A World of Warcraft potion makes cross-faction chat possible

horde to alliance translator

Are you a night elf and curious to know what orcs talk about? Perhaps you are a tauren who would love to hear dwarf poetry. Good news, xenophiles! A recent World of Warcraft review introduced a potion that allows you to understand members of the opposing faction, hopefully showing us that we are all very similar, so we should put down our giant axes and huge shoulder pads and give Sylvanas a time out.

Elixir of Tongues

The Elixir of Tongues can be purchased from Dalaran’s Womb at Fizzi Liverzapper; in fact, it is the only thing you can buy from him. Maybe you should branch out if you want to make a living selling experimental potions. It is only 30 gold and will allow you to understand the common language of the opposing faction for an hour.

For most of the life of World of Warcraft, factions have not been able to communicate easily without plugins, which could explain why they are always at each other’s throats. If you are a human listening to an orc, you will not be able to understand a word, it is all gibberish. The positive side of that is that you can’t see the orc saying bad things about your mother.

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If you drink the potion, you will suddenly not be able to speak in the other faction’s language, but you will be able to understand enemy players. If you want to have a proper conversation, that other player will also need to drink an elixir, and then all the mysteries of the universe will suddenly be revealed. Or you can say hello.

Putting it in Dalaran was a good idea, as it is neutral ground where Horde and Alliance players already congregate, if not as much as they did in Wrath of the Lich King and Legion. Players have also traveled to Stormwind and Orgrimmar to seek conversations rather than fights.

It turns out that the elixir has also been waiting to be used for a long time. World of Warcraft game designer Jeremy Feasel said that it has been in the game since the Classic as an unused alchemy recipe. He has been waiting for more than a decade.

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