This article is about a fan created Custom Map designed on Warcraft III with the World Editor. The map contains non-Blizzard information, and events are not official. It should not be taken as representing official lore!

Azeroth Wars is a Warcraft III map and was first created by Augur, later succeeded by Azeroth War: Legacy Reborn, created by Avrion, Railen and EagleMan. Their website can be found at awlr.blogspot.com.[1]

GenreEdit

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The aim of Azeroth Wars and Azeroth Wars: LR is a strategy map; make alliances and defeat the other players. The players control notable groups or races during Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos and the Frozen Throne campaigns.

FactionsEdit

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Unlike Dark Ages of Warcraft, which factions have slightly changed over time, the factions of Azeroth Wars have almost completely stayed the same.

• Red - The Undead Scourge.
• Blue - The Burning Legion.
  • Controls a portion of Undead.
• Teal - The Fel Horde.
  • Outland and Blackrock Mountain.
• Purple - Lordaeron.
• Yellow - Dwarves of Khaz Modan.
• Orange - Dalaran.
  • Gains Theramore soon after the Plague.
• Green - Elves of Quel'Thalas.
• Pink - Thrall's Horde.
  • Can become the Fel Orcs.
• Grey - Tauren & Trolls.
• Light Blue - Night Elves.
• Dark Green - Arathor Kingdom.
• Brown - Druids. (in earlier Version this Color was the Naga under queen azshara.)

EventsEdit

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There are many Events, for Different races amongst the Game that follow the Events closly to those depicted in Warcraft 3 Reign of chaos / frozen throne, This is a List of those Events.

• Red - Plague, When Red Activates the Plague, All Peasants in the Lordaeron/dalaran region become Zombies under Reds Command, This is not a Threat, but a distraction, can be used to strike andorhal/Eliminate Lordaerons food/Supplies, This can be enabled by typing "-Plague", You also Gain a Hero through this Event, Baron Rivendare, will spawn in Caer darrow.

• Red - Sapherion, There is a Hostile Creep in borean Tundra known as "Saphiron" Arthas Reanimated Saphiron on hi Journey to icecrown to stop Illidan from Destroying the lich king. once you kill the Creep, it will spawn as a very powerful frost wyrm which can be a Key to harrassing Lordaeron via stratholme invasion.

• Red - Arthas, as the Story depicts, the Scourge may Gain Control of Arthas as long as He stands as Prince of Lordaeron, (Meaning before level 12 as He will become King of Lordaeron at that level) You must kill Stratholme castle as you will Gain Vision of The Prince and Once he Dies after Stratholme is Raised, he will shortly Spawn infront of the Frozen Throne.

• Red - Kel'thuzad's death, as the Story depicts, Kel'thuzad MAY Die, Once he Dies in Necromancer form, He is Unrevivable. But If you Destroy the Sunwell in Quel'thalas, Kel'thuzad shall be revived as a Lich, Once in Lich Form, Kel'thuzad is Revivable. Keep in Mind, Kel'thuzad in human form is more powerful then the Lich form.

• Red - The Lich King Arthas, If Arthas in Death Knight form Reachs the Frozen throne at level 12, it is Time, return him to Icecrown and Destroy the obolisks, then the frozen throne, Arthas will then Fuse Bodies with Ner'zhul and Become the single most Powerful Hero in the game. (REMEMBER: DON'T DO THIS BEFORE LEVEL 12, AS YOU WILL LOSE CONTROL OF ALL SCOURGE FORCES IF DONE BEFORE LEVEL 12.)

• Red/Blue - The Forsaken, If Red or Blue Happens to Kill Sylvanas windrunner, (Greens Archer hero) or Kills silvermoon castle, You will Be Granted a Second chance of Life. if The Lich King Dies, (in Arthas or Frozen form) Red will be Granted The Dark lady Sylvanas windrunner as a hero, some Workers, some soldiers, and a Boat, Use this Boat if Nessessary to Leave Lordaeron, As they will spawn north west of Lordaeron city, REMEMBER: DONT SUICIDE FOR THIS. THERE IS NO UNDERCITY EVENT (Yet) DON'T BE FOOLED. if Blue However, Loses both his Great Demons, He too, will gain an assortment of Units, some Workers, and the Hero Varimathris, Same terms go for as Red, Sylvanas Windrunner Must be Dead, For you to Gain the Forsaken.

• Red / Blue - Summoning the Burning legion, There are two Methods to Summon the burning Legion, The first one is retrieve the Book of medivh from Dalaran dungeons which is Safely Tucked under dalaran city through the portal beside the Violet citidel. The book pedistal is Down there, Break the Pedistal and it will drop an Item "The Book of Medivh" Whether you choose to Stealth your Perma stealth dreadlords In or Take the city by Force, Make sure Purple doesn't Make his way to Dalaran and take the Book first, as you will have a fight for it. -WATCH- For Arcane sentry, as your dreadlords will Die when Approaching the Towers with them on, There is a Second Method, Kel'thuzad Must be in Lich Form, he has an Ability to Summon the Legion.

• Teal/Pink - Teal May Offer the Bloodpact to Thralls Horde, doing this will Revoke your Heroes: Thrall, and Drek'thar. and you will gain Powerful Fel orcs, WARNING: YOU WILL BE FORCED TO UNALLY GRAY, AND HE WILL NOT TAKE KINDLEY TO YOUR BETRAYAL. You will gain: Fel Orc workers summonable by Greathall/Grom, Grom will become a Fel Orc, Dealing Chaos Damage, a Far more powerful type of Attack.

