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Nostalgamus posted:Did that wolf grow horns? Please, its a demon doggo
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Nostalgamus posted:Did that wolf grow horns? I think those are ears.
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Jun 29, 2022 16:48
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BisbyWorl posted:Please tell me that these guys named themselves. Or at least were born after Blackhand went full crazy and could honestly think these were good names for kids. Rend was at least short for Dal'rend, Maim was just Maim. I dunno, maybe it meant something different in orcish.
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Jun 29, 2022 19:00
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In regards to the spells: Unholy Armor reduces the current HP of the target by half, but makes it completely invincible for... I want to say somewhere between 10 and 20 seconds? I don't remember how long it actually lasts. Poison Cloud, if I remember right, is a fire-and-forget AoE spell, unlike the Human Conjurer's equivalent, which means if you can get in range, you can drop one in the enemy town and (try to) run them away. The enemy AI will do this to you with frustrating frequency. And yes, the three children of Blackhand: Dal'rend, Maim, and Griselda.
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Jun 29, 2022 20:39
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anilEhilated posted:That's just orcish for molar extraction. No. Bleeding Hollow is another Orc clan into self-mutilation. They gouge out their own eyes. I thought Cythreal mentioned them already.
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Jun 29, 2022 20:58
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achtungnight posted:I thought Cythreal mentioned them already. Yeah, Isidora's taken them out of the war in my human campaign narrative but I haven't yet done a proper lore writeup for them. Another orc clan into self-mutilation is the Shattered Hand, but we won't be seeing them for a while.
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Jun 29, 2022 21:02
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BlazetheInferno posted:In regards to the spells: Unholy armor is for busting catapults and making your life less insane
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Jun 29, 2022 21:26
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Cythereal posted:Yeah, Isidora's taken them out of the war in my human campaign narrative but I haven't yet done a proper lore writeup for them. Honestly, compared to those other two, "knock out a tooth to prove yourself" feels a bit, I dunno, tame? They really want to be a tough guy clan too, but they don't want to hurt themselves that badly.
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Jun 29, 2022 23:12
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I love when fantasy characters have names like Rend, Maim, or Doomhammer. Like imagine if they weren't badass warriors but just regular people in their culture? 'Maim, I need you to head on down to farmer Doomhammer's and pick me up some pumpkins.'
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Jun 30, 2022 00:15
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:I love when fantasy characters have names like Rend, Maim, or Doomhammer. "I'd like you to meet Dr. Maim, he will be your surgeon tonight."
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Jun 30, 2022 00:24
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Rhonne posted:"I'd like you to meet Dr. Maim, he will be your surgeon tonight." I knew a dentist named Dr. Rencher once.
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Jun 30, 2022 00:28
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One of my uncles needed stitches after diving into the shallow end of a pool and smashing his idiot face against the bottom, the doctor treating him was Dr. Lizard.
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Jun 30, 2022 00:35
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"Please, call me Gerald. Dr. Doomhammer was my father."
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Jun 30, 2022 00:37
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Once while abstracting a deposition, I saw a reference to one "Dr. Deathrage."
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I think my favourite name like this I've personally encountered was a plumber named John Flood.
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Jun 30, 2022 01:01
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After helping out a Mrs. Bonesteel, no surname is too farfetched for me to believe.
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Jun 30, 2022 02:00
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My highschool had a Mrs. Slaughter, a Mr. Savage, and a Ms. Harm.
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Jun 30, 2022 02:30
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My personal favorite is James G. Human, for whom Humansville, Missouri is named. Oh sure I'm human, Human's my last name (that is how the saying goes, right?!).
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Rhonne posted:Honestly, compared to those other two, "knock out a tooth to prove yourself" feels a bit, I dunno, tame? They really want to be a tough guy clan too, but they don't want to hurt themselves that badly. Granted, those two clans in particular were considered batshit insane even by demon-fueled orc standards, and not just because of the extensive self-mutilation.
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Jun 30, 2022 07:20
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I had lectures at university given by Dr D'Eath
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Jun 30, 2022 07:51
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Maybe the Orcs are just British: https://twitter.com/swordsjew/status/1540810574845599745
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Carpator Diei posted:Maybe the Orcs are just British: In the Case of Warhammer they literally are
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:I love when fantasy characters have names like Rend, Maim, or Doomhammer. Trixie Slaughteraxe For President
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Incidentally, on the subject of names, the name of my protagonist for the human campaign narrative was based on some research I did. Stormwind has no culture to speak of, but I had the thought when contemplating a protagonist that Stormwind is almost on Azeroth's equator. The northerly human kingdoms are all somewhat (or very, in the cases of Kul Tiras and Gilneas) based on real-world European cultures, and outright making Isidora black or drawing her name from obviously non-white cultures felt like a bit of a stretch given the source material. Instead I went looking for names from the Mediterranean basin, and came up with a Greek name that draws on Egyptian culture and history. 'Isidora' - also Anglicized as 'Isadora' - means 'Gift of Isis,' and felt like it fit the vaguely Italian or Greek idea I've toyed with for a long time about how I'd add more character and personality to Stormwind. The name is also sometimes seen in a masculine form as Isidore or Isadore. And fair warning, I'm looking at Gaelic names for the human protagonist for the Warcraft 2 narrative. 
