[Dragaera] Vlad as an Earth name

[Alexx Kay]

>
>>There's a few new ones in Iorich and some of them are Earth names, too.
>>
>>I guess a good follow up question, if it hasn't been discussed before,
>>is WHY the Easterners have managed to keep their Earth names for so
>>long. The answer probably ties into the same reason they have kept
>>many other Earth-originating cultural aspects, such as knocking on
>>doors and Hungarian cooking. :)
>
> My personal theory on this is that contact with long-lived Dragaerans has
> encouraged humans to make efforts to preserve their own history and
> traditions to a greater extent.
>
> 250,000 years (at least) does seem like a long time to maintain some of
> these cultural aspects, otherwise.

Given what we know about human history on Earth, that degree of continuity
over 250,000 years is not *remotely* plausible -- without some serious
mitigating factors.  Two that come to mind are "the gods" and "The Cycle".

Alexx

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