Blizzard and Community References in WoW

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The Ezra Grimm encounter in Stratholme is filled with references. The former quest The Great Ezra Grimm used to send players to explore the old cigar shop, which was revised in Cataclysm to be Le grand Ezra Grimm. Players can open a mailbox near his shop with Fras Siabi's Postbox Key, read about his shop in Publicité d’Ezra Grimm, and kill him for Tabac de Grimm. A live version of him, Ezra Grimm, can be found in L’Épuration de Stratholme.

Players who wanted to obtain the original Quel'Serrar had to first get Le guide de Nostro du tueur de dragons from Dire Maul.

Foror and Tigole as a pair are found in the Children's Week delicacy Glace à la fraise d’Aguilor and the AV item Portrait dédicacé d’Aguilor. The original Zul'Gurub also had Couvre-œil en écailles de lézard and Harpon d'Aguilor as drops.

Grand maréchal Pont-de-Pierre is a clear reference to his name, there are also NPCs referencing one of his characters, Kariel. Eclaireur Avokor is a Rogue trainer and Squelette de Telmius Cherche-Rêve is an old Dire Maul NPC that was the author of many librams like Libram de constitution.

Brazie Kilah sells Bière à peine plus grande de Fras Siabi in limited supply, which increases the size of the player.

Seigneur Devrestrasz gives the daily quest La défense du temple du Repos du ver for Défense rapide in Dragonblight, and appears in Dragon Soul for the rogue quests Prouver votre valeur and Un message caché.

He can be found in several unobtainable items: Alex's Ring of Audacity and the removed flavor text in Sifflet de Piou-piou. His name is also on several PTR items like A Very Large Bag and Foror's Wipe Neutralizer.

Alexander "Xelnath" Brazie

In the Plants vs Zombies tribute game, Brazie le Botaniste is the NPC who runs the event. Rewards include Lampe pour plantes de Brazie and the battle pet Graines de tournesol de Brazie.

Alliance players in Icecrown Citadel come across the pervy vendor Brazie Kilah who sells Livre Noir des Secrets de Brazie for . This contains Dictionnaire des Diaboliques Damoiselles Draeneï de Brazie, Notes sur les Nymphettes Naines de Nid-de-l'Aigle de Brazie, Guide du Gringue pour Gnomettes Grandioses de Brazie, Hymne au Harponnage des Humaines Hédonistes de Brazie, Elzévir des Elfes de la nuit Egrillardes de Brazie. When talking to Brazie, he has interesting dialogue options hinting at creepy and non-legal wares he has to sell (possibly the unused item Brazie's Gnomish Pleasure Device?).

Intendant Brazie is the Alliance quartermaster for Tol Barad.

Ben BrodeTome des EgarésBlizzard HistoriansCreative Development teamÎle du Temps figé

Historienne en chef Evelyna represents Senior Historian Evelyn Fredericksen, who quizzes players on their lore knowledge in Éternelle question.

Accompanying here are Historien Llore, named after Sean "Loreology" Copeland and Historien Ju’pa, after Justin Parker. Copeland also appears in Stormwind as Sean Copeland.

WoW Insider's interview with Sean CopelandBrian "Desvin" HolinkaBrian HolinkaMaître d’armes HolinkaRoo Desvinforum nicknameChris KaleikiBâton d'entraînement perdu de KaleikiContremaître KaleikiMMO game design blogChris Metzen

Chris Metzen, the Senior VP of Story and Development at Blizzard, is a Winter Veil reindeer you are required to save for Allez Metzen !.

Metzen is also a member of the Argent Dawn in Northrend: Vengeur Metz, Commandant d'ordonnance Metz

Community Management

Cristal focalisateur de Timbal: Senior Community Rep Zarhym was originally known as Timbal on the WoW forums. Many players name their Crâne fantomatique battle pet after Zarhym since it closely resembles his forum avatar, and Z’avez pas vu Zarhym ? is the most recent tribute to him on the Timeless Isle.

Plaque de blindage abandonnée de Crygil: Crygil was one of the forum Community Managers from Wrath. When asked about why he discarded the item, he responsed on the forums "Fel-Reavers can't read. I didn't discard it, it was stolen from me while I slept."

Drysc: Drysc, now known as Bashiok, is well-known to forum goers from his Diablo III and Warcraft posts. His NPC is a neophyte Shaman seeking instruction in the Exodar.

