In the game, players design a character to play based on a number of starting options, such as the race of a character and its type or class. The latest expansion, Shadowlands, introduced the eponymous Shadowlands, a realm composed of five major zones: Bastion, Maldraxxus, Ardenweald, Ravendreth, and the Maw. The seventh expansion, Battle for Azeroth, added two new continents to the center of Azeroth. The expansion Legion adds the Broken Isles, an island chain near the Maelstrom in the middle of the Great Sea, and the damaged planet Argus, the headquarters of the Burning Legion. Warlords of Draenor introduced the planet of Draenor, a version of Outland was before its partial destruction. The next expansion, Mists of Pandaria, added Pandaria, the southern continent previously hidden behind a perennial mist cover.

Wrath of the Lich King and Cataclysm expanded upon Azeroth and respectively added Northrend, the frigid northern continent of Azeroth, and drastically changed various other continents by destroying some and unveiling new ones. The first, The Burning Crusade, introduced a second planet, Outland. Post-release expansions have extended the game's universe. The game of World of Warcraft, or WoW, is set in a fictional planet known as Azeroth.

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