 Tarjin the Blind | |
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| Gender | Male |
| Race | Djaradin (Humanoid) |
| Level | 70 Elite |
| Reaction | Alliance Horde |
| Location | Outcast's Alcove, Waking Shores[16.2, 62.7] |
| Status | Alive |
| Companion(s) | Drock & Molgar (servants) |
Tarjin the Blind is a djaradin located at the Outcast's Alcove in the Waking Shores.
Quests[]
[60] Tale of the Phoenix 
- [60-62W] Tarjin's Tales
Quotes[]
- On approach
- What weakling dares intrude on a lair of a mighty djaradin? Speak up!
- Initial gossip
- Another weak outsider wishes to hear tales of the mighty djaradin, masters of magma, slayers of dragons, conquerors of this land?
- I am not surprised.
- Everything must be earned. Prove yourself worthy of my time.
- Final gossip
- Have you already forgotten the tales I have told you?
- Pathetic.
- I will tolerate repeating them only so that you weak outsiders may learn to fear the mighty djaradin, and train tirelessly to one day be worthy rivals.
- Speak. What tale have you forgotten?
- Dialog options
How did you lose your eyesight?
- I lost my eyesight as any djaradin would wish to... in battle with a massive dragon!
- I hid on a mountaintop for three weeks without moving, waiting for the perfect moment to strike!
- Finally, I stuck, jumping on the back of a powerful dragon named Fenistrasza flying by.
- We wrestled as we plummeted through the sky, hundreds of feet, until we slammed into the heart of a volcano!
- Fenistrasza had gouged out my eyes with her talons during the fall, but I had only begun to fight!
- I ripped the lava and earth swirling around us upward, wrapping around the dragon's entire body.
- 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.
- I held Fenistrasza in that volcano for three days straight, until I emerged with nothing but her skull.
- Lava still pours out of her skull's eye sockets to this day.
- Do you doubt me? It rests there on the shelf beside me. See for yourself what happens to those who oppose a djaradin.
Why aren't you with the other djaradin?
- And why should I be with the other djaradin? Do not presume to know of our ways, outsider.
- After I was blinded in battle with Fenistrasza, I was no longer welcome on the Qalashi dragonhunting parties.
- And they were right. I could not keep up with the other dragonhunters. I was a liability.
- So I passed my days in camp, as a laborer.
- But my strength never waned! I continued down a different path to glory.
- I mastered control of earth and fire, bending magma and stubborn fire elementals to my will.
- While slumbering deep in the ground with the other djaradin, my command over earth only grew stronger!
- When the djaradin awoke, I had no interest in returning to manual labor in our camp.
- Here, I can focus on strengthening my command over earth and fire, without distraction.
- Usually. Now leave me alone.
Tale of the Outsider
- Long ago, far before my time, legends tell of an outsider ship landing on the shores of the Dragon Isles.
- A warband of half-giants, led by their king, carved their way through the land.
- The djaradin had not yet united under the Qalashi banner, and several tribes fell to the fearsome half-giants.
- But, like all who face djaradin on the battlefield, they eventually fell.
- In the end, their king stood alone in the battlefield against armies from all of the djaradin tribes.
- A whirlwind of violence and stubborness, he refused to fall. For eight days and nights, he fought without rest and without fail.
- He had earned his place among the djaradin, and joined the Qalashi tribe as a dragonhunter!
- He fought alongside the Qalashi for years, slaying countless dragons as he proved his worth a hundredfold.
- Until the day he finally fell in battle with a powerful dragon a hundred times his size.
- He arrived an outsider, but he died a djaradin.
Tale of the Elders
- Outsiders have often asked where the djaradin learned to command earth and fire.
- Ignorant fools. The djaradin command the earth and fire, because we ARE the earth and fire!
- It is said that the djaradin were the first earth giants to walk the surface of Azeroth.
- Shaping earth and mountains, they formed this land with their fists.
- According to legend, four elders of those ancient djaradin joined their powers together to burrow deep inside the earth.
- The legends do not agree what happened down there, but they all end the same way.
- The elders emerged, touched by the fires of the world to be true djaradin, commanding full control over fire and earth!
- In turn, the elders empowered all djaradin into the mighty giants you see today!
Tale of the Warlord
- It is said that the ancient djaradin tribes were disorganized. Rival warlords battling each other for supremacy.
- Until one warlord, of the Qalashi tribe, saw a more worthy path for her people.
- She ordered her tribe to leave the djaradin battlefields, and focus their skills only on hunting the powerful dragons nearby.
- The other tribes preyed on the weak around them: the tuskarr, gnolls, underdwellers. And in time, they grew weak as well.
- But the Qalashi grew strong from fighting only the most worthy foes in the Isles.
- In time, the warlord easily conquered the lazy tribes, uniting their strongest under the Qalashi banner.
- Focused and forged in battle, the newly emboldened Qalashi led a legendary rampage against the dragons!
- Never before or since have the djaradin slaughtered so many dragons in a single day.
- Some djaradin have forgotten the warlord's timeless truth: What you fight, you become.
- This is why true Qalashi seek out strong opponents. And why weaklings such as you are not worth fighting.
Tale of the Slumbering
- Are you sure you wish to hear this tale? It may make you rethink your friendship with the dragons...
- It is said that the four djaradin elders' mastery over earth and fire caught the dragons off-guard in those first battles.
- Dragon after dragon fell, until Neltharion emerged from the Obsidian Citadel with his armies to halt their advance.
- The elders were hopelessly outnumbered, but the dragons were hopelessly outmatched.
- As the elders battled all challengers with honor, the so-called "Earth-Warder" revealed his cowardice.
- Through honorless guile and trickery, the elders fell that day.
- But not before they had secured permanent footholds for the djaradin in the surface of these lands. Footholds we still hold to this day!
- Some say that the elders did not die that day, but retreated deep into the earth, where they slumber and recover their strength.
- I do not know if I believe that, but I hope it's true. You and your dragon friends would be doomed.
The Magma Pact
- Even the legendary Qalashi warlord who united the tribes never matched the raw power of the four elders.
- As the years passed, again and again the warlord lost ground to the dragons.
- Our people pushed farther back into their mountain footholds, practically underground!
- 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.
- But upon her journey, a massive being of elemental magic approached her. An Incarnate of the earth itself.
- This Incarnate, Iridikron, asked the warlord what she would be willing to do to end the reign of the Aspects.
- The warlord answered as any djaradin would: We would do anything.
- Iridikron offered not power, but allies. An alliance of the Primalists and djaradin against the dragonflights.
- The warlord agreed. Some djaradin objected, but most saw the truth.
- In this would, only the strong survive. And the djaradin must survive.
- 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.
- Then, after the dragonflights are no more, these 'allies' will merely be the last foes left for us to hunt.
Tale of the Weakling
- Now this is my favorite tale that the djaradin tell.
- Long ago, there was a weak <player character's race> who believed themselves equal with a powerful djaradin.
- The weakling asked many questions and didn't always listen to the answers.
- The powerful djaradin commanded the elements of the earth to consume the weakling and bury them deep in the ground.
- 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.
- 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!
- And I can assure you that this one is a very true story.
- Tarjin knocks the player away from the platform.
Patch changes[]
- Patch 10.0.2 (2022-11-15): Added.
