Non Gamer Watches #31 . . . I try to understand World of Warcraft Lore
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4:54 me at a family dinner when someone brings up an embarrassing thing I did when I was younger.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 omfg I'm dying.
"Is this relevant? How much of this is relevant?"
All.
All of it.
3 funny HAHAHA
I just loved the "is this relevant?"
*5 minutes later* "remember these guys"
her: "No?"
None of it is relevant if they can change shit willy-nilly.
Reminds me of the big bang theory where they start the history of physics in like 800bc or some shit because ITS ALL RELEVANT
MUAHAHAHA
00:45 - Bet is more confused
5:00 - Very relevant. Argus (The planet / Titan soul in that planet) is the Titan of Death, as a result Sargeras (Guy running the burning legion) can speed up his regeneration of his demons as they die (demons dont die die when they die, they go to the twisting nether to be reborn, Sargeras used Argus to speed up their rebirth. The Eredar that arent corrupted and follow Velen become the Draenei and end up on Azeroth, which kinda leads the Burning Legion straight back to Azeroth)
6:18 - Zappyboi (Zakhan) is a Darkspear Troll, which is a type of Jungle Troll. They worship the Loa of Death called Bwomsamdi.
7:00 - Tyrande Whisperwind is the High Priestest of Elune, the Night Elf goddess. She eventually marries Malfurion Stormrage, which pisses off his twin, Illidan.
7:38 - Yup, deathwing caused the Cataclysm event / expansion. You do know things!
8:00 - Azshara.
9:30 'I dont understand him or why he exists' - That is Sargeras, he was the strongest of the Titan Pantheon and it was his job to kill / jail anyone who opposed the Titans. He jailed a bunch of demons called Dreadlords (Nathreziem) and they spoke to him over millenia telling him all about Old Gods and Void Lords. They explained that the Void Lords (who made the old gods) can only enter physical space through corrupting life, so, Sargeras driven mad by all this and worried about void gods fucking everything up decided it was best if he himself fucked it all up and snuffed out as much life as he could. This was how the burning legion was formed.
12:15 - 'We will never be slaves! But we will be conquorers!" was said by Alternate Timeline Grommash Hellscream, at this point in the video you are seeing the first instance of them invading Azeroth. In the original timeline Grom Hellscream, leader of the Warsong Clan was the first orc to drink the Blood of Mannaroth (green stuff altternate timelime grom rejected because his son told him it would make him a slave) drinking the blood bound him and others to the Legion.
13:15 - "That doesn't seem fair!" - as I said in the preview, it isn't. What he failed to mention is that Garona is named Garona Halforcen (Half Orcen, half orc) She was artificially aged and taught by Warlocks, as a result of this and her lineage, she can be controlled by a powerful enough warlock or group of warlocks at this time in the story.
14:03 - It's directly reelated, but its a long line to see the relationship / connection. With the Horde pushing so far north, then Gul'dan betraying them it leads to Illidan getting the skull of Gul'Dan and the Horde being captured / staying in Blackrock mountain, which leads to Thrall and his Horde (in warcraft 3) which leads to the stuff you know.
15:39 - She is Sylvanas' (Eyebrows) sister.
16:21 The Helm of Domination and Frostmourne, Eyebrows broke the helm in half using the power she is borrowing from The Jailer.
16:50 Thrall is the son of Durotan and Drakka. The Forsaken Rogues were sent to Outland (Formerly Draenor untill Ner'Zhul, the Lich King inside the Helmet) opened up all those portals.
The guy who went to get thrall was Varok Saurfang, whos son Dranosh Saurfang was raised as a DK and the players had to kill him.
17:33 That is Arthas Menethil, he becomes the Lich King you saw in the Cinematic, not the eyebrows helmet one, the other one. The woman, Jaina Proudmore, is the Daughter of the Sea.
18:55 Archimonde manifests a likeness of Dalaran in sand (the sand castle) then, much like a voodoo doll, whatever he does to the sand representation happens to the real one, so he destroys Dalaran without having to step food into the city.
