Kanrethad name origin

[Pandapuncher]

I was roleplaying, and a draenei said "Greetings" in Draenish.

Oddly enough the translation came out as Kanrethad exactly. Which is the name of the bad guy from the warlock green fire questline

Just something interesting

[Opium3ater]

conspiracy theories anyone?

[Aquamonkey]

"Kanrethad" also pops up for eredun and draconic.

The in-game language algorithm just spits out certain words. Many of them are shared.

[Wildberry]

As fun as tinfoil hats are, I don't think it was intentional, at all.

[Imnick]

I think for Karenthad's name they just picked a word off the "demonic" wordlist, which happens to overlap with the Draenei one.
There are far fewer words in each race language dictionary than there are words in English, as they are not meant to be real languages. "Karenthad" is substituted for multiple words which are the same length as "Greetings", including "Treachery", and "Entropius".

[PickleballAce]

Some strange people just like to take Demonic words as their name.

[Lime]

Kanrethad had demonic power. Who else had demonic power? Illidan.
Kanrethad was on top of the Black temple. Who else was up there? Illidan.
Kanrethad means Greetings. For all we know, Kanrethad may be Illidan's pawn and his way of saying "hello".

Confirmed Illidan is coming back.

[Netherspark]

Kanrethad is named after Kanrethad <Master of Death> - once part of the early alpha version of the Death Knight intro quests, he now acts as a sort of referee and announcer for Strand of the Ancients.

Both are apparently named after an old warlock player.

[ro9ue]

How sad would it be if one of the most powerful warlock's name roughly translated as "sup".

[Lord Pebbleton]

Some strange people just like to take Demonic words as their name.

Oh, that's why my friends call me War'gabim the Everburning then!
I should probably change friends.