The Last Guardian

The Last Guardian is a novel by Jeff Grubb taking place in the Warcraft universe during the beginning of the First War.

An audiobook version read by Dick Hill was scheduled to be released in April, 2009.

Back-of-book description
In the mist-shrouded haze of the past, long before the beginning of recorded time, there stood the world of Azeroth. Every kind of magical being strode the countryside among the tribes of man, and all was at peace — until the arrival of the demons and horrors of the Burning Legion and their baneful Lord Sargeras, dark god of chaotic magic. Now Dragons, Dwarves, Elves, Goblins, Humans, and Orcs all vie for supremacy across the scattered kingdoms—part of a grand, malevolent scheme that will determine the fate of the world of

WARCRAFT

The Guardians of Tirisfal: a line of champions imbued with godlike powers, each one through the ages charged with fighting a lonely secret war against the Burning Legion. Medivh was fated from birth to become the greatest and most powerful of this noble order. But from the beginning a darkness tainted his soul, corrupting his innocence and turning to evil the powers that should have fought for good. Torn by two destinies, Medivh's struggle against the malice within him became one with the fate of Azeroth itself...and changed the world forever.

THE LAST GUARDIAN

An original tale of magic, warfare, and heroism based on the bestselling, award-winning electronic game from Blizzard Entertainment.

Factions

 * Stormwind
 * Black Tooth Grin clan
 * Blackrock clan
 * Bleeding Hollow clan
 * Burning Blade clan
 * Burning Legion
 * Court of Azeroth
 * Fourth Company
 * Fifth Company
 * Horde
 * King's Council
 * Kirin Tor
 * Order of Tirisfal
 * Shadow Council
 * Stormreaver clan
 * Twilight's Hammer clan

Locations

 * Azeroth
 * Alterac
 * Black Morass
 * Morass Road
 * Elwynn Forest
 * Stormwind City
 * Eastern Wall
 * Goldsmith's street
 * Merchant's District Wall
 * Stormwind Keep
 * King's Privy Quarters
 * Lower city (Stormwind)
 * Kalimdor
 * Well of Eternity
 * Karazhan
 * Karazhan Bailey
 * Lower Karazhan
 * Observatory
 * Khaz Modan
 * Ironforge
 * Kul Tiras
 * Lordaeron
 * Dalaran
 * Cross Island
 * Violet Citadel
 * Grand Library
 * Northshire Abbey
 * Quel'Thalas
 * Redridge Mountains
 * Stranglethorn Vale
 * Ulmat Thondr
 * Draenor
 * Hellfire Peninsula
 * Dark Portal
 * Great Dark Beyond
 * Twisting Nether
 * Infinite Abyss

Other

 * Circle of Warding
 * Feast of Scribes
 * First Days
 * Gracious Breeze
 * Great Royal Sword
 * Of Trapes and Lockes
 * The Lineage of Azeroth's Kings
 * The Song of Aegwynn
 * Denbrawn's Treatise on the "Song of Aegwynn"
 * Celestial vault
 * Astrolabe
 * Flamewine
 * Golden whistle
 * Falconer
 * Falcon
 * Scholar
 * Emu
 * Farseeing
 * Phosphorescent crystal
 * Vrocka
 * Wain
 * Whirligig
 * Sky-engine
 * Bucket brigade

Trivia

 * An unofficial Warcraft 3 campaign has been made to cover the events of this book.
 * In this book Khadgar was described as quite the daring student while he was a younger Dalaran pupil, often infiltrating libraries to learn about arcane knowledge. During the World of Warcraft beta mages were able to use the Khadgar's Unlocking spell in honor of this detail of the archmage's background.