Arrakoa is based off ancient Indian/ Hindu civ

[Jekyll]

Go dammit blizzard, make it playable. I want a toon with an awesome accent and awesomer customabilty and the awesomely civ ever existed.

[Sunseeker]

Totally misread that as "Awesome accent and awesome customer service."

[Irian]

I would really love any variant of them (we'd likely get corrupted arakkoa since they're a part of "our time") as a playable race. I really love their style and it would be incredibly easy for blizzard to put them into either faction, likely leaning towards Alliance due to their present-day turning to the light and the naaru.

An indian/hindu race of extremely intelligent bird men with awesome architecture? YES, PLEASE. I need an Alliance race that I actually like playing.

[thesmall001]

Is this because of what Ghostcrawler was saying about Ancient Indian philosophy? xD Which was itself a follow up tweet about MMO-C Forumers jumping to really bad conclusions; like really, really wrong conclusions with very little trace of logic to them?

[Kraenen]

Totally misread that as "Awesome accent and awesome customer service."

wow, so I wasn't the only one

[Khaza-R]

Is this because of what Ghostcrawler was saying about Ancient Indian philosophy? xD Which was itself a follow up tweet about MMO-C Forumers jumping to really bad conclusions; like really, really wrong conclusions with very little trace of logic to them?

Its because of their names:

Ranjit, Master of the Four Winds - The Arakkoa's penultimate Chakradhaari, Ranjit has mastered the secret techniques required to create gale force winds with his chakra.
Araknath - A construct of ancient Arakkoan civilization powered by the light of the sun.
Rukhsha
High Justicar Vidiya

[MikeBogina]

wow, so I wasn't the only one

nope, i did too xD

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I honestly would have related them to more middle eastern, muslim culture. Think the whole Hindu/Indian culture could be used in a more cool way, that isn't crazy bird people trying to summon gods of mass destruction. Maybe another skinny, multi armed blue race people from another world.

[Sandrox]

What is their obsession with the 'Four Winds'.

[TheWindWalker]

What is their obsession with the 'Four Winds'.

The Greeks were also pretty fond of it at times.

[KrakHed]

nope, i did too xD

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I honestly would have related them to more middle eastern, muslim culture. Think the whole Hindu/Indian culture could be used in a more cool way, that isn't crazy bird people trying to summon gods of mass destruction. Maybe another skinny, multi armed blue race people from another world.

Isn't Hindu-ish stuff already implied slightly with the Draenei?

[GrinnersGrin]

Go dammit blizzard, make it playable. I want a toon with an awesome accent and awesomer customabilty and the awesomely civ ever existed.

Had enough trouble dealing with Telstra outside the game, now they're inside the game too?
GG

[CataclismicSunrise]

Isn't Hindu-ish stuff already implied slightly with the Draenei?

And where did the draenei live for a while? Perhaps there was a culture exchange at some point in their histories.

[Destinas]

"Rukhsha" is just a simpler version of "rukhshan" - Persian named derived from "rukh" where we get the words "roc" and the name "Roxanne". Otherwise, thing are Indian. I was hoping they'd save the whole Indian theme for Shivarra someday. Suits them better, and the Arakkoa could have been much more Persian and Babylonian.

[DingDongKing]

As someone who actually lives in India, I can't take the name Ranjit seriously without thinking of How I Met Your Mother.

[Roshar]

As someone who actually lives in India, I can't take the name Ranjit seriously without thinking of How I Met Your Mother.

Yeah, it's going to be weird to call out names and words that are based in Hindi/Sanskrit while in raids (if there's an Arakkoa raid, which I hope is the case at some point during Warlords). Chakradhaari for example straight up means "wielder of the chakra". Looking forward to it.

[ttak82]

Basically a mix of hindi and persian. (Avestan)
People mentioned that the alpha screenshots reminded them of Sunwell Plateau and Silvermoon - so im guessing their architecture will also be similar.

[GodEmperor]

Lol Ranjit as a raid boss name is pure gold and funny. It's kind of a very common name in India.

And Vidiya sounds like Vidya which I'm pretty sure means Education in Hindi.

[Roshar]

And Vidiya sounds like Vidya which I'm pretty sure means Education in Hindi.

Yes it does, and it's a common name for girls as well.

[hellboyy]

arrakoa is an a inspiration/rip-off from the bird people in the movie dark crystal.

[Drilnos]

arrakoa is an a inspiration/rip-off from the bird people in the movie dark crystal.

The original versions were a reference to the Skeksis in that movie. Hence the name of their city in TBC, Skettis. There's also a strong possibility they were also based just as much on the Aarakocra from Dungeons and Dragons - also mountain-dwelling bird people.

The movie reference will be lost on the new versions in WoD, however - they'll have straight backs and functioning wings, and have a lot of sun motifs.