How to: Lore - A Guide into the Warcraft Universe
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- With a new expansion on the horizon, interest for the lore behind the Warcraft universe grows. In this video I go over some tips and tricks on how to get into it, what source materials are available and what the stories are about. I hope you'll enjoy ^_^
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Sources to check out:
WoWhead article: www.wowhead.co...
Chronological reading list:
blizzardwatch....
World of Warcraft short stories: worldofwarcraf...
My lore videos in Chronological order:
Part 1: • Lore of Warcraft - Chr...
Part 2: • Lore of Warcraft - Chr...
Part 3: • Lore of Warcraft - Chr...
Part 4: • Lore of Warcraft - Chr...
Burdens of SHaohao: • The Burdens of Shaohao
Lords of War: • Lords of War
Tomb of Sargeras Audio Drama: • Audio Drama - The Tomb...
Harbingers: • Harbingers
Thousand Years of War Audio Drama: • A Thousand Years of Wa...
Warbringers: • Warbringers
All Warcraft Cinematics: • World Of Warcraft All ...
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Want More Lore?!
The Story of Warcraft - Full Version: • The Story of Warcraft ...
The Story of Into the Shadowlands: • The Story of Into the ...
The Story of Marcus: • The Story of Marcus (S...
The Story of The Fourth War: • The Story of The Fourt...
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just binge watch nobbel for the lore. trust me, this mad man has covered 90% of it.
Hell yeah,
Been here since cataclysm
@matt cool story
@@AeQuitaS28 Well played Shane... Well played
Amen, I go for Nobbel for WOW lore. I recommend the chronological playlist on his channel. It is bingetastic.
So where's should I go to for the remaining 10% if I had finished binge watch nobbel?
If only this were made right before we were quarantined at home for the summer, imagine all the reading we could have accomplished, lol!
I think you still have plenty of time
Yeah but start reading now!
These books and stories have been out for years, so you could have read them at any time.
@@Lupinemancer87 You kind of missed the point.
Meanwhile, in the USA: Quarantine without end means you have all the time in the world!
At the end of the day (for me at least), you're my go-to RUclipsr for WoW Lore, especially to listen to while I work on my 3D Artist Projects :D Keep up the great work! :D
That thumbnail! Hilarious. Been watching you since about 2014 right when WoD was about. Thanks for continually making good content!
Hey, me too. I became a disciple of Nobbel's lore right at the same time. I dabbled with videos about Pandaria but when I realized I didn't know the Warlords of Draenor on sight, I decided it was time to find out. And the rest is lore... er... history.
I've been doing this for a few years now.
Our guilds often get either new, clueless members, or old veterans who haven't seen the game since vanilla/BC. They'd see the game and how far it was, and not recognize anything.
I was known as the 'lore guy', and I GLADLY took in those returning and new players, and took about a week (That's a long time, but eh.) to give them some parts of the lore, every day would take a time period, a set of events, and name all the characters, and even carry them on a two-seater for a trip around the Eastern Kindgoms and Kalimdor.
I'd space the sessions by asking them to gain more levels before the next part, but usually, they can piece together the Cata storylines and if they have questions, I would come and answer about some names, to the best of my knowledge. Since stuff about Wrath and above tend to have focused, condensed lore, it gets the job done better than I would, but when it came to older content and backstory, we would travel across Naga ruins, Night Elf villages, wreckages of the Old Gods, and we'd just picnic there while I explained and talked about the stuff that went on.
It keeps the people up to date with the lore, makes them aware on who the real bad guys were, and it gives context to the out-of-nowhere bullshit they saw in their starter zones.
Ever since my pc died a couple years back, I haven't been able to really brush up on the lore, but sometimes, it is here that I get my own answers. Nowadays when someone asks me something about the lore, I say "Check Wowhead of Nobbel."
i'm honored!
@@Nobbel87 Fancy that. Ever thought of making a wiki, or a compilation of your videos, so it's easier and simpler to search for them?
@@Quetzen I've got playlist in chrono order if that's what you mean?
From the beginning of this year I had started reading all the books and short stories about the lore. I definitely recommend to people who want to know more. Yes, you can read online (or hear in a video) of what happened, but reading it, seeing how the characters think and evolve... it's way better. And like Nobbel said, it's nice when you're reading about something you're interested in.
