[Dragaera] Vlad as an Earth name

[Philip Hart]

On Wed, 13 Jan 2010, Alexx Kay wrote:

>>
>>> 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".


Well, there's the translator too.  Maybe Vlad -> Blad -> Blod -> ... -> 
Myxtlplyx but SKZB went back to the starting point for familiarity a la 
Tolkien.