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.
Click here to begin your Warcraft lore journey.
Recent Know Your Lore Posts
Lore Watch Podcast: Is Azeroth heading to a Ragnarok reset?
Join us this week as we delve deeply into the idea that Azeroth's races may be programmed to protect the planet by the Titans and if they fail, the Titans will reset the world and let it play out all over again.
Lore Watch Podcast: The legend of the first World Tree, Elun’Ahir
Join us this week as we delve into the newly introduced story of the first World Tree, Elun’Ahir.
Lore Watch Podcast: Can the World Soul be trusted?
Join us this week as we, per usual, take a simple, innocent question and use it to wildly speculate about its implications to WoW’s lore!
Lore Watch Podcast: Tinfoil hatting the WoW triple expansion story
Join us this week as we delve into what we know about the story in the upcoming WoW expansions The War Within, Midnight, and The Last Titan.
The Arathi return in the upcoming The War Within expansion — so who are they?
If you've played World of Warcraft you've heard the name Arathi before BlizzCon 2023 blew the doors open with big announcements about three expansions, a whole new story wrapping up the past several years worth of plot threads, and of course Earthen.
Lore Watch Podcast: The lore of Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty
Join us this week as we delve into our obsession with the Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty expansion and the lore behind it all.
Which old antagonists would you like to see return to World of Warcraft? How should they return?
I'll open by stating that Sire Denathrius had the potential to be an extremely relevant antagonist in World of Warcraft, far beyond just the limited influence he had in the Shadowlands.
Lore Watch Podcast: Looking back at 300 episodes of Lore Watch
Join us this week as we talk about our favorite moments and episodes from almost 10 years of recording the podcast including how we started, how far we’ve come, where we would like to go in the future, and, of course, the friends we’ve made along the way.
Lore Watch Podcast: What’s the story behind Tyrhold in the Dragon Isles?
Join us this week as we explore lore of the titan facility in the Dragon Isles, Tyrhold, how WoW could be more alt friendly, and the anatomy of angels in the Diablo universe.
Lore Watch Podcast: Which big bad from Warcraft’s past should we battle next?
Join us this week as we explore who’s left from Warcraft’s far past that can still threaten all of Azeroth in a future expansion.
