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Lore Recap: All the Lore of Classic World of Warcraft



This video covers the events of Vanilla World of Warcraft (aka “Classic WoW”) from the basic story lines of the Alliance and Horde to the plot of the end game raids. This video covers everything you need to know in the context of Classic WoW. Eventually things explained in this video get retconned with the adding of new characters and whatever- but this is the plot of it all prior to any retcons.

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23 Comments

  1. Alliance Leveling Lore: A vast conspiracy of subterfuge, corruption, and betrayal, leading to a twist and the first raiding boss of the game.
    Horde Leveling Lore: there's some demons under the city, oh good you solved it.

  2. I feel like WoW would have had a better story if the timeline of the war of scarabs or whatever the fuck it was called and naxxramus switched and c'thun was the final boss, leaving just enough time to make wrath of the lich king the first expansion.

  3. I just want to say that I, teon white played on the Mannoroth server, and ended up doing something I don't remember, but I had an item called "Eye of sargaras" in my inventory. It really happened and I didn't imagine it, and I didn't know who sargaras was at the time.

  4. The more I think about the lore the less sense it makes. Why are the Horde is fighting against the night elves? They were allies 10(?) years ago. Why the night elves didn't ally themselves with the Horde in the first place, when again, they were allied recently. The Horde cleaning up so many threaths in the Eastern Kingdom is just weird, how did they get anywhere near those places so easily. What was the Alliance doing, especially with the Dark Horde, that was one of the major threats to them?

    Less objective part comes now, so be prepared!

    I also can't really make much sense how someones dead relatives turn out they aren't exactly dead, and they are still pretty much around, but everyone is just like "nope, you don't exist anymore, I hate you and you need to leave from the place you and I both lived". The fact that the Alliance straight up denies the undead's claim to Lordaeron is just weird, and it is depicted with barely any nuance. I think the first time both sides wanted to make up with each other was before BfA when Calia Menethil died. Also how many good and well intentioned people just straight up turn evil after they have been raised as Forsaken. They started off really strong with at the begining, the player character has to come into terms with them being undead, but then they just all go around turning other's undead (this is Cataclysm lore mostly, but they were using the plague before that as well).

    There was such an interesting way to bring their story, but they were just Scourge 2.0.

  5. Hey thanks for the video I definitely learned a lot and plan to check out more. One bit of feedback I have is that I was very confused by the adventurers that knocked down various raids. I had to look them up for example Blademistress Lyss, Toshley, the night elf rogue. All I could really find is that they are TCG characters but I don't find evidence they were involved in these adventures. Similarly I couldn't validate that Rokhan etc was involved in blackrock mountain. I think if these are stand-ins for a random champion it might be better to make those cards more generic if there is no canon established for who did these things. By contrast there are places where the stack of cards did represent characters that were involved, for example the remaining paladins or the AQ forces. Great vid thanks again

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