Is it realistic to say that there are +/- 4 years from start of one expansion to the start of the next? I took a guess with Anduins age in MoP, which I guessed 15. And from there I calculated back- and forwards.
BC - 3 years
WotLK - 7 years
Cat - 11 years
MoP - 15 years
WoD - 19 years
Legion - 23 years
BoA - 27 years
Shadow - 31 years
Dragon - 35 years
Could I be right?
Blizz has already told us canonically (at least until they retcon it) how long expansions and the time between them is.
Taken from Wowhead after a forum post by Steve Danuser (narrative director of WoW): -
| Year | Duration | Expansion |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Opening of the Dark Portal | |
| 0 - 25 | 25 years | Events of Warcraft 1, 2, and 3 |
| 25 - 26 | One year | World of Warcraft |
| 26 - 27 | One year | Burning Crusade |
| 27 - 28 | One year | Wrath of the Lich King |
| 28 - 30 | Two years | Cataclysm |
| 30 - 31 | One year | Mists of Pandaria |
| 31 - 32 | One year | Warlords of Draenor |
| 32 - 33 | One year | Legion (Four years after the end of WotLK) |
| 33 - 35 | Two years | Battle for Azeroth (Anduin’s age officially stated as 18) |
| 35 - 37 | Two Years | Shadowlands |
| 37 - 40 | Three Years | Time Skip between Shadowlands and Dragonflight |
| 40+ | Unknown | Dragonflight |
So as it stands Anduin is 25 at the start of DF, since he is stated to be 18 after we’re done with the Argus Campaign.
Edit: That is, provided that there’s no temporal shenaniganry going on, as some realms experience time differently, with Turalyon and Alleria experiencing a thousand years with the Army of the Light while only decades passed on Azeroth.
The trailer for WoW says it’s 5 years between WC3 and Vanilla.
Sssshhh, Danuser knows his game better!
Would you state the rest is fine? Hard to find any decent timetable for the lore because of the retcons and all…
The list is right, except for WCIII wich happened year 20-22.
Blizz generally avoids talking about how much time has passed between the various events, but for the rest there is little to contradict it outside the odd voiceline talking about years of downtime. So technically speaking it’s not a contradiction, if they never established it to begin with.
In WOW kind of RPG s or similar stuff (D&D , LotR etc…) Even in the old times , most of the intelligent beings are not measuring the years but the seasons that are passing… so I dont know if they are celebrating birthdays or such stuff… but the aging is mostly something you can observe i believe… and also there are many factors in the universe of Warcraft that can affect such ageism.
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