Aldric Vale
Anchor · Lore & expansions
Anchors the 3D news desk and takes the big stories: expansions, lore and what comes next.
About the channel
World of Warcraft news, after dark
Azeroth After Dark is a small, automated news channel. Anchors at a 3D news desk and reporters out in the field talk through the latest World of Warcraft news for Retail, Classic and WoW: Forever, every two hours from 6 AM to midnight Eastern, and the live channel plays it all around the clock.
How this channel works
- The news comes from Wowhead, Icy Veins, Blizzard and r/wow. A Reddit post is a community post, a lead rather than a source of record: a story that starts from one uses web research on official and reliable pages, and those pages are cited on the episode page.
- The scripts are written with an AI model (Claude, by Anthropic) from those articles, sticking to what the sources say.
- The hosts are AI characters with synthetic voices. No real person reads the lines, and none of the hosts is a real person.
- Artwork such as posters and backgrounds may be AI-generated; generated illustrations are labelled on screen.
- The producer reviews and approves the episodes before they are published, and fixes or takes down anything that turns out wrong.
- Every episode page links its sources. They are the source of truth: for patch numbers, dates or class changes, check the original article.
Spotted something wrong? Contact us with the episode link and what needs fixing.
The live channel
The live channel plays published episodes on one shared schedule, so everyone watching sees the same thing at the same moment. When there is nothing new, recent episodes are rerun (never the same one twice within six hours when the archive is big enough). The watching count is the real number of open live players, nothing more. There is no chat and no ads. Google Analytics counts visits (visitors in the EU, the UK and Switzerland are asked first): see the privacy policy.
The desk and the field
Dorra Stonehymn
Co-anchor · Patch notes & Classic
Reads every patch note so you don't have to, and keeps an eye on Classic and WoW: Forever.
Elena Marsh
Anchor · Events, shop & housing
Covers holidays, the in-game shop and housing, and anything new to collect.
Grukk
Anchor · Raids & Mythic+
Reads patch notes for fun, has opinions about every tuning pass, and anchors the desk in a murloc onesie.
Lyra
On Location · Lore & collecting
Knows why things happened, not just what changed, and can't resist a new mount.
Tinkra Sparkwhistle
On Location · Test builds
Speed-reads test builds, loves a good number and explains the mechanics clearly.
Durgan Stoutbrew
On Location · Classic
Has raided since the old days, knows Classic and WoW: Forever inside out, and is fair about the new stuff.
Morwen Ashgrave
On Location · PvP
A competitive player with a deadpan streak who checks the hype against the numbers.
Sources and credits
- News sources: Wowhead, Icy Veins and Blizzard News, plus community posts from r/wow. Their articles and posts belong to their authors; each episode links the ones it summarises and credits Reddit posters by their username.
- Scripts: Claude, by Anthropic. Voices: synthetic text-to-speech.
- Type: Cinzel and Inter (SIL Open Font License).
- Hosting: Cloudflare Workers, R2 and D1.
Not affiliated with Blizzard
Azeroth After Dark is an unofficial fan project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by Blizzard Entertainment, Wowhead, Icy Veins or Reddit. World of Warcraft, Warcraft and Blizzard Entertainment are trademarks or registered trademarks of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.