Xal'atath: "All will kneel before me. Your every thought shall be in how best to serve me." Average WoW Player: "Never! I won't submit." Xal'atath: "Feet." Average WoW Player: "Yes, my Queen. What is your command?"
chromie should still be under titan influence right? only the aspects got their power from azeroth in amirdrasil. all other dragons got ordered by the titans (except the primalists and maybe Wrathion)
@@Nagria2112 yes and no. Dragonflight also states Aspects and Elder Dragons of a Flight, can magically influence or free other Dragons and species. Resulting in various Dragonspawn, and Dragonkin. With the first Drakonid actually being created by the Aspects from the Tarassec we see in Dragonflight.
@@Nagria2112 Thaldrasuz side quests, some of the lore books throughout the zones, Uldaman's books, and some of the stuff in Zaralek Caverns and Aberrus. Tarrasec > Drakonid > Dracthyr is thier evolution/creation line specifically for Dracthyr. Which also adds onto some Dragonspawn and Drakonids being Night Elves or Humans, that were turned to serve the dragons, which is Classic lore.
He'd be 50ish if he'd aged normally but with Medivh's spell he is 80ish now physically and if he doesn't die the the World Sould Saga he'll die of old age soon. At least if he didn't find a way to halt his aging but I doubt it.
@@ОлегХореев Yeah, like Aegwynn or Azshara or whatever Medivh has going on. But Khadgar literally was in Oribos looking around because he was beginning to feel his age and "wanted to see what it looked like here before ..." That's why I think he's not found a way (yet) to prolong his lifespan.
6:36 brought back fond memories of these random guys I met back in TBC (The Consortium). When I first saw them in Nagrand, they were just some space-wrap-looking dudes who had journeyed across the galaxy to reach Outland. And now that I am aware of their beginnings and entire history, feels like that WOW is returning to its heyday
I feel like The War Within was supposed to come out after Legion. Although I enjoyed Dragonflight, experienced an ok thing with BFA, and endured that expansion before DF that shall never be named, the story of TWW feels like it connects with what is previously set up in Legion. I can't wait to see what TWW will bring!
yeah those 3 expansions really accomplished nothing. The plot points that came from them is owning nzoth which could have been done better, and introducing iridikron who made some relic. basically 6 years of absolute garbage
No. WoW got a giant lore and story and the addons are chapters which are not just instantly going to the end. That's absolute obvious. And there is no reason to care about that sword instantly after there was no further threat coming from it. It's not like you COULD do much in the first place. It's the size of a mountain. You need a planet size being to maybe be able to get it out.
What do you mean connects to Legion? I'm sorry but all that shit here is BFA onwards garbage. I look at this and the lore is just as bad as Shadowlands. Villains that are barely established, smirking edgy elf lady aka. Sylvanas 2.0. These are the samw writers... same freaking writers. How these obvious parallels are already forgotten by the community is beyond me. Guess my almost 7 year long no subscription streak continues.
@@xXdnerstxleXx if you haven't played in that long then you have no idea what the story is or what to even complain about. Xala'tath has been around for almost 8 years my guy. The entire time you weren't playing she was being established. So no wonder you are clueless.
Xal'atath's current form isn't due to her possessing a "dead VOID elf". It's the corpse of a HIGH elf called Inanis, who was trying to wield the power of the Void Stone in Drustvar during BfA, before the player kills her and leave her corpse free for Xal'atath to possess. The high elf's corpse infused with Xal'atath's void interestingly resulted in what looks like a void elf.
I mean, it's not really interesting, that's just how elves work in warcraft. You feed them magic and they change form. From the very first trolls turning into night elves from getting some order magic, to the high elves turning to the light, to the blood elves enjoying some fel and getting sharper features and fel-influenced eye/hair shades, to the void elves drinkin that sweet shadowy grape juice. There's also the san'layn and dark rangers (Death magc), and there's even ones who converted to fire and sided with fyrakk. And if you take the magic away you get a withered (both silvermoon and suramar elves showed this, so it affects the entire lineage). Elves are literally the magic they feed on more than anything else. So a high elf corpse stuffed with void sauce will indeed result in a grape juice elf.
we got Xalathat as a dagger as Shadow Priest in legion we freed the spirit of dagger and she went to somewhere we meet her in bfa and die and frees her self for good
"Maybe there's a little bit about Xalatath we don't know about yet..." (4 years from now) "So it turn's out Xalatath was actually good all along, and was working to protect us all from an even greater Cosmic Threat"
Even though they did that trick many times I somehow doubt it'll end like that this time. The greater cosmic threat everyone (Sargeras, Jailer, etc.) kept warning about is the void, and Xal'atath is on that side. I highly doubt at this point Xal'atath would end up also just warning us for the void and actually wanting to help, she basically is the one we were warned about. The only way that could still happen is if Azeroth turns out to be our biggest enemy and all we known about the void was a lie all along, which they really can't do anymore at this point.
