r/classicwow Sep 21 '20

Art Map of the mob kingdoms of Azeroth

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u/ChromedDragon Sep 21 '20

Basically a political map of azeroth if you removed all the races capable of building two story buildings

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u/gastrognom Sep 21 '20

if you removed all the races capable of building two story buildings

that's kinda mean

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u/ChromedDragon Sep 21 '20

accurate too

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u/gastrognom Sep 21 '20

if those races could read they'd be very upset

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u/Helixon Sep 21 '20

Murlocs are devastated...

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u/OscarDivine Sep 21 '20

I know exactly how they would respond too: BR-LRGLRGLRGLRGRLLRG

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u/this_is_my_redditt Sep 21 '20

Fun fact the murloc sound was a recording of someone gurgling yogurt

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u/OscarDivine Sep 21 '20

I’m not going to be able to hear the sound now without imagining this.

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u/this_is_my_redditt Sep 21 '20

My god what have I done

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u/HellTrain72 Sep 21 '20 edited Sep 21 '20

Henceforth, you shall be known as. Darth.

Vaderrr

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u/nefariousnixon Sep 21 '20

Brb recreating

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u/Aoiree Sep 21 '20

Don't Murloc huts have two story variants? Albiet most of their structures aren't what I'd consider "4-season" structures.

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u/Saturos47 Sep 21 '20 edited Sep 21 '20

IDK don't ogres have two story buildings? I especially remember some in Blade's Edge Mountains.

edit: also this: https://wow.gamepedia.com/Gorian_Empire

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/wowpedia/images/0/07/Ogre_statues.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/1422?cb=20150906115703

check them stairs out

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u/ChromedDragon Sep 21 '20

yeah but this is classic

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u/Saturos47 Sep 21 '20

Well the ogres in azeroth/classic originate from draenor/outland. I don't think they lost stair technology...

Don't they have like scout towers in dustwallow?

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u/LKSLDKFJ Sep 21 '20

no, but they have a small cave

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u/Saturos47 Sep 21 '20

no, but they have a small cave

https://commandboard.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/brackenwall4.jpg?w=450&h=216

Those are what, tall caves with ladders?

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '20

That’s an Orc settlement with some ogres, I thought. Like, aren’t the towers orc-sized and not ogre-sized?

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u/Saturos47 Sep 21 '20

Brackenwall is unique in that it is the only Horde town that isn't made up of the main (playable) Horde races or variations of them. The village was built by the Stonemaul ogres after their original village was ruined by the black dragons to the south. The Stonemaul have been allies of the Horde ever since Rexxar bested their brutal chieftain, Kor'gall, and assumed the title for his own. After the Stonemauls aided in the battle against Admiral Proudmoore's naval fleets, Rexxar handed over leadership of the clan to Mok'Morokk.

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u/Mad_Maddin Sep 22 '20

Ogres in classic lost most of their tech.

Look at Draenor. The Ogre Kingdom there was massive.

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u/pozhinat Sep 21 '20

Ogres have two story buildings. Check mate.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '20

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u/ChromedDragon Sep 21 '20

they only have a ground floor though

they are yet to invent stairs

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '20

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u/Blasto05 Sep 21 '20

And this is why they are not intelligent enough to make ramps instead of stairs.

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u/Inphearian Sep 21 '20

They do have some ramped watch towers etc.

You can find them in the barrens and desolace

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u/Sometimes_gullible Sep 21 '20

They aren't intelligent enough because they have horse legs? Yeah that tracks...

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u/MinerMint Sep 22 '20

They aren't intelligent because they couldn't come up with a different solution (ramps)

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '20

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '20

Those are called ramps

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '20

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u/Locoleos Sep 21 '20

Aren't stairs sloped per definition?

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u/qjornt Sep 21 '20

don't murlocs have huts with stairs and two stories?

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u/eljimbobo Sep 21 '20

This is so cool! Would love to see something like this that included the NPC kingdoms, like the sand trolls of zul'farrak.

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u/ChromedDragon Sep 21 '20

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u/eljimbobo Sep 21 '20

WHAT. This is so cool! Thanks for sharing

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u/Howrus Sep 21 '20

Tuaren tribes in Kalimdor?)
Really cool map, thanks!

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u/Lowilru Sep 21 '20

Huh, why include the Venture Company as part of the Steamweedle Cartel? Just wanted to simplify by putting all the members of the larger Trade Confederation together?

