Durak, son of Thrall

[arcaneshot]

....When the hell was he added to the game as well. How the heck did I miss all this?

Added in 5.1, he's in a crib next to Aggra in the Orc starting area. It's part of the Dominance Offensive quest line.

[Goretex]

This is all I could find on Durak on wowiki lol http://www.wowwiki.com/Durak

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True, but you don't get your ass kicked then act tough when others do what you couldn't.

Yep. Didn't like that aspect of either fight. At least Fordring fought some.... Thrall just got tossed aside like a wet rag.

Thrall almost lost to Garrosh in a duel then the Scourge came and interrupted.

[thoruga]

Well, Thrall means slave in English and it was always hard for me to take him seriously. So his son being fool in Russian doesn't seem to be much of a problem I guess

[Wildtree]

Nothing wrong with Durak.

But Go'el is a bit too close to comfort imo.
Go'el, Kal-el, Jor-el..

[The Kao]

Can't we just agree that this is a fantasy universe that doesn't overlap with ours at all? We only understand things because they were translated into our language, likewise names usually don't get translated, more even the written version of these names are merely phonetic transcriptions that don't reflect every aspect of the original. These names mean something entirely different within the fantasy, if anything, and just because something from our world sounds similar that doesn't mean it's the same thing. Especially if you choose to get angry about it.

[CataclismicSunrise]

Looking at his family tree, Durak was most likely named after his grandparents Durotan and Draka. And I'm sure Go'el means something profound in orcish.

The thing about language is, it's all made up.

[Arrashi]

Looking at his family tree, Durak was most likely named after his grandparents Durotan and Draka. And I'm sure Go'el means something profound in orcish.

The thing about language is, it's all made up.

Yup, in orcish Go'el means "Green Jesus, Divine Lord and Savior, Beloved by all".

[Lumineus]

The apostrophe replaces the letter 'D.' God El, deity of most early Semitic religions and derivative faiths thereof.

[greeeed]

that what happened when you play persona while waiting for your child to get born

[Astalnar]

In my language Drek in the Drek'thar means "shit. It's just something we have to live with.

[Deleted]

He can get a name change for a few quid when he grows up if he's that bothered.

[Florena]

Well Thrall, at least for a long time not sure if he's going by Thrall or Go'el today, kept the name Thrall knowing it meant slave, so why not give his son a similarly coll sounding yet insulting name? It's a family tradition now.

[frymastermeat]

Russians don't exist in Warcraft.

[Deleted]

Isn't there a jug of hatorade you should be drinking somewhere?

I heard that if you stick your fingers firmly into your ears, the sticky milk-like liquid you swallow under the name of Blizzard Kool Aid stops foaming from them.

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The thing about language is, it's all made up.

It actually doesn't exist to any relevant extent. There are phrases supposed to mean some things, but they don't form anything that could be even a scrap of a language. Looking at supposedly Orcish phrases in-game as an Ally you'll quickly notice they are not at all a language. And from what I remember so far, the longest premade phrase was lok'tar o gar.
Made up languages would be esperanto, quenya, sindarin - and from recent times e.g. High Valyrian and Dothraki made up with some actual linguistic effort for HBO (GRRM didn't tackle this as he doesn't consider himself a new JRRT).
Now compare lok'tar o gar with Drogo's speech about going to conquer Westeros or books people wrote in quenya/sindarin.

[namelessone]

NO WAY this is unintentional. Blizzard has russian speakers among dev staff. They also changed names before when they ended up sounding problematic - "Lord Antichrist" anyone? If they keep this in game - it's absolutely intentional.

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Wonder if he has a friend named Duraker though..

[Against the Modern World]

NO WAY this is unintentional. Blizzard has russian speakers among dev staff. They also changed names before when they ended up sounding problematic

http://wowhead.com/npc=61156#comments

[Tastyfish]

Should of called him Raistlin Majere, and totally just end it there.

[Florena]

Should of called him Raistlin Majere, and totally just end it there.

Why? Because he and Thrall are both originally awesome characters that were then used too much and overstayed their welcome?

[Mihalik]

Thrall sounds cool. Considering its Old Norse it is a name Humans would give an Orc. But still sounds cool.

Go'el just invokes too much Superman for it to be passable. Love the WowWiki entry for Thrall tho...

"Thrall (birthname Go'el, or alternatively known as Green Jesus)" http://www.wowwiki.com/Thrall.

They really need to kill him off for the sake of story telling.

As someone mentioned before, good Orcish names all sound like something Klingons would come up with. Blizz should put in a policy that from now on all Orc names are to be invented by people fluent enough in Klingon to recite Shakespeare in Klingon at Star Trek conventions.