Gilneas

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A fictional walled kingdom in the Warcraft fantasy setting, known for its isolation and its cliffs and forests
2. The name of an imaginary realm in the Warcraft video game universe, ruled by a human royal line and cut off from its neighbors
3. A made-up nation from the Warcraft fantasy franchise, a human kingdom in the northwestern part of its game world

Etymology: Gilneas is a fictional kingdom in Blizzard Entertainment's Warcraft universe, a human realm on the continent of Azeroth. It is a coinage of the game's writers rather than a word inherited from an older language, so there is no classical or medieval root to trace. Its most famous feature in the fiction is the Greymane Wall, a barrier raised to seal the kingdom off from the rest of the world. The name works as a proper noun for a place, and it follows the pattern of invented fantasy place names built from sounds that feel old and northern. Its meaning within the setting comes from the story, not from any earlier language.