The Grey Company

That's our unofficial motto, and it covers most of the rules.

• Everyone's welcome. Who you are is your business, and nobody here gives anyone grief for it.
• Politics and sexuality stay out of guild chat. That's not a judgment of anyone. Neither has anything to do with WoW, and they're the fastest way to split a guild.
• You get one friendly warning. After that, you'll need to find another guild.
• A little chaos is fine. Drama isn't. We're building for the people who stay.

It's Tolkien's. In The Lord of the Rings, the Grey Company are the Rangers of the North who ride south to join Aragorn and follow him through the Paths of the Dead. The Star Wars fans in the Discord heard Grey Jedi instead. Both work.

Grey with an e. Spell it gray and dlonem.com/gray still finds us.

• Guild intentions and rules, so you know what you're joining.
• Class, race and role tags: tank, healer or damage.
• Looking for group, professions, and a PvP call to arms.
• Mechanics worth knowing and addons worth installing.
• Guild stats, and a channel for the iconic moments.
• Event nights, posted as Discord events with reminders.

No beta, upgrade or Classic experience needed. Join, grab your roles, and say hello.

What Blizzard has announced, checked against its own posts on 8 October 2026. Blizzard can change details, and its posts linked below are the final word. New to Forever? Read the beginner's guide, pick a class with the class guide, and take your first dungeon with the Hall of Thanes guide.

• Launch: 4 November 2026 at 3:00 p.m. PST (6:00 p.m. Eastern).
• What it is: a new, permanent version of WoW alongside the modern game and Classic. It's set before Molten Core and starts on the original continents with a level cap of 60.
• Cost: included with a WoW subscription or Game Time. Upgrade packs are optional.
• Name reservation: 27 October to 3 November 2026 (PST), with any upgrade. Up to three characters, first come, first served.
• No realm list: you pick a ruleset instead: Normal, PvP, Roleplaying, or Hardcore (Blizzard said Hardcore would open after the others). Switching means a new character. We're on Normal.
• Two names: every character has a first and a second name, and the full name has to be unique in your region.
• Factions: Horde and Alliance still can't group together.

Sources, all Blizzard: launch, cost and name reservation, rulesets and factions, character names, and what Forever is. The game's own page is worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/forever. World of Warcraft is a trademark of Blizzard Entertainment; this is a player guild, not an official Blizzard page.

WoW is where my name comes from. Dlonem is what the game's random name generator gave me for a death knight in sixth grade, give or take a few letters I changed. Before that I was Noaha, a warlock who joined Icecrown Citadel raids he had no business being in. The full story is on the Legacy page.

I'm not going back to the modern game, and the only thing that would pull me back to Anniversary is Wrath. Blizzard calls Forever a permanent home it plans to keep building, starting on the original continents at level 60. If it lives up to that, it's the last version of WoW I need, and The Grey Company is built to last as long as it does.

I've run Discord servers since 2016, and the rooms that last are the ones where people can relax. My first website existed to solve the can't-paste-an-invite problem for The Game Center. dlonem.com/grey is the same fix, years later.

You can't paste a Discord invite into WoW chat, so inviting someone means spelling out random characters and hoping. In game, tell people dlonem.com/grey instead. It lands here, one click from the server.

dlonem.com/grey/join skips this page and opens the invite.