Absolutely. It is a very fun world to explore with a little something for everyone. Space travel, dragons, time travel, magic, guns, archery, origin stories that explain the same thing differently depending on the culture, necromancy, holy warriors, romance, friendships.Living Arthas dies when he picks up frostmourne. Like he's responsible for unleashing that evil into the world, but, that's what he does: he unleashes that evil into the world. He dies when he picks up the sword. The thing driving his corpse might share some memories but it's fundamentally no longer "him." Reply reply.At the Broken Shore, Kanrethad's twisted followers begin their ritual and the Black Harvest moves to intervene. Using the stolen fel crystals from earlier, the fel energy consuming Kanrethad is siphoned and he turns back into a human. Jubeka thanks the First, for the burden of guilt has been lifted from her shoulders and she never thought ...Arcane is a concept (technically, even dark magics like Demonic and Necromancy would come under that term) and nature is any flora and fauna that grows anywhere. The new ontology just feels childish in it's sensibilities. The old one was simpler and didn't pigeon hole everything.Druids and Shamans can be mad about him polluting and destroying nature, angering the elements. Rogues are mad because he's undercutting their illegal businesses. Warriors are mad because he's ruining the mercenary business in the same way, able to charge less for his personal mercenaries.r/warcraftlore. r/warcraftlore. This subreddit is for discussions about the lore of Warcraft! Members Online. Zovaal isn't a mastermind behind everything that happened since Sargeras began the Burning Crusade, he's a lucky idiot ...r/warcraftlore. r/warcraftlore. This subreddit is for discussions about the lore of Warcraft! Members Online. Does anyone else thinks the Stratholme dilemma was always a red herring? The actual important choice was made earlier. ...The zones lead into each other pretty damn well. Only notable exceptions that would take seeking out is; Horde Northern Kalimdor: Felwood and Winterspring aren't really chained into by the main Kalimdor line. Horde Southern Eastern Kingdoms: the stranglethorns are pretty disconnected for Horde.Strictly looking at in game, Suramar is the biggest without question, but thats because that city is build 14 years after they built Orgrimmar and Stormwind, because if you would look at the movie Stormwind has improved quite more to look as a city. But how big are cities like Zul'Gurub and Silvermoon, or Blackrock (the Entire mountain, cant ...Then onto rise of the horde and chronologically from there. Start with the 3 Chronicles if you just want the lore. Read them from 1 to 3. They're the most updated / correct lore books right now. I'd make a hard pass (big no) on anything by Knaark, especially Stormrage, Wolfheart, and Dawn of the Aspects.He lost a hand fighting Galakrond which was then replaced with a forged silver hand. [Tyr's Hand of Faith] was a ilvl 910 legendary in Legion. Tyr was betrayed by one of his fellow keepers, Loken, who was lost to corruption. and was killed by the C'Thraxxi led by Zakajz the Corruptor and Kith'ix. Tyr and his group were attacked, so he decided ...202 votes, 57 comments. true. I think less explicitly WoD-ed as in basically abandoned, but more just squished. 9.1 basically already is the squish, because it clearly has enough story to last two patches just condensed. They could have easily done 9.1 as the covenant wrapup, Maw bleeding into the zones, and broker realm, then 9.2 as the assault on the Maw and Korthia, with 9.3 being ...Perhaps the reason why they now have blue eyes is that some that use fel have now receding taint of it due to reverting back to the use of arcane in the sunwell. The Blood elven leadership did encourage the use of the renewed sunwell for their people. The renewed blue eyes can be the effect of it. 13. Reply.Obviously some restructuring after acquisition by Microsoft was inevitable, but firing so many people from the lore team immediately after Blizzard has committed to better storytelling in the Worldsoul Saga is pretty tone-deaf. They went : …r/worldbuilding For artists, writers, gamemasters, musicians, programmers, philosophers and scientists alike! The creation of new worlds and new universes has long been a key element of speculative fiction, from the fantasy works of Tolkien and Le Guin, to the science-fiction universes of Delany and Asimov, to the tabletop realm of Gygax and ...Vyranoth is empowered by Azeroth. It's not clear if she's