Also possibly known as “Lobstrok”. Hostile lobster-like humanoids with limited intelligence that live in the oceans of Azeroth. Not much is known about them, although they may be an offshoot of the Aqir race, like the Qiraji and Nerubians. How much intelligence they have is unknown as they are deep sea creatures and mostly keep to themselves. it is likely the Makrura live much deeper underwater than is possible for the player to reach. The Warcraft RPG states that the Makrura live in the city of Mak’aru (which is described as being seemingly organic) and that the Makrura despise the Naga and are at war with them, although information from the Warcraft RPG may not necessarily be canon.

Horusaths are huge, powerful constructs of living stone, created by the Qiraji. The only known Horisath is Ossirian the Unscarred.

Warcraft canon now states that Ossirian is actually an Anubisath that was granted this new form after slaying the dragon Grakkarond.

Horusath look like the ancient Egyptian god Horus, who appeared as a man with the head of a falcon.

The Gnomes are the super-advanced race of Warcraft. Though the Dwarves, who live near the Gnomes’ former home of Gnomeregan, also have some advanced technology, the Gnomes provided them with some of the more critical designs for Dwarven weapons and tanks. They provided the Alliance with some of their inventions and personnel during the Second War, but in the Third war they did not send any actual personnel to fight. Only after the war did the rest of the Alliance discover that the Gnomes had been under attack by an enemy called the Troggs. Not wanting to further burden the other races during the Third War, they fought alone. Ultimately, they could not drive the Troggs from their home and released large amounts of radiation as an attempt to kill the Troggs and evacuated the city. This left about half of the Gnomish population alive to flee to Ironforge, the kingdom of the Dwarves.

Gnomes are famous for having a love for engineering and to create different mechanics and devices which are supposed to make life easier and gain the user avantages in combat. However, Gnomish Engineering is also famous for not always working as it is intended to do. For example, a Gnomish Shrink Ray may as well turn the user bigger and increase his/her power rather than make the target smaller and decrease its power (as the user of the ray planned). In more extreme cases, such an item-malfunction may give the user and sometimes the group the user is playing with larger problems.

For a time, it was argued that dynamic world-changing events were in extremely short supply in Warcraft. There was an overall feeling that the ongoing “wars” from which the game takes its name were external and out of touch from the player base. The only cross-faction interaction took place during server-crashing city raids and skirmishes in certain “hot spots” around the world such as the popular “Southshore Tug of War” in which Alliance and Horde forces would fight back and forth over the stretch of land between Southshore and Tarren Mill.

The first world events were added in the form of outdoor raid bosses that could be accessed without entering an instance. These bosses were the blue dragon Azuregos of Azshara and the Burning Legion demon Lord Kazzak in the Blasted Lands. These were followed by four green dragons corrupted by the “Emerald Nightmare.” In addition, certain areas of Azeroth experience an “elemental invasion” where waves of elemental-class monsters will run rampant for a time or until they are destroyed.[21]

Blizzard has also implemented holiday content that could be considered a world event. Valentine’s Day, Easter, Independence Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, as well as New Year’s and its lunar counterpart all have their Warcraft-themed counterparts. During these week-long events players partake in holiday-themed quests usually involving humorous references to real-world pop culture surrounding the holiday. For example, one of the Winter’s Veil (Christmas) quests involves fighting a creature known as the Greench and rescuing a kidnapped reindeer named Metzen (styled after lead designer, Chris Metzen).