Sylvanas-Windrunner

We've been getting more dribs and drabs of potential lore from datamining and players in the Shadowlands beta, and I wanted to focus on one line we've gotten from The Other Side dungeon, and how it feeds into what we've already seen from the Maw starter experience.

Say what you will about him, there is one truth we can all agree with: Nathanos Blightcaller is one of the most controversial figures in World of Warcraft.

In the  Afterlives: Bastion short, Frostmourne appears to be able to rend souls in half.

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.

Battle for Azeroth has certainly not been all things to all people.

First up, in this Know Your Lore I'll say that I generally think that Shadowlands looks amazing.

I mean, we know what the Helm of Domination is.

At BlizzCon 2019 we got the show-stopping announcement we've been waiting for: World of Warcraft's eighth expansion will be Shadowlands.

When you write about Blizzard, it's hard to resist the siren song of "next expansion leaks" that start popping up every year a few months before BlizzCon -- especially on those extremely rare times when you read a leak and it sounds legit to you.

The folks at Wowhead have been doing their datamining  magic on the patch 8.3 PTR, and some things they've found may not be intended to go live for patch 8.3 at all.