Know Your 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
Catch up on Diablo lore with our rundown of the many horrors of Sanctuary
With Diablo Immortal on the horizon, we're going to get a look at the big gap of 20 or so years between the end of Diablo 2 and the start of Diablo 3.
Know Your Lore: The fate of Sylvanas Windrunner
There are certain themes we hear when discussing Sylvanas Windrunner and her role in World of Warcraft lately.
A quick and dirty guide to the lore of the first Diablo game
In order to understand a game franchise, you have to understand where it started.
Know Your Lore: Wrathion’s tale
Wrathion is one of the more enigmatic lore figures in Warcraft lore. Here's a look back at what we know, as his new model hits the patch 8.2.5 PTR.
Know Your Lore: The Story of Battle For Azeroth: what brought us to the battle
Well, some of the story of Battle for Azeroth, anyway.
Know Your Diablo Lore: The Nightmare in the Desert
We've already talked about how the story of Diablo 3 opened.
Know Your Diablo Lore: The road to Caldeum
Last time, we talked about the story of Diablo 3 up until the hero who had come to New Tristram managed to destroy the Skeleton King and find the Fallen Star.
Know Your Diablo Lore: What is actually happening in Diablo 3?
I've had people ask me for a round up of the plot of Diablo 3 for a while.
Know Your Lore, Diablo Edition: The Angiris Council and the fate of Sanctuary
The demons of the Burning Hells have the Greater and Lesser Evils, but those seven dark eminences agreed on almost nothing, and as a result, the Hells have almost never been united to a singular purpose.
What happened to Before the Storm’s star-crossed lovers, Saffy and Grizzek? Patch 8.1.5 sheds light on their fates
It’s been a while since we’ve gone back to Before the Storm, Christie Golden’s tie-in-novel to Battle for Azeroth.
