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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- Upon encountering the town of Brill some time in the early days of WoW, I recall thinking "these are the same human buildings as in Goldshire, just broken and corrupted". I found myself wondering what Brill looked like before it was overtaken by the Plague of Undeath, and realized it probably looked very much like Goldshire. As I explored the undead areas of Azeroth, I considered what it must've been like for the citizens there to live through the events that led to the destruction of their land and people. In particular, I imagined what it must've been like to first encounter the Plague as their friends and family mysteriously died and were then transformed into undead. Later as I was poring over lore about the Plague to write this song, I discovered that Brill was one of the first places where shipments of plague-infested grain was sent and that regional defenders failed to protect the villagers and were driven out. This helped me to choose Brill for the setting of the song about the day the Plague came, and it informed my understanding of what the citizens of Brill must have gone through: They had no idea what was happening until it was too late.
I'd like to thank my lovely wife, Legs, and my son, Crowbadour, for the many hours spent putting this movie together. It wouldn't have happened without them.
Lyrics:
I was drinking ale at a tavern in a town called Menethil
Where we still remember the day the captain came over the hill
He said, "We got big time trouble up north of here in Lordaeron
I need 100 able bodies, so grab your boots and strap your weapons on"
I said, "Hey Cap, it's great to see you. I fought with you at Tarren Mill"
He had a look of death in his eyes, that look remains with me still
I said "Cap'n, what's going on up north, what're we getting ourselves into"
He said "Cranius I'm glad to see you, I've got something I may need you to do"
Cuz there are corpses standing up and walking around
Piles of bones like marionettes are chasing us down
Something evil's gotten into the grain
Everyone who's eaten it is going insane
So put your faith in the Light and let your horses fly
Let's get along boys, our people need you tonight
Cuz today a plague came to Brill
As we approached that fateful town, there was a smell of flesh in the air
Etched upon my captain's face were lines of pain and despair
He said, "Don't look into their hollow eyes, they're not the people that you knew them to be
So take a minute, say your prayers to the Light and say one more for my family"
Then it occurred to me, that after the Second Great War
My captain moved his family to a little town way up north
50 acres with a view on a hill, plenty of room for settling down
Now it all became so clear to me, he needed more than ever now
Cuz there were corpses standing up and walking around
Piles of bones like marionettes were chasing us down
Something evil'd gotten into the grain and everyone who'd eaten it had gone insane
So put your faith in the light and let your weapons fly
Let's get along boys these people need us tonight
Cuz today a plague came to Brill
As the blades and fire flew and the ice came shattering down
I knew just what I had to do, there'd be no life in this undead town
A filthy job, but it had to be done, my captain's family would rest in peace
He turned his head and he dropped to his knees, as I finished his dirty deed
It didn't go as anyone planned, we escaped by the skin of our teeth
I turned my faithful stallion south, some headed off to the east
No matter how many long years it's been, this fire burns inside of me still
So don't forget - don't you ever forget - the day the plague came to Brill - เกม
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I've been watching and listening to Cranius (my dad) make WoW music since the very beginning with Big Blue Dress in 2006. I've played a minor role in a couple of his earlier videos like making occasional lyrical suggestions or appearing as an extra in a few scenes (Tren, my dwarf hunter from this video, can be seen all the way back in "Beer For My Horses").
This video is special to me. For me, it isn't just fun to watch and listen to, it's also a nostalgiac reminder of the good times I had playing WoW with my family. I had such a blast working with Cranius and Legs the last couple months, and I am thankful for those of you who are still here to enjoy their content year after year.
Hoping you all have a great holiday, gamers!
Thank you for helping with this content, it came out very well and reminded me of listening to those songs, big blue dress especially back in high school for me years ago. Keep the good times rolling and Rock on everyone.
My dad introduced me to these videos in 2007 and it carries a similar level of nostalgia to me. Beer For My Horses was actually the video that got me to create a Human character for the first time, having only played my Night Elf Hunter until then. Glad you're doing well Crowbadour; happy holidays. :^)
"The family that raids together stays together."
