Board Thread:Lore and Fanon Discussion/@comment-11406405-20140312021236/@comment-5781280-20140313132810

A significant number of Italians living in central Italy still refer to themselves as Romans, not Italians. It's almost certain that very few of these people actually even have "Roman" blood in them, what with the centuries of barbarian invasion and what not, but it doesn't change the fact that a significant number still think of themselves as Romans. That was actually one of Mussolini's selling points; that they were the heirs of Rome.

That aside, I think that this whole uproar over twitter posts.... twitter posts... is a bit of an overreaction. I mean, I'd dare say there wasn't a single soul in the whole of WoW's RP community that regularily referred to themselves as Stromic until this twitter post. Before that, the overwhelming majority of players (at least here on MG) used the term Arathian. If people want to use a call back to an old cultural heritage, let them. For now, I wouldn't dignify what very well could be just junk posted on some guy's twitter with overturning years worth of RP precedent. Come out with some quest text, some lore book, or some other such material and I would consider the suggestion to convert to Stromic.