by Jeff Woleslagle on May 16, 2006
Yes we blundered... the WoW world wondered... sorry!
Chris Metzen over at Blizzard has given an official explanation for the apparent contradictions in lore between the Warcraft 3 history in the game manual, and the backstory of the Draenei!
Right To be totally up-front with you guys, it's my bad, straight up. The obvious lore contradiction with Sargeras and his encounter with the eredar was clearly documented in the Warcraft III manual. I wrote those bits about four years ago, and to be totally honest, I simply forgot. Genius, right? With my excitement to get the draenei up to speed and root them more firmly in the setting, I forgot to do my homework and go back over my earlier writing. I can assure you, no ones more crushed about this mistake than I am. Ive spent the last few days kicking my own ass over this one. Sucks to fail. It may not always be evident, but we take this story stuff really seriously at Blizzard. It's been one of my personal missions at this company to maintain a high level of integrity throughout the Warcraft game setting (all of them, actually) and I think weve done a pretty decent job of upholding the continuity over the years.
You can read the rest of the official response and the forum thread discussing it here!