19:23 - Yup, right.
20:45 - ok. So. When the Trolls naturally evolved on Kalimdor without the need of a titanic race of machines corrupted by the curse of flesh from Yogg,Saron the old god, they eventually evolved / devolved into night elves. This is where Azshara come sin, her and the other magic users / mana addicted elves called themselve high elves and after azsha got fucked over by the legion / N'zoth and became naga the night elves were all 'right, no more magic, we kinda fucked everything up because of it' and some of the magic users (called high elves / highbourne) fucked off to the east and eventually evolved / devolved into what looks like a blood elf, except they still called themselves high elves. So, then, after Arthas came north and killed like 90% of the elves with his undead army, most of those elves decided to call themselves blood elves to honour the fallen that fought against arthas, but some were all 'nah, fuck you guys, we're gonna go live in dalaran' and those guys that left for Dalaran / the Alliance still call themselves High Elves.
21:37 - The undead in the Warcraft lore can indeed feel, but its kinda muted, like a kind of depression, they are aware of it, but as feelings are also accompanied with chemicals, they're reactions aren't so strong as they would be in the living version of whatever race they are. Sylvanas' motivation was to kill Arthas / Lich King because of what he did to her when he raised her. He raised her as a banshee, turned her on her own people and forced her to murder friends, family and children (in that fight where afterwards they became blood elves). As arthas fucked off up north to help The Lich King / Ner'zhul his grip and power over his undead army was weakened by the distance, as a result Sylvanas broke free, found her body then taught others to do the same. Then she swore to kill arthas.
22:07 -The Forsaken were never fully trusted in the horde, and the forsaken took years to kinda trust the horde. The forsaken joined to have muscle, and the horde let them to have a foothold in the eastern kindgoms. This way if the alliance were gonna attack, they'd attack there first and they could defend there away from their capital city and/or fortify if they knew the alliance were coming.
22:39 - World of Warcraft was the fourth Warcraft game. There was an RTS series before that. (RTS is real time strategy). So the story until this point was the history before the games that was added in later and the games 1 2 and 3. WoW is an MMO, which is entirely different to the RTS.
23:57 - The reason is as follows: when an old god dies in the physical realm, they return to Ny'alotha to be reborn, much like demons in the twisting nether. When players 'kill' them, they are just beating back their manifestation, not actually killing them. However, when a titan (Amun'Thul) tried to kill an old god (Y'sharrjj) he ripped it out the planet and nearly killed Azeroth (titan soul within azeroth the planet)
26:19 - Alexstraza is the Red Dragonflights leader, she is the Aspect of Life.
27:44 - Neltharion the Earth Warder was the leader of the Black Dragonflight, you know him as Deathwing, the guy that fucked up the planet. As the Earth Warder his apsect was literally the earth, so 'talking to rocks' is a joke about Deathwing / Thrall being able to commune with the earth, as Thrall as a shaman.
28:24 - Nozdormu is the leader of the Bronze Dragonflight, and they are the Aspect of Time, they are charged with keeping the timeline pure and stopping time travel and time fuckery from happening.
30:00 - This trailer is for the expansion for Warlords of Draenor, which is, as the video said a new timeline that did not over-write the original timeline
31:45 - Ok, so remember earlier I said that zappyboi was a Darkspear troll? Well, so is Vol'jin. Vol'jin is the leader of the Darkspear, and at the time of his death also the leader of the horde. So, also remember I mentioned the Darkspear worship the loa of death Bwomsamdi? Well, Bwomsamdis' boss is Mueh'Zala, the actual loa of death that only the Trolls in Zul'Farak worship. Mueh'Zala clouded Vol'jins' perceptions and muddled his abilities on the Boken Shore so a random demon could kill him. When Vol'Jin was on the throne and dying, he heard a whisper from a Loa, he wasn't sure which loa (It was Mueh'Zala) and that loa whispered to him 'Windrunner', prompting Vol'Jin to name Sylvanas (Eyebrows) Warchief. Mueh'Zala works for The Jailer (The guy that gave eyebrows the power to break the helmet) and the jailer gives sylvanas power, but only if she can send him souls, to the maw, which is basically hell. The Jailer has been influencing Sylvanas since Arthas died and she tried to kill herself, even giving her Val'kyr (Angels) to keep her in the land of the living.
