The Clarifications and Changes in Chronicle Volume 4 (Spoilers)
Blizzard has released the fourth installment in the World of Warcraft Chronicle series, and here we go over the new information and changes to the story added in this book.
In this newest volume, we pick up where the last book left off at the end of Cataclysm, and cover the events of Mists of Pandaria all the way to the end of Shadowlands. Laid out within it is broadly a summary of each expansion's major events, but it also includes new pieces of lore such as specific factions undergoing the events of various raids, as well as incorporating new knowledge into previous story such as the revelations found in the Sylvanas novel.
Chronological Zone Orders
While expansions like Dragonflight or Warlords of Draenor have firmly established zone orders, both Legion and Battle for Azeroth gave the option of player choice for their leveling order, leaving the timelines of their events slightly unclear. Thanks to Chronicle Volume 4, we now have a canon order of events!
Altered Order of Pandaria's Patches
While Pandaria's leveling zones mostly have an established order, some of the events of its patch stories have been altered slightly to create a new timeline. In its original release order, each patch from Landfall to Rise of the Thunder King to Escalation to Siege of Orgrimmar occur one after the other, but Chronicle changes their order slightly.
Rather than being the first raid to happen in the expansion, Mogu'shan Vaults is now the third, occurring after both Heart of Fear and Terrace of Endless Spring, and acting as a transition between the Mogu storyline and the Zandalari storyline that would pick up in patch 5.2.
Similarly, instead occurring at the end of the expansion as originally intended, the beginning half of Siege of Orgrimmar now happens concurrently with the events in Throne of Thunder. As described here, the heroes of both factions return alongside Jaina Proudmoore and Lor'themar Theron to find the Vale in