Crithto: This perky pug is the Gamon of Stormwind--although he wears a variety of fashionable hats, he'll attack you. When killed, he drops Collier de chiot abandonné. Crithto's avatar on the WoW forums is a Perky Pug, and CM Crithto is an avid pet-battler, writing the weekly Major Payne blog. The pugs with fashionable hats have also been seen in Caisse de chiots enlevés.

Eyonix: This Netherstorm innkeeper is named after longtime Community Manager Eyonix, who left Blizzard in 2010 for SEGA.

Cory Stockton

Lead Content Designer Cory Stockton shows up as Aubergiste Coryth Stoktron, the Zangarmarsh innkeeper with an interesting sense of style (Chapeau d'aventurier stylé, Chemise noire de bretteur, purple cape) and the unique beverage Esprit-de-vin cénarien with Alcool fort effect.

Relatives of Cory Stockton can be seen in Stormwind (Tyler Stockton and Nathan Stockton), Shrine of Seven Stars (Marsha Stockton and Ann Stockton), Undercity (Commissaire-priseur Stockton), and Dalaran (Christi Stockton).

Christi Stockton's wine shop selling items like Fût de Dalaran rouge grand cru also fits in well with his interest in fine drinks, documented on Twitter.

Customer Service in Culling of StratholmeL’Épuration de Stratholme

Brock Thriss: Vrakthris is one of the original Customer Service posters. He also has the tribute NPC Mande-ciel Vrakthris.

Stéphanie Sindree: Syndri is a former Customer Service rep who is now Lylirra, a Community Manager for Diablo III.

Hôtesse mécanique RY7R: Named after former Customer Service rep Reythur, whose avatar was a robot quite similar to this NPC's model.

Olivia Zénith: Named after former Customer Service rep Zenylith, who is now a Latin Community Manager.

Michael Belfast: Named after former Customer Service rep Belfaire, who now writes at WoW Insider.

Additional NPCs include Edward Orrick for Auryk, Patricia O'Reilly for Orlyia, Mal Corricks for Malkorix, and Brandon Eiredeck for Aredek.

Dave "Fargo" Kosak

Judroti: One of the main characters in Flintlocke vs The Horde, currently serving as a bartender in Orgrimmar.

Fargo Flintlocke sends Alliance players to Twilight Highlands, which is an odd choice after he's nuked Stormwind in a previous installment of Flintlocke's Guide to Azeroth.

Rok’tar sends Horde players to Twilight Highlands and is the main character of the follow-up series Flintlocke vs. The Horde.

Flintlocke has a number of items named after him, such as Pulvéri-marteau de Flintlocke which looks like a melee weapon and fits with Flintlocke's combat style.

Ronge-bois de Flintlocke references his signature "Chuck-Shot" which was made with blasting powder and an angry woodchuck. This enchant makes your ranged weapon periodically spit out a critter.

Tire-crasse de Flintlocke: When looting corpses, Flintlocke also had to remember to pick up the Chuck-Shot dislodged in his enemies. It was quite dirty, leading to the flavor text "This weapon has clearly never been cleaned. Ever."

Pantalon de pilotage de Flintlocke: References Flintlocke's debatable skills in flying a "diridgerdabler-able... diriger-jib-gibjer-lobbler... BLIMP" which eventually crashes.

Commandant Lo Ping: This badge vendor is named after Lo Ping, who enjoyed hoarding tons of items.

Eric DoddsMain d'Edward l'étrangeVolonté d'Edward l'EtrangeChevalière d'Edward l'étrangeEspauliers d'Edward l'étrangeBottines d'Edward l'étrangeGreg "Ghostcrawler" Street

Clampant fantôme: Former Lead Systems Designer Ghostcrawler is a rare spawn in Vash'jir, a zone he liked due to his background in oceanography. This rare spawn has the infamous Gourdin à nerf ability and looks like a spectral version of Ghostcrawler's crab forum avatar.

Je veux un poney !: Pokes fun at players complaining Ghostcrawler didn't give them what they asked for.

À terre !: Back in 2008, Ghostcrawler mentioned that ret paladins could be nerfed to the ground.

