He didn't eat them. He absorbed the latent arcane energies that barely bound them to reality. Nether drakes are phasing in and out of reality, because of their special conditions. When they die they are said to simply disappear into nothing.
All of the aspects turn evil to purify azeroth to make it rdy for another even bigger baddy. We stop them and maaaaybe the bigger evil will be in the next Expansion. Or not
@@videos8159 While we're at it, we also learn that Ysera's corruption and death was planned all along in order for her to be ressurected after the events of Shadowlands, bringing knowledge and power of the Winter queen with her, so she can completely cleanse the Emerald dream and create her own army in there, become a power system / grind, then lose all her power again when the expansion ends.
Man that Skeletor edit of Sylvanas caught me off guard, that's one of the funniest things I've seen. Also the blue dragonflight's numbers are probably dwindled because I killed 50 000 of them in classic trying to get a sinew for a hunter quiver.
platinum wow, keep doing what you are doing, every month im looking forward to your videos. believe it or not your videos have helped me through dark times. thank you platinum
classic generic comment right here. The kind that will never die out... and it always works. "ur content kept me from committing suicide TY bro!! Im literally nine years old LMAO xD"
So many end-world sittutations could have been avoided if the villains had access to therapy sessions. Therapist: Have you tried seeking support from your brothers and sisters? Neltharion: No, because they are all too preoccupied with how badass their powers are to see that AZEROTH`S PRESSURE IS CRASHING ME! Alextraza: Oh darling, I never knew! You are not alone, while I do feel the joy of life, I also feel every death that happens on the planet...so much repressed sadness. Malygos: Hey, I CAN do awesome magic, but I also have to clean up after every mortal mage that tries to revive its dead mate for...varied reasons. Nozdormu: Dude I SAW MY OWN DEATH...HOW DO YOU THINK I FEEL ABOUT THAT?! Ysera: zzzzzzz
@@jakebessert what are you even talking about lmao. this person made a joke and you are all "waaa you said therapy session waaaaaa you are blizzards target audience because i cant understand how a joke works waaaaa."
Titans: "Hey listen you guys seem cool, have some magic and make sure things don't get too out of hand" Untold time passes Dragons: "No one tell the Titans we've outsourced our responsibility to loot crazed idiots"
*Malygos:* Th-that's my-my little great, gr-great granddaughter...please spare her, leave her be I-I beg you! *[weeps in sad old dragon as they lay dying]*
The Dragon Aspects lore has always fascinated me while playing WoW. The Green Dragonflight is my favorite, and Ysera had the most emotional moment I've ever seen while playing the game. Her death and rebirth in the cinematics were next level. I really hope the next expansion will also bring the Green Dragonflight back next to the others!
jep thats one of the points i dont play wow anymore i was following warcraftlore since i bougt warcraft 2 back in the day but how they handled major characters since(and during) end of legion is still haunting me.
@@thundersu2228 yeah, i mean like he tells it in a fun and more joyious way, makes it more interesting for a casual wow enjoyer or new people getting into the game. Love his narrarive and jokes.
Out of all villains in WOW i think that the phrase "... did nothing wrong" suits Malygos the best He realized that all the problems on Azeroth (the sundering, dark portal, the scourge) were caused by mortals playing with magic, so he decided to take it away Sad that his story in wow ended so early
Malygos could have worked with the people to find replaceable sustainable alternatives to magic though. Imagine if some electricity god showed up today and forced the world to stop consuming so much energy. Sure, it would be good for the environment, but it would be a catastrophe for everyone who relies on it. Malygos was a great character, definitely tragic.
If he didn’t get his ass beat so bad in the ancient war, he would have been awake and taking care of all the magic abuse before they ever happened. Smh
If he had succeeded: the Elves will fade and die of age the Dwaves go deeper and the deeper into the earth the Humans will resort to swords and arrows for combat Basically the Fourth Age of the Years of the Sun
Me, playing wow for years upon years, watching lore videos non stop: There is nothing he can say that can surprise me THIS TIME! Platinum WoW not even a minute in: Proto Dragons were elementals Me: Oh this video is gonna be good
The Deathwing fight do be kinda badass tho. As a DM for friends who haven't played WoW, I've been trying to figure out a way to sneak in a fight sort of like it into a tabletop campaign for years now. Great vid as always, my man!
Tyr losing his hand is btw the exact thing that happened to the real god "Tyr" in the germanic mythology. The gods try to chain one of lokis sons which is Fenris/Fenrir (the wolf) and after a few attempts with different techniques they ask the dwarves for help. So the dwarves craft a chain made of some very rare (and probably symbolic) materials and go to Fenris again. But the wolf does not trust the gods trying to chain him down a third time and so they make a deal: The bravest of the gods, Tyr, has to lay his hand in the wolfs mouth and should he be captured and not be able to free himself, the god loses his hand.
Personal sacrifice for the greater good, a moral that stuck with the WoW-human population even though the actual story of Tyr and his silver hand was forgotten. It's one of the things the Chronicle added that I really like. =) Who can't relate to having traditions that nobody really knows the origins of anymore, yet still represent something good or important?
The coolest thing about WoW dragons for me is they’re the old school dragons. 4 legs with 2 wings. None of these two legs two wings wyverns from skyrim or GoT or the hobbit remake. That’s a really cool neltharion model I don’t think I’ve ever seen it before.
@@kosskrit it’s a fantasy lol why does anything need to make sense? None of the weapons in WoW make sense they’re all too big and bulky to use realistically
That transition to Malygos at 11:01 is absolutely perfect, love the editing on your videos! That moments so cool too knowing that OST was created by the sound of ice cubes breaking underwater; that with Maly just fits 😆
Thank you a lot for your videos, platinum. My homeland is Ukrainian and in these days of struggle your videos about WOW lore are making me feel much better for these magical 30 minutes. Thank you a lot once again. Hope there will be more videos to watch :)
I have the Dawn of the Aspects book. I read that. Watched the video. Now, I know everything about the dragons of Warcraft. However, based on the leaks and speculations about 10.0 and what they done with the lore in Shadowlands, I am prepared to forget everything about these creatures, because another massive Danuser retcon incoming. Thanks for the video.
