Troll origin theory for night elves (unconfirmed)

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The original troll–night elf ancestry hypothesis is explicitly unconfirmed in the Blizzard compendium.

Not every ancient troll civilization developed an imperial capital comparable to Zul’Aman or Zul’Gurub. Dark trolls lived in isolated portions of Kalimdor and were little understood even by later scholars. Their relative obscurity illustrates an important limitation of broad cultural histories: not every tribe participated in the great imperial struggles in the same way or left an equally visible written record.

Warcraft III depicted dark trolls in the world of the night elves and the advancing Horde. The Shadowtooth clan’s association with Mount Hyjal and the later defense against the Burning Legion provide original-era connections, although the clans’ precise ancient migrations remain poorly documented. Their reported loa practices connect them to other trolls, but should not be exaggerated into a fully known pantheon.

The original Blizzard Troll Compendium treated the theory of trolls giving rise to night elves as unresolved. Later publications replaced that uncertainty with a specific dark-troll ancestry account. These are not equivalent statements: the retrospective may be informative to modern readers, but the original cutoff requires preserving the uncertainty rather than silently turning the later solution into a historical certainty known in 2004.

The Tyr–Kith’ix episode and the Aqir–Troll War do not supply a proven complete family tree for dark trolls. Their history belongs in the broad story of troll diversity, but it should retain its own evidentiary limits and not become invented connective tissue between every ancient civilization.