Jeffrey "Tigole" KaplanTigole's TrashbringerTigole's Boomstick (TEST)Harpon d'AguilorGlace à la fraise d’AguilorPortrait dédicacé d’AguilorJonathan LeCraftCrafty's PoleJonathan LeCraftVieux malinCharles EtienneTomas RiogainKevin JordanEcharpe de JordanAncien bâton de JordanLake DumontBrandan VanderflaqBrian CorCasey FultonJake PattonJudah MehlerJonny ThroopLarissa BussellLucas MérinoMary Ann SkweresMatias VolkertRyan SlySom VanderflaqMonte KrolLame de KrolFendoir de KrolDécapiteur de KrolCimeterre de KrolKrol la LameMonte KrolNew Hearthglen

Pas de pitié pour les captifs: This captured prisoners you need to kill are named after Blizzard Game Designers.

The followup quest, Torturer le tortionnaire, refers to Tortionnaire Alphonse after Jonathan LeCraft.

Le journal du grand général Abbendis: Players on C'est la vérité, d'ailleurs loot this book, which has many detailed pages talking about members of the Scarlet Crusade that overlap with Blizzard designers, like Evêque Delarue.

The Night WatchGardien DoddsGardien KellerGardien PetrasPat Nagle

Nat Pagle was originally found in Dustwallow Marsh, offering the quest Nat Pagle, pêcheur de l'extrême to those with 225+ Fishing, which rewarded Canne à pêche porte-bonheur de Nat.

Nat alzo sold Appât au Puant de vase, which was used to lure Gahz'ranka in old Zul'Gurub. This had the themed loot Moulinet cassé de Nat Pagle and Guide de pêche extrême de Nat Pagle

Nat is also the namesake for one of the STV rare fish rewards: Bottes de pêche extrême de Nat Pagle

Players can read the tantalizing end of a story involving Nat and the resting place of Ashbringer: Guide de pêche extrême de Nat Pagle, as well as a worn out copy: Une copie très fatiguée du « Guide de pêche extrême » de Nat Pagle.

In Mists of Pandaria, players can become Best Friends with Nat, in C’est qui le meilleur ?, which rewards Siège de pêche de Nat. He also serves as The Angler's Quartermaster, selling Chapeau de Nat and Journal de pêche de Nat among other fishing-themed items.

Players of both factions can pick up FC-5000 de Nat Pagle, pêcheur de l'extrême from a Hinterland's quest.

A younger version of Nat shows up in Old Hillsbrad Foothills, where he has prophetic dreams about Azeroth's tragedies.

Quality Assurance ShipThe AssuranceCapitaine Paul Carver

"We were all set to sail into Northrend, but we've noticed a severe number of pests aboard our ship."

"Before we can set sail to Northrend, we've got to eliminate our pest problem aboard the Assurance."

"The Assurance has somehow become inundated with bugs and we are unable to set sail to Northrend."

Assistant Lead QA Analysts: Edgar Flores, Kurtis Paddock, Rian Trost

QA Content Specialists: Justin Boehm, Michael Corpora, Meghan Dawson, Benjamin Elgueta, Dan Kramer, Paul Kubit, Serban Oprescu, Art Peshkov, Bob Richardson, Candace Thomas

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Commissaire-priseur Chilton: Lead Game Designer Tom Chilton shows up as an auctioneer. He also has the highest level and most expensive cheese: Stilton de Chilton.

PvP vendor Doris Chiltonius and her series of capes (Cape d'apparat de Dory, Atours de Dory, Étreinte de Dory) may be related as well.

William Warnecke

Bile Colguerre: This WoD flightmaster is named after Lead Software Engineer William Warnecke.

WoW CommunityDeath Knight

Anneau éternellement froid de Devium is named after Devium, a tank in <Premonition> which achieved many World/US firsts in Wrath. From Valithria Marcherêve in Citadelle de la Couronne de glace.

L'air est immobile has quest rewards named after Wrath beta testers: Souliers de Leiah, Garde-épaules en cobalt, Garde-mains renforcés de Jayde, Calot de Sixen.

The Death Knights of Acherus: This series of books the Death Knight starting area humorously references many Wrath testers and their gruesome fates. Depending on your phased state you will see one of four different books at different points in their lives. The books cover Jayde, Sixen, Munch, Cobalt, Harmony, Melt, Milton, and Minitalis.

Yeux qui-voient-tout de Davidian: Tribute to the remarkable story of a blind player, Hexu, who raids with the help of a guildmate, Davidian, which is honored in the flavor text "Sharp enough to see for two men." Read more about this touching story on WoW Insider.

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Couronne meurtrière de Madeleine: Magdalena is the owner/moderator of the #Acherus IRC for Death Knights and blogs at Son of a Lich.

