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
Lore Watch Podcast: Just another Shadowsong, and more stories from the Void
One of the most interesting things about World of Warcraft: Forever is the possibility for new story development, and that's how we got tangled up in the question of an NPC named Shadowsong in the beta.
Lore Watch Podcast: Xal’atath is acting like a child, and so are Diablo’s angels
Xal'atath is the subject of the first bit of another Lore Watch Podcast.
Lore Watch Podcast: World-ending threats in Azeroth and making great villains
Do you remember back in vanilla WoW, when we were tasked with things like bringing a guard his lunch, or trying to find some guy's wife who was taking a while to get back, and now we're spitting in the face of god and saving the soul of the world?
Lore Watch Podcast: The never-ending faction war in World of Warcraft: Forever
World of Warcraft: Forever is the hottest title in Blizzard's catalogue, so of course we're diving in to some of the lore of Forever in this first post-BlizzCon episode.
How does World of Warcraft: Forever fit into current Warcraft lore?
There's been a lot of buzz around the announcement of World of Warcraft: Forever, Blizzard's take on the long-rumored Classic+ that expands on the Season of Discovery model.
Lore Watch Podcast: How the Arathi might appear in The Last Titan (if they’re in The Last Titan)
Lore Watch this week is all about what might be next for World of Warcraft which is quite apropos since we're waiting on BlizzCon.
Lore Watch Podcast: Xal’atath’s true goals, and more light reading
This week's Lore Watch kicks off with a question based on a datamined spoiler which will be revealed as we come to toward the end of patch 12.1, as we finally uncover the goal Xal'atath has been working toward since before she was besties with a nameless Shadow Priest (Mitch).
Lore Watch Podcast: Fractured worlds and world souls
In World of Warcraft, we've come across several shattered worlds, in varying degrees of obliteration.
Lore Watch Podcast: The Hand of Hatred and an Azerothian Fermi Paradox
Lore Watch kicks off with a discussion from Diablo 4 this week, which breaks the seal on the Lord of Hatred spoilers.
Lore Watch Podcast: Alan Wake, Control, and the lore linking the Remedy universe
The lore of the games from Remedy and how the two series Alan Wake and Control are linked is the topic of this week's Lore Watch Podcast.