My thanks to all of you for this wonderful gift. Have a wonderful holiday season yourselves.
So cool that you got to play WoW with your family!
Side note, is Tren short for trenbolone? I had a tauren warrior with the same name haha
Listening to Cranius always takes me back to my younger years. His voice is instantly nostalgic, and I love it! I'm really happy to see that you guys are back to making music. 😀
As you can see, they haven't decided to get lazy and make shitpost content like you :)
Nixxiom! /bow
nixxion no way! u rock!
Glad they are back and hope for more!
Oh, hey! Wow, it's you! Fucking Malfurion! /respect /salute
Brain at 7am, "Wait, Cranius? The Darrowshire guy? How long has it...OMG, five years?" And this is why it pays to "ring that bell" even if your favorite content creator hasn't done anything in awhile.
Same thing happened to me lol. I enabled the bell, I could have easily missed this upload.
Imagine starting to play a bit of WoW for the first time in a decade and this legend comes back a few days later. I'll take it as a sign cause after a decade of grind and work I really need to unwind a bit in the place I used to call my second home
It really is relaxing to come back to classic wow. Nostalgic too, but i can honestly say it's held up. #ChangesWelcome!
Welcome back, brother.
@@LardAss420 The problem with classic WOW is that it's a solved game. Discovery is dead. Even if you don't remember the META and ignore all the information available, you will get left behind. You will be under geared and unable to enter endgame content. The community expects you to use guides or know everything.
all of this is accurate!
@@Blitzkrieg1605 I know, but I still try to bathe in the nostalgia a bit. The world is truly amazing.
To say you've been missed is an understatement. Your songs always hit the right spots between having a story to tell and a great piece of cinematography. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
I am honestly so surprised to see you pop up in my subfeed, i love your content man
I’ve seen a great many things… and Seeing Cranius again may just tear my heart asunder.
We see what you did there. Very nicely done.
Well played, sir. Well played.
When the world needed him most, he returned 🙏
Very welcome back! You guys have been greatly missed!
Cranius hitting us with an early holiday surprise! 🤘
God, it was 5 long years, man! Great to hear you again. You rock! 🤘
The nostalgia from this. The old 3D models, animations, uploaded in 720p. Haven't touched WOW since WOTLK.
sameeee
Wrath classic is live if you want to give it a try.
@@Varindran
Why would anyone invest time in Blizzard games lol, its foolish to trust them they'll just close the server, change the game or delete your character at some point
Effectively dead company.
@@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi Yeah. Pretty much this. I tried private servers as well. Just as bad. Played WOW on some so called "best wow servers" which had huge populations of up to thousands of active players at a time. Servers either got shut down or my characters got deleted for inactivity. The GS requirements for raids are absolutely insane making these servers p2w. No full ICC gear, can't join ICC.
WOW is a dead game. Only the memories are left.
Guild Wars 2 is very good. Almost 2k played hours since 2013. My gear is still BIS due to horizontal progression, never had any character deleted for inactivity. Least toxic (basically 0 toxicity) and most friendly community I have ever seen in any online game.
@@Blitzkrieg1605
I actually had good experiences with private servers but im not that big into MMOs anymore. There is a WOTLK German one called Rising Gods, got my chars there since god knows how many years and nothing ever got deleted.
Also that sounds crazy - are you sure they were blizzlike servers? cause thats what you should aim for cuz thats unmodified vanilla gameplay.
Good to know about GW2, I tried to get into FF14 but was too annoyed to continue cause their antialising is the worst thing I've ever seen.
It took me a moment to realize that this was a new video after all these years.
The next moment there was this nice, happy smile on my face.
This hits in many ways. I had always wondered what Brill looked like pre-plague, even including it in my human paladin's backstory that she was from Brill and was in Southshore at the time the plague happened. This is perfect.
I tip my hat to you, good mage. You inspired dozens, including myself, with your songs.