Is the WorldOfWarcraft manga canon?
Horny Bitch Rodgers i’ve read somewhere they’re not canon, so i never read them, but i might be wrong... i just read the short stories on blizz’s website and the novels.
@@zombiedemon1762 They are, for the most part. WoW canon is tricky, but mostly anything the isn't overwritten by the novels are canon. Besides the Sunwell trilogy, most of the manga is self contained anyways, so it doesn't really matter if it is canon or not, since most of it is just silly stories, like the gnome invention one.
@Luxuria Unus. The death knight manga was nice and i barely read it. So anything that does not contradict the canon is canon? Does that include the games?
@@zombiedemon1762 the game usually does just fine conforming with canon, as canon is written with the game at the forefront for obvious reasons. If you are referring to the older titles, Warcraft 3 is the least untouched, not 1 and 2 are all but rewritten. Just reading the Chronicles 1, 2, and 3 will cover what of canon as was covered in the games, however. As the Chronicles are pretty much made to realign older game lore with today's.
The Bloodsworn and Dark Riders graphic novels are really cool. Sure they're not portraying big lore events but they're very enjoyable as standalone stories, kind of like a good sidequest
Or you just watch this MADMAN and learn every bit of lore. Love you nobbel
More stuffs to track down and read, yay! It’s really quite difficult to figure out in what order to read the novels that aren’t clearly preludes to specific expansions, so this is much appreciated.
You’re my go-to lore person, been working my way through your lore playlists while levelling. :)
My how to lore has always just been Nobbel videos :D
I love your content. Even I quit playing WoW. I love the lore. Ceep up the good work nobble.
I haven't really played WoW since the end of Legion, and i still love listening to the stories
I make up the lore as I play. Then I started watching this channel. Thought Cenarius was a bird for months.
with an infusion of blight, followed up by the life-binder's red dragon fire, and a whole buttload of pain. you too can become the lich king. Bolvar always kinda reminds me of Spawn.
Sylvanas needs to create her own type of death knight. Forsaken death knight.
Pandaren death knight?
@@zombiedemon1762 well Bolvar did make panderen death knights
@Mahons. Awesome.
@Mahons. Is Bolvar a good guy lich king or another villain like Arthas?
I first got into the lore in Pandaria. I was looking for the scrolls scattered around to get that flying disc mount and I started reading the stories. I really liked the Shaohao one and then I started looking up more lore, then moved on to Dalaran, Mages, Khadgar and Medivh and I liked all of that so my advice of getting into the lore would be to find the first thing that interests you and then moving on to other stuff that might be interesting :)
Ahh, Nobbel video right before going to sleep. Nice
keep up the great work man!
Most needed video on RUclips.
hello everyonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnne
And until next time... cya
Brilliant Nobbel just brilliant!
I'm dreaming of a Warcraft anime since years! I'm crossing my fingers Nobbel!!!
as a big dragon lore fan, day of dragon is *chef's kiss* a great damn story. my favorite is tides of war though cuz that's when a great character development started on Jaina and she's great, what else can I say?
in my opinion, Velen had the opportunity to be a character as rich in lore as, for example, Thrall; but he has been sadly left aside since the end of TBC (except for the Argus storyline)
Best advice is to binge Nobbel
Thanks this helps a lot to see what I was missing.
at least now i can answer people's questions just with this video!
Biggest tip for lore. Play the game for a few years and watch multiple videos on multiple topics.
Read the quest
Agreed. Trying to suck it all in as a beginner before reaching max level cap will be confusing. I also recommend to just keep playing the game blindly, like you're someone who's born and raised in the midst of an ongoing war while you see yourself as a hero but not for the opposing faction and you don't know why, you only know that you're a hero and you're doing the right thing
Bleeding Sun, that one got me good :,3
The bald one will return. And in that moment, hair will be free.
The way Kalecgos and Anveena were never explained in the Sunwell raid, is perhaps the earliest example of Blizzard putting lore behind other media instead of ingame, something they have been heavily criticized for recently, especially during BfA. The main difference is the recent novels take place right before the expansion, or during the pre- patch like Elegy and A Good War. The Sunwell manga took place during the aftermath of the Third War. Another difference is a comic is easier to pick up for most players than a novel.
