Mantid

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Mantid

Faction/Affiliation	Independent, Sha, Klaxxi
Racial leader(s)	Grand Empress Shek'zeer
Homeworld	Azeroth
Area(s)	Townlong Steppes and Dread Wastes, Pandaria

The mantid are a race of insect-like creatures native to Pandaria.

Background

The Mantid are an intelligent and highly evolved race of insect-like creatures who have menaced the people of Pandaria since prehistoric times. While their society has a queen, they don't operate as a hive mind.^[1] They are sentient beings, capable of constructing tall buildings and mastering weapons.^[2]

Mantid act with individual cunning, making them formidable in single combat and unstoppable when their numbers converge. Every mantid generation, the young hatch in incredible numbers and then swarm toward the rest of Pandaria, devouring anything in their path. Only the strongest return. Although the ancient mogu managed to protect their lands by building a gigantic wall between themselves and the mantid, the generational swarms require an all-hands defense of the wall or the very heart of Pandaria will be lost.^[3]

The mantid forced out the yaungol out of their homeland Townlong Steppes^[4] and devour everything in their path in order to build their own crystalline empire of ruthless warriors and scheming feudal lords. The pandaren are left reeling when the mantid's thousand-year cycle of aggression kicks off a hundred years too early and their greatest warriors burst through the great wall. The beleaguered pandaren must now face the worst swarm in recorded history while trying to isolate the cause of the mantid's erratic behavior.^[5]

The Klaxxi

Main article: Klaxxi

Keepers of the mantid culture, those stoic mantid lords have determined that their own queen has been corrupted and must be destroyed. Although wary of outsiders, it may be possible to earn the trust of the Klaxxi, gaining access to their unique arms and armor. Their capital is presumed to be Klaxxi'vess.