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Lore & Background

Chromie is a bronze dragon of the Bronze Dragonflight, a group tasked with safeguarding the timelines of Azeroth. She typically takes the form of a female gnome, a visage she chose during her coming-of-age ceremony. In World of Warcraft, she serves as a quest-giving non-player character connected to the manipulation of time. Her full dragon name is Chronormu, and she uses she/her pronouns in both her dragon and mortal forms, as confirmed by World of Warcraft narrative lead Steve Danuser in 2021 following the short story 'Visage Day'.

Reader's Guide

In Heroes of the Storm, Chromie was added as a playable ranged assassin, described as a 'fragile, yet devastating artillery assassin' built around long-range attacks, delayed skillshots, stasis effects, and time-manipulation mechanics. Her ability set includes Sand Blast, Dragon's Breath, Time Trap, Slowing Sands, and Temporal Loop. Blizzard adjusted her design several times: in 2017, Sand Blast was changed into a baseline quest to reward precision; in 2018, further changes reduced her range and burst damage to increase counterplay and encourage more direct interaction with opponents. In Hearthstone, Chromie appears in the 2025 expansion Across the Timeways, where Blizzard placed her at the center of the story as a Bronze Dragonflight chronomancer who recruits heroes from past, future, and alternate timelines to oppose Murozond, Lord of the Infinite.

Did You Know?

• Chromie's full dragon name is Chronormu, and the '-ormu' suffix had traditionally been associated with male bronze dragons, leading to years of fan speculation about her identity.
• The short story 'Visage Day', published in 2021 in World of Warcraft: Folk & Fairy Tales of Azeroth, revealed Chromie's gender identity through her choice of visage and pronouns.
• In Heroes of the Storm, Chromie could unlock talents one level earlier than other playable heroes through her Timewalker passive.
• A villainous variant of Chromie named Morchie, from an alternate timeline where the Infinite Dragonflight prevailed, appears in the Dawn of the Infinite mega-dungeon in World of Warcraft: Dragonflight.