Druid

Garde-poignets maximisés de Toskk: Named after Toskk, a feral DPS theorycrafter in previous expansions. Drops from Porte-mort Saurcroc.

Habit de la graine germée de Phaelia: Phaelia was the author of Resto4Life, a popular Resto Druid blog. The "Sprouting Seed" part refers to her decision to retire when expecting a baby.

Ceinturon fend-les-feuilles de Martiean: Martiean is a Youtuber who made a popular series of rare spawn videos, some of which can be seen on Wowhead.

Cordelière suturée d'Astrylian, Charme joyeux d'Astrylian: Astrylian created Rawr, a theorycrafting tool.

Bottes préservées de Fasc: Fasc was a notable Druid tank theorycrafter and author of BearCAD.

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Jambières fouettées par le vent de Hamlet: Hamlet is a druid theorycrafter who maintains guides and spreadsheets for balance and resto druids, created an instructional series of Challenge Mode videos, and blogs about a variety of game topics. Originally this had a Monk Tier 16 model that I asked to be changed to a Druid one :)

Jambards antiques d'Arielle: Arielle writes at The Inconspicuous Bear and is one of the Team Waffle Podcast hosts.

Vareuse de Muuscat de Pamela: Pamela Horton was Playboy's Miss October 2012 and a long-time WoW player that got Realm First Herbalist on her Tauren Druid in MoP.

Corselet supérieur de Zou Per: Vee, or Zoopercat, is one of the team members behind Ask. Mr Robot, a site for gear optimization.

Hunter

BRK-1000: Big Red Kitty was a popular hunter poster, with a Hunter column on WoW Insider. The flavor text refers to a long-running joke/obsession he had with raspberries.

Flèche parfaite de Gerp: Gerp, an Orc Hunter, is Scott Johnson's character--one of the co-hosts of The Instance podcast. This is a great trinket for twinks, as you only need to be 84 to equip it but the item level is 442.

Jambières de primaliste de Dill: Dills is one of the co-hosts of The Instance podcast too.

Couronne en crâne de dragon de Zeherah: Zeherah maintains the Hunter DPS analyzer tool Female Dwarf.

Cape de Frostheim récupérée: Frostheim was a longtime author of the WoW Insider column Scattered Shots and founder of the Warcraft Hunter's Union.

Gedrah: Gedrah wrote a notable guide on how to play Hunters in classic WoW. He wears iconic classic items including Giantstalker Armor, Couronne de destruction, and Rhok'delar, arc long des Gardiens anciens.

Great Hunter Gonk: According to troll druid trainer Zen'tabra, Greater Hunter Gonk is a raptor loa responsible for teaching trolls how to serve nature spirits, leading to the rise of Troll Druids. Gonktarget is a Hunter and Elitist Jerks forum poster that harshly criticizes druids. He also has the snarky trash items Arc de maladresse de Knog and Arc d'inaptitude de Knog.

Sceau orné d'un diamant brun de Ro-Ger: Rogerbrown is a Hunter in <Method>, which was ranked #1 in the world throughout MoP.

Maître des traditions Skosiris: Skosiris is the co-founder of Wowhead and as such runs the "organized and clearly labeled" library in Shattrath that makes "the grand libraries of Silvermoon City pale in comparison," according to his in-game dialogue. Each bookcase in the library serves as a different profession trainer.

Mage

Bottines réprouvées de Kavan: Kavan is a theorycrafter on Elitist Jerks, contributed to modeling SimC for arcane mages, and develops the mage module on Rawr.

Li Vera: Lhivera is a forum MVP, develops sims for mages, and maintains Lhivera's Library.

Grand arcaniste Savor, Chevalière de grand arcaniste Savor: Savor was one of the original mages in the guild <Nurfed>. He wears classic elite caster items from vanilla, including Atours de nécrochevalier and Bâton de la flamme d'ombre.

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Echarpe vénérable de Venruki: Venruki has gotten Gladiator numerous seasons and was on the winning Battle.net World Championship Team in 2012.

Masque des veines glaciales de Damien: Damien is one of the co-founders of Icy Veins featuring class and raid guides.

Monk

Tikari & K.A.J.O.T.: This beverage is named after Tikari who blogs at Tikari's Tricks of the Trade and Kristin, who runs BlizzList and has a Monk named Kayt.

