The Draenei means “The Exiled Ones”, but I find it strange that the homeworld of the Orcs is named after the Draenei like the Orcs didn’t already had a name for their world. What am I missing here?
Hmm really? I thought Velen just renamed his people (Eredar) into Draenei once they populated Draenor as it was supposed to be their new home. Works the same way Blood Elves renaming themselves.
The Draenei is originally of the Eredar of Argus. The Eredar split into two group: The ones corrupted by Sargeras or otherwise supportive of this movement that became the Burning Legion.
The second group of Eredar are the non-corrupted under leadership of Velen that flew Argus, traveling from world to world in search for safety from the Burning Legion until they crash-landed on Draenor.
Whenever they took the Draenei name is unclear.
That’s exactly it, afaik they didn’t have a name for it and just called it “world” and over time adopted the name the Draenei gave it.
From Wowpedia:
The naaru offered to shepherd Velen and other believers to refuge. Velen quietly gathered those of his fellow eredar who seemed trustworthy and dubbed them the draenei, or “exiled ones.” As Sargeras returned to Argus and transformed many willing eredar into demons, the draenei narrowly escaped their homeworld.
So Draenor is named after the Draenei.
That seems to be right. The other races sharing the world had their own names like Dawgar (“the Known Earth”) by the ogres and Rakshar (“the Sunstone”) by the arakkoa, according to Wowpedia.
Draenor is a Dreanei name of that world. They named the world, not the other way around.
The Orc name is unknown, they were rather primitive, so they likely didn’t know that the other worlds exist. They seem to have excepted the Dreanei name for their world.
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