Lore Highlights from the Dragonflight Codex
wowhead.comThe Dragonflight Codex: A Definitive Guide to the Dragons of Azeroth is the latest World of Warcraft illustrated guidebook. We take a look at some of the lore highlights found within.
The Dragonflight Codex
Like most books of its kind, The Dragonflight Codex presents itself as a book that exists within the World of Warcraft universe. This time, Archmage Khadgar is credited as the book's author, with the book's real authors, Sandra Rosner and Doug Walsh, listed as transcribers. It's understood that lore within this book isn't necessarily irrefutable fact, but rather Khadgar's perspective — however, that doesn't make it completely unreliable either. Khadgar is a respected scholar in the World of Warcraft universe, one who has spent a great deal of personal time with dragons, and can be safely considered an expert on the subject.
As the name suggests, the book is about the Dragons — and not just the Titan-empowered Dragonflights. Khadgar summarizes the events of several important stories involving dragons, from Dawn of the Aspects to Day and Night of the Dragon to War of the Scaleborn, and it's a great way to update yourself if you're not familiar with these stories.
Primal Dragons, Not Proto-Dragons
First of all, the book uses the term «primal dragon» rather than «proto-dragon» to describe those dragons who have not been changed by the Titans' influence. It also reaffirms that dragons are descended from elementals that managed to escape the Elemental Plane.
The book does not reveal anything about the ritual in which the Primalist Incarnates gained their distinct power. However, it does take some time to discuss Elemental dragons — dragons who found their way back into the Elemental Planes, which changed their physiology. As examples, he points to the Stone dragons of Deepholm or the Storm dragons of Skywall, and even suggests the phoenixes of the Firelands followed a similar process to become what they are. Meanwhile, the Storm dragons of Stormheim — the