Sorry for the essay.
Essay had some bits others didn't, and you seem nice to read. I'm bumping
To add on Sylvanas also was motivated to kill people because that was the way the Forsaken reproduced. The more dead that can be risen the stronger the Forsaken where. That is why they developed the plague.
Plz hire an editor! xD
The fundamentals are good though!
Proof-read and rewrite some parts cause' this essay deserves a spot at the top.
Good essay but could use some editing. Still, bump and pin please.
This will definitely leave her 90% less confused
With Nobbel and his videos, the reason they're so long is that he explains everything so that the viewer can understand pretty well. This is a great starting point for all things World of Warcraft, but if you want to go even deeper down this rabbit hole, I'd seriously recommend his channel.
Thats the best place to learn lore if you ask me
Agreed
I second this recommendation. The reason why Nobbel became so popular was because he was willing to get into the details and explain it in a simple way so that it makes sense to anyone.
Also, his accent.
In all honesty Hannah the lore of WOW can be daunting even for long term players such as myself. Reading the books will help you get introduced to the lore but nothing will help you more than logging on, rolling a character and going through that races starting zone. You will learn lore as well as the basic mechanics of the game. It will also introduce you to the players who will help you learn and understand the lore of the game. I highly recommend choosing a high population RP server such as Wrymrest Accord or Moonguard (just stay away from Goldshire). RP servers tend to pay attention to the lore of the game as it affects how players RP their characters. Plus it's a fun way to interact with the players and learn the game.
Manuel Navarette i have to disagre i did stop playing back in mop bit still follows the lore
World of Warcraft the MMO was the 4th warcraft games, before that there was Warcraft : Orcs & Humans, Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness / Beyond the Dark Portal and Warcraft III : Reign of Chaos / The Frozen Throne, each games about a war between the horde and the alliance, that's why so much happened before World of Warcraft even started.
okayyyy thanks!
HannaH's Over Invested I believe the book that you are reading takes place 10k years before the events of the first Warcraft game.
@@HannaHsOverInvested Also, a lot of the beginning history (the first ~8 minutes of the history) was made up in World of Warcraft as backstory to the expansions. It ret-conned some of the previous history of the original Warcraft games. It served to explain all the new worlds and new enemies that people were fighting.
Nobbels videos are for sure longer but they are a lot more digestible haha
@@Jadak1Kadaj They also are more of a deep dive focusing on one thing, all of it's histories and all of it's direct connections to all the other things be it an item, a character or a place. A lot of this is interwoven, some by intent, some by proxy and some just because of retcons to make the old games match up.
Jesus Christ, lady, I'm impressed you're even trying.
To answer your question about Eyebrows - She definitely has emotions, though she's traumatized to hell thanks to dying and being made to serve as a slave in her undeath. Once she got her freedom back, she was hellbent on revenge on her captor, the Lich King - blue helmet guy. Once she got her revenge, she committed suicide because she felt nothing but emptiness. While dead she basically saw hell and made a deal to be resurrected and from that moment on all her actions are motivated by fear and self-preservation. She doesn't want to end up in hell.
She rarely shows positive emotion - I think she did once recently, expressing regret over her ruined relationship with her two sisters. That's all I'm aware of.
It's a lot! I'm giddy you're willing to try and understand all this nonsense for the sake of your nerdy viewers.
In general, undead have heightened negative emotions alongside subdued positive emotions. Sylvanas has it worst than mosts due to her soul getting “special” treatment from Arthas.