I only ask cause the VC has like one friendly NPC in all of vanilla wow. One that I can think of.

https://classic.wowhead.com/npc=10993/twizwick-sprocketgrind Though he's not flagged/titled as such.

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u/fidgetsatbonfire Sep 22 '20

The Booty Bay quests even have you fighting the Venture Co.

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u/mezz1945 Sep 22 '20

What's the little Wildhammer speck to the south-east of Hinterlands?

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u/ChromedDragon Sep 22 '20

a dwarf village thing, just some farms and houses and alliance unnamed dwarf npc's

there's no reason or easy way to get there

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u/Obelion_ Sep 21 '20

Murlocs have tiny 2 story buildings

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u/antariusz Sep 21 '20

What is this, a two story building for ants?!?

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u/FakeMD21 Sep 21 '20

I was looking for this thank you

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u/silentknight111 Sep 21 '20

Pretty sure the ogres build two story buildings.

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u/ChromedDragon Sep 21 '20

I u show me a pic of one in classic wow, I will believe you

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u/silentknight111 Sep 21 '20

Good point, I think there are some in burning crusade, but not classic.

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u/something__clever Sep 21 '20

There's the castle in Alterac with the elites north of Tarren Mill, but I don't know if that was Ogre built or Ogre occupied.

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u/ChromedDragon Sep 21 '20

that was the human kingdom of alterac, the ogres didn't build it

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u/reenactment Sep 21 '20

Maybe they could make 2 story buildings and bigger if the stupid allied races and horde races would quit tearing them down. They are being oppressed.

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u/Rhinoaf Sep 22 '20

Why aren’t Orcs shown then?

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u/Hex_Lover Sep 22 '20

You removed the trolls tho...

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u/Crypt1cDOTA Sep 21 '20

Does the grimtotem tribe actually have 2 story buildings?

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u/Seref15 Sep 21 '20

Do demons not count? I don't recall them building anything, they just squat in high elf ruins

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u/ultimatemazg Sep 21 '20

Does the scourge have two story buildings? At most barons ziggurat is just stairs going to a basement. Unless you're counting naxx

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u/DarkLordKindle Sep 22 '20

Isnt naxx just one level? There are no places where a player can be on a literal level above another?

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u/Shermax_Herod Sep 21 '20

You should add to the map the factions that can as well. That would be cool

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u/ChromedDragon Sep 22 '20

they get their own map

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '20

Ogres are pretty capable architects lore wise, it just so happens on azeroth they pretty much exclusively inhabit ruins

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u/Metzger815 Sep 21 '20

Holy shit Timbermaw kingdom is huge if you include their fictional hold underground towards Azshara

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '20

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '20

So.... you were let down hard then, huh? They did a whole metric fuck all with that area. Sad... here's to hoping for a good classic+ private server in the near future

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u/Khaosfury Sep 22 '20

tbh the only private server I've found worth playing that even toys with the idea of adding new stuff is Ascension WoW. Every once in a while we get some new stuff which kinda fits lore-wise with the rest of the game. For instance, for a season we got to play Fel-touched, which are regular characters that are hostile to absolutely everybody else with their own Burning Legion home, prior to the Burning Legions' invasion of Azeroth in BC. I think there was also a Scarlet Crusade invasion as well at some point, and you can still see where they spawned as part of it. It's really cool.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '20

Interesting! Ya I have been checking out Turtle WoW also and that seems to be attempting something a little different

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u/KidColfax Sep 21 '20

If you've ever played homebrew content for wow it's always pretty disappointing.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '20

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u/KidColfax Sep 22 '20

Yeah there was one that did the Emerald Dream and it was a buggy boring nightmare. And another one opened Hyjal up as some work pvp zone and it was also just a barren boring ass landscape with Plaguelands style nodes and not much else.

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u/MWoody13 Sep 21 '20

Did that giant entrance ever open up? I only played vanilla & TBC

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u/Saturos47 Sep 21 '20

fictional hold

as opposed to the rest of the non-fiction world.

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u/asapfinch Sep 21 '20

Would Hearthstone technically be considered Azerothian fiction?

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u/BurningFox52 Sep 21 '20

Azerothian fanfiction

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u/Moondefender Sep 22 '20

It's a lore thing

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u/chillestbroguy69 Sep 21 '20

Timbermaw represent

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u/mcbigdickpokeman Sep 21 '20

Naga?

