Origins
Aqir Races
The Old God C'Thun raged in his prison. The Titans had sealed him away, and one of his servants had inadvertently created the Troll Race. The Trolls loved life, and so were horrible choices for the cleansing he and his 'brothers' wished for.
'Damned Well of Eternity! If not for that cursed thing, we could rise up and end all life on this miserable world!' C'Thun then noticed that insects dwelt around the Well, unchanged by its magic. They were the Silithid, immune to transformation by the Well of Eternity. Bound by his Avatar's corpse to the higher world, he hoped to reach them.
The simple-minded Silithid had one advantage over predators that made them fall to the corruption of C'Thun; the Silithid held a hive mind. Native to the southern desert, the only place on the continent not covered with verdant forests or lush grasses, the Silithid were ruthless killers who needed to be to survive.
He began to corrupt the three beetles who led the Hive Mind. Upon each, he bestowed the moniker 'Vek' before their names. Nilash, Lor, and Kara, the three brothers, soon gained intelligence, rather than mere instinct, and learnt how to construct buildings from stone. Soon, other Silithid were changing into similar forms, using their forelegs for construction rather than walking.
Vek'Nilash and Vek'Lor, the lesser brothers, were given a kingdom to jointly rule. Vek'Kara, however, soon gained an empire all his own. His was the one first encountered by the Gurubashi Trolls, and soon made it to the Zul'Aman Empire than the insects in the west were bigger than trolls.
C'Thun favoured Vek'Kara, the beetle king who commanded his troops in battle. They moved as one in battle, and the thrill of each entered all. It was then that C'Thun found that, though those under Vek'Kara could feel each other, they could not feel their brethren in Ahn'Qiraj.
The three brothers came to his temple together, and each asked for a gift from their lord. Vek'Nilash wished for the brothers to be immortal, and so C'Thun stripped them of their mortality, granting them life so long as he remained. Vek'Lor wished for the Hive Mind to be reduced, instead merely being a connection that had a hierarchy. C'Thun did this as well.
Finally, Vek'Kara came before his lord. He revealed that he hoped to completely remove the Hive Mind, because of the pain whenever one was lost. He said that Vek'Lor had done so for him, however, and then made the first act of his betrayal. He said he wished that the will of his people were unable to be controlled by any but himself. C'Thun granted this, and Vek'Kara was freed of C'Thun's grasp, controlling his own mind for the first time.
Those of Ahn'Qiraj stayed hidden in their desert city, but the creatures that followed Vek'Kara headed in a more northern direction, to better defeat the Troll Empires. Only those damned Dark Trolls stood a chance, while the rest died easily. It was a more and more common sight to see Vek'Kara upon the open fields, killing more trolls in one second then his warriors did in an hour.
Mere mention of the warrior-king Vek'Kara brought fear to the trolls, but when it came time for the final attack, Vek'Kara completed his betrayal, and took his warriors as far away from Ahn'Qiraj as they could go. The home they reached was too cold for the Qiraji to attack, and so the new group, the Traitors, the Nerubian, made their home beneath the barren ice and snow.
Once their home was complete, Vek'Kara told his people to choose a king for themselves, rather than be forced into a position they did not want. The king would be elected for life, and warned against himself, due to his immortality. However, the Nerubians were proud of their king, and so chose him to lead them. He took up the crown of High King and reversed his given name to show his severance. Thus, Vek'Kara, King of the Azi Aqir, became Anub'Arak, High King of Azjol'Nerub.
After the ceremony was completed, he said to the Nerubians, "If my will is ever taken from me, may I die a painful death!" Little did he know the importance of his own words.
Meanwhile, over the millennia the Nerubians remained outside of C'Thun's reach, the Qiraji hid from the trolls, knowing they could not win with only the two lesser kings. C'Thun didn't want to start his experiment over again, and so an idea struck him. Instead, be made the Qiraji slowly resemble trolls in general body shape, allowing them to use magic and weapons. Soon, the brothers were powerful enough to rule everything. However, most of the powerful warriors were gone, and the Sundering only made things worse.
C'Thun cursed the Old God who had penetrated his body with the blade. In spite, he searched for the Nerubians, and when he found their underground city, he put an Avatar in the depths, where it would reach up and attack the traitors.
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