[0:04] Hello everyone!
[0:05] I figured it could be fun to talk about the 
warcraft timeline, put some of the major events  
[0:20] in perspective. Lets put it into context and see 
what history we have for the warcraft universe.
[0:41] Year 0 on the timeline is defined by the first 
time the dark portal opened up. Warcraft 1,  
[0:47] the foundation of the story. The first time 
that Medivh brought the orcs in for conquest  
[0:54] and the war that followed. On the timeline 
thats year 0, the year of the dark portal. 
[1:00] Anything after that is defined by x amount of 
years after the opening of the dark portal. 
[1:05] Anything before that is defined by x amount of 
years before the opening of the dark portal.
[1:10] We do not have a starting year for the 
birth of the warcraft universe so a lot of  
[1:15] the early cosmic eventsare floating somewhere 
on the timeline. We do have this really handy  
[1:20] wiki page linked in the description down below 
incase you want to read all the major events,  
[1:25] but this one has one of the earlier moments 
dated at year 150.000 before the opening of  
[1:32] the dark portal. Conncted to a questline which 
dates a Mosh’Ogg Bounty to be somewhere around  
[1:40] 150.000 years old, believed to have its origin 
connected to the old gods. But that doesn’t tell  
[1:46] us much besides the Timeline goes back over 
150.000 years. If i’dhave to pick a moment  
[1:52] of great importance to remember, then we go 
back 10.000 years to the War of the Ancients.
[1:59] A lot of Warcrafts stories refer back 
to this moment or have its roots here,  
[2:04] like a story of the dragons or the night elves or 
sargeras and the burning legion. The war of the  
[2:09] Ancients speaks of a time in which Sargeras made 
contact with Queen Azshara and the queen thought  
[2:15] it would be a wonderful time to bring in Sargeras 
and his demons to purge Azeroth, cleanse it of its  
[2:20] impure and inferior races. Make it perfect just 
like her. To this end they turned the Well of  
[2:27] Eternity, a massive fount of magical power that 
was created to patch up the wound left behind  
[2:33] when the titans ripped out the old ogd Y’shaarj 
during the time they brought order to Azeroth.  
[2:39] That huge amount of power could sustain a portal 
big and strong enough to draw in Sargeras himself. 
[2:45] The world found out about this, a resistance 
rose up. Mortals, Demi-Gods, Dragons,  
[2:51] the world of Azeroth came to her defense and 
manged to hold off the Burning Legion but  
[2:56] not without a great price. The portal over the 
well, all its magics and messing around with it,  
[3:02] had made the well incredibly unstable and so 
the land sundered apart with the maelstrom, the  
[3:08] remnant of the well, left behind in the middle.
Azeroth was changed forever and the after  
[3:13] effects of the war would ripple on 
and resurface throughout its history. 
[3:18] Like Pandaria for example, is tied to this 
because they hid away behind their mists  
[3:23] as their emperor forsaw the coming of the 
legion and the destruction that followed. 
[3:27] The Nightborne did a similar thing, casting a big 
old magical bubbel around their city of Suramar. 
[3:33] The dragon aspects did a similar thing hiding away 
the dragon isles to help out the sundered world. 
[3:43] The waters from the well of eternity and its power 
would remain as Illidan had filled some vials. He  
[3:52] created a new well and they planted Nordrassil 
over it to contain its magical powers. As you  
[3:58] can imagine, they had just fought a war over the 
original well, pulling in the legion again was not  
[4:03] something they wished for. Enchantments on the 
tree by the dragons would give the night elves  
[4:08] immortality and a strong connection to nature, 
which would help them with guarding the land.  
[4:14] They would be the defenders of the world but not 
all were ready to hug a tree and let go of their  
[4:19] arcane ways. Some of the highborne night elves 
refused to let go of magic, even when it became  
[4:24] punishable by death. To not have to execute all 
of them, exile was a better option. They left  
[4:30] but not before taking one of those vials filled 
with water from the original well. Eventually  
[4:36] setting up their new home of Quel’thelas where 
they made not a new nightwell, but a sunwell!
