History Literature / WarcraftTheLastGuardian

%% * BadassGrandpa: Lothar.

** ''World of Warcraft: Chronicle'' retcons Aegwynn tricking Nielas Aran into getting her pregnant. Their current story is that Aegyynn rebelled against the Council of Tirisfal and they created an order of magi to hunt her down, of which Nielas was the best. After repeated encounters and battles, Nielas began to agree with Aegwynn's viewpoints and the two legitimately fell in love with each other.

** Turned into a full-blown GambitRoulette in ''RiseOfTheHorde'', where it is retconned that [[spoiler: the Horde were created entirely separately and their mere existence was total coincidence and had nothing to do with Sargeras' plan]].
** The demon who [[spoiler: devised the Horde's corruption was Kil'jaeden, the direct right-hand of Sargeras himself. ''RiseOfTheHorde'' only implies that he had ulterior motives for creating the Horde beside their military power]].

%% * BadassBookworm: Khadgar.
%% * BadassGrandpa: Lothar.
%% * BunnyEarsLawyer: Medivh. Also Moroes.
%% * CoolOldGuy: Lothar.
%% * EccentricMentor: Medivh.
%% * EvilMentor: [[spoiler:Medivh.]]
* EvilSoundsDeep: [[spoiler:This is how you know Sargeras is in control]]

%% * EvilSorcerer: [[spoiler:Medivh]]

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: This book came out before Warcraft 3, meaning that the orcs are portrayed as violent, unintelligent marauders who have little redeeming qualities. This can be confusing to those more familiar with the current lore or have read other Warcraft novels where the orcs are much more three dimensional.

* ActionGirl: Garona.

* BadassBookworm: Khadgar.
* BadassGrandpa: Lothar.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Medivh. Also Moroes.
* CoolOldGuy: Lothar.
* EccentricMentor: Medivh.
* EvilMentor: [[spoiler:Medivh.]]

* EvilPlan: [[spoiler: Sargeras allows his avatar to be destroyed by Aegwynn so he can reincarnate himself in her unborn baby. Then he proceeds to open a gateway to Draenor and release the Orc horde on the world]].

* EvilSorcerer: [[spoiler:Medivh]]

* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Garona.

* SupportingLeader: Lothar.

* Revision: Khadgar was introduced in ''Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal'' as a powerful Kirin Tor wizard. This novel and ''Warcraft III'' reveal and establish that he was also Medivh's last and best apprentice.

One day, an ambassador of the orcs named Garona, who is in fact half Draenei, arrives to Karazhan. Despite Khadgar's hostile initial reaction, the two quickly become friends and begin to unravel a mysterious plot to kill powerful wizards, make the orcs win the war and unlock the body of the demon-lord Sargeras, which had been sealed in the bottom of the ocean by Medivh's mother.

''{{Warcraft}}: The Last Guardian'' is a tie-in novel to BlizzardEntertainment's ''{{Warcraft}} III: Reign of Chaos''. It is the closest thing to a retelling of the first game of the franchise, ''{{Warcraft}}: Orcs and Humans'', that there is.

Just to make Khadgar's life more interesting, the Kingdom of [[strike:Azeroth]] Stormwind, wherein Medivh's home is located, is beset by [[TheHorde green monsters called orcs]], whom no one has ever before seen. The barbarians strike from the eastern marshes of the Black Morass with increasing severity, only kept at bay by the King's champion Anduin Lothar, with whom the young mage becomes friends during a visit to the capital of Stormwind.

One day, an ambassador of the orcs named Garona, who is in fact half [[strike:human]] [[strike:Draenor human]] Draenei, arrives to Karazhan. Despite Khadgar's hostile initial reaction, the two quickly become friends and begin to unravel a mysterious plot to kill powerful wizards, make the orcs win the war and unlock the body of the demon-lord Sargeras, which had been sealed in the bottom of the ocean by Medivh's mother.

After almost a decade, the book got a kind of a sequel, called TidesOfDarkness, which retells the events of [=WC2=].

One of the original three novels which started the WarcraftExpandedUniverse.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Medivh makes a very brief mention of the Kaldorei. The book was released before Warcraft III.

* Revision: Khadgar was introduced in Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal as a powerful Kirin Tor wizard. This novel and Warcraft III reveal and establish that he was also Medivh's last and best apprentice.

* Retcon: Khadgar was introduced in Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal as a powerful Kirin Tor wizard. This novel and Warcraft III reveal and establish that he was also Medivh's last and best apprentice.

* WizardingSchool: In the flashbacks, Khadgar's days in the magic academy at Dalaran are highly reminiscent HarryPotter's misadventures at Hogwarts.

* EvilPlan: [[spoiler: argeras allows his avatar to be destroyed by Aegwynn so he can reincarnate himself in her unborn baby. Then he proceeds to open a gateway to Draenor and release the Orc horde on the world]].

* EvilMentor: [[spoiler: Medivh]]
* EvilSoundsDeep: [[spoiler: This is how you know Sargeras is in control]]
* EvilPlan: [[spoiler: Sargeras allows his avatar to be destroyed by Aegwynn so he can reincarnate himself in her unborn baby. Then he proceeds to open a gateway to Draenor and release the Orc horde on the world]].

* EvilSorcerer: [[spoiler: Medivh]]

* TheHorde
* TheIgor

* TheKingdom: Retconned into being Stormwind when it was originally Azeroth.
** Not retconned, it offically, if quietly, changed its name from Azeroth to Stormwind.

* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler: Medivh recruits Khadgar and Garona to serve as a spanner in Sargeras' plan.]]

* XanatosGambit: [[spoiler: Sargeras allows his avatar to be destroyed by Aegwynn so he can reincarnate himself in her unborn baby. Then he proceeds to open a gateway to Draenor and release the Orc horde on the world]].
** Turned into a full-blown GambitRoulette in ''RiseOfTheHorde'', where it is retconned that [[spoiler: the Horde were created entirely separately and their mere existence was total coincidence and had nothing to do with Sargeras' plan]].
** The demon who [[spoiler: devised the Horde's corruption was Kil'jaeden, the direct right-hand of Sargeras himself. ''RiseOfTheHorde'' only implies that he had ulterior motives for creating the Horde beside their military power]].

** Turned into a full-blown XanatosRoulette in ''RiseOfTheHorde'', where it is retconned that [[spoiler: the Horde were created entirely separately and their mere existence was total coincidence and had nothing to do with Sargeras' plan]].

* TheAragorn: Lothar.