local addonName, TC = ...
TC.Data = TC.Data or {}

-- [[ TOWN CRIER TRIVIA DATABASE ]] --
TC.Data.Trivia = {
    -- Classic & Lore
    {q="Who was the first Lich King?", a="Ner'zhul"},
    {q="What is the name of the bridge in Arathi Highlands?", a="Thandol Span"},
    {q="Who founded the Scarlet Crusade?", a="Saidan Dathrohan"},
    {q="What was the original level cap in 2004?", a="60"},
    {q="Which city was the capital of the Forsaken?", a="Undercity"},

    -- === WOW: MIDNIGHT & VOID LORE ===
    {q = "Who is known as the Harbinger leading the Void invasion into Quel'Thalas?", a = "xalatath"},
    {q = "What sacred font of magical power in Silvermoon City does the Void seek to corrupt?", a = "sunwell"},
    {q = "Which Windrunner sister wields the power of the Void?", a = "alleria"},
    {q = "What is the name of the ancient, root-tending race that emerged from the deep roots of the world?", a = "haranir"},
    {q = "What cosmic force is the direct opposite and eternal enemy of the Void?", a = "light"},
    {q = "Before she possessed a physical body, Xal'atath was trapped inside of what type of weapon?", a = "dagger"},
    {q = "What is the capital city of the Blood Elves that is currently under siege?", a = "silvermoon"},
    {q = "Who is the Regent Lord of Quel'Thalas?", a = "lorthemar"},
    {q = "What was the name of the ancient Black Empire ruled by the Old Gods?", a = "azeroth"},
    {q = "Which ethereal faction aids the players in understanding and fighting the Void?", a = "ethereals"},
    {q = "The Void seeks to plunge Azeroth into an age of absolute shadow known as what?", a = "midnight"},
    {q = "What type of elves were exiled from Silvermoon for studying the Void?", a = "void elves"},
    
    -- === THE WAR WITHIN (Midnight Prequel Lore) ===
    {q = "What underground nerubian empire did Xal'atath manipulate before marching on Quel'Thalas?", a = "azj-kahet"},
    {q = "Who was the queen of the Nerubians that made a dark pact with the Harbinger?", a = "ansurek"},
    {q = "What massive crystal illuminates the underground realm of Hallowfall?", a = "beledar"},
    {q = "What dwarf clan calls the Ringing Deeps their home?", a = "earthen"},
    {q = "Which great spider-loa aids the nerubian resistance?", a = "widow arakna"},

    -- === CLASSIC AZEROTH & GENERAL LORE ===
    {q = "What is the name of Thrall's legendary hammer?", a = "doomhammer"},
    {q = "Which dragon aspect was known as the Spell-Weaver?", a = "malygos"},
    {q = "Who was the first Lich King created by Kil'jaeden?", a = "nerzhul"},
    {q = "What is the highest peak in all of Azeroth?", a = "mount hyjal"},
    {q = "What famous paladin wielded the Ashbringer before it fell to Tirion Fordring?", a = "alexandros mograine"},
    {q = "What was the name of Arthas Menethil's legendary, soul-stealing sword?", a = "frostmourne"},
    {q = "What is the name of the world tree located in Mount Hyjal?", a = "nordrassil"},
    {q = "Who was the original warchief of the Horde that led them through the Dark Portal?", a = "blackhand"},
    {q = "What city is the capital of the human kingdom of Stormwind?", a = "stormwind"},
    {q = "Which Old God was imprisoned beneath the continent of Pandaria?", a = "yshaarj"},
    {q = "What demonic faction is led by Sargeras?", a = "burning legion"},
    {q = "Who was the last emperor of Pandaria?", a = "shaohao"},
    {q = "What was the name of the human mage who opened the Dark Portal from Azeroth's side?", a = "medivh"}
    -- [Expand this table with more legacy lore as needed]
}


