Mantid act with individual cunning, making them formidable in single combat and unstoppable when their numbers converge. They are sentient beings, capable of constructing tall buildings and mastering weapons. While their society has a queen, they don't operate as a hive mind. The mantid are an intelligent and highly evolved race of insect-like creatures who have menaced the people of Pandaria since prehistoric times. In service of her dark master, she unleashed her forces upon the Vale of Eternal Blossoms to claim Pandaria in N'Zoth's name. With the awakening of N'Zoth, she pledged her swarm to the Old God's will. Their paragons took up guard beneath Orgrimmar to protect the heart of their dark former god, but were ultimately defeated during the Siege of Orgrimmar.īy the time of the Fourth War, Grand Empress Shek'zara has ascended the throne. While trying to isolate the cause of the mantid's erratic behavior, it was revealed that Grand Empress Shek'zeer and many of her mantid were corrupted by the Sha of Fear, and with the assistance of the Klaxxi, adventurers were able to defeat her.įollowing the resurrection of the Heart of Y'Shaarj by Garrosh Hellscream, the Klaxxi allied themselves with the Warchief. The beleaguered pandaren fought off the worst swarm in recorded history with the aid of the newly-arrived Alliance and Horde. When Pandaria was found by the Alliance and the Horde, the pandaren were left reeling when the mantid's hundred-year cycle of aggression kicked off a decade too early and their greatest warriors burst through the Serpent's Spine. The mantid forced the yaungol out of their homeland Townlong Steppes and devour everything in their path in order to build their own crystalline empire of ruthless warriors and scheming feudal lords. The mantid are a race of insectoid creatures native to Pandaria, originally descended from a group of aqir - insect-like spawn of the Old Gods - that settled in the southern parts of ancient Kalimdor. With each generation, we grow ever stronger.” They have their role to play.Įach cycle, our young swarm their walls. The pandaren you associate with - they are but children.