I think the trend with Warcraft novels taking place in the current story started with Stormrage at the end of Wrath. For some reason Blizzard didn't like how the Battle of Undercity turned out, although it was well liked by the playerbase, and happens to be the one thing I miss from Wrath.
I have all the books, all the comics, all the mangos and read ALL of them [listened to some of the more recent ones].
I've read a total of 4 of the 20+ online comics/short stories.
Also haven't read Illidan [no audio book in australia but own a copy] or Shadows Rising [no audio book or copy yet] yet.
I haven't read the 3 chronicles [but i own them], I kinda let you just summarize them for me over the 20 videos you made on each of them.
I have a lot of catching up to do but my too doo list is far too long.
Nearly 100 [possibly more than] other comics, 5 full mango series, 5 seasons of supernatural to catch up on, numerous anime [that I also physically own because I'm stupid] and gamepass games, 40k to paint, gundam/zoid models to build, halo megabloks to build, a weekly[ish] DnD game and writing the storified recaps of, youtube videos to make [I haven't made one in months now...] and of course my WoW addition doing emissaries on 3 toons every day + AH and daily CDs and old god invasions, island [until I get all the mounts] on my main [at least until i get that paragon chest pet] and I'll probably hop back on to classic soon for AQ and Naxx.
TL;DR I have nothing to do...
wowpedia and youtube took me to your channel around pandaria time.
I had no idea there were so many books! And here I thought I had read a good amount of them...
Sneaking in some good advice on general research practices, I see you.
Your video on Shadows Rising finally got me to read a WoW book, and I really wanna get into some more soon
Lets be honest, the best place to learn more about WoW lore is right here on this channel 👌🏻
This reading list is excellent! As for introducing Warcraft to someone in a light form, I wonder if this is best approach:
Chronicle Volume 1 and 2 first half, then the Warcraft movie, then Volume 2 second half, Warcraft 3, then WoW classic.
Then go through Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich king (preferrably on Classic servers when they arrive eventually).
Or on retail with the Shadowland leveling revamp; then Retail, Cataclysm, and the remaining expansions in release order.
Oh Wrathgate. That’s what got me into all of it too! Before that it was just a time-killer game
Whenever I get the chance I tell anyone Rise of the Horde is the best book I've ever read, not just best warcraft book, I mean the best thing I've read!
I'd wait, until the whole series is done to play
That will be about in a 100 years or so LOL
Oops, wrong title in the channel screen around 0:05
Holy cow!
lol wooooeps forgot to adjust the standerd one. Ahwellll
Oh whew I thought I was the only one who saw that.
The Lore of Lore of World of Warcraft, deep
Tbh I usually learn more about lore while I create character backstories
Is it possible to create a Pandaren death knight? Pandaren warlock?
WorldOfWarcraft pokemon high on Fel magic and drunk on undeath.
I don't think that Blood of Our Fathers is one of the only resurrections in the lore, Icecrown Citadel comes to mind, along with various other quests (DK starting experience could count, or more directly the Demon Hunter one Illidan explicitly states that you have an immortal spirit after dying, which is a way to complete a quest).
Most of those are not true resurrections though since as a demon hunter you are fused with the demon making you not go to the shadowlands. As a death knight you are not really fully ressurected since you are still just an undead minion but with more autonomy to carry out more intricate plans than just slaughter and kill that the ghouls do.
There's a whole bunch of necromancy found in the game, but a proper resurrection as in bringing back the person as how they were...not so much
I don't know if this is true or if it was a omage to it or something, but when I was reading Rise of the Lich King it made me think of a dark version of the old story about the sword in the stone
"But hey, I hear ya, you're not here for the night elf tree-huggers."
B-but nobbel... that's exactly why I'm here T_T
People ask me what is the lore of world of warcraft on specific people in my group. I tell them to go to my favorite Dutchman!
WarCraft III is the best point of departure to understand the lore.
It is better to start simple and then go to the roots and ramifications with the Titans, Old Gods and Burning Legion, etc.
That's also my special wow lore site!
Just read quest text
It's 90% there, tbh, but there's still quite a lot of confusion, or at least disruption in the story. I'd like for Blizz to release a version of WoW that is chronologically consistent - you could play classic zones, then go to Outland, then Northrend, then return to old zones transformed by Cataclysm etc, and you'd experience the whole 15 year story at your own pace.