@@WaterbuffelNL There seem to be a LOT of parallels to Babylon 5 in this writing arc, and they even have Claudia Christianson as a VA. The big twist in B5 was that the big threat wasn't the attacking alien race called the Shadows or their light based extremely lawful angel allies the Vorlons... but that the Shadows and Vorlons were both playing more or less a game to see if they could force the younger races in the universe to conduct themselves in accordance to one of their philosophies. Shadows wanted war and aggression with survival of the fittest, forcing evolution and absorbing the weak. Vorlons wanted order and diplomacy, integrating different races into a federation of planets type of setting where everyone did their part and they would advance slowly through cooperation and shared responsibilities. And in the end the protagonists convinced both factions that they no longer needed their guidance and were good enough to evolve on their own... followed by taking bits of technology they stole from them and having a civil war proving they in fact were not ready to go on their own. That's what I think is actually happening in WoW.
@@henrychurch6062 I admit, that definitely sounds plausible. I personally hope not though, as it sounds exactly like what they did with Illidan and the Light in Legion. Everybody was betting on the Light for help during Legion on Argus and when Illidan rejected his 'gift' it showed 2 things: 1: The Light isn't nearly as strong as it makes it out to be, as one of the strongest beings of light got oneshotted by Illidan. Illidan immediatly states that it's obvious they shouldn't rely on the Light but on themselves. Even Prophet Velen, one of the biggest followers of the Light, seemed to show less dependancy on the Light from that moment on. 2: It showed that the Light has its own agenda and plays nice as long as you play along, but as soon you stray from their path they won't hestitate to take your freedom and force their agenda upon you. I personally really liked this cinematic because of these things, but I felt like Blizzard hasn't pursued this view of the Light ever since. I know they already showed that the titans can do pretty much the same, but I'd rather see the Light keep filling this role instead of Azeroth/Titans/Order. Instead, it rather sounds like they threw this out of the window, looking at Anduin's trip during the expansion so far and the Light again being something to rely on.
Thank you so much for making this! I have a passing knowledge of most of these characters but it’s awesome to get a concise ‘need to know’ history video.
Thank you for this video! My wife and I are coming back after stopping in SL. We watched a different video and were so lost, after watching this I feel I understand so much mire!
4:09 idk, anduin only really started to be important in mists, thrall is (in my opinion) the better candidate for main character of wow, he was important back in warcraft, and now it looks like hes important again.
He hasnt been important in any sort of way since the very beginning of WoD. At that point they had already positioned Anduin to become the main lead via mists. It was all part of the plan.
thank you so much for this. i started playing month ago and been quite confused lore wise, yet dont have the time to watch like 20 hrs of videos. thank you sir.
Can't wait for Xal'ataths redemption arc. Some shit like she is actually tired of serving the Void Lords, or it isn't actually her fault because she is bound or enslaved by the void lords, and we only win because she gives us a chance at the very last second to save our world. Yaaay
If she doesn't 100% confirmed kill -redacted- at the start of TWW, then yeah, expect her to not be the actual villain. If this is the case, I hope Xal'atath is similar to Minthara from BG3, in that she remains pragmatic/evil-leaning.
They're not those Arathi. They took the best and brightest from stromgarde and silvermoon, and left for another continent. They don't even consider themselves human or elves anymore, they see themselves as their own unique race, "Arathi". And they have no particular hate for trolls because they weren't involved in the troll wars. But they do appear to be xenophobic and think all races are lesser.
considering that argus also cried out to alleria and thyrallion when the titans used him to revive demons i think its fair to say its the real voice of the world soul and not a trick. "a thousand years of war" Audiobook explains alot about worldsouls, light and void
I just started and I'm kind of excited to explore all of this. Retail is very overwhelming but this video was very helpful to let me know what's up. I also think it's fantastic we finally get to see some of the depth of the narubians. They've been trying to express them for four or five expansions. It'll be cool to see it in the flesh
haaaa thx! Great video! I really had a rough time to understand all the story between those two (Alleria and Xal'Atah - i really enjoy the dynamics between them)
Just slightly off topic of the video (great vid btw, really helps my understanding), but can we talk about how incredible the Trailer for War Within is? Like, omg, CGI is so advanced now. Anduin looks like an actual human person, to the point my grandparents thought it was an actual live video, and Thrall looks Real! Like, that's insane!
Xal'atath is definitely the shadowy figure that has been showing up in SoD, offering players void crafting recipies in exchange for void infused items.
I love how Anduin is always said to be this “little bitch” but his struggles and what he's had to go through since he was a child is always overlooked.
