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The War of the Ancients Trilogy by [[Richard Knaak]] is a ''[[War CraftWarcraft]]'' novel set in the [[Warcraft Expanded Universe]]. It chronicles the events of the titular War of the Ancients where the Night Elves fight against the Burning Legion and attempt to save the planet from total annihilation. The story is noteworthy for the fact that it stars three characters from the present day Azeroth time line who travel back to the event and enact subtle changes. Many believe that the book was written to actually justify some of the changes to the Warcraft time line. However, few of the retcons are related to the most egregious retcons that remain unanswered.
 
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** Xavius experiences this after Furion defeats him the first time. Apparently Sargeras wasn't terribly happy about the first portal's destruction.
* [[Flanderization]]
* [[Foregone Conclusion]]: If you are familiar with the [[War CraftWarcraft]] games, you should know {{spoiler|the fate of Illidan and Azshara, or how the war ends}}.
** However, due to the time traveling involved, several things are different from the backstory given in the [[War CraftWarcraft]] III manual. Whether or not this has any impact on the characters involved going forward is debatable
* [[Friend to All Living Things]]:
** Played with [[God Save Us From the Queen|Queen Azshara]] who, as a sorceress (and one of the most powerful magic-users), easily makes friend with monstrous felhunter demons.
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* [[Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory]]
* [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]]: Brox.
* [[Spanner in Thethe Works]]: The heroes may have won the war against the Burning Legion, but what stopped the {{spoiler|Old Gods from breaking out of their prison was that they didn't expect Deathwing to be so much attached to the Dragon Soul}}.
* [[Supporting Leader]]: Jarod Shadowsong in the last battle.
* [[Temporal Paradox]]: Averted. Apparently, you can change the past. A powerful Demon Lord is killed before the Second War and the Blue Dragon Flight is saved from total annihilation. Nothing of "real" consequence actually occurs, though.
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** To expand on that, the blue dragonflight was wiped out in the original timeline, but eggs were saved in the altered one. This helps Malygos become sane again, and in his sanity, he starts doing his job again: which amounts to banning magic under penalty of death, and disposing of the magic in a way that will accidentally blow up the world. If the eggs were never saved, he would still be depressed and reclusive, as well as having no minions.
** However, this action restored his dragonflight, but his insanity is later retconned into still being fully around until Tyri brings the nether drakes to the Nexus much later.
* [[This Is Your Brain Onon Evil|This Is Your Brain On Magic]]
* [[Time Police]]: The role of the Dragon Aspect of Time, apparently.
* [[Time Travel]]: see above.
* [[Villain Withwith Good Publicity]]: Until the very end, the main characters are the only ones who know Azshara is not [[Save the Princess|captured by the demons]]. A few do suspect so, but decide not to bring it up because it would turn pretty much everyone else against them.
** Which makes everyone confused when an assassin kills {{spoiler|Ravencrest}} while screaming her name.
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Neltharion, [[Motive Decay|at first]]. Also some of the Highborn.
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