Legal & Trademark Notice

Who owns World of Warcraft, and where the site's data comes from

Last updated: 31 October 2026

About this project

Hero of Azeroth is a free, non-commercial fan project, made by players for the World of Warcraft community. Nothing on the site is for sale, and there is no advertising on it.

Ownership and trademarks

World of Warcraft, Warcraft, Battle.net and Blizzard Entertainment are trademarks of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. Game artwork, images and other rights connected with the game belong to their respective rights holders.

The site claims neither them nor the game data: it only shows what is already published for players.

Independent fan site

Hero of Azeroth is not created, affiliated with, endorsed or supported by Blizzard Entertainment.

Questions and corrections about the site go to its author rather than to Blizzard.

Data sources

Character information is read through Blizzard's official Web API - the details the game publishes about characters, their collections and their reputations. It is read only for the characters somebody has looked up: the site knows nothing about a character nobody has opened.

Some of what a page shows comes from other people's services: character portraits and background artwork from Blizzard's media service, and item and achievement icons and tooltips from Wowhead (ZamImg). As on any site, those requests carry the visitor's IP address to those services.

The catalogue of collectable items the collections are counted against is assembled from publicly published community data, and refreshed after new versions of the game ship.

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