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
The history of Death Knights leading into Wrath of the Lich King
Before the Frozen Throne crashed into Icecrown, before the lords of the Burning Legion first conceived of a weapon that would scour life from Azeroth, there was only means, motive and opportunity... and a self-serving power hungry Warlock grasping for a tool.
Lore Watch Podcast: Which WoW lore characters may secretly be dragons?
This week, we explore rumors of who or who not in WoW may secretly be dragons, the history of the three candidates to rule the Black Dragonflight, and what other unvisited lands in Azeroth could still await us in future expansions.
Setting the stage for Diablo Immortal: what happened between Diablo 2 and Diablo 3
If you played Diablo 2 and its expansion, Lord of Destruction, then you saw the end of the established world order with the destruction of the Worldstone.
Could Galakrond be the Dragonflight end-boss? What we know about Tyr, the dragonflights, and Galakrond
With the announcement of the World of Warcraft: Dragonflight expansion, we learned some new bits of lore, revisited the past, and had reason to be excited for the future of WoW.
The lore behind the the Blackwing Lair raid
Blackrock Mountain was home to a lot of end-game content during vanilla-era World of Warcraft, were everyone would gather to run Blackrock Depths, Blackrock Spire, Molten Core, and starting in patch 1.6.0, Blackwing Lair.
Lore reveals in patch 9.2 could irrevocably alter the World of Warcraft
I've been thinking a lot about the story reveals in patch 9.2 and all of the tantalizing bits of narrative we're getting from dataminers.
Just who is Pelagos, and what role will he play in patch 9.2?
You may not really have paid a lot of attention to Pelagos when you first arrived in Bastion.
Lore Watch Podcast: 9 episodes of Lore Watch to bring you up to speed on Diablo lore
With Diablo 2: Resurrected out, and with both Diablo: Immortal and Diablo 4 looming in the future, we thought it might be a good time to do a bit of a round up on the lore of Diablo from our Lore Watch Podcast.
Who is the Dark Wanderer in Diablo 2: Resurrected?
If you're playing Diablo 2: Resurrected you may be wondering who the Dark Wanderer that Marius mentions in the opening cinematic is.
Who is Deckard Cain in the Diablo universe?
Deckard Cain has been in Diablo since the beginning.