• Pink - Pink Starts in a tight situation, you sit between Deciding the fate of the Orcish Horde, Shall you stay and Fight Lordaeron? Move South to Destroy Stromgarde? Accept the Bloodpact? Or move to Kalimdor and Discover Orgrimmar, to Discover Orgrimmar, the Hero thrall must reach the Shores of durotar (Region east of Northern Barrens.) Once you arive, there will be 8 Quilboar mobs ready to Fight you, your forces you freed from Durnhold should suffice to defeat them, After two Minutes, the Orcs in Durotar will Die, and orgrimmar will be built, Orgrimmar gives you a +20 gold per turn Bonus, and Can spawn peons, and Blademasters. ORGIMMAR CAN NOT BE REBUILT. SO DONT LOSE IT.

• Pink - Durnholde keep, At the start of the game, you sit infront of Durnhold Keep. inside the Keep, your bretheren are Captive. Destroy the Guard tower, and a Decent amount of Soldiers will Spawn, use those to Sail to kalimdor, Accept the Bloodpact, move south to the dwarves / stromgarde, or Fight Dalaran.

• Gray - Capturable bases, The Trolls over all are a very very veritile Race, capable of Many many possiblities, One being Move to Northrend. Take Zul'drak, and Destroy red with the powerful Icetroll units, Another Being Stay on Kalimdor and Take Thunderbluff - Home of the Tauren, Thunderbluff allows you to Research age of Prosperity, which will Aid you very Well. and it is Free to research.

• Gray - Bloodpact outcome, If Pink happens to Backstab you and Move to Join Teal in Southern Eastern Kingdoms, You are left for dead, But there is still a chance at life, as you will gain Thrall, and Drek'thar, MAKE SURE TO DESTROY PINKS DUSTWALLOW BASE IF HE ACCEPTS.

• Light blue - Shen'Dralar, if you happen to Push pink/Gray back in the War for kalimdor, make sure to detour to diremaul and pick up the very Powerful artifact there, and the Units.

• Brown - Malfurion/cenarius, If You are unfortunate enough to have Cenarius Die, He will drop the horn of cenarius, an item which you may take to moonglade, and summon a replacement hero, Malfurion Stormrage. (WARNING: DONT SUICIDE CENARIUS. IT IS NOT WORTH IT.)

• Dark green - Stormwind Harbor, After 5minutes of game time, Stormwind harbor Will open. use the harbor as a vital naval base/refuge. Teal will rarely Strike at stormwind Harbor after clearing the city, after the 5 minutes, you will be given control of the gate, and a powerful naval base.

• Dark green - Thoras Trollbane, This Hero starts as unrevivable, However, if you destroy Black temple This Hero will Finally be revivable (IF HE DIED BEFORE DESTROYING THE TEMPLE. HE WILL REMAIN DEAD.)

• Dark green - Yellow, Orange, Purple, Green - Gilneas, Gilneas is Capturable by any nation of the North / South alliances. You Must destroy Graymanes tower (the largest one in the middle) and the City will become yours, Remember; if you are assaulting in the latest version, Remember to assault from the gate, as you will gain the ships as well.

• Yellow - Brann Bronzebeard, Bring Muradin to the Stormpeaks, And you will Gain the explorer Brann Bronzebeard.

• Yellow - Aerie Peak, Yellow will gain aerie Peak after He Brings King magni There, or Ironforge dies, Remember; If you plan to suicide Ironforge, do so and take the items it Drops, this usualy is Not the Most wise option, as the Tram will no longer operate.

• Yellow - The Tram, Yellow may research the Tram in Ironforge, this will give Dark green and yellow an income Bonus as well as quick transportation between stormwind and Ironforge.

• Orange - Kirin Tor, The Kirin Tor are Powerful Wizard units you may Research at the violet citidel, these units have Very strong abilities, Do NOT Waste them.

• Orange - Theramore, You Shall gain theramore Shortly after Red Unleashes the Plague of Undeath. Remember to put your ships at the theramore bridge as a defence against the night elves / Orcs.

• Purple - King Arthas, if Arthas reachs level 12, Terenas in Lordaeron castle will pass away of old age, and drop the Crown, remember to pick up the Crown with Arthas, and He will become a powerful new hero.

• Purple - Alexandros Mograine, You shall Gain Alexandros Mograine as a Second chance hero is Stratholme/Arthas dies, THIS IS NOT A GOOD HERO TO SUICIDE FOR, AS HE IS ONLY USEFUL FOR COUNTERING REDS ADVANCEMENT, AND IT NOT WORTH GIVING UP WESTERN LORDAERON / STRATHOLME FOR.

• Purple - Kul'tiras, If Lordaeron city/Stratholme dies, You will Gain the island city of Kul'tiras. this is a Helpful point, Because it is out of the way, and rarely attacked, You will also Gain Admiral Daelin Proudmoore, Who can Summon his Flagship, a very powerful Battleship.

• Green - Blood elves, If The Rune stones of Quel'thalas happen to Die, and silvermoon palace destroyed, You will gain the Blood elves in Dalaran dungeons, Kael'thas Carries "Kael'thas Magical disco stick" Which can be dropped near the Dalaran dungeons portal and will teleport you to Outland in Netherstorm. (NOTE: THIS IS ONLY WORTH SUICIDING FOR IF IT IS LATE GAME.)