actually an aspect of anything, though, versus just juiced up on Azerite. Same probably goes for Merithra and Ebonhorn. Alex and Noz are clearly aspects again but that may have more to do with the power just turning back on what they already knew.As someone who plays a Gnome Death Knight, I can confirm that it is completely impossible to take any of it seriously. The most likely Death Knights are gonna be Humans, Blood Elves, or Dwarves since they were the most plentiful races that were around and working with the Argents.Lorthemar claimed he felt bad about the part he and the Sin'dorei played in Sylvanas' plans. Greymane said that if that was the case, he shouldn't have followed the clearly bad orders. Sylvanas killed his son, routed his people from their homeland, and most of the Horde (Lorthemar included) took WAY too long to object to the atrocities she was ...It's not. It's just different. WC3 was telling a story, WoW is not really telling a story. In WC3, the whole Warcraft lore was a story that was being told, that changed with WoW, now the Warcraft lore is not really a story but rather a universe that people get to explore. I prefer the latter and so the WoW version of Warcraft is much more ...Warpshard. • • Edited. Yes, the Horde is evil and yes, the entirety of the Horde was fully complicit in the things that happened during the War of Thorns the minute Sylvanas stepped into Orgrimmar and was not instantly deposed/attacked.During the cataclysm a bunch of zandalari left zuldazar because it was sinking into the ocean lead by Zul. These zandalari crossed the ocean to pandaria over time and were the reason the thunder King returned. Your Zandalari could've believed Zul meant truth with zandalar sinking completely but found he was lying.Whether this is the direct influence of the arcane, or just the ability to access greater magic making this easier isn't confirmed. The desire to build, create, discover and learn could well be an effect of arcane's Order. We've seen the arcane improve both intelligence and aptitude for magic in general.18. Sort by: Add a Comment. Texual_Deviant. • 6 yr. ago. Lordaeron was bigger, had more people and land (though Stormwind could have eventually expanded beyond it) and was by and large a respected and formidable force in the human world. When Terenas told an exiled Varian Wrynn that he wouldn't rest until Varian was returned to his throne ...The one mysterious part that remains underexplored is ironically the "dream" part, because we don't really know to which extent the dreams of people influence this dimension and only see some glimpses of it (like the WQ with dreaming pandaren child) Sleeping isn't the only way for druid's to enter the Dream.There have been portals to the ...If in lore Archimonde and Kil'jaeden are correctly defined as Eredar warlocks, then those two examples alone are pretty damn powerful. However if we exclude the Eredar brothers, then Gul'dan is probably the most powerful warlock in lore. One downside about Gul'dan is his noticable lack of physical strength.The story is very simple. People blow up dragons and explore the new continent. There are some undertones in the narrative regarding Night Elves and also the Infinite Dragonflight. It feels like an old school DnD campaign with a WoW tint. It's a lot of fun but it's not a very serious narrative; the narrative isn't taking itself too seriously ...I host my own podcast currently (The Uninstalled Podcast) that's a nerd centric pod. I'm sure there's some overlap! Sounds awesome, i'd love to be involved! If you've already filled speaking talent positions, I'm able to offer my services editing audio, graphics, etc.Lor'themar is certainly doing his part to increase the nightborne population, if you see what I mean. He's creating a new hybrid so we can have yet another elf race in some future expansion. Coming soon: Dawnborne/Duskborne Elves. Blood elf + Nightbourne = Bloodbourne. The next WoW expansion is a Souls-like.GilneanRaven. •. They still make sense in the way that a Warlock of any race makes sense. No one really likes them, but they're just about tolerated. A Warlock is defined by their pursuit of power, and the crossing of lines most people would shie away from. There are certainly alternatives, like the Sunwell, but any race has other options.Anne Stickney, Matthew Rossi, and Elizabeth Harper contributed to this post. The following is a Warcraft lore guide to all canon novels, manga, comics, and short stories related to …The dwarves believe in the Light because of Humans, they were the second race to have Paladins after humans. And seeing as how long a dwarf lives you could roleplay one as a member of the original Knights of the Silver Hand. While to exclusive you have to think that both organizations would take a lot of your time.EDIT: So, in order: PRE-WOW and VANILLA. Caverns of Time: The Black Morass Tells the story of Medivh and the dark portal. Caverns of Time: Old Hillsbrad Foothills Tells the story of Thrall escaping Durnholde Keep. Caverns of Time: Hyjal Summit Tells the story of the Battle of Mount Hyjal, as seen at the end of Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos.Reply reply More repliesMore replies. ceneyzb. •. The lore was only interesting until legion, after that, nothing makes sense, in shadowlands the lore is so bad that even damages the previous lore. For example, WoTLK lore is great, was the peak of Warcraft in several ways, but if you read shadowlands lore, you will not feel the same to the ...Arbiter damned him because of the Maw's and Jailer's taint upon his soul. After all the soul of Ner'zhul was bound to the Helm of Domination and Frostmourne, which were Tools of Domination full of Maw's power. Ner'zhul is in the Maw because he was directly infused with its power when he was turned into the Lich King.I could understand watching the cutscenes and reading the quests and then not enjoying it but you skip all that. I'm personally somewhat excited to play Dragonflight for the lore. I'm wary because Blizz burned me with Shadowlands and BfA to an extent. However, moving forward I'm willing to give this expansion a shot.Just to make you feel better the shadowlands is an artificial afterlife. The 'first ones' built it to harvest anima from souls. They also decided that some creatures deserve to be refueled and sent back to the mortal realm using the anima from other souls.After much searching I found the language inscribed on frostmourne. It is identical to the High Elf runic Language Eltharin from Warhammer Fantasy. And by identical I mean you can look through a translation sheet and find a perfect match for every rune. The Runes from top to bottom (From handle to blade tip) mean the following.Orgrimmar and ironforge are both stated to have a population around 40k. These are the largest cities besides Stormwind. Stormwind has a population of 200.000. These numbers are from wowpedia I think, can't recall. They only count the cities, not the surrounding settlements. In lore, everything is bigger, comparable to real world civilizations.r/warcraftlore. r/warcraftlore. This subreddit is for discussions about the lore of Warcraft! Members Online. Even if it was in an ideal, working state, the Shadowlands does not make a lot of sense. I'm convinced that it was not always like this. ...Yeah, a comprehensive list is probably not possible but I was going to give an attempt at the ones we have seen. All this btw assumes that getting souls is a bit like first come first serve. The Kyrians of Bastion do not necessarily get every soul, some are resurrected by their friends and others grabbed by other parties beforehand.The Darkspear are the only Trolls smart enough to join the winning side. Most expansions task players with beating the hell out of one tribe of Trolls or another. We beat the hell out of the Sand Trolls, The Amani, The Drakkari, The Gurubashi, etc. Even the earliest Trolls knew they were trash, so they transformed into elves.Vyranoth is empowered by Azeroth. It's not clear if she's actually an aspect of anything, though, versus just juiced up on Azerite. Same probably goes for Merithra and Ebonhorn. Alex and Noz are clearly aspects again but that may have more to do with the power just turning back on what they already knew.The dk pc is one of the few dks in lore that Wanders around the capital city. In roleplay you will see them more often. And lore rules might be a little more lenient. Distrust and caution would be expected. This stance on Dk is shared by the horde and Alliance. Though a forsaken dk or a Forsaken warrior from a distance will be harder to ...r/warcraftlore. r/warcraftlore. This subreddit is for discussions about the lore of Warcraft! Members Online. How likely do you think it is that we will get a Sargeras boss fight in the Last TitanThe boy who would be Lich King. Just a scared little blond child, reaping the aftermath of a lifetime of mistakes. If any part of Sylvanas's soul were not at that moment torn and tormented, she might have even felt—for the first time—the slightest glimmer of … Fel magic is extremely potent but unpredictable. Demon Hunters seem like a strong contender for strongest overall class since they do use a fair bit of magic. Generally magic>might in the Warcraft lore. Taken as an average, Demon Hunters or Death Knights (it's a toss up between them) for sure. Living Arthas dies when he picks up frostmourne. Like he's responsible for unleashing that evil into the world, but, that's what he does: he unleashes that evil into the world. He dies when he picks up the sword. The thing driving his corpse might share some memories but it's fundamentally no longer "him." Reply reply.The Lore of Warcraft. r/warcraftlore. u/AutoModerator. • 6 days ago. Weekly Newbie Thread- Ask A Lore Expert. Feel free to post any questions or queries here! Also check …Tolkien head Orcs, Goblins, Naz'ghul, and Trolls, as well as humans and elves and dwarves, so it makes sense to base types of darkness on that. However, the Orcs were strongly based on those of Warhammer. Pretty much all of …Ill start today with ragnaros. Ragnaros is an elemental lord. in primordial azeroth only the elementals were there, but everything changes when the old gods attacked and eventually made them their servants and strongest minions. the titan keepers later banish the elemental lords into the elemental plane. a bajillion years later ragnaros is ...Both the Amani and Gurubashi tribes are relegated to wandering the streets of Zuldazar. They're shattered. They have so little respect from the Zandalari that Talanji directs us to periodically slaughter their loa priests to assert dominance in a world quest.Chris Metzen is returning to Blizzard as a Creative Advisor on World of Warcraft. Nozdormu couldn't even predict this timeline. My bet is this is a very low key role for now offering insight into the future direction of the franchise and some high level story beats without getting his hands too dirty in the mud of how things actually happen in ...Reading through the War of the Scaleborn is giving mixed feelings. First and foremost: I'm not done with the book just yet. I'm currently at chapter 20 out of 28, I already know how the book ends, it was narrated during the first patch of Dragonflight basically, but still.. the level of details and story telling in the book are somehow gut ...Without spoiling too much about the dungeon, people have put the map into emulators and found a gnome section of the Other Side dungeon map, so the Manastorms are definitely legitimate bosses, not a misdirect. I’d be kind of disappointed if Blizzard ended the story of one of the forsaken’s few relevant and built up characters as a secondary ...In the early days of being discovered it was also protected both physically and metaphysically by the Guardian and couldn't be entered the usual ways the Legion liked to invade (hence the Aegwynn / Medivh possession plan). The first portal the Legion tried to open there during the War of the Ancients also meant that the top lieutenants of the ...So it now confirm the home of the night Elf will be on dragon isles meaning the Horde effectively successfully drive out the last remnant of...TL;DR version: worth reading novels that I have read thus far are Rise of the Horde, The Last Guardian, Tides of Darkness, Beyond the Dark Portal, Day of the Dragon, Lord of the Clans, Arthas: Rise of the Lich King, War of the Ancients trilogy, The Shattering: Prelude to Cataclysm, Wolfheart, Jaina Proudmoore: Tides of War.I'd say they're likely drawn to: Jewelcrafting (their creches have a decent amount of magic gems) Enchanting (inherent connection to multiple types of magic) Alchemy (largely for field-medicine) Blacksmithing (making/repairing their armor, crafting swords for battle) Any Gathering (one of their racial traits specifically improves Perception, a ...r/asoiaf News and discussions relating to George R. R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" novels, his Westeros-based short stories, "Game of Thrones" and "House of the Dragon" TV series, and all things ASOIAF - but with particular emphasis on the written series.Anduin is in between 18 to 19 years old lorewise. Born in year 15 (counting since the First War). Bruh what 14 year olds are in your city if they look like Andiun. Anduin turns 18 in BFA. Currently now he's either 17, 18, or just about to turn 18.Chronicle 2 mentions that after the conflicts at the Broken Isles, Cho'gall received visions from something beyond the sea (C'Thun), and took the Twilight's Hammer Clan (who were mostly ogres) with him there. This was during the Second War. We can assume other ogre clans sailed west from the Eastern Kingdoms after the Second War to avoid being ...Help, policies and guidelines. 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Zovaal isn't a mastermind behind everything that happened since Sargeras began the Burning Crusade, he's a lucky idiot ...Marketing is affected directly by constraints that reduce a company's ability to produce and distribute its message. Such limitations include factors such as funding, reach, time a...Duskwood is one of the most iconic zones in World of Warcraft because nearly every player has played a human at one point. And in vanilla this was one of the major quest hubs for new players. It's a dark and cursed land filled with undead, wolf like men (Worgen), wildlife, and a group of stubborn humans who are unwilling to abandon their ...Every month on Wowhead, Nobbel87 creates a special video on popular WoW. The Wowhead team then supplements his videos with links to popular quests, models, and other database topics so you can experience the lore in-game. Story of Odyn and Helya. Story of Aviana. Story of the Siege of Nighthold. ADMIN MOD. Like it or not but Garrosh is one of the best characters in Warcraft. At least pre pandaria Garrosh. The reason why Arthas is such a beloved character is because of his grey morales like Stratholme. But because Garrosh wasn't appearing in a game mainly focused on a story around him I think many people miss how great of a character he ... You could just pretend the Speaker of the Horde (the character that unlocked the Vulperas) was a Warlock, the Vulperas were in awe of how he/she used his powers to save them in Vol'dun/defeat the Alliance invasion/help the Vulperas join the horde and asked him/her to teach them the Fel ways. Reply. GiantBabyHead. •.Taken from Wowpedia : "The Forbidden Reach is an island located off the coast of the Dragon Isles. It was fashioned by Neltharion the Earth-Warder to serve as a training ground for his ultimate soldiers, the dracthyr. But in the aftermath of a terrible battle, the island has lain dormant and abandoned for ages until the return of an ancient ...Garrosh was in control of whatever the Heart of Y'shaarj did for him, and his Horde focused on controlling the elements and other sources of power rather than dealing in "contracts" (shaman and warlocks) or worshipping (druids/priests) or being pawns like the Old Horde. Hence why the Dark Shaman twisted the elements to their control.Basically, since other characters experience the story without this choice, there has to be a canon choice. They can't always ignore the fact that you could have picked either Kayn OR Altruis in every cinematic, voice acting, etc. Reply reply. Gnivil. •. Yes, so to everyone else the canon choice is Kayn.r/warcraftlore A chip A close button. Get app Get the Reddit app Log In Log in to Reddit. Expand user menu Open settings menu. Log In / Sign Up; ... Unpopular opinion around here, but returning to horde vs alliance would be so much better than this T-O-G-E-T-H-E-R garbage.Tyrande now has full control over her Night Warrior powers so that might be why her eyes are different. As for the other night elves, canonically, only those who witnessed the Night Warrior ritual had their eyes turn black. These black eyed night elves and a few worgen became the Army of the Black Moon. My Nelf still wants his Black eyes and to ...Yeah absolutely. Many people started off with WC3. The lore in it is very accessible and easy to digest but has very nice depth to it also. Not to mention that due to the time gap between WC2 and WC3 it pretty much introduces many of the important lore characters that are still around today/were around recently like Illidan, Thrall, Jaina ...It makes me wonder how different BC would be if it came out in 2024 instead of almost two decades ago. The huge shift was always taking WC3 characters and driving them into the ground. Kael'thas goes from a level-headed grief-wracked nobleman looking for ways to both avenge and safeguard his people.9. Reply. TJC35. • 3 yr. ago. You can absolutely get into the lore without playing the games. I’d recommend starting with the 3 volumes of Chronicles and watching Nobbel87 on …
