Stories
The lore of Azeroth’s races and classes, told with maps and drawings that move as you scroll.
Races and classesTimelineEvery story’s events on one ruler.Open the timeline →Classes
Ancient Mysteries and Schools of Magic · ClassMageBending time, calling down fiery cataclysms, and freezing foes in absolute zero, mages represent the most dangerous and scholarly minds of Azeroth.Read the story →
Call of the Wild & Loyalty · ClassHunterReading tracks, laying cunning traps, and communing with untamed beasts, hunters bring the untamed spirit of the wilderness directly to the battlefield.Read the story →
Holy Light & Tempered Steel · ClassPaladinClad in consecrated plate, wielding heavy warhammers of divine justice, and blessing allies, paladins stand as unyielding bastions against the encroaching darkness.Read the story →
Steel, Will & Pure Rage · ClassWarriorRelying neither on magic nor divine benediction, pushing physical sinew and cold steel to the absolute limit, warriors form the unbreakable frontline of every army.Read the story →
Shadows, Venoms & Silent Footsteps · ClassRogueThriving where honor is an unaffordable liability, striking from the dark and vanishing without a trace, rogues represent the deadliest blades of Azeroth.Read the story →
Light, Shadow & Spiritual Equilibrium · ClassPriestPerforming miracles of divine restoration and fracturing hostile minds with cosmic Void whispers, priests serve as the living conduits of universal equilibrium.Read the story →
Elements, Spirits & Totemic Harmony · ClassShamanRumbling the earth, calling down howling lightning, and unleashing the fury of elemental fire, shamans commune with the living spirits of Azeroth and ancient Draenor.Read the story →
Fel Fire, Demons & Soul Shards · ClassWarlockPursuing forbidden knowledge, bending demons to an iron will, and siphoning the vital souls of the dying, warlocks tread the razor’s edge between absolute power and damnation.Read the story →
Nature, The Emerald Dream & Primal Forms · ClassDruidCalling down the wrath of sun and stars, assuming the ferocious mantle of apex predators, and nurturing the wounded earth, druids stand as the living guardians of Azeroth.Read the story →
Alliance
Story 03 · AllianceHumanThe hidden children of giants. Their kingdoms fell twice and rose twice; they are the people who hold the Alliance together.Read the story →
Story 02 · AllianceDwarfDescendants of the earthen, shaped from stone by the Titans. They work iron in the heart of the mountain and dig for the past they lost.Read the story →
Story 01 · AllianceGnomeThey were born as machines of the Titans and woke as a people of flesh. Short in stature, yet their inventions have kept the Alliance’s armies standing for years.Read the story →
Story 04 · AllianceNight ElfAn ancient people who woke in the light of the moon. Their magic set the world on fire once; then they guarded it for ten thousand years and gave up their immortality for Azeroth.Read the story →
Story 09 · Alliance · HordeSkyborneDescendants of the rebels who fled Eldre’Thalas. A pact with the wind spirits lifted an island into the sky; when the spirits vanished the island began to fall apart, and the Skyborne came down to Azeroth.Read the story →
Horde
Story 05 · HordeOrcA warrior people from another world. Bound by a demon’s blood they set Azeroth on fire, were forgotten in the camps, then broke their chains under a slave’s lead.Read the story →
Story 06 · HordeTrollAn ancient people bound to the spirits of the loa. Their empires fell and their tribes scattered; the Darkspear reached from exile to the Horde.Read the story →
Story 07 · HordeUndeadOnce they were citizens of Lordaeron. They died of the plague, woke as soldiers in the army that tore their own kingdom down, then broke free when their chains cracked and built a kingdom of their own beneath the ruins.Read the story →
Story 08 · HordeTaurenThe oldest wanderers of the Kalimdor plains. For thousands of years they lived in the steps of the kodo herds and the wind; when centaur raids brought them to the brink of ruin, they stood with a new ally from the storm and raised their capital atop the high mesas of Mulgore.Read the story →- Story 09 · Alliance · HordeSkyborneDescendants of the rebels who fled Eldre’Thalas. A pact with the wind spirits lifted an island into the sky; when the spirits vanished the island began to fall apart, and the Skyborne came down to Azeroth.Read the story →