Aight’ my little troublemakers. It’s the weekend.
This is something I started thinking about after the Garrosh chat ban controversy.
I want to hear if anyone has headcanons (or even canon) about made-up swear words your character can say to appear foul-mouthed but still be PG.
I don’t use these ones anymore but a long time ago on my Blood Elf “fel” was quite a popular one.
“What in the fel are you talking about?”
“What the fel…”
And for some reason, my brain stopped there, even though I am sure there are more 
But you get the idea.
Thralls balls is a canon one used by Nazgrim. And if you do the goblin heritage quest, most of it takes place in the town of “Crapopolis” on Kezan, so you can assume ‘crap’ is part of the goblin vocabulary, at least.
Other than that, I like to borrow swears from other fantasy settings, like books. One of my characters uses “Bloody ashes”, which I think is from Wheel of Time. In-universe replacement for RL swears also work alright. Fel, Nether, Light-forsaken, etc.
It is safe to assume that most, if not all, swear words are ‘canon’. We hear b!tch and cr@p an awful lot in-game, along with Anduin saying sh!t in Before The Storm. The “F Word” is alluded to several times in-game text, often as a joke, but the intent is still there.
I don’t personally have any issue with people using swear words in RP, because swearing is an important part of any language’s vocabulary. I don’t find it breaks immersion, just as it doesn’t in GoT, Dragon Age, The Witcher, etc. etc.
Excited to see some unique suggestions, though.
I swear I’ve seen “crap” used for its traditional meaning in one of the novels, but that could’ve been a fever dream.
Why would you wanna swear? That’s not very wholesome 
Today’s best take, honestly. Swearing is just part of a language’s vocabulary, although I will frown at dialogue exclusively consisting of cussing as much as I frown at purple prose.
I agree that the basics are good to go by, maybe leave out the creative but explicit sort of cussing, though.
I am a sailor irl
Anyone who says “what the fel” is a chump. Hell is much better.
Hell is also canon
Helheim,
And Genn said to Anduin that Varian died before the very gates of hell, I think?(was from that cinematic in Legion)
It’s definitely a very cultural thing. Hozen are my favourite, especially when they want to ook you in the dooker. Gnomes will just make up something like, idk, “You hydroendoscopic microcog,” but something actually good. The only real world ones I recall are sod and bastard. Others alluded to, or now removed as with somebody’s clever mouth, but there are plenty of alternatives.
Lots of people are cringey and use ‘fel’ instead of hell, even though there is a lot of usages of hell, though the most notable is in wc3. I guess it just refers to the Shadowlands
Hellfire Peninsula.
Warlocks use hellfire as a spell.
Some NPCs mention things being hell.
Ohyea those are around to!
I like to use “hellfire” as a replacement for Hell, despite Hell being canon. I believe Uther (or someone) told Arthas there is a special place in hell waiting for him. I think?
The civilized choice is to be the sneering superior calling those deserving of it savages, simians and louts.
Many mentions of hell in quests and ting too.
Goblins can use more modern words (without going too blue).
There’s things like Thrall’s balls.
And if you’re rich, just call everyone a plebeian parasite.
Gawd that’s so pre-Shadowlands. We need to update it all to reflect the new C O S M I C L O R E. I propose the following updates:
Mawfire Peninsula.
Mawfire spell
All mention of Hell replaced with Maw.
I am going to chuck you in the maw if you keep that up.
Good. Anything’s better than this.
“By the foul teat of kil’jaeden’s rotted torso” is a canon for draenei.