Hi Nobbel. As someone who can no longer play WOW due to time constraints I want to thank you for constantly making such amazing videos about the lore. The WOW lore is super fascinating and your videos cover it very clearly. Keep up the amazing work.

holy fuck that backstory to dreanor is more awesome than i thought it actually was. massive behemoths are the zones

Makes me kind of happy that Aggramar indirectly led to Brox being the first known mortal to stand up to Sargeras.

people can say whatever they want about WoD, but my god...the zones still looks amazing :D

what kind of crazy evolution is that!? That's five freaking evolutionary steps all existing at the same time!

I love this combining of original Draenor and AU. I mean if WoD did something right is that they managed to established some of the mythology around Draenor that the original story never established. The best we ever know was about the Orc culture and that our greatest extend of draenor lore.

Well then, eagerly awaiting that arakkoa video some day! They're by far my favorite race and their history is super fleshed out. But I had gone into Chronicle knowing I would love the arakkoa, because I always had. What surprised me about the book was how much it made me like the ogres too. Before WoD I hadn't cared for them, didn't hate or like them just didn't care, and during WoD I didn't like the empire and preferred them being slaves to gronn like BC. But Chronicle definitely turned my opinion on the empire around. Ogres are cool! I also really liked the origin of Draenor. Rocks vs plants is honestly a pretty unique origin story, at least as far as I know. And I'm super glad there wasn't any Old Gods involved because frankly I've gotten really tired of them lately.

Wow WoD had sooo much potential... It's really sad... If they had put as much effort into WoD as they had Legion, it would have been an awesome expansion!

Nobbel, I wish with all my heart that I could get audio books of you reading the WoW novels. I love listening to you tell me stories.

The orcs kinda have similarities with the human race, which degenerates from the vrykul (originally of the Titanforge) and become one of the dominant races on the very world they reside. While the arakkoa have some similarities with the elven races which evolves directly from primitive beings and later become the most intelligent race on the planet.

I was doing the Dalaran coin fishing achievements, and some of the coins' wishes seem normal but are really cool, really funny, or just really sad when you look into the lore (I was not expecting the Arugal one, lol. The wish seemed so innocent...) Maybe you could make a video explaining the lore behind some of the wishes on the coins from the Dalaran fountain! (I'm talking about the Northrend one, btw, I know the Broken Isles one has a coin achievement too but my main isn't high enough to go to Broken Isles yet so I don't know if they have wishes with all that lore background too although they probably do.) I think it would be really cool, I've had a lot of fun exploring the background behind these wishes. (If you've done this already, sorry, I haven't watched all your videos yet... but if not I think it could be fun. Of course you don't have to, it's just a suggestion...)

My god man, the details you cover are astounding. Overcrowding, the red pox, even how some of the orcs retained the darker skin as opposed to the traditional green. You're a fuckin legend when it comes to Azeroths lore man. Keep up the awesome work.

Thanks for making theses videos, I'm learning what happened in the past and how it all came to be

Wow I didn't realize that the Wowhead link led to an article that actually has a transcript of the videos with references and relevant links. I never did any of the arakkoa stuff and wanted to read more, because they sounded interesting despite not being mentioned much. I clicked the link and could find the stuff you were talking about without having to search for it. That is actually ridiculously useful. I thought the Wowhead thing was just a sponsorship that was kind of irrelevant to the viewers and the link just went to the site's homepage, but this is way cooler.

I would love to have nobble narrate an audiobook of a warcraft book

I imagine had it been a 1000 years ago Nobbel would have been the bard sitting around the camp fire at night keeping adult and child alike mesmerized with storys of old :)

enjoyed every bit of sec. great video mate :D

Wow, I was just checking to see if you'd put a video up yet about Chronicle II, and it was 4 minutes ago. Lucky me =)

Can't watch all of your videos but I truly looooooooooove what you do!!!!!! Keep it up

Really enjoyed volume 2, look forward to its next iteration. I really hope though, that the next WoW expansion involves us finally exploring the other half of Azeroth. I'd imagine Old Gods/Naga will have a large role next expansion, but who knows? Either way I'm excited for whats current and whats next. Thanks for the video Nobbel, great as always!

