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Not necessarily. If you go look at that list, you'll see the High Elven name for themselves (Asur) is also there. So it's entirely possible that's just his name. Plus it would fit entirely in the character of the Shadow Warriors if all of them said they were called that except Alith Anar. Who may or may not exist. And may or may not be dead.So, I got curious as to whether Daroir might be a canon character or not and so googled his name, and I found out that it's... well, probably a what do you call it, a nickname or a nom de guerre or something.
"Daroir - Remembrance, memory, the strength of stones"
Because his name is just a letter, or rune.
So we're literally talking to the elf equivalent of M, Q or Agent K or something.
Hard to tell whether that's some Nagarythe institutional or sub-group culture quirk, a personal joke by Daroir to name himself like out of a human's James Bond penny dreadful, him only giving us the first letter of his name for some reason, an actual wider Elf linguistic cultural thing of sometimes giving only a single letter for a code-name like we humans do for some characters (e.g. Men in Black, Death Note) or what.
Now I kinda wish Mathilde had had the pluck to ask him about it, because it's obfuscation or nerd-sniping that's getting through the 4th wall.
But which only did work because I decided to randomly google the name of a newly-introduced and brief character. Great, now I'm going to have to google Hubert's friend' Kereveld's name too... (googles) Oh huh, it is in the wiki. Bartolomi Kereveld. I guess he made it back instead. Makes sense, you go looking for inspiration and examples of what names to use for your characters, and you decide to use some from the wiki if /when possible. Names can be hard to come by and it's not some huge thing, so, yeah, makes sense. And is a neat reference, too. *googles some more* The Burning Shore summary description thing mentions Florin... Wait, Florin? I might actually have this book. *checks* Huh, yes, I do. It's the first book in my The Adventures of Florin and Lorenzo book. Neat.
(There was also an area named Daroir Lacorith in Warhammer Fantasy Online.)
("Daroir Lacorith is a Warhammer Online location which lies in the center most region of the Blighted Isle, a series of mist-shrouded grasslands that lie against mountains to the west and drop into the Swale of Miralei to the east. Ancient High Elf monuments dot the landscape and this otherwise peaceful setting is only interrupted when one looks south; the altitude provides a clear view of the wasteland known as the Plain of Bone, resting place of the Altar of Khaine.")
That was one of my whimsical "Hehe, hey wouldn't it be amusing if..." musings and wmg-guesses, yes.
Well true, but...
Daroir - Remembrance, memory, the strength of stones.
Elvish comes off almost as based on far eastern languages like Chinese and Japanese, where each symbol represents a concept, rather than forming a portion of a word like English does. Of course if it is like that, then we're missing about 4,000 characters. Which would admittedly neatly explain why there are so many names that don't match with the ones we do have (although some do. Eltharion from Elthrai) like Finubar and Teclis and Yvresse. Their naming rules also come off weirdly because you get stuff like Charoi being clearly related to Chrace, but which came first s hard to tell.
I fear constantly we are becoming one party.
Emphasis mine, since I believe it to be a relevant factor to Kazador's attitude. I think the reason Kazador doesn't conform to the traditional ultra-conservative Dwarf is due to the isolation. The rest of the Old Holds get to grumble to each other over the deteriorating state of the Karaz Ankor, while Karak Azul has been insulated from all that by being cut off from the rest of its brethren barring the odd daring gyrocopter. So, the crucial difference is that Kazador is a traditionalist of a different stripe to that of the rest of the Karaz Ankor, on account of his hold developing its own culture over the centuries it's been apart from the rest.
I think the consensus is that splitting the dwarves in two factions is kind of incorrect, and there are in fact three factions - "radical", "reactionary" and "traditional".
I think Karak Azul may be a special case entirely.
I'd agree with you if not for Kragg. He is considered ultratraditionalist, and yet in practice his views seem to have remarkably much in common with Kazador's. Indeed, previously true traditionalists were lemited to a handful of extremely old dwarves who were just grumbling at everyone equally, but things will sharply change.
Kragg disapproves deeply of what is going on. But he disapproves of the dwindling of the dwarfs far more. Basically, if K8P was retaken via traditional methods, he would be far more content. But he is willing to let it go if it gets results as astonishing as this expedition was. I just think its important not to forget that.
