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Lore Watch Podcast

Every week the Lore Watch podcast explores the story and lore of Blizzard titles including World of Warcraft, Diablo, Overwatch, or any other games that interest us. Join us for an in-depth look at the evolving stories of the games we all love. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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58:19

The cherished history of the troll raid

Lore Watch Podcast ·

2025/12/03

Our listeners wanted to know about the legacy of the Troll raid. We've been killing those poor saps a lot -- just about every expansion in either raid or dungeon form, in fact, to the extent that "the Troll raid" is almost a meme.Midnightmay be bringing us another chance to murder a whole bunch more Trolls, with rumors swirling about islands off the coast near Zul'Aman -- which, incidentally, was the Troll raid forThe Burning Crusade.We start off with a brief recap of the myriad of times in the past

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1:07:25

Ethereals, Class Quests, and more

Lore Watch Podcast ·

2025/11/26

This week we have four listener questions answered by our lore experts Joe and Matt. First, they discuss the Ethereals and what their timeline is in relation to the timeline on Azeroth. Has this race existed for years, decades, milennia -- or something different entirely. They pivoted to the dragons and their aspects, and how choice figures in. Chromie, for one, clearly got some element of choice in how she appears in her bipedal form. How might other dragons choose, and how might new discoveries

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1:02:27

A casual discussion about Blood Elves

Lore Watch Podcast ·

2025/11/19

As we make our way towardMidnight, Joe and Matt are making sure we know what we need to before the expansion launches. Chief among those things is the lore of Blood Elves. It starts with the Highborne and the schism between Night Elves and High Elves, which eventually led to the Blood Elves and the creation of the Sunwell.But ancient history isn't all. Joe and Matt also discuss some of the notable figures in Blood Elf society that are important to know. Lady Liadrin and Lor'themar were in

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59:09

Deep, cosmic questions from the Diablo and WoW universes

Lore Watch Podcast ·

2025/11/12

Because we aren't all constantly filled with existential dread, Joe and Matt are answering some deep questions asked by some of our listeners. The first concerns the afterlife inDiablo, namely where we all go when we die. Heaven and Hell aren't really in keeping with our religious afterlife paradigm, after all. Then, they're asked about what the moon or sun is, really, inWoW. This one is a little less harrowing, since we see lots of things like magic derived from these celestial bodies, and some of

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1:00:54

The Sunwell: its origins, its past, and its parallels

Lore Watch Podcast ·

2025/11/05

As we head intoMidnight, we know this act begins with a direct assault on the Sunwell. But what is the Sunwell? Our Loremasters Joe and Matt discuss the history of Xal'atath's next target. The Sunwell isn't even the only well of power to be found on Azeroth -- they discuss the Well of Eternity, and the Nightwell, too.This isn't the first time the Sunwell has been directly assaulted -- and hopefully, it won't be the last, if our champions have anything to say about it. (Which is to say that hopefully

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57:59

Multimedia influences on World of Warcraft

Lore Watch Podcast ·

2025/10/29

In the first of three questions we answered this week, a listener wanted to know some of the influences our hosts Joe and Matt see inWoWfrom literature, movies, and myth, and 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 inWoW. They also sort of explored the opposite with a different question, discussing which idea or technology they'd bring from real life intoWoW. That

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1:01:53

The lore of Vampire: The Masquerade

Lore Watch Podcast ·

2025/10/22

Matt and Joe sit down this week to discussVampire: The Masquerade: its lore, some of the source material that inspired it, and how it rippled vampires forward in pop culture. They break down what you need to know about the history of vampires in this setting, which goes back almost to the beginning of humans, so there's kind of a lot to discuss. Clans are the core concept to be aware of, as the demi-families Vampires belong to with certain shared traits. They also have Sects, which are political

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58:54

Even more stories we'd like to explore through...

Lore Watch Podcast ·

2025/10/15

Now that we've seen Lorewalking a bit, a listener asks the Lore Watch team what other events in Azeroth's history we should get to go visit through that system. While the listener suggests the War of the Three Hammers -- which Joe and Matt are on board with -- the response runs the gamut of Azeroth's history, from ancient events to a couple fromWoWwe just weren't there to see, all the way back to the creation of Azeroth herself. They ran through events with dizzying speed, some of which are well

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1:02:03

Is Dimensius the last of the Void Lords (and what...

Lore Watch Podcast ·

2025/10/08

The ultimate fight ofThe War Within, Dimensius is a hulking purple Void Lord, and several developer interviews have led us to believe he may be the last one. Or, at least, that's what two of our listeners asked about -- is he the last Void Lord? And if he is, what does that even mean? So Matt and Joe start off explaining the Void and Void Lords a bit, before making a turn -- in the way only Lore Watch can. If Dimensius is the last Void Lord, which weren't not sold on, what does that mean as we make

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1:15:40

What the elf expansion of our dreams would be

Lore Watch Podcast ·

2025/10/01

This week we're having a throwback episode from the Archives. Over a hundred episodes ago, Matt and Joe discussed what they would like to see from an elf-centric expansion, which is more or less coming to fruition withMidnight. They begin by talking about the lore behind elves in general, their historical origins as an offshoot of the Trolls, through the Night Elf schism with the High Elves, then Blood Elves, and then everything that transpired from their various splinter factions. Their vision of a

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56:51

Is it finally time for Forsaken Paladins?