This is my favorite Nobbel video.

amazing video nobbel :P

my man nobbel coming up in the world. blizz sponsored stream wowhead colabz gzz mate you earned it

I never knew their was planet without a titan soul, interesting. I'm glad to know more about dreanor cause half of this stuff i never heard of and it origin with the later evolution of certain creatures is incredible to learn about. Weird curious question but do you think our earth could have its own world soul and if so which one would it be?

this is so fucking interesting. thank god you made this, Nobbel

I just started playing again, havent played since Mists of Pandaia! Ive always loved WarCraft, Im 35 and have WarCraft in my life since I was a wee lad.WarCraft and Fallout are the 2 greatest games ever made for playability and story. Cant wait to see more from both, a World of Fallout and World of Diablo would be awesome too lol.

the bird drama around 11:44 lolololol

Nobbel87! You the man!

This needs to be the theme of a hearthstone expatiation soon. So many new creatures that could be translated into cards and play styles.

DID YOU SAY APEXIs!!!?!!?!?!?

Gonna be honest, all this new knowledge has lead me to want a Dreanor themed Hearthstone expansion even more.

What about the mysterious Apexis civilization we hear about in WoD?

13:00 "But because I didn't want to trigger anybody, we won't talk about [Apexis Crystals]" Kek.

With your videos, I've managed to get into the lore more seriously since about a year ago, so first off thank you very much for that I love your videos. But I feel I might still be a little confused about the way power works in this game. Like where do, for example, mages or necromancers draw their power from? I get where priests do for the most part, and warlocks and shamans, but the others elude me.

There are two things I'm curious about. 1: I thought that the leylines in Azeroth were basically the titan's blood, and the reason that Azerothians can perform magic is because of the titan soul inside. So, if that's true, how are there leylines and magic on Draenor? Or is that just wrong? 2: In Outlands, in Shadowmoon Valley, there can be found a tentacle of an Old God in a felpool. Why is that there if Draenor has no Old Gods?

Some sort of video focusing on differences between ordering of Draenor and Azeroth could be nice!

So Orcs in a nutshell with out any other points were created via spores...that sounds quite familiar....hmmm....orcs forming from shrooms.....

some day you will be in Hollywood, actually you should be there right now. Fantastic work and speech.

So i'm reading Chronicles, and decided i wanted a proper voice over while looking at it. I love how u used lines from the text, while also paraphrasing