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Basically, since other characters experience the story without this choice, there has to be a canon choice. They can't always ignore the fact that you could have picked either Kayn OR Altruis in every cinematic, voice acting, etc. Reply reply. Gnivil. •. Yes, so to everyone else the canon choice is Kayn. Okay so the night elf ruins that exist all over Azeroth the same ones that the Naga inhabit are the remnants of the highborne empire as you can see in bfa the night elves that were transformed into Naga by Nzoth live underwater their structures underwater have been improved over 10,000 years but the surface ruins they have no reason to fix them up because they don't live up there permanently ...Quilboar (also spelled quillboar [6] [7] and sometimes pluralized as quilboars [8]) are a race of aggressive, primitive boar -like humanoids native to Kalimdor, Kul Tiras and the …r/ElderScrolls The Elder Scrolls (commonly referred to as TES) is an award-winning series of roleplaying games created by Bethesda Softworks. Set in the vast world of Nirn, The Elder Scrolls series is renowned for the level of unprecedented control given to the player over their character's destiny, establishing itself as the benchmark in ...People tend to forget that mechanics don’t have to equal lore. Tauren Sunwalkers aren’t Paladins, they just use the mechanics to represent their unique class. The same could easily be done for mages. It could just be a variation of Tauren Shaman that focuses heavily on Ice or Fire. 9.Tyrande now has full control over her Night Warrior powers so that might be why her eyes are different. As for the other night elves, canonically, only those who witnessed the Night Warrior ritual had their eyes turn black. These black eyed night elves and a few worgen became the Army of the Black Moon. My Nelf still wants his Black eyes and to ...Well Nightwell was created with Eye of Aman'thul (Pillar of Creation that had power over space-time and could channel immense arcane energy) and was activley sustained by it.During a quest in Legion we are told that the inhabitants of Nighthold have part of its power in them after being near it so much.Eye was also used make the shield around ...WoW's recent lore is just rehashed marvel. Hey guys, just had this revelation that a meaningful portion of both BFA and shadowlands are effectively reskinned marvel movies. I think it's pretty clear that Zovaal is heavily influenced by Thanos, considering the sigils also act as pseudo infinity stones. Whereas in BFA Zandalar seemed to be a ...Lore in the Warcraft series of games is a term used for "background story". The use of the term stems from Blizzard's snippets of "lore" for many of the multiplayer maps in their Warcraft RTS games, although how much of it has a relationship to the main Warcraft universe storyline is unclear. Contents. 1 Major areas. 2 What is "canon" lore?Possible 11.0 Expansion Hint - SPOILERS (Discussion) So today they datarmined that a [Heroic Edition: Algarian Stormrider] as a Pre-purcashe mount, which could point as a Hint to the next expansion. I didn't think of it much as …But not just Maldraxxus, Scourge architecture is also inspired from the Maw and Torghast, for example the whole Icecrown structure, Angrathar, etc. The entire Scourge itself was simply a recreation of the Shadowlands on Azeroth by the Lich King: architecture: Maldraxxus, Maw. bulk of the army: Maldraxxus (ghouls, abominations, liches, etc.)Verrasa's twins had a powerful mage as a father and not much is said about them, and the half elf in BC died, bit no mention of addiction. Blizzard never really explored the magic addiction with half elves, let alone actual half elves. None of the 4 established half elves have explored this in their stories, so we don't know.I don’t really understand Draenei shaman, from both a meta perspective and in-game. Discussion. I am learning to play and understand WoW Draenei more with TBC classic. Never really cared for their lore in WoD or Legion. I’ve always been resentful that we never get the Broken or even the “lost ones” Draenei from the old games.Paladins were famous during and after the Second War, they were essentially humanity's champions. It would be shocking if Gilneas didn't know about them. #3 Worgen can't be paladins because they're cursed. Worgen can use the Light. The first paladins were armed and armored priest.Eonar (or Freya, whatever the current mood of Blizz writers is) created the Emerald Dream during the Shaping of Azeroth by the Titans. Something presumably created the Shadowlands at an unknown time. Perhaps the Shadowlands spawned as a natural reaction to the creation of the Emerald Dream. Perhaps a being created them.Azshara had numerous expansions to develop in the background. She was given some background in some books in a way that her power doesn't feel like an asspull. We know she's powerful because she was the queen of the Highborne at the height of their empire. We have little details like Mannoroth being afraid of her..