Wednesday, March 11, 2009

The lore I could go into pertaining the World of Warcraft Dragonflights would take up a hefty few pages. My interest has increased after immersing myself in the quests of the Dragonblight, an area where ancient dragons came to die (Go look back at my Red Drake pictures. Lotta bones. Heavy stuff.), and after pledging myself in the service of Alexstrasza the Life Binder in order to be gifted with said drake -
OH GOD IT'S SO FUN THIS GAME I LOVE IT LIKE CRACK
Anyway, uh, I got another one. This one is also rare. Shit happens to fall in my lap in WoW this time around. This time it's from the Bronze Dragonflight, Stewards of Time.
Yeah, see, the Dragons of WoW were created by the Titans, the makers of the world. Each Flight, each Aspect was assigned a specific concept of Azeroth to watch over.

Like I said, the lore is long and potentially tedious. Don't even get my started on PROTO drakes. What IS important is naming conventions, now that I have a real goddamn drake collection forming. See, most full Dragons follow certain naming conventions, taking after their leading Aspect. This isn't always guaranteed, there are plenty of unique named dragons, but the "royalty" -so to speak- form a pattern.

Red names tend to end in -strasza if female, or -strasz if male. (Alexstrasza, Korialstrasz)
Blue males end in -gos, females in -gosa. (Malygos, Tyrygosa)
Bronze dragon males end in a variant of -mu, females in -mi. (Nozdormu, Soridormi)
Green is more shifting, but usually follows females ending in -ra, males ending in -us or -s (Ysera, Itharius)
Black dragons, fickle as they are, follow little pattern, but high ranking males end in -ion and females in -ia. (Onyxia, Sartharion)

GOD HOW COOL IS ALL OF THIS SHIT.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Very cool. I want more dragon lore!