Also by Legion he SHOULD of been a bad ass.. but no he is a milk drinker and now looks like a methhead ranting about this "shadowed lands" like it was a thing. 😂
loved your commentary in this video LOL. I thought the top line out of the whole thing was "if you don't know who Jaina and Thrall are, eh.. how did you even find this video"
Sargeras wasn’t corrupted. Being the strongest titan, his responsibility was fighting. Through his fights with demons that kept coming back, and seeing all the worlds that the void had destroyed, he began to understand the threat. He warned his titan brothers, but they rejected his warnings. Only sargeras understood. He understood what would happen to the universe if the void took control of Azeroth. If his brothers were too weak to fight, he knew that they would stand no chance. So his he believed that they needed to destroy Azeroth before it’s too late. Sargeras is a grey character.
Chronicles 4 confirmed Would Souls to just be a soul. It is shaped to become a Titan as it is pumped full of Order magic. It can be shaped into something else if pumped full of Void magic, for instance.
Not to be that guy, but it's commonly believed that azeroth's world soul isn't a titan but its own thing, that an argus situation is the a similar process of some outside force corrupting it into their image. In argus's case we got a titan forged with fel and undeath, but azeroth has been stewing in arcane energies placed there by the titans for millions of years. The thing that comes out of it might not even end up a titan if they win, but something more powerful.
"commonly believed" by literally nobody in-lore, canonically. that is a player/content creator headcanon theory. And it's not a bad theory at all, but as far as anyone in-game or in-lore texts outside the game is concerned, the theory isn't a thing. Sargaras, Argus and Azeroth, are all just titans. In fact, I'd argue the majority of the playerbase just takes the in-game dialogue at face value and has no idea about the content creators who think Azeroth might be a first one or that world souls are cosmic force agnostic before being claimed. That's all off in pyromancer/accolonn woo woo speculation land. It is not a common belief.
@@DarkScreamGames It would be a shame if, say for the sake of argument, the War Within added a quest called "Archives: The First Disc" which confirmed this theory and followed up on a book from dragonflight called "Keeper Tyr's progress reports" which teased that this would be the case. Yes, characters in lore who are flawed narrators may have believed that a world soul = a titan baby, but they only had the information that they could gather from the titans. The titans, by the way, frame the narrative to suit there goals, a fact we explored in dragonflight with keeper Tyr.
It's funny, because I saw your comment after watching the whole video and yet I managed to predict exactly what you meant before clicking the timestamp. You're right, it's impossible.
I really wish we could got vereesa windrunner as the "leader of Dalaran" for this period after Khadgar, and maybe having Dagran (Alliance), Durak (Horde) and Giramar and Galadin (Vereesa sons and neutral as for Dalaran) as the low profile characters, like Pippin and Merry, that help you in some secondary quests. After all, Anduin could only be the character he is today by having some space to GROW in minor quests and secondary ones. I really wish WoW perceived how much room they have to bring out this smaller characters (the new generation) and let them take more space in the narrative. Anduin is the literal proof of that
i’m so excited man. while some prefer endgame, my favorite part of WoW is reading all the quests and playing through all the zones. it truly feels like an adventure and i can’t WAIT to explore the new ones
Even weirder. The expansions play out during 1 year of in-world time, but they take two real-life years to happen. So all of wow has been in half speed, or is it double speed? idk, but you get my point. The 1 year per expansion thing isn't 100% accurate, but most of them follow that pattern. DF took place during two years and I think they're planning to have future expansions follow real-life time more as well.
Man, I'm like one butterfly effect away from being in the timeline where I go. "Well, I don't really know Jaina and Thrall because I only played the very start of Warcraft 3 and only started playing WoW in Dragonflight and found you because I wanted to know who Xal'atath is." Instead I can go "Well I mainly know them cause I finally played through Warcraft 3 last month and a friend got me back into Dragonflight after my previous attempt to get into WoW was, uh, during the start of Shadowlands.... Jaina's trailer song for BfA was cool though." I do agree with the ranking of Dragonflight though, in that almost more than being any kind of outstanding epic story, it's a stepping stone after a severe downturn. (Mostly from what I've heard from mates but also adds up in my own playing)
As someone coming back to WoW after being away for several years, this video was extremely helpful because like you said at the start of the video, I was like "WHAT THE F&*# IS A WORLD SOUL??!!" LMAO
my head hurts... atleast i know who Jaina and Green Jezus are
Lol green jesus
One does not take the name of Greezus in vain.
Final Boss: mean dagger
Stupid sexy mean dagger
I main Priest since Legion.
You made me laugh out loud with this comment.
Final boss: Bae blade
Spicy knife
Wicked Knifu
"..you and all you know shall be mine."
Sure, void momma.
I Don't Think She Need Void's Power To Make People Her Puppet's. She Just Need To ask!
