Yeah, but he’s saying it to the oppressors who keep his people down, trying to entreat them to stop hurting him. He probably has some clever name like “Weasel-Fierce” “Heart of Elwynn” “Two Heads Talking” or something like that…nods Totally…
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The casket on the back of the DK class mount contains bones from Kel’Thuzad, recovered after Naxxramas.
Silvermoon is actually meant to be a port-city (as depicted in Chronicles) And because of its proximity to Northrend in comparison to all other Horde Ports (Howling Fjord especially). It was actually a very important logistics center during Wrath.
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Telaryn…Unstoppable…
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Aren’t the majority of major cities port cities anyway? I’m still waiting on Bladefist Bay being a proper harbor and part of the Orgrimmar city proper.
How would they do that though? Blow up the entire mountain? 
Why not? They did the same for Stormwind harbor.
Or Orgrimmar.
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They cut a path through the mountain, they cut out more mountains to make room for the Tauren area, they’re going to cut out a rather large piece of mountain for the portal room too.
It’d cost a raid tier.
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Worth it, though.
Dwarven love of brewing is a psychological remnant of their old Earthen inclinations, taking on new form and cultural significance with the addition of biological functions. Basically, at some point along the line, they figured out that they could drink the cleaning fluid for their tools.
Troggs are degenerated Drogbar. Functionally similar, except that the former have turned even simpler and barbaric. Xal’atath calls the drogbar proof of the titans’ failure as creators and the troggs were the first, failed prototype of what became Earthen. Drogbar are the same creature but without the physical and mental degeneration of their “wild” cousins.
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Stromgarde is basically the ‘Rohan’ of the Human Nations.
The way I see it, the Arathi basin is basically one big, fertile area surrounded by mountains, hills, and woods. Water would likely be reasonably easy to come by, due to a decent level of rainfall, and the soil fertility is likely quite good. Large plains of grass, be they hilly or otherwise, are perfect pasture for sheep, cattle, and horses.
Infact, I’d say that the economy of Stromgarde was likely based around pastoralism, with beef and lamb being key food sources. As such, their ability to breed high quality warhorses would be huge. This also explains the temperament of men like Thoras Trollbane; when you’re a heavily armoured warrior on a massive horse, charging at everything tends to work quite well!
Furthermore, it also explains why Stromgarde was so vulnerable to encroachment from the Syndicate; simply killing off the herds of a few high ranking nobility would insure a degree of instability. Combine this with Crushridge Ogres coming down and eating up the flocks of sheep and the cattle herds, and you have an economy hugely vulnerable to outside interference. This further informs their aggressive nature - charge at everything, before it charges at you!
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So, new theory.
Darnassus was a very young City, and I think we can all agree that it would be silly for the kaldorei to rename their language for a city not twenty years old. It could have been the humans just naming that tongue they don’t know after the city, but it’s also the official name when you play a night Elf and why wouldn’t they have corrected their allies to the proper name?
Following Elf name conventions, we can suppose that either “Darn” is a word we never have been given translation for, or it was the name of an old place.
Quel’thalas (High Home/Kingdom) -> Thalas-sian (Language of Home)
Shal’dorei (Night Children) -> Shal-assian (Language of the Night)
Darn? (?) -> Darn-assian (Language of Darn)
Note that it’s neither Suramassian nor Silvermoonsian, so we can suppose that Darnassus have been named after the language rather than the opposite.
I like the idea that Darn might have been one of the first Dark-Trolls-turning-Night-Elves’ settlements, a little place so old that it have now been forgotten by everyone, except in that name. No matter what it meant then, maybe it came to means just “People” ? The language of the People, the city of the People.
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Darnassian might be something along the lines of “Language of Nature/Wilds” and Thalassian is probably “The National(Home) Tongue”
Darnassus then could be something along the lines of “Abode of the Wilds.”
Those darn elves turned into dark elves in its absence. At least it’s better than dork elves. I’m not sorry.
Head lore ejection:
Music differs a lot between cultures, as do instruments. Orcs use a lot of horns and drums, tauren mostly do relatively simple flutes and drums because their six fingers prevent more advanced structure. Draenei like their choirs and chants in their collective piety and like most of the elves, they like string instruments and harps. Gnomes and goblins have independently discovered electronic music through machinery and the other races find it very weird.
Singing traditions differ a fair bit but the bardic art of singing a story is particularly strong with orcs, dwarves and humans. It goes all the way from retelling lives of ancient heroes to a bawdy sea chanty.
Pandaren have their own unique style and instruments developed in isolation, songs of the past being focused on simple things of provincial life or profilic great people like Liu Lang and Kang, fist of the First Dawn. Pandaren and gnomes both invented the kazoo at some point in history.
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And Forsaken seem to really dig heavy metal.
Or death metal. But I’m not sure of how to treat the apparent invention of the electric guitar. Technology is a mess in the setting and we have everything from banging rocks together to radios and killsats. I do find the music playing machines most recently shown at Norwington Estate to not be that crazy and while rare, music scoll recordings to feed into them would be produced and sold.
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Goblins are also into blues and probably jazz as Bronze Jam from icecrown plays on their radio in Kezan starter zone.
Embracing this has lead to the rich socialites of goblin society enjoying the sweet voice of the successful goblin jazz musician Frank Sinister live at their favourite dining place.
Hit tunes include classics like Buy Me The Moon, My Way (Or The Highway) and You Make Me Feel So Rich.
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And don’t forget the hit ‘‘Mercury Bombs.’’
Blood/High elven destroyers have an incredible emphasis on close quarters combat. Ramming and boarding being their primary method of attack and if they don’t believe they can take the ship or that ramming didn’t do quite enough damage then a couple of pyromancers onboard will gladly ensure the ship is crippled alongside numerous archers.
While they may be a bit flimsy at a distance in comparison to say a kul’tiran galleon… they’re an utter nightmare to deal with when close.
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What about night elven ships? They seem quite similar in design. Though in Elegy those had cannons, if I recall.