{"id":86007,"date":"2026-07-15T13:27:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86007"},"modified":"2026-07-15T14:37:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:37:04","slug":"world-of-warcrafts-haranir-lore-reveal-has-players-scratching-their-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86007","title":{"rendered":"World Of Warcraft\u2019s Haranir Lore Reveal Has Players Scratching Their Heads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/world-of-warcraft\/\">World of Warcraft&#8217;s<\/a> latest storyline is one of its most lore-heavy quests to date, and the revelations included within have left players scratching their heads trying to make sense of what all it means for Azeroth&#8217;s ancient history.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Spoilers for patch WoW 12.07 below!<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A story prologue introduced in patch 12.07 meant to lead into the game&#8217;s major 12.1 content patch sees the haranir, the vaguely troll and elvish-looking playable allied race introduced in Midnight, invite the leaders of all the various troll and elf factions to their home to inform them about an important revelation&#8211;they are all related! According to a vision presented by haranir leader Elder Hagar, trolls and elves are directly descended from the haranir, thus making them all one big happy family who should get along.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Needless to say, the elves and trolls, who have a long bloody history in opposition to one another, don&#8217;t exactly see things that way. Many of the faction leaders have a hard time accepting the haranir&#8217;s lore dump. One of the Amani leaders, Zul&#8217;jan, storms away, looking to disprove the haranir&#8217;s claims and in the process stumbles upon an ancient evil he will seek to use to restore the Amani<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World of Warcraft&#8217;s latest storyline is one of its most lore-heavy quests to date, and the revelations included within have left players scratching their heads trying to make sense of what all it means for Azeroth&#8217;s ancient history. Spoilers for patch WoW 12.07 below! A story prologue introduced in patch 12.07 meant to lead into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":86009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86007"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86010,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86007\/revisions\/86010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}