She wasn't an emotionless husk until Blizzard decided to make her to bbeg, to be fair. But we'll ignore that so
She also showed regret over leaving the Alliance to die when Vul'Jin told her to abandon the Broken Shore, but that was mostly because she sort of felt kinship to Varian as another strong warrior
This is important! Especially since we now know that Sylvannas made that deal with the evil Reaper guy mentioned at the end of the video, named The Jailor (or his real name, Zovaal)
@@TheShadowSythe just cause you show simpathy and respect that doesnt mean you care or that you have emotions
She had in the novels especially when Veressa refused her or with Aleria in Bfa
Even in WoW the only moment where she softens a bit is when you present her the Neckless
@@darkwhispersstories47 those are all emotions. you either have them or you don't
HannaH: How relevant is this?
WoW Community: Yes
There is a crazy amount of lore and to explain it all like this guy did that quickly is crazy but its really well made.
Yes. He did a great job.
And the more you learn about the lore, the more you appreciate all the clever little details and jokes he throws in
Well, it is a _world._ Several dozen peoples.
@@JoshSweetvale exactly its a world, imagine explaining the Lore of our world. In 30 mins or less. First come some bacteria, that started it all now well several countries, racism teacup pigs, cancel culture, social media...
@@rathwulf funny you say that. This lore video is based on a short video about history of the world
Soo... is it strange that I actually knew 90% of this stuff, and yet, listening to it was exhausting?
No it isn't XD I got exhausted too when I first watched that video :D and I had to slow it down, so I could read the texts ^^" :D
hahaha I get that.
I've been playing WoW since 2006 (and Warcraft 1 & 2 before that) and a few years ago I started diving into lore videos on RUclips, watched a ton, and still I only knew between 30 ~ 60% of this stuff. I learned a lot of lore from watching HannaH try to learn the lore. Now I'm gonna go find the actual video and watch it at 75% speed.
I knew pretty much all of this except I somehow never picked up that it was Argus powering the Burning Legion's ability to regenerate.
15:30 She's Eyebrows' sister. Same last name: Windrunner.
19:20 Yup, Jaina is the daughter of the sea. Also Arthas' ex-girlfriend.
22:30 Before the game World of Warcraft came out, there were Warcraft 1, 2 and 3. If you didn't know, World of Warcraft is only the last game in a series.
29:55 Yes, it's the altered timeline Garrosh created.
Also to add everything up to the 14 minute mark . Was based off of the real-time strategy (R.T.S. for short) Warcraft games,
I think it would be cool if you look at those CG cutscenes they're a bit dated but still pretty cool
I didnt know there were games before that were not called world of warcraft HAHA!
@@HannaHsOverInvested and now you do. I know this was a LOT. It was a lot for me too, it's not exactly an efficient, compact story.
@@HannaHsOverInvested I hope you are enjoying learning about this game. And I hope you find characters that become near and dear to your heart. You may never play the games but they have built the most craziest of fantasy worlds and I hope you enjoy.
The best way to remember the Dragon Aspects is that each one is connected to a specific thing and is a different colour.
Alextrasza the Red is the Aspect of Life and the defacto Queen of Dragons, she and her Red Dragonflight are responsible for safeguarding Azeroth's people.
Malygos the Blue was the Aspect of Magic, responsible for the Arcane energies that flow throughout Azeroth through ley-lines, and oversaw its use until he went a bit crazy and WoW players killed him. As of now, Kalecgos is in charge of the Blue Dragons that didn't go all magic supremacists, and has been working with the mortal races and WoW players a lot more, often in Human form.
Ysera the Green was the Aspect of Dreams, and oversaw the Emerald Dream, an extrademensional plane where Druids got their powers from. She was also heavily tied to the natural world, until she was corrupted by the Emerald Nightmare by a servant of the Legion and WoW players killed her.
Nozdormu the Bronze is the Aspect of Time, able to see into the future and the past, and ensures things happen as they should. He has forseen his own death and the corruption of his entire Bronze Dragonflight into the Infinite Dragonflight, and WoW players eventually killed his future self, meaning that no matter what happens, he will eventually turn, cause the timeline demands it.
