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"Interspecies love is in the air!" enthuses one movie fansite at the prospect of the forthcoming Warcraft movie.

There's a lot to get up to speed with in Warcraft. The original video games were so wildly popular that their community of players exceeds the population of Norway, and the World of Warcraft wiki has over 100,000 pages. For novices, it's a fantasy world not far removed from Lord of the Rings or Dungeons and Dragons: a realm of elves, dwarves, mythical creatures and medieval weaponry. Warcraft the movie revolves around Azeroth, a kingdom apparently ruled by European humans. Azeroth is invaded by orcs: hulking, relatively primitive ogres with overdeveloped lower canines. Rather than open arms, Azeroth greets these refugee orcs with medieval arms. "They're beasts. They should all be destroyed," says one character. It's essentially a race war, although the battle lines are by no means cut and dried, so there's still room for a bit of interspecies love.