Paladin

Sceau de braise de Theck: Theck is a protection paladin theorycrafter and blogger, who writes at Sacred Duty and Maintankadin.

Zoid is a game developer who has worked on Metroid Prime, QuakeWorld, L4D2, and Dota 2. If you watched Awesome Games Done Quick 2014, he provided commentary during the Metroid Prime speedrun. He has several items across expansions: Estramaçon illuminé par les flammes de Zoïd, Brassards brûlés de Zoïd, Gantelets en fusion de Zoïd.

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Brassards mastoc de l'avant-garde: Vanguard is a notable PvP who has achieved Gladiator and Rank 1 numerous times.

Grand heaume de feu spirituel d'Aladya: Aladya is a holy paladin in <Method>, which was ranked #1 in the world throughout MoP.

Sautoir épineux d'Anafielle: Anafielle is a co-host of Final Boss and blogger at Sacred Duty.

Priest

Boulier d'Althor: Althor/Delmortis is a Priest theorycrafter--ironically this is a healing trinket although he focused on Shadow theorycrafting in Wrath.

Caducée de zénitude de Giorgio: Josh Eustis of Telefon Tel Aviv, who also performed on NiN's recent tour, came to CM Zarhym's attention when a picture was posted of him beating Infernal Diablo on tour. Also a heroic raider, Josh was honored with a weapon that pays tribute to his and his girlfriend's character names as well as the vineyard Caduceus Cellars, owned by musician Maynard James Keenan who performed in Puscifer along with Eustis.

Chelley is a podcaster on Video Game Outsiders. She has two BoEs named after her: Scalpel stérile de Chelley and Bâton de sombre guérison de Chelley.

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Ceinturon resplendissant de Derevka: Derevka runs the blog Tales of a Priest and is one of the moderators at How to Priest.

Rogue

Gants du secret d'Aldriana: Aldriana was a theorycrafter and the longtime maintainer of the Rogue spreadsheet on Elitist Jerks.

Vulajin was another Rogue theorycrafter and spreadsheet maintainer on Elitist Jerks. He has a series of items: Epée de Jin d'Avool from Wrath, Perforeuse incendiaire d'Avool in Cataclysm, and Cuirasse vicieuse de Vulajin in MoP. He later switched mains to a Mage, which explains why Brassards ancestraux d'Avool is a cloth item in Siege of Orgrimmar.

Aiguillon surnuméraire de Namlak: Kalman was a Rogue theorycrafter in early WoW on Elitist Jerks. "Namlak" is Kalman's name spelled backwards. When the item first came out, all the stats were 32 which makes the numerology reference to 23 in "supernumerary" clearer.

Tikari & K.A.J.O.T.: This beverage is named after Tikari who blogs at Tikari's Tricks of the Trade and Kristin, who runs BlizzList and has a Monk named Kayt.

Wodin le Serviteur-Troll is another Elitist Jerks poster and theorycrafter, who shows up at all the Ring of Blood events--Nagrand, Zul'Drak, Twilight Highlands, and Kun-Lai Summit. There are several weapons named after him: Perforeuse mantide de Wodin, Collier porte-bonheur de Wodin, and Perforeuse de second choix de Wodin. In addition, Wodin has a pet cat Zéna who also gets a special item, Pelote de laine incroyablement riche de Zéna. There is a new datamined NPC ID for Wodin in WoD, but his location is not yet found.

Chevalière spéciale de Perculia: Item named after me during MoP's beta! I was very excited as early items named after players inspired me to do more in WoW--you can read more about my reaction on my personal blog here.

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Chaperon d'ombre grise de Stickney: Anne Stickney is WoW Insider's resident lore expert and worked on the World of Warcraft Ultimate Visual Guide.

Shaman

Bouclier de résonance sonore: Turpster is one of the co-hosts of The Instance podcast. This BoE shield is great for leveling, as it's ilvl 450 but requires level 85 to equip.

Heaume amplificateur d'Hexu: Tribute to the remarkable story of a blind player, Hexu, who raids with the help of a guildmate, Davidian, which is honored in the flavor text "A man with a friend is never without vision." Read more about this touching story on WoW Insider.

Gurgthock runs the Ring of Blood events, and Batte-tripes voyante de Gurgthock is a possible reward from the Twilight Highlands event. Gurg is the guild master of Elitist Jerks.

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Ceinture brunie de Binkenstein: Binkenstein was the founder of Totemspot and an Elemental Shaman theorycrafter.

