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Kommentar von Schaefer

funny name

Kommentar von Flitzy

Very curious about her. Forever silent, but obviously has a purpose if time was taken to add her to the game. Perhaps a future quest giver?

Kommentar von 37457

Funny how a Ghost like figure doesn't do anything.

Kommentar von 63649

Yeah, must admit that my curiosity was raised too when I first saw her. You wouldn't notice her like that if she weren't transparent. But she's been there forever and I've never seen anything quest related about her. It's almost irritating.

Kommentar von 68081

I was wondering about this character so I searched her name on Google. Apparently Yalda is the name of an Islamic festival that that takes place on the night before winter solstice. I'm not sure if that has anything to do with the NPC or if its a coincidence, though Blizzard is known for all of their references to the outside world.

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalda

Kommentar von 35043

Yalda was the name of one of the senior programmers' wife. She died at the age of 51 while he was making this game.

~~Not really. Would be pretty freaky, though, lol~~

Kommentar von 145137

It really is odd to see her there. And seeing nothing quest related with her. She's standing in front of a house up a slight hill front of the inn. The house is empty inside, only with her outside. Makes you curious about her past, why shes a ghost, and if there are any quests in the future that will be related to her.

Kommentar von Cantras

As a side note, up till a few years ago, her house was completely trashed-- broken windows, smashed furniture, ripped pillows, claw marks.... At some point they repaired it all, without comment, so far as I know.
(If you want to brave thott, you can see people commenting about it being ripped up, and then commenting that, wait, it's not ripped up anymore.)

I'd almost say that they meant to put in a quest, but formally abandoned the idea by cleaning up her house.

Kommentar von realta

Is she really a ghost? Is wisp only available for playable night elves? She could be stealthed or something similar.

Kommentar von 436067

very strange ghost, she is flagged though, so maybe a horde should go and try to kill her? i wonder if she would even fight back. she does have a staff in her hand so maybe she would, i hope she does serve a purpose 1 day

Kommentar von 445986

It's not Islamic, it's Iranian or Persian if it sound more familiar to you (I don't know what term American people use). Eventhough most of us are Muslims, the Yalda is more ancient than that and comes, as you can read it in your link, from a zoroastrian tradition. :)

I tried to ask (on the french forum, in the part dedicated to everything around texts, names and translations) CMs about that but they didn't seem to have any explanation... My guess is that it refers to the "Night" as Yalda is supposed to be the longest, darkest and most beautiful night of the year, and it makes sense (to me at least) because, well, Night Elves are a race who has the cult of the night ! :-D

If anyone happened to have an actual answer from Blizz, it'd be great to share it !

Yörgle, DK on Confrérie du Thorium (french realm)

PS : @JaneLame : Yes it could be that, but it seems more likely (to me again ^^) that it refers to this Persian cultural event, because of all the night stuff. :)

She does fight back (tested yesterday).

But as Darkshore is likely to be greatly affected by the Cataclysm and this town destroyed, I don't think she will ever serve any purpose... :-S

Kommentar von MintySinty

What we know about her:
Her name hints at either the word "Child" in Hebrew or a night festival, her house was once trashed but was changed to being undamaged, she carries a staff, wears leafy garments (bracers, belt, chestpiece), sandals, vibrant green hair, "Wings" face marks, is a ghost so is presumably dead...
-And- faces straight towards Teldrassil, dead-on. Perhaps something in Teldrassil holds her interest in death.

Kommentar von 466565

Could be a memo to some player by Blizzard?

Kommentar von Khadhar

It seems appropriately ironic if Yalda does both mean "child" and is a festival of night, due to the fact Kal'dorei means "Child of the Stars", in essence making her Night Elf the Night Elf.

Kommentar von 429348

in the house she is next to, this wierd floating rock like thing being held by roots, it also pulses green.......strange....

Kommentar von Tenjen

She has a purpose now and that purpose is VENGEANCE!

Kommentar von 694494

As of 4.0.3 she finnaly got a purpose. She is a quest giver that help you take back Auberdine.
Yalda was tragicly killed by murlocs some time ago, but stayed behind to watch over her friends and family. As far as we know, they all died during cataclysm, so Yaldas only remaning reason to stay in the mortal realm -is vengeance.

Kommentar von xLunacyx

I thought she was an elder for lunar festival and couldn't talk to her.

Kommentar von TerribleAtGames

Coming from the quest Der nicht so tiefe Ozean and finding Yalda in Auberdine, one might assume that Yalda is one of the adventurers that never returned from the pre-cataclysm Tiefer Ozean, weites Meer. Of course this is just speculation as the NPC did existed as a ghost pre-cataclysm too, but had little lore and could easily have been recontextualised with the revamp.

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