Tuesday, February 11, 2025

"It's Disney's Lawyers on Line 1..."

This email arrived tonight:

Yes, there's a bunch more after this part, but I didn't
screencap it.

Somewhere, I can hear John Ratzenberger's voice as The Underminer from The Incredibles: 

I'm just going to assume that Micro-Blizz intentionally named this Undermined just for that association. Well, that and The Underdark from D&D's Forgotten Realms setting.

All I can say is that I hope that Micro-Blizz vetted this properly with their lawyers, because Disney's own legal team is no slouch.

4 comments:

  1. Tsk tsk, as someone who seems to be a Vanilla lore fan, I thought you would know that the goblin capital of Undermine has been a known thing since Vanilla.

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    1. I've yet to run across a reference to it in a quest in game, unless it's brought up in the fishing derby (which I've never done).

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    2. There's a whole bunch of them, you can see the full list here.

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    3. Almost all of them are Ratchet or Stonetalon. No wonder I missed them. However, reading the info, there's just mention of Undermine without any context, so if I had encountered them I likely just missed them. I was wondering if there were any in-game books around the game world that referenced Undermine, like "Beginnings of the Undead Threat" or "The Guardians of Tirisfal", but no such luck apparently.

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