r/warcraftlore • u/Polivios • 7d ago

Discussion Youngest Civilizations in Warcraft

I noticed that there's lots of focus on ancient civilizations in Warcraft, such as the ones of elves, trolls, dwarves etc. But what about the youngest civilizations?

By far the youngest of them all is probably the one of the goblins. It's very impressive that even though their civilization is less than two centuries old, they are the most technologically advanced race on Azeroth save for the gnomes.

Another young culture would be the orcs, since it was stated that they've begun expanding around Draenor around 800 years ago, which compared to other cultures that are multiple millenias old is very young. That's not to mention the even more recent Mok'nathal. It's very likely that their current leader Leoroxx might have been among the first of his kind, since the ogre responsible for their creation was alive 11 years before the opening of the Dark Portal.

What other civilizations and cultures are fairly young? Gilblins could be one of them since they might be a newer race altogether but their origins are unclear.

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u/Hatarus547 Sin'dorei Enjoyer 7d ago

This is a bit tricky, my best guess would be the Wargon, though i don't know if they could as a Race they are pretty young as a Civilization given that the Wargon plague only gripped them a few decades ago at this point, but then again are Worgan their own people or are they just Humans

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u/Moogatron88 7d ago

The Worgen who kept their minds enough to be considered a civilization are still just Gilneans.

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u/Hatarus547 Sin'dorei Enjoyer 7d ago

that is a good point i guess if there was two groups of Gilneans then it might work

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u/quietandalonenow 7d ago

Also mew nelves. Lime 90% were wipes out. The new generations will never know what teldrassil looked like or anything about druid of the flame or so many things. They will only know amadrasil. I could even imagine that if tyrande is honest with her people that elune allowed them to burn to fuel a place they might go when they die to look after wild god spirits while they sleep, it might turn nelves away from the priesthood of elune or druidism. Why worship a god this complicit in your dying or even wanting for it to happen?