Lore Tidbits #6

Plucking the feather of a steward is considered a sin worthy of a trip to Revendreth.

Ruffle - NPC - World of Warcraft (wowhead.com)

Well, in plucking a steward you’re basically abusing a simple minded creature that lives to be nice to you and trusts you implicitly…

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Humans have been around for at least ten thousand years. In The Last Guardian, page 150, Medivh reveals that the night elves sometimes captured nascent humans to build the Kaldorei Empire. This also means that under Azshara’s rule, the night elves were by no means shy of slavery when it suited them.

Which is contradicted by the War of the Ancients trilogy by Knaak, where they did not know what humans were and their spells and researchers showed and thought that Rhonin was a dwarf that just grew exceptionally tall.

:man_shrugging:

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Make sense, since they apeared after the curse of flesh and that predates humanity, aka. mutated vyrkuls :thinking:

By the way, day of the dragons considered canon? And thus the Dark Elves?
Dark elves were elves, but not like high elves. They were beautiful in their own way, too, but it was a cold, haughty beauty, one that in the end repelled. The beauty of the dark elves was said to be almost as chill as Deathwing 's voice, if not colder. They were lesser beings with minute lifespans and quick to rashness, plunging into what was believed too great a risk.” (DotD p. 160-161)

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Since both humans and dwarves are titan lookalike golems made flesh, they’re not actually all that wrong about the assumption.

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Damn, lets call them void elves!

Chronicle set the date of when vrykul started giving birth to cursed children at around fifteen thousand years ago.

But adding onto what humanity might have done over ten thousand years ago, Taran Zhu in Shadows of the Horde theorises the possibility of humans having aided the Pandaren Rebellion.

The monk frowned. “In that rebellion, they had more than pandaren fighting with them. The jinyu, the hozen, even the grummles participated. It could be, though the Lorewalkers never mention it, that even men and trolls fought with the pandaren.”

Vol’jin shoots the theory down by simply stating it would hardly be likely due to how unrefined humanity was back then.

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Or how the trolls still sort-of looked up to the Zandalari back then.

Trolls might hate other trolls, but they hate non-trolls more!

Which also contradicts(Both that humans was around before+the whole war of the ancients trilogy) Warcraft 3, where Tyrande and the elves had never seen orcs or humans, gnomes dwarves etc before in their entire lives.

Well, she could just forget the appearance of a sole human, however they erected (heh) a massive (heh) statue for Brox in Ashenvale, so no excuse for forgetting how orcs look!

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10.000 years is a long time… things got destroyed over time but it is strange
Especially considering the mere mention of Brox’s name is enough to remind Tyrande of how they lost Broxigar, causing tears to well up in her eyes… :thinking:
Maybe the Bronze Dragons played a lil’ mind trick…?

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Not sure if it’s been posted here or not, but Del Gahrron in the Western Plaguelands states that before the Scourging, he worked the fields as a farmer for 16 hours a day. Not sure if all farmers worked for such long hours, but Gahrron did.
Unless he exaggerated it.

Gotta make money for your King and country, eh?

Which is pretty nuts. Medieval peasants had way more vacation time than many think.

That’s not too unusual in our age. And even less so for a dairy farmer.

And that’s with some pretty smart machinery too.

He also said he took the weeks produce to Andorhal on the 7th day of the week.

So unless he was growing plants with magic I think there’s a degree of exaggeration at play.

Darnassian wasn’t always called Darnassian. There was some debate I saw about how the night elf language could be called Darnassian before Darnassus even existed, but the Archivist of the Cenarion Circle confirms that it wasn’t always called Darnassian.

Under the Chitin Was… - Wowpedia - Your wiki guide to the World of Warcraft (fandom.com)

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For the Alliance, it costs fifty gold to train a miner, two hundred gold to train an engineer, and three hundred gold to train a foreman. Killing just one of these people is considered a financial loss to the Alliance due to the cost of training them as well as a military loss.

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