Tarjin the Blind says: A warband of half-giants, led by their king, carved their way through the land.
Tarjin the Blind says: A whirlwind of violence and stubbornness, he refused to fall. For eight days and nights, he fought without rest and without fail.
Tarjin the Blind says: According to legend, four elders of those ancient djaradin joined their powers together to burrow deep inside the earth.
Tarjin the Blind says: After I was blinded in battle with Fenistrasza, I was no longer welcome on the Qalashi dragonhunting parties.
Tarjin the Blind says: And I can assure you that this one is a very true story.
Tarjin the Blind says: And I say, if there are to be dragons flying overhead, let it be the ones infused with the same earth and fire that burns within us.
Tarjin the Blind says: And they were right. I could not keep up with the other dragonhunters. I was a liability.
Tarjin the Blind says: And why should I be with the other djaradin? Do not presume to know of our ways, outsider.
Tarjin the Blind says: Are you sure you wish to hear this tale? It may make you rethink your friendship with the dragons...
Tarjin the Blind says: As the elders battled all challengers with honor, the so-called "Earth-Warder" revealed his cowardice.
Tarjin the Blind says: As the years passed, again and again the warlord lost ground to the dragons.
Tarjin the Blind says: But my strength never waned! I continued down a different path to glory.
Tarjin the Blind says: But not before they had secured permanent footholds for the djaradin in the surface of these lands. Footholds we still hold to this day!
Tarjin the Blind says: But the Qalashi grew strong from fighting only the most worthy foes in the Isles.
Tarjin the Blind says: But upon her journey, a massive being of elemental magic approached her. An Incarnate of the earth itself.
Tarjin the Blind says: But, like all who face djaradin on the battlefield, they eventually fell.
Tarjin the Blind says: Do you doubt me? It rests there on the shelf beside me. See for yourself what happens to those who oppose a djaradin.
Tarjin the Blind says: Dragon after dragon fell, until Neltharion emerged from the Obsidian Citadel with his armies to halt their advance.
Tarjin the Blind says: Even the legendary Qalashi warlord who united the tribes never matched the raw power of the four elders.
Tarjin the Blind says: Fenistrasza had gouged out my eyes with her talons during the fall, but I had only begun to fight!
Tarjin the Blind says: Finally, I struck, jumping on the back of a powerful dragon named Fenistrasza flying by.
Tarjin the Blind says: Focused and forged in battle, the newly emboldened Qalashi led a legendary rampage against the dragons!
Tarjin the Blind says: Go, take the skull to your easily impressed commanders. Tell them of the mighty djaradin who slew the dragon it once belonged to!
Tarjin the Blind says: Hands off Fenistrasza's skull, outsider. I don't even know you.
Tarjin the Blind says: He arrived an outsider, but he died a djaradin.
Tarjin the Blind says: He fought alongside the Qalashi for years, slaying countless dragons as he proved his worth a hundredfold.
Tarjin the Blind says: He had earned his place among the djaradin, and joined the Qalashi tribe as a dragonhunter!
Tarjin the Blind says: Here, I can focus on strengthening my command over earth and fire, without distraction.
Tarjin the Blind says: I do not know if I believe that, but I hope it's true. You and your dragon friends would be doomed.
Tarjin the Blind says: I held Fenistrasza in that volcano for three days straight, until I emerged with nothing but her skull.
Tarjin the Blind says: I hid on a mountaintop for three weeks without moving, waiting for the perfect moment to strike!
Tarjin the Blind says: I lost my eyesight as any djaradin would wish to... in battle with a massive dragon!
Tarjin the Blind says: I mastered control of earth and fire, bending magma and stubborn fire elementals to my will.
Tarjin the Blind says: I ripped the lava and earth swirling around us upward, wrapping around the dragon's entire body.
Tarjin the Blind says: I thought I made it very clear that I was done with you, outsider.
Tarjin the Blind says: Ignorant fools. The djaradin command the earth and fire, because we ARE the earth and fire!
Tarjin the Blind says: In the end, their king stood alone in the battlefield against armies from all of the djaradin tribes.
Tarjin the Blind says: In this world, only the strong survive. And the djaradin must survive.
Tarjin the Blind says: In time, the warlord easily conquered the lazy tribes, uniting their strongest under the Qalashi banner.
Tarjin the Blind says: In turn, the elders empowered all djaradin into the mighty giants you see today!
Tarjin the Blind says: Iridikron offered not power, but allies. An alliance of the Primalists and djaradin against the dragonflights.
Tarjin the Blind says: It is said that after her defeat at Scalebreaker Keep, she withdrew deep into the earth to ask the elders to lend her their strength.
