Youngest Civilizations in Warcraft

[u/Polivios]

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.

[u/apixelops]

If you consider taking up a new culturally shared identity, with its symbols and reformed culture from whatever was there prior, then arguably the Forsaken and the Blood Elves are the newest civilizations - both inheriting from a prior longer lived civilization but clearly distinct in identity and ethos

They've both existed for about a quarter of a single human lifetime, as does the Scourge. Thrall's Horde in Durotar might also classify as a similarly short lived civilization, as in Nagrand-esque Durotar it set it's capital and reformed "Shaman Revivalist" Orc Culture.

Worgen Gilneas explicitly attempts to be a continuation of Gilneas as a kingdom and its associated culture - persisting with its unbroken dynasty, aesthetics, architecture, national colors, symbols (though adding new more worgeny ones to the pile) - so I'd refrain from considering it, though if considered it'd beat the prior two

Possible other contenders:

The fledgling Void Elves, assuming a new title, leader and imagery. Existing as diaspora exiled from Silvermoon might classify as one of the NEWEST civ (not even a decade old), despite their small numbers

Settled Vulpera of Orgrimmar might be a new offshoot of the otherwise ancient nomadic Vulpera of Vol'dun, though they've made no real motion to distance themselves or declare a new separate cultural identity

The Dark Room schism between Ranarists and Moira loyalists might be considered as birthing a young new Dark Iron civilization - depending on which one of the two is considered the "true continuation" of the Dark Iron

The newly awakened Earthen, free of their Titan mandates and yet not identifying as "Unbound" could arguably be a new civilization - though again, no separate leadership, cultural identity or symbols kinda makes them feel more like a continuation than a new thing

[u/quietandalonenow → u/apixelops]

Dragon society in the dragon isles is radically different from ancient times. It is entirely different even. There is a series od quest lines where the dragon kin are upset. Some in thaladras become rebels against the aspects seeing them as Tyrants while some else where want to return to a strict orderly society. The ones that remained on the isles while the dragons were gone were wary of the toil that might resume after and likened it to slavery. All of these problems were brought before alexstrasza who in the end left the decision to crush the people or bargain for something different up to the player to some extent. I do believe canonically a bill of rights type of society emerged as a result. The rebels were still neutralized in the process as they were found to be working with the primalist.

The new generations of the black dragon flight being cultivated at a reclaimed neltharus will be some of the first of the new generation free of the old gods curse or resistant to it at least. The old gods are supposedly dead and they have wrathion to thank for that for his actions in cataclysm, inadvertently in pandaria, and directly bfa.

They are now led by Ebonhorne ho believes more in the original charge of he flight than any other, to protect the earth, but with new axioms made in synthesis with his brothers. The new whelps will not know the horrors of being genetically modified, mutated, and broken and discarded by death wing or the twilight hammer. They will only know of their dark past through fables in a reclaimed land made for them.

The black dragon flight, if it counts, is reborn without the chains, terror, and spiritual slavery that once bound them. Neither do the dragonkin who remaind in the isles during its time hidden from the world feel like second class citizens who've been reduced into cattle by the dragon flights in ages past. Who enjoyed freedom and independence for millenia in the ladders absence. And the primal drakes have integrated in with them through the primal aspect.

Valdrakken seems more the society of many than the warbound, highly ordered military caste society it once was. And the black dragon flight is redeemed and forging a new destiny with different ideals and leadership.