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
Blood Ties, the Midnight prequel novel, is now available for pre-order
Even though The War Within hasn't yet reached its conclusion, the next chapter of World of Warcraft is rapidly approaching: Midnight.
Everything we know about the Lorewalking feature coming in 11.1.7
One of the most anticipated features of The War Within's upcoming patch 11.1.7 update is the addition of Lorewalking, which will allow players to experience some of the most important and influential story arcs in the history of Azeroth in-game.
What is Xal’atath really up to? Some tinfoil-hatted speculation
We are near the end of The War Within, the first chapter of the Worldsoul saga that has promised to bring the first three decades of Warcraft's story to an epic crescendo.
What is the Dark Heart, and why are we chasing after it again?
There have been various magical MacGuffins that we've pursued across Azeroth in the past two decades of World of Warcraft's story -- The Pillars of Creation, The Helm of Domination, The Scepter of the Shifting Sands -- and our current adventures in The War Within task us with traipsing across Khaz Algar in pursuit of Xal'atath and the powerful Dark Heart.
Who is Belial, and what role might he play in Diablo 4?
Belial is one of the seven Great Evils and is returning to Sanctuary in Diablo 4 Season 8.
Lore Watch Podcast: Crucial source material
While we do enjoy going off on wild tangents or thinking about "what if," sometimes it's important to just go back to the crucial source material.
Lore Watch Podcast: Can you play Hearthstone in the Emerald Dream, and other questions
This week's Lore Watch Podcast is Q&A style, so the topics veer all over the place -- more so than usual.
Who is Jastor Gallywix, the final boss of Liberation of Undermine?
The latest raid in The War Within is Liberation of Undermine, which sees our band of plucky heroes taking a stand alongside much of Goblinkind in order to topple their long-time oppressor, Jastor Gallywix.
Lore Watch Podcast: Why World of Warcraft’s Odyn is both a Titan and a titanic jerk
This week's Lore Watch Podcast is a Q & A, but sometimes those questions can give us a chance to go off on a topic we love to discuss.
Lore Watch Podcast: Why don’t the people of Sanctuary ever learn from their past?
This week Matt and Joe discuss how history seems to keep repeating itself in Diablo's Sanctuary.