Deathwing/Neltharion the Black was the aspect of Earth (thats why they were talking about rocks earlier), his dragonflight was charged with guarding the deep places of Azeroth. However, since the Old Gods and their maddening influence permeate the earth they are tied so closely to, they were easily swayed by the Old Gods' maddening whispers, and as such, Neltharion eventually became Deathwing. These days one by the name of Wrathion is the Aspect of the remaining Black Dragonflight, working hard to resist the Old God's corruption, that still permeates to this day.
Some other dragonflights have come about through multiple less than natural means, but those 5 are the major players
This is important! I hope she reads it, since it'll clarify some points for her.
Another small tidbit, the "cave" Deathwing was imprisoned in and broke out of is Deepholm. After the Titans beat the Elemental Lords when fighting the Old Gods WAY BACK at the start of the video, the titan keeper (high ranking being created by an actual Titan) Ra'den crafted four pocket dimensions called the Elemental Planes to house the elementals, since they're tied to the planet and cannot be truly destroyed. Deepholm is the Elemental Plane of Earth. In the Cataclysm expansion we actually go to all the Elemental Planes to fight bad elementals and help good ones. IMO they're some of the coolest looking places in the game.
Yes! Important! Especially for the book she's currently on!
As people said.. this is informative when it comes to the dragon aspects (I was about to write sth similar)
So no wonder that you heard of Nozdormu if the book is about time travel.
You forgot to mention Wrathion is the son of Deathwing!
Also the one to create the emerald dream is the titan keeper Freya who was bestowed with power over life and bloom by Titan Eonar, She was tasked ,along with 3 other keepers (Hodir, Thorim and Mimiron), with keeping Yogg Saron locked up in Ulduar. Then somebody built a world tree in northrend (the north continent) and roots of that tree grew into Yogg Saron's prison, and he used them to enter and corrupt the Emerald Dream creating the Emerald Nightmare.
Also there are many more Titan keepers, but when the Titans gave powers to dragon aspects, the main keeper (Odyn) got mad and raised a part of Ulduar into the sky and now it's the Halls of Valor where brave warriors go. Odyn figured a way how to make their souls bound to there so they could protect Azeroth even through death.
Also the main reason Yogg Saron corrupted the titan keepers is because Thorim's (one of the keepers) brother Loken betrayed them and helped Yogg Saron. Then Champions (players) go into Ulduar, battle through it's defences (since the defences were set so noone can enter/leave), they defeat the keepers which frees them from Yogg's corruption, and then they fight Yogg Saron and keepers help them (it is probably one of the best raid fights ever).
And players push yogg saron back into his prison.
There is also a being called Algalon that is of Constellar race (he's basically a big constellation). That is a mysterious race that Aman'thul (leader of the Titans) calls upon to watch planets, and Algalon is the watcher of Azeroth.
If Algalon finds that the keepers are dead and/or the planet is too corrupted he starts Origination protocol which basically destroys all life and corruption on the planet without killing the planet itself allowing life to reevolve on the planet and start from scratch. Once yogg dies players find out about algalon, but the keeper Loken destroyed the communication device fearing that Algalon would purge the planet, but we fix it and Algalon comes and says that in all his calculations in every single case he wins, but we manage to win and he acknowledges that he may have been mistaken so he gives the players the code that the ship in the universe needs to recieve in order to stop the Purge of the whole planet, so players go to Dalaran and Khadgar uses magic to transmit that code into space stopping the Origination process and saving all life on the planet
As a wow player i'm dying of laughter at the Naaru being called 'sentient chandeliers' that's hilarious. XD"
and accurate
I miss the good old days when they communicated with chimes and empathic emotions.
Okay, I took the time to list all the cinematics and cutscenes from the Warcraft universe in chronological order. So if you want to start where it all began and understand the things you saw already, this would be the best way to do it. (I'll list only those, that I think are important and I use the remastered versions for better quality)
1. Warcraft III ALL Cinematics (HQ remastered) *by Boulotaur2025*
2. World of Warcraft Cinematic Trailer
3. