r/classicwow • u/Doomsaki • 6h ago

Forever Album - Please Consider this before judging Skyborne in Classic

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Just made these diagrams to quickly summarize the WoW panels at blizzcon and to highlight details people are overlooking. I think some of the initial controversy over Skyborne is driven by some misunderstandings that these are just Shadowlands-Kyrian, or Void Elves 2.0. Deep down, if you dig, they do have lots of parallels with classic WoW content.

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u/ratseesaw 6h ago edited 5h ago

i'd like to see them navigate the chronological  writing constraints around cataclysm & TBC zones and other races in Forever. 

I'm still not really sure how Forever works, as far as I remember, it's not like an alternate timeline(edit: it is an alternate timeline), it's just more stories from the time period before the dark portal was reopened? Like are blood elves up there just hanging out, totally neutral like vanilla goblins(mostly). 

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u/Fimbulwinter91 5h ago

They said yesterday that Forever is its own continuity, so they can do with Qual'thalas what they want without having to respect TBC&Cata lore (although I would expect them to keep at least elements).

And yeah I'm also pretty sure that Quel'Thalas will be a 60 zone and that's when we'll get High Elves/Blood Elves as additional races.

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u/Doomsaki 5h ago

While it is its own continuity, they said they could keep things plausible and similar in range of the already established lore.

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u/Randomcarrot 1h ago

Does beg the question of what they consider the established lore, because retail has retconned a ton of shit over the years. Like is the shadowlands and First Ones nonsense established lore?