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The World of Warcraft is an expansive universe. You're playing the game, you're fighting the bosses, you know the how, but do you know the why? Each week Matthew Rossi and Anne Stickney make sure you Know Your Lore by covering the history of the story behind World of Warcraft.

The rest, you might ask? Who is left after you covered fire, earth, water and air? Well, that's where things get tricky. In the World of Warcraft, things are never as simple as they might appear, and there are plenty of elementals that either mix up their elements or otherwise don't conform to the standard way of doing things.

The two major groups of non-standard elementals are mixed elementals (also known as elemental conglomerates; we discussed them before briefly) and revenants, minor elemental entities that may or may not be connected to the undead. It really depends on when they appear ... In Warcraft III, for instance, revenants were pretty unambiguously connected to undeath, but the issue has become clouded with their return in Wrath of the Lich King. There are also elemental-affiliated beings such as Flamewakers, Hydras and Core Hounds, beings infused with an elemental essence yet still seemingly flesh and blood to some degree.

Continue reading Know Your Lore: And the rest -- The elements, part six

Know Your Lore: And the rest -- The elements, part six originally appeared on WoW.com on Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:00:00 EST.  Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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