Lore Watch Podcast ·

2025/09/24

The topic of Forsaken Paladins is the meat in a three listener question sandwich this week. We start off with the idea of corruption, and just how the Old Gods managed to bend the kobolds eating Milly Osgood's grapes in Elwynn Forest to their will, being that they're generally not all that geographically adjacent. Besides which -- kobolds? Really? Then, the Forsaken Paladin discussion, which dives all the way back into a history lesson on how Paladins came to be in the first place. Lastly, why

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56:42

What does the Void fear?

Lore Watch Podcast ·

2025/09/17

This week's show is devoted to two listener questions. The first asks what the Void fears, in reference to a line from our old pal Ve'nari who asserts that she knows what it is -- but doesn't let us in on the secret. Can Matt and Joe unravel the mystery posed by our Broker friend? They go down some twisting paths to discuss their way to the answer, including a lot of discussion of all the elves on Azeroth. Then, moreMidnightdiscussion that goes into what we may see from magic (in a broad sense) as

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1:00:46

How "Satanic Panic" changed media in the 80s, with...

Lore Watch Podcast ·

2025/09/10

Most people think of the 80s as a simple time full of big hair and scrunchies, but those of us who were intoDungeons and Dragonswill remember the Satanic Panic, a period of time when parents were terrified that every piece of media was making their children evil. Our hosts Matt and Joe take a walk through a history they remember quite well, drawing from their own experiences as kids trying to get intoD&Dand comics.A listener asked about the history and influence of the Satanic Panic, so Joe and

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1:03:14

Just a few of the breadcrumbs leading us to Midnight

Lore Watch Podcast ·

2025/09/03

Lore Watch this week explores three questions sent in by our listeners, all ending in answers we may see as we go forward intoMidnight. First, they talk about the different types of magic -- specifically that Warlock magic stems from the Titans -- and why that knowledge didn't knock the socks clean off the Kirin Tor. Or maybe Xal'atath literally knocking those socks off also knocked some sense into them, and that's where we'll see them inMidnight.Then, we turn to the cry of Azeroth we saw in the

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59:33

The weird similarities shared by the Kirin Tor and...

Lore Watch Podcast ·

2025/08/27

With the rigidity of the structure of the Kirin Tor and the Jedi Order, and their propensity for keeping secrets about power -- and sometimes that power for themselves -- there are a ton of parallels between these two organizations. Our hosts Matt and Joe dive deep into both theWorld of Warcraftuniverse and theStar Warsuniverse in order to compare and contrast the master light side wielders of the force and the best mages in Azeroth.While this doesn't imply that, for instance, Rhonin is a Jedi, it

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1:03:25

What K’aresh might have to show us about the coming...

Lore Watch Podcast ·

2025/08/19

While we’re all excited about the new trailer forMidnightfrom gamescom, Matt and Joe took this opportunity to discuss what narrative threads we may see inMidnightas a whole. They recap some of our adventures on K’aresh, discuss the order of what might be coming, plus what the nature of the energy-based Ethereals have to do with Azeroth. It’s a multi-faceted lore deep dive on the story up to now, and some conjecture as to what we may see in the future as a result.And we’d just like to disclaim that

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56:27

Jurassic World, and all the dinosaurs InGen made up...

Lore Watch Podcast ·

2025/08/13

This week's Lore Watch Podcast is just as majestic as the last, with even more discussion of the lore ofJurassic Park. This time, Joe, Matt, and special guest Eric O'Dea discuss the second set of Jurassic media, starting withJurassic World. They give a rundown of the plots of the newer movies, then move into analysis. While scientific hubris clearly has its role to play, perhaps the true villain here is capitalism. But whatever the allegory or moral, I think we can all agree that dinosaurs are cool

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1:02:19

Welcome to Jurassic Park: how it kicked off a...

Lore Watch Podcast ·

2025/08/06

This week, Matt, Joe, and special guest Eric O'Dea dove into one of the most influential series for the 90s kids in the audience:Jurassic Park. From Michael Crichton's groundbreaking novels to the movies, dinosaurs were inescapable -- pun intended. Our hosts discuss the first few works in the series, how the books and movies differed, and just how wrong the science was.Jurassic Parkinfluenced a generation of kids to be really into that dino DNA and spawned a ton of our favorite memes.If you enjoy

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1:04:09

Answering listener questions from around the World of...

Lore Watch Podcast ·

2025/07/30

This week's Lore Watch Podcast featured three different listener questions, answered by our intrepid hosts Matt and Joe. First, they delved into some pop culture references inWoW, specifically focusing onFinal Fantasy(or possiblyHe-Man). The second question talks Quilboar and the Scourge -- what did the Scourge get out of working with the Quilboar anyway? Finally, we go cosmic with a question about the Titans, and what force the baby Titan Azeroth might control when she grows up.If you enjoy the

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59:44

Void Demon Hunters and other magical mixups

Lore Watch Podcast ·

2025/07/23

This week's podcast features three different reader questions shoved into one podcast trenchcoat. First up, would it be possible to see a Void version of Demon Hunters, considering what we know now about Void as a magic source? Which of course, raises the question of, say, Light Demon Hunters or Arcane Demon Hunters. Then, we try to shove magic sources together, like Deathwing's Shadowflame (and why does this always seem to be a villainous move?). Lastly, game mechanics: do we like it when they're

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