Welcome back Cranius! We have missed you!
I'm just gonna leave this comment here, so when I come back in 13 years or so, I can remember I listened to this song when it was just released, just like I did with all your bangers from once upon, Big blue dress, Darrowshire, Wroght, etc. You are awesome. Thank you for the journey through time.
Ah Cranius
So glad to hear your voice again! We missed you ❤
Thanks to Legs and Crowbadour ☺
I miss this guy, he helped me through depression and made allt of people truly happy. I hope you're doing well C.
Haven’t played WoW in almost a decade, but I still have many of your songs on my playlist. Your voice is as wonderful as always. Glad you and the family are doing well! Thanks for the early Christmas gift!
Now is not the worst time to return.
THE LEGEND IS BACK, HOLY CRAP!
The Legend Returns!
Also I think "Nobody Noticed" but that was Joseph Redpath (Redpath the Corrupted) and Pamela Redpath at 4:44 in Darrowshire, nice touch.
It's the little details that make me happy.
you have no idea how much nostalgia your videos hold for me as a kid
Warms my heart that some of the OG WoW machinima makers are still creating content
Last week I was in darrowshire and decided to put on your song from there. I ended up looking back over favourites, and suddenly a song I had never heard came on. Since then I've gone through every song of yours and I have to say, from a non-nostalgic view point, this is my favourite. Here's to hoping you make some more!
I can't believe I lived long enough to see your amazing work again, thank you for the awesome content
Omg dude you give me and my son so much joy in the last 20 years please dont ever stop
Goddamn, I had no idea we would be seeing anything new. Awesome song, great storytelling! You haven't lost your touch
You've not lost your touch when it comes to highlighting areas and storylines in the Warcraft world people wouldn't put much thought into. Watching this makes ya wonder how many other places suffered the loss of their home and what it's become years later in their world. Thanks for releasing a great song and welcome back. :)
I think about it a lot. The Culling of Stratholm really puts things in perspective for me. I really want them to bust out with WoW 2. And this time we get the play the story from the beginning Humans living before the plague in a world where undead are yet to exist. And then as the plague spreads across the world we get to witness the loss of entires cities and the rise of the undead.
That's be fun :)
Holy moly I did not expect to see this in my feed today. I grew up on your work Cranius. Thank you so much for this.
Well I'll be, Christmas is early this year, and what a wonderful present did we get!
Cranius, Legs, Crowbadur, thank you for this gem! Brings back so much nostalgia, so many memories.. Damn, makes me want to go back to WoW yet again.
Holy cow! He’s back, never though I’d see a new one of these wow music videos from him again. Super nostalgic.
Damn seeing old Brill was super cool. Loved all the players in their low level armor fighting for their lives. That was truly awesome, really well done
Cranius was a big part of my childhood man, this is amazing 🤘
Such amazing and fantastic work! It's literally impossible to turn your songs and videos off when they've started, such amazing stories you tell and show. Love it, every single song and video is a masterpiece.
Tremendous respect!
This is beyond epic. A masterpiece of a return, Cranius.
A very much unexpected yet wholeheartedly accepted early Christmas gift! Great way to start off my 3 day weekend. Welcome back man!
Cranius returns, metzen back on wow team, good expansion, nature is healing. I’m gunna cry.
Can we just appreciate that Cranius has been putting out banger after banger since 2008? True OG, good to have you back!
Translated by google.
Hi, I really like your videos. I myself am from Russia and fell in love with your music 8 years ago. I watched your videos on TH-cam a million times, learned how to play them on the guitar and now I'm in tears. I'm not sure because of the music or because I thought I'd never hear anything new from you again. Thank you so much for the music and for being you.
Got chills when you showed Darrowshire, really bringing the channel full circle as well.
This is amazing i love your music! I never stopped listening to your music. Im so glad you started to make music again!
