Mawr Blaidd Divination Card Name is Incorrect

I just wanted to inform someone at GGG that this card's name is incorrect, it's written backwards.

Blaidd Mawr is welsh, it means big wolf. I'm assuming you wanted the card to be called big wolf, but you called it Mawr Blaidd, which means wolf big. Sometimes words or sentences are pronounced in reverse order in welsh.

If someone could tell me if I have posted this in the right areas then I would be grateful, as I did not feel like this should of been posted I a bugs section or something.

I believe it was supposed to be a pun, as if you try to pronounce it as if it was English, you get something sounding vaguely like "More blood".

Hmmm, it could be but I think that's unlikely. There's nothing to do with blood on the cards graphics, only a man wearing a wolf helmet, and the resulting item from the card is the eyes of the great wolf amulet, again nothing to do with blood.

Every divination card comes from a player buying the option to create one (last I saw it was USD $1000), and GGG goes through a fairly long process to make sure the player is happy with the card.

Since they go through such a long process, it's pretty much guaranteed everything on the card is completely intentional.

So whoever wanted the card made (it hasn't been claimed yet) wants it the way it currently is. According to the wiki (https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Mawr_Blaidd) it was introduced in 2.4 which was September 2nd 2016 so the creator has had over 5 years to get back with GGG and say "Whoops, I messed up."

GGG has changed div cards and unique items before, based on the creator's feedback even after the item was put in game, so unless the creator has a change of heart after 5+ years I'd expect it to stay as is.

In regards to blood, the item references Rigwald (https://www.poewiki.net/wiki/Rigwald,_the_Wolven_King) who originally dropped the Eyes of the Greatwolf during Talisman League, and nowadays has a map boss version called Lycius, Midnight's Howl. In wolf form he has a significant bleed attack. One of the unique items themed around him, Rigwald's Command, conditionally boosts bleeds.

There's enough lore around the character to say it's reasonably plausible the name "Mawr Blaidd" is actually a pun on "More Blood".

^this is strictly untrue. Not all div cards are created by players. In fact, most cards are NOT created by players.

It's possible and likely the card was not created by a player and was tied to Talisman league mechanics which had recently ended and there was no longer a way to get the unique item any other way.

I think OP has a very strong argument that it's simply a dev mistake that has never been brought up since it was introduced.

***Google Translate recognizes Mawr Blaidd as "big wolf". Blaidd Mawr translates to "a big wolf". Slightly different, but same meaning. Also Caer Blaidd (unique map) = "wolf fortress". Not knocking the OP, but google translate says the card is actually correct.

all card are created by player. Bex_GGG one does not really count as it is a gift from player. While there are card that voted by community, they are still created by supporter

Also

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1715414/page/3

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was that Mawr Blaidd card made by CIS community as prize for winning a 1year CIS celebration event(1W solo self found)?

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Yep) This is GARENA's community card =)

Thanks for the input so far guys, nice to have some healthy discussion.

jsuslak313 don't believe everything google translate says to you, it lacks context. I am a welsh speaker, born and raised in Wales, and I can guarantee you that used in this context the correct way of saying it is Blaidd Mawr.

But yes like you I thought not all div cards were created by the community, especially when so many are added every league and how many were added at once in prophecy. I mean who is going to pay $1000 to create a div card that drops a 20% quality mirror arrow? No one would. I think a large number of cards were made by the devs to give access to older content and dilute card drops, the card in question falls under older content. If anyone has evidence to contradict this though I'd love to see.

Jackalope_Gaming, a previous post says this is Garena's card, from the CIS region, a Russian speaking region. I think its very unlikely that they made a name that is a play on words in Welsh to make it sound like something else in English when neither would be their native language.

It is possible that it was named by a dev, as not all aspects of all cards are created by community member, as is stated on the PoE wiki. And as a previous comment also stated certain aspects of cards are voted by the community. Whether this card was made by Garena or not, there's a decent chance this person had nothing to do with the naming of the card, to keep the naming thematical to the wolf map and wolf boss that is supposed to drop the item gained from the card.

So ultimately unless a Dev knows or Garena somehow see's this and responds I guess we will never know if this is intentional, but from a grammatical stand point the name of this card is definitely incorrect.

It's probably meant to coincide with Caer Blaidd, Wolfpack's Den, because "caer blaidd" translates to "wolf fortress" in Welsh as well. Just like Mawr Blaidd, Caer Blaidd's word order is incorrect if we're going by what OP describes.

It may be a running gag.

Yes it is more than likely that they are named similarly because it is thematic, however Caer Blaidd is correct. It means wolf fort, were caer means fort and blaidd means wolf. When translated to English it would read fort wolf.

I'll write them side by side to help illustrate it.

Blaidd Mawr = Big Wolf
Wolf Big

Caer Blaidd = Wolf Fort
Fort Wolf


The Divination Card reads:

Mawr Blaidd
Big Wolf

Hopefully this helps to show where the order of the words has been lost in translation. Welsh doesn't follow the same word order as English. Quite often you can use adjectives after the object of a sentence, however you don't always do it, it varies which makes it very hard to explain to people.

An example of this is when you tell someone your name. 'Strats ydw i' is a perfectly normal way of saying your name in welsh, it directly translates to 'Strats i am'. This is something that you would not learn from using a translator, you would have to know the language and speak it to understand it.

Thanks for the input though, you have proven my point! This shows they got the wording correct on Caer Blaidd but wrong on 'Mawr Bliadd'.