They can't do much about dragons in wow anyway after Cataclysm. So some time travel bs is coming, infinite dragonflight could still pose some sort of threat but its just not gonna be good let's be real.
@@dogswifty7800 Agree, and looking at the past 2 expansions (BFA, Shadowlands), those were like clickbaits on youtube. BFA should have been about faction wars entirely, instead we got low effort Old God story. Shadowlands was suppose to tell us about that Zovaal guy who looked like Kel'thuzad at the announcement of the expansion, now they turned him a half naked Thanos. I expect nothing, but the same in the next expansion.
@@jointser1008 Chromatus should be the main focus of the story, the only real thing they could make. The Murozond corruption will likely be a one patch threat.
Fun fact, the Drakonid were created to be maybe one day playable, aka playable dragons. Their are more like an lore explanation, if blizzard wants them to be playable.
Well I have news for you. We'll finally have playable dragons in WoW called the Dracthyr who were created by Neltharion by combining the power of the Dragon Aspects with the mortal races to create an army. They are sort of described like Drakonids so I guess your wish came true. At least the Drakonids we used to face will have sick new models as shown in the preview for Thaldraszus in WoW Dragonflight.
The possibility of a dragon-themed xpac possibly being announced, has me on the edge of my seat... Just imagine the remastering of the old dragon models! April 19th is too far away 😬
@@MrBarlien I don't think the current writing team is gonna pull any of that stuff. Everything from BfA and SL was entirely because of Afrasiabi being a piece of shit writer and team leader who only thought of how to sell the next expansion through shock value (aka the same method American tv show writers sell shows), and the writing team was stuck with a story that none of them wanted to create. So if they do make an expansion focused on the dragons again, it'll likely be one that isn't selling itself on shock value and more on mystery.
@@Mariodash23 Said the current writing team. Who are under fire and getting called out. How nice it is to have a scapegoat, that is a piece of shit to boot, to blame it all on. It was horrible under his leadership, no doubt. But I believe he was good at making WarCraft lore. I hope you are right of course, but I severely doubt he was the problem to all this.
@@Mariodash23 Thats complete bullshit and you know it. Afrasiabi was involved until burning of Teldrassil, thats like 4 years ago. Anything beyond that is all from the new writing team and that dumbfuck Danuser. Even if BfA was Afrasiabi's fault then SL is definetelly Danuser's doing. And it also doesnt make sense. Since Danuser became the lead writer, he could change stuff as he wanted and not continue with afrasiabi's direction, assuming even SL story is his fault. But instead Steve and whoever agrees with him chose to shit on old lore and future lore at the same time with anything that happened in SL
Playing this on my other screen, not really listening, just looking up occasionally as I focus on my main screen. I find myself choking up at 10:23, I look up to see Tyrande and Ysera, and I instantly knew why I was crying. Again. I never completed that questline without crying. 13 toons through... 13 sets of tears on my face.
I usually come as ready as one can be to your magnificent puns so I only laugh a lot, but not to the point of falling of the chair. That said, I wasn't ready for Sylvanas-Skeletor runaway. Edit: nor Deathwing's "you got mail" visions.
galakronds death being weird i think fits, because it helps establish that he was simply to powerful to be fought in a straight battle, so they had to defeat him with trickery
Good days? From what I've heard, Cata was the end of WoW's golden age and the beginning of its decline into its modern state, and that raid in particular was considered one of its absolute worst.
It's important to note that Nozdormu expended all his power into the final attack with the Dragon Soul to make sure that Deathwing's death can never be undone. But... Activision is a thing so they might just fanfic that part away and allow him to return because... moneys.
Well, Activision Blizzard got bought by Microsoft. So maybe there will be change for the better? I mean it's hard to go downhill from where they are right now.
How would that stop someone from using time travel to fuck with the order of events again? No really, I don't think it's EVER been said that time travel is now impossible now that Nozdormu lost his god-like time powers, and even then what's stopping someone from another timeline or from the future or even from the past from time traveling to OUR current time? What stops a character from going back to a time before all thar businesses with the infinite dragon flight and undoing everything?
21:10 the contrast in the photo, the fact that you didn't put a voice line the first time around, all combined for an epic drop and proper intro for The Destroyer! Deathwings' biggest problem was following The Lich King, but he was such a badass character that didn't necessarily translate in Cata.
Gotta say odyn had a point in not wanting to empower the dragons. Now they've caused more destruction than any other force next to sargeras. So I'm not opposed in wanting murder the lot of them for their stuff.
On the other hand... Odyn went through with his own plan of creating an unbeatable army from slain Vrykul warriors, empowered by Val'kyr (initially VERY much against their will), and what did he and that army accomplish in the end? Created another powerful enemy of Azeroth (Helya) and... held a flight point on the Broken Shore. Whoop whoop.
@@_Tomon yep. Tyr, Odyn and Archedus, and Ra were never corrupted(I'm refusing to except bfa's nyalotha is cannon because that sucked shit.), Freya was able to help us out during Sholazar so she couldn't have been that corrupted, Hodir and Mimron never actively work against us they just kinda sit in their rooms for a couple millennia, Thorin was captured by Loken so I wouldn't really count him, that just leaves Loken as the only one who was wholly corrupted. So I'd say that's a pretty good record considering they fought against the Black Empire in it's near full power
Very good video! I would love to learn more about Wrathion though and his goals on Azeroth. Since we can't do the legendary questline from Pandaria anymore, my memories of him are vague
Thanks, was waiting for a full dragon lore video from you Platinum. Thanks for all the work.💚💚💚💀Blessing. They could include animations for future expansions such as the Sindragosa one, love it.
