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Lore Watch Podcast: Multimedia influences on World of Warcraft
🕑 Added 2025-10-28 19:00:47 +0000 UTCIn the first of three questions we answered this week, a listener wanted to know some of the influences our hosts Joe and Matt see in WoW from literature, movies, and myth.
They talked about a slew of varied media, from 60s sci-fi (no, not that one, though yes, that one) through comics. There are a lot of cultural touchstones and homages to explore in WoW. They also sort of explored the opposite with a different question, discussing which idea or technology they'd bring from real life into WoW. That one is a bit tricky to answer, because in most fantasy the answer is obviously "a gun," but WoW has those already.
Plus, if you could bring back any character in WoW from the dead, which one would you pick and why? Everyone who didn't immediately say Tiffin Wrynn, I'm not mad, just disappointed.
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Verdigree
Now I'm wondering, if the machinery of the Arathi empire is full of people who act according to whatever their version of imperialism is, an upcoming challenge to the Alliance and Horde could be the Arathi playing them off each other to further whatever their goals are
Verdigree
What the question made me realize is that I don't actually know what's thematically happening in Jules Verne's Journey To The Centre of the Earth or in Lost Romans type stuff, I've just heard that those stories exist
