

This is a fantastical journey into a side of Azeroth we’ve never seen before.” “That will lead us to have to venture across this barrier into the Shadowlands, but this is not the familiar Warcraft ecology of orcs and trolls and humans and dwarves. “The Shadowlands pose a threat to our existence, to life, and what life means,” game director Ion Hazzikostas tells me.

But this summer, Blizzard is taking us to a realm no living soul has been before: The afterlife.Ĭalled the Shadowlands, these kingdoms of death are a typically well-oiled machine where dead souls are sorted and sent to different realms based upon their deeds in life-or it would be if some nefarious villain hadn’t broken the cycle, forcing every new soul to be dumped straight into a hellish abyss.

We’ve been to every major continent, alternate magical dimensions, and through dark portals to sundered worlds. Few places in Azeroth aren’t covered in the bootprints of World of Warcraft players.