I appreciate this video. I just started playing WoW within the launch of DF. Looking forward to Chormie after the expansion is done. Gonna learn some things.
After the events in Dragon Soul (I forget where I found the info, but I think it was in one of the books between MoP and Warlords) dragons also lost there ability to breed. At some point dragons will die off and be no more and we will be left with all those non-dragons and MoP serpents. As someone who loves dragons it's sad knowing this, it's would be the only thing I wouldn't mind getting retcon for the new ex-pac lol
well in game it was implied it was their immortality that was lost, resulting in Murozond. This is the first im hearing aboout their repoductive power being affected
@@TheJacob232 Yeah that's the one thing that sucks about the lore being split between game and books. There's a lot of small details that can be missed since the game won't go over everything because you won't have a reason to buy the books if it did.
I remember when I first did End Time back in cata and seen deathwing impaled on the temple. I actually stood there and stared at it for a good minute. It's deffinitely one of the very few things in WoW that I seen where I was like "Woah. That's metal af." The atmosphere from that alone is amazing. Definitely sold the feeling of it being the end of the world. Like... the war was long over. Apocalyptic.
I always thought it was dumb that proto-dragons evolved from elementals. They have six limbs like basilisks and crocolisks, they should be related! edit: Good lord what is going on in the replies!?
I mean in the world where humanoid creature are either a stone construct that become fleshy, or evolved from primitive sentience creature into more sophisticated form like the troll into elves via the well of eternity, natural science like in the real world are out of question.
I hope they design a mount that looks like that picture (basically the lernean hydra) and it's special animation being throwing meat form your seat and the heads ripping it apart or something cool like that. Unfortunately though I get the feeling we will be getting more reskins
Watching this once again to be up to date for the new expansion and to see if they plan on changing anything, kinda crazy that Platinum kind of predicted it happening
ACTCHUALLY, if i recall correctly in the "Day of the Dragon" there was mention of drakonid and dragonspawn like creatures subjected by the Dragonmaw clan to basically guard Alextrasza while she was imprizoned in Grim'batol. When Krasus was interacting with one said creature he surmized that they are the rezult of the, ahem, *forced creation of cragon eggs*, resulting in the malformed spawn. Now if my recollection is accurate and this is cannon, it WOULD explain why some evil draconic factions have drakonids and the like, but then by what circumstance do good faction dragonkin come from? Dragon lore darker than you may think :D
I've read Day of the Dragon. There's no such thing in that novel. Krasus interacted with a dragonmaw red dragon which had malformed wings. Maybe you're talking of what happened in Night of the Dragon?
I would've loved if chromatus or whatever that 5 headed chromatic dragon was called was like so powerful that he doesn't even do what the people that made him want him to do, like he's so powerful he's not even interested in dealing with anyone and just chills around somewhere.
It's so sad we never got to see in game Malygos' humanoid form. Though, we kinda have now as The Primus looks a lot like how I imagined it according to his in book description.
@@kunik61 In an older book (I think The War of the Ancients) he is depicted as a slender old man with massive long beard, he also acted like a trickster.
Dude I love your edits. Your videos are funny and epic at the same time. The way Naltharion turns into Deathwing and saying the lines "I am deathwing-" It was awesome. Keep doing what you're doing man
Honestly m8.. You strike the perfect balance between the lore and solid jokes, thank you for your videos. I haven't given a fuck about the lore since Christine killed Krasus and Ronin "Because they weren't her characters" And the massive middle finger than was the cataclysm end cinematic... But I am still delighted by your videos, they're the only wow-lore ones I watch. Thanks m8 :)
I love the amount of humour inserted into this explanation of the lore. It's great, thank you! My favourite bit has to be when Deathwing said 'f*ck this shit I'm out' lol
Hey PlatinumWoW, just got done watching your video. Just wanted to drop a comment letting you know how much I enjoyed it. Keep up the great work! Your friend, Staysafe. 💖👈🐲🍷
At this point IF the Dragon Isles are the next expansion I am kinda hoping they have been hidden in the clouds like Black Widow's Red Room was. Would make a heck of alot more sense that we couldn't find it until now because we kept sending people to uncharted parts of the ocean when it was above it all along
I wonder if Deathwing is still around in some form somewhere since we never see him or even hear mention of him being in the shadowlands. Maybe the old gods/ void lords will use what's left of him to raise galakrond from the dead in some future expansion that revolves around dragons.
@@WoWFtw8 Maybe his soul/essence is still inside the whirlpool thing (dont know what its called). Considering how important a character he is id expect to at least have him refrenced if he passed on to the realm of death.
@@TimeyWimey. with the amount of lore and shit they retconned for their unbelievably bad story in Shadowlands, dont be surprised they're not mentioning any characters or forgetting things. this entire expac is the worse lore expac in the game. only interesting part was the nathrezim story imo, rest is just them trying to make something up with broken pieces.
I haven't played WoW since the end of Cataclysm, save for a couple of months when Classic launched, but I still love watching your videos. Great job and keep up the good work!
omg I CAN'T DECRIBE how i love your channel. Your editing is top notch, your jokes are hilarious, your way of presenting warcraft lore makes you so hyped and involved into the history GOD you are underrated. When i saw some effects i gasped out of coolness, for example how you presented the dawn of aspects book, dragons fly there and focus starts well focusing on the book GOD IT'S SO GOOD your editing and storytelling skills inspire me so much. you deserve everything man.
There were early sketches of him looking like possessed Theodin of Rohan. That was cool as shit. Now think of a great story telling and twice as much cut scenes that explain why he believed the war of the cosmic forces would lead to a collapse of the universe and why his communistic dictatorship in a new reality with only one force would be his attempt of bringing salvation. Man there was so much potential for him to be the most badass dude ever.
