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Monday, 2 June 2014

Know Your Lore: Azeroth before the First War

The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe. You're playing the game, you're fighting the bosses, you know the how -- but do you know the why? Each week, Matthew Rossi and Anne Stickney make sure you Know Your Lore by covering the history of the story behind World of Warcraft.

What was Azeroth like before the coming of the orcs? What were its kingdoms, what were its people, where did they live and what were their lives like? It's an interesting question to contemplate. With the coming of Warlords of Draenor we're about to see a Draenor that diverged from our history... but we won't get to see Azeroth. What would it be like, this world that would never have seen the invasion of Gul'dan's bloodthirsty fel-tainted Horde? No Orgrim Doomhammer to slay the Shadow Council and raze Stormwind's walls, no Garona to strike down a king at exactly the right moment. The barrier that kept Kalimdor hidden from the Eastern Kingdoms still stood. Pandaria was a long lost fantasy. Northrend was a distant and mostly unexplored realm which few had ever seen.

Let's go back in time to the sometimes seen as idyllic days before the orcs came. Was it as perfect as we're led to believe? Did the peoples of Azeroth live in a paradise, unspoiled by war?

No. No they did not.

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