Zul Zul is a name of mysterious troll prophet . After the Cataclysm devastated Zandalar , Zul took a group of Zandalari warriors , led them across the globe , united the other troll tribes together , and began the assault on Pandaria to regain ties with the mogu . He is voiced by Dave Fennoy . Background . Among the Zanchuli Council are many priests and mages of incredible power and forbidden knowledge . One of the most respected of these is Zul . Even as a child his dark and terrible visions had come true down to the last horrifying detail . He commanded fear and respect as one of the dark prophets : seers capable of witnessing great tragedies before they come to pass . Years ago Zul warned King Rastakhan of a terrible Cataclysm . For Zul had seen a vision of a great armored dragon clenching the world in his ferocious jaws . Months later Zul returned , bearing more grim news from his visions . He saw a legion of serpents pouring forth from a gaping fissure that tore open the floor of the ocean . Still , King Rastakhan did nothing . Finally , mere months before the Cataclysm , Zul returned . Tearing his clothes and throwing his staff to the ground , Zul spoke of earthquakes and tidal waves . He described the golden capital of Zandalar slowly sinking beneath the waves in the aftermath of the Cataclysm , its once - great people drowning as their mighty works slipped forever beneath the sea . He advised the council and the king to unite with the other troll tribes and to abandon their doomed homeland . Despite Zul ' s infamy , the council refused to believe in the scope of the disaster to come . Many felt that Zul was grandstanding to increase his own status and power . King Rastakhan tired of Zul and his troubling nightmares . To be rid of the prophet , he granted Zul the use of his largest ships , so that he and his followers could seek a new land if his visions came to pass . They scoffed as he and his followers began assembling a war fleet and reaching out to the lesser troll races . The old prophet sailed all around the oceans , meeting with the other tribes like the Sandfury Trolls and Drakkari . But Zul ' s vision were visions of the truth . Deathwing ' s Cataclysm rocked Zandalar to its foundation . The spine of the land broke in two , and soon , the city and all its riches began to slide into the hungry sea . The Zandalari people turned to their King for help , but there was only one Zandalari equipped to help them : The prophet Zul . Even now the mighty and enigmatic troll empire slides into the sea , and Zandalari peasants and warriors alike flock to Zul for guidance on what to do next . Led by Zul , the Zandalari have issued a call to Azeroth ' s embattled troll populations : unite into a single mighty empire and save their race from extinction . Rise of the Zandalari . Standing to ' s speech outside of Zul ' Aman , Zul was the leader of the Zandalari delegation that appeared at the meeting of the troll tribes , inviting them to join the Zandalari at Rastakhan ' s proposal . Mists of Pandaria . In the wake of the mists vanishing around Pandaria , Zul has sent Zandalari scouts under the command of and Gara ' jal the Spiritbinder to find out information about their ancient mogu allies . Setting up on the Isle of Reckoning , the Zandalari immediately go about invading Zouchin province , massacring a large percentage of it ' s populace in order to penetrate deeper into Pandaria . Eventually , the Zandalari discover and reconnect with the mogu clans inhabiting the mountains of Kun - Lai Summit . The Zandalari and the mogu immediately go about raising stone , jade , and terracotta warriors to fuel the mogu army which is intent upon retaking Pandaria from the Pandaren . Zul then orders the Zandalari to find information about the dreaded First Emperor of Pandaria , Lei Shen , the Thunder King . They find his body secured by several hundred terracotta soldiers . After taking his body away , the mogu enter to raise the terracotta to fight . Although the Zandalari succeed in resurrecting the Thunder King , Prophet Khar ' zul and a large amount of the Zandalari invasion force are killed in the process . immediately allies with Zul and goes about uniting the mogu clans and the Zandalari . Rise of the Thunder King . Lei Shen returns to his island citadel with the majority of Zul ' s Zandalari army and along with the Mogu , forms then into an enormous army which is bent on reclaiming Pandaria for the Mogu and Lei Shen . Zul orders the Zandalari to immediately begin land assaults on the continent itself .