[4:44] A critical defining moment in time which 
you’ve heard me mention quite a few times  
[4:48] if you’ve kept up with the channel. A span of 
10.000 years between this moment and the first  
[4:54] time of the opening of the dark portal. A 
lot of time which were quite uneventfull  
[4:59] in comparison to what happened 
after the dark portal opened.
[5:03] Some of the highlights of those 10.000 years.
[5:05] 9300 years before the opening of the dark portal 
we have the war of the satyr. During the war of  
[5:13] the ancients, Xavius, who you might know as 
the nightmare lord, went around transforming  
[5:19] more of his kind into satyr after sargeras so 
graciously saw fit to transform Xavius into  
[5:25] the first. When the legion was defeated and 
the well of eternity sucked all the demons  
[5:29] back to where they came from, not all of the evil 
was purged off the planet. The satyr were still  
[5:34] around being quite a threat to the night elves. 
Some of them wanted to embrace the pack form,  
[5:41] a vicious brutal form which would give them 
the strength to wipe out their enemy but their  
[5:46] shan-do malfurion forbade it. Little did they 
know that malfurion had dabbled with the pack  
[5:51] form himself and nearly lost himself to the beast 
within. He didn’t want his students to repeat the  
[5:56] same mistakes he had, but some did not listen. 
Even pushed the form further through the scepter  
[6:02] of elune, giving birth to the first of the Worgen. 
They would be banished to the emerald dream,  
[6:07] forever slumbering while within their heart ached 
to run and hunt. A wish that would become reality  
[6:13] when thousands of years later they’d be summoned 
back into Azeroth by archmage arugal at gilneas,  
[6:20] eventually spreading the whole 
worgen curse among their people.
[6:27] It would take quite a few years for the 
highborne to evnetually set up Quel’thelas,  
[6:42] as this is dated 6800 years before the opening.
4000 years later and we’d see the rise of the  
[6:50] humans of Arathor. They’re the horrific mutated 
offspring of the vrykul in Northrend who could  
[6:56] not bare to kill their own children despite 
being told to do so by their king Ymiron. The  
[7:04] mutation was caused through something called the 
Curse of Flesh. This infected titan forged like  
[7:09] mecha gnomes, earthen and vrykul and transformed 
them, making them more volnerable to the old gods  
[7:14] corruption and litteraly giving them 
flesh. Birthing races like Dwarves,  
[7:19] Gnomes and the Humans. Funny enough, this curse 
would be the very thing to lead to the downfall of  
[7:24] the old gods. What they designed as a weakness, as 
a corruption, was also an empowerement, something  
[7:30] the titans themselves could not have imagined.
Either way, 2800 years before the opening of  
[7:38] the dark portals Thoradin of Arathor went 
around uniting the human tribes into one  
[7:44] kingdom and then they allied with the high 
elves of quel’thelas to fight with them in  
[7:54] the troll wars. The amani trolls were not happy 
with all these outsiders settling in their lands,  
[8:01] troll lands and while the humans were mighty 
on the battlefield...they were going to need a  
[8:05] little bit extra. 100 of their kind were trained 
in the ways of magic by their high elves allies  
[8:11] and together they won the war. Securing a victory 
that would send the amani reeling and they’d never  
[8:17] truly recover form it. Meanwhile the allegiance 
of elf and human would carry on through the ages,  
[8:22] the reason why they would join the alliance of 
lordaeron, while the human kingdom would ever  
[8:27] grow and expand, eventually setting up new 
places like Lordaeron, Dalaran or gilneas. 
[8:34] Having access to magic does not come without 
risks, just look at how many times the elves  
[8:39] dabbled with powers beyond their understanding 
and the humans were no different. Some of them  
[8:44] would dabble deep into forbidden powers of 
fel, demonic might and so in the year 2610  
[8:51] before the opening of the dark portal, the 
first guardian was empowered. They would be  
[8:56] their champions against the demons, but also 
its greatest weakness as when Aegynn fought  
[9:01] with the avatar of sargeras in the year 823 
before the DP, while seemingly victorious,  
[9:09] his spirit infiltrated her body and would 
eventually lead to the birth of her son Medivh,  
[9:14] already corrupted by the spirit of sargeras 
and the eventual opening of the dark portal. 
