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 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.
How important is a game’s story to you? How does being an MMO change that to you?
We all have various reasons why we play video games .
How the Barrens in Hearthstone diverges from the Barrens in WoW
Throughout Hearthstone's history, its story and expansions have not necessarily followed what has been established by WoW's lore, including the newest expansion, Forged in the Barrens.
What defines a villain? Which villains deserve redemption?
A common theme among Blizzard games is that of people doing bad things but eventually regretting their past choices and seeking redemption.