Leading scientists agree that the world is flat. It is caveman times and they drew a picture of a flat land and a sun god on the wall.Wait, nope, turns out it's round.They retconned it!New information isn't a retcon. If Baine was adopted, that wouldn't be a retcon. That would be something he didn't know and we didn't know. If Azeroth once had been visited by a cosmos traveling light-entity before the Titans ever arrived and before the elementals rise, that wouldn't be a retcon. That would be something we were unaware of. We as an audience aren't omnipotent, that defeats the purpose of story. Instead it would be new information that we weren't aware of.If they said, "Let's pretend Cairne didn't die, we're gonna walk back on that." That would be a retcon.Besides, Khad isn't even a dragon. People who play WoW are it's number one haters I swear.Now if you dislike the way a story goes, that's fine. Just don't cling to bandwagon buzz words.
At this point, WoW fans just want to freak out about anything.Sometimes, things are just mistakes, guys.
Its an error guys cool it with the knee-jerk hyperbolic outrage lol
But will any of the lore contained herein matter in two years? Or will it all be handwaved away as "From a dragon's point of view" when Danuser wants to contradict it?A little pushback on the "new information isn't a retcon" talk up there: Let's look at the recent Sylvanas novel. This is a perfect example of retcon vs. not retcon. (Just finished reading it, so it's fresh in my mind.) I'm going to get slightly spoilery, but not much.The first, say, three quarters of the book or so all fits in the "new information" category. It's all filling in details about her life that we didn't know before. Even the details of things that happened in the WC3 era fit into this category - it's details about stuff we hadn't really seen before, like Sylvanas getting her body back. (I haven't read all the novels, so for all I know there's another version of that story.) But then we get to part 4 of the book - and that is where, yes, the retcons start. This is because it's not filling in details anymore - it's changing already published material. For instance, there is a short story still on the Warcraft website, Edge of Night, that tells the story of Sylvanas throwing herself from Icecrown and what happened to her in a shadowy limbo between life and death. The novel completely changes this story. It changes it from a pact made between Sylvanas and the Val'kyr, and inserts a whole monologuing-villian Jailer encounter that does not appear in the original story. The rest of the book proceeds to do the same to other events that pass through the expansions from Cata onward. (I'd bet you 100k gold that when the Legion dev team wrote the Stormheim story, "the Jailer" was nowhere in their minds.) Hell, it contradicts in many ways the previous novel about Sylvanas (Before the Storm). Friends, that's not "new information." That's a retcon. It's on the same level as "let's just pretend Cairne never died." That's why the initial reaction to the post wasn't "huh, must be bad copywriting." It was dismay that they'd be trying to pull something like that again - because that's pretty much what Shadowlands did to the entire story of Warcraft, particularly Wrath and anything to do with the Lich King.
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Watch people still running with it as if it's canon, even after it's been clarified it's an error.
Khadgar being a Bronze Dragon would be like if Neville in Harry Potter was a mandrake or some ^&*! the entire time.