That is really cool. I like how there is an elemental rocky side and a lively plant side. It reminds me of shamans and druids respectively. Since orcs come from the rocky side, it does make sense for them to tap into the elements and becomes shamans. I figured that out before the video got to the part of ogres becoming shamans. The dranei can be shamans too. This probably because they stayed in Dranor for a while and they tapped the elemental source too. That is amazing that the plant side can actually have communication networks among individual plants. There is a collective mind. That reminds me of Avatar. Avatar is a lot like WoW actually. When I first saw promotional pictures for Avatar, I thought "Wow. Those aliens look just like draenei." When I watch the movie, I learned they are called na'vi. They also bear a strong resmblence to Native Americans especially with the Pocahontas story. The Native American coding is like the tauren. I can even imagine the Na'vi haing all four of the origional tauren classes. They have a powerful bond with nature, with is like druid and shaman. They hunt animal prey and bond with animal companions, like hunter. They have warriors willing to fight enemies, like warrior. I even wonder if James Cameron played WoW and got inspired by it. The pretty glowy jungle in Avatar is a little like Azremist Isle or Terrokar Forest. Maybe there is a mix of Teledrassil in there somewhere. One part in Avatar that is compelling is the network of trees creating a goddes called Eywa. I just learned that WoW has something like that in the Dranor lore. May Eywa was based on that as well as the night elf goddess Elune. Maybe the home tree that Na'vi lived on was based on Teledrassil. I wonder. The most devastating part of Avatar is when the humans destroy home tree. Sylvanas does the same thing to Teledrassil, and it was also a shock. To be fair Avatar beat WoW to the tree burning. So it can't borrow from WoW on that. The lore of Dranor gives me a great idea. Druid is an awesome class but it isn't widely available. First only the night elves and tauren have it. Then the worgan and the trolls have it. With the lore, I came up with two more races. The orcs and draenei have long been able to tap into the rock and elements of Dranor to become shamans. Then in a new time, some of them tapped into the plants of Draenor instead. They got a host of powers over life. They gain plant powers to heal. Then they can shapshift to alien creatures and gain powers to tank and do melee damage. They even tapped into the stars and outer space of Dranor. Dranor was an alien planet after all. Tapping into this gained arcane powers to do spell damage. These new orcs and dranei became druids as a result of the plant power. In the game mechanics, the druid class becomes availiable to orc and dranei races. Both races get help with their nearby allies, which are also druids. These allies teach the druid ways. The dranei get help from the night elves and worgen. The druid class supports the dranei efforts to take care of the environment and help it recover from the Exodar crash. The orcs get help from the tauren and trolls. These are the three Horde races bonded in being the only shamans of vanilla, and then they are further bonded by being the only Horde druids. Interestingly, these are all the Kalmidor races except for goblins. Goblins exploit and ruin nature. So they could not gain the right natural connections to be a druid. Goblins can be shamans though, and that makes no sense to me. In the new druids, the forms can be alien animals. It is like the alien life in avatar. That would be cool. Dranei forms tend to be sleeker with blue and purple colors. Orc forms tend to be bulkier with green and brown colors. An alien cat could be the rogue form. An alien rhino or bear can be the warrior form. An alien horse can be the running travel form. An alien dragon or "banshee" can be the flying travel form. The alien tree can be the special priest form. The orcs can be a tree like those in Gorgrond or Tanaan Jungle. The dranei can be a tree like those in Azurmist Isle or Terokkar Forest. An arokora or anthro bird can be the special mage form. This is for two reasons. One is that the arokoa look a lot like moonkin, which is the special mage form for the other druid races. The other is that the arokoa did have arcane magic like mages and mage-like druids. I am looking forward to the Avatar sequals. I do hear there is going to be some underwater stuff. So if there are aquatic aliens, that would be great for the swimming travel form.

I'd love to see the ordering of argus someday...

Yeah boii I was just about to go to sleep but NOPE! Gotta watch it!

make a video about the apexis, rise of the horde, first and second wars as vol.2 describes them please. complete with the war maps and illustrations :D

HAH! I see what you did there with Kargath and Yrel pictures Nobbel :D :D

I haven't played WOW since WoTLK but this is still one of the best games ever all due to the lore. Thank you for the vids, even though I have the book I love 'story time' with Nobbel 😀 Keep up the vids and can't wait for the next instalment.

And all of this could be so cool to uncover in WOD...

20:20 well well well nicelooking quiver and a nicelooking model for the arrows aswell. oh the latest ingame movies in WoW with nathanos killing an undead npc looks even badder now.

Chronicle Vol.3 will be about Argus I can bet on it

very cool

20:16 where is this cinematic from?

Are you going to tell more about the arakkoa later? I believe there was more about them in the book.

I haven't purchased the book yet since its Made to Order here in my country. I love to hear that the Orcs are the devlolved race of the Gron created by the Titan's Champion of the Pantheon known as Agrammar. In short the Orcs are the Human versions of Draenor

This video makes me appreciate Draenor more, despite the expansion being a failure. So much lore potential, but a huge lack of content. Even the garrisons weren't that bad as a concept. I liked the idea of running my own Warcraft 3 style base with an army of followers. The problem with the garrison was that there was little else to do besides that.

Nobbel how did you feel about Gul'dan's back story being fused from old lore and harbinger lore?

