In this timeline Hakkar survived the War of the Ancients, and was killed during the Third War.This article is a summary of the two versions of history given in the trilogy, altered, and the unaltered, with special emphasis placed upon how they may differ from other versions. Please see War of the Ancients (WC3 account) or War of the Ancients (WoW account) for other versions of the history, as described in Reign of Chaos manual, and the official World of Warcraft homepage. The current official history seems to be a blending of various accounts of the War of the Ancients given in various sources. At the same time, other sources describe certain events similar to other accounts (perhaps suggesting that all accounts exist as knowledge to historians of Azeroth, see flavor lore). The RPG Player Guide series for Horde and Alliance make references to material from these books (for example Hakkar the Houndmaster and his death, and the Earthen involvement during the war, and the time anomaly). EyonixĪ number of sources and aspects of World of Warcraft's current timeline corroborate this. I'm very sorry but your assumptions are not correct.

We work closely with authors that help us expand our game universe, and the information should be considered official. Knaak in particular is an excellent example of real 'Azerothian' history and lore available outside of our game software. Any piece of literature authorized and licensed by Blizzard Entertainment is in-fact, official. For ease of terminology pre-altered timeline is referred to as timeline (prime), and the second timeline is referred to as timeline (new).īlizzard considers the War of the Ancients Trilogy an official documentation of the history regarding the War of the Ancients. The novels also contains references to what occurred in their first timeline, before they influenced history. They witnessed firsthand the events of period, eventually becoming responsible for changing key aspects of the timeline. One is the account of a history created from the influence of three characters traveling back in time 10,000 years into the past at the time of The Great Sundering. This article or section contains lore taken from Warcraft novels or short stories.Īs described in the War of the Ancients Trilogy ( Knaak, Richard), two versions of history of the War of the Ancients are given.

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