Yeah, that was one of the most stupid plot holes. They could just say, that they still can lay eggs, but only their proto-forms will hatch. Same result, but makes more sense from an biological standpoint.
Love the video man, such good humour :p Only thing is the first war was won by the alliance, the whole story of Warcraft 1 was the orcs got pushed back due to infighting. Unless blizzard has done one of their classic retcons?
Can't control the cycle of death if there is no one to die - Galakrond or something Idk I read the book it was great, Coros was a 11/10 psycho making his goons cannibalise others just to be BFFs with Galakrond and proceeds to get eaten by Galakrond
Galakrond: Eats his own kind and gets mutations.
Malygos: Eats his own kind and regains his sanity.
Me: Eats my own kind and gets arrested.
ffs smh
Arthas: kills them and uses their soul to turn them into undead frostwyrms.
Such double standards
Cronus: Eats his kids and then gets killed.
He didn't eat them. He absorbed the latent arcane energies that barely bound them to reality. Nether drakes are phasing in and out of reality, because of their special conditions. When they die they are said to simply disappear into nothing.
Honestly best explanation for Storm Drakes would've been: "Odyn felt jealous of Dragons so he made his own."
"an unintentional side-effect of hanging out in the Warrior Order Hall"
Finally someone clever
@@araposkulo U N I N T E N T I O N A L
I'll be honest though, Stormdrakes look absolutely gorgeous. My favorite mount for a Shaman, next to their Class one.
Considering the type of person Odyn is (I.e. a huge dick) he’d probably do something like that
Once the dragon expansion hits, be prepared to take notes, they'll probably retroactively change every single aspect about dragons in the lore.
All of the aspects turn evil to purify azeroth to make it rdy for another even bigger baddy. We stop them and maaaaybe the bigger evil will be in the next Expansion. Or not
Sylvanas has been working with the dragons all along.
@@videos8159 While we're at it, we also learn that Ysera's corruption and death was planned all along in order for her to be ressurected after the events of Shadowlands, bringing knowledge and power of the Winter queen with her, so she can completely cleanse the Emerald dream and create her own army in there, become a power system / grind, then lose all her power again when the expansion ends.
it's a no-brainer at this point that deathwing was really trying to destroy azeroth to protect it from being destroyed by another bigger evil....
Another failure expansion on it's way.
All right, the raiders interrupting Alexstraza's monologue about how sad she is for Malygos is the funniest thing I've seen lately.
"Sometimes Warcraft is a Fantasy Universe". Ouch, that one hurt.
No worse than DnD at times. People forget that magic/bullshit fueled planeships/spaceships going between worlds is hardly new.
This is probably a hold over from when Warcraft started as a Warhammer game back in the 90s.
Man that Skeletor edit of Sylvanas caught me off guard, that's one of the funniest things I've seen. Also the blue dragonflight's numbers are probably dwindled because I killed 50 000 of them in classic trying to get a sinew for a hunter quiver.
a lil exaggerated, but fitting nonetheless.
That quest alone gave me PTSD.
platinum wow, keep doing what you are doing, every month im looking forward to your videos. believe it or not your videos have helped me through dark times.
thank you platinum
By dark times you mean Shadowlands right?
@@okisemporium lol
@@okisemporium You made my day
@@okisemporium indeed XD
classic generic comment right here. The kind that will never die out... and it always works. "ur content kept me from committing suicide TY bro!! Im literally nine years old LMAO xD"
So many end-world sittutations could have been avoided if the villains had access to therapy sessions.
Therapist: Have you tried seeking support from your brothers and sisters?
Neltharion: No, because they are all too preoccupied with how badass their powers are to see that AZEROTH`S PRESSURE IS CRASHING ME!
Alextraza: Oh darling, I never knew! You are not alone, while I do feel the joy of life, I also feel every death that happens on the planet...so much repressed sadness.
Malygos: Hey, I CAN do awesome magic, but I also have to clean up after every mortal mage that tries to revive its dead mate for...varied reasons.
Nozdormu: Dude I SAW MY OWN DEATH...HOW DO YOU THINK I FEEL ABOUT THAT?!
Ysera: zzzzzzz
yea that sounds about right.
This is exactly what’s wrong with the lore. You are Blizzard’s target audience lol.
@@jakebessert what are you even talking about lmao. this person made a joke and you are all "waaa you said therapy session waaaaaa you are blizzards target audience because i cant understand how a joke works waaaaa."
@@freed991 yet here you are crying over a comment I made 6 months ago lmao
Tune in next week, on "Five Nights of Dragonflights". Brought to you by Booty Bay, Inc.
Titans: "Hey listen you guys seem cool, have some magic and make sure things don't get too out of hand"
Untold time passes
Dragons: "No one tell the Titans we've outsourced our responsibility to loot crazed idiots"
The titans, outsource to titan keepers
Titan keepers, outsource to dragonflights
The dragonflights, outsource to loot crazed idiots
Well, who ends up getting the job done? =)
@@mokarokas-2138 don't instigate, delegate.
Who're you calling a loot crazed idiot? 🤣
And we outsource to -garrison followers- -class hall followers- -war campaing followers- -adventuring companions- chinese gold farmers
30:24 I, for one, enjoy seeing Platinum WoW's descent into madness as he looks into the little holes in WoW's story and the Void staring back at him
" Check out this sick new dragon mount I got " is the most accurate reaction one could have in this game 🤣
And than gets roasted by a Bald Man
*Malygos:* Th-that's my-my little great, gr-great granddaughter...please spare her, leave her be I-I beg you! *[weeps in sad old dragon as they lay dying]*
I believe showing off new epic mounts in SW on a Saturday night is the true purpose of the game.
