World of Warcraft Dragonflight Story Panel
Teron Gregory and Steve Danuser talked about the lore and story for Dragonflight.
- The Dragon Isle are the broodlands for all dragonflights.
- The Sundering during the War of the Ancients split the land and caused the magic of the Dragon Isles to go dormant, causing the dragons to leave the isles.
- The Titan watchers left behind were supposed to call back the dragons if the elemental energy every recovered. In the cinematic, this is why we see the watcher activate the beacon. The dragons are returning to cultivate their homeland.
- The expansion will focus on exploring the culture of dragons in Azeroth.
- The Dragon Isle have changed quite a bit in the past 10,000 years.
- Most of the dragonflights used their powers for good, but the Black Dragonflight became corrupted.
- Much of the story will revolve around Wrathion learning to regain the power and respect of his flight. But is he the right leader to take over?
- This is an opportunity for the dragons to regain their legacy as protectors, but the players must join them to help with the challenges of the Dragon Isles.
- There is an ancient half-giant elemental race prominent on the Isles that are enemies of the dragons.
- The Tuskar and their history will feature prominently on the Dragon Isles.
- There is a race of Centaur that predate the ones in Eastern Kingdom found on the Dragon Isles/
- Before Deathwing was corrupt, he saw these elemental forces breaking from the aspects, and his first experiments combined draconic power with the mortal races to create the Dracthyr.
- The main theme of the Dragon Isle is exploration. There will many hidden secrets.
- The theme of this expansion is reclaiming legacy and rediscovering who you were before everything went awry.
- It is our turn to help the dragons regain their legacy since they helped us so much.
- We will explore history that only the dragons know.