![]() The second volume of the World of Warcraft chronicles is again full of lore information that can answer many questions the players might have about various characters, locations or events they meet in the game. It is a hard sell, but worth it in the long term. I choose to believe that society as a whole is capable of progressing as long as compassion and knowledge are valued above immediate self interest. It is easy to be cynical and say the entropic plot of WOW is realistic. I do not need a fantasy game to remind me that we live in a world where the forces of greed, ignorance, and cruelty are growing stronger every day. Is it just a series of small victories against a backdrop of inevitable failure? ![]() It makes me wonder what the game designers ultimate endgame plan for WOW is. ![]() We see this with individuals, races, factions, nations, even entire planets. In chapter after chapter, every noble and beautiful thing eventually gets corrupted, everything gets ruined. This last detail reflects a disturbing pattern in World of Warcraft. They are forced to invade Azeroth after utterly ruining their native world. They revere nature and violence, although not in that order. The orcs are divided into dozens of clans with names like the Rotten Teeth and the Mad Dogs. Like anything to do with Draenor, the most interesting parts are about the arakkoa and the least interesting are the orcs, so of course the book is mostly about the orcs. 2 starts with the origins of life on Draenor and continues through the Second War and the Alliance Expedition. It just all seems to be too convenient for the one-note villains developed in the story and is completely unsatisfactory for me as I am not interested in reading that coupled with endless copy and paste descriptions that write something of in the variety of 'the two masses of the horde and alliance clashed on the battlefield.'Ĭhronicle Vol. Ysera, as the green dragon aspect, is meant to protect life through the emerald dream, yet she failed to do so or to become involved in this loss of life. Azeroth's Black Morass region, known after the creation of the portal as Blasted Lands, had a massive loss of life due to the magic energies seeping through and destroying the earth. However, although this is used to explain why they weren't involved as a group, it doesn't explain why they weren't involved separately. It is explained very briefly that the red dragonflight was recovering from the previous experience of being targeted by Deathwing, the blue dragonflight was almost extinct, the bronze dragonflight was protecting time and the green dragonflight was protecting the emerald dream. This is done arbitrarily and it always seems to have the upper hand to the rest of the 4 dragonflights who play almost no part in the story at all. Where I take issue with Deathwing's role, however, is that he seems to arbitrarily posses powers that are extremely convenient for his evil plans. On the other hand, Deathwing, whom I believe to be one of the most one-note villains you could read about, took a much more important role. Sargeras, although successfully planting his seed of corruption into the orcs of Draenor, for some reason became completely uninvolved in the latter part of the destruction of Draenor as a whole, although arguably the orc race was his ultimate plan at invading and corrupting Azeroth once and for all. I grew very frustrated as, in comparison to the first book, the motives and the presence of certain characters was heavily confusing. This part of the narrative, in my opinion, fell flat. Here are some examples I found on google: I expected more actually( Like dude where is Ogrim Doomhammer) The illustration is topnotch for a warcraft book and the only thing I get disappoint with this is the limitation of the art. The book is mostly about the Horde which I like but their are even more stuff here which not worth spoiling to everyone because if you read alot of warcraft novels and fan made wiki's you actually get this stuff already but the book gives you a proper explanation throughout the beginning to the end. We also get introduce to the events of the first Horde Invasion of Azeroth(Warcraft I) and second where the battle gets to the eastern seas until to the battle beyond the dark portal(Warcraft II). To the evolution of Arrakoa, Ogre's and Orcs, until to the settlement of Draenei from the planet after their fall and the rise of the horde. ![]() We get introduce to the Evegrowth and to the giants. 2 starts in the origin of Draenor, from its creation until its desolation.
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