[9:25] But before that we had the war of the shifting 
sands 975 years before the dark portal which night  
[9:34] elves nad dragons battles in the sand of silithus 
and raiged the qiraji wall around ahn’qiraj,  
[9:41] maintaining c’thuns prison until reopening 
it with classic and the war of three hammers,  
[9:47] 230 years before the opening of the dp!
The 3 dwarven clans going at eachother when  
[9:53] their high king died. bronzebeard, wildhammer and 
Dark Iron who once all lived under the mountains  
[9:58] of ironforge, would then split apart. The 
bronzebeards had won the war so they kept  
[10:03] ironforge. The wildhammers set up first in Grim 
Batol and then in the aery peaks. The dark irons  
[10:08] in the area claled redridge at the time, but the 
land changed with their leader Anvilmar accidently  
[10:14] summoning ragnaros and enslaving his people to 
the willl of the firelord at blackrock mountain. 
[10:22] Only 230 years before the opening of 
the dark portal which really surprised  
[10:28] me with how not long ago that is considering 
Muradin Bronzebeard was said to be 221 years  
[10:32] during Warcraft 3. Considering Magni is his older 
brother and while not officialy given an age,  
[10:39] would have been born relatively 
soon or maybe during this war.
[10:50] So in the span of 10.000 years we’d see 
whole new civilisations rise up. New races,  
[10:57] new curses. Wars played out but over a pretty 
large span of time. Still incredibly fast  
[11:07] compared to our own timeline ofcourse, but 
the crazyness in Warcraft really popped off  
[11:11] once Medivh opened the dark portal, connected 
Azeroth with Draenor and allowed the orcish  
[11:16] horde ot come in. What we’ve spoken about 
so far took place in a span of 10.000 years.  
[11:22] Every single story and game from Warcraft 
1 to the war within took place within 42  
[11:28] years give or take. Maddening when you 
think about it, so how does that work?
[11:32] Well as Discussed, the opening of the dark portal 
is the defining point so Warcraft 1 is year 0 
[11:38] The second war, which is stormwind falling to the 
might of the Horde and the rise of the Alliance  
[11:43] of Lordaeron to counter this threat – That’s 
4 years after the opening of the dark portal. 
[11:49] Year 6 is when Warcraft 2: Tides 
of darkness begins and that’s  
[11:52] where we would see the first defeat of the 
Horde and shutting down the dark portal. 
[11:56] Year 8 is when the dark portal re-opens and 
this time azeroth steps through themselves,  
[12:01] shutting it from Draenors side as it 
blew up and transformed into outland.
[12:05] 18 years after the dark portal and the 
eventual death of the guardian medivh,  
[12:10] we’d see his mother Aegwynn gather her power 
and bring him back to kick off the events of  
[12:15] Warcraft 3. So in the previous years Stormwind 
has been rebuild and Thrall has grown up as a  
[12:21] slave gladiator and then liberated not only 
himself but the rest of his people to reform  
[12:26] the Horde. Not to conquer azeroth as it was back 
in the day but they still needed a place to live,  
[12:31] a piece of azeroth to call their home.
In between the now prophet medivh visited  
[12:35] Thrall in his dreams, guiding him on the path to 
clean up the mistakes made by the guardian as he  
[12:40] was corrupted. Now he’s come back and he’s 
moving pieces in place to stop yet another  
[12:46] invasion of the burning legion. Archimonde 
set his sights on that world tree Norrassil,  
[12:50] remember back when 10.000 years ago... 
yeah that one. Jaina, Thrall, Tyrande,  
[12:57] Malfurion and their allies rallied together to 
save the world at a great price as they blew up  
[13:03] the tree, sacricifing the night elves immortality.
