Warcraft: Orcs and Humans (1994) is the real time strategy game that spawned the Warcraft franchise. It takes place on Azeroth (Southern half of Eastern Kingdoms) and features the orcish invasion of Stormwind in the First War. The Warcraft universe was expanded a year later with the release of Warcraft II, in which the Stormwind survivors sail north to the …

Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness (1995) is the second entry in the Warcraft franchise of real strategy games. Along with its expansion, Beyond the Dark Portal (1996), the game makes a huge leap from WC1 (1994), both lore-wise and aesthetically with its high definition cartoonish graphics and orchestral musical score. The story revolves around the Second War, which concluded with …

Expansion: Warlords of Draenor (2014, AKA WoD or “Warlords”) is the fifth expansion of World of Warcraft. It follows the time travel of Garrosh Hellscream back into Draenor’s past, creating an alternate reality where the orcs were never enslaved by the Burning Legion, but rose up to become the independent, war-thirsty Iron Horde instead. Draenor had only been thinly depicted …

The Warsong is an orcish clan formerly led by legendary orc warrior Grommash Hellscream. They inhibited Nagrand in Draenor, and were famous for their ferocity against the oppressive ogres of Higmaul.

A World Soul is an extremely rare occurrence that evolves inside a planet’s crust, feeding on its spirit element, and eventually awakens in the form of a titan. Titans are a race of benevolent and colossal, metal-skinned gods. A World Soul is considered a slumbering titan.

World of Warcraft (2004, known as “vanilla WoW”, re-released in 2019 as WoW: Classic) is the fourth installment of the Warcraft series and the first to switch from its real time strategy format to the MMORPG genre. Contrary to subsequent expansions’ more-coherent storytelling styles, WoW set players off in a narratively loose world that didn’t see them taking the heroic …

Expansion: Wrath of the Lich King (2008, AKA WotLK or “Wrath”) is World of Warcraft’s second expansion. It’s mostly set in Northrend, the frozen Northern continent of Azeroth home to the sentient dragons, the old titan keepers and their giants, old god Yogg-Saron and the Lich King and his undead army. The main story revolves around the mortal armies’ war …

Faction/Tribe: Trolls of Zul’Aman are a faction of forest trolls who migrated to Lordaeron (Northern Eastern Kingdoms) thousands of years ago. Like the majority of troll factions, they’re superstitious but strong and ferocious fighters who can regenerate wounds and even severed limbs. The Zul’Amani empire has suffered greatly on the hands of the high elves of Quel’Thalas who conquered sacred …