-- [[ TOWN CRIER FUN FACTS DATABASE ]] --
TC.Data.FunFacts = {
    "In the WoW Alpha, Tauren did not have mounts. They used a racial ability called 'Plainsrunning' that increased their speed over time.",
    "The 2005 'Corrupted Blood' plague incident in Zul'Gurub was actually studied by real-world epidemiologists to model human behavior during pandemics.",
    "Goldshire children form a pentagram pattern and stare silently on the second floor of the tailoring shop at 7:00 AM server time.",
    "Undead players could originally communicate with Alliance players using a language called 'Gutterspeak' in the beta.",
    "The original maximum gold cap in vanilla WoW was 214,748 gold, due to 32-bit integer limits.",
    "The first legendary item ever dropped was a necklace called 'Talisman of Binding Shard', which was quickly removed from the loot table.",
    "Blizzard originally planned for Dwarves to be Mages in Vanilla, but changed them to Hunters right before launch.",
    "The /silly joke 'I see dead people' for Undead is a reference to the movie The Sixth Sense.",
    "The voice actor for Thrall, Chris Metzen, was also the Senior Vice President of Story and Franchise Development at Blizzard.",
    "Silithus was completely empty of quests and content when World of Warcraft first launched.",
    "Survival Hunters were originally designed as a melee spec in Vanilla WoW, complete with talents for improved raptor strikes.",
    "The floating city of Dalaran originally sat under a giant purple dome in the Alterac Mountains.",
    "Sylvanas Windrunner uses a Night Elf model in the original release of Vanilla WoW.",
    "Outland was originally planned to be part of the initial release of Vanilla WoW, not the first expansion.",
    "The famous 'Leeroy Jenkins' video was confirmed by its creators to be a staged, satirical reenactment of a real guild event.",
    "Gnomes were originally not going to be a playable race; Goblins and Naga were considered instead.",
    "There is a hidden memorial in the Barrens for Michel Koiter, a Blizzard artist who passed away during development.",
    "Warlocks used to require a 'Soul Shard' item in their bags for almost every utility spell, requiring special shard-holding bags.",
    "In Classic WoW, Hunters had to buy arrows or bullets, and could actually run out of ammo mid-fight.",
    "The spell 'Polymorph' has variations that can turn enemies into pigs, turtles, penguins, and even bumblebees.",
    "Blood Elves were added to the Horde largely to give the faction a 'pretty' race to balance population numbers.",
    "Karazhan has an inaccessible inverted mirror version of the tower hidden underneath it in the game files.",
    "The emerald dream was an extensively mapped but unreleased zone that sat in the game files since 2004.",
    "Death Knights were the very first 'Hero Class', starting at level 55 instead of level 1.",
    "Azshara's crater was originally planned to be a massive battleground in Vanilla.",
    "You used to have to level up weapon skills separately; if you equipped a new sword type, you would miss constantly until you trained it.",
    "The original WoW installation required 4 CD-ROMs.",
    "There is a giant, unkillable snake tail swimming in the water underneath Gundrak in Zul'Drak.",
    "The Ahn'Qiraj war effort required players to turn in millions of raw materials, unlocking the raid for the entire server.",
    "The Scarab Lord title was only given to players who rang the gong within the first 10 hours of the Ahn'Qiraj gates opening.",
    "The Tauren Chieftains (now Elite Tauren Chieftain) is a virtual band made up of real Blizzard employees.",
    "WoW peaked at 12 million active monthly subscribers during the Wrath of the Lich King expansion.",
    "The Night Elf capital, Darnassus, was destroyed when Sylvanas burned the World Tree, Teldrassil.",
    "Garithos, the racist human commander from Warcraft 3, is the reason the Blood Elves initially left the Alliance.",
    "Jaina Proudmoore's hair turned white after the mana bomb destroyed Theramore.",
    "The Ashbringer sword was named for its ability to reduce undead to nothing but ash.",
    "Illidan Stormrage's famous line 'You are not prepared!' was improvised during a voice recording session.",
    "Ragnaros was originally summoned into Azeroth by the Dark Iron Dwarves to help them win the War of the Three Hammers.",
    "Goblins and Worgen were added as playable races in the Cataclysm expansion.",
    "Pandaren are the only race that can choose to join either the Horde or the Alliance.",
    "The auction house in neutral goblin cities like Gadgetzan used to be the only way to trade items cross-faction.",
    "In alpha, player housing was considered and partially modeled in Stormwind before being scrapped.",
    "A mount in WoW called the 'Swift Zulian Tiger' is no longer obtainable and sells for millions on the Black Market.",
    "Deathwing's original name was Neltharion the Earth-Warder before he was corrupted by the Old Gods.",
    "The Draenei originally looked vastly different; the 'Broken' in Outland are closer to their original Warcraft 3 design.",
    "There is a rare weather effect in Stranglethorn Vale where a baby ape pet will spawn only while it is raining.",
    "Paladins and Shaman were faction-exclusive in Vanilla; Alliance only had Paladins, and Horde only had Shaman.",
    "The spell 'Divine Intervention' allowed a Paladin to sacrifice themselves to make another player immune to damage, often used to prevent repair bills on raid wipes.",
    "World of Warcraft was announced in 2001, three years before its official release.",