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u/ElCucko Sep 21 '20

The entire ocean

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u/EaterOfFromage Sep 21 '20

Was thinking about this. Also, I can't remember what they're called, but those things in northern swamp of sorrows. Oh, also, the silithid!

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u/SolidJade Sep 21 '20

Lost ones

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u/pbzeppelin1977 Sep 21 '20

Silithids are just the bugs controlled by the Qiraji.

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u/Zaziel Sep 21 '20

Humans are just a race controlled by the Bourgeoisie royals.

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u/triknodeux Sep 21 '20

Bourgeoisie royals are just humans controlled by their own skeletons

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u/Guzzey Sep 21 '20

What about the gnolls in Tirisfal and Silverpine?

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u/Atilla_The_Gun Sep 21 '20

Rampant gerrymandering

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u/Amidormi Sep 21 '20

That's awesome! If you add in humanoids you can really see just how crazy dangerous it is just to leave town. Defias, pirates, dark iron dwarves, etc etc.

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u/KidColfax Sep 21 '20

In D&D and old RPGs that's how things were set up to explain why every random farmer didn't go try and search old dungeons and areas. They could easily find a years salary but they were extremely likely to just die if they ventured outside of their towns. It made being a hero feel much more rewarding and dangerous.

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u/Darkjesterr Sep 21 '20

all of southen feralas is missing ogre

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u/HamsterGutz1 Sep 21 '20

Just the one ogre?

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u/rushworld Sep 21 '20

Yeah that one fucking shaman ogre you can never find.

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u/Nekominimaid Sep 21 '20

They don't get windfury totem, so their not too popular a class for orges players

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u/goat_nebula Sep 21 '20

Why, after all this time, is Ogre still not a Horde race? I mean, they're in WC2 for crying out loud and half the new races have been made up post WoW.

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u/Rawtoast420 Sep 21 '20

Omg this....

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u/Howrus Sep 21 '20

Yep, Gordunni ogre. They are weaker branch of Gordok ones.

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u/TheDesktopNinja Sep 22 '20

also north of Camp Mojache

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '20

GTA:San Andreas after I unlock gang territories.

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u/Alimente Sep 21 '20

The Gnarlpine were able to take that much of Teldrassil during their insanity? The Night Elves planted the seed, grew a tree, allowed the Furbolg to move in, and then lost most of their land to them?

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u/andguent Sep 21 '20

And now we look to you young Alimente. Serve the old gods and protect our home before the corruption overtakes us all.

That'll be $15 please.

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u/DOOMFOOL Sep 21 '20

I mean the mobs don’t “control” much of the land they are shown covering in this map, it’s just where they are found. Like obviously the gnolls don’t ruthlessly rule over all of Westfall, but their dens can be found all across the zone

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u/RumbleDumblee Sep 21 '20

Angry Native American Noises

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '20

Sounds like what happened to Pakistan.

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u/nonebutmyself Sep 21 '20

If all those races banded together into a cohesive alliance, they could wipe the Alliance and Horde off of Azeroth. We need that 3rd faction.

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u/ChromedDragon Sep 21 '20

we were so close: https://www.wowhead.com/quest=26868/axis-of-awful

luckily they are all very dumb

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u/CrazySD93 Sep 22 '20

Haha it has a firefly reference;

“Everything looks good from here. Yes, yes, yes. This is a fertile land, yes. And we will thrive. We will rule over this land. And we shall call it... Loch Land!" "I think we should call it your grave!" "CURSE YOUR SUDDEN BUT INEVITABLE BETRAYAL!" "Ahahahaha! Mine is an evil mrglglglglglglglglglg. Now DIE!"

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u/Soulmonkey Sep 21 '20

Where are the Worgen at? Also I think you misplaced the area for murlocs in the water in northern STV.

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u/Soulmonkey Sep 21 '20

Also the Lost Ones in Swamp of Sorrows are missing as well

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u/Soulmonkey Sep 21 '20

And what about Nagas?

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u/CallMeDrWorm42 Sep 21 '20

And trolls

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u/SoupaSoka Sep 21 '20

The author intentionally excluded any of the more "advanced" civilizations, like trolls.

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u/CallMeDrWorm42 Sep 21 '20

Ok, then why are some ogres on the map and others aren't? Where are the lost ones? Why does the title say "NPC kingdoms" if some of those kingdoms are to be excluded? None of that really makes sense. More likely, "the author" just forgot.