Illidan, the same illidan who made that new well  
[13:10] was released from prison and played the roll of 
double agent, eventually hiding out on Outland. 
[13:15] Meanwhile Arthas walked the road of damnation, 
becoming a death knight, murdering his father,  
[13:22] the genoicde of the high elves of quel’thelas, 
now going by the name of blood elves. Evnetually  
[13:26] merging with the lich king at the top of Icecrown. 
All that and more until World of Warcraft classic  
[13:32] at year 25. 4 years had passed since the mortal 
races banded together and stood united against the  
[13:41] might of the Burning Legion. That battle at mount 
hyal and blowing up of Nordrassil was year 21.
[13:47] Each expansion usually takes around a year 
or two ingame to build up and play out. 
[13:53] Classic: Year 25 to year 26. Yes, 
everything that went down in classic,  
[13:59] from decapatiting van cleef to defeating 
Kel’thuzad and then handing over his  
[14:05] phylactery for a bit of loot so he could 
come back later...all that in a year.
[14:10] 26 years after the first time the 
dark portal opened up, and around  
[14:14] 17 years after the sons of lothar closed it 
on Draenors side as it turned into outland,  
[14:20] the dark portal opened up again...the 
thing just doesnt want to stay closed  
[14:24] as we partied in the burning crusade. Found 
Illidan again and stopped another invasion of  
[14:30] the burning legion by pushing Kil’jaeden 
back through his portal at the sunwell.
[14:34] Only one year later, year 27. and 
Arthas the Lich King called out  
[14:39] to clash with him in Northrend 
during Wrath of the Lich King.
[14:42] Year 28 and Deathwing saw fit to break out 
of the world and cause not the Sundering,  
[14:48] but the Shattering, changing the surface of 
azeroth, changing our questing experience, and  
[14:53] quite a bit of change amongst leadership of the 
Horde and the Alliance like the death of cairne,  
[14:58] crystalisation of magni, thrall handing over the 
title of warchief to garrosh Hellscream, son of  
[15:02] Grommash, who he had met 2 years earlier 
during the Burning Crusade. Fun fact,  
[15:07] Garrosh is actually older then Thral. We’d take 
our time for the cataclysm and spend 2 years here.
[15:15] But then, Deathwing breaking out also caused 
the mists around pandaria to finally disapear.  
[15:21] After 10.030 years give or take, the 
hidden lands were revealed. The Horde  
[15:26] and Alliance brought their faction war to 
these overall peacefull sha infected lands,  
[15:31] ending with garrosh kicked out of mantle 
of warchief and Vol’jin taking over.
[15:36] Year 31 and the dark portal would technically 
not re-open, but it does change color from green  
[15:41] to red as Garrosh managed to escape his trial and 
travel to an alternate reality where he connected  
[15:47] that reality to ours and this is where it gets a 
bit muddied because not only is it an alternate  
[15:53] reality with some minor changes compared 
to the main timeline like alternate Garrosh  
[15:59] hadnt been born here. Not only that, it 
was also set in the past with some tweaks  
[16:04] from our timetraveling Garrosh who prevented his 
father and the Horde from drinking demonic blood  
[16:09] and enslaving themselves to the burning legion 
like our horde had. They would neverb e slaved,  
[16:14] but they would be conquerers, trying 
to invade our Azeroth in our timeline,  
[16:18] year 31. So heroes rose up, stepped through the 
dark portal once more and took care of this so  
[16:25] called Iron Horde. Even went around round with 
Archimonde. Too make matters even more confusing,  
[16:32] they made the decision that where the demons live, 
the twisting nether, trascends realities. A ruling  
[16:40] done on twitter and to this day still one of 
the dumbest things they’ve ever come up with and  
[16:45] that’s saying something considering shadowlands. 
Regardless, the ending saw alternate gul’dan  
[16:49] blasted over back into our timeline, our reality, 
kicking off the expansion legion at year 32.