    "The 'Red Shirt Guy' pointed out a lore mistake about Falstad Wildhammer at BlizzCon, leading Blizzard to put an NPC of him in the game.",
    "At launch, meeting stones outside dungeons didn't summon players; they placed you in a broken matchmaking queue.",
    "The original Naxxramas raid was cleared by less than 2% of the player base before The Burning Crusade launched.",
    "A GM once accidentally gave a player a dev-only item called 'Martin Fury' that instantly killed any boss; the player used it to clear Ulduar and was banned.",
    "The Maelstrom was created when the original Well of Eternity imploded during the War of the Ancients.",
    "The Forsaken were originally going to have a 'zombified' version of the human language instead of Orcish.",
    "Mankrik's Wife was a notorious quest in the Barrens because the quest text gave almost no directions to her location.",
    "The Blackrock Depths dungeon is so large it has its own internal grim guzzler bar and an arena.",
    "In Vanilla, trolls did not blink. Their eye models were completely static.",
    "The famous 'Make Love, Not Warcraft' episode of South Park used actual in-game footage provided and supported by Blizzard.",
    "If you type /chicken at a chicken critter repeatedly, it will eventually give you a quest to get a chicken pet.",
    "Druids had to complete a long, difficult aquatic quest chain just to unlock their aquatic form.",
    "Warlocks used to be able to summon a doomguard by sacrificing a random party member in a ritual.",
    "Rogues used to have to craft their own blinding powder from Fadeleaf in order to cast Blind.",
    "Priests had racial-specific spells in Vanilla, such as 'Fear Ward' for Dwarves and 'Devouring Plague' for Undead.",
    "The mount 'Ashes of Al'ar' leaves a permanent trail of glowing ribbons in the sky as you fly.",
    "The continent of Northrend is heavily inspired by Norse mythology.",
    "Varian Wrynn fought as a gladiator under the name 'Lo'Gosh', which means 'Ghost Wolf' in Taur-ahe.",
    "The original level cap was 60, but it has fluctuated up to 120 before the level squish brought it back down.",
    "Peons say 'Zug Zug', which is an orcish phrase originally taken from a caveman movie called 'Caveman'.",
    "Gnomeregan was intended to be a fully functioning city, but was turned into a dungeon late in development.",
    "The iconic 'Level Up' sound is actually the same sound effect used when a hero gains a level in Warcraft 3.",
    "The Deeprun Tram is technically an instanced zone, meaning it connects Stormwind and Ironforge beneath an ocean that isn't actually there.",
    "Uldum was visible from Tanaris for years as a giant un-openable door before Cataclysm finally made it a zone.",
    "Players used to 'kite' the world boss Lord Kazzak all the way to Stormwind City to watch him slaughter low-level players.",
    "Before Transmogrification existed, players famously looked like 'clowns' because they wore whatever gear had the best stats, regardless of matching colors.",
    "The first flying mounts cost a staggering 5,000 gold, which was considered an astronomical sum in 2007.",
    "There is an island off the coast of Feralas called 'GM Island' where Game Masters used to handle tickets.",
    "The Worgen curse was actually created by Night Elves trying to use the scythe of Elune.",
    "Magni Bronzebeard was turned to solid diamond while performing a ritual in Old Ironforge.",
    "The Void is ruled by entities known as the Void Lords, who are so powerful they cannot easily manifest in physical reality.",
    "The Naaru are sentient beings of pure Light, but when they are drained, they turn into dark 'Void Gods'.",
    "Dalaran has moved three times in the lore: from Alterac, to Northrend, to the Broken Isles.",
    "The original Ashbringer drop was an urban legend for years, and players spent hours fishing in Scarlet Monastery trying to find it.",
    "Hemet Nesingwary is an anagram of the famous author Ernest Hemingway.",
    "Harrison Jones is a reference to Harrison Ford and Indiana Jones, often found exploring ruins.",
    "The Darkmoon Faire originally rotated between Elwynn Forest and Mulgore before getting its own permanent island.",
    "A 'Boomkin' is the community term for a Balance Druid in Moonkin form, infamous for high burst damage and running out of mana.",
    "Shaman used to have to carry four physical totems in their bags to cast their spells.",
    "Vashj'ir is the only zone in WoW history to be entirely underwater.",
    "Goblins ride tricycles instead of mechanical striders because they stole the gnome designs and modified them.",
    "The 'Dance Studio' was famously advertised on the Wrath of the Lich King box but never made it into the game.",
    "If you jump into the lava in Ironforge, you will discover an invisible wall keeps you from getting out easily.",
    "The city of Suramar was protected by a magical shield for 10,000 years, isolating its citizens from the rest of the world.",
    "The legendary cloak questline in Mists of Pandaria was the first time legendary items were accessible to every single class.",
    "Demon Hunters were the second Hero Class added to the game, ten years after Death Knights.",
    "The sword Sargeras plunged into Azeroth at the end of Legion is named Gorribal.",
    "Void Elves are simply Blood Elves who were altered by void magic while trying to unlock its secrets.",
    "Xal'atath often whispers to Shadow Priests when they enter specific older raids and zones.",
    "The Sunwell was reignited using the heart of a Naaru, meaning it now radiates both arcane and holy magic.",
    "The Ethereals wrap themselves in magical bandages to hold their pure-energy forms together."
}


