Early Humanity

[Chavie]

gggggggg

[EnheilRas]

Well

there are no traces of Humanity in Kalimdor, which means that their race is younger than the Sundering.

But there are traces of early humanity in Northrend, which then debates this observation.

As such, since the Arathorian Tribes were all united in the Northeast Eastern Continent, we can base our conclusions that humanity was more or less evolving in the borderlands between Grundrak and Zul'Aman.

As such, we can conclude that perhaps, at a barbaric level, they were older than the Sundering, and were separated in two when the sundering occured and just forgot about them (Ner'zhul, however, was pleasently surprised to see them flourish into a culture along the dragonblight, and then killed them all to create the first of his undead army).

What can be concluded is that the Amani Empire more or less never considered humanity much of a threat. They were allowed to thrive in the Amani Empire, unharmed, until the Humans wanted to eke out their own Kingdom from the Amani Lands.

[Aquizit]

From what I gather, early humanity first wandered about mid-Lordaeron.

I would think this because of their close proximity to the High Elf lands, yet their first city being named Strom. I assume that Stromgarde is near where Strom once stood. If I'm wrong in that estimate, then I would guess that they resided further north. The south of the Western Plaguelands today, or even the Hinterlands.

The Hinterlands seem most likely anyway, since their major conflicts occured with the Forest Trolls, who's ruins are mostly in the Hinterlands.

If memory serves (mostly because I'm too lazy to re-lookup the info) there were a number of cities, all centered around Strom after the Unification, which was located in the Arathi Highlands.




..Hope that helps.

[Fallacy]

The earliest appearance of the human race mostly begins with the people of Arathi. No one knows where they came from, but some people believe it had to do with the Naaru or some other celestial beings creating them, seeing as they did not appear from any Titan ruin or evolved from any other race. They were unknown to all the other races mostly until the establishment of the kingdom of Strom, who barely made their existence among the forest trolls, until the High Elves offered to teach them arcane arts in return for helping against the Amani. The humans had a strange affinity for magic; even though few were able to reach the extent of the High Elves, they still had great potential. Some also consider that a trace of celestial influence, as the Draenei are also quite affluent with both magics and wielding holy power.

I'm thinking the expansion will really expand on this, when we are able to interact with the Draenei, and most likely a few Naaru as well.

[Chavie]

daylight

[Maegannon]

There is that one cave...


and as we all know, uncivilized humans all lived in caves :p

[EnheilRas]

So, it was Arathor who united them? Is there a timeline for this?

And this would mean that there likely weren't humans in what is now Lordaeron (the ruins) or nearby zones, but farther out in the Hinterlands? That's odd, as there aren't currently any surviving human establishments there, not that I've seen. It always seemed like more of a dwarf/troll area. Was this different long ago?

The Land known as the Hinterlands is actually called "Northeron" by Humanity.

[Abric]

Stromgarde is Strom, but called Stromgarde when the nation of humans divided... after being united... since they started as divided. MATH!

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/info/story/chapter2.html

Get it from the source, baby.

[Chavie]

tenku! that will be all.