Is Kor'lok, the Ogre King on Ashran, canon?

[Destinas]

Outcasts settled all over Draenor in the MU, when you first enter the Spires of Aarak, a lot of Outcasts are leaving said zone.

That's the reason why you find some of them in Hellfire, Shadowmoon Valley & Blade's Edge in the MU.

There are lots of factors there. In our timeline, the Spires of Arak are gone completely, and all Arakkoa are overtaken by Sethe's curse. They seek to spread the curse anywhere they can, thus why they're in nearly every zone. However, factoring in the story from our timeline has little to no affect on the events of WoD, since it takes place so much further in the past, and much of the Arakkoa's history has changed drastically between WoD's timeline and BC's timeline.

In the alternate timeline, the only major settlements of Outcasts are in Talador (and even then, those are relatively close to Arak). Kilrogg's Lords of War preview (and some other sources, I believe) mention some attacks from the Arakkoa against the Bleeding Hollow in Tanaan, but it's unknown if it's Adherents or Outcasts, as either fits the description (though, in this timeline it fits the Adherents more).

Either way, the Arakkoa in Ashran are out of place because of the fact that there are so few colonies/encampments of Arakkoa outside of the Spires and Talador. It's quite a ways off from anyplace else the Arakkoa have settled. And they're clearly not part of the Order of the Awakened, since they attack us on sight (and they're cursed, so they are probably Sethekk). To me, it seems they simply wanted to fill in that space, and give the Arakkoa a tiny amount more lore, so they stuck them there. It would have been much better had there been a quest, book, or NPC that mentioned why they're there, instead of somewhere slightly closer to all the other Arakkoa (and Sethekk).

[Khaza-R]

What they did in Pandaria with the lorewalkers would be very useful here, but IDFK why they didn't implement that, it was great in Pandaria knowing about the continent and the races by that way.

I think it was a huge mistake no continue the lorewalkers in some fashion. They could have easily made Drek'thar or Geyah the Lorewalker Cho of WoD.

[Shiroh]

PvP in WoW isn't canon so I don't really bother thinking about PvP related lore stuff.

[Deleted]

Ashran is canon, its where Deathwing settled down to create his lair circa Second War.

The island being there is canon, but Ashran being on it isn't canon.

[shoc]

The island being there is canon, but Ashran being on it isn't canon.

At Blizzcon didn't they explicitly say that Ashran was the name of the island Deathwing later claimed to be the home of his lair? Considering the fact that we pretty much had zero information regarding the island pre-Deathwing it's a blank slate for lore to be written on it and therefore it is completely canon?

Why are people talking about stuff in WoW being non-canon anyways? If it's in WoW, it pretty much automatically takes precedent over any preceding materials.