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World of Warcraft (WoW) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) released in 2004 by Blizzard Entertainment.

It is the fourth released game set in the fantasy Warcraft universe, which was first introduced by in 1994.

World of Warcraft takes place within the Warcraft world of Azeroth, approximately four years after the events at the conclusion of Blizzard's previous Warcraft release, .

Blizzard Entertainment announced World of Warcraft on September 2, 2001.

The game was released on November 23, 2004, on the 10th anniversary of the Warcraft franchise.

A non-player character (NPC), sometimes known as a non-person character or non-playable character, in a game is any character that is not controlled by a player.

In video games, this usually means a character controlled by the computer through artificial intelligence.

In traditional tabletop role-playing games the term applies to characters controlled by the gamemaster or referee, rather than another player.

A quest in role-playing video games—including massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) and their predecessors, MUDs—is a task that a player-controlled character, "party", or group of characters may complete in order to gain a reward.

Rewards may include an increase in the character's experience in order to learn new skills and abilities, loot or treasure, in-game currency such as gold coins, access to new locations or areas, or any combination of the above.

Magic or mana is an attribute assigned to characters within a role-playing or video game that indicates their power to use special abilities or "spells".

Magic is usually measured in magic points or mana points, shortened as MP.

Different abilities will use up different amounts of MP.

When the MP of a character reaches zero, the character won't be able to use special abilities until some of their MP is recovered.

In pencil and paper games and computer and video games, an item is an object within the game world that can be collected by a player or, occasionally, a non-player character.

These items are sometimes called pick-ups.