Who they are
The Skyborne are the new playable race announced for World of Warcraft: Forever. Blizzard describes them as windswept elves whose home, Zephras Isle, now needs protection.
Their story is important because it begins inside Forever rather than merely revisiting an earlier Warcraft arc. Windshapers join the Horde side of the new path, while High Order Skyborne join the Alliance side.
Their story belongs to Zephras Isle and also touches Stormwind and Elwynn and Durotar and Orgrimmar. A floating home threatened by forces that force the Skyborne back into the wider world.
Their story, step by step
- Step 1
A secluded people
The Skyborne begin as a people whose floating homeland has remained apart from the wider continents.
- Step 2
A threat ends isolation
The danger to Zephras Isle makes that separation untenable and turns defense of a home into a reason to seek allies.
- Step 3
Two political paths
Windshapers join the Horde and the High Order joins the Alliance, so a common origin opens into different faction futures.
Turning points
- Zephras Isle is threatened.
- The Skyborne choose Horde- or Alliance-aligned paths.
- Forever launches with their starting experience as a new entry into Azeroth.
Where their story stands now
Blizzard has announced the Skyborne and Zephras Isle for Forever, but the full campaign remains a launch-era story rather than a finished account.
Who they are tied to
Where this fits in the story
- Zephras Isle · step 1
A protected island
Start with a community that has stayed apart from the continents below.
- Zephras Isle · step 2
A threat breaks isolation
The island's danger makes staying hidden impossible and gives the Skyborne a reason to seek allies.
- Zephras Isle · step 3
Choose an allegiance
The Skyborne's Horde and Alliance paths turn a shared homeland into two different political futures.
- Zephras Isle · step 4
Enter Azeroth
From here, the familiar continents are not the past; they are the place where this new story will take root.