My moral code, self-preservation instinct and love for freedom leaving my body when a bad b tells me to do something
you think its a joke but i think its true in lore.
we will see
Smirky voidy dommy mommy
Xal'atath: "All will kneel before me. Your every thought shall be in how best to serve me."
Average WoW Player: "Never! I won't submit."
Xal'atath: "Feet."
Average WoW Player: "Yes, my Queen. What is your command?"
The protagonist for WoW is Chromie. The player characters are like warlock demons she summons to do what needs to be done.
chromie should still be under titan influence right?
only the aspects got their power from azeroth in amirdrasil. all other dragons got ordered by the titans (except the primalists and maybe Wrathion)
@@Nagria2112 yes and no. Dragonflight also states Aspects and Elder Dragons of a Flight, can magically influence or free other Dragons and species. Resulting in various Dragonspawn, and Dragonkin. With the first Drakonid actually being created by the Aspects from the Tarassec we see in Dragonflight.
@@phonicrose8395 hmmmm kinda weird story. where do i find this to replay it? dragon starting area?
@@Nagria2112 Thaldrasuz side quests, some of the lore books throughout the zones, Uldaman's books, and some of the stuff in Zaralek Caverns and Aberrus.
Tarrasec > Drakonid > Dracthyr is thier evolution/creation line specifically for Dracthyr.
Which also adds onto some Dragonspawn and Drakonids being Night Elves or Humans, that were turned to serve the dragons, which is Classic lore.
@@phonicrose8395 thanks. I actually dont know alot about Dragon Evolution in wow i realised
7:56 we killed "one of them"
*Raszageth rages in the Shadowlands*
LOL, it's kind of crazy how almost everyone has forgotten about her.
@@MatthewTheWandererabout whom?
@@vinerx8979 Raszageth...
Raszageth? What is that?
"Some type of salad, I dunno."
Easy to forget she's gone when you see people riding her all over the place.
Anduins two ghost dad's grabbing his shoulders was one of the moments of all time
4:26 "Forcibly dominated by *The Villain of the Expansion* " A villain so sh*t he does not even deserve to be named!
There was a villain in that expansion? Don't be silly, I'd remember that, surely
There was this bald guy... showed up once or twice... uhh, I think he was the janitor or smth? 🤷🏻♂️@@Khadharphak
All part of *THE VILLAIN OF THE EXPANSION*'s plan
my head cannon is that the primus is the Jailer. all makes so much more sens. read the theory.
@@GFEXCerberus Do you mean Garrosh ?
Khadgar actually isn't as old as he looks. Medivh cast a drain life spell on him and drained his vitality making him look older.
He'd be 50ish if he'd aged normally but with Medivh's spell he is 80ish now physically and if he doesn't die the the World Sould Saga he'll die of old age soon. At least if he didn't find a way to halt his aging but I doubt it.
@@GioFan201051 top tier mages prolong their life. Written in the books
@@ОлегХореев Yeah, like Aegwynn or Azshara or whatever Medivh has going on. But Khadgar literally was in Oribos looking around because he was beginning to feel his age and "wanted to see what it looked like here before ..."
That's why I think he's not found a way (yet) to prolong his lifespan.
@@GioFan201051actually that spell literally sucked the life out of him, so technically he’s as old as he looks
@@notyourdaughter666 Yes, that's what I've been saying
Basically Azeroth is a giant crystal at the heart of the planet and it's telling main story NPCs to "Hear... Feel... Think..."
"Raid... PvP... Loot..."
That a ff14 reference?
@@C0rnvillain Well WoW is "drinking" a lot of FFXIV in the past expansions.
End of the World Soul Saga, Azeroth emerges and she's just a dreaded up hippie chick pulling a "Live.. Laugh.. Love." on us
Will you live, to see the end?
Fly this planet and never come back!
remember when the story was green men are invading
now it's purple women are invading
@@velissarothefearless5506spiders are invading
What are you on about ? Did you stop at Warcraft 2 ? The Old gods are already mentioned in Warcraft 3
@@Neofoxie bore off nerd
Yeah, back in, what was it, 1995?
PlatinumWow thast bit with Xal Atah was masterpiece
6:36 brought back fond memories of these random guys I met back in TBC (The Consortium). When I first saw them in Nagrand, they were just some space-wrap-looking dudes who had journeyed across the galaxy to reach Outland. And now that I am aware of their beginnings and entire history, feels like that WOW is returning to its heyday
Yooooooooooo that last part with the voice 🔥🔥🔥
I love how you can get the voice access for this time and again. She pulls of OG sylvanas energy, I love her
I LOVED Sylv... But man, after watching that new cinematic today, over and over again... I dunno, I'm definitely coming around to Xal.
I feel like The War Within was supposed to come out after Legion. Although I enjoyed Dragonflight, experienced an ok thing with BFA, and endured that expansion before DF that shall never be named, the story of TWW feels like it connects with what is previously set up in Legion. I can't wait to see what TWW will bring!
yeah those 3 expansions really accomplished nothing. The plot points that came from them is owning nzoth which could have been done better, and introducing iridikron who made some relic. basically 6 years of absolute garbage
No. WoW got a giant lore and story and the addons are chapters which are not just instantly going to the end.
That's absolute obvious.
And there is no reason to care about that sword instantly after there was no further threat coming from it.
It's not like you COULD do much in the first place. It's the size of a mountain. You need a planet size being to maybe be able to get it out.
@@BigMuskachini You crybabies will keep crying anyway, no matter what. That's why you are ignored or laughed at. You are ridiculous.
What do you mean connects to Legion? I'm sorry but all that shit here is BFA onwards garbage. I look at this and the lore is just as bad as Shadowlands. Villains that are barely established, smirking edgy elf lady aka. Sylvanas 2.0. These are the samw writers... same freaking writers. How these obvious parallels are already forgotten by the community is beyond me. Guess my almost 7 year long no subscription streak continues.
@@xXdnerstxleXx if you haven't played in that long then you have no idea what the story is or what to even complain about. Xala'tath has been around for almost 8 years my guy. The entire time you weren't playing she was being established. So no wonder you are clueless.
We killed 2 primal incarnates, you forgot raszageth ✌🏽
THE PAIN OF BEING FORGOTTEN
RUIN RUIIINNN
She was so dumb but so cool. I wish we had had her for a bit longer.
It's Fyrakk truly dead?
@@Kazanov1936 yeah
Platinumwow didnt fight back to Void Momma.
He already submitted.
That’s the second WoW content creator that I’ve seen be “taken over”. Mr. GM had that happen the other day!
@@tangofett4065Which video?
@@nikoladedic6623 I think it was the Earthen preview video. Taliesen and Evitel did as well. I think it was a promotional thing for the War Within.
@@tangofett4065 Found GM one, but not Evitel one.
Xal'atath's current form isn't due to her possessing a "dead VOID elf".
It's the corpse of a HIGH elf called Inanis, who was trying to wield the power of the Void Stone in Drustvar during BfA, before the player kills her and leave her corpse free for Xal'atath to possess.
The high elf's corpse infused with Xal'atath's void interestingly resulted in what looks like a void elf.
I mean, it's not really interesting, that's just how elves work in warcraft. You feed them magic and they change form. From the very first trolls turning into night elves from getting some order magic, to the high elves turning to the light, to the blood elves enjoying some fel and getting sharper features and fel-influenced eye/hair shades, to the void elves drinkin that sweet shadowy grape juice. There's also the san'layn and dark rangers (Death magc), and there's even ones who converted to fire and sided with fyrakk. And if you take the magic away you get a withered (both silvermoon and suramar elves showed this, so it affects the entire lineage).
Elves are literally the magic they feed on more than anything else. So a high elf corpse stuffed with void sauce will indeed result in a grape juice elf.
we got Xalathat as a dagger as Shadow Priest in legion we freed the spirit of dagger and she went to somewhere we meet her in bfa and die and frees her self for good
fill him with come juice
...Ina?
@@DarkScreamGames from now on i'll be calling my void elf a "grape juice elf"
"Maybe there's a little bit about Xalatath we don't know about yet..."
(4 years from now)
"So it turn's out Xalatath was actually good all along, and was working to protect us all from an even greater Cosmic Threat"
Even though they did that trick many times I somehow doubt it'll end like that this time. The greater cosmic threat everyone (Sargeras, Jailer, etc.) kept warning about is the void, and Xal'atath is on that side. I highly doubt at this point Xal'atath would end up also just warning us for the void and actually wanting to help, she basically is the one we were warned about. The only way that could still happen is if Azeroth turns out to be our biggest enemy and all we known about the void was a lie all along, which they really can't do anymore at this point.
@@WaterbuffelNL There seem to be a LOT of parallels to Babylon 5 in this writing arc, and they even have Claudia Christianson as a VA.
The big twist in B5 was that the big threat wasn't the attacking alien race called the Shadows or their light based extremely lawful angel allies the Vorlons... but that the Shadows and Vorlons were both playing more or less a game to see if they could force the younger races in the universe to conduct themselves in accordance to one of their philosophies.
Shadows wanted war and aggression with survival of the fittest, forcing evolution and absorbing the weak.
Vorlons wanted order and diplomacy, integrating different races into a federation of planets type of setting where everyone did their part and they would advance slowly through cooperation and shared responsibilities.
And in the end the protagonists convinced both factions that they no longer needed their guidance and were good enough to evolve on their own... followed by taking bits of technology they stole from them and having a civil war proving they in fact were not ready to go on their own.
That's what I think is actually happening in WoW.