Kilt vif de Moshne: Moshne is an elemental shaman theorycrafter who frequently posts on Elitist Jerks.

Regard gracieux d'Olivia: Olivia is WoW Insider's PvP and add-on columnist, plus she hosts Legendary at Gamebreaker TV and Talk Azeroth for us! Her Ordos item has a PvP model instead of an expected PvE one, and she also has the amusing object Lettre de change, which references a running joke on twitter that Olivia would bake the devs one million cookies each if they implemented cross-realm arenas.

Warlock

Ritssyn has a series of caster items across expansions: Pendentif perdu de Ritssyn, Anneau du chaos de Ritssyn, Baguette de mauvais mojo de Ritssyn, Lance-ruines de Rittsyn, and Drapé désastreux de Ritssyn. Ritssyn is an anagram for Nisstyr, once the GM of Nurfed. His brother, Indalamar, was an active WoW beta tester and went on to work at Blizzard (covered below in the Warrior section). Rittsyn also shows up in the Green Fire questline for warlocks, as part of the Council of the Black Harvest. In Héritage des Maîtres (1e partie), we learn that Rittsyn is an orc enchanter who saw Ragnaros vanquished and is assigned to explore Sulfuron Keep in the hopes of learning even more powerful secrets. Warlocks who have completed the questline get a special Rittsyn quote on their tooltip.

Zinnin is another member of the Council of the Black Harvest, who is based on a warlock in Blood Legion.

Exsanguinateur de Nadagast: Nadagast has obtained Gladiator in numerous seasons. The 3D model on his item is notable as it shares the look with Season 14 PvP weapons even though it drops from a raid.

Mia la Rose: Mia Rose is a former adult film star who was a long-time WoW player and now popular streamer. While she wears modified rogue gear, she has the ability Séduction.

Warrior

Scarabée d'obstruction de Satrina: Satrina was a warrior theorycrafter and author of several popular addons, like Satrina Buff Frames.

Grand heaume cornu d'Âmeterre: Landsoul is a Warrior theorycrafter who maintained the Warrior spreadsheet on Elitist Jerks back in Wrath.

Indalamar was an influential pre-release beta tester who later was hired by Blizzard. He has several original Naxxramas items named after him (Destin de Ramaladni, Étreinte de glace de Ramaladni), as well as Lame d'épuration de Ramaladni from Icecrown Citadel and the unused joke item Indalamar's New Holy Hand Grenade.

Bouclier en laiton de Sutiru: Sutiru was one of the maintainers of the EJ Warrior FAQ.

Bouclier perdu de la Barricade: Blockade loves collecting shields--at the time of this item's creation, he had 46, which explains the flavor text referencing 47. This shield also has a unique model, making it a worthy transmog item.

Grand seigneur de guerre Uro: Uro was a Rank 14 Warrior in vanilla who contributed extensively to Warrior PvP discussions. His character in Dalaran is a High Warlord and is dressed in mismatching Fury Warrior gear, including pink Bottes chromatiques and purple Gantelets d'annihilation. His dialogue references the theorycrafting behind his outfit: "Only a fool would mock the appeance of my battle-garb! This raiment of well-worn steel is from an ancient place of learning!"

Jamus'Vaz: This badge vendor was named after JamesVZ, a vocal critic on Elitist Jerks of the badge catch-up system.

Xi, l’Amie des tout-petits: Former Death and Taxes member Xi is often abrupt and intolerant of new players on the Elitist Jerks forums, so "Friend of the Small" and a Monk wearing pink flowers is an ironic tribute.

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Pansière ensanglantée de Hoodrych: Hoodrych has achieved rank 1 and gladiator on his warrior an impressive number of times.

Carapace de lave broyeuse d'Omegal: Omegal is one of the main developers on Deadly Boss Mods as well as a Tech Support MVP for the WoW forums.

Plaques d'épaules trempées de rosée de Rossi: Matthew Rossi is known for his warrior and lore columns at WoW Insider.

General

Breanni: Expert battle-pet site WarcraftPets founder Breanni runs the Dalaran pet shop, which features adorable pet cages and aquariums. Breanni sells a few unique pets as well, Serpent albinos, Jeune raptor d'obsidienne, Panier à chat (calico), and mails players achievement pets like Schlingo. Tornade de carpes is a later WoD tribute to the April Fool's Joke by WarcraftPets.

