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[[http://www.wowwiki.com/Fingin Take a look]] at this guy. He's selling poisons and thieves' tools, and he's dressed like any given member of SI:7. But everyone knows draenei can't be rogues...[[SquareRaceRoundClass right]]?

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[[http://www.wowwiki.com/Fingin [[https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Fingin Take a look]] at this guy. He's selling poisons and thieves' tools, and he's dressed like any given member of SI:7. But everyone knows draenei can't be rogues...[[SquareRaceRoundClass right]]?



It's been noted that there's a marked resemblance. Hell, [[http://www.wowwiki.com/Kazzak_the_Supreme some]] [[http://www.wowwiki.com/Kaz%27rogal doomguards]] even still have the catfish whiskers. But while most man'ari eredar in-game seem to share the same basic outline as draenei, doomguards have hunched postures and thinner, almost vestigial tails.

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It's been noted that there's a marked resemblance. Hell, [[http://www.wowwiki.com/Kazzak_the_Supreme [[https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Kazzak_the_Supreme some]] [[http://www.wowwiki.com/Kaz%27rogal [[https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Kaz%27rogal doomguards]] even still have the catfish whiskers. But while most man'ari eredar in-game seem to share the same basic outline as draenei, doomguards have hunched postures and thinner, almost vestigial tails.
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* Jossed. His model has been updated to depict one of his eyes as scarred and milky white.
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'''[[WMG: Yrels' "Dark Secret" that was teased about from the ''Warlords of Draenor'' expansion [[LukeIAmYourFather is that she is actually the Daughter of Kil'jaeden.]]]]'''

Even though around 25,000 years have seemingly passed in real time between the events of their departure from Argus and later landing on Draenor, chances are that Kil'Jaeden may have had a wife of his own before joining with the Legion, and that wife would leave Argus behind to travel with Velen, while also taking their young daughter Samara and being pregnant with his second child Yrel.

* 1. It would serve as ample explanation behind why Kil'jaeden would turn towards twisting Velens' own abandoned son Rakeesh into an agent of the Legion as part of revenge against Velen for stealing his own family away when they ran.

* 2. Plus it would be equally-good justification why in most Beta materials, Yrel often referred to Velen as her uncle (since Velen, Archimonde, and Kil'jaeden were considered to be "brothers" before Sargeras arrived).

* 3. It would explain why Velen would be so interested in raising Yrel and why he would proclaim her as the new leader of the Draenei following his death in the alternate Draenor.

* 4. Poetically enough, [[LikeParentLikeChild Yrel ends up "Corrupting" the Orcs just like her father did]] by infusing them with The Light against their will, similar to how Kil'jaeden had corrupted the Orcs by having them drink demonic blood. Similarly, both groups of Orcs also have a father and son leading the charge for their respective groups as exemplars with Grommash Hellscream having spearheaded the cause of the Burning Legion through the Orcish Horde, while Garroshs own alternate selves' son became known as "Exarch Hellscream" and is firmly on the side of High Exarch Yrel by the time of the Mag'har Recruitment Scenario when we last see her.
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'''[[WMG: Frostmourne and the Maw of the Damned were made out of the same metal.]]'''
* They were both forged by demons and have similar soul-draining properties, which may be inherent in the metal from which they were made.
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Specifically, while any number of things might have been done that weren't supposed to be, the player characters got the achievement That's Not Canon!, and Kairozdormu was assigned to fix it. This was a (ahem) time-consuming task that was really not worth the effort put in, and drove him into evil cackling madness, which the death of Deathwing and the fading of the Dragonflights' powers didn't help.

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Specifically, while any number of things might have been done that weren't supposed to be, the player characters got the achievement That's Not Canon!, and Kairozdormu was assigned to fix it. This was a (ahem) time-consuming task that was really not worth the effort put in, and drove him into evil cackling madness, which the death of Deathwing and the fading of the Dragonflights' powers didn't help.help.

'''[[WMG: The name Dalaran comes from the Thalassian Dalar'Aran]]'''
Dalar and Aran are both elven words, or at least elements thereof (e.g. Quel'dalar and Ameth'Aran), and Dalaran was built by elves as well as humans. It may well have been elves who named it. The name Dalaran certainly sounds more like such elven cities as Bashal'Aran or Ordil'Aran than any human city.
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Lor'Themar is one eye blind due to battle injuries in the Sunwell Trilogy, but in WoW he has both eyes. The answer? Its make up and a contact lens (most likely Rommath's idea) to make him look more Lordly.

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Lor'Themar is one eye blind due to battle injuries in the Sunwell Trilogy, but in WoW [=WoW=] he has both eyes. The answer? Its It's make up and a contact lens (most likely Rommath's idea) to make him look more Lordly.



*** From a nonstory perspective, this is likely the reason the Infinite Dragonflight was created. The Infinite flight will be the last boss we face in World of Warcraft, and ''they'll win'', allowing blizzard to canonically retcon the events of WoW out of existence paving the way for a similar, but somewhat different path in Warcraft 4. This is also why we're burning through lore so fast; it won't matter, since at the end WoW never happened.

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*** From a nonstory perspective, this is likely the reason the Infinite Dragonflight was created. The Infinite flight will be the last boss we face in World of Warcraft, and ''they'll win'', allowing blizzard to canonically retcon the events of WoW [=WoW=] out of existence paving the way for a similar, but somewhat different path in Warcraft 4. This is also why we're burning through lore so fast; it won't matter, since at the end WoW [=WoW=] never happened.