The Dragon Aspects lore has always fascinated me while playing WoW. The Green Dragonflight is my favorite, and Ysera had the most emotional moment I've ever seen while playing the game. Her death and rebirth in the cinematics were next level. I really hope the next expansion will also bring the Green Dragonflight back next to the others!
jep thats one of the points i dont play wow anymore i was following warcraftlore since i bougt warcraft 2 back in the day but how they handled major characters since(and during) end of legion is still haunting me.
You make warcraft lore sound way better than it is and keeping it ALIVE for a hurt player base, love your videos man. Xoxo
This is all real bro, shadowlands hasn't changed it so these were just the "good times"
@@thundersu2228 yeah, i mean like he tells it in a fun and more joyious way, makes it more interesting for a casual wow enjoyer or new people getting into the game. Love his narrarive and jokes.
@@justaguyinyoutube3237 gotcha
But this is the lore, you can pick up the old books and read em :)
Nicely said.
Dragons are one of the only things keeping me engaged with WoW lore these days, so thanks for this very entertaining video!
same thats why im super excited next xpac although im sure current team will prob fuck it up lol
Out of all villains in WOW i think that the phrase "... did nothing wrong" suits Malygos the best
He realized that all the problems on Azeroth (the sundering, dark portal, the scourge) were caused by mortals playing with magic, so he decided to take it away
Sad that his story in wow ended so early
Malygos could have worked with the people to find replaceable sustainable alternatives to magic though. Imagine if some electricity god showed up today and forced the world to stop consuming so much energy. Sure, it would be good for the environment, but it would be a catastrophe for everyone who relies on it. Malygos was a great character, definitely tragic.
@@Insertnamesz "could have worked with the people to find replaceable sustainable alternatives" when has that EVER worked lol
@@Insertnamesz the alternative to Magic is Fel, which nobody wants anymore of.
If he didn’t get his ass beat so bad in the ancient war, he would have been awake and taking care of all the magic abuse before they ever happened. Smh
If he had succeeded:
the Elves will fade and die of age
the Dwaves go deeper and the deeper into the earth
the Humans will resort to swords and arrows for combat
Basically the Fourth Age of the Years of the Sun
I love how passionate yet self-aware you are about WOW
This channel continues to explain Blizzard's own lore WAY better then they have for the past 10 years, keep up the amazing work dude!
The End Times lore is so cool, it's a shame it was limited to a few dungeons instead of being a entire expansion we can hang out in.
Let's wait for Dragonflight, they'll probably adress that :-D
Time travel is a writer's trap. Most who dip a toe in that water end up being unable to escape paradoxes or tie up loose ends.
A Guide to dragons:
Red are hot
Green are dreamy
Blue are something magical
Bronze are ageless
Black are whack in the sack
Wacky
Noted
I've played this game for 15 years and I feel like you tell the story better than the game does...
Me, playing wow for years upon years, watching lore videos non stop: There is nothing he can say that can surprise me THIS TIME!
Platinum WoW not even a minute in: Proto Dragons were elementals
Me: Oh this video is gonna be good
ive always loved how you mix up these lore videos with just the right amount of meme-y flare, makes them all the more enjoyable to watch
The Deathwing fight do be kinda badass tho. As a DM for friends who haven't played WoW, I've been trying to figure out a way to sneak in a fight sort of like it into a tabletop campaign for years now. Great vid as always, my man!
Bruh I steal so much from wow for my campaigns lol
Damn that even today Tyr's Silver Hand is referring to old lore is amazing...
6:26 I also love such details you always build in
Tyr losing his hand is btw the exact thing that happened to the real god "Tyr" in the germanic mythology. The gods try to chain one of lokis sons which is Fenris/Fenrir (the wolf) and after a few attempts with different techniques they ask the dwarves for help. So the dwarves craft a chain made of some very rare (and probably symbolic) materials and go to Fenris again. But the wolf does not trust the gods trying to chain him down a third time and so they make a deal: The bravest of the gods, Tyr, has to lay his hand in the wolfs mouth and should he be captured and not be able to free himself, the god loses his hand.
Personal sacrifice for the greater good, a moral that stuck with the WoW-human population even though the actual story of Tyr and his silver hand was forgotten. It's one of the things the Chronicle added that I really like. =) Who can't relate to having traditions that nobody really knows the origins of anymore, yet still represent something good or important?
Norse mythology*
@Alexander Nikolov Basically the same thing, just different spelling of names. i.e Odin is Wotan
@Alexander Nikolov Ah yes, norse. In germany we say "Germanische Mythologie" which roughly translated is "germanic mythology"
@Alexander Nikolov Norse are more or less German.
The coolest thing about WoW dragons for me is they’re the old school dragons. 4 legs with 2 wings. None of these two legs two wings wyverns from skyrim or GoT or the hobbit remake.
That’s a really cool neltharion model I don’t think I’ve ever seen it before.
Or Elden Ring
Four limb dragon (2 wings and 2 legs) just makes more sense in a fantasy world, where you have real world vertebrates who have only 4 limbs.
@@kosskrit it’s a fantasy lol why does anything need to make sense? None of the weapons in WoW make sense they’re all too big and bulky to use realistically
Feels like your animating is improving.
That transition to Malygos at 11:01 is absolutely perfect, love the editing on your videos! That moments so cool too knowing that OST was created by the sound of ice cubes breaking underwater; that with Maly just fits 😆
Thank you a lot for your videos, platinum. My homeland is Ukrainian and in these days of struggle your videos about WOW lore are making me feel much better for these magical 30 minutes. Thank you a lot once again. Hope there will be more videos to watch :)
Hey man, hope you are doing well!
@@vanreus6150 Thank you, man! I'm OK and hope you too, wherever you are
Your Dragon Force song reference was more epic than you know. You, sir, are the KING of WoW videos!!!!
I have the Dawn of the Aspects book. I read that. Watched the video. Now, I know everything about the dragons of Warcraft. However, based on the leaks and speculations about 10.0 and what they done with the lore in Shadowlands, I am prepared to forget everything about these creatures, because another massive Danuser retcon incoming. Thanks for the video.
