The reason for Ambessa's armor is because this music video is doing double-duty as backstory and as an advertisement for a purchasable skin-line called "Chosen of the Wolf". Riot gotta make that money, yo.
I don't even play (Ashley) but the advertisement definitely worked because it made me want to 😂 Dennis told me it's not worth the anger the game makes you feel LOL. He's been playing for years!
U are right about the "Cunning like a fox and ruthless like a wolf" part, however, the Wolf and the Fox aren't just animals but deities that exist and people worship them. The Wolf is literally the Grim Reaper (at least half of it). I think people don't realize how much of a fantasy Arcane is do to how Arcane Season 1 is set and only hints at magic but the world of Arcane is huge were magic/gods/horrors/undead/spirits and so on do exist. I bet many wont see this coming.
Ambessa is pregnant with Mel in the video, you can see the bump. This video further explains Ambessa’s protective nature and show much she fought to keep her safe, even in the womb, Ambessa sent Mel away to protect her, I feel you guy miss her protective nature and grief that she has, she is very emotional but puts up a front as shown in the video with the blue paint, that is why the music sounds the way it does, Ambessa isn’t some brute who is doing things just for brutality, she has a lot of pain and mourning from losing her son and I believe it’ll be worse when Mel completely turns against her in season 2.
My understanding of the story, based on some extra info on the League website, is it's essentially a near-death vision where Ambessa is being tested by the embodiments of Death (the wolf) and War (Pantheon) to see if she is worthy of entering this world's version of Valhalla, an afterlife that is an eternal hunt and battle for only the greatest warriors. She sees a weird dream-like version of her life so far and her transformation from an innocent child to a warrior and even a brief vision of her future where she is the great general we know in Arcane. Eventually, she passes the test and earns an afterlife of glory BUT decides she's not ready to die yet. She is pregnant with Mel at the time and has a family she must live and build a future for Also, that golden armor will not be in the show. It's a skin for the game that is basically "what if she did die there and became a Chosen Warrior of Death"
Last comment, i Hope you decide to delve deeper into this wolrd after Arcane season 2. The league community is vast and large and we love seeing new people learn more sbout this world! Enter the Freljord - oldest cinematic Cool cinematics -A Twist of Fate (11 years old) -A New Dawn (9 years old) Music videos -Get Jinxed (10 years old) -Warriors (ft imagine dragons ) world 2014 - 9 years old -The Curse of the Sad Mummy - Amumu (9 years olds) -Pentakill: Mortal Reminder Music video Ruinnation event -The Harrowing - Tales of the Black Mist -Senna Dark Passage * -The Climb 2018 -Senna Shadows Embrace Champion Teasers -Bard: Mountain -Ekko Seconds -Warwick” The Wrath of Zaun -Xayah & Rakan: Wild Magic -(watch “THE CALL” before this one cinematic ) -* All that will ever be | Bel’Veth cinematic -Finality: Aurelion Sol champion update Skin Trailers -Project Skins Season trailers (these are considered their top-notch cinematics, they release one trailer every new season of the game typically and usually what most fans wait for each year, even non-league players watch these cinematics -Awaken 2019 -Warriors | Season2020 -The Call | Season 2022 -Still Here | Season 2024 Cool short clips -The Light within - elementalist lux -Annie: origins -Welcome Aboard - Odyssey Animated trailer -“The Path, An Ionian Myth” then “Kin of the Stained Blade” Champion re-work trailers (these are when they make trailers for champions who have been re-worked. League is an on-going game that still runs on an old engine, as of so far they haven’t decided to update the engine, but it’s a live service game. Each year they release new champions, effects, etc. Basically old champs can fall behind from graphics, gameplay, etc. so every season they will re-work a few champs and launch a trailer to tease them) -Fiddlesticks: terror in Demacia Tip for all of these, they should be in the playlist on leagues youtube page and easy to find. I omitted some that are already mentioned. I put * symbol by some because they are best watched in an order. For example, you can find the ruination event if you look up “sentinels of light” - and playlist by timfernix (ironically ruination event is not a playlist on leagues youtube page lol) Start watching all the League of Legends animated music videos: 1) Phoenix 2) Legends Never Die 3) Enemy 4) Rise 5) Breathe 6) K/DA (This is K-Pop music) Then there are the Tales of Runeterra: Noxus Demacia Freljord Bilgewater Don't Mess With The Yordles Ionia Shadow Isles Targon Piltover and Zaun Shurima Then there's the ORIGIN stories and Summoner's Rift Cinematics. Annie Darius Warwick Fiddlesticks Ekko Amumu Xayah and Rakan The Path, An Ionian Myth Kin of The Stained Blade Ryze Call of Power A New Dawn Feeding Frenzy Lastly I highly recommend reacting “NECRIT”, he is a long time youtuber who’s whole channel is based on league of legends lore and content. Some great one’s are “Riot MMO is almost done.” And gives you a great overview of the world of Runeterra. I also highly highly recommend reacting to “Bridging The Rift - Making of Arcane” It is amazing documentary about the making of Arcane and Riot games is very friendly on not copy righting their content.
