With how the Developers pretty much sort of prepped the book for retcons to come with the ‘‘iT iS a MaTteR Of peRsPeCtIVE’’
What stops a person to counterargument a cited source of Chronicle with ‘‘but we don’t know if it’s real cuz pErSpEcTivE’’?
What should I believe now? Any better source of information on canon?
The value on all of Blizzard’s lore/story products is questionable.
I meant as a source of canon.
Personally, I listen to it until contradicted, and even then depending on the contradiction, i might still listen to chronicles.
The Entire POV BS that blizz is spewing is entirely the result of them realising that if Chronicles is Canon, they can not BS Retcon the game as much or as often. Blizzard, the one company that veiws continuity the same way we would view leprosy!
To be honest, so did I.
The Chronicles is still canon, it’s a great general overview of Azeroth’s history. The stories in it are fact and real events that did happen. But there’s large gaps throughout it that give Blizz room to expand things much further in game. And there are many things the Chronicles doesn’t even talk about in the first place. So it’s not all knowing or super detailed.
They can develop new points and elaborate more on previous info. If a retcon change happens then I guess we roll with it, but otherwise the books are still the accepted truth.
Its 100% canon, just cause the devs are covering there butts by saying its all from the titans POV doesnt mean anything, they are just giving themselves wiggle room to change stuff like how magic works or the light and shadow, all the stuff that is vague anyways in the chronicle.
The general events all probably still occurred. The general tone is obviously no longer meant to be factual since the titans likely had their biases, but it is still a telling of history.
So basically events happened. But it doesn’t necessarily cover every event, some events it covers could be framed differently in the future, and there is potentially context to events that happened the titans didn’t have.
I didn’t really interpret that line as “this might not be canon.” I more interpreted it as a way for them to keep the perspective in-universe in order to explain the absence of information over things that literally haven’t happened yet. Things like Argus’s World Soul or the Shadowlands, which weren’t included because they hadn’t been released from a meta-perspective.
So I’d say Chronicle is still valid. Until proven definitively otherwise. Which will be unfortunate if that occurs, cause I quite like those books.
If their only value came from serving as evidence in canon law, then they never had much value to begin with.
Picturing some nerds slamming down their copy of Chronicles, flipping to a specific page and putting their finger on the page as they quote it in some type of court room.
I still do that now even with the whole “Titans perspective” angle.
If you’re gonna argue what’s canon in WoW lore, you’re gonna have a bad time
As a source of canon, it represents the point of view and knowledge of the titans.
If it’s an article about something the titans were directly around for, and you can’t see any conflict of interest, I’d trust it. If it’s an article about something the happened while the titans were all locked in Sargeras’ dungeon, we now have to take it with a grain of salt because their information has to be second hand. If it’s an article about a part of the Warcraft cosmos that the Titans appear to have never had a presence in, also a grain of salt because their information is extrapolated.
But most importantly, what this really means is, they’re going to write the story however they want and if they contradict Chronicles, it means the titans got something wrong. So I’d just treat the Chronicles the same way you treat any Blizzard canon source. It’s canon, until it’s contradicted by newer canon.
I view it the same way I view history books. The general gist should be correct if not certain specifics.
It was done for the greater good, that book was very biased with many races(Humans get buffs out of nowhere)
wat
10 chars
A parody of 300 with Stromgarde humans vs Amani was cringe and bad writing ignoring literally any logic(like for example Troll Amani double the size of the humans and have 5 times more physical strenght)
Without mention the book call non alliance races with “average intelligence at best”
This! If the ‘‘human are the best’’ part can be retcon, i have no problem with it.
If it mean they can remove the bs part about human being somehow genius at magic at the very moment they start using it, that would be great.
I still cant get away with the fact that elf, who are coming from troll, a race using magic, being change by using one of the most powerfull magic source in the world are weaker with magic than human who are nothing more than a deformation of vrykul who aren’t know for magic.
Size mattering in a game where a gnome can beat a tauren