The Amani Empire was a forest troll empire with incredible power in antiquity. Their empire was crushed in the Troll Wars, never to rise again. Along with the Gurubashi Empire, the Amani Empire was one of the trolls' ruling empires before the rise to power of the kaldorei (night elves). Apparently, it fell into decline before the onslaught of the kaldorei. However, unlike the Gurubashi jungle trolls, their northern "Amani" cousins managed to remain the regional power after the Great Sundering. When the high elves were first exiled and landed in Lordaeron, they met violent clashes with the forest trolls, who viewed them as defiling their homeland. At the time of the founding of Quel'Thalas, the Amani Empire was the most powerful empire in the Eastern Kingdoms; they still held much of northe