To explain what is happening. In the land of Runeterra or world of League of legends, theres a character called "Kindred" The Kindred serve as the Grim Reaper of the world of League of Legends. The story goes that Death was so lonely that it split itself in two, so it would "always have a friend". One half is the Lamb, and the other half is the Wolf. Lamb represents the peace in acceptance of death, wielding a bow to deliver a swift end, and Wolf represents the violence of rejecting and running from death, being literally a beast that mauls anything that tries to escape. You only see them when they've decided your time has come. (One last quick note - Lamb feels little but knows everything, while Wolf feels everything but knows little.) In Noxian culture they don't worship the lamb as they don't believe in accepting death, they worship the wolf. That's why she see's the wolf first and it takes her into a different realm where she faces death. It also is teasing some of her background as Ambessa family lineage is from the land of Shurima, they use to be most poweful kingdom but long ago fell apart for various reasons. The other characters we see are Swain who is the grand general of Noxus, Pantheon is the one she is sparring with and he's from Targon and the last is Katarina who is also Noxian. They all have faced death in their own ways and came back alive. And the the character towards the end is The Lamb who offers Ambessa a second chance at life. We don't know if that's her first born or Mel, but it seems like she had to sacrifice something in order to defeat death it self.
wow I'm loving all this symbolism. I wish I would have caught on to it while we were watching. Knowing this makes the video so deep and makes me appreciate it even more
It’s wild when Super talented folks do what they do best making entertainment all to be criticized and dismissed by randos reacting to it. Not everyone’s preference but my lord those involved are insanely talented at creating novel content.
Definitely agree they are super talented people creating literally everything we react to including this video, but it just didn’t hit for me. Maybe it will, sometimes it takes me a few watches of something
If i may interject lol and apologize for long comments, but this is a great introduction to start exploring more of league of legends and lore. To explain some things, Noxus as a nation can be slightly hard to explain. Overall they are viewed as an evil, expansionist nation that likes war. But internally they just value strength above all else. Ironically and not to retcon the show, they offer any many new nations they conquer a chance to join the nation of Noxus from lowest citizen to highest official. If you can do something and you have the willpower to show your value, you will do well. In short they are a meritocracy which values individuals abilities, strength and talents vs wealth, social class or race. One its highest generals - Darius, started out in the slums in Noxus with his brother Draven and they worked their way up to the highest rank of the army. In short, if you are weak, you will not survive in Noxian society.
"It looks out of place" because it is! Just remember that Arcane is just the tip of an iceberg interms of League of Legends lore. Think of it as a "Baby" storyline compared to the other 9 other regions existing in the League of Legends World (Runeterra). There are a total of 11 regions, Piltover and Zaun included. So yeah, there's still more to learn and expect from the lore of League of Legends.
it is deep because of the soulfull like a black spiritual... with the story showing the spirital struggle she went through .... Like it is to be sung in church....
According to the video, i agree, i also thought that the music and cinematic in general was not that spectacular. Especially if you take a look on the last cinematic "i still here" where you literally got goosebumps half the video xD.
Well i mean i don't know if you both saw all the other opening, but in my opinion they had a greater show on the last few years. I mean it still was awesome * _ * , especially because i was there in London it was even better than just on screen :D. But ngl all them shows over the last years gave you goosebumps ^^. And not just once in one show xD. The " i'm still here" song with the kindred, damn so insane :D
![[#2024MAMA] G-DRAGON - 무제(Untitled, 2014)+POWER+HOME SWEET HOME+뱅뱅뱅+FANTASTIC BABY | Mnet 241123 방송](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ox29z5Nf1Uk/mqdefault.jpg)
The reason for Ambessa's armor is because this music video is doing double-duty as backstory and as an advertisement for a purchasable skin-line called "Chosen of the Wolf". Riot gotta make that money, yo.
I don't even play (Ashley) but the advertisement definitely worked because it made me want to 😂 Dennis told me it's not worth the anger the game makes you feel LOL. He's been playing for years!
for sure because i'll buy all of that
Melly was in the belly (i stole this)
I saw where this originated, too. "Melly in the belly". 😂
hahahahahah i like it
U are right about the "Cunning like a fox and ruthless like a wolf" part, however, the Wolf and the Fox aren't just animals but deities that exist and people worship them. The Wolf is literally the Grim Reaper (at least half of it).
