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WarCraft: Orcs & Humans

Trivia

The red banner visible during orc briefings is the same as banner of Sarlac in the game Blackthorne, also developed by Blizzard. You can see it on the folllowing screenshot: http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/blackthorne/screenshots/gameShotId,28057/

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In addition to a board game and Sword & Sorcery Studios' 2003 pen-and-paper RPG system, the Warcraft setting has yielded quite a number of novels. Pocket Books have published a handful of distinct titles:

• Day of the Dragon (2001), by Richard A. Knaak, elapsing between Warcrafts II and III;
• Lord of the Clans (2001), by Christie Golden;
• The Last Guardian (2001), by Jeff Grubb; also there is
• Of Blood and Honour (2001), an e-book by Warcraft developer Chris Metzen.

Two self-contained Warcraft trilogies have also been published or are in the process of being published. Richard A. Knaak's War of the Ancients trilogy features Azeroth's prehistory being subtly altered by visitors from its present:

1. The Well of Eternity (2004);
2. The Demon Soul (2004); and
3. The Sundering (2005).

He has also written the Sunwell Trilogy, graphic works in the Korean "manhwa" tradition, illustrated by Jae-Hwan Kim:

1. Dragon Hunt (2005);
2. Shadows of Ice (2006); and
3. a third installment as yet untitled and of an unknown to-be-published date 8)

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If you repeatedly click on any orcish unit he will eventually say "zug zug!" A little known fact is that in the 1981 Kubrick-directed film Cavemen "zug zug" is caveman-speak for sexual intercourse. I don't know if Blizzard intentionally did this, but it's interesting anyway.

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Warcraft was a game of many "firsts" in the RTS world. It features the first random map generator, the first RTS game to support multiplayer capability, the first to have multiple resource types to harvest.

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A Warcraft novel entitled The Last Guardian and written by Charles L. Grant will be released in October 2000 (ISBN 0-671-04151-7).

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