更新时间：2023-06-30 23:42
螳螂人是网络游戏《魔兽世界》新资料片《潘达利亚的迷雾》中新加入的敌对种族。
在泰坦整顿艾泽拉斯秩序之时，他们发现艾泽拉斯的原住民在信仰着一种邪恶生物——上古之神。泰坦和上古之神展开了激烈的战斗，最终几个上古之神都被封印了。泰坦们便继续整顿艾泽拉斯秩序，离开了艾泽拉斯。
随后的时间里，上古之神的力量不断溢出，对整个世界造成了污染。
螳螂人崇拜的是上古之神，七个头的亚刹极(英文为Y'Shaarj)，而且螳螂人应该和其拉虫人以及艾卓-尼鲁布虫人是远亲，而且貌似给将来的古神回归留下了伏笔。
右边是简体版本的对话内容：（注意对话中提到的亚刹极的七位头领）
You are to be rewarded. Walk with me.
We mantid are an elder race. The pandaren you associate with, they are but children. They have their role to play.
Each cycle, our young swarm their walls. The pandaren slay the weak. The strong return.
With each generation, we grow ever stronger.
Before your history began, our empire was vast. We shared this world with our sister kingdoms, Ahn'Qiraj and Azjol-Nerub.
Our gods were many and powerful.We mantid worshiped the Seven Heads of Y'Shaarj.
Great was the Old One, and terrible was his wrath. He consumed hope and begat despair. He inhaled courage and breathed fear.
When the Usurpers came, the ones you call Titans, Y'Shaarj was destroyed.
His last terrible breath has haunted this land ever since, but the shadows he left behind are mere whispers of his former glory.
I tell you know because you have earned this warning.
Your gods are not YOUR gods, outsider.
If the Old Ones ever return, we mantid will once again stand by their side.
The wisest among you will do the same.