Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Hitei]

Unless "mortis" is compeltely a false flag - which I do not believ - it should translate to what I said.

The other question is how much the translation for "Zereth" can be trusted. Chances are that this is less literal and more metaphorical, but I'd say the general meaning of Zereth Mortis is indeed "Keystone of Death".

There is no "should translate" because it isn't Latin. It's not a false flag. It is Mortis because putting "Mort*" in a name evokes the connotation of death in English and Latin-based languages and the entire expansion, including this First Ones section, is about death (see: Mortanis, Mortis Elfsen, Taskmaster Mortis, Mort'Regar). That does not mean that it follows the actual grammatical rules and conjugation forms of Latin--and so has to be a genitive noun. For all we know, "Mortis" means 'cycle' in the language of the First Ones, or 'the dead', or 'the last/final', who knows, it isn't an actual language. Maybe Mortis is just the actual name of the First Ones, or the name of their homeworld or home plane, and the name is just "the Mortis keystone", "keystone of the Mortis", or "the Keystone, Mortis"

It especially doesn't tell us anything about the nature of Zereth Mortis itself, or its relationship to the Sepulcher. What we know from the name is basically what we already knew from the start and the name "Sepulcher", that it is important to keeping things running, and that there is some potential relation to death, or the dying, or people who are dead, or something.

[TheFirstOnes]

But we know what Zereth Mortis is…

The Primus literally talks about it.

[Valysar]

Yeah this is the realm of the First Ones, so...

[Kereberus]

Leaks confirmed that Ion is announcing 11.0 today.

[Nathanyel]

I really hope we don't get covenant ARs honestly. As much as I might want to play a Kyrian, I really don't think the effort is worth it when there are so many other ARs I would love far more. Like actually getting an Ankoan AR. Or better yet, using the time saved on more heritage armors for old races.

If 10.0/11.0 is a world revamp or at least themed around returning to Azeroth, that'd be perfect for making several known races playable.
However, I'm still hoping for the option to ascend your character into a Covenant 'race' body.

[Sondrelk]

If 10.0/11.0 is a world revamp or at least themed around returning to Azeroth, that'd be perfect for making several known races playable.
However, I'm still hoping for the option to ascend your character into a Covenant 'race' body.

That is still just ARs with extra steps though. Really you would get the same effect if the AR questline ended with an option for a free race change to said race for one character.

Besides, it's more that I don't want covenant ARs to take up designer time instead of fancy slell effects, assets or cosmetic gear.

[Makabreska]

Leaks confirmed that Ion is announcing 11.0 today.

Skipping 10.0 all together? Siiiiiiiick.

[Marlamin]

Also, hate to bring up an old discussion again but regarding Bastion's development we talked about a few pages ago, it might be worth noting that the zone was/is internally named BabylonZone from early on which would match a more sandy theme than what it has now.

[NikolaiShade]

Skipping 10.0 all together? Siiiiiiiick.

A bold move indeed but not unexpected

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Also, hate to bring up an old discussion again but regarding Bastion's development we talked about a few pages ago, it might be worth noting that the zone was/is internally named BabylonZone from early on which would match a more sandy theme than what it has now.

At first I thought it was some declination of the Air Realm, maybe they changed it to avoid confusion? Anyway there's some interesting cultural mix between eastern architecture and greek names

[Marlamin]

A bold move indeed but not unexpected

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At first I thought it was some declination of the Air Realm, maybe they changed it to avoid confusion? Anyway there's some interesting cultural mix between eastern architecture and greek names

BabylonZone sounds like one of their placeholder/dev names similar to VampireZone, HawaiiMainLand and such so not actually a name they would end up shipping.

[TheFirstOnes]

Yeah this is the realm of the First Ones, so...

Azeroth is a planet tho…

[Eurothemist]

Today's the day!

[hipolnalrt]

Today's the day!

Get hype!

For real this time.

[Kokolums]

What are the odds 9.2 involves neither Arthas nor Galakrond?

[TheFirstOnes]

What are the odds 9.2 involves neither Arthas nor Galakrond?

Arthas? Prolly low.

Galakrond? High.

[Hugnomo]

What are the odds 9.2 involves neither Arthas nor Galakrond?

Arthas is definitely in this expansion. If not in 9.2, then in a 9.3 if there is one.

[Makabreska]

What are the odds 9.2 involves neither Arthas nor Galakrond?

Why on earth Galakrond would suddenly appear?

[Sondrelk]

What are the odds 9.2 involves neither Arthas nor Galakrond?

Galakronds involvement is probably the most nebulous and likely to not be a part.
If Arthas isn't mentioned then I am going to bet it's just because he is going to be a big reveal later.

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Why on earth Galakrond would suddenly appear?

He originally went mad because of things seemingly related to death.
His corpse is in Northrend, and he was attempted ressurected back in WotLK.
Dragon isles are likely going to be important soon.

Galakrond is a nice segway between the seemingly unrelated themes of Death and Dragons.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Don't get outraged if Galakrond isn't relevant. Cause its possible thats not happening.

[GR8GODZILLAGOD]

There’s no way Galakrond is happening