Do Grommash Hellscram lore
Thanks
Question for you sir! With the glass broken around Bolvar, Turalyon & Alleria brought back, the last Old God dead, the Burning Legion & Sargeras defeated... are there any characters that we know about and we're sort of still "waiting on" at this point, or will everything have to be newly written into the story? I guess Azshara is still out there... anyone else?
Not that comes to mind right now, but that's also why i'm excited on their plans of breaking open the cosmology chart and diving deeper into the forces of warcraft that we know (light,void,arcane, fel, order, disorder, etc)
Are there any story retelling warcraft 3, after all timetravel it can't play out in the same way as the game.
Maby you should write it Nobble?
World of Wacraft Chronicle Volume 3, the most updated version of the Warcraft 3 Story
@@Kiama1234 Not read it. And proberbly will not.
Wanna give a recap?
@@theblackgoatofthewoods Honestly It is a bit too much to give a recap, it is most of the book, but basically the stuff with Warlords is happening in a alternate Draenor, so that is not effecting it that much, Chronicile is a basically the history of the Warcraft world up to Cataclysm, it is I would say the start of every Lore person's journey
@@Kiama1234 So the night elfs arn't saying: Look! The greenskinns and humans are back!
@@theblackgoatofthewoods Nope, the Timeline fixed itself afterwords I think
Bad Nobbel, don't point out Legion was in 2016, was so long ago, so old.
Is that nobbel's character we see talking at the end of the video? the female human paladin? what video is that?
Where to begin WoW to understand the story?
I tried the the wolf people and then the alien people and i just dont know what is going on '-'
Just waiting for some more steamy romance novels, I promise to keep my hands above the desk this time !
a Netflix series would be AMAZING
YOU FORGOT STEAMY ROMANCE!!
Have you ever considered doing a comparison of Demonlords from Warcraft and Diablo?
Much needed video, however still doesn't answer the bigger question: if someone wants go through the whole lore without missing anything what is the chronological order to read books / play game / watch x cinematic. The video mentions the existance of the books but in what order ?
Chrono list by blizzard watch: blizzardwatch.com/warcraft-lore-books-guide/
I can't find any free sources on that Illidan book, can't even go out to the library, this sucks
Do a story of tyrande please!
Thanks to your videos I got into the lore through binging and it helped me greatly!
Also I got into the lore because I found a warcraft crossover fanfiction with the bleach series that’s been remade and it’s still being updated today, I recommend it BTW.
Also also this video feels long overdue but I’m glad it’s here. Damn it feels like there’s almost no other lore bits to cover at this point.
Obligatory comment to please the youtube algorithm overlords.
Do you think he took the Helix fossil?
Why isn't there a Skeletor raid in this bloody game?! MYAH!
Pyromancer malding
Why no mention of the Warcraft movie?
Well because it was a cool movie but it changed a lot of the events like king wrynn dying in an assault when it was at the defence of stormwind and not because Garona had to get back in with the orc clans but rather because she was still being mindcontrolled by the shadow council..
@@Mahons that makes sense. Thank You
@@chrissnyder8415 it's mentioned at the end
@@Nobbel87 ah, missed it. Thanks
The human female with nobbels voice LoL
yeah - To me its mutually cute and disturbing
The lore is dead.
Since legion antorus there is no sense in it. Help Freya so they can't use her power to resurrect Sargaras and at the end puff he's back and stab azeroth with his sword. Bfa omg azeroth is in pain because of that sword, k let's fight eachother and beat an old god in 5 mins so we can forgett this one problem.
It started to make no sense when they told Knaak "hey it would be cool if a human, an elf, a dragon and an orc traveled back in time during the war of the ancients, write a book about that", it continued with "what could we do with that unfinished King of Stormwind quest? Oh I know, let's put some comics artists to write it instead of showing anything in game" and got completely out of control with the Sunwell manga.
You can outsource assets, not your creative team. In the end Chris Metzen himself was so overwhelmed by it all he was like "oh, I just forgot about the big bad Sargeras' origin story so here you get Draeneis 2.0 I guess? lol" .
See in that video how much has been retconned, whithout mentionning the WarCraft RPG books which were never canon.
actually I came here for tree huggers :
can you make true story about beta outland?
Wish Blizzard cared as much about their own lore as you do for theirs. Warlords was a complete cluster, Legion a step in the right direction and BfA went right back two steps, if not three. So much wasted potential.
