The Lore of World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade
The well-known fantasy RPG game, World of Warcraft, received its first major expansion, The Burning Crusade, in early 2007, and along with its new content, there was lots more lore to discover. World of Warcraft had launched just over two years before then, and by the time The Burning Crusade came around, it had already skyrocketed in popularity. Fans were eager to experience the lost world of Outland and to personally encounter some of the best-loved characters from the game's predecessor, Warcraft III.
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The expansion was set within the broken homeland of the orcs, or rather what was left of it after chaotic magic tore the entire planet apart and warped its environments beyond recognition. Initially, the planet was known as Draenor and was the homeland of orcs, ogres, and Draenei before the Dark Portal was built and the First War ensued with the orcish Horde invading Azeroth. Fel energies poisoned the land and over time, many lush ecosystems died out. After the Horde's defeat in the Second War, the orcs who remained on Draenor, led by the warlock Ner'zhul, made a fatal mistake by using powerful Azerothian artifacts to invade other worlds.
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