Like a separate ui just for lore and characters l. I was playing FF 14 6.1 content and they added unending codex for its lore and characters which enhances the world and characters. Wow could use the same thing to keep books and manuscripts that are not wasted in your bag and takes up space.
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It’s almost like they actually had a lore encyclopedia you could buy but then later made it irrelevant, but yes an in game codex it’s onlya good thing.
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WoW could absolutely benefit from a system like this.
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In keeping lore easy to access FF wins the fight
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The Old Republic has something similar. Codex of all the NPCs/areas and battles fought etc. It’s pretty cool to be able to look it up and reference it during RP
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thats one of my biggest gripes with WoW is how inaccesible the lore is. There’s so much that’s been retconned and changed, it feels like gaslighting sometimes. What you remember is no longer canon.
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There definitely is a level of gaslighting, when you retcon the “definitive lore books” as from a certain perspective, it’s no longer definitive. Plus 30$ a book? No thank you
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Wait that’s how much it was? And here I was being generous apparently, that’sa whole game right there.
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That’s a game and all the DLCs if you count every Lore Book blizz has released and than retconned a month later
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Holy moly that’s ridiculous, yeah that’s definitely gaslighting.
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There is so much media about the lore. Books, short stories, comics, videos, cinematics, quest text, flavor text, etc. There are already sites dedicated to WoW lore
Ppl never take the time to view, read or use these resources. Will those ppl really take the time to reference an in-game encyclopedia to learn the lore (and the retcons)?
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Truthfully? No. People don’t even read half the lore that is in game as it is. Let alone the books and stuff
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Exactly, why waste the resources creating one? 
It would be nice for us roleplayers to have as a source on certain events we’re unsure about. But your average player is definitely not going to make use of it.
While I agree it would be cool, it would be so underutilized that it would be pointless to even have
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You’re right. It would be nice to have an in-game reference. I think it would be underutilized though.
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Honestly? Wowpedia more or less serves this function for the Game, much more thoroughly than I think Blizzard could do themselves and at a price point that makes the ABK bean counters give it a thumb up.
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Wow has had SEVERAL of them, but ultimately contradicted and disowned them all.
But in the end, it doesn’t really matter. They are stories… not histories, and even histories are seldom in agreement. The histories told of the Civil War, for instance, and it’s aftermath vary greatly depending on the bias of the speaker.
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Don’t forget the “unreliable narrator” bits that basically did nothing but cause faction hardliners to loudly proclaim that the side that puts their faction in the best light is obviously the canonical version.
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You have to take everything as a two sided story with faction bias coloring every ounce of the story. Media literacy is needed or else you’d end up being someone who misses the nuance of the story.
Two things can be simultaneously true, that’s how I view the lore. The Alliance and the Horde can simultaneously be the heroes and the villians of the story. That same idea can be applied to character, faction or situation in the lore.
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I feel like an ingame codex would be good. My only fear is both whether it’s written in character or out of character.
If it’s out of character/out of universe and presented as omniscience imagine the outrage if they make decisions about currently argued topics. Like the thread that’s so popular now, again- the Purge. Or the burning of Stratholme. Or anything else. Depending on how they word it could just make it worse.
If it’s written in universe it will be another Chronicles situation where it seems to change every month about how true anything in it is.