They can't do much about dragons in wow anyway after Cataclysm. So some time travel bs is coming, infinite dragonflight could still pose some sort of threat but its just not gonna be good let's be real.
@@dogswifty7800 Agree, and looking at the past 2 expansions (BFA, Shadowlands), those were like clickbaits on youtube. BFA should have been about faction wars entirely, instead we got low effort Old God story. Shadowlands was suppose to tell us about that Zovaal guy who looked like Kel'thuzad at the announcement of the expansion, now they turned him a half naked Thanos. I expect nothing, but the same in the next expansion.
@@dogswifty7800 or maybe chromatus
@@jointser1008 Chromatus should be the main focus of the story, the only real thing they could make. The Murozond corruption will likely be a one patch threat.
@@dogswifty7800 yeah first patch nozdormus corruption and then chromatus!
Here from Asmons stream! Showing support amazing stuff dude! Thanks Asmon for showing this awesome content on your stream for me to discover :)
Fun fact, the Drakonid were created to be maybe one day playable, aka playable dragons. Their are more like an lore explanation, if blizzard wants them to be playable.
@N!ckN4me yeah that's not happening. Ever
Well I have news for you. We'll finally have playable dragons in WoW called the Dracthyr who were created by Neltharion by combining the power of the Dragon Aspects with the mortal races to create an army. They are sort of described like Drakonids so I guess your wish came true. At least the Drakonids we used to face will have sick new models as shown in the preview for Thaldraszus in WoW Dragonflight.
at 4:51 ... you nailed exactly the thought of every half-sane Warrior about their Class Halls Leader.
4:14 "But maybe we will see that change in a future expansion" :O
This video was INCREDIBLE! Saw this from Asmon, instantly subscribed.
if only WoW Writers were as hyped and as passionate about it as Platinum WoW
Dude great work. It’s like a Nobbel video but minus the rage he obviously can’t shake about the Season 8 of Game of Thrones that was Shadowlands….
The possibility of a dragon-themed xpac possibly being announced, has me on the edge of my seat... Just imagine the remastering of the old dragon models! April 19th is too far away 😬
Just imagine the remastering of the old dragon lore... makes me shudder.
@@MrBarlien dragons were actually behind EVERYTHING!
@@MrBarlien I don't think the current writing team is gonna pull any of that stuff. Everything from BfA and SL was entirely because of Afrasiabi being a piece of shit writer and team leader who only thought of how to sell the next expansion through shock value (aka the same method American tv show writers sell shows), and the writing team was stuck with a story that none of them wanted to create. So if they do make an expansion focused on the dragons again, it'll likely be one that isn't selling itself on shock value and more on mystery.
@@Mariodash23 Said the current writing team. Who are under fire and getting called out. How nice it is to have a scapegoat, that is a piece of shit to boot, to blame it all on. It was horrible under his leadership, no doubt. But I believe he was good at making WarCraft lore. I hope you are right of course, but I severely doubt he was the problem to all this.
@@Mariodash23 Thats complete bullshit and you know it. Afrasiabi was involved until burning of Teldrassil, thats like 4 years ago. Anything beyond that is all from the new writing team and that dumbfuck Danuser. Even if BfA was Afrasiabi's fault then SL is definetelly Danuser's doing. And it also doesnt make sense. Since Danuser became the lead writer, he could change stuff as he wanted and not continue with afrasiabi's direction, assuming even SL story is his fault. But instead Steve and whoever agrees with him chose to shit on old lore and future lore at the same time with anything that happened in SL
Playing this on my other screen, not really listening, just looking up occasionally as I focus on my main screen. I find myself choking up at 10:23, I look up to see Tyrande and Ysera, and I instantly knew why I was crying. Again.
I never completed that questline without crying. 13 toons through... 13 sets of tears on my face.
Same :(
I usually come as ready as one can be to your magnificent puns so I only laugh a lot, but not to the point of falling of the chair. That said, I wasn't ready for Sylvanas-Skeletor runaway. Edit: nor Deathwing's "you got mail" visions.
galakronds death being weird i think fits, because it helps establish that he was simply to powerful to be fought in a straight battle, so they had to defeat him with trickery
21:08 I know those lines by heart... Oh how I wish the good days of wow were back, such a sad ending to such an amazing story.
Good days? From what I've heard, Cata was the end of WoW's golden age and the beginning of its decline into its modern state, and that raid in particular was considered one of its absolute worst.
A must see before Dragonflight expac !
Thank you Platinum
It's important to note that Nozdormu expended all his power into the final attack with the Dragon Soul to make sure that Deathwing's death can never be undone. But... Activision is a thing so they might just fanfic that part away and allow him to return because... moneys.
You mean Nozdormu. He is only Murozond after going mad infinitum.
Well, Activision Blizzard got bought by Microsoft. So maybe there will be change for the better? I mean it's hard to go downhill from where they are right now.
@@aureliodeprimus8018 fixed, thx
How would that stop someone from using time travel to fuck with the order of events again? No really, I don't think it's EVER been said that time travel is now impossible now that Nozdormu lost his god-like time powers, and even then what's stopping someone from another timeline or from the future or even from the past from time traveling to OUR current time? What stops a character from going back to a time before all thar businesses with the infinite dragon flight and undoing everything?
Came over here because of an Asmon vid. Subbed, good stuff 👍
I wish my school teachers taught me history like you do lore. Absolutely love your work man, keep it up. Thank you.
21:10 the contrast in the photo, the fact that you didn't put a voice line the first time around, all combined for an epic drop and proper intro for The Destroyer! Deathwings' biggest problem was following The Lich King, but he was such a badass character that didn't necessarily translate in Cata.
