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====v1.13 Barbarian Merc Name Change====
The v1.13 Diablo 2 patch "updated" the names of two of the mercs. As players who dug into the game code informed us:
::In 1.13, MercX136 is called 'Klar', in 1.12 it was 'Weohstan'.
::In 1.13, MercX135 is called 'Tryneus', in 1.12 it was 'Erfor'.
There's not yet any known reason for this change, though speculation is rife. The leading theory is that this is related to some plot/story elements of Diablo 3. We'll see Barbarian NPCs named Klar and Tryneus, or they'll be mentioned in dialogue or otherwise involved. Perhaps they've become leaders of some Barbarian city, in the 20 years between D2X and D3?
The fact that there was a mention of the name update in the patch notes seems to hint that it's important, or at least worth noticing. If Blizzard didn't want players to know about the change, they could have not mentioned it, or simply deleted "Weohstan" and "Erfor" from the list of names if there was a problem with them.
Other theories are less imaginative. Perhaps those are the nicknames of two of the Blizzard v1.13 patch programmers? Maybe the original names are dirty slang in some language? Maybe some Blizzard employee got bored after seeing the same NPC names for 7 years and wanted to make a change?