Surprised (and delighted!) to see this. I guess YT recommended it because I just shared Happy Place on a forum a couple days ago. It was actually the forums for the revived City of Heroes MMO. We were discussing the appropriateness of the various "class" names in the game, and somebody asked, "Wouldn't a Stalker be somebody who enjoyed picking flowers?" Since the CoH "stalker" is roughly equivalent to WoW's "rogue", I thought that line was the perfect lead-in to "Happy Place" :)
What a lovely way to start the day! Welcome back - and thank you for all of the wonderful music!
The Legend is back!
You were never forgotten!
I was not expecting this when dropping on youtube today, but the suprise was definetively a welcomed one, good to hear another banger from you, Legs and Crow.
I absolutely love Darrowshire and listen to it quite alot and seeing this new piece come out is awesome! I'm a huge fan of the Cranius lore of him knowing Joseph Redpath and fighting along side him but went different ways to flee from Brill to return to their lives. Amazing video and glad to see some more content from you!
WHAT! I was SURE this was going to be a reupload of some kind that I had missed back in the day. Welcome back, sir, you're a legend! I hope you stick around for a while!
Still good Cranius. Damn, your old videos are going to qualify for golden oldies before to much longer!
WONDEFUL to see you and Legs back! Even if it's only for a single song. Welcome back! Hope you enjoy your stay :P
Hey man! Nice to see you back with your art!
Holy shit. I just happened to have the urge to listen to some Cranius today and I find out he's got a new tune a month old already?? How lovely! Great tune! Love your work as always!!!
Holy moly! A new video after so long! I really loved your work, and this is just as excellent!
NO WAY? I came back to my Cranius playlist 2 weeks ago and been listening to it since.
Welcome back and thanks for this early Christmas gift!
I've been a fan of your work for I don't know how many years now (my fave is Happy Place) and while my main is a Tauren Druid...she picks flowers with a smile upon her face/beak/muzzle etc. Seeing this new vid...oh my what a heart wrenching piece. In several ways like the story of my Forsaken warlock and her background.
The guitar gave me goosebumps, your voice hit me with nostalgic smile and the story touched my hearth. I dont need to say anything else, well done gentlemen.
Don't feel let down by the low views. We, the few who saw this, love it. You did amazing work with this video. Look at the view/ like ratio.
I wasnt sure I'd ever see another post on this channel. Words cant describe my joy at seeing this. Thank you all so much Cranius Legs and your son for coming back to give us another beautiful song.
First video i 5 years, I'm so looking forward to this!
It's amazing how well it fits with your other, older songs. If you were to tell me this is some sort of lost file I would totally believe.
Not that the quality isn't up to today standards. On the contrary. It's a top notch and I'm still listening quite regularly to the rest of your songs as well :)
Thanks for the nice surprise of adding to the collection.
Nice to hear from you again man! First time in 10+ years I have a WoW subscription, and there you come along, dropping more content, crazy :D
Right when he's needed most, he returns
Genuinely surprised at how great these videos still are even over a decade later.
I'm even more surprised by the fact that Cranius hasn't busted out into an actual music career in some fashion; he was never the most popular of the WoW music creators, but I'd say he was always the most genuinely talented
Also: I still to this day love how these scenes that are created for the music video are obviously made in some kind of model viewer, but they're framed and shot in a way that makes them actually seem like they happened in game. Just a little extra immersion I've always appreciated
Welcome back Cranius, from somebody that listened to you when they were a kid and are now approaching their 30s. Life has gotten real but the magic of your music is still fantastical as ever.
And just when you least expect it, a new Cranius song! Today is a good day
SO happy to see this!! Cranius, Selerene, Nyhm and Baron Soosdon were the creators that inspired me to make wow music video content on my own channel. I'll never be as good as this, but I had a blast making vids, and still come back from time to time for pure nostalgic joy. I even made my belf lock main exactly like Legs, because I admire her so much.
My god, I just had a nostalgic WoW music binge today. This song coming up on the same day and now in my feed is insane.
Song SLAPS
Amazingly well done! This is just like something that'd come out during the golden era of WoW Machinimas except better in every way!