Gotta say odyn had a point in not wanting to empower the dragons. Now they've caused more destruction than any other force next to sargeras. So I'm not opposed in wanting murder the lot of them for their stuff.
On the other hand... Odyn went through with his own plan of creating an unbeatable army from slain Vrykul warriors, empowered by Val'kyr (initially VERY much against their will), and what did he and that army accomplish in the end? Created another powerful enemy of Azeroth (Helya) and... held a flight point on the Broken Shore. Whoop whoop.
@@mokarokas-2138 he also let warriors jump between zones freely, so I say we give him a pass
Because the Keepers themselves did such a good job at resisting Old Gods corruption, right? :-D
@@_Tomon yep. Tyr, Odyn and Archedus, and Ra were never corrupted(I'm refusing to except bfa's nyalotha is cannon because that sucked shit.), Freya was able to help us out during Sholazar so she couldn't have been that corrupted, Hodir and Mimron never actively work against us they just kinda sit in their rooms for a couple millennia, Thorin was captured by Loken so I wouldn't really count him, that just leaves Loken as the only one who was wholly corrupted. So I'd say that's a pretty good record considering they fought against the Black Empire in it's near full power
@@_Tomon least the keepers had the grace to sequester themselves in their titan facilities. When a dragon gets corrupted it screws everyone.
Very good video! I would love to learn more about Wrathion though and his goals on Azeroth. Since we can't do the legendary questline from Pandaria anymore, my memories of him are vague
Thanks, was waiting for a full dragon lore video from you Platinum. Thanks for all the work.💚💚💚💀Blessing. They could include animations for future expansions such as the Sindragosa one, love it.
I appreciate this video. I just started playing WoW within the launch of DF. Looking forward to Chormie after the expansion is done. Gonna learn some things.
Pufferfish Galakrond is my favorite thing now.
3:32 btw
Omg the fish choke sound ive not laughed this hard in ages THANK YOU
After the events in Dragon Soul (I forget where I found the info, but I think it was in one of the books between MoP and Warlords) dragons also lost there ability to breed. At some point dragons will die off and be no more and we will be left with all those non-dragons and MoP serpents. As someone who loves dragons it's sad knowing this, it's would be the only thing I wouldn't mind getting retcon for the new ex-pac lol
well in game it was implied it was their immortality that was lost, resulting in Murozond. This is the first im hearing aboout their repoductive power being affected
@@TheJacob232 Yeah that's the one thing that sucks about the lore being split between game and books. There's a lot of small details that can be missed since the game won't go over everything because you won't have a reason to buy the books if it did.
I remember when I first did End Time back in cata and seen deathwing impaled on the temple.
I actually stood there and stared at it for a good minute. It's deffinitely one of the very few things in WoW that I seen where I was like "Woah. That's metal af."
The atmosphere from that alone is amazing. Definitely sold the feeling of it being the end of the world. Like... the war was long over. Apocalyptic.
I always thought it was dumb that proto-dragons evolved from elementals. They have six limbs like basilisks and crocolisks, they should be related!
edit: Good lord what is going on in the replies!?
Where are the 2 extra pair of limbs? The wings aren't limbs
@@chrislab542 Wings are limbs
@@kyubeycoobie3568 not in the way crocolisks have limbs
I mean in the world where humanoid creature are either a stone construct that become fleshy, or evolved from primitive sentience creature into more sophisticated form like the troll into elves via the well of eternity, natural science like in the real world are out of question.
@@moch.farisdzulfiqar6123 dude literally started scatting for a TH-cam comment
Thanks Asmon for sharing this video
I have a good feeling we'll be seeing Chromatus and the corruption of Nozdormu on the Dragon Isles in the next expansion!
BET
I hope they design a mount that looks like that picture (basically the lernean hydra) and it's special animation being throwing meat form your seat and the heads ripping it apart or something cool like that.
Unfortunately though I get the feeling we will be getting more reskins
@@araposkulo If it happens it will be store mount.
It's far more likely they will forget that it even exists.
I'd been hoping for a Dragon lore vid from you and this did not disappoint. Crazy stuff, but awesome. Keep up the awesome work.
Watching this once again to be up to date for the new expansion and to see if they plan on changing anything, kinda crazy that Platinum kind of predicted it happening
Love your content Platinum! Please keep uploading for our viewing pleasures
ACTCHUALLY, if i recall correctly in the "Day of the Dragon" there was mention of drakonid and dragonspawn like creatures subjected by the Dragonmaw clan to basically guard Alextrasza while she was imprizoned in Grim'batol. When Krasus was interacting with one said creature he surmized that they are the rezult of the, ahem, *forced creation of cragon eggs*, resulting in the malformed spawn. Now if my recollection is accurate and this is cannon, it WOULD explain why some evil draconic factions have drakonids and the like, but then by what circumstance do good faction dragonkin come from? Dragon lore darker than you may think :D
I've read Day of the Dragon. There's no such thing in that novel. Krasus interacted with a dragonmaw red dragon which had malformed wings.
Maybe you're talking of what happened in Night of the Dragon?
This was so much fun! Loved it, super entertaining
You know, it’s odd how the first two dragons to turn evil were the ones who flew down Galakrond’s throat.
9:10
"The world of Azeroth if it was never altered by intelligent beings"
I'm assuming the statue just grew naturally.
I would've loved if chromatus or whatever that 5 headed chromatic dragon was called was like so powerful that he doesn't even do what the people that made him want him to do, like he's so powerful he's not even interested in dealing with anyone and just chills around somewhere.
What you really need to know about dragons in WoW is: never stand behind a dragon, never stand in front of a dragon
the satirical nature of your storytelling is pretty good, it got me laughing a few times. I do think it did Sindragosa an injustice though
You’ve got the best lore videos out there. We need someone like you in the Destiny community.
It's so sad we never got to see in game Malygos' humanoid form. Though, we kinda have now as The Primus looks a lot like how I imagined it according to his in book description.
