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: What if…Sargeras never fell?
Join us this week as we explore an alternate version of Azeroth’s history where Sargeras didn’t betray the Pantheon, but instead became a champion of the Light.
Lore Watch Podcast: Should the Lich King’s sister be the Queen of Lordaeron?
Join us this week as we discuss Calia Menethil’s dilemma about her role in the future of Lordaeron, the difference between Wild Gods, Titan Watchers, and Titans in WoW, and who would make a better fixer in Cyberpunk 2077, Joe “I just hope everyone had a good time” Perez or Matt “I don’t play well with others” Rossi.
Lore Watch Podcast: The mystery of Northern Lordaeron
Join us this week as we discuss the origins of hearthstones and their connection to Meeting Stones as well as the Brokers, if there is a way to wield the void without being corrupted by it (asking for a friend), and the mystery of Northern Lordaeron, the unexplored region between Ghostlands and Western Plaguelands that may get the spotlight in the upcoming Midnight expansion.
Lore Watch Podcast: What Angry Keanu Reeves can teach us about WoW lore
Join us this week as we use Cyberpunk 2077 as a jumping off point to explore character building in video game storytelling, settings as characters, what power means in these worlds, the history of immortality and how many of these elements are reflected in WoW lore.
Lore Watch Podcast: Are Forsaken Death Knights the secret to infinite anima?
Join us this week as we go on a wilder tangent than usual (and that’s saying a lot) about the connection between the Forsaken and Death Knights through pain and suffering and how that could be Azeroth’s own perpetual energy source (because science!) Yeah, hope you’re strapped in for this one.
Lore Watch Podcast: Deep diving into the new Gilneas storyline
Join us this week as we explore WoW patch 10.2.5’s Gilneas storyline including Lillian Voss's struggle with what’s left of her humanity and Calia Menethil grappling with her family’s dark legacy.
Lore Watch Podcast: Who are the key elves in the Emerald Dream storyline?
Join us this week as we explore the key elven NPCs in the WoW patch 10.2 Guardians of the Dream campaign, the possible plans of the First Ones to prevent the universe from being devoured, and the tinfoil hat theory that the leaders of each the four Shadowlands’ factions are actually Titan constructs.
Lore Watch Podcast: How the ending of Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty expansion changed everything
Join us this week as we explore how the ending of Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty expansion reframes everything you understood about the game.
What we know about the Gilneas Reclamation questline in WoW patch 10.2.5
Dragonflight patch 10.2.5 is now live and part of this patch's content is a set of epilogue quests to close out the Dragonflight story while beginning to set the stage for the next World of Warcraft expansion, The War Within, coming later this year.
Who is Reno Jackson? The story of Hearthstone’s famed explorer (who has a big secret)
There are many characters who cross over from Hearthstone lore into World of Warcraft, and whose stories players of either game might not be all that familiar with.