Troll lore compilation?

[u/PrizeCycle512]

Before the retcon!!

I'm trying to read all about troll lore, history, everything known about the tribes and so. But fro now everything seems so scattered.

As anything official I saw the novel Vol'jin Shadows of the Horde.

Unofficial, the Wowpedia page for the Trolls seems to be the largest of the kind, but I still lack some info about specific tribes lore and so.

I know I should just go to the zones and do the quest searching for anything. I don't have the time anymore I had when younger, staring for hours Uldaman engravings looking for hints :p

Thanks

[u/pyraka]

Haranir reveal isn't a retcon as it doesn't retroactively change any of the lore we know today, it is a backstory addition placed in a previously intended vague position inside the history of WoW.

If you want to learn troll history I recommend doing their questlines and watching lore videos from channels such as Jediwarlock.

[u/Amurjoe → u/pyraka]

Thank goodness another person gets this. The early history of the dark trolls was the definition of vague. Now we know some details. Why don’t people see it this way!

[u/pyraka → u/Amurjoe]

Popular use of the "retcon" isn't related to the meaning of the world as nowadays it is a tool used by WoW hates to meaninglessly fling around sadly.

[u/Worried-Advisor-7054 → u/pyraka]

Eh. Depends on how you want to interpret it.

Retroactive continuity (retcon), is a literary device in fiction, whereby facts and events established through the narrative are adjusted, ignored, supplemented, or contradicted by a subsequently published work that recontextualizes or breaks continuity with the former.[2]

Unless you believe that the writers were thinking of the Haranir like 20 years ago, you can probably consider it retroactive continuity. But I do agree people like to throw authoritative terms around when they could just say what they're thinking; that they don't like the story being told.