Lore
Want to get into the lore, but don’t know where to begin? The following is a guide to all canon novels, manga, comics, and short stories related to World of Warcraft — in chronological order. This means that instead of being listed by when the material was published, it’s being listed by its order in the Warcraft lore timeline. For frame of reference, all material is sorted by the game title and expansion in which it takes place.
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Recent Know Your Lore Posts
What is the Dark Heart, and why are we chasing after it again?
There have been various magical MacGuffins that we've pursued across Azeroth in the past two decades of World of Warcraft's story -- The Pillars of Creation, The Helm of Domination, The Scepter of the Shifting Sands -- and our current adventures in The War Within task us with traipsing across Khaz Algar in pursuit of Xal'atath and the powerful Dark Heart.
Who is Belial, and what role might he play in Diablo 4?
Belial is one of the seven Great Evils and is returning to Sanctuary in Diablo 4 Season 8.
Lore Watch Podcast: Crucial source material
While we do enjoy going off on wild tangents or thinking about "what if," sometimes it's important to just go back to the crucial source material.
Lore Watch Podcast: Can you play Hearthstone in the Emerald Dream, and other questions
This week's Lore Watch Podcast is Q&A style, so the topics veer all over the place -- more so than usual.
Who is Jastor Gallywix, the final boss of Liberation of Undermine?
The latest raid in The War Within is Liberation of Undermine, which sees our band of plucky heroes taking a stand alongside much of Goblinkind in order to topple their long-time oppressor, Jastor Gallywix.
Lore Watch Podcast: Why World of Warcraft’s Odyn is both a Titan and a titanic jerk
This week's Lore Watch Podcast is a Q & A, but sometimes those questions can give us a chance to go off on a topic we love to discuss.
Lore Watch Podcast: Why don’t the people of Sanctuary ever learn from their past?
This week Matt and Joe discuss how history seems to keep repeating itself in Diablo's Sanctuary.
Lore Watch Podcast: The lore and history of the goblins in WoW
In preparation for the upcoming WoW patch 11.1 featuring the goblin capital The Undermine, we dive into the evolution of the goblins throughout the history of Azeroth, the difference between the various cartels, and the transition of leadership from the exploitive Gallywix to the more ethical Gazlowe.
Lore Watch Podcast: Could Elune and Xal’atath be linked?
Join us as speculate on a possible connection between Elune and Xal’atath as well as Elune's dual nature and her ties to cosmic forces like the Naaru and the Winter Queen.
Lore Watch Podcast: The reimagining of the Diablo franchise
Join us as we discuss an alternate universe for the Diablo franchise where Prince Aidan never embedded the soul stone into his head to become the vessel for Diablo at the end of the first game.
