Talk:Exandria/@comment-125.238.109.157-20170730091127/@comment-2600:1004:B00B:D2FD:9526:E260:E82A:D3BD-20200115065150

Matt's going to have to change quite a few place names if more setting books are to be published by WotC.
 * Gnomregan is probably too close to Gnomeregan from WoW. Ironwind sounds like a mashup of Ironforge and Stormwind, but many WoW names that are just compounds of public domain words would be difficult to copyright, especially in mix-&-match combinations.
 * Khorvaire and Zilargo come from Eberron, but that's a WotC property, so they _could_ re-use the names, confusing and tacky as that may be for separate worlds published by the same company.
 * Taldor is a nation in Paizo's world of Golarion, so Tal'Dorei may be too close. Sarenrae comes from Golarion too.

There are likely others that are either borderline/close or from sources I'm forgetting. Coming up with hundreds of place & character names on the fly can definitely be difficult, so for a home game with people who aren't going to recognize all your sources, borrowing names makes sense. CR has grown far beyond a home game now, so while it might upset fans of the show, some of the canonical names will have to shift to be publishable. "Gwessar" might end up being the official name of the continent.