Lore Series 3: Notable Warlocks - Richard

So you're a warlock. You know the spells, you know the talents, the rotations, the stats. But how much do you really know? How much do you really want to know? The World of Warcraft has a body of lore worthy of most major works of fantasy, potentially more than you'll ever want to know.

This week we're looking at a famous and popular warlock who is, strictly speaking, not a Warcraft character. He is a fan made creation in an Azeroth varyingly divergent from the Warcraft world we're more familiar with,  but still based in the fundamental rules of the world. He's wildly popular, moreso than any of the canon warlock characters, but there's a dark, dark secret about Richard.

He's not actually a warlock. Read on, if you dare, for the startling, innocence ending truth.

Mini-Lore: Dwarf Warlocks

Troll warlocks are fairly obvious. Their a voodoo worshiping race with a penchant for the dark arts, even their shamanism has a darker lore tint to it than the orc and tauren versions. Warlock was really a natural for them all along.

Dwarves, however, spawned a lot of WTF moments up there with Tauren paladins. However, things actually make a reasonable amount of sense in light of new Beta explorations. For example, take this image of the Ironforge throne. Magni Bronzebeard is out of commission, and now the dwarf capital is ruled by a council of three: Muradin Bronzebeard, representing the Dwarves of Ironforge and possibly the Frostborn as well, High Thane Falsted Wildhammer, representing the shamanistic Wildhammer dwarves, and somewhat unexpected, Princess Moira Thaurissan, representing the Dark Iron Dwarves. These are the three factions that the dwarves split into during the War of the Three Hammers after the death of the last Anvilmar king.

As you may remember from BRD, Moira was the Bronzebeard princess forced to marry Emperor Thaurissan of the Dark Iron dwarves. A special quest in BRD requires you to kill the emperor but spare the princess. That storyline has at long last been revisited. As the technical heir to the Dark Iron throne, it appears Moira has reunited at least part of the defeated Dark Iron clan with Ironforge.

What does this have to do with dwarf warlocks, you ask? Everything, I say. The Dark Iron dwarves are notable as the only dwarf clan to dabble in the dark arts. They have a number of warlocks in Blackrock Deeps and elsewhere. Doom'rel, one of the Seven who summoned Ragnaros at Blackrock Mountain, was a warlock, as is Balgaras, the leader of their forces in the Wetlands.

Lore Series 2: Artifacts - The Book of Medivh

So you're a warlock. You know the spells, you know the talents, the rotations, the stats. But how much do you really know? How much do you really want to know? The World of Warcraft has a body of lore worthy of most major works of fantasy, potentially more than you'll ever want to know.

Continuing where we left off last week, today we'll be looking at a powerful warlock artifact. No legendary weapon or ancient font of power, but a simple, modern book. The Book, in fact, that set in motion nearly all of the events of the Warcraft universe: The Book of Medivh.

Lore Series 1: Demon Lore - Felhunter

So you're a warlock. You know the spells, you know the talents, the rotations, the stats. But how much do you really know? How much do you really want to know? The World of Warcraft has a body of lore worthy of most major works of fantasy, potentially more than you'll ever want to know.

Today I'm doing something a little different, the first in my warlock lore series. This series will cover famous warlocks, famous demons, famous artifacts, and just generally lore-steeped aspects of a lore-heavy class. The first entry is on the familiar but surprisingly complex Felhunter minion.