@@henrychurch6062 I admit, that definitely sounds plausible. I personally hope not though, as it sounds exactly like what they did with Illidan and the Light in Legion. Everybody was betting on the Light for help during Legion on Argus and when Illidan rejected his 'gift' it showed 2 things:
1: The Light isn't nearly as strong as it makes it out to be, as one of the strongest beings of light got oneshotted by Illidan. Illidan immediatly states that it's obvious they shouldn't rely on the Light but on themselves. Even Prophet Velen, one of the biggest followers of the Light, seemed to show less dependancy on the Light from that moment on.
2: It showed that the Light has its own agenda and plays nice as long as you play along, but as soon you stray from their path they won't hestitate to take your freedom and force their agenda upon you.
I personally really liked this cinematic because of these things, but I felt like Blizzard hasn't pursued this view of the Light ever since. I know they already showed that the titans can do pretty much the same, but I'd rather see the Light keep filling this role instead of Azeroth/Titans/Order. Instead, it rather sounds like they threw this out of the window, looking at Anduin's trip during the expansion so far and the Light again being something to rely on.
PERFECT vid! Clear, short and easy to follow, please give us more of that type of content you are awesome!!!
Thank you so much for making this! I have a passing knowledge of most of these characters but it’s awesome to get a concise ‘need to know’ history video.
Thanks for this!
I tried watching the Nobbel video but I could barely follow. This was really well made and summarized.
Thank you for this video! My wife and I are coming back after stopping in SL. We watched a different video and were so lost, after watching this I feel I understand so much mire!
Return of the King
Hey, the King is back! :D
@@stevemiller7836😂
4:09 idk, anduin only really started to be important in mists, thrall is (in my opinion) the better candidate for main character of wow, he was important back in warcraft, and now it looks like hes important again.
That's what happens when you kill Kairne, VolJin and Sylvanas off in quick succession
You run out of horde characters
I just hope they dont kill Thrall at the end.. can we kill sylvanas again?
For old time sakes? 😂
He hasnt been important in any sort of way since the very beginning of WoD. At that point they had already positioned Anduin to become the main lead via mists. It was all part of the plan.
@LiveErrors don't forget Garrosh too.
@@morsperferro3419 hey, he wasnt done dirty unlike VolJin and Sylvanas. he got a long story that fit
The xal'atath was so good I got goosebumps
thank you so much for this. i started playing month ago and been quite confused lore wise, yet dont have the time to watch like 20 hrs of videos. thank you sir.
The isle of Dorne you say?
I hope it is sufficiently fortified.
This is funny to me.
The Praetorian of Terra approves of this.
No.
the man of a true culture...
good old Rogal Dorn xD
Dorne? you mean game of thrones?
Can't wait for Xal'ataths redemption arc. Some shit like she is actually tired of serving the Void Lords, or it isn't actually her fault because she is bound or enslaved by the void lords, and we only win because she gives us a chance at the very last second to save our world. Yaaay
...and the conga line continues...
Or it was never a villain arc and always a manipulation arc but you right, its blizzard so itll prob be mid at best.
Plot twist: she was serving THE JAILER
To give them some credit, I am pretty sure that they also know it was shit.
If she doesn't 100% confirmed kill -redacted- at the start of TWW, then yeah, expect her to not be the actual villain. If this is the case, I hope Xal'atath is similar to Minthara from BG3, in that she remains pragmatic/evil-leaning.
I'm curious as to why Arathi troll slaying warriors went underground so deep.
I'm sure huge lore will play out about how the Arathi with pointy ears ended up battling off spiders instead of trolls in the next expansion.
They're not those Arathi. They took the best and brightest from stromgarde and silvermoon, and left for another continent. They don't even consider themselves human or elves anymore, they see themselves as their own unique race, "Arathi". And they have no particular hate for trolls because they weren't involved in the troll wars. But they do appear to be xenophobic and think all races are lesser.
becasue they have Emperor of Light
^Congratz to the sponsor. Really proud of you lil guy :D
9:45 The only reason I'm excited to play. The armor looks sick.
The radiant song sounds like mind control with extra steps.
Ooo lala, someone's going to be popular when they get to join the Kirin tor....-
considering that argus also cried out to alleria and thyrallion when the titans used him to revive demons i think its fair to say its the real voice of the world soul and not a trick.
"a thousand years of war" Audiobook explains alot about worldsouls, light and void
Locus Walker said same song was sunged before their world was destroyed
its a warning if not heeded the world is dead
I just started and I'm kind of excited to explore all of this. Retail is very overwhelming but this video was very helpful to let me know what's up. I also think it's fantastic we finally get to see some of the depth of the narubians. They've been trying to express them for four or five expansions. It'll be cool to see it in the flesh
haaaa thx! Great video! I really had a rough time to understand all the story between those two (Alleria and Xal'Atah - i really enjoy the dynamics between them)
Blizz's ol'reliable. Insert baddy with an apostrophe in their name. Give them a spooky magic macguffin artifact.
