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Ask Creative Development Q&A Round 2 Available | Blizzplanet.com

Bashiok posted a very nice Q&A with the Creative Team answering some of the most sought enigmas surrounding the Warcraft lore. Not all of them are revealed, but overall you might enjoy them — or maybe not all of them. Up to you. First one is a blow to some egos: RPG Books are NOT canon. Ouch.

Oh well, Calia, Turalyon/Alleria, Med’an, Gallawix on the mind of the developers for future expansions? Who cares about RPG books now?

The moon recently sent some irate emails to our Creative Development team, threatening to vacate Earth’s orbit if we didn’t divulge the answers to the “Ask CDev #2″ thread soon. Rather than calling the moon’s bluff, the CDev team stepped up its timetable and is now ready to present the answers to your questions!

In an effort to efficiently disseminate as much information as possible, many of these questions are amalgamations of several slight variations asked by the US, EU, Korean, and Chinese player bases. In addition, a few unanswered questions from “Ask CDev #1″ are included as well. Enjoy!

Are the Warcraft and World of Warcraft RPG books considered canon?

No. The RPG books were created to provide an engaging table-top role-playing experience, which sometimes required diverging from the established video game canon. Blizzard helped generate a great deal of the content within the RPG books, so there will be times when ideas from the RPG will make their way into the game and official lore, but you are much better off considering the RPG books non-canonical unless otherwise stated.

Where is X? (X = Calia Menethil, Turalyon, Alleria Windrunner, Med’an, Gallywix, etc.)

There are several “missing” characters in the Warcraft universe, but they are not forgotten! While we’d love to talk about these characters, doing so would spoil a number of the plots we have for Cataclysm and beyond. Believe us when we say that you will definitely hear about these characters when we’re ready to talk about them!

Why isn’t there a(n) X Archaeology branch? (X = Tauren, Aqir, Faceless One, Furbolg, Murloc, etc.)

This is more of a game design question than a CDev one, but it was asked enough that we wanted to at least point out the following: just because a race doesn’t have an Archaeology branch now doesn’t mean there aren’t artifacts for that race, nor does it mean that the race isn’t a candidate for possible future additions to the profession.

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