World of Warcraft

Video Game
STUDIO Blizzard Entertainment
RELEASED 2004

Four years have passed since the races banded together to protect the Well of Eternity from the power of the Burning Legion. The tenuous peace that once held all the hatred of the races at bay, has shattered. The lands of the world of Azeroth have once again become host to a World of Warcraft. With eight races, all vying for control of Azeroth.

Knowledge

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Lunara and Rhonda's Class Hall Cameos

The Druid Class Hall in Legion is home to a dryad called Lunara, lifted straight from the MOBA Heroes of the Storm. Wander over to the Monk Class Hall and you'll meet Rhonda, who plenty of players assumed was a nod to MMA fighter Ronda Rousey but is actually named for Rhonda Cox, a real Blizzard sound engineer and martial artist.

Once the Biggest Game Wiki on the Internet

At its peak, WoWWiki grew to more than 99,800 pages, making it the largest community-run wiki dedicated to any single video game on the internet. That's an enormous amount of collective note-taking from a fanbase that clearly wasn't satisfied with just playing the thing.

Jaina's Medallion Looks a Lot Like Scooby's Collar

The teleportation trinket you pick up from Icecrown Citadel, Jaina's Medallion, has a shape and colour scheme that lines up suspiciously well with the collar Scooby-Doo wears. Nobody at Blizzard has ever confirmed it outright, but once you notice the resemblance it's genuinely hard to unsee.

Kel'Thuzad Used to Be an Ordinary Archmage

Long before he was the undead lich guarding Naxxramas, Kel'Thuzad was a respected human archmage and member of Dalaran's Kirin Tor, with genuine standing among the city's magical elite. His obsession with forbidden necromancy got him cast out, and the Lich King's voice found him not long after, turning him into the very first member of the Cult of the Damned.

Early WoW Ran on a Modified Warcraft III Engine

Because World of Warcraft and Warcraft III were being built at roughly the same time, the two teams ended up leaning on each other. Some of the earliest playable builds of WoW were actually running on a modified version of the Warcraft III engine before the MMO's own tech had caught up.