A new project surfaced this weekend: lordaeron.eu, an independent free 3.3.5a server whose name is also the name of Warmane's famous blizzlike realm. The first thing to say is the one that matters most: these are two different servers. Lordaeron.eu's own footer carries "not affiliated with Blizzard Entertainment", and nothing on the site connects it to Warmane. The shared name is a naming collision, tracked with that note attached.
One account, two realms
The site presents two realms on one account and one shop:
- Lordaeron: Epic Progressive, unlocking Vanilla, then TBC, then WotLK in turn, at x5 XP, with transmogrification, cross-faction, twice-weekly raid resets, and a "Lone Champion" solo path.
- Rimeheart: a new custom Northrend realm with five phases of three months each, early heroic raids (including Icecrown Citadel Heroic gating behind a normal last-boss kill), artifact-quality items, world bosses for 10 to 40 players where every participant is rewarded, Tempest Keep rebuilt for level 80 alongside Ulduar, 30 new class spells, 277 recipes, and 28 profession specializations.
The dated claim
Both realms carry the same gate on the site's own countdown: opens October 16 2026, 19:00 CEST (17:00 UTC). Rimeheart's launch then runs a 2 to 3 week "Phase 0" prelude of 12 Northrend dungeons on normal and heroic, Wintergrasp, and battlegrounds and arenas.
That makes October 16 a three-check day: uWoW's Mists of Pandaria x10 at 19:00 Moscow, Nozdor's DUNE, and now the lordaeron.eu gate at 19:00 CEST. Three launches on one Friday, from three independent projects, coincidentally aligned.
What the tracker records
One entry, Lordaeron, WotLK tag, status dev with the October 16 gate noted, population unknown because the site publishes no counter. The entry names both realms and the Warmane name collision inside its details, so the disambiguation survives when the page renders.
SOURCES: lordaeron.eu homepage and realm pages, read October 12 2026 with a control domain probed in the same batch; every feature claim above taken from the project's own pages. Related: the October calendar, how we review a private server, and the donor-policy comparison.