Below is the complete list of Richard A. Knaak’s WarCraft books in order. For this series, the chronological reading order is the same as the order of publication.
Publication Order of WarCraft Books
- Of Blood and Honor (2000)
(By Chris Metzen)
Of Blood and Honor was published in 2000 and is listed as book #1 in the WarCraft series. 
Publication Order of Warcraft: War Of The Ancients Books
Publication Order of WarCraft: The Sunwell Trilogy Books
with Kim Jae-Hwan
Publication Order of WarCraft: Legends Books
About WarCraft
Richard A. Knaak’s Warcraft fiction occupies a distinctive part of Blizzard Entertainment’s much larger shared universe. Warcraft is not a series written solely by Knaak; numerous authors have contributed novels, short fiction, comics, and other material to Azeroth. Knaak’s books are particularly important to the lore surrounding dragons, the Dragon Aspects, night elves, the War of the Ancients, and characters such as Rhonin, Krasus, Malfurion Stormrage, and Kalecgos. Across novels and graphic fiction, his work repeatedly reaches into events that shaped Azeroth long before the immediate conflicts of the games.
Day of the Dragon established many of the characters and ideas most closely associated with Knaak’s Warcraft writing. Set after the Second War, it follows the mage Rhonin on a dangerous mission involving the Dragonmaw clan and the captive red Dragon Aspect Alexstrasza. Rhonin’s companions include Vereesa Windrunner and the dwarf Falstad, while the mysterious mage Krasus is eventually revealed as Korialstrasz, Alexstrasza’s consort. Dragons are not simply powerful creatures in the story; their histories, relationships, and responsibilities become part of Warcraft’s wider mythology.
Knaak expanded that material dramatically in the War of the Ancients trilogy. Rhonin, Krasus, and the orc warrior Broxigar are transported thousands of years into Azeroth’s past, arriving during the period when the Burning Legion first threatened the world. Their story intersects with younger versions of Malfurion Stormrage, Illidan Stormrage, Tyrande Whisperwind, Queen Azshara, and other figures central to night elf history. The trilogy explores the conflict that culminates in the Sundering of ancient Kalimdor, turning an event already fundamental to Warcraft lore into a sustained epic narrative.
Dragons remain a major thread through Knaak’s later contributions. Night of the Dragon returns to Grim Batol and develops a threat connected with experiments involving dragonkind, while also bringing characters such as Krasus and the blue dragon Kalec into the story. Knaak likewise wrote The Sunwell Trilogy, a manga sequence illustrated by Jae-Hwan Kim, in which Kalec becomes involved with Anveena and the mystery surrounding the Sunwell. These works helped make the dragonflights one of the most recognizable recurring areas of his Warcraft bibliography.
Stormrage shifts the emphasis toward Malfurion and the Emerald Dream. With the Emerald Nightmare spreading and Malfurion trapped within its corruption, familiar figures including Tyrande become part of a struggle affecting dreamers throughout Azeroth. The novel gave sustained attention to concepts that had long existed within Warcraft lore but had not previously been explored at comparable length in a novel.
Wolfheart moves into the political landscape following the Cataclysm. King Varian Wrynn’s relationship with the worgen of Gilneas becomes important as tensions between the Alliance and Horde intensify, while Malfurion, Tyrande, and the night elves face warfare and internal change. Rather than concentrating principally on ancient mythology, the novel places Knaak’s familiar characters within the contemporary political struggles of Azeroth.
With Dawn of the Aspects, Knaak returned decisively to dragon history. Kalecgos experiences visions of an age before Alexstrasza, Malygos, Ysera, Nozdormu, and Neltharion became the legendary Dragon Aspects. Their confrontation with the enormous proto-dragon Galakrond reveals a much older layer of Azeroth’s past and examines how these creatures first became its great draconic guardians.
Knaak’s Warcraft books are therefore best viewed as one author’s interconnected contribution to a much broader franchise. His strongest continuity lies not in a single protagonist but in dragons, ancient history, night elf mythology, and recurring figures whose lives stretch across immense periods of Azeroth’s history.