Tarjin the Blind says: It is said that the ancient djaradin tribes were disorganized. Rival warlords battling each other for supremacy.
Tarjin the Blind says: It is said that the djaradin were the first earth giants to walk the surface of Azeroth.
Tarjin the Blind says: It is said that the four djaradin elders' mastery over earth and fire caught the dragons off-guard in those first battles.
Tarjin the Blind says: Lava still pours out of her skull's eye sockets to this day.
Tarjin the Blind says: Long ago, far before my time, legends tell of an outsider ship landing on the shores of the Dragon Isles.
Tarjin the Blind says: Long ago, there was a weak blood elf who believed themselves equal with a powerful djaradin.
Tarjin the Blind says: Long ago, there was a weak human who believed themselves equal with a powerful djaradin.
Tarjin the Blind says: Long ago, there was a weak night elf who believed themselves equal with a powerful djaradin.
Tarjin the Blind says: Long ago, there was a weak tauren who believed themselves equal with a powerful djaradin.
Tarjin the Blind says: Long ago, there was a weak vulpera who believed themselves equal with a powerful djaradin.
Tarjin the Blind says: Never before or since have the djaradin slaughtered so many dragons in a single day.
Tarjin the Blind says: Now this is my favorite tale that the djaradin tell.
Tarjin the Blind says: Our people pushed farther back into their mountain footholds, practically underground!
Tarjin the Blind says: Outsiders have often asked where the djaradin learned to command earth and fire.
Tarjin the Blind says: Seek out the strongest dragons. Fighting their weak will only make you weaker.
Tarjin the Blind says: Shaping earth and mountains, they formed this land with their fists.
Tarjin the Blind says: She ordered her tribe to leave the djaradin battlefields, and focus their skills only on hunting the powerful dragons nearby.
Tarjin the Blind says: Sightless, but filled with fury, I forced the dragon downward into the volcano's throat, burning it alive as we were both enveloped in lava.
Tarjin the Blind says: So I passed my days in camp, as a laborer.
Tarjin the Blind says: So, the outsider returns to beg for stories of their betters?
Tarjin the Blind says: Some djaradin have forgotten the warlord's timeless truth: What you fight, you become.
Tarjin the Blind says: Some say that the elders did not die that day, but retreated deep into the earth, where they slumber and recover their strength.
Tarjin the Blind says: The djaradin had not yet united under the Qalashi banner, and several tribes fell to the fearsome half-giants.
Tarjin the Blind says: The elders emerged, touched by the fires of the world to be true djaradin, commanding full control over fire and earth!
Tarjin the Blind says: The elders were hopelessly outnumbered, but the dragons were hopelessly outmatched.
Tarjin the Blind says: The legends do not agree what happened down there, but they all end the same way.
Tarjin the Blind says: The other tribes preyed on the weak around them: the tuskarr, gnolls, underdwellers. And in time, they grew weak as well.
Tarjin the Blind says: The powerful djaradin commanded the elements of the earth to consume the weakling and bury them deep in the ground.
Tarjin the Blind says: The powerful djaradin spared the weakling's life, and the weakling spent the rest of their days telling everyone of the mighty djaradin of the Dragons Isles!
Tarjin the Blind says: The warlord agreed. Some djaradin objected, but most saw the truth.
Tarjin the Blind says: The warlord answered as any djaradin would: We would do anything.
Tarjin the Blind says: The weakling asked many questions and didn't always listen to the answers.
Tarjin the Blind says: The weakling begged for their life, promising to tell the many stories of the great and powerful djaradin they had heard to all who would listen.
Tarjin the Blind says: Then, after the dragonflights are no more, these "allies" will merely be the last foes left for us to hunt.
Tarjin the Blind says: This Incarnate, Iridikron, asked the warlord what she would be willing to do to end the reign of the Aspects.
Tarjin the Blind says: This is why true Qalashi seek out strong opponents, and why weaklings such as you are not worth fighting.
Tarjin the Blind says: Through honorless guile and trickery, the elders fell that day.
Tarjin the Blind says: Until one warlord, of the Qalashi tribe, saw a more worthy path for her people.
Tarjin the Blind says: Until the day he finally fell in battle with a powerful dragon a hundred times his size.
Tarjin the Blind says: Usually. Now leave me alone.
Tarjin the Blind says: We wrestled as we plummeted through the sky, hundreds of feet, until we slammed into the heart of a volcano!
Tarjin the Blind says: When the djaradin awoke, I had no interest in returning to manual labor in our camp.
Tarjin the Blind says: While slumbering deep in the ground with the other djaradin, my command over earth only grew stronger!
Tarjin the Blind says: You have proven yourself worthy to hear one of my tales.
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