

Some druids say pandaren and raccoons are distant cousins, but never when a pandaren can hear them. If the pandaren's own tales are to be trusted, they were around before both the kaldorei and furbolgs. Brann Bronzebeard speculates that they are descended from an unknown Ancient Guardian. The exact origins of the pandaren remain a mystery. The noble history of the pandaren people stretches back thousands of years, well before the empires of man and before even the sundering of the world.

Shortly after the Cataclysm ravaged Azeroth, the protective mists surrounding Pandaria dissipated, and before long, Alliance and Horde warships arrived on the continent, causing the native pandaren to become involved in the conflict between the two factions. Eventually, the turtle grew large enough for entire buildings and towns to be constructed upon his back, and the pandaren began referring to him as the "Wandering Isle". Millennia after the Sundering, a pandaren by the name of Liu Lang set out to explore the world on Shen-zin Su, returning each year to Pandaria to pick up more adventurers to join him on the back of his ever-growing companion. During the Great Sundering, the last pandaren emperor sealed their homeland away behind a veil of mist, hiding Pandaria from the outside world and leaving their culture to flourish free of influences from the outside world.Ī second civilization of pandaren dwells on the back of the giant turtle known as Shen-zin Su, who travels around Azeroth's seas. Long ago, the pandaren were the slaves of a cruel race of powerful warlords known as the mogu, until they successfully staged a revolution alongside several other slave races, establishing their own empire in the process. Hailing from Pandaria and the Wandering Isle, they are humanoid pandas with a great love of nature and strong ales. The enigmatic pandaren are one of the most elusive races of Azeroth. For my kind, the true question is: What is worth fighting for?” Why do we fight? To protect Home, and Family.