*** Except that at least 70% of the RPG's information about Northrend or any WoW-relevant point was {{Jossed}} by [=WoTLK=].

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*** Except that at least 70% of the RPG's information about Northrend or any WoW-relevant [=WoW=]-relevant point was {{Jossed}} by [=WoTLK=].



I don't know the story of WoW, so I will ignore it here. But if you only consider the story of Warcraft 3, it makes sense. In Dragon Age: Origins, the Elves are somewhat enslaved by the humans and mourn about their long lost immortality. In Warcraft 3, we ''see'' both Night Elves and High/Blood Elves losing their immortality. And in Frozen Throne, we also see for the first time how Blood Elves are bullied around by humans (that is, by Lord Garithos' forces) and treated as some kind of disposable servants. If you project these developments into the future, you get exactly the human/elves relationship we have in Dragon Age:Origins. Also, the Scourge or the Burning Legion (or both) might be the equivalent of the Blight.

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I don't know the story of WoW, [=WoW=], so I will ignore it here. But if you only consider the story of Warcraft 3, it makes sense. In Dragon Age: Origins, the Elves are somewhat enslaved by the humans and mourn about their long lost immortality. In Warcraft 3, we ''see'' both Night Elves and High/Blood Elves losing their immortality. And in Frozen Throne, we also see for the first time how Blood Elves are bullied around by humans (that is, by Lord Garithos' forces) and treated as some kind of disposable servants. If you project these developments into the future, you get exactly the human/elves relationship we have in Dragon Age:Origins. Also, the Scourge or the Burning Legion (or both) might be the equivalent of the Blight.



* According to WoW RPG: Lands of Conflict, the name is a human word coming from a human tribe, the Azotha. However, as it is used by non-humans before the Sundering (which may be a continuity error), a {{retcon}} is still possible, considering the increasing importance of the Old Gods in Azeroth.

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* According to WoW [=WoW=] RPG: Lands of Conflict, the name is a human word coming from a human tribe, the Azotha. However, as it is used by non-humans before the Sundering (which may be a continuity error), a {{retcon}} is still possible, considering the increasing importance of the Old Gods in Azeroth.
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* Okay, this would seem to have been {{jossed}} by the recent revelation that doomguards were among the first demons Sargeras encountered. But the combination of the name and the resemblance to a weird fusion of Broken and dreadlord still seems a bit too coincidental. (Perhaps ered'ruin are the result of what happened when a splinter faction of early Argus natives made an unholy deal with dreadlords, and are therefore the reason the ''concept'' of "man'ari" even existed in the ''{{Rise of the Horde}}'' prologue?)

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* Okay, this would seem to have been {{jossed}} by the recent revelation that doomguards were among the first demons Sargeras encountered. But the combination of the name and the resemblance to a weird fusion of Broken and dreadlord still seems a bit too coincidental. (Perhaps ered'ruin are the result of what happened when a splinter faction of early Argus natives made an unholy deal with dreadlords, and are therefore the reason the ''concept'' of "man'ari" even existed in the ''{{Rise ''Literature/{{Rise of the Horde}}'' prologue?)
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''''[[WNG:Kairozdormu had to clean up the players' mess at the Well of Eternity, and that's why he turned evil]]'''

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Given TheReveal that [[spoiler:Elune created the Naaru]] and the possibility that Elune may actually be [[spoiler:a manifestation of the unborn world-soul within Azeroth]], perhaps this is the true nature of the Light. In other words, the Light is one of the means by which Azeroth itself protects those who call it home.

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Given TheReveal that [[spoiler:Elune created the Naaru]] and the possibility that Elune may actually be [[spoiler:a manifestation of the unborn world-soul within Azeroth]], perhaps this is the true nature of the Light. In other words, the Light is one of the means by which Azeroth itself protects those who call it home.home.

''''[[WNG:Kairozdormu had to clean up the players' mess at the Well of Eternity, and that's why he turned evil]]'''
Specifically, while any number of things might have been done that weren't supposed to be, the player characters got the achievement That's Not Canon!, and Kairozdormu was assigned to fix it. This was a (ahem) time-consuming task that was really not worth the effort put in, and drove him into evil cackling madness, which the death of Deathwing and the fading of the Dragonflights' powers didn't help.
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Given TheReveal that [[spoiler:Elune created the Naaru]] and the possibility that Elune may actually be [[spoiler:a manifestation of the unborn world-soul within Azeroth]], perhaps this is the true nature of the Light. In other words, the Light is one of the means by which Azeroth itself helps its inhabitants.

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Given TheReveal that [[spoiler:Elune created the Naaru]] and the possibility that Elune may actually be [[spoiler:a manifestation of the unborn world-soul within Azeroth]], perhaps this is the true nature of the Light. In other words, the Light is one of the means by which Azeroth itself helps its inhabitants.protects those who call it home.
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* Given TheReveal that [[spoiler:Elune created the Naaru]] and the possibility that Elune may actually be [[spoiler:a manifestation of the unborn world-soul within Azeroth]], perhaps this is the true nature of the Light. In other words, the Light is one of the means by which Azeroth itself helps its inhabitants.

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* Given TheReveal that [[spoiler:Elune created the Naaru]] and the possibility that Elune may actually be [[spoiler:a manifestation of the unborn world-soul within Azeroth]], perhaps this is the true nature of the Light. In other words, the Light is one of the means by which Azeroth itself helps its inhabitants.
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[[The Light comes from Azeroth itself]]

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