But those timelines weren't the correct, true path. These people existed, they lived full lives - some horrible, some triumphant - the entire scope of their existence played out in a timeline of their very own. It was possible for Aedelas Blackmoore, now self-proclaimed ruler of Lordaeron, to leap into our own timeline to attempt to kill Thrall once and for all. It was possible for Thrall to land in a world in which Taretha Foxton was still very much alive, albeit a very different version of Taretha who at first was going to sell Thrall into slavery. It was possible, in Twilight of the Aspects, for characters to jump from one broken timeline to another. And they present a threat to that one true timeline every day. Not just on Azeroth, in the entire universe. It is a heavy task-the base of all tasks of this world, for nothing can transpire without time. Without the truth of time as it is meant to unfold, more will be lost than you can possibly imagine. Know that there is only one true timeline, though there are those who would have it otherwise. Unto you is charged the great task of keeping the purity of time. When Aman'Thul, Highfather of the Pantheon gave Nozdormu his task, he made certain to impart that information, and his words can be found in the novel Thrall: Twilight of the Aspects. ![]() They had shaped many, many worlds, each unique in its own way, but each world had a connecting thread - time. But more importantly, Azeroth was not the Titan's first project. Draenor's fate is irrevocably tied to our own. What does this have to do with Draenor? Everything. Over the course of his tenure as warden of time, Nozdormu has had to deal with a variety of mind-boggling and increasingly complex scenarios in which he himself became leader of the Infinite Dragonflight, a flight consumed with altering the paths of time in one fashion or another, for a purpose unknown to us mere mortals. Of all of the Aspects, it was Nozdormu who was given by far the most difficult task - guarding time itself, and policing the pathways of fate and destiny. In the beginning, when the dragonflights were first created, each Aspect was given dominion of one particular part of Azeroth. Please note: The following Know Your Lore contains several spoilers for Warlords of Draenor as well as the short story Hellscream. ![]() With the release of the short story Hellscream, it has finally been made clear just what is going on with Draenor - and it has nothing to do with Garrosh's trip, and everything to do with the Bronze Dragonflight. We've been using the term "alternate universe" in reference to Draenor because seems the best term to encompass the concept of this strange world. When the Warlords of Draenor beta was released, it became immediately clear to anyone that knew the history of Warcraft that this Draenor, the one on which we are going to be building garrisons, amassing armies, and defeating the Iron Horde, is not and never was the Draenor we were already familiar with. How did it appear? Why is it different? Why don't the events that occur on Draenor have any kind of bearing on what's going on with Azeroth? If Draenor is an alternate Draenor, is there an alternate Azeroth as well? Does this mean there are duplicate lore characters? Will we see two Thralls, two Velens, two versions of Garrosh? And as the year has slowly marched on, that question has been answered in bits and pieces, but never with enough clarity to really set people's minds at ease. Many of the questions that have had players mystified since Warlords of Draenor was introduced last year at BlizzCon surrounded Draenor itself. You're playing the game, you're fighting the bosses, you know the how - but do you know the why? Each week, Matthew Rossi and Anne Stickney make sure you Know Your Lore by covering the history of the story behind World of Warcraft. The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe.
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