And the others are?
Another good one, filled in a lot of gaps. Thanks
Cool meeting you the other day (Friday)!
Why wouldn’t you just say “cool meeting you on Friday”???????
@@Frankthegb Broken key on keyboard??????????
Yooo thank you bro. So hyped to come to Wow
Y’all have a great way of presenting stuff man - loved the xalatath interlude.
4:45 „His two Ghost-Dads..“ 💀
Just slightly off topic of the video (great vid btw, really helps my understanding), but can we talk about how incredible the Trailer for War Within is? Like, omg, CGI is so advanced now. Anduin looks like an actual human person, to the point my grandparents thought it was an actual live video, and Thrall looks Real! Like, that's insane!
Xal'atath is definitely the shadowy figure that has been showing up in SoD, offering players void crafting recipies in exchange for void infused items.
I'm not sure if I just haven't watched in a while, but your Blizzard style texts and editing is so sick. GG.
I love how Anduin is always said to be this “little bitch” but his struggles and what he's had to go through since he was a child is always overlooked.
Compared to thrall, gnome king (forgot his name), sylvanas, therenas and many others he went through nothing
Anduin is a little baby
lmao. tell me you play wow since after 2016 without saying you play wow since after 2016
Also by Legion he SHOULD of been a bad ass.. but no he is a milk drinker and now looks like a methhead ranting about this "shadowed lands" like it was a thing. 😂
He's the Gohan of Warcraft.
This is an outSTANDING explanation. I am so impressed
Thank you very much for this video! I’m getting back into WoW with The War Within and this was a great primer. Very entertaining and funny. 😄
This is so well made and helpful, as the WoW story is so huge.
"And if you don't know these two, how did you even find this video" made me laugh much harder than it should have. xD
The boldest move Blizzard pulled is teasing a trillogy when in reality they're never more than 1 bad expasion away from a soft reboot.
"He stabbed his giant sword into azeroth."
How I Met Your Mother Burning Legion ed.
Xal'atath made an appearance on Preach as well. I love these little crossovers they're making with WoW channels.
okay but she reminds me of Sofia Boutella's aesthetic from The Mummy movie revamp that flopped and I cannot unsee it
Bro the VA part was so good. Holy shit
loved your commentary in this video LOL. I thought the top line out of the whole thing was "if you don't know who Jaina and Thrall are, eh.. how did you even find this video"
Sargeras wasn’t corrupted. Being the strongest titan, his responsibility was fighting. Through his fights with demons that kept coming back, and seeing all the worlds that the void had destroyed, he began to understand the threat. He warned his titan brothers, but they rejected his warnings. Only sargeras understood. He understood what would happen to the universe if the void took control of Azeroth. If his brothers were too weak to fight, he knew that they would stand no chance. So his he believed that they needed to destroy Azeroth before it’s too late. Sargeras is a grey character.
Lol no
I have no idea who Jaina and Thrall are, but after watching it all I have to say that I do know some words you said. Liked and subscribed!
Love your style, please do more, i run out of videos to destroy my sleep schedule to
Chronicles 4 confirmed Would Souls to just be a soul. It is shaped to become a Titan as it is pumped full of Order magic. It can be shaped into something else if pumped full of Void magic, for instance.
chronicle 4 is full of errors its really bad and should be ignored
And azeroth has been pumped full of both
Yeah im sure theyll remember that by TLT
Yeah that book is terrible but the thing about worldsouls being not exactly titans but whatever they're infused with has been hinted since Legion
@@TheCalcit but its clearly from the other lore that the worldsoul is not a titan, just watch pyromancer videos
This video is sooooo good for people who have no idea what the hell is going on. Very well done!!
Honestly that was awesome with the take over ! Really cool man!
"the people in some out worldly place heard something strange before that planet was doomed"
wait, where have I heard that?
I LOVE ALL THESE XAL'ATATH FEATURES!!!!!!
Not to be that guy, but it's commonly believed that azeroth's world soul isn't a titan but its own thing, that an argus situation is the a similar process of some outside force corrupting it into their image. In argus's case we got a titan forged with fel and undeath, but azeroth has been stewing in arcane energies placed there by the titans for millions of years. The thing that comes out of it might not even end up a titan if they win, but something more powerful.
More powerful than a titan!? Is such a thing even possible?
