Minor Lore Change Desires

[Ameldryn-hydraxis]

@Baalsamael-turalyon

Makes no sense for Darnassian, Thalassian, and Shalassian to be three separate languages instead of simply dialects of the same language.

@Kyalin-cenarion-circle

Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, and Czech are all different languages.
Italian, French, Portuguese, and Spanish are all different languages.
German, Dutch, and English are all different languages.

These people had far less time apart. Hell, they had NO time apart. Why are different languages impossible here?

@Baalsamael-turalyon

The issue isn’t TIME, the issue is generations. Latin became French/Spanish/Italian/Portuguese due to around 700 years worth of generations learning and changing their regional dialects into becoming a new language.

1 Century of Human Propagation = 3-5 generations of People.

It took 8 Centuries to “create” the Spanish language as a language, so approximately 24-40 GENERATIONS.

For Elves, 9000 years is not 24-40 generations.

I can buy Thalassian being separate from the Night Elf language due to the cultures separating so long ago and High/Blood/Void Elves being less long lived than Night Elves. But both the Night Elves and Nightborne have characters currently alive who were around during the War of Ancients. It hasn’t even been one generation since they split.

Also Darnassian as a name for the language is an odd choice since Teldrassil and Darnassus didn’t even come into being until after the Third War. IMO the language should be called Kalassian taking the Kal prefix from Kaldorei instead of the Darn from Darnassus.

[Baalsamael-turalyon (Baalsamael)]

@Ameldryn-hydraxis

I can buy Thalassian being separate from the Night Elf language due to the cultures separating so long ago and High/Blood/Void Elves being less long lived than Night Elves.

Like I stated above, the problem is there’s only been 6 generations between Dathremar and Kael’thas. Six generations is my great-great-great grandparents, with my great grandma being alive and well and born in the 1910s, and her grandma being born 1850s.

@Ameldryn-hydraxis

It hasn’t even been one generation since they split.

Yup.

@Ameldryn-hydraxis

IMO the language should be called Kalassian taking the Kal prefix from Kaldorei instead of the Darn from Darnassus.

I mean elven naming conventions are a hot mess. Thalassian would be “Home language” like?

Kal’dorei = Children of Stars = Night Elves
Quel’dorei = Highborne = High Children = High Elves
Shal’dorei = Nightborne = Shadowborne = Shadow Elves = Night Elves (because Shal is both Shadow and Night)
Ren’dorei = Void Elves but why would a word for “Void” as separate from “Shadow” exist within WoW?

In an ideal situation had Blizzard had more foresight:

Kal’dorei = umbrella name for all elves generally, Starborne
Quel’dorei = Highborne, use of arcane magic, the elite
Tel’dorei = Earthborne, slur used by Highborne for “the rest”
Elune’dorei = Moonborne, the elves on the Alliance
Belor’dorei = Sunborne, exiled Quel’dorei that founded Quel’thalas, including the Silver Covenant elves
Sin’dorei = Bloodborne, post-Arthas Thalassian Belor’dorei
Shal’dorei = Nightborne, the Suramar self-exiled elves
San’layn = Darkfallen, vampire elves of Arthas
San’dorei = Darkborne, void elves
Shal’layn = Nightfallen, the spider elves of Suramar

[Shernish-nazjatar]

It seems to me or there is a rule that less than four characters per part of a word before the symbol '.

[Weeven-illidan]

@Korzuk-moon-guard

Really small thing, but in 8.3 vs N’zoth, I’d have the Vulpera showing up in Uldum to aid the fight against N’zoth. It felt like a massive wasted opportunity for the same patch in which you add the desert climate allied race and host current events in a desert zone to not have the two be used in conjunction. Would have been nice to see.

So much this.

[Elvana-cenarion-circle]

There’s so much vagueness and minutiae surrounding the blood elf eye color change to green that I’d have just simplified it to “Kel’Thuzad’s Sunwell bath polluted the eyes of every nearby elf connected to it.”

Even in TBC the fel eyes just felt like a trivial aesthetic detail to make them more Horde-like. If that’s so, I’d rather it have been a direct result of the Scourging than to navigate all the confusion and inconsistencies surrounding BEs and fel magic. Doubly so since Kael’thas going hard on the fel is the main reason Chronicles gave us as to why they turned against him anyway.