Richard A Knaak and Christie Golden are amazing writers.
Easy. Just retcon everything.
thanks! And it has just 50k views, wtf?
I've read the "Original comic series" in 2014-ish and Med'an stuck to me back then. And then, after a few years, I watched Avatar anime and understood that this comic was surely inspired/"stylized" it into wow universe. I sure won't be mad enough to comprehensively compile, but did you ever considered making a video about IRL events and/or other universes that were reimagined for and into WoW? For example, small things like arakkoa in Spires of Arak who tells his bird to drop a book "50 shades of gray" or more major plots like Jailer is kinda Thanos? Of course, could be more of a speculation, but would be totally fun :) wish I would see the day when Blizzard will have fun in-game about this equality and transgender garbage.
Comment for YT algorithm overlords
Wow lore is like ice cream its delicios frosty but if you get deep into it its melting messy sticky and gross
30:14 nobbel is a vtuber now? POG
basically: read books instead of playing the games cause apparently they don't like putting the actual stories and lore in the games anymore.
Blizz really needs to conceive of their lore better, moving forward. It's too bloated and impenetrable right now, that even a video trying to consolidate just a READING LIST is 30 mins long.
I think it was working just fine up until around Burning Crusade; most of the lore is mentioned in-game if not outwardly presented (e.g. the War of the Ancients), and if you wanted more detail on certain things THEN you can resort to an external source (e.g. the "History of Warcraft" document, and various novels) of which there's only a small quantity per topic. And even then these external sources are not required to understand the events in-game.
I really hope SL lore is alot better than what we got in BFA, just terrible writing for a pointless and rehashed filler war and shafting 2 very anticipated chars like Nzoth and Azshara.
Azshara is still around so she’s not wasted.
@@librask3009 I still feel like that was the dumbest fucking thing. Like oh yeah let this murderous woman just leave and find more power when she has tried multiple times to take control of the world and tries several times to kill the player characters but you know what the player characters will let her leave without putting her in chains.
As much I try to be positive, I don't get my hopes up too much. Since they rather swarm the game with ideology politics rather than coherent evolution. (Every race can be any real human big race, most imporant news is a genderbender role character, etc). I want it to be good, but I am afraid there will be major parts that will leave a sour taste in my mouth (like when they started to evilise the Light since the end of Legion).
@Wonder of U Right but she was weakened so it would have been incredibly easy for us to just slit her throat, since she as already weakened and could not really resist, instead "we" decided to allow her to live on and endanger the world once more.
I know why "we" let her live it is so that Blizzard can always pull her out of their ass in a future expansion, I am just saying that it is fucking stupid that we did not kill after the fact that we did kill her in the eternal palace and the fact that she did try to kill us several times.
@Wonder of U It's strongly depends on the narrative. Ofc I speak from my own objecitve perspective, (but so does the game). The SC, the the path of the orcs becoming 50% less violent than before, they somewhat fit into the cohesive evolution of the story, how the flow of events formed them. Going further (but not that much since this would require a whole different place go on with a more detailed version of my personal opinion), I am not sure if souls have gender on not, since our earthly thinking is restricted by space and time, and the 2 genders, and this is how we reale to things around us. Like the Holy Trinity, Father, Son and the Holy Spirit, where the gender is more like metaphorical. So i WoW's case, if a genderless spirit decide it takes on a physical form different than it's prrevious, i don't care, unless it's used as a advertisment for sexual deviances. Like I said it's my opinion, and I hold up the right to be wrong, and ofc everyone is free to call me ignorant and tunnel visioned.
Do Malfurion Stormrage
The subtitles has several spelling errors NotLikeThis
Comment to please the youtube overlords.
Do the story of Alexstrasza
this video needed to just be like 10 seconds long, just him saying Don't. Seriously not sure how anyone who care(s/d) about the lore could honestly recommend anyone getting into this monstrosity of a story we have going on now.
Because it's fun ?
The easiest way is just forget everything that happened before 7.2. They are not revelant after the big retcons.
thank you for reducing your rolling of your r's
Nobody likes Nathanos, Nobbel!
Lore is a issue in wow since so much is outside the game today:/
tl; dw: be like Blizzard and 99% of the playerbase and simply don't care