Spallières de cérémonie de Brittany: Brittany makes a variety of Blizzard-themed crafts like plush frostsabers which explains the flavor text, "This beautiful piece of ceremonial leather armor is skillfully woven and marked with its creator's symbol."

Os blanchis: Bleached Bones is a PvP group that sent a team to BlizzCon in 2013. They are now part of ProGameX.

Dirkee: This rare spawn is a tribute to the GM of <Nurfed> in Wrath, a guild which received many player tributes in that expansion. Dirkee is a large gnome robot that can punt players and drops Superstructure de Dirkee.

El la Salée: El from fishing resource El's Extreme Anglin' has finally joined the elite ranks of The Anglers. El can be found with the other Fish of the Day NPCs in Pandaria, wearing her trademark overalls and fishing hat with the expert Canne à pêche en arcanite.

Gloria's Glorious Gliding Goodies: Lets grounded companion pets fly with you. Inspired by this comic by gloriaboboria.

Bâton de sorcellerie cristallin de Kamui: Svetlana Quindt, or Kamui, is a well-known cosplayer who makes amazing weapons. She was the Grand Prize winner of the 2013 BlizzCon Costume Contest, for which she created a Protoss Wizard costume. The weapon's model reflects the crystals of the Protoss while being usable by casters, the classes that are most similar to Diablo Wizards.

Mini Restes, from Cooking. Reference to a comic by Cadistra Grasshoof. TheCrafticus tweeted a picture of this pet, which looks quite similar to the one in the comic and carries around a half-eaten drumstick.

Maghia and Volde dressed up as the Eredar Twins for BlizzCon 2008 and Alexstraza and Sylvanas in BlizzCon 2009. They have Icecrown badge items named after them: Plume fautive de Maghia and Cape du ciel nocturne de Volde.

Michelle De Rum: This NPC sells the special pet Bébé de Berceau-de-l'Hiver. Michelle (aka Drrum) has a lovely collection of pets, mounts, and armor, documented with great screenshots on her blog. Check out her reaction on her blog.

Nairn: Actor Kristian Nairn, best known as Hodor in Game of Thrones, has a battle pet with abilities that reference his character's Northern heritage and fight against undead: Nairn !, Appel de l’hiver, and Sang de géant. Also on the battle pet team is his real-life friend Jake Stormoen and Eté the direwolf. Check out his interview with WoW Insider!

Lessons in Lore: Veilleuse Megana and Gardien Chadrik are based on Chad and Megan, a husband-wife team on Earthen Ring Horde who run Lessons of Lore, hold weekly events, "Lore-y Time," interactive events exploring Warcraft's lore, as well as musical lore shows at DragonCon. For more about Lessons in Lore, check out WoW Insider's article!

Olibith has made a series of popular machinimas including the Never Stay Tuned series, featuring a troll chef who likes to cook gnomes. This troll model shows up as the Horde cooking trainer in Dalaran, Awilo Lon'gomba. His assistant, Misensi, shows up as a troll singer in Never Stay Tuned 2.

Oxhorn creates World of Warcraft Machinima, such as ROFLMAO!
Benêt and Haut exécuteur Mortuus reference Mortuus is an l33t undead ninja with distinctive speech patterns. When he talks to you, he always inserts "nub" after your name.

Lutjan rouge: Reference to Red Snappah! which features the line "There IS no Red snapper in Azaroth!"

One of the capes towards the legendary questline, Brise-lame corne-de-buffle, is named after Oxhorn.

Benêt the pacifist ogre references Thunk, who is a polite ogre who loves turkeys.

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Diadème de Panser: Panser, aka TradeChat, has a popular YouTube channel and creates weekly recaps for WoWInsider.

Grande ceinture de Crendor: Wowcrendor also has a popular YouTube channel featuring many funny WoW Machinimia.

Robe de magma broyeur d'Ulmaas: Ulmass is thanked in the Wrath of the Lich King credits. He also has the Wrath item Couronne aveugle d'Ulmaas.

Jambières des Lumières de Poxleitner: Lights (born Valerie Poxleitner) is a Juno-award winning singer and huge WoW fan--she even has Lames-jumelles du phénix tattooed on her arm. Check out her interview with WoW Insider.

Couvre-bras griffonnés de Paululum: Doodlegnome creates charming sketches of Blizzard life, coming to people's attention in the infamous Zarhym and Ghostcrawler baby thread.

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