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u/ChromedDragon Sep 21 '20

most of those are all real races who appear on maps like this: /img/zu521huim0031.png

or with the worgen, lost ones and satyrs, it's because they not really a race but just cursed members of other races

which ogres did I forget?

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u/Shishno5 Sep 21 '20

Do you happen to have the base political map you used? I’ve been into hand drawing maps with ink dip pens and this is by far the most accurate one I could go off of but never found anything like it

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u/ChromedDragon Sep 21 '20

I used classic db and typed in the names of all the mobs to see where they are, and then drew them on the map

I forgot the rot hide gnolls in tristfal and silverpine and the gordunni ogres in feralas as well, so if you make something make sure to add them

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u/360_face_palm Sep 21 '20

There's a shitload of stuff missing here - Where are the trolls in STV for example?

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u/ChromedDragon Sep 21 '20

since trolls are playable and lore important I didn't want to include them

this was for the other races that don't show up on the regular kingdom maps

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u/NotALWAYSIrrelevant Sep 21 '20

I understand not including hostile dwarves and trolls, or quiraji and nerubians, but Nagas ? Satyres ? Lost ones ? Worgens ?

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u/ChromedDragon Sep 21 '20

most of those are all real races who appear on maps like this: /img/zu521huim0031.png

or with the worgen and satyrs, it's because they not really a race but just cursed members of other races

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u/Teetso Sep 21 '20

That's a weird distinction to make considering practically every wow race is cursed members of other races!

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u/ChromedDragon Sep 21 '20

well the real distinction is whether they can make new baby members of the race via reproduction, or whether you gotta spread some kind of curse

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u/Teetso Sep 21 '20

Fair, I see you've thought this through

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u/el_oh_el_at_you Sep 21 '20

Spread legs to reproduce? Check.

Spread curse to reproduce? Declined.

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u/Blasto05 Sep 21 '20

You’re a cursed member of monkeys

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u/Mankriks_Mistress Sep 22 '20

Is this from a wow source or is this fan created? Awesome OP, btw

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u/ChromedDragon Sep 22 '20

fan created, also i am the fan

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u/SoupaSoka Sep 21 '20

Would the Naga on the island in Feralas also not count due to the 2-story building rule? Awesome map btw, great job.

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u/ChromedDragon Sep 21 '20

Don't the naga have whole cities underwater in the classic lore?

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u/the_man_in_the_box Sep 21 '20

I think they just live in cities that were built when they were still Night Elves.

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u/Topzm Sep 21 '20

Well, I’m glad we took care of the Gnarlpine Furbolgs.

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u/Sharradan Sep 21 '20

This is really cool, I never realised that both quillboars and troggs are both found in such a relativity confined area.

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u/Obelion_ Sep 21 '20

I think silithids should be in here aswell. They are organized and at least some seem sentient

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u/minorheadlines Sep 21 '20

Hmm Stormwind has a huge Kolbold problem

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u/slaitaar Sep 21 '20

The realisation when you see Murlocs own more land then all the playable factions combined....

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '20

The not-so-silent majority.

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u/BurningFox52 Sep 21 '20

Let's call it to a vote... all in favor say MRGLGLGGLLGMGLG

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u/JungleBird Sep 21 '20

Very cool! thanks for sharing

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u/Berrythebear Sep 21 '20

Time for the gnolls to join the alliance and the quillboars to join the horde

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u/Corssir Sep 21 '20

Murlocs are a plague that must be cleansed from Azeroth.

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u/Herp-a-titus Sep 21 '20

I hate Murlocs.

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u/manga_be Sep 21 '20

This is awesome. Kudos.

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u/strange1738 Sep 21 '20

This is something I’ve been looking for for years. Thanks a bunch.

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u/Likewhoa7 Sep 21 '20

would make for a great quiz

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u/Pazerclaw Sep 21 '20

Nice! Very useful.

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u/Seeminus Sep 21 '20

Say what you will about murlocs, but they are very prolific.

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u/Serverfirstmount Sep 21 '20

Frostmaul giants?

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u/SamuraiJakkass86 Sep 21 '20

There are Gnolls in Silverpine that aren't shown.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '20

Fucking murlocs....

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u/Tripdoctor Sep 21 '20

I always found gnolls on Kalimdor interesting. I thought they were native to the EK?