I think people don't realize how much of a fantasy Arcane is do to how Arcane Season 1 is set and only hints at magic but the world of Arcane is huge were magic/gods/horrors/undead/spirits and so on do exist.
I bet many wont see this coming.
Ambessa is pregnant with Mel in the video, you can see the bump. This video further explains Ambessa’s protective nature and show much she fought to keep her safe, even in the womb, Ambessa sent Mel away to protect her, I feel you guy miss her protective nature and grief that she has, she is very emotional but puts up a front as shown in the video with the blue paint, that is why the music sounds the way it does, Ambessa isn’t some brute who is doing things just for brutality, she has a lot of pain and mourning from losing her son and I believe it’ll be worse when Mel completely turns against her in season 2.
That isnt Mel... is Mel older brother that she said was dead...
@@aryferreira2375 the baby is confirmed to be mel with ambessa's bio on the league universe website
@@aryferreira2375I thought this too but a wiki said ambessa already had kino before the war in this video so idk now
My understanding of the story, based on some extra info on the League website, is it's essentially a near-death vision where Ambessa is being tested by the embodiments of Death (the wolf) and War (Pantheon) to see if she is worthy of entering this world's version of Valhalla, an afterlife that is an eternal hunt and battle for only the greatest warriors. She sees a weird dream-like version of her life so far and her transformation from an innocent child to a warrior and even a brief vision of her future where she is the great general we know in Arcane. Eventually, she passes the test and earns an afterlife of glory BUT decides she's not ready to die yet. She is pregnant with Mel at the time and has a family she must live and build a future for
Also, that golden armor will not be in the show. It's a skin for the game that is basically "what if she did die there and became a Chosen Warrior of Death"
okay this was so helpful to read. Thank you for clarifying all of this! I can definitely see this now
Last comment, i Hope you decide to delve deeper into this wolrd after Arcane season 2. The league community is vast and large and we love seeing new people learn more sbout this world!
Enter the Freljord - oldest cinematic
Cool cinematics
-A Twist of Fate (11 years old)
-A New Dawn (9 years old)
Music videos
-Get Jinxed (10 years old)
-Warriors (ft imagine dragons ) world 2014 - 9 years old
-The Curse of the Sad Mummy - Amumu (9 years olds)
-Pentakill: Mortal Reminder Music video
Ruinnation event
-The Harrowing - Tales of the Black Mist
-Senna Dark Passage *
-The Climb 2018
-Senna Shadows Embrace
Champion Teasers
-Bard: Mountain
-Ekko Seconds
-Warwick” The Wrath of Zaun
-Xayah & Rakan: Wild Magic
-(watch “THE CALL” before this one cinematic ) -* All that will ever be | Bel’Veth cinematic
-Finality: Aurelion Sol champion update
Skin Trailers
-Project Skins
Season trailers (these are considered their top-notch cinematics, they release one trailer every new season of the game typically and usually what most fans wait for each year, even non-league players watch these cinematics
-Awaken 2019
-Warriors | Season2020
-The Call | Season 2022
-Still Here | Season 2024
Cool short clips
-The Light within - elementalist lux
-Annie: origins
-Welcome Aboard - Odyssey Animated trailer
-“The Path, An Ionian Myth” then “Kin of the Stained Blade”
Champion re-work trailers (these are when they make trailers for champions who have been re-worked. League is an on-going game that still runs on an old engine, as of so far they haven’t decided to update the engine, but it’s a live service game. Each year they release new champions, effects, etc. Basically old champs can fall behind from graphics, gameplay, etc. so every season they will re-work a few champs and launch a trailer to tease them)
-Fiddlesticks: terror in Demacia
Tip for all of these, they should be in the playlist on leagues youtube page and easy to find. I omitted some that are already mentioned. I put * symbol by some because they are best watched in an order. For example, you can find the ruination event if you look up “sentinels of light” - and playlist by timfernix (ironically ruination event is not a playlist on leagues youtube page lol)
Start watching all the League of Legends animated music videos:
1) Phoenix
2) Legends Never Die
3) Enemy
4) Rise
5) Breathe
6) K/DA (This is K-Pop music)
Then there are the Tales of Runeterra:
Noxus
Demacia
Freljord
Bilgewater
Don't Mess With The Yordles
Ionia
Shadow Isles
Targon
Piltover and Zaun
Shurima
Then there's the ORIGIN stories and Summoner's Rift Cinematics.
