I had originally posted this on “lore” but that part of the forum seems to be dead.
Does Azeroth, or any of its moons, actually spin around each other? If so, how?
How would the two moons not collide with one another during the spin cycle? You could say that like aircraft on a holding pattern waiting to land on a busy airport, their altitude/distance from each other is too great to prevent that. What about Azeroth itself though? What if all three spin? Wouldn’t that cause some sort of gravitational anomaly to say the least?
Does one moon spin around Azeroth horizontically while the other spins around Azeroth vertically? Matter of fact, thinking of this makes my head spin. I need a drink.
Nope it flat #flatAzeroth
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I know that Azeroth solar system is not written with real physics in mind and the writers haven’t ever thought about this, but it we think about the moons realistically they must spin. Not spinning is not an option in real life. The moons must spin around Azeroth and each moon must spin around itself (translation and rotation).
In real life, a solar system forms when a protoplanetary cloud falls into its center due to gravity, making the cloud flatten when spinning in one direction. Due to conservation of momentum when the dust of the cloud becomes bigger objects those must spin in the same direction the original cloud was spinning. An object could spin in opposite direction or vertically, but that would require a huge impact to change the orbit of the object. There is no natural object in the solar system that spins vertically (the objet with the record of inclined orbit is Eris with 44º), but Venus and Uranus spin in the opposite direction to the rest of the planets. And Uranus axis of ration is tilted 97º.
About having two moons around one planet… Well, that is possible if both moons are in different orbits with enough distance between each other to keep both on stable orbits. Like Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, etc. How to know that from Azeroth? Looking at moon eclipses. When one moon move through the other one the one who is behind is the one who is far away from Azeroth. But I am not sure if eclipses are programmed in the game.
What is possible with Azeroth is that both moons spin but they are tidally locked to the planet so we only see the same side (basically a day and a year in the moon is the same length). Like our moon. Possible, but I don’t think devs have ever tell us if we see one side of the moons or both. Probably they haven’t even thought about this question.
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Azeroth has to spin, otherwise there would be no day and night cycles.
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Yea it spins . Also the moons spin around it .
There’s the planetarium in Karazhan at the top of my head , Also Alagalon , View from Argos Spaceship . Maybe other places .
Hell Even the Azeroth in the Warcraft Logo always has a slight spin when you see it at the end of the expansion cinematics .
The two moons don’t need to crash because they are probably on different orbits . I can’t remember a place where they are depicted both however .
Now the real question is the sun . I can’t remember a single place the sun was depicted . Maybe someone can help here ?
Wouldn’t it be cool if the sun and all other planets were actually spinning around Azeroth , aka medieval style universe . It is almost confirmed that Azeroth is the Center of the Universe anyways , being the whole Zereth Mortis and the name basically being Azereth (Okay primitive cutlers misspelled it and typed Azeroth ).
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If you are curious Skyrim is another game set in a world with two moons and althought the vanilla game doesn’t portrait the moons reallistically someone made a mod in wich both moons have reallistically moon phases with each moon with a different ration period. It is only missing eclipses.
We consider some “natural” stuff in the game to follow real-life mechanics and physics.
There is a day-night cycle, which is evident that Azeroth rotates around the star at the center of its star system. -=EDIT=- Dejarous got there before me.
It is entirely possible to have many sattelites. Jupiter has more than 80 last time I checked. Mars has 2 if you want a closer example. Earth has 1 “standard” sattelite (the Moon / Luna) and a few temporary quasi-satellites (list stolen from Wikipedia: 164207 Cardea, (277810) 2006 FV35, 2013 LX28, 2014 OL339, 469219 Kamoʻoalewa, 2020 PP1 and 2023 FW13) which do not orbit the planet itself but are gravitationally influenced by it to share a near-exact 1:1 orbit around the parent star as well. This can be used as an alternative to the mythos of “the comet that appears once every 1000 years to cause calamity” in some games.
As long as the satellites are sufficiently small, they can even share an orbit around their parent planet or even exchange orbits (see Janus and Epimitheus for Saturn).
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No, azeroth is flat! Don’t believe it. And the sun is a projection. It’s not even hot. I put a thermometer to it on the screen and it was room temperature.
Confirmed flat azeroth.
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Where is flatearther when you need him.
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the only thing flatearther fears - is sphere itself . . .
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We stop breathing if Azeroth doesnt spin! 
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Flatearthers all around the globe unite 
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Flat?
Then please explain why it takes so long to climb a mountain?
…flat…damned long-legged ones…
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We know for a fact that Azeroth spins on its own axis - you can see it from either Argus or the Vindicaar. Everyone can use the Lightforged portal in Stormwind now, so go have a look-see!
As for the moons, I have to assume they orbit the planet much as our own does IRL. How they don’t collide is another matter entirely, of which I have no immediate response beyond “fantasy setting.”
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There is flat earthers around the azeroth. The flat-earth theory is spreading around the globe 
only if you are a fury Warrior
#bladestormFTW
I love that achievement and it even goes through bubble!
I meant the poster but the achie is definitely worth a mention too!
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Not only do they spin and orbit , if elunes anything to go by they bloomin’ teleport too.