New Warcraft Short Story: "Faith & Flame"

Posted 2025/06/10 at 12:01 PM by Squishei

Since she was small, Faerin Lothar has felt a call deep within her to brave the darkness. Now Faerin feels that call again, compelling her to leave Hallowfall with Anduin and the outlanders. Join Faerin Lothar for a special fireside telling of our newest short story.

Join Faerin Lothar for a special fireside telling of our newest short story, "Faith & Flame."

Written by L. L. McKinney, Illustrated by Zoltan Boros, and Narrated by Paris Blu as Faerin Lothar.

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Then, find out if Faerin is equal to the task ahead of her in the Rise of the Red Dawn story campaign arriving with The War Within: Legacy of Arathor, arriving on June 17.

And, if you’re catching up with The War Within story, embark on a legendary narrative journey with "Heartlands," a 5-part audio novella written by Adam Christopher and narrated by Chris Metzen.

Keep an eye on worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/news for more details on The War Within: Legacy of Arathor.

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Comment by puresmokeyNot really a fan of Faerin tbhComment by FlynAh, more of that garbage arathi highland story I presume ?Comment by CorpselanceEven if we had gotten a Yrel origin story during WoD, she'd still be as hated as today, too, I bet.Comment by stummyzYBN faerinComment by drekisithoh boy another Faerin post I sure hope the comments aren't racist—Comment by otternapPeople say they don't like Faerin because she's boring and not fleshed out... but isn't this what this short story and patch are for? We're stuck with her since she's Anduin's love interest, better get used to her - or just say you hate women of color - whichever is easier for you!Comment by ConsecraMan if only they had a game that is making tens of millions a year that they could put this story into instead of pushing important lore events into $%^& no one cares about. Alas they don't have such a thing.Comment by ThrizarConsidering I've really liked most of the female characters WoW has created, from Sylvannas, Jaina, Alleria, Kleia, Vyranoth, Xala'tath, so many of the Nightborne Campaign NPC's and to a lesser extent Tyrande.

This character manages to be everywhere while also doing nothing at the same time, instead of fighting the enemies of her people and being the center piece of the Lamp Lighters she claims to be, she teaches us how to cook, play minigames and tells us how sad their lives are underground without their emperor that no one elaborates on.

She is one of the biggest standing issues players have with the game is that her and many other characters have no teeth.Comment by BestCollectorI love Faerin! She is STRONG and INDEPENDENT woman!Comment by GreenTangNgl, I honestly don’t care about faerin as a character. Just bleh. And good point too, I loved Vyranoth and wish we had more of her, didn’t enjoy the earth dragon whatever his name, but Vyranoth and Fyyrak were sick AFComment by rcn1155Considering I've really liked most of the female characters WoW has created, from Sylvannas, Jaina, Alleria, Kleia, Vyranoth, Xala'tath, so many of the Nightborne Campaign NPC's and to a lesser extent Tyrande.

This character manages to be everywhere while also doing nothing at the same time, instead of fighting the enemies of her people and being the center piece of the Lamp Lighters she claims to be, she teaches us how to cook, play minigames and tells us how sad their lives are underground without their emperor that no one elaborates on.

She is one of the biggest standing issues players have with the game is that her and many other characters have no teeth.Comment by IronekkOh, it's this mary sue again.Comment by thetsoniPeople say they don't like Faerin because she's boring and not fleshed out... but isn't this what this short story and patch are for? We're stuck with her since she's Anduin's love interest, better get used to her - or just say you hate women of color - whichever is easier for you!Comment by OkamiShiroBangalore, is it you?Comment by FelfluxBFA was actually peak human lore and all the humanity that we needed for a while, we can stop making this the Arathi Empire expansion and get back to the Void stuff anytime now.Comment by Raynurucan we get some Vulpera stories instead? :)Comment by TessellaPeople say they don't like Faerin because she's boring and not fleshed out... but isn't this what this short story and patch are for? We're stuck with her since she's Anduin's love interest, better get used to her - or just say you hate women of color - whichever is easier for you!Comment by KrislingPeople say they don't like Faerin because she's boring and not fleshed out... but isn't this what this short story and patch are for? We're stuck with her since she's Anduin's love interest, better get used to her - or just say you hate women of color - whichever is easier for you!Comment by redacteduserPeople say they don't like Faerin because she's boring and not fleshed out... but isn't this what this short story and patch are for? We're stuck with her since she's Anduin's love interest, better get used to her - or just say you hate women of color - whichever is easier for you!Comment by FelfluxThere's tonnes of legitimate reasons to find her character shoe-horned in and overwhelmingly annoying, and none of them has to do with her being a PoC.

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