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Dave21480
Weren't they the dwarves(earthen) who didn't go underground?
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Troen
Okay here is how it works...
Titans created first earthen. First earthen were afflicted with the Curse of Flesh. Those earthen then became either troggs or dwarves.
After the first earthen failed, the Titans created the second set of earthen which were immune to the Curse of Flesh. These are the earthen we find in Northrend today.
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ArgentSun
Okay here is how it works...
Titans created first earthen. First earthen were afflicted with the Curse of Flesh. Those earthen then became either troggs or dwarves.
After the first earthen failed, the Titans created the second set of earthen which were immune to the Curse of Flesh. These are the earthen we find in Northrend today.
100% correct. I would only like to clarify a bit here and there.
The original Earthen were...something new even to the Titans. They were a race, like millions other races, designed by the Titans to help them shape the deeper regions of Azeroth (the other races helped with other worlds, naturally). What made the Earthen different was their...core, if you will. The norm, the stereotype for a "deep-region-shapers" kind of race was one of flesh, and this prototype was one used by the Titans on every world they have found. Azeroth was an exception - the Earthen were an experiment. A race created from all of the stones, ores and metals of the world as its core. This core of theirs granted them an uncanny skill when working with stone and earth, but as an experiment, it also made them vulnerable to magical attacks and curses - the Curse of Flesh in particular.
The Curse of Flesh was designed to destabilize the structure of the Earthen races (and by that I mean Earthen-dwarves and Earthen-vrykuls, both of which, I suspect, were created around the same time). It worked well - mutations started becoming more and more frequent among members of the Earthen, and eventually they lost their earthly body and became a race(s) of flesh. Some of the mutations were...severe. The newly produced race lost the high intellect given to them by the Titans and became savages, resorting even to cannibalism. Troggs. The other variation of the mutation was far more successful in terms of preserving the Titans' charge - they lost their bodies of stone, but kept most of their stone-working skills, and more importantly, kept the knowledge that was given to them. Those were the ancestors of the dwarves.
After all those events, the Titans put the remaining Earthen in stasis, so they can sleep, perhaps forever. They were locked in Uldaman (and maybe Uldum), where they slept for a
very
long time. Only recently did they wake up, changed, but still partially Earthen.
And, of course, the Titans created a new, improved, version of the Earthen, resistant to the Curse of Flesh. Those are the ones you see in Northrend, as it was pointed out. The giants were also created around that time, to oversee the Old Gods' actions, and make sure they don't do anything like this again. The Keepers you can find in Ulduar - Hodir, Thorim, Freya, and Mimiron (Loken too) - were also created at that time, given the same charge. Unfortunately Loken, the main overseer, fell prey to Yogg-Saron's corruption, seized Ulduar for himself, and started mass-producing Iron Dwarves, Vrykuls, and Giants, to battle the remaining Earthen and Keepers, and free his master.
That's it...
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Then the article must lack updates after WotLK. The Lorekeeper of Norgannon in Uldaman and the Tribunal of Ages in The Halls of Stone are quite confident that the troggs were a mutation off the Earthen. An accident.
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