I’ve been playing for 13 years and just today realized there might be real English lyrics to the Stormwind theme music…you know that part were the mens chorus starts singing, but the words are incomprehensible to me. Does anyone know if these are actual lyrics or just a made up foreign language?
I don’t think that there are any meaningful lyrics. It’s largely “latinesque fantasy language” of the sort that you often hear in epic music nowadays.
That said, some words might have been co-opted to mean something in Common, like how the Invincible lyrics were ostensibly common and we can hear some of its lyrics in places like Lion’s Rest.
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If you listen really closely you can hear the lyrics to Safety Dance playing in the background.
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Looking it up lead me to a reddit post that says this:
No clue as to the accuracy, but I found this on the wow forums:
Colicere Salutare! Coa Praesto Matuere! Foriceno Ventu Safe! Fenlere Relari, Toli Celi Oa! Volare! [Deci Evare, Deci Evare! Deci Eleva, Deci Qutare Ma! Deci Evare, Deci Evare! Deci Eleva, Deci Qutare Ma! Oa, Oa Vera! Safa Irece Fere Fuco Hera Baci Cela Fara! Odessa Coiro Falecere Endico Odessa Acila! Falere Elsora, Fata Ma!]
We Hail Strong! Loyal Service Strengthens! Through our Gates We Go! With Toil, we Discover Our Destiny! We Go Now!
I understand that all the lyrics of the songs are composed in the common language, (the language of the humans in wow) like the song of Arthas, Invincible.
This common language is a mix of Latin and other ancient languages.
Those are the lyrics to the WoW Vanilla opening cinematic, not Stormwind’s theme
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ah. well thats all i could find lol
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If you play it backwards…
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Was just about to link this, you beat me to it (:
The lyrics have even more meaning right now.
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Yes, they’re singing " All bow down and hail your queen Amayna, for she has slain the horde and saved us from destruction, Her beauty is unmatched in all the kingdom for none is like her!"
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Cheese on eggs and toast omg that’s what it sounds like LOL!!
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Go to Wowpedia article, “A_Call_to_Arms”
It’s “rough Latin” – Latin words just sort of tossed out as ideas and concepts rather than as complete sentences. Glory, honor, courage, fight to the finish – like that.
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