I thought I was all clever posting a red devilsaur and a white devilsaur the day after the US presidential election, but unfortunately there’s no blue devilsaur to round out the visual pun. Blizzard, we need a blue devilsaur!

Anyway, let’s get to the pets. First up is Aranis, a night elf with the guild Stalwart Heroes of Dark Iron. Aranis writes:

As we all know, the new patch [3.0.2 that is. - ed.] was like gods gift to hunters, since with Gorilladin (as BRK put it) and other fantastic upgrades to our pets it’s like we’re a whole new class! Of course, nothing enticed me more when it came to our upgrades in the patch then the aspect of Exotic pets. And lo and behold, Devilsaurs, the T-rex that anyone who has ever transversed Un’goro knows, is tamable and ours for the having!

Of course, it took me three hours and constant messages over the general chat of the area to get this white beauty of raw female power, but hey, it looks fantastic! But the name….that’s something I’m having trouble on. At first, I thought I would just do what I had done for my other pets and name her after one of my favorite shows or something of the like, but I’m stumped on what best fits my Devilsaur.

Overall, I’m wanting something that’s powerful, but not silly, and something that would make me proud for my guild members to go “That’s Aranis’s pet!”.

I love the fact that Aranis sees her devilsaur as a ‘beauty of raw female power’, in part because I’ve always seen her that way too. *grin*

Next up, with the red devilsaur, is dwarven hunter Sergeant Thorondil from Dragonmaw (EU). Thorondil writes:

I tend not to Roleplay, though I have been known to occasionally make an alt on one of the servers, so I’ll just talk about my playstyle: My character is known by the people of Azeroth and Draenor as Sergeant Thorondil. He is a long-time veteran of WoW, was the guild-leader of the Defenders of Azeroth, and has seen about as much as can be seen!

Personally I’m not a hardcore gamer, I don’t have a full PvP set, or epic weapons, but I do have a lot of experience of the game, having played since 2005. I enjoy playing around in the game; collecting pets, pestering the Horde like a fruit-fly, doing one-man suicide runs through Orgrimmar and falling from ridiculous heights onto Halaa. I always try to be polite, even to the Horde (even if they’re unpolite back!) and I only gank other players if I’ve caught them ganking one of us.

I’d like a name that’s mythological, or one that relates to a TV-Series or a movie, preferably one that people will know. My other pets include a Core Hound called Cerberus (the 3-headed dog guarding Hades), a Chimaera called Bellerophon (the slayer of the Chimaera) and a Silithid called Trooper (from, of course, Starship Troopers). I’ve been toying with some names from various films, but I just can’t get the right one for my Devilsaur, and so I call upon other hunters for their help!

If you could help me choose a name, I’d be very grateful, and if you’re a Horde, and on the Dragonmaw (EU) server, please pop into Ironforge for some ale and an arrow or two!

I find it interesting that both today’s hunters often use TV shows to name their pets, but then I tend to use books and games and I suppose it’s the same basic idea. I’m just not very good with remembering TV character names (Dexter being an exception for obvious reasons). This leads to conversations like: “That chick, the military one, the one with the thing for the guy. You know, the one that was invaded by the evil slug-thing that turned out not to be evil.” (Bonus points if you can name the character.)

Anyway! (Sorry for the long aside.) So we’re looking for a powerful name to make Aranis proud, and something mythological or TV/movie related (and recognizable!) for Sergeant Thorondil. Let’s see what we can do!