Years had passed since the Space Time Matter incident; Edmund Turkin's research on Space Time Matter was in custody of a government agency. However, his younger brother Jack and younger sister Alice had the research log and data secretly. They had witnessed their older brother's trial and visited him in prison later. Alice became a rational sociologist and had an illegitimate son Matthew with a womanizing playboy. Alice and Jack had occasional family gatherings bringing her son and his daughter, Viola together. Matthew got a double degree in engineering and computer science, he worked as a programmer during his career period and became curious about the Space Time Matter his uncle researched. With his knowledge of technology, he secretly developed a gate device to travel through time and space according to his preference. After she raised him as a single parent with conflicting roles, she married an investment banker and had a son Adam. Matthew paid the family visits and became close to his half-brother. They saw the news of a strange storm causing Jack to disappear and Viola asked Alice for the notes about the Space Time Matter. Therefore Viola bid farewell to her relatives and left the real world traveling through space and time. Alice's married life was short-lived when the investment banker was becoming fed up with his married life. Adam's father remained unmarried for the rest of his life enjoying the taste of freedom. When Adam was eight years old, he was unable to accept his parents having a divorce and sought his half-brother who became laid off to escape from this reality. As Adam was interested in fantasy and magical creatures, Matthew set the device enabling him to travel to a fantasy world, Fantasia.
Fantasia was a terrestrial planet resembling Earth with four continents: Lorderidge, Orient, Iceland, and Pandora. In Orient, there was a forest named Elfwood. As the name implies, it was a home to nature-loving elves that were created by the moon goddess Elune. Their culture, society, and architectures seemed to resemble ancient Greece and ancient Rome. The world tree, Nordrassil, gave them immortality magically. Elune had crossed with a goat to give birth to a demi-god offspring Pan, founder of the first type of satyrs which were humanoid goats. Pan was also the founder of druid magic and Malfurion Stormrage became his first student who later became an arch-druid. The satyrs were an all-male race and had to procreate with elf women. The elves were once ruled by a beautiful and voluptuous queen, Azshara, who became obsessed with the magic from the Well of Eternity. One day in the first age, she and her followers, the Highborne, had drew attention from the titan Sargeras in the Twisted Nether by meddling with immense magic. Sargeras led a massive army of demons known as the Burning Legion on a conquest of Fantasia starting with Elfwood. When the queen became corrupted, she opened a portal letting the Legion in. Following Sargeras were his lieutenants, Archimonde the Defiler and Mannoroth the Destructor. Sargeras cursed and converted a number of the Highborne into another type of satyrs giving them goat's legs, hooves, and horns. Many of the forest elves formed a resistance force led by Stormrage and his lover who was a beautiful priestess of the moon Tyrande Whisperwind. The rebel elves along with their allies (mountain giants, green dragons, forest trolls, and humanoid goats) fought the Burning Legion to end their goal of conquest and cost their lives. They succeeded in overthrowing their queen by means of death, destroying the Well of Eternity, and forcing the demons back to the Twisted Nether. The great wizard Merlin participated in the war and a number of elves became interested in Arcane magic. After a conflict with the druids, those elves led by Dath'Remar Sunstrider were exiled and were called the high elves. Malfurion and the druids went into hibernation while Tyrande led her people in rebuilding their society. She became the new ruler of the forest elves and did not need to sit on a throne.
Merlin took the high elves on ships across the sea to the continent Lorderidge that was inhabited by humans that farmed for living and lived in houses made of wood and hay. The elves learned to farm from the humans in order to sustain their living. Without any other choice the high elves had to harvest lumber by cutting down trees like humans. High elves were stripped of immortality and can live up to a thousand years.
Thousands of years later, the second age had begun for humans and high elves. The humans founded a kingdom called Camelot while the high elves established a kingdom, Quel'Thalas. Merlin had a school in Dalaran where humans and high elves were trained into spell casters. The second age was also the emergence of the dwarves that lived in the mountains where they ran mining operations. The dwarf king Magni Bronzebeard of Iron Stone and King Uther of the humans formed the Alliance as humans traded food for minerals mined by the dwarves. The human and dwarven military formed a formidable force when combined. The dwarves had no interest in magic and the high elves had to purchase the minerals from them. The culture of humans, high elves, and dwarves resemble medieval Europe. Lumber harvesting became difficult for humans and the high elves as something inhabiting the woods attacked them.