@@MatthewTheWanderer Yes. The player characters 💀
@@taranbrat LMAO
"commonly believed" by literally nobody in-lore, canonically. that is a player/content creator headcanon theory. And it's not a bad theory at all, but as far as anyone in-game or in-lore texts outside the game is concerned, the theory isn't a thing. Sargaras, Argus and Azeroth, are all just titans. In fact, I'd argue the majority of the playerbase just takes the in-game dialogue at face value and has no idea about the content creators who think Azeroth might be a first one or that world souls are cosmic force agnostic before being claimed. That's all off in pyromancer/accolonn woo woo speculation land. It is not a common belief.
@@DarkScreamGames It would be a shame if, say for the sake of argument, the War Within added a quest called "Archives: The First Disc" which confirmed this theory and followed up on a book from dragonflight called "Keeper Tyr's progress reports" which teased that this would be the case. Yes, characters in lore who are flawed narrators may have believed that a world soul = a titan baby, but they only had the information that they could gather from the titans. The titans, by the way, frame the narrative to suit there goals, a fact we explored in dragonflight with keeper Tyr.
Love it. I am not playing WoW since Cataclysm but still follow your videos!
Okay I saw this same ending on Hazel’s video. This is SO COOL WTF.
Am I the only one that wants to side with Xal'atath for the power she promised me in legion.
The player avatars at the end is so cute ^_^
Love your videos ! Hoping for more content with tww!! Much love from Germany
When you show of the 3 sister i was a specting they pose like the pilar man , i dont know why XDDDD
man that dalarn music hits
3:14 I cant take Khadgar seriously in this pic
It's funny, because I saw your comment after watching the whole video and yet I managed to predict exactly what you meant before clicking the timestamp. You're right, it's impossible.
Anduin has more Character Updates, then Ryze Reworks got in League of Legends
I really wish we could got vereesa windrunner as the "leader of Dalaran" for this period after Khadgar, and maybe having Dagran (Alliance), Durak (Horde) and Giramar and Galadin (Vereesa sons and neutral as for Dalaran) as the low profile characters, like Pippin and Merry, that help you in some secondary quests.
After all, Anduin could only be the character he is today by having some space to GROW in minor quests and secondary ones.
I really wish WoW perceived how much room they have to bring out this smaller characters (the new generation) and let them take more space in the narrative. Anduin is the literal proof of that
WHAT? THE VOICE ACTOR?!?!? This is awesome!
Just more Debra Wilson… Is she the only working VA right now?
When the sword eventually goes, I'm going to miss it a bit. I've been using it as a navigation landmark when I fly around there too long.
u will see it when do the content to farm items
Im glad that there are some spider people who are still around
3:35 Ive never played wow but have been thinking about getting into it thats how I suppose.
super helpful. Thank you
i’m so excited man. while some prefer endgame, my favorite part of WoW is reading all the quests and playing through all the zones. it truly feels like an adventure and i can’t WAIT to explore the new ones
So... They heard a "song"... before the end of the world.... mmm where had I heard that.... you could say it´s an "Endsinger" maybe? xd
Great summary!
I’m excited to learn more about deep trolls.
Don't forget the old bearded version of Kadghar from the burning crusade expansion
Ivanova really embracing the shadows this time around huh.
This earned a sub ez. Gg man
Always a good day when the best lore channel releases a video!
Truuue brother
The time jump seems interesting. Becuase correct me if im wrong but pretty much everything else has been in real time?
Even weirder. The expansions play out during 1 year of in-world time, but they take two real-life years to happen. So all of wow has been in half speed, or is it double speed? idk, but you get my point.
The 1 year per expansion thing isn't 100% accurate, but most of them follow that pattern.
DF took place during two years and I think they're planning to have future expansions follow real-life time more as well.
Man, I'm like one butterfly effect away from being in the timeline where I go. "Well, I don't really know Jaina and Thrall because I only played the very start of Warcraft 3 and only started playing WoW in Dragonflight and found you because I wanted to know who Xal'atath is."
Instead I can go "Well I mainly know them cause I finally played through Warcraft 3 last month and a friend got me back into Dragonflight after my previous attempt to get into WoW was, uh, during the start of Shadowlands.... Jaina's trailer song for BfA was cool though."
I do agree with the ranking of Dragonflight though, in that almost more than being any kind of outstanding epic story, it's a stepping stone after a severe downturn. (Mostly from what I've heard from mates but also adds up in my own playing)
awesome video sir!
the xa'latah part was cool hahaha
Thank you :)
Since Shadowlands, I have wondered if Sylvanas will find her husband. That the lore makes me think it is Nanthios.
Do you think that the expansion will go on sale this year?
3:31 only Arthas is missing. We want him back..
Very good! Thanks
Amazing edits wtf 10/10 video
Why does anduin look like coffeezilla?
So I’m super new and am playing dragon flight. Is that story important for the new thing
Thank you for this amazing video :)
As someone coming back to WoW after being away for several years, this video was extremely helpful because like you said at the start of the video, I was like "WHAT THE F&*# IS A WORLD SOUL??!!" LMAO