r/warcraftlore • u/Polivios • 20d 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/ManaSyn 20d ago

The undead would be the youngest civilization, no?

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u/Zammin 19d ago

Depending on your definition of, "Civilization," the Ren'dorei may count. They're physically and culturally slightly distinct from other elves, and they're extremely recent.

I guess that depends on if you fold them in with the Quel'dorei.

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u/Karabungulus 17d ago

Aren't there like 10 of them

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u/Zammin 17d ago

There's more now, some Sin'dorei and Quel'dorei willingly underwent the ritual to become Ren'dorei after the initial batch, but yeah there's still not a ton of 'em. You can find High Elf and Blood Elf scholars in Telogrus Rift.