Tides of Lore

Lore segment begins at (22:07) Cormack still wears the Scarlet Crusade’s colors. He can still call upon the Light. He has also become one of the undead his order exists to destroy. This week, we’re following his story through Blizzard’s Unbowed and exploring the place awaiting paladins like him in World of Warcraft Forever. We’ve followed Lordaeron’s fall and the fight for Undercity. Now we’re spe...

Lore segment begins at (16:45) Captain Landen wants to retire. His lieutenant wants the glory of battle. Arthas’s homecoming leaves them with civilians to rescue and a kingdom collapsing around them. We follow Garek Bandarion through the Last Days of Lordaeron and the Forsaken Kingdom campaign. We trace the choices that carry a Lordaeron guardsman into undeath, then into the service of Sylvanas Wi...

Lore segment begins at (10:04) A prince promises survival at a terrible cost. Rebels escape his city, bargain for sanctuary, and build a new life above the world. Thousands of years later, their descendants must decide how to save the home that bargain gave them. We begin Tides of Lore: Forever by connecting the Skyborne’s origins to the Shen’dralar of Eldre’Thalas, the ancient city now known as D...

The trees of Elwynn fall behind you, and Westfall opens beneath a wide sky. A family needs its wedding watch returned. A horse needs feeding. Farmers are trying to hold their ground against thieves and wandering harvest watchers. In Tides of Lore Classic Episode 2, we follow Westfall’s original questing story through Sentinel Hill, the occupied farms, and the winding coast. Captain Grayson’s light...

Lore segment begins at (18:46) Rain falls over Zhu’s Watch, but its people have lost the will to care. Farther south, Anduin Wrynn finds the Red Crane’s refuge overwhelmed by fear and despair. Across the mogu ruins, two expeditions search for the same water: a father hoping to preserve a future with his daughter, and a husband trying to save his family. This week, Tides of Lore follows the Krasara...

Lore segment begins at (12:38)Chen Stormstout reaches the homeland behind his family name, only to be rejected by the Stormstout guarding its brewery. This week, Tides of Lore follows the complete Valley of the Four Winds storyline through the Thunderfoot farms, Halfhill, Sunsong Ranch, the Tillers, the search for the Hidden Master, Nesingwary’s Safari and the infestation consuming Stormstout Brew...

Lore segment begins at (18:07) Pandaria survived ten thousand years behind the mists. The Alliance and Horde needed only days to teach its people their war The Alliance enters the Jade Forest searching for Prince Anduin. The Horde arrives to secure a foothold for Garrosh Hellscream. Both insist their mission is necessary. Both recruit local allies. Both receive the same warning from Taran Zhu, Pan...

Lore segment begins at (16:40) Beneath Orgrimmar, dark shaman enslave creatures from the Firelands while Horde commanders and SI:7 agents interpret the same threat through opposing fears. In Lordaeron, a mysterious Hooded Crusader dismantles the Scarlet order from within. Her identity is Lilian Voss, the undead daughter rejected by the father who trained her to hate the very thing she became. Her...

Lore segment begins at (20:50) The Pearl of Pandaria has shown Li Li Stormstout something her people stopped believing: Pandaria still exists. Staying safely aboard Shen-zin Su would mean ignoring the lost homeland waiting beyond the mists, so Li Li leaves the Wandering Isle again. This time, Chen Stormstout follows her not to drag her home, but to make sure she does not face the journey alone. In...

Lore segment begins at (20:30) Years before Pandaria returned to the world, Li Li Stormstout ran away from the Wandering Isle to find the uncle who taught her that life should be an adventure. Chen Stormstout had stopped writing, and no warning from her father or teacher could convince Li Li to wait for someone else to discover why. In Tides of Lore Episode 88, we retell World of Warcraft: Pearl o...

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Lore segment begins at (21:30) Join the Azeroth Listening Expedition! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScoU83WrsyvgPdkwBxN4XzGvNkL2cOdi4LT568uWynGwb-0Ug/viewformTheramore is gone, and Jaina Proudmoore has survived it. But the woman who walks into the ruins is colder, angrier, and ready to make an entire city answer for Garrosh Hellscream's crime. Today, we conclude Christie Golden'...

Lore segment begins at (17:55)Garrosh gave Theramore days to prepare for the Horde’s attack. Warned by Baine Bloodhoof, Jaina Proudmoore calls upon Stormwind, the Seventh Fleet, the Kirin Tor and Kalecgos to defend her city. Every ship, soldier, general and mage makes Theramore more difficult to conquer. And still, Garrosh waits... But that's when the Horde’s assault and the true purpose behin...