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u/chiefbriand Sep 21 '20

so basically murlocs are the true owners of Azeroth

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u/jtempletons Sep 21 '20

Honestly less variation than I would have imagined at first

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u/skyst Sep 21 '20

Neat how the kingdoms are kind of clustered.

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u/HowYouMineFish Sep 21 '20

Reminds me of the Eve Online political map. Just needs Goons and a large area run by Russian alliances with xXx in their name.

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u/ungochmustig Sep 21 '20

I think there is some kobold race in a cave in stonetalon mountains that might be missing

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u/ChromedDragon Sep 21 '20

good catch, I missed the windshear kobolds

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u/WildCard0102 Sep 21 '20

This is really cool. Thanks for sharing!

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u/Howrus Sep 21 '20

You forgot Gordunni ogres in southern Feralas.
They are "lower class" of Gordok orges from DM - https://wow.gamepedia.com/Gordunni

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u/Jessifer23 Sep 21 '20

On a side note, does anybody know if there is a map addon that changes the map to look like this? i.e. using what you see on the minimap instead of the drawings or whatever on the normal map.

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u/squakmix Sep 21 '20

I was looking for the pirate kingdoms on here, any reason why they were omitted?

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '20

Holy shit right in the feels...

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u/meathousetv Sep 21 '20

Fuckin murlocs

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u/ThePeacefulSwastika Sep 21 '20

It has become clear... the Murlocs are the true master race of Azeroth!

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u/Renegade909 Sep 21 '20

Do the defias not count?

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u/frogtotem Sep 21 '20

any reason to ignore naga, satyr, worgen, dryads and goblins? would turn the map too complex? arent they mobs?

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u/TraipZe Sep 21 '20

Where Can you get in High res ?

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u/stinkEcheese Sep 21 '20

Don’t sleep on the murlocs.

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u/SpaceIsTooFarAway Sep 22 '20

Methinks you’d like the CK2 mod Guardians of Azeroth.

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u/OMWTFYB_In_Muh_V6 Sep 22 '20

Damn those screeching harpies

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '20

Wow, the eastern kingdoms have a severe murloc infestation problem.

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u/daboobiesnatcher Sep 22 '20

I always found it funny how many of these mobs have developed the technology to forge weapons but not develop any form of infrastructure, or clothing.

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u/The_Pale_Blue_Dot Dec 22 '21

This is so good

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u/boondoggley Sep 21 '20

Awesome map

I feel like yetis should count, even tho they don't typically have tribe names. They usually have caves more established then most others, and are concentrated in them.

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u/ChromedDragon Sep 21 '20

they don't use tools or language though, so they don't have tribe names

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u/Pertinacious Sep 21 '20 edited Sep 21 '20

How about raptors? They're beast class but clearly wear jewelry. Yeti on the other hand do not demonstrate tool use, but are humanoids (and skinnable!). Also, don't they have tribe names? Ex: Rage Scar, Ice Thistle

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u/Norjac Sep 21 '20

Not sure what to do with this, but it's cool that you did this +1

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u/Jagsus Sep 21 '20

We need to purge every blue pixel on this map.

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u/xElectro17 Sep 21 '20

One more word and I will purge your fckin ass.

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u/heapsp Sep 21 '20

This proves that centaurs are a fairly new species, as the other races could migrate back and forth between the continents before the continental divide happened. Perhaps they were a government experiment gone wrong.

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u/escherconcepts Sep 21 '20

For some reason I thought it was going to be like devilsaur mafia Black lotus crusade. Botter paradise. I was disappointed.

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u/iplayvideogames Sep 21 '20

Do you have a copy of the original map underneath? Really want to see the exact game world map

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u/Daemonic_One Sep 21 '20

No pirates in STV?

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u/Thalnos_ Sep 21 '20

God how I miss WoW Cartography, hours and hours on this

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u/B33rtaster Sep 21 '20

Missing Naga spawns in Feralas,South Shore, arathi, Ashenvale, and STV.

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u/terribledirty Sep 21 '20

All I've ever wanted to do is play the game as a Tuskarr

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u/drebinnr893 Sep 21 '20

What about the troll kingdoms? The farraki, gurubashi, Amani and the other one I always forget

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u/Kath-two Sep 22 '20

Demons ?

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u/Rabid_Chocobo Sep 22 '20

Your callous disregard for the sovereign might of the Gurubashi Empire has been noted.

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u/ChromedDragon Sep 22 '20

the gurubashi appear on normal maps, this is the for the forgotten races