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==Background==
The Goatmen are a race that used to be five clans of the [[umbaru]] race from the [[Torajan]] jungles of [[Teganze]], but were separated, and later used by the [[Vizjerei]] [[mage clan]] in the [[Mage Clan Wars]] as deformed "goatmen". They engaged the Vizjerei in war for many centuries, and became completely obsessed with taking revenge on the [[sorcerer]]s, to the point of the rest of the non-transformed clans captured a Vizjerei mage, took control of their "lost" clans in the shape of goatmen, and transformed themselves as well to better fight the mages.
They paid the price of servitude to the demon [[Zagraal]] in exchange for their feral power, raiding villages and caravans to sate their bloodlust and procure sacrificial victims for their demonic master. The names of the original five clans was forgotten at this point, and they were now given the name '''Khazra''', which roughly translates as "demon" or "devil" in the [[umbaru]] tongue. The umbaru [[Witch Doctors]] of lower [[Teganze]] started to rid the jungles of the Khazra, and in a truly legendary battle they defeated Zagraal. Without demonic powers, the goatmen became weak, and besides power surge that came with [[Diablo]]'s emergence in [[Tristram]] some 20 years ago, they have been the sluggish and muddled beings we know today. Some of the history of Goatmen ([[Khazra]]) is detailed in the [[Writings of Abd al-Hazir]], especially named in [[Writings of Abd al-Hazir: Entry no. 0008|entry no 8]], from which the following excerpt is taken:
:''The khazra (colloquially known as "goatmen") were long thought to be natural inhabitants of our world, akin to the lacuni "panther-men" tribes of the desert and mountain regions, but I have recently discovered evidence revealing that nothing could be further from the truth. The history of the khazra is much more complex and disturbing than has been previously imagined.''