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Post by
Adamsm
The original Warcraft game; Orcs vs Humans had reference to Hell and the like; more then likely at that point daemons(as they were originally called) came from the 'the Pit, the Inferno' and were seen as creatures against the Light. When the Guardians were formed, they found out differently as they went up against a Dreadlord who had happened to return to Azeroth through a summoning by a foolish human.
Post by
Rankkor
further proof that chromie is a girl
http://cde.cerosmedia.com/1R4be16d2a32de7608.cde/page/16
the wowmagazine specifically recognizes her as a girl, so she's just a girl with a tomboyish name, no diferent than when you meet a girl called Sam, (wich is short for samuel or samantha) or max, or even alex.
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Post by
Orranis
Bronze Dragons are supposed to have Lightning Breath, perhaps related?
Somehow I doubt it.
Post by
OgreSound
Did Darkshire, Durnholde, Duskwood, Scholomance, etc... have different names before, I mean,
why would anyone give their town a name like Darkshire?
I understand that Trolls gave their places scary names to intimidate and stuff, hills and rivers might have scary names because someone died there and peope think it's haunted, but why would anyone make a settlement and name it "Doomed forever" or something?
Post by
Skreeran
Scholomance means "
Scho
o
l
o
f Necro
manc
y," as you probably know. It was probably founded (by Kel'thuzad) under a different name, but we don't know what that name was.
Duskwood used to just be a part of Elwynn Forest, and Darkshire was called "
Grand Hamlet
" before the Scythe of Elune was found.
Durnholde has always been called Durnholde, as far as I know. Don't see how that's a scary name, exactly.
Post by
OgreSound
M'kay, thanks for explainin' Duskwood / Darkshire, about Durnholde, Durn is an euphemism for darn / damn, so it's a lot like Damned hold.
Also, does anyone have a clue about what Blasted lands looked like before the Dark Portal?
EDIT: One more thing... "The Scholomance was fabled to be a legendary school of black magic run by the Devil, supposedly located near an unnamed lake in the mountains south of the city of Hermannstadt (now called Sibiu in Romanian) in the Transylvania region of Romania." Google is my friend.
Post by
Skreeran
Ah, yes, the real life Scholomance... Forgot about that...
And the Blasted Lands looked just like the Swamp of Sorrows and was called the Black Morass. It's there on the map I linked.
Have you done the Caverns of Time instance for Black Morass?
Post by
OgreSound
tbh, I haven't done that instance, might do it just for kicks one day. Thanks for everythin' Skeeran.
Post by
Skreeran
No prob. ;)
Post by
Rankkor
a small part of the blasted lands will return to look like how it used to in the past on cataclysm, (most of the tainted scar, wich is in itself ironic XD)
and yhea, skree pretty much nailed every single question I had intended to answer.
also, funny tidbit, dont' ya find funny that on the WC1 map Stranglethorn is strangely missing? so is Zul'gurub, and blackrock spire is south of redridge instead of north.........
wow should really add a modern cartography to how the world was in each diferent era.
maybe archaeology will do that in cata, since path of the titans was removed, Archaeology has gone from a core raider-pvp profession, to an optional profession specially suited for every member of this part of the forum.
a lore-profession :D as the marine in the starcraft II trailer said "Hell, it's about time".
Post by
Skreeran
also, funny tidbit, dont' ya find funny that on the WC1 map Stranglethorn is strangely missing? so is Zul'gurub, and blackrock spire is south of redridge instead of north.........
wow should really add a modern cartography to how the world was in each diferent era.I figured that the northern part of Stranglethorn was shown there below the Deadmines, with all those trees. The "Orc Camp" could have become Grom'gol.
The Cape of Stranglethorn doesn't appear on that map, but it would be further south.
maybe archaeology will do that in cata, since path of the titans was removed, Archaeology has gone from a core raider-pvp profession, to an optional profession specially suited for every member of this part of the forum.
a lore-profession :D as the marine in the starcraft II trailer said "Hell, it's about time".Hell yeah.
I'm going to be Indiana-freakin'-Jones about archaeology. So glad it got made into a lore profession (even though you know every thing you can possibly learn with it will be on Wowwiki a few weeks after release... :P)
I won't miss Path of the Titans, either. I wasn't looking forward to being forced to make my character join a cult.
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Post by
Joemaster240
I won't miss Path of the Titans, either. I wasn't looking forward to being forced to make my character join a cult.
I hear you... all it sounded was a complicated way to pull 10 more DPS.
when was path of the titans removed?
Post by
Rankkor
I won't miss Path of the Titans, either. I wasn't looking forward to being forced to make my character join a cult.
I hear you... all it sounded was a complicated way to pull 10 more DPS.
when was path of the titans removed?
it wasn't removed, it was scraped (wich means they discarded the idea before they implemented it)
last press conference at june 8 they revealed that they scraped the idea. It's not that bad, rather than adding "ancient glyphs" they will add medium glyphs.
Post by
Adamsm
Vrykul lore time.
Post by
OgreSound
Believe it or not, I have yet another question, I think the question fits here...
How long did Cata take time to happen, to fully go from look "A" to look "B", days, months?
If that's a retarded question, to keep some of my ego as you tell me that, thanks.
Post by
Skreeran
Believe it or not, I have yet another question, I think the question fits here...
How long did Cata take time to happen, to fully go from look "A" to look "B", days, months?
If that's a retarded question, to keep some of my ego as you tell me that, thanks.We really don't know, honestly.
Typically, the expansions have taken a year each. Vanilla WoW began 4 years after Reign of Chaos, Burning Crusade began one year later, and Wrath of the Lich King happen one year after that, so we've been expecting that Cataclysm takes place roughly one year after Wrath began. I've heard 5 years from one source though...
But that's not really your question.
As for "How long did it take for the changes in Cataclysm to happen?" as I said, we really don't know. I would wager most of it happened within minutes to hours after Deathwing emerged. The geograpic stuff, that is: The Barrens getting split, Southshore getting hit with a tidal wave, Gilneas's flooding, Stonetalon's mountain moving, Tanaris' flooding, Desolace's getting access to water, etc.
Some other changes could have taken weeks or months, like Azshara's changes and the regrowing of the flora in Desolace and the Barrens.
Post by
OgreSound
So most likely the major changes happened in a single day?
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