Assuming this is Norse mythology? The game features a ton of it. Examples:

Yggdrassil the World Tree vs. Nordrassil the World Tree
Tyr was the Norse god of war (Tyr's Hand)
"Thorium" named after the thundergod himself
etc.

Norse mythology was actually the origin of a lot of modern fantasy concepts such as Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, and soforth. You'd be surprised especially how much Tolkein ripped off from Norse Mythology In particular there is some piece of Norse work with a bunch of Dwarven names listed in it. With the exception of one I believe (may be more) they are the names of the Dwarves featured in the Hobbit. The one exception of course is Gandalf

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Gandalf (I read) was based on characteristics from both Odin and the Wizard, Merlin.

Yes, but there was a Dwarf in Norse mythology named Gandalf. There were also dwarves named Thorin, Fili, Kili, Dwalin, Balin, Oin, Gloin, Ori, Dori, Nori, Bifur, Bofur, and Bombur. (edit: I guess Tolkien edited a couple of the names but they are all basically there)
http://my.richnet.net/~msallen/msall...r/ASroots.html

Edit: http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~cherryne/myth.cgi/Tyr.html
Hehe..

Also hehe:
http://www.timelessmyths.com/norse/aesir.html
http://www.timelessmyths.com/norse/vanir.html

http://www.timelessmyths.com/norse/aesir.html#Magni

I did not know about that one. Just stumbled on it

Also, this may just be a coincidence:
http://todd.reimer.com/norse/myth.html#Thrall

But LOL.. I think his name did come from the literal meaning (Thrall = slave) but that's funny. Probably where that word originated.

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Actually syrian =)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azeroth

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" I got a feeling the Murlocs are the new Alliance race, by the sound of it the Submarines have been controlled by Murlocs since warcraft II."

Bash.

I guess i had too~

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_the_Great

Ah yes, Astarte. I have encountered her recently in one of my theology classes. I for one am not sure if Blizz based it on the demon or not; it's really impossible to say. But as Warlock pointed out, the Warcraft universe has been highly influenced by Norse myth, and so it is possible that Ancient Near Eastern myth has been influential as well.

Anyone notice Fenris island and Tyr´s hand in Lordearon?

yeah ... though I think its sad that they used Fenris again ... You got fenris the hunter from war2 exp.think he was the leader of the thunderlord clan.

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" I got a feeling the Murlocs are the new Alliance race, by the sound of it the Submarines have been controlled by Murlocs since warcraft II."

Bash.

Metzen calls himself the Thunder God, I think he MIGHT have a thing about Norse