Lore
Story and setting notes for Forever.
10 entries
| Barrow Deeps | A 10-player max-level raid. Inven: 'a notorious Demon Hunter is locked away here.' The Deep Dive summary calls it a night elf prison. | Official |
| Content tiers philosophy | Evan, a Lead Content Designer on the Classic team whose surname was not given in the source, sorted planned content into Anticipated (e.g. Mount Hyjal), New but familiar, and Unexpected (used sparingly). | Official |
| Major antagonists | Blizzard has not named major villains. Blizzard Watch: 'we did not hear much at BlizzCon regarding just who we would be fighting.' Boss names such as The Wild King (Hyjal Summit) and Sonya Darkhallow (Barrow Deeps) come … | Unverified |
| Mount Hyjal / Hyjal Summit | Players help restore Hyjal, explore the aftermath of Archimonde's defeat and travel through Darkwhisper Gorge (official). Inven: 'Dissatisfied with Malfurion Stormrage giving up the Night Elves' immortality to defeat Arc… | Official |
| Separate continuity ('time bubble') | Senior Game Designer Josh Greenfield said at the Found Photographs panel that Forever 'does not exist in the same continuity as modern World of Warcraft'. Chris Metzen's phrase for it is 'our little time bubble'. The tea… | Official |
| Shen'dralas, Riverglades and the Ruins of Lordaeron | Shen'dralas is 'a long-hidden mystery between Mulgore and Desolace...tied to the Shen'dralar, Eldre'Thalas, Dire Maul'. Riverglades is a mid-30s to mid-40s frontier with 150+ quests where, per Inven, Orcs, Humans, Ogres … | Official |
| Skyborne race and Zephras Isle | A new elven race whose levels 1-12 take place on Zephras Isle; they pick a faction at creation. Inven describes them as 'an ancient Highborne Night Elf subrace that exiled themselves to Skywall, the domain of Al'Akir the… | Official |
| Stays on Azeroth | No Outland or Draenor storylines are planned (Inven). Clay Stone says expansion is horizontal and stays on Azeroth for the foreseeable future (Wowhead). The Dark Portal is not addressed explicitly. | Official |
| Timeline placement | Forever takes place right after the Warcraft III Reforged: Forsaken Kingdom campaign and before Molten Core, in a 'reimagined original Azeroth'. Warcraft Wiki puts it in 25 ADP, the first year of World of Warcraft. | Official |
| Warcraft III Reforged: Forsaken Kingdom tie-in | A new Warcraft III campaign tells 'the untold story of the Forsaken as Lordaeron's fallen wrest free of the Scourge and fight for a future beneath the shattered surface of their former kingdom,' with Sylvanas, and 'leads… | Official |