If only this book could give an explanation for the events of Dragonflight and Cataclysm.In Cataclysm and Legion (and in the books), it is confirmed that dragons can no longer have children, only the eggs that still remain are their last descendants. But in Dragonflight, with the "new age of dragons", these events seem to go completely unnoticed. No explanation, nothing, not even a little mention.
A "definitive guide" huh.Chronicles was literally called a "definitive guide" too. Unfortunately I can't trust these books anymore, they aren't lore bibles, they're "perspectives that can be changed whenever Blizzard's writers are bored", as we saw in the recent interviews.I only buy into concrete lore, not lore made of sand.
It'll be canon until it's not. This'll be "from the dragon's perspective" or something.
Release date AFTER Christmas. Dumb.
I hate to have cause to react negatively to a new lore book, but I think that the current, retcon-happy, "unreliable narrator"-direction of lore kind of makes books like this fall flat at best (and outright redundant at worst). That blurb at the beginning ("Unending Sands of Time") is, unfortunately, a good example of this. And after all, if the series penned as the definitive (Blizzard's words) lore bible for Warcraft (Chronicle) can be bumped off after ~3 years since its launch, what hope does this work have?I really hope Chris' return makes them reconsider all this, because I really like Blizzard's current direction of releasing more lore books, but the aforementioned creative direction robs them of any creative or emotional impact.
The lore team relies heavily on unreliable narrative for everything they write, there is nothing "definitive" about this.