I must confess this is something that kinda bugs me...I enjoy the Warcraft games and lore to a degree but I don't know why Blizz insist on making outside work (such as novels/comics) cannon within the lore of a game! It isolates a large player base who follow the games as we're suddenly thrown characters that we have no clue about unless we cough up more money and buy other products. Fair enough, publish as many Warcraft novels as you want but it kinda sucks when your forced to a read a rather badly written book just to completely follow the story within the game!