I recently bought the Chronicles vol 2, and as with the Orc clans, I did not see anything (at least on the map) about the Shattered Hand clan. My personal favorite. Can you clear that one up, Nobbel?

Can we get an RTS with the primals vs the breakers? :O

I hope that in the end of ToS Velen and KJ have a heart to heart bro moment

so if alternate dreanor fine now why don't we just go chill there since the legion doesn't want it anymore? lovr your vids man!

a goblin lore would be amazing

"We are, Cho'gall!"

Yo Nobbel what do you think of the chance that Vol'Jin is off trying to rescue Varian from the Legion ?

As a fan I love the backstory that Volume 1 gave me but I'm not so sure about buying Volume 2. Is the new book mostly about Draenor or is it 50/50 with regards to Azeroth and Draenor?

interesting story. :)

What's the story of Marius felbane and tend shoemaker

Wait, so did the draenei land on Draenor a few years before the Horde's formation or thousands of years before as was implied by one of Velen's quotes in Rise of the Horde?

nobbel do i need to read Vol. 1 before i read the 2nd one i have been playing the game for 5 years so i know afew stuff plz help :)

Pls do the Arakoa !!!!

Aggrammar is a really nice dude

First few minutes made it sound like Zerus

He said there was a volume 1. Can someone please link it because I can not locate it. Thank you.

The story of the apexis and the anivian races of draenor, are they in the chronicle or are they stories pulled from WoD itself?

Saberon didn’t get any spotlight in Chronicle. If you could make a video about them, even if it’s short, would be appreciated.

What exactly did he mean when he said he didn't wanna trigger people? What in Warcraft lore could possibly be triggering?

The 'Lion King' version of Lorecraft. 'The ciiiirrrcle of liiiiife!..." Hakuna Mattata

what was that cinematic where thrall just watches orgrimmar burn?

Actually draenei did infact have a titan soul but the sporemound devoured the element of spirit, thus denying the titan soul the ability to evolve thus causing it to simply die off

With the picture of the clans, the stormreavers do not show up, have they been retconned?

Khadgar could not look more "I really ain't with this" if he tried.

If all other Titans of the Pantheon can travel between worlds freely (like when Aggramar just happened to visit Draenor, or when the Pantheon came to Azeroth), then why does Sargeras require portals to get to places?

Is there any statement of ogre continent?

Poor Anzu...

It would have made a bit more sense if Gronds body became Gorgrond (due to the land and the giants name). But we have already heard (from Warlords of Draenor) that Gorgrond was a giant colossus and not Grond! So I guess that it's okay that Gronds body became Nagrand instead!

So what about Garona's origin now? Does it just mean that Maraad's sister had been a slave for several years, long enough for Garona to be rather grown up by the time when the Bladewinds got wrecked?

Hi Nobbel.

Nobbel, what happend at The temple of Karabor in this time line? How did it become The black temple? I guess Velen didn't die defending it;)

Yay lore

Can anyone tell me if this retcons the "Rise of the Horde" novel

Interesting that the orc-draenai children all look like full orcs. Garona and Lantresor for example.

there is so much new stuffto take in @.@ i am curious how they changed Garonnas origin, and all the other detaisl they changed.. and sad that there was a change at all tbh

you don't want to trigger anyone? INSTAND TRIGGER! xD

i was thinking silmarillion was very very big story until i saw these videos

I have a question, what sentient beings; if any; evolved in Azeroth before the old gods and the Titans came to it.

oh yeah i love draenor

oh yeah

NOBBEL I NEED TO SLEEP! WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME?

for those who play paladin l, can give a insight on a Lothraxion please

poor sporemound jeez

Hello, I'd like one Draenor with extra Orcs, with a side of Draenei, and 2 Number 5's with extra Demons

Alright so I'm super new to the lore of WOW I decently like wow because of the population and a huge lover of mmorpgs.. so keep leaving and coming back.. and sorry if I'm a noob...but is draenor and azeroth separate worlds... or just continents??

Ohh. Botan as in botany