[16:56] The biggest legion invasion as of yet. 
Varian and vol’jin kick the bucket,  
[17:01] Anduin and Sylvanas take over. Magni wakes 
up, we re-unite with alleria and turalyon.  
[17:05] Velen gets to do something, Surramar rejoins 
the world after 10.032 years. Illidan gets  
[17:13] his redemption arch. A massive rift opens 
up in the sky, placing Azeroth and Argus,  
[17:19] homebase of the legion and former homeworld 
of the Draenei right next to eachother  
[17:23] which must have been a crazy day for regular 
people. Can you imagine being just a farmer  
[17:29] and you look up, suddenly there’s a green broken 
planet in the sky. Just another day on Azeroth. 
[17:36] We manage to defeat Kil’jaeden and then sargeras 
himself, ending the threat of the burning legion  
[17:42] but ofcourse the demons aare still out there. 
The dark titan leaves behind a little gift,  
[17:47] his sword stuck into azeroth and all across its 
surface azerite pops up. Once more a crazy day  
[17:54] for the regular people, you’d imagine we’d 
see a lot more people go crazy I suppose.  
[18:00] when thinking about it...the world itself 
doesn’t really respond to all this crazy  
[18:04] shit happening in such a short timespan. Do you 
think they look at eachother and go like ehhh,  
[18:11] was expecting rain today but I guess a literal 
god humping the planet was to be expected...  
[18:16] Now that’s a story i’d love to see explored.
Anyways, azerite would change the face of warfare  
[18:22] on warcraft forever....or well...atleast for like 
a patch or 2 as we’ve arrived at the battle for  
[18:27] Azeroth. Year 33 where the fourth war is started 
with the invasion of Darkshore and the Burning of  
[18:33] Teldrassil but would end with another warchief 
kicked out of the mantle. Sylvanas windrunner  
[18:38] telling them all that they’re nothing while 
flying off into the next expansion. No longer  
[18:44] whill the horde be lead by a warchief, they 
will now have a council while an armisitice,  
[18:49] peace between the alliance and the Horde is 
settled. A peace that lasts too this day.
[18:53] Year 35 is when the sky above opened up 
and the pathway into the literal afterlife,  
[18:59] the place where your soul goes for all 
eternity when you die is open and not just  
[19:04] to those kidnapped or those with super 
powers, nah nah nah we’ve seen literal  
[19:08] randos from azeroth pop in to check on their 
departed loved ones or make cameos. Again,  
[19:15] what kind of influence would this have had 
on the population. Not a story explored as  
[19:20] we dealt with Sylvanas and the jailer, his 
defeat automaticly closing that rift again.  
[19:26] And then something interesting for the timeline 
happens, a timeskip! After so many expansions,  
[19:31] so many years of adventure after adventure...they 
thought it fitting to give azeroth a bit of a  
[19:36] breather. Year 35 is when Shadowlands began taking 
2 years for our adventures to complete. Year 40  
[19:43] is when dragonflight kicked off so for 3 years 
nothoing majorly happened on azeroth which is  
[19:49] again crazy when you think about it. When you 
look at its history so far, but then again,  
[19:53] if you make timeskip to big then you get 
a lot of offscreen storytelling I suppose.
[20:00] Either way, after 10.040 years give 
or take, the dragon isles revealed  
[20:08] themselves again and we get another crucial 
date on the calendar even before the war of  
[20:12] the ancients. The dracthyr were created 
20.000 years ago and now wake up and  
[20:18] rejoined the story. Assuming they’re following 
similar trends of 1 to 2 years per expansion,  
[20:24] we can expect the War Within to take place 42 
years after the opening of the dark portal.
[20:30] These are just a few highlights 
throughout the timeline, again,  
[20:34] check out the extremely extensive wikipedia 
page if you wonna see more of the timeline  
[20:40] and its major events but this is going to 
be it for today so thank you very much for  
[20:51] watching everyone! Hope you’re enjoying them sweet 
summer days andddd until next time.....seee ya!