Narrated zone lore for ZoneLore, at 64 kbps mono. This addon is data only — it does nothing on its own.

Beta: this is not the finished voice

What's in this pack is a proof of concept. Every line is recorded and the whole thing works end to end, but the voice was chosen to get all lines made at once. Delivery might be flat, audio can be bad, pronunciation can be wrong.

Fixing that isn't a per-line edit — it's a different voice and a fresh pass over the whole script, which means generating all 1000+ lines again. Each one costs money to synthesise and time to listen back to, which is the reason it's taking a while: it lands in batches, as it can be paid for.

The lore text these lines are read from is in beta too. It's read from warcraft.wiki.gg and trimmed automatically, so some entries run long or stop at an awkward point. Where the text gets rewritten, the narration for it gets regenerated — so a re-download now and then is expected while this settles.

If a line reads badly, report it. There's a Feedback button on lore.rusty.one, and the re-record is driven by what comes in. Supporting the project pays for the generation directly.

Which pack to install

Two packs, identical content at different bitrates:

Pack	Bitrate	Download
ZoneLore Audio	128 kbps	~790 MB
ZoneLore Audio 64 (this one)	64 kbps mono	~400 MB

This is the smaller pack. 64 kbps mono is close to transparent for speech, so it costs less than the gap between the numbers suggests — take it if the ~790 MB of ZoneLore Audio is more than you want to spend. A higher bitrate makes the current voice clearer, not better.

Both can be installed at once — ZoneLore plays the higher-quality one, and /zl audio switches between them.

Installing

Install ZoneLore first; this pack is inert without it. Extract into Interface/AddOns so the folder sits alongside ZoneLore, and leave the folder name as shipped — ZoneLore finds packs by folder name.

Neither addon declares a hard dependency on the other, so install order doesn't matter.

Compatibility

Built for Classic Era 1.15.9. The pack and ZoneLore work together as long as they share a major version.

Support

Every one of these 1000+ lines was paid for per character, and the re-record means paying for all of them again. If the narration is worth something to you, buy me a coffee — it's what funds the next batch.

Credits

The narration is generated from lore text derived from warcraft.wiki.gg and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Attribution: warcraft.wiki.gg contributors.

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