Warcraft: The Last Guardian
Jeff Grubb · 2002
The young mage Khadgar is sent by the Kirin Tor to the tower of Karazhan to become apprentice to Medivh, Guardian of Tirisfal and the most powerful mage alive. Medivh is brilliant, moody and often gone for days. As Khadgar settles in, orcs are raiding the borders of Stormwind, and he starts to suspect his master knows more about them than he admits.
What this adds if you've played the games
This is the story the 2016 film was built on, and the history Karazhan's ghosts replay in The Burning Crusade. You meet Khadgar decades before he's Legion's gray-bearded archmage, along with Medivh, Garona and Anduin Lothar, and you learn how the Dark Portal came to be. Grubb writes a tight, sad book that works even if the First War is ancient history to you. Of the early novels, it holds up best.
Where it fits
- Ties intoWarcraft: Orcs & Humans
Set in the years leading into the First War and during it, and it gives away how the war turns. Play the first game before it if you mean to.
Editions
Pocket Books paperback
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