Godwin's Law states that when anyone in a conversation mentions Hitler, "the conversation is over and that person has lost". Although you didn't explicitly mention Hitler, I think calling my request to slightly change the spelling of the name of an out-of-the-way island chain by one or two letters "genocide" breaks the spirit of the law if not the letter. I figured you'd get the reference.
As for trying to get rid of Warcraft references, it's not originally my idea, and in such a conservative country I'd never have the courage to initiate something like that myself. But I'm just continuing the campaign of one of Shireroth's greatest Kaisers, Mors V. It was
he who said "I [am] personally of the opinion that it would be in the Empires best interest to actually move away from the use of names taken from Warcraft... ie... renaming Brookshire, Elywnn, Goldshire and Khaz Modan." It was he who actually got the name of Elwynn changed to Froyalan for a while, and he who
prohibited the use of the name Goldshire because he wanted to get rid of Warcraft references. It was he
who said that we needed to "move away from names taken from games when we can". And it was one of his descendants, Kaiser Agni I, who
was one of the strongest proponents of renaming Brookshire.
I'm not nearly as radical as Mors was - he wanted the complete eradication of all Warcraft names and was willing to use his Kaiserial power to get it, whereas I just want a few cosmetic spelling changes and am trying to do it by consensus.
But I still think that if Mors and Agni were alive today, they'd be by my side, supporting me against these accusations of "genocide" as I try to carry on their legacy.
