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
Know Your Lore: Sylvanas Windrunner and the Wrathgate
When we first made our foray into the frozen wastelands of Northrend, we weren’t sure what was in store for us.
Know Your Lore: Like Blades of Grass
What if one life was lost that should have continued?
Know Your Lore: The Naga
Pride doesn't always go before, during, or even after a fall.
Know Your (Diablo) Lore: Things I hope Diablo Immortal answers for us
Last week, we talked about the 20-year gap between Diablo 2 and Diablo 3 and how Diablo Immortal is going to live in that gap, starting five years after the destruction of the Worldstone.
Know Your Lore: Overwatch’s Ashe, Echo, and the Deadlock Gang
We can’t all be heroes – and some of us were never meant to be.
Know Your (Diablo) Lore: Diablo Immortal and the gap 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.
Want to know Diablo’s lore? We have such horrors to show you
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 (Diablo) Lore: Lilith, the mother of the Nephalem
However much we may look to Inarius as the reason that Sanctuary exists, without Lilith there would be no Sanctuary and no Nephalem.
Know Your Lore: The mysterious absence of Hakkar the Soulflayer
In an expansion that deals heavily with the Loa, one is particularly conspicuous in his absence.
Know Your Lore: What information has been lost to the thousands of unrecorded years in Azeroth’s history?
One of the things that we don't really talk about enough when we talk about World of Warcraft and its lore is that there are vast swathes of history we know nothing about. Legion actually went and added a ton of lore with the Artifacts, and a result of all that lore being added is that we're much more aware of just how much we aren't aware of -- that sounds paradoxical, but it isn't.
