Know Your Lore: The orcs, part 1

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2-08-2012 @ 10:17PM

Ithrandil said...

You also have to take into account that the in-game worlds are FAR smaller than the "real" version of their worlds are. I remember one of the devs saying that in-game Kalimdor is about the size of Manhattan island, but that's only because having a game world that was true to size would mean you'd never get out of Durotar. Kalimdor is actually a full-size continent in the setting, what we see when we play is a very very condensed version.

In reality (well, fantasy-world reality) the shattered remains of outlands, floating there in the nether, would probably be about the size of Asia or North America. You just can't show that, or it would take you weeks in real-time to ride from the Dark Portal to Zangarmarsh.

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