...well, they could be good for us, or bad.

Protoss are xenophobic, hate the Zerg, and generally think they're better than humans. In the game's lore, one of their iconic actions is that, when human worlds were infiltrated by the Zerg, the Protoss burned an entire colony to the ground with no warning or explanation, to be sure the Zerg were eradicated.


The Dark Templar are an odd sect/race of Protoss that were exiled during what, for simplicity's sake, we'll call a theological revolution. Basically, they were heretics. I don't remember the specifics, but it wasn't for "demon worshipping" or anything like that, it was more like heretics under the "we don't quite agree with your opinion, oops now we've been exiled from the planet."

They went to another planet, learned how to turn themselves invisible, and build some sweet blades.

Basically, I'm saying they're either a serial killer (Protoss love of genocide) or a vigilante (stealthy assassin on the side of the humans)

On the one hand, the Dark Templar are more sympathetic to humans than "normal" Protoss. On the other hand, the Dark Templar are very much so the archetypal "assassin" unit.


Soooo... yeah.