Lore Questions

[Galaxy]

Okay, so we know that the Pandaren were all covered in mist and Arthas *cough*Lich King*cough* was apparently too distracted to notice that..misty..place.. over there... *dismissive wave* (I would adore having an animated gif of the female panda /rude gesture purely for times like this!)

So, any ideas how on Azeroth the Pandaren know common/orcish??

A TRIVIALITY! You might say that, but I wonder what ya'll are thinking about that? I love linguistics, so, question posed!

[cowmuflage]

They learned it?

Some did go traveling outside of their lands.

[Galaxy]

Yes but, HOW?

[cowmuflage]

From the pandas that went traveling?

[Galaxy]

er... okay so (for some reason, the traveling comment didn't appear on my page til I reloaded twice >< sorry)

the few that traveled were from like WC3?

[cowmuflage]

well theres been a few. I dunno. I mean how did the blue space goats know how to talk in common when they crash landed? I dunno. :/ Those questions could be asked for so many races

[Galaxy]

True, but I'm sticking to MoP since this is the forum section I'm in The uber leet lore keepers may actually know that stuff! I ran into a similar problem with the belfs not having any impacted history by Cata and it drove. me. insane. It's like they were totally unaffected as a race. Augh.

Anyway, sometimes quest chains can elude to stuff like that. And, if the pandas traveled, then, the Lich King was blind along with the rest of the world since the going premise (thus far) is that no one knew about them.

Despite knowing about them eons ago.

So, did they disappear, and suddenly reappear in lore and language just hasn't developed much over centuries? *looks at a time line of lore and shoves goggles up her nose*

[Miacoda]

Perhaps Common is just a language used since the beginning of Azeroth, spoken by the titans or whatever. /shrug
Also... game mechanics? <.<
Game mechanics > lore. XD

[cowmuflage]

Everyone knew of them they just did not know where their homeland was as it was hidden. I think I mean both sides knew of their beer.

But Doomcookie's right XD

[Miacoda]

So, I was so curious I sent a tweet to Chris Metzen and Dave Kosak. If I'm lucky I'll get a response, haha.

[Galaxy]

YAY!!! Hope a response is given!!!

BTW, lore =/= game mechanics

[Chimera]

Game mechanics always trumps lore xD Blizz wont give us an explanation to how they can know both orcish and common so convieniently when 90% of them at least have never traveled past the mists into known azeroth. It'd be fun if we happened to see schools tho.. like, what about people who sailed the seas and got lost in the mists and found themselves upon Pandaria? They could of integrated themselves with the pandarens and taught them their language while learning the pandarens at the same time. On one side of the island there could be ruins of a shipwreck belonging to humans, and on the other side a shipwreck of a humans boat stolen (cause orcs didnt have their own boats till thrall settled down in durotar and build orgrimmar. Even then, Kul Tiras controlled the seas so they'd be hard pressed to make their own ships without a third party hassling both races) by orcs 8D

[Galaxy]

Psh I don't care about game mechanics as my question posed had absolutely nothing to do with it lol it had to do with lore linguistics.. kinda like belfs actually CAN know common since according to lore they were part of the Alliance until that war broke out and they were backstabbed so bad by the humans. Game mechanic = belfs can't speak it. Lore = belfs can.

Xakaal, that would rock! it's like the shipwrecks off in Tol Barad I'm so curious about. How did they get there? Why? What were they after and how long ago? That could be a cool RP angle for someone; a pirate that erroneously navigated into Pandaria. Or an orc war ship. Though, I can't imagine that would have ended peacefully.

I wonder if the intro Pandaria quest chains will speak to this?

[cowmuflage]

Well sometimes theres no lore for things like this as it does have to do with game mechanics XD

[Lisaara]

Chen Stormstout wandered all over Azeroth.

[Galaxy]

*looks up at Jessibelle while smashing the words "game mechanics" with what appears to have been her bow* Did he? Maybe that's the missing piece.. I wasn't aware he had

*shoves the mangled words and bow under the table*

[cowmuflage]

Should of looked him up XD He's pretty popular.

[Galaxy]

and so I have... turns out he vanished during/shortly after the 2nd war, which was quiiiiite some time ago in the timeline, if I calculated correctly

http://www.wowwiki.com/Chen_Stormstout if anyone else is curious

as for me, I'm abandoning this thread...

[cowmuflage]

Thats plenty of time to teach the rest of pandaland how to talk common/orcish.

[Lisaara]

Well he didn't just 'poof' off the face of the planet. He's just been not seen by anyone that knew him.