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Hey skullsmasher, can you dice up these tomatoes for me? My personal take on the mission briefing is that it's being justly angry at the humans for taking the lands you justly claimed after slaughtering all the inhabitants. At the risk of getting too real world, I could absolutely see those orders being handed down the line in Russia if Ukraine retakes a bit of Crimea.
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Jun 30, 2022 14:13
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Carpator Diei posted:Maybe the Orcs are just British: I mean, a culture mired in self destruction, funny names and aggressive and murderous colonialism, why not?
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Jun 30, 2022 14:17
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I would be down for Puritan Orcs. FFXIV gave us Catholic Elves.
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FoolyCharged posted:Hey skullsmasher, can you dice up these tomatoes for me? Cro Threadstrong posted:FRUIT VENDOR!!! Your cart is still in our way! We will give you one more hour to move it from our area. Do not test our patience anymore! Cro Threadstrong posted:Does this fruit vendor not value his life? YOU ARE RUNNING OUT OF TIME FRUIT VENDOR!! Cro Threadstrong posted:HA! I CRUSHED AN APPLE, FRUIT VENDOR! THIS WILL NOT BE THE LAST!!
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FoolyCharged posted:My personal take on the mission briefing is that it's being justly angry at the humans for taking the lands you justly claimed after slaughtering all the inhabitants. At the risk of getting too real world, I could absolutely see those orders being handed down the line in Russia if Ukraine retakes a bit of Crimea.
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Foxfire_ posted:Pre retcons, the war has been going on for a few decades plus some amount of orcish expansion into uninhabited swamps near the portal, so there's plausibly a generation of orcs that grew up in conquered areas I feel like this might be an incredibly loaded question, but do we ever see orc children?
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Breadmaster posted:I feel like this might be an incredibly loaded question, but do we ever see orc children? A lot of orc children(including all of Blackhand's kids) were artificially aged by warlocks to provide the Horde more warriors for their invasion, so there probably aren't a lot around during WC1. There are a lot of orc kids in modern WoW, they even have a holiday(Children's Week) where Horde players take an orc orphan around the world seeing the sights and meeting various characters.
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Jul 1, 2022 02:12
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I'm pretty sure there are no children present at all in the games until Warcraft 3, and then it's human children played for grim laughs. Lorewise, yeah, there are kids.
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Just warning the thread, there might be a delay again. Hopefully not, but better safe than sorry. In the meantime, have a peek at what I've been working on for the future.   Don't mistake me for some indolent Tushui sect adherent whining about not having a solution that will fix everything. We have a saying in the Huojin sect: some fights are worth fighting on principles alone.Fun fact: most pandaren are based on traditional panda bears, but there's also a secondary phenotype available to pandaren women that's visibly based on red pandas, with long tails and a red/brown coloration rather than black and white. Some concept art for playable pandaren suggests that this was intended to be a hard and fast variation based on sexual dimorphism before they added the traditional panda-esque phenotype to the women as another option.
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Cythereal posted:Fun fact: most pandaren are based on traditional panda bears, but there's also a secondary phenotype available to pandaren women that's visibly based on red pandas, with long tails and a red/brown coloration rather than black and white. Some concept art for playable pandaren suggests that this was intended to be a hard and fast variation based on sexual dimorphism before they added the traditional panda-esque phenotype to the women as another option. But red panda and giant panda aren't related*! Giant panda's are bears, and red panda's are their own thing, but more closely related to weasels and raccoons! *relativly speaking, of course.
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Gun Jam posted:But red panda and giant panda aren't related*! Giant panda's are bears, and red panda's are their own thing, but more closely related to weasels and raccoons!
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girl dick energy posted:And neither can cast magic, or speak English!  Picture clearly taken a moment before they throw lightning bolts outta their hands.
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Gun Jam posted:You sure?
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So I can’t be a male red panda in WofW? There goes my character based on Master Shifu!
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You can, it's not just available to lady pandas.
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Huh, I thought it was female only. Goes to show that I never play male characters.
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