Warcraft Literature Chronology

Very nice work. I shall certainly be diving in to this.

Damn, I had no idea how much litterature Warcraft had. Imagine if they could convey all this story in-game. Then we'd have way more stuff to do.

“Pearl of Pandaria” should be under Pandaria and not Wrath, surely. Especially seeing as it came out in 2012.

Originally Posted by MoonTiger

Might be so, but it is extremely helpful for those of us who want to sort our books chronologically and gave us a nice list where we can get the short stories from, so I definitely appreciate it

10 years ago wow fans were too busy playing the game to reorganize their books

times have changed

Its annoying how much of the world's and games lore is lost to these books. I'm not saying that they arent good, but I barely even know that's happening right now in wow.

Every piece of lore (and some of it quite important I might add) is scattered in a dozen different books, instead of the game. Its no horrible, but it is annoying.

Originally Posted by El Caballero de Olmedo

Its annoying how much of the world's and games lore is lost to these books. I'm not saying that they arent good, but I barely even know that's happening right now in wow.

Every piece of lore (and some of it quite important I might add) is scattered in a dozen different books, instead of the game. Its no horrible, but it is annoying.

Chronicles did a fairly decent job at being the one book (well, three) that you need to read to know what's what in Warcraft. They even retcon some of the information from the other books, which means reading anything but Chronicles would just be confusing and unhelpful.

Of course, Chronicles doesn't cover the more recent expansions, but those do have most of the lore available in game one way or another. At the very least the quests mention the important stuff. You'll miss some details and interactions, but still know who everyone is and what's going on.

The only canon pieces on this list I haven't read are Elegy, A Good War, and the two Traveler novels. I should probably get to those...

Originally Posted by ArenaDk

So you would rather have the lore not exist in the first place / cut a raid tier to show it ingame or have it summarized by a random dwarf in a 5 min quest ?

I'd gladly cut a raid tier and have more quests with more engaging questlines indeed! And doesn't have to be a random dwarf, that's a silly statement. You can communicate with important characters (afterall, eversince Legion we're basically the most important people around anyway so would make sense to talk to other important figures.)

And, of course: more cutscenes.

Simply amazing how many books this silly, silly IP has spawned.

I mean, sure I love me some WoW and have been subscribed for like 12 years in a row now, but the story has never not been patently ridiculous, with some glimpses of rare genius thrown in.

The problem is that none of this matters, because literally everything got retconned at some point. Just stay with the Chronicles.

The Warcraft mangas were an abomination. I'd burn them but concerned about how they'd make my chimney smell.

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Originally Posted by Sigxy the Lemming

I'd gladly cut a raid tier and have more quests with more engaging questlines indeed! And doesn't have to be a random dwarf, that's a silly statement. You can communicate with important characters (afterall, eversince Legion we're basically the most important people around anyway so would make sense to talk to other important figures.)

And, of course: more cutscenes.

Yeah same. Raids are fast becoming obsolete content anyways.

Now how much of that is retconned

Thanks for the nice compilation, MMO-champ!

pro tip: the ones that don't say "amazon" on them are the ones you can read free on their website. I've really enjoyed what I've seen so far + the one book I have bought so far, the BFA prequel.

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Nope.

Originally Posted by EternalBany

Cant think of anything more boring than reading books about mist of pandaria

Ironically the writing that took place during MoP was some of the best they've had. Unless you count War Crimes and Tides of War which were god awful (war crimes more than Tides, though Tides was its own special sort of "whats going on this doesnt make sense why is that character acting that way?")

Though I suppose Tides was more a Cata thing, and Crimes was more a leading into WoD thing.

I don't see myself buying any of the books other than the few I bought back in WotLK. I hate how they leave important lore events in game that should've been there to make any sense of how the story is going. And all the retcons are getting rather annoying but I guess they look at is as a necessary thing for good writing.

Wow, it's really slow month, isn't it? 5x more "WoW is dying" threads than usual, Kotaku crap in news section, now overwiew of Warcraft books. What next, analysis of Warcraft movie? ;P

Originally Posted by Sigxy the Lemming

I'd gladly cut a raid tier and have more quests with more engaging questlines indeed! And doesn't have to be a random dwarf, that's a silly statement. You can communicate with important characters (afterall, eversince Legion we're basically the most important people around anyway so would make sense to talk to other important figures.)

And, of course: more cutscenes.

Okay how would you add the night of dragon ( sry I have it in german so I can’t say the English Titel ) added? It’s the story how Rhonin , Korialtratz aka Krasus fight Sinestra and her first twillight spawns. Rhonin exploded , Krasus exploded himself , Sinestra almost died while sleeping with Deathwing and died afterwards heavy wounded and the twillight dragons are hiding to recover if one survived this event and if that one would even talk to us.

This list is awesome. I have been trying to figure out the order and what books/stories I might be missing.

For anyone looking for a copy of Day of the Dragon or Curse of the Worgen both are being reprinted under the Blizzard Legends line and slated for release in Feb, but the amazon links aren't showing these as an optional format.