His form is a young tall elf.
@@kunik61 In an older book (I think The War of the Ancients) he is depicted as a slender old man with massive long beard, he also acted like a trickster.
You see it when you do the whole Kalecgos questline in Dragonflight now
as always, amazing video! thx
Really love your Lore Vidoes, simple and entertaining.. Keep up the good work
Dude I love your edits. Your videos are funny and epic at the same time. The way Naltharion turns into Deathwing and saying the lines "I am deathwing-" It was awesome. Keep doing what you're doing man
Honestly m8.. You strike the perfect balance between the lore and solid jokes, thank you for your videos. I haven't given a fuck about the lore since Christine killed Krasus and Ronin "Because they weren't her characters" And the massive middle finger than was the cataclysm end cinematic... But I am still delighted by your videos, they're the only wow-lore ones I watch. Thanks m8 :)
Thank you for keeping the content up. I'm not playing myself anymore but still love the lore and love your videos, edits and humour even more.
I love the amount of humour inserted into this explanation of the lore. It's great, thank you!
My favourite bit has to be when Deathwing said 'f*ck this shit I'm out' lol
Great video. I really enjoyed it and I think the work you put in to acutally act out the events really pushed it over the top.
Hey PlatinumWoW, just got done watching your video. Just wanted to drop a comment letting you know how much I enjoyed it. Keep up the great work! Your friend, Staysafe. 💖👈🐲🍷
I dont even play the game anymore (first shadowlands raid) but i keep watching these because they are so well made
We all know why we returned to this video. Dragonflight!
I don't play anymore, but I love the content and lore behind WoW. Keep up the great work
Why does everyone keep forgetting about Sabellian being in Blades Edge?
Bcs only 2 people ever played Blades Edge, qnf one of them died of old age by now
8:37 that's absolutely genius and hilarious! The execution of the song fading in literally made me lol 😂😂
At this point IF the Dragon Isles are the next expansion I am kinda hoping they have been hidden in the clouds like Black Widow's Red Room was.
Would make a heck of alot more sense that we couldn't find it until now because we kept sending people to uncharted parts of the ocean when it was above it all along
Well you certainly did call it
@@adc1222 the hidden aspect yes. But it definitely seems like grounded islands >.< shame.
Outstanding video bro. so true loved it keep it up!!
I wonder if Deathwing is still around in some form somewhere since we never see him or even hear mention of him being in the shadowlands. Maybe the old gods/ void lords will use what's left of him to raise galakrond from the dead in some future expansion that revolves around dragons.
He got disintegrated by thrall.
@@WoWFtw8 Maybe his soul/essence is still inside the whirlpool thing (dont know what its called). Considering how important a character he is id expect to at least have him refrenced if he passed on to the realm of death.
@@TimeyWimey. That'd be the Maelstrom
there is a new build in the game where it said "world breaker" at 9.2.5 build
@@TimeyWimey. with the amount of lore and shit they retconned for their unbelievably bad story in Shadowlands, dont be surprised they're not mentioning any characters or forgetting things.
this entire expac is the worse lore expac in the game. only interesting part was the nathrezim story imo, rest is just them trying to make something up with broken pieces.
I haven't played WoW since the end of Cataclysm, save for a couple of months when Classic launched, but I still love watching your videos. Great job and keep up the good work!
Your videos are the only thing that makes wow still interesting. You are making a better work than Blizzard.
omg I CAN'T DECRIBE how i love your channel. Your editing is top notch, your jokes are hilarious, your way of presenting warcraft lore makes you so hyped and involved into the history GOD you are underrated. When i saw some effects i gasped out of coolness, for example how you presented the dawn of aspects book, dragons fly there and focus starts well focusing on the book GOD IT'S SO GOOD your editing and storytelling skills inspire me so much. you deserve everything man.
Imagine if the jailer was as cool as deathwing
There were early sketches of him looking like possessed Theodin of Rohan. That was cool as shit. Now think of a great story telling and twice as much cut scenes that explain why he believed the war of the cosmic forces would lead to a collapse of the universe and why his communistic dictatorship in a new reality with only one force would be his attempt of bringing salvation. Man there was so much potential for him to be the most badass dude ever.
or even half as cool as Deathwing
@@araposkulo A quarter as cool.
@@Oaglor what if he were cool at all?
@@hangebza6625 Dear God...
Best WoW-Lore Content on TH-cam ngl
I'm always hyped when you upload
Don’t forget dragons lost their ability to breed after the cataclysm because of “reasons”
Yeah, that was one of the most stupid plot holes. They could just say, that they still can lay eggs, but only their proto-forms will hatch. Same result, but makes more sense from an biological standpoint.
I don't want to ask how Alexstrasza could lay eggs when she was in prison
@@feykro222 The answer is as grim as it sounds. Several of her consorts were imprisoned with her. It’s one of the darker parts of Wow’s history 😐
Love the video man, such good humour :p
Only thing is the first war was won by the alliance, the whole story of Warcraft 1 was the orcs got pushed back due to infighting.
Unless blizzard has done one of their classic retcons?
Platinum... Did... did you know?
Omg the production value of this video os just off charts. Stelllar work, magnificent!
Galakrond tried to unite Azeroth by eating his own kind, only a united Azeroth can defeat the Firster Ones lead by the Jailerer
It was the Jailer all along.
Can't control the cycle of death if there is no one to die
- Galakrond or something Idk
I read the book it was great, Coros was a 11/10 psycho making his goons cannibalise others just to be BFFs with Galakrond and proceeds to get eaten by Galakrond
Thank you for this my dude, hopefully you'll keep making lore videos, you're my favorite!
I can't wait to find out Chromatus is what Zovaal was scared of
Okay, I laughed
Oh god watch you be right though
I find myself getting over excited by your passion and excitement….the giant laser beam part had me “pumped”