Skyborne

The new playable race of World of Warcraft: Forever, in two orders: the High Order fights for the Alliance, the Windshapers for the Horde.

Alliance

Horde

Alliance · High Order Skyborne

Horde · Windshaper Skyborne

The two orders

High Order Skyborne

Alliance

Forever's new people from Zephras Isle, an island floating in the Elemental Plane of Air; the High Order stand with the Alliance.

Classes

Warrior

Hunter

Mage

Rogue

Druid

Own racial: Read Ley Line

Health and Mana regeneration +50% for 15 sec. At a ley line it also grants Attuned for 1 hour, raising the bonus to +100%; Attuned persists through death and ends on entering a raid. Not usable while Innervate is active; castable while moving. Cooldown: 120 sec.

Race guide

Read the lore

Windshaper Skyborne

Horde

The Skyborne who stand with the Horde: shaman, druids and wanderers from a failing island in Skywall, the Elemental Plane of Air.

Classes

Warrior

Hunter

Rogue

Shaman

Druid

Own racial: Skysight

Movement and mounted speed +15% for 15 sec. At an elemental convergence it also grants Charged for 1 hour, raising the bonus to +30%; Charged persists through death and ends on entering a raid. Castable while moving. Cooldown: 120 sec.

Race guide

Read the lore

What the sources say

Home and starting zone

Zephras Isle, an island in Skywall, the Elemental Plane of Air (levels 1–12)

Leaving the island

By airship from Valanaar: the High Order to Alterac Mountains, the Windshapers to Mulgore.

How to unlock

The Skyborne race is unlocked by the optional Skyborne Heroic/Epic Pack (Blizzard pre-purchase article, cited by the wiki). Other races only need game time.

Racials of both orders

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Walk on Air: Glide downward for 10 sec while steering. Cooldown: 90 sec.

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Wind Blessed: Spellcasting, melee and ranged Haste +2%.

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Elemental Insight: Damage against Elementals +5%.

Not published yet

Blizzard and the wiki have not published these yet; this page adds them when a source does.

Capital city

Not published yet

Racial mount

Not published yet

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Where the Skyborne came from and how their two orders formed are not described in the sources this guide uses (the Zephras Isle and Forever wiki pages, racial pages and Blizzard posts).

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Why Zephras Isle's air elementals vanished, and how the Skyborne came to join the Alliance and the Horde, is not explained there either.

SOURCES

World of Warcraft: Forever

Warcraft Wiki (warcraft.wiki.gg) · rev 6950402 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Accessed: 30 Oct 2026

Template:Forever class by race

Warcraft Wiki (warcraft.wiki.gg) · rev 6931175 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Accessed: 30 Oct 2026

Read Ley Line (rev 6944482)

Warcraft Wiki · rev 6944482 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Accessed: 30 Oct 2026

WoW Forever Beta Development Notes — launch racial pass (posts 7–8)

Blizzard Entertainment · 26 Oct 2026 · Accessed: 30 Oct 2026

Walk on Air (rev 6916630)

Warcraft Wiki · rev 6916630 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Accessed: 25 Oct 2026

WoW Forever Beta Development Notes — October 15 update (post 6)

Blizzard Entertainment · 16 Oct 2026 · Accessed: 25 Oct 2026

Wind Blessed (rev 6944481)

Warcraft Wiki · rev 6944481 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Accessed: 30 Oct 2026

Elemental Insight (rev 6878210)

Warcraft Wiki · rev 6878210 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Accessed: 25 Oct 2026

Skysight (rev 6944483)

Warcraft Wiki · rev 6944483 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Accessed: 30 Oct 2026

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