So, we have our main timeline where we have Outland, originally accessed by the dark portal. Then in WoD, the dark portal was reconnected to AU Draenor (which is 30 or so years in the past). In AU Draenor the Legion also attacked, but we seems to have stopped them in that timeline (which is probably why AU Gul’dan jumped ship and joined our timeline’s Legion).
To me it gets confusing… what happens after this? Is the dark portal canonically reconnected to Outland instead of AU Draenor? We have in-game portals to both places for sure, but what is the reality story-wise? We definitely can access Outland, as the “Safe Haven” cinematic with Go’el and Saurfang takes place there. Also, iirc multiple minor quests in Legion lead there, and the postmaster’s HQ in (Legion) Dalaran has destinations to Outland… but not Draenor.
So I’d assume that after the events of WoD, we lost the connection to AU Draenor. But then in BFA, during the Mag’har allied race scenario, the Horde, with the help of some other Bronze Dragons (?) opens up another portal to the same alternate universe, but into our present day instead of 30 years in the past?
I haven’t played that scenario yet, so… What are the implications of that, was that a one time thing to bring some Mag’har orcs to our Azeroth, or is that also a permanent portal to another universe? Thank God that AU Draenor hasn’t connected to some AU Azeroth which would complicate things even further…
OR, maybe are those portals to Stormshield and its Horde counterpart canon, so maybe we still have access to both Outland, and the past AND present versions of AU Draenor?