Lore segment begins at (17:45) Deathwing is dead... But peace lasts only long enough for Garrosh Hellscream to see an opportunity. With Thrall away from Orgrimmar and Cairne buried, the new Warchief gathers the Horde’s leaders and reveals his ambition: all of Kalimdor. Baine Bloodhoof and Vol’jin recognize where that road leads, but opposing Garrosh has become increasingly dangerous. Meanwhile, Ka...

Lore segment begins at (20:10)Every path through the timeways now leads to the same dead future. One of Nozdormu’s own dragons returns with his unwritten future bleeding from his body, proving that the Infinite Dragonflight, and Nozdormu’s future self are forcing history toward the end of all things. While the Dragon Aspects search for a weapon capable of destroying Deathwing, Ysera helps Thrall e...

Lore segment begins at (18:15) Thrall’s journey through the broken timeways is over, but the Hour of Twilight is still coming... In this episode of Tides of Lore, we continue Thrall: Twilight of the Aspects as the dragonflights face their deepest fractures yet. Nozdormu confesses his role in sending Blackmoore after Thrall. The blue dragonflight gathers at the Nexus to choose a new Aspect of Magic...

Lore segment begins at (20:16) Deathwing’s return has left the dragonflights divided, grieving, and vulnerable. At the Maelstrom, Thrall is no longer Warchief. He is one shaman among many, trying to calm forces that refuse to answer him. But when the ritual fails, Aggra forces him to confront a wound he has avoided for too long: the name Go’el, the death of Cairne, and the question of who Thrall i...

Lore segment begins at (12:03) In Episode 81 of Tides of Lore, we return to the Zandalari, the ancient keepers of troll memory, as their wounded homeland and the prophecy of Zul push them toward a dangerous new future. Once, the Zandalari helped outsiders fight Hakkar in Zul’Gurub. Now, after Deathwing’s return, they begin calling the old troll kingdoms back together. The Gurubashi dream of Zul’Gu...

Lore segment begins at (20:50)In the aftermath of the Battle for Mount Hyjal, Azeroth still burns. Thrall, now the World-Shaman, joins the Earthen Ring, the Cenarion Circle, and the Dragon Aspects beneath Nordrassil in an attempt to heal the damage left by Deathwing’s Cataclysm. But the ritual is shattered when Fandral Staghelm returns as a Druid of the Flame, tearing Thrall’s spirit across the el...

Lore segment begins at (21:15) Mount Hyjal has survived Deathwing, Ragnaros, and the Twilight’s Hammer, but now the mountain finally begins to fight back In this episode of Tides of Lore, we continue the Cataclysm story of Mount Hyjal as Tortolla rises for vengeance, the false Ancient Nemesis, the hero infiltrates Twilight’s Hammer under the ridiculous identity of “damus.” But the true goal is res...

Lore segment begins at (20:00) Episode 78 of Tides of Lore begins the Cataclysm story of Mount Hyjal, where one of Warcraft’s most sacred places is once again on the edge of destruction. Hyjal already survived the end of the world once. It was the site of Archimonde’s defeat, the home of Nordrassil, and a symbol of Azeroth’s survival. But after Deathwing’s return, the mountain is under siege again...

Lore segment begins at (21:50) After the Maw of Madness is silenced, the campaign moves to the Vermillion Redoubt, where the red dragonflight is locked in a desperate war near Grim Batol. The Twilight’s Hammer is stealing eggs, corrupting dragons, and feeding Deathwing’s war machine. Then Alexstrasza arrives. The Life-Binder comes to face Deathwing, the monster who was once Neltharion, and declare...

Lore segment begins at (19:27) Dive into the Maw of Madness. The episode begins with Gurgthock’s return in the Crucible of Carnage, where the apocalypse somehow becomes a business opportunity. But the real horror waits west of the arena, where the Twilight’s Hammer has dragged Iso’rath, an Old God-bred abomination, up from beneath the earth. The Earthen Ring moves against the Maw of Madness, but t...

Lore segment begins at (21:50) The Twilight Highlands should be where Horde and Alliance turn their attention toward Cho’gall, the Bastion of Twilight, and the growing power of the Twilight’s Hammer. Naturally, they spend the opening campaign trying to blow each other off the shoreline. In Episode 75 of Tides of Lore, War on the Twilight Shores, we follow the first major push into the Twilight Hig...

Lore segment begins at (17:10)The Earthen Ring has recovered a piece of the World Pillar, but Deepholm is not saved yet. The final fragment rests with Therazane the Stonemother, and that creates a much uglier problem than another battlefield. Therazane does not trust the Earthen Ring. She does not trust mortals. And after everything Deathwing, the Twilight’s Hammer, and generations of “fleshlings”...