WoW Lore Vault
This vault organizes Warcraft character lore, worldbuilding references, history, taxonomy, and longer writing for Morrivar Company and related stories.
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- Characters - main character table.
- Non-player Characters - supporting figures, canon NPCs, contacts, patrons, and antagonists.
- Groups - factions, orders, companies, houses, clans, and other collective entities.
- Locations - cities, zones, kingdoms, realms, and other places.
- Events - major wars, campaigns, disasters, and historical events.
- Races and Subraces - race/species notes and ancestry or cultural subgroup notes.
Main Branches
- Entities - individually addressable lore subjects.
- Taxonomy - classification notes such as races, subraces, and undead types.
- History - chronology and timeline support.
- Writings - prose biographies, drafts, and other longer writing.
- Assets - images and other supporting media.
- System - templates, bases, scripts, and publishing support.
- Scratch - temporary working material.
Character Notes
Character notes use frontmatter as the structured source of truth, then present the useful parts in the body:
- Header image, portrait, display name, race/subrace, class/spec, and faction are shown in the visual header.
- The
Character Sheetcallout shows identity and vital data that is not already repeated elsewhere. Relationships,Affiliations,Timeline,Hooks, andWritingsremain normal Markdown body sections.
When changing a character’s Header Background, update the frontmatter first, then run:
When changing identity or vital frontmatter shown in the character sheet, run:
Conventions
- Current faction belongs in
Faction. - All memberships, former loyalties, houses, orders, and political ties belong in
Affiliations. Racemeans species or fantasy race.Subracecovers origin, ethnicity, ancestry, or cultural variant. UseN/Awhen no subrace applies.- Undead characters should have
Condition: Undead; death knights are undead. - Use city/capital header images when a race or subrace has a clear capital. Use shared headers where the people share a homeland, such as the Dracthyr.