Reddit reviews The Last Guardian (Warcraft, Book 3) (No.3)

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4 Reddit comments about The Last Guardian (Warcraft, Book 3) (No.3):

u/teckademic · 3 pointsr/wow

u/TheLoneAcolyte · 2 pointsr/Blizzard

If you're into book reading, read:

The Last Guardian, Its Warcraft 1 in Book form and is generally though to be one of the best Warcraft books.

Lord of the Clans, I liked it, some don't. Its Thrall's origin story.

Those are really the only two books you might want to read before playing Warcraft 3.

Warcraft 3 does kind of assume you just know stuff. "Illidan betrayed us he is EVIL!!!!!" It never explains what he did though, like AT ALL.

If you like reading and want to know what Illidan did for people to think him evil as well as know who the main antagonist of the Warcraft universe is read the War of the Ancients Trilogy, which takes place 10,000 years before Warcraft 3. Malfruoin, Tyrande, and Illidan origin story. There are other big characters, but non that are in HotS at the moment. (GIVE ME MAIEV BLIZZ) The books in the Trilogy are: The Well of Eternity, The Dragon Soul, and The Sundering

There is two versions of War of the Ancients Trilogy. For some reason the made a 2nd version where 3 random characters from the current point in the game were sent back in time 10,000 years into the war. The 2 versions have the same story arch and every major event that happened in the first version happened in the 2nd version. Most people seem to like the 2nd version better. So beware of 3 random characters you won't know if you read that version.

If you want to know the Orcish Horde origin story read Rise of the Horde, takes place before the first Warcraft game.

I gave links to PDF versions of all the book I mentioned. You can buy most of them, but some of them are not printed anymore so you stuck with paying $1,300 to get a copy of The Last Guardian used off Amazon. I'm not joking Which is why I gave PDF links.

Though to be honest Warcraft 3 is very good story on its own and you'll enjoy it if you have not played any of the prior games or read any of the books.

u/Demileto · 1 pointr/shield

First, the Warcraft universe wasn't always like that, it started as a series of RTS games and Blizzard was already publishing books to complement the game's story by then, like The Last Guardian, published three years before the MMORPG was released. Second, that's not something Blizzard does exclusively to the Warcraft universe, there are Starcraft - I, Mengsk - and Diablo - Birthright - books too. So yeah, if you want to have the complete picture of the lore in Blizzard games you HAVE to buy books.

u/Nagoto · 1 pointr/wow

It depends on how much it interests you.

You can play the whole game without reading any lore if you want.

To get the story of a certain area or zone - read the quests and do your best to do the whole area to competition.

> Also what is a good place to read about wow lore?

I actually don't know. o__o I've been thinking about looking more into myself. They have some books that are good. I enjoyed The Last Guardian. They useally do books before expansions such as War Crimes for WoD and The Shattering for Cata.

There are also a lot of youtubes that talk about it as well though I haven't watched them myself.