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
Could Taelia Fordragon succeed her father in Shadowlands? Here’s where her story could go
Taelia Fordragon is one of the most compelling characters that was introduced in Battle for Azeroth.
Catch up on Diablo lore with our rundown of the many horrors of Sanctuary
There's both Diablo Immortal and Diablo 4 guaranteed on the horizon, with a potential revisiting of Diablo 2's story in a remastered (nay, Resurrected?) version.
Looking back at origins of Ahn’Qiraj, the Aqir, and the Titanforged with the launch of Ahn’Qiraj in WoW Classic
C'Thun is a tinkering Old God.
Could the Light — not the Void — be our next enemy?
There has been much speculation that, after Shadowlands, the next chapter in World of Warcraft will take a cosmological turn -- and many have been expecting a Light vs.
Death loas and dead people trying to kill them: A guide to the characters of Shadowlands prequel novel Shadows Rising
So, in case you missed it, Blizzard is releasing another prequel novel that will tie the World of Warcraft expansion Battle for Azeroth into Shadowlands the way Before The Storm tied Legion into Battle for Azeroth.
What broke the Machine of Death in Shadowlands?
In Shadowlands, souls are flooding into the Maw unchecked instead of being properly assigned to Covenants.
Will Diablo be in Diablo 4?
It seems like it should be a "duh" moment, right?
The new Overwatch novel puts Efi, Orisa, and Numbani on center stage
While Overwatch has put out cinematics, digital comics, and short stories in the course of fleshing out the world of the game, they're only now stepping into the world of novels with Nicky Drayden's The Hero of Numbani, an original work focusing on kid genius Efi Oladele and her budding AI peacekeeper Orisa.
Is Lilith the villain of Diablo 4?
The answer is a resounding maybe.
Who is the mysterious Arbiter in WoW Shadowlands? Right now, the judge of souls is silent
The Arbiter redefines mysterious in the World of Warcraft cosmos.
