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Ultimaya

Zombie Axe is awesome, but can it please be renamed?

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Zombie is a noun. Linguistically, the name "Zombie axe" is jarring and uncreative. It feels like a WIP title that mistakenly made it through the final project review. It also feels abit thematically hollow, like why is this axe dropped from the armored zombies? Why is it as strong as it is, what's the thing that sets it apart and above the regular axes they wield?

Take the Abyssal whip for example. Of course, it's called that because it's dropped from abyssal demons, but "abyssal" is a proper adjective. It describes the quality of these demons (properly named Cthonians in lore) denoting them as denizens of the abyss, an exodimensional void between planes. This all feeds back into the weapon, that it is as powerful as it is because of its strange, unearthly alien origin.

So back to the axe, why is it the thing it is? Was it previously wielded by Arrav, but lost when he fell to Zemourgel? Is it a relic of a previous age that became drenched in necromantic magics?

TL:DR Zombie axe is linguistically garbled, rename it to something like "Necrosis Battleaxe" or "Crosis Battleaxe". Even "Undead Axe" would be fine, if abit shallow.

Posted Feb 21, 2024, 9:13 PM UTC

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