Annie
Darius
Warwick
Fiddlesticks
Ekko
Amumu
Xayah and Rakan
The Path, An Ionian Myth
Kin of The Stained Blade
Ryze Call of Power
A New Dawn
Feeding Frenzy
Lastly I highly recommend reacting “NECRIT”, he is a long time youtuber who’s whole channel is based on league of legends lore and content. Some great one’s are “Riot MMO is almost done.” And gives you a great overview of the world of Runeterra. I also highly highly recommend reacting to “Bridging The Rift - Making of Arcane” It is amazing documentary about the making of Arcane and Riot games is very friendly on not copy righting their content.
To explain what is happening. In the land of Runeterra or world of League of legends, theres a character called "Kindred" The Kindred serve as the Grim Reaper of the world of League of Legends. The story goes that Death was so lonely that it split itself in two, so it would "always have a friend". One half is the Lamb, and the other half is the Wolf. Lamb represents the peace in acceptance of death, wielding a bow to deliver a swift end, and Wolf represents the violence of rejecting and running from death, being literally a beast that mauls anything that tries to escape. You only see them when they've decided your time has come. (One last quick note - Lamb feels little but knows everything, while Wolf feels everything but knows little.) In Noxian culture they don't worship the lamb as they don't believe in accepting death, they worship the wolf. That's why she see's the wolf first and it takes her into a different realm where she faces death. It also is teasing some of her background as Ambessa family lineage is from the land of Shurima, they use to be most poweful kingdom but long ago fell apart for various reasons. The other characters we see are Swain who is the grand general of Noxus, Pantheon is the one she is sparring with and he's from Targon and the last is Katarina who is also Noxian. They all have faced death in their own ways and came back alive. And the the character towards the end is The Lamb who offers Ambessa a second chance at life. We don't know if that's her first born or Mel, but it seems like she had to sacrifice something in order to defeat death it self.
wow I'm loving all this symbolism. I wish I would have caught on to it while we were watching. Knowing this makes the video so deep and makes me appreciate it even more
It’s wild when Super talented folks do what they do best making entertainment all to be criticized and dismissed by randos reacting to it. Not everyone’s preference but my lord those involved are insanely talented at creating novel content.
Definitely agree they are super talented people creating literally everything we react to including this video, but it just didn’t hit for me. Maybe it will, sometimes it takes me a few watches of something
If i may interject lol and apologize for long comments, but this is a great introduction to start exploring more of league of legends and lore. To explain some things, Noxus as a nation can be slightly hard to explain. Overall they are viewed as an evil, expansionist nation that likes war. But internally they just value strength above all else. Ironically and not to retcon the show, they offer any many new nations they conquer a chance to join the nation of Noxus from lowest citizen to highest official. If you can do something and you have the willpower to show your value, you will do well. In short they are a meritocracy which values individuals abilities, strength and talents vs wealth, social class or race. One its highest generals - Darius, started out in the slums in Noxus with his brother Draven and they worked their way up to the highest rank of the army. In short, if you are weak, you will not survive in Noxian society.
haha don't apologize! We actually watched Warriors and it made me want to really get into the league of legends lore! Thank you for explaining this
"It looks out of place" because it is!
Just remember that Arcane is just the tip of an iceberg interms of League of Legends lore. Think of it as a "Baby" storyline compared to the other 9 other regions existing in the League of Legends World (Runeterra). There are a total of 11 regions, Piltover and Zaun included. So yeah, there's still more to learn and expect from the lore of League of Legends.
this world is becoming so interesting to me I really want to know more
the music was deep af bro smoking the che cha chong
it is deep because of the soulfull like a black spiritual... with the story showing the spirital struggle she went through .... Like it is to be sung in church....
Hey Dennis, what do you thought about the lol worlds opening ceremony 2 days ago 😁
According to the video, i agree, i also thought that the music and cinematic in general was not that spectacular. Especially if you take a look on the last cinematic "i still here" where you literally got goosebumps half the video xD.
nah Sheryl lee ralph is killing it. Her voice is amazing@@pritzenritz629
dude we both watched it yesterday and it was INCREDIBLE. I wish we would have hit the recording button on because we were both jaw dropped lol
Well i mean i don't know if you both saw all the other opening, but in my opinion they had a greater show on the last few years. I mean it still was awesome * _ * , especially because i was there in London it was even better than just on screen :D.
But ngl all them shows over the last years gave you goosebumps ^^. And not just once in one show xD. The " i'm still here" song with the kindred, damn so insane :D
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she’s pregnant in the beginning
did not realize this while we watched it - thank you for clarifying!