Great too see another from one of my favourites! Your songs and videos, cinematic choices and editing have a special place in my heart!
You all have been missed! Much love and respect and a huge Thank you for your efforts and work! ~Magnus
So amazing to hear Cranius again, and with an excellent video to match. Loved it.
So glad to see you back!
WOW....thank you for this! I'm so glad you've come back with this awesome song, so heartfelt, got emotional here...still invested in the classic lore. *hugs*
YES YES YES! Seeing you back brings so much joy! And i am sure that everyone else here is super excited about this ! The song is great!
Glad to see you are back. Sounds great, nostalgic listening to your stuff again
This has just resurfaced some amazing old memories. I went on the channel and saw "My main" and "Blue dress" posted 13 years ago... oohh man 🥺
Amazing song and video edit as always, thank you for one more masterpiece.
i was so happy to see a new song, and its just as good as all the others, thank you so much! nice to see you dabling in wow music again =D
What an amazing surprise. I've doubled in age since I first got to enjoy your music. Thank you for the lovely memories ❤
This man disappears for a whole ass decade, comes back completely randomly, drops 1 song and then vanishes again. What a legend.
He made a pre-scourge version of Brill with Noggit, booted up a private server, loaded it in, and filmed a whole music video in various custom sets. In addition to coming back for one last banger.
That level of effort and dedication is extremely respectable. Even if this is his last song, he put a lot of work into it.
Fantastic job Cranius 👏 thank you
What a time to be alive
Dam I was just re-watching old WoW vids and re-stumbled on your channel and found this. Amazing work, glad to see a new one! So much lore in WoW and this channel brings it to life with a good tune! Really draws me to sympathize with the lore, I love it
this video is an pleasent surprise . glad to see you guys are still doing good and nice that you even have an kid now:)
I wish you all the best:)
It's so good to hear you again good sir. It's like an old friend has returned. Weird to see the old WoW models, I haven't really played much Classic so I've not seen them for years. Also, if you ever need a lore guy for any future projects, I'd be down, but I'm mostly happy to just hear your music again.
Masterful. Absolutely beautiful. Nobody does this better. Consider my hat respectfully tipped.
@Blizzard needs to install this as the in game Brill music for Alliance only.
Great Machinima video btw Transmogs, character actions, camera scores 10/10.
Very nice song and very good storytelling! I very much enjoyed this one. Little reminder of the good old times and that they are not totally lost but still in everyones heart.
Cranius with "only" 44K Subscribers is severaly underrated, for me his Big Blue Dress Song stood the test of time along other great, timeless pieces of music!
Decide to check this channel for the first time since late 2009 to find out this was released only hours ago. What a delight!
Im back in wow again and the playlist is back on like old times, carrying me through northrend.
Wow new song! Thanks a lot. Love your songs since 2010, I think. When I first heard Lament of Captain song and remembered how I played in vanilla in 2005.
oh man I am so happy to see you are back to making wow videos! Havent seen one in like 13 years!
No way! Is the legend back?!
After listening to this for one month I'm 100% certain that this song is better than Darrowshire and therefore my number 1 Cranius song ever.
The melody, the lyrics, the video, the emotions, the overall tone, ... just everything makes this song so perfect!
Oh man this was the Christmas gift I needed. Your music has been missed.
I will forever hold these songs and videos in my heart.
You guys are so great! My husband and I were talking about you a couple of days before you posted this- and he had asked if you were still together/making Machinima and then you answered! Haha! Love you all so much. Thanks for sharing!
I feel like a 10 years old again when I'm listening to Cranius
this new song is pure gold, seriously
great as always, Cranio!
HES BACK OH MY GOD HES BACK AND HES STILL SPITTING FIRE
Damn, this takes me back years to playing this game endlessly and jamming out to Big Blue Dress and Wrought. Hope you're doing well, Cranius!
Oh sweet, I didn't realize you had released a new video in the last year. Was listening to your cover of "The Story" again and was thinking about ya. Great to see more from you.