Things You Might Or Might Not Have Known About Wynn

Just found a few things you may not have known about Wynn. If you know any these facts, give yourself a high-five, I guess. Some of them are for people who actually don’t know anything, but okay.
Note: The item/mob/place/whatever in Wynn is written in bold and it’s also underlined.

1. Astrochelys (the corkus turtles) are actually a critically endangered species of land tortoise.

2. The Bow and the Dagger (Scytodidae and Salticidae) from the Corrupted Infested Pit are actually scientific names for different species of Spiders.

3. The Aphotic Zone of a sea or lake is the part where no light can reach.

4. Philophilia means to have a love for love (as in a liking to affectionate feelings). This may explain the -intelligence, since people are “driven to do stupid things by love”.

5. A Neutrino is actually a kind of Fermion, which can be either an elementary or composite particle.

6. A Sequoia is a kind of tree.

7. A Cockatrice is actually a dragon with a chicken’s head, not a chicken.

8. A Corsair is a pirate ship.

9. A Praesidium is a council of executive officers.

10. Stratiformis is actually a kind of raincloud.

11. Ophiuchus is a Greek constellation that means “Serpent Bearer”.

12. Ex Nihilo means “Out of Nothing” in Latin.

13. An Albacore is a species of Tuna Fish.

14. An Albedo is some complicated shit about solar radiation and reflection (any physicists around?)

15. A Cumlonimbus is a type of cloud.

16. Anamnesis means two things: It either means recollection of the supposed previous life, or rememberance of Jesus Christ (in Christianity).

17. To Conflagrate means to Catch on Fire.

18. An Ossuary is a place where dead people’s bones are kept.

19. Bismuth's atomic number is 83, which is why Bismuthinite kind of pisses me off, if it was a level 83 wand that could have been a reference.

20. A Carrot is secretly a type of food.

21. Zephra [Shredder] is actually a girl’s name.

22. Erratio means “Straying” in Latin.

23. Some of the items are references to WoW characters and locations, i.e. Gravesbane = Lord Crispin Gravesbane

24. Diablo in Spanish means “Devil”.

25. Bete Noire is a French word that means “something one particularly dislikes”. It certainly failed to live up to its name.

26. A Delirium either means a disturbed state of mind, usually caused by mental illness, alcohol consumption, and some other weird shit..

27. A Masochist is a.... fuck nvm

28. There is literally a set of boots called “Way Back Home”.

29. A Matryoshka Doll is that Russian Doll that has a smaller doll inside that has a smaller doll inside that has a smaller doll inside that has a smaller doll inside

30. Montefiore is actually a Jewish last name.

31. A Petrichor is the smell that comes after the first rain following a drought.

32. An Alternator is an energy generator that converts Mechanical Energy to Electrical Energy.

33. A Cadence is a modulation or inflection of the voice.

34. Capsaicin is the chemical in Chili and Peppers that make it spicy.

35. Tophet is this fucked-up place where people worshiped gods by sacrificing children.

36. Dalaam is "Dollar" in Persian (type "Dalaam" in detect language)

37. Efteling is a theme park in the Netherlands.

38. A Veneer (Greaves of the Veneer) has many meanings, but the most common one means a layer of porcelain placed over a tooth. It also means something placed over something else to give it an attractive appearance, usually with wood.

39. Hephaestus (Hephaestus-Forged Greaves) was actually the god of fire and forgery.

40. Jera (actually Jēra) means Good Fortune.

41. Physalis is actually a genus of Nightshades, also known as Gooseberries.

42. A Levee is something built to prevent a river/dam from overflowing.

43. There are 4 items with the words “Leggings of” in them, those three being Leggings of Desolation, Leggings of Haste, Leggings of Restoration and Leggings of the Halt. There is another item which’s name starts with “Leg of”, that being Leg of the Scared.

44. Leictreach Makani means “Electrical Wind”, Leictreach being in Irish and Makani is actually a female Hawaiian name.

45. Opulent (Opulenity) means rich, wealthy and luxuriant.

46. The Morph Set is actually unique to Wynncraft (well some game called Ragnarok has it, but as we all know, the word Ragnarok is derived from the word Rodoroc, so technically, they copied us), as the Wynncraft Morph-Set is the first thing you see when you google "Morph Set".

47. Douglas Fir is the name of a plant.

48. The Vaward of something is the foremost part of that something.

49. There is a set of leggings called “Garland”, though you’re supposed to wear a garland around your neck or on a christmas tree.

50. The Accelerator is... you know what, never mind, this was a meme when it was released.

51. The other meaning of an Accelerator is that shit in your car which you step on to move forward, in case you forgot.

52. Cinnabar is a bright red material consisting of Mercury Sulphide/Sulfide.

53. Sine is that mathematic equation your high school teacher taught you.

54. Silt (Silt of the Seafloor) is very fine sand, but not as fine as clay.

55. Bakteri is Indonesian for Bacteria.

56. Leadlights are decorative windows made from glass and lead cames.

57. Boreal means Far Northern in Latin.

58. Seiryu (Scale of Seiryu) is a 1. Chinese Constellation or 2. kind of stone in Aquascaping.

59. Ventus (Ventus Tail) means wind in Latin.

60. To be Facile means to be in a state of ignorance.

61. The Word Fehu means wealth.

62. A Moon Pool (Moon Pool Circlet) is actually an opening in the bottom of a ship/vessel/submarine.

63. A Stratus is a type of cloud.

64. Lodestone is a naturally magnetic piece of Magnetite.

65. The Ring Precious is most likely a(nother) homage to Lord of the Rings.

66. At this point I'm tired as fuck so I may do less items.

67. There is literally the perfect bracelet for the old @Aarontti

68. An onion is secretly a type of food. Surprisingly that shit gives more loot bonus than most jester rings, but again, so many things do.

69. Fuck bracelets and necklaces lets get on to weapons so I can sleep

70. I'll probably just complete this tomorrow


If you come across anything interesting post it down below!

Edit: I’ll update this on Tuesday.

 

I'm so confused on what this thread is, and why I'm involved in it.

 

Might be 1 since 'Suzaku', 'Genbu', 'Byakko' also exists as item.

Spoiler: Related(?) threads

https://forums.wynncraft.com/threads/s-u-z-a-k-u.228828/

https://forums.wynncraft.com/threads/四神-but-just-memes.230855/

revive Suzaku

 

Did you know that this thread is a long brick of text that will keep us alive until next update?

 

cuz ur old, grandpa!

 

At least I remembered the return button exists

 

Item about darkness invalidates thunder, the element which is often used to represent darkness.

 

Whats a return button?

 

Also keep in mind that this, along with the dagger called Zephyr, might be a reference to a Zephyr (west wind) from ancient Greek.

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And Boomslang literally means "tree snake" in Dutch.

 

Get the fuck out. Rick rolling people in 2018, disgusting.

 

Wynncraft × Wikipedia collaboration spoilers

What a prediction

 

...And that's something you might not have known.

 

Both of these subatomic particles have no use as far as we have been able to know. So sit the fuck down Fermion, Neutrino, Tauon,Lepton and basically everything except Up Quark, Down Quark, Electron and Gluons.

 

How did you do this and also thank you for this knowledge.

 

I am shocked about the facts of the onion ring

 

Asphysxia is the association of choking on something, most commonly associated with smoke and fires.

 

also means protection in latin

 

Wait, it’s made by @Gabe Crocoduck but it’s not really a shitpost and actually has some information behind it? Dear god, who are you?

 

This is actually a reference to AhriAtari, later called LoveLusting. As a philia can occasionally be more than just having taken shine to something, Philophilia is literally love lusting.

Actually, it's just a kind of pirate.

It means protector/guardian in Latin.

I was under the impression that it was simply the choicest cut of meat from tunafish rather than a specific species.

It's the light that a celestial body, such as a planet or moon, reflects off of it.

This is actually a Magic: The Gathering reference to Mnemonic Wall. I just liked the word, and when I looked it up it seemed to have something to do with memories, hence the association with Intelligence.

It was just a corruption of Zephyr in theming with Alka, Thrunda, and Inferna. Similarly, Nepta is a corruption of Neptune; I originally was going to use Thalassa but I felt it didn't have enough punch to it.

Not intentional. I was just thinking it's the "bane of graves" cause it keeps you alive.

The intent here was to load it up with extreme power while also giving it extremely annoying downsides, such as the massive -health regen, -10 attack tier, and a skill requirement too high to use at the level, forcing you to invest into skill-based gear to wear it.

A person who enjoys pain, potentially to the point of arousal.

What of it? It's a reference to song lyrics.

I looked this up and found a hospital as the first result when I did, which is why it has regen effects.

I was just looking for synonyms of Hell here, and found Tophet.

That may be so, but it's actually an Earthbound reference; Dalaam is a floating island nation inspired by Middle Eastern and Chinese culture. It's earth/air because it's a floating island.

I just made this word up. Had no idea about that.

This is specifically a reference to a petriform album, Veneer, and the quote within describing the album's theme.

"We didn't need it, but somehow, some way, they managed to convince us that we did. In retrospect, it's easy to see why - we'd become so accustomed to the recent trend of claiming previously unvisited planets as our own that when the remaining ostensible manned space missions dried up, we were left with nothing else with which we could satisfy our bumbling pride. So, they saw it fit that if we could not venture outward, that we would venture inward.

I speak, of course, of their machine. It is a steel leviathan to which no comparison can be drawn, dwarfing even the most profound man-made structures. When it is activated, it will bore a massive hole into the earth, by far larger and deeper than any other ever attempted, breaking the thin veneer of the world we know as our own and revealing another. On this scale, it was previously thought impossible. But, then again, so were a lot of things.

I'm told that they will send down a team to investigate. I can only hope that they aren't making a mistake."

Silver was actually citing a genus of toxic jellyfish here. Maybe he misspelled it?

Didn't know Makani was a girl's name.

This is a reference to Mother: Cognitive Dissonance. The armour that Starmen wear in that game is Morph-metal.

This may be a mistranslation, but it's meant to mean courage or heroism in some language.

They also refer to wind and storm creatures of Roman legend.

It also means "easy" in French, which relates to its abilities; it's easy to wear and makes other things easier to wear.

Was more thinking of a circlet blessed in a spring of water that reflected the moon rather than trying to reference any particular thing here.

It's also a common magical stone in fiction.

Learn somethin new every day, huh?

 

Please fix Bismuthinite now