That woman is a man, man
by Alex Ziebart 
Mar 31st 2009 at 6:00PM
Chromie, the little champion of the Bronze Dragonflight, is quite possibly one of the most polarizing figures in World of Warcraft. You love her or you hate her. She's either adorably awesome, or irritatingly stupid. I, for one, hate her because I had to do her quests in Andorhal before they completely redesigned that part of the zone to suck less. My girlfriend thinks Chromie is the greatest thing since sliced bread. There's something you should know, though. Chromie is a man. Well, probably.How can I make such outlandish accusations? Well, have you run Caverns of Time: The Culling of Stratholme? At the very end, you'll see that Chromie's Dragon form sports a pretty thick beard. More importantly than that, Chromie's Draconic name is Chronormu. Following the naming scheme of the Bronze Dragonflight, names ending with -ormu are male, and -ormi are female. The exceptions being those ending with -os (male) and -a (female) which are general dragon naming schemes. Were Chromie indeed a female, her name would be Chronormi and not Chronormu.
Chromie is a man. A man, or a woman who had very cruel parents.
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Humor, Lore
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 6)
Ultron Mar 31st 2009 6:04PM
Ysera also has a beard. All dragons that don't have unique models have beards.
Failblog is fail.
PopeJamal Mar 31st 2009 6:21PM
LOL
kozom Mar 31st 2009 6:36PM
Explain her name then. Fail post is Fail-er.
BigBiker05 Mar 31st 2009 6:37PM
Do to me thinking she is the sexiest character in the game (ever since I first ran into her in vanilla) she will remain a female.
kozom Mar 31st 2009 6:38PM
well i guess you can say "his" name, but i was refering to chromie in gnome form (sorry!)
Schadenfreude Mar 31st 2009 7:11PM
Clearly all the women named Jordan, Blair, Drew, Jamie, Robin, etc. all have cruel parents as well. :o
Arktic Mar 31st 2009 7:49PM
Let me fix that for you:
"Chronormu, the little champion of the Bronze Dragonflight, is quite possibly one of the most polarizing figures in World of Warcraft. You love him or you hate him. He's either adorably awesome, or irritatingly stupid. I, for one, hate him... ...There's something you should know, though. Chronormu is a woman. Well, probably.
How can I make such outlandish accusations? Well, have you run Caverns of Time: The Culling of Stratholme? At the very beginning, you'll see that Chronormu's Gnome form sports pretty large breasts. More importantly than that, Chronormu's Gnome name is Chromie. Following the naming scheme of the Gnomes (and everyone else in the WORLD), names ending with -ie are female. Were Chronormu indeed a Male, his name would be Chrome and not Chromie.
Chronormu is a woman. A woman, or a man who had very cruel parents.
Quark1020 Apr 1st 2009 4:45AM
Either that, or Chromie is a firm follower of the justification: "If i have to stare at an ass all day, might as well be a nice one." Lol, i think Chromie realy doesn't give two shits about the gender of the mortal form and took that form simply because he wanted a form that seemed less threatening.
SINisterWyvern Apr 1st 2009 10:39AM
http://www.demonsbane.net/pics/frontpage/Krushh%20tanks%20Nef.jpg
Is that even a beard on Nef? Doesn't much look like hair.
As another note, Ysondre seems a female name for a green, yet sports a beard: http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/wowwiki/images/7/7b/Ysondre.jpg
/shrug
Esoteroth Mar 31st 2009 6:05PM
Hahaha, that the funniest thing I've read in a while
Pimmeh Mar 31st 2009 6:06PM
Also, she could've been designed before they thought of the naming system.
Djehuty Apr 1st 2009 11:31AM
She was created before they started the naming system. Chromie first appears over in a broken down inn at Andorhal in WPL. Back then she gave you a repeatable quest before they had "dailies".
Kakistocracy Mar 31st 2009 7:41PM
Or maybe, rather than the "naming system" invalidating her, SHE invalidates the so called "naming system".
After all, generally when finding contradict a theory, the theory is questions, the findings aren't accused of being imaginary (well, unfortunately sometimes they are...).
dillonwelch Mar 31st 2009 6:08PM
"I'm a man and you're a man and he's a man too!"
Refill Mar 31st 2009 6:09PM
What if she forgot to shave the beard?! =P
Keyra Mar 31st 2009 9:14PM
You're thinking of dwarves, not gnomes :-)
Codexx Mar 31st 2009 6:09PM
Obligatory:
Dude looks like a lady...
Aedilhild Mar 31st 2009 6:57PM
Also obligatory, care of the Kinks:
Chromie, Chro-Chro-Chro-Chromie, Chro-Chro-Chro-Chromie (duh-duh-duh, duh-duh)
Gadrick Mar 31st 2009 6:11PM
Just watch, the next PTR build will include a little change toward the bottom: Chromie's draconic name has be changed due to speculation that the little gnome/dragon creature may or may not have gender confusion.
Karilyn Mar 31st 2009 6:18PM
Honestly, knowing the Devs, this is probably one of their personal jokes.