Talk:Gilnean Royal Guard

Have Blizzard ever named it as such or is this based on the name of its NPCs? --Mordecay (talk) 15:30, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Only NPCs as far as I can tell. Xporc (talk) 19:02, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Should it have the bettername tag, then? --Mordecay (talk) 12:54, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
 * I don't think it's needed when their complete name is already their NPC name. Xporc (talk) 12:59, 4 October 2017 (UTC)


 * Yes, they have, Mordecay! --Mordecay (talk) 23:38, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

Army
Getting tired of this back and forth. So, are there any lore telling wether "Gilneas Royal Guard" is the name of a small elite force, of the whole Gilnean land army at the time, etc., or are we just all using NPC names as sources? Xporc (talk) 12:08, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
 * A royal guard is what the name says. The guard of the royalty. this is always been the case in World of Warcraft. As an example, there's the Stormwind City guard, which is basically just the police/the Guardians of the city. Then there's the Stormwind Royal Guard, which are the guards of anduin. Then there's the Stormwind military, which is different from the both of them. I don't understand why suddenly Gilneas is different. The CITY guard is still different from the royal guard. The armor argument doesn't work as soldiers from gilneas seem to be wearing the exact same armor as the guards, just like Stormwind. it's basically the foot Man armor and how it's on every single Stormwind Soldier and generic guard for example. As for reference, there's references to the city guard/constabulary in Curse of the Worgen. Wolfheart and Curse of the Worgen also show the existence of the Gilnean army. In these CotW's art specifically, the guard and army use the same armor, that's why I keep removing reference to the idea that these groups are explicitly Gilnean Royal Guard because of their armor. Look up the NPC Gilnean Mauler; they also use the same armor. As does Lorna Crowley, a Gilnean Liberation Front/Gilneas Brigade member/commander. Lastly, if the Royal Guard also referred to the entirety of the army, there would be no distinction made between the guards of Tess Greymane during the new warfront, it'd just be more footmen. Instead you have two different, distinct, NPCs. They're even using new armor for once. I really don't understand where this concept that it's the entire military even came from, like I said in the beginning of this, they're named the royal guard. It's pretty straightforward; there's enough evidence in NPCs, differentiation, lore references and just in general to see the distinction. if we have to go by the idea that the armor they're wearing dictates what group they're part of, we're going to have to start listing every single foot man as a city guard for Stormwind.--Berenal (talk) 12:33, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Alright. The original point of that speculation was to list all the people wearing the same armor as the Gilnean Royal Guard. Should I add "Category:Footmen" to all of them then? Xporc (talk) 13:29, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Yeah probably. Sergeant Cleese is stated to be the character's "instructor", plus you start with 'recruit's armor', so he's probably a military man rather than either of the two guards. It honestly comes up to if we classify "Guards" as footmen. Like if we classify Stormwind City Guard and Stormwind Royal Guard as footmen, then yes. Characters like Sergeant Clease can probably have the tag regardless. Edit: It looks like we do, so yeah, on all fronts the guys in these armors should be footmen.--Berenal (talk) 15:15, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Good Xporc (talk) 17:24, 16 October 2018 (UTC)