To begin with, here was the first part of the explanation (read if you want to know more about the previous Shop Mount as a hint of the 10.0):
Now, let’s do the same method for this new one.
Sunwarmed Furline
Meet the fuzziest mount Azeroth has ever seen!
Cozy up with a purrfect friend
With eyes of pure emerald and the tail of a fox, this magical cat can carry you effortlessly from land to land. But it’s favorite places in all of Azeroth happen to be anywhere the sun shines through the autumn leaves, especially when a glowing campfire is nearby.
I admit I start with a bias for “Quel’Thalas Renaissance” expansion as 10.0
- First information to notice, it is an animal from Azeroth. This changes from recent mounts and it’s a hint towards a back-on-Azeroth expansion that everyone crave for.
- A feline creature. Quel’Thalas is known for its fauna of lynx/bobcat…
- A cat. Yet Silvermoon is the city with the highest density of cat critters AFAIK :’)
- Des “eyes of pure emerald”. Huge reminder of Blood Elf appearance here.
- “places (…) to be anywhere the sun shines”, yet the Sun is only at the forefront in Thalassian and Tauren cultures on Azeroth.
“Sunwarmed” in the very name highlights it again. - “through the autumn leaves” - the autumnal theme is prominent in Eversong Woods.
- “especially when a glowing campfire is nearby”, of course it’s the catch-up justification for such a creature to follow an adventurer as un mount, just like the justification of Blood Elf adventurers themselves when they travel outside their kingdom.
Aesthetically:
- One should notice the little chains and pendants on its head. Emeralds! Just like the Blood Elves happen to wear, all the more in the last year customization option.
- Fur tufts at the ears points. Not something you find on cats usually, but… on bobcats.
- The saddle reminds me 2 things - a bit of Ardenweald, partly because of the choice of the background image on the poster (but not that much… too metallic I guess), and mostly Suramar and the Nightborne. This fits with my hypothesis. Suramar as links with Silvermoon, Lor’Themar may marry Thalyssra (at least in the Expanded Universe they have dates).
Then, the violet cloth and silver chiselled metal can also remind us the Void Elves - a way to involve those “Alliance Blood Elves sort-of”.
For me, one point (the Skyblazer) is a point… Two points (the Furline) it’s a direction!
How much do you agree with my conclusions?