 Zalazane | |
|---|---|
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| Gender | Male |
| Race | Jungle troll |
| Level | 10 |
| Class | Necromancer(RPG[1]); Witch doctor |
| Occupation | Leader of the trolls on the Echo Isles, Voodoo master |
| Location | Durotar, Echo Isles |
| Status | Killable |
Zalazane is a level 10 Darkspear troll found in the Echo Isles, Durotar surrounded by a group of Voodoo and Hexed trolls. Master Gadrin wants Zalazane's head.
Background
This large troll is draped in black robes and wears a black-and-white, wooden mask reminiscent of both necromancy and voodoo. Wrinkled hands grip a dark quarterstaff with a humanoid skull on the top. Zalazane, in his mid-50s, decided that his people did not need the help of the Orcs in order to succeed. He was further offended when he heard about Thrall’s distrust of arcane magic. With the help of a number of similar-minded trolls — and summoned zombies — Zalazane drove most of his fellow jungle trolls from the Echo Isles. He continues to attack the other trolls of the Darkspear tribe, and his reasoning is unknown. The source of his knowledge of necromantic magic is equally mysterious.
In combat, Zalazane begins the fight by summoning undead. He then uses death coil and other offensive spells until he exhausts his repertoire, then wades into melee or retreats.
Zalazane’s experiments on the Echo Isles had progressed far further than the Horde ever anticipated, and the trolls created greater undead, such as abominations. The warchief called for a full assault on the Echo Isles before the situation escalated.[1]
In World of Warcraft
Zalazane as seen in WoW.
When the Darkspear trolls returned to the Echo Isles, they were betrayed by Zalazane, the apprentice of Gadrin who had been driven mad by his own power. He used dark voodoo to rob most of the Darkspear trolls of their free will, forcing them to obey him. As his influence spread, his army grew while the number of free Darkspears dwindled. Fearing that all of his people would fall to Zalazane's insidious sorcery, Vol'jin ordered the tribe to abandon the Echo Isles.
Thus, the free Darkspear trolls left the islands and created the fishing village of Sen'jin on the Durotar coast, just northwest of the Echo Isles.
Today the Darkspears and their allies frequently strike at Zalazane's holdings on the Echo Isles, determined to win back the trolls' first home on Kalimdor. In the meantime, Zalazane has not given up in his efforts to enslave his entire tribe, and so he continues to send his trolls to the mainland in order to drag further Darkspears under his sway. [2]
Though many trolls and other members of the Horde have journeyed to the Echo Isles to slay him, and a number have even returned with his head, a few days later the magic always wears off and his "head" is revealed to be nothing more than painted rocks, bunches of coconuts, or the head of an enslaved Darkspear troll.[3]
Abilities
- Shrink
[Healing Wave]
Objective of
- Drops [Zalazane's Head] for the quest
[10] Zalazane.
[10] 
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
Zalazane will play a role in one of the pre-Cataclysm patches, when the Darkspear Trolls will at last retake the Echo Isles.
Trivia
Zalazane in the TCG.
Zalzane's backstory from Lands of Mystery conflicts with the information given in World of Warcraft. In World of Warcraft Zalazane as a young witch doctor who went mad due to his own power and enslaved most of the population of Echo Isles with his magic. All of his followers are actually Darkspear trolls brainwashed against their will. In Lands of Mystery Zalazane is an old troll necromancer who took over the Echo isles due to hating orcs and his followers are instead willing trolls and undead.
References
- ^ a b Lands of Mystery, pg 36
- ^ World of Warcraft manual, pg 186
- ^ http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/underdev/3p9/echoisles.xml