the first story of the book features azeroth(earth mother), the sun, the moon(elune), the baby sister(winter queen), and the tuaren and the old gods.
aparently azeroth is blocking the old gods from coming out as mcuh as she can so until we defeat all the old gods on the planet for reals then we won’t be seeing her according to the story, story also reveals that elune was supposed to care for her lil sis witner queen forever sicne the mom can’t and also stay with the brother forever (the son god)
speculation: since elunes missing, her brother is going crazy which is why the light and lgihtforged army went crazy. winter queen took it a different way and resented elune thinking she abandoned them.
here is a picture of the earth mother/azeroth from the book
the whole time there were female tuskar the story reveals that male and female tuskar look exactly the same even both got mustaches. only differnce whatsoever is female either got no eyebrows or small ones. also revealed sea dragons are cannon and near northrend
3.vulpera children dont even bat an eye about killing other vulpera children nor actually regret it when it happens
some kinda ghost creature haunts goblins and makes them nongreedy and is basically the devil to them. Shadowlands afterlive for goblnis is called the Unending/Everlasting Party.
speculation: the shadowlands creature is a venthyr making the goblnis repend their greed, goblnis go to revendreth. Unending party is the venthyr covenant feature
5.the story is about sylvanas and her sister (not the void elf one the powerless one)
reveals sylvanas belongs in ardenweald but got pulled into the maw where she was tortured and abused and brainwashed into being the jailer’s “pet” which he carries in his hand and pocket. Her soul is also confirmed to be split into several pieces that the jailer has hidden so she is unable to become whole again. the sister vowed to repair sylvanas soul fragments and make her whole again but when she leaves the shadowlands she forgot the jailer and sylvanas. It also retcons that apparently spirit healers ARE NOT kyrians (or at least a different type that are all blind with bound eyes so they cant judge souls) yeah sylvanas aint gunna be deleted this xpac she will be mended and put in ardenweald where she belongs… fishy how the winter queen didnt mention her in 9.1 and that sylvanas hates the winter queen in 9.1 for some odd reason…
the book makes it clear the jailer was hurt and heartbroken which causes him to act like a jerk and he is indeed after justice
against his family members and he has no reason to lie so the 411 is basically al lthe SL leaders are basically jerks and the basis of SL is family drama
oh and huge spoiler but the jailers family betrayed him then forced him to serve the maw. (blizz did state at blizzcon 2019 that by the end of shadowlands we may side with the jailer and that overall SL is about family and betrayal)
6. Uther had a pet stone dragon monster at some point in his life (uthers 9.1 model datamined is matched with the armor he wears in his story)
also mermaids on azeroth are canon and they used to live near boralis at some point but fled
oh the book also made canon that chromie’s past and present
everything in the book is canon s we got LOADS of awesome stuff to see in future patches/xpacs
Number three confirms something I said in a vulpera thread a looooong time ago . . . namely that there was something twisted about em . . . Or rather it semi confirms it as I said they might eat their weak young or something.
Everything else is meh (tuskar and elune), cute (uther’s stone dragon), neat (sea dragons and mermaids), forced (chromie and Sylvanas’ soul fragment), and absolutely hilarious (goblin one)
Cant believe the dragon with a male name who presents as female is trans. Truly a forced thing and not just confirming what people have speculated about for over a decade. Politics is getting out of hand.
This book so far has been one of the more damaging elements to Warcraft lore they’ve ever made. It’s a truly impressive feat of destruction, I hope they feel every bit as smug and powerful as I know they probably do.
My friend hasn’t unsubbed yet, and I was starting to question doing it myself just because I hated leaving them. But you just reignited the fire my friend, so thank you.
retcon or whatever maybe the timelines were changed and now its just canon but the greatest part is that make sure that EVERYTHING in the book is canon and there is alot of awesoem stuff the devs wil lhave to put into the game now that its all canon
Specifically stated in the official dragon issue of the magazine was that she was a female dragon and her name didn’t follow what we assumed was normal naming conventions.
canonizing a lot of really stupid, pretty much childish crap.
I don’t want weird fetish content in games not made for sexual content. I don’t want the authors ignoring plot elements or constant retcons or any crap like that.
Well when you put it that way I sound like a transphobic jerk.
I should have clarified that it’s forced in a way that it’s a forced retcon as she was confirmed female in those old WoW magazines. I am not transphobic but I despise needless retcons.
Edit: also all I said was it was forced, didn’t say it ruined the lore and story wisenheimer.
