sum of tens of thousands of years of Gulabash's history. Times are always changing, and Gulabash is also looking to open up and transform to breathe life into the ancient country.
Oster was very impressed when he saw that the other party was elegant and knowledgeable. In the chronicles, the troll race is portrayed as a superstitious and cruel primitive race that engages in live sacrifices all day long, and it seems that it is completely from a human perspective.
Trolls have a history of more than ten times that of humans, and even the so-called ancient Night Elves are actually a branch of trolls. How could such an ancient civilization be a primitive and barbaric group. It is likely that the human beings smeared the trolls in this way to provide a legal basis for forcibly occupying the latter's territory.
Not only the Kingdom of Stormwind, but also Lordaeron in the north did the same to Amani. Obviously, he teamed up with the High Elves to divide the territory of the trolls, and he still portrayed the other party in the history books as if he deserved it; It is worthy of being a descendant of the Titan's creation, and has won the true legend of the creator.
This is similar to the crusaders of the crusade on the earth who fought to Jerusalem and found that the Arab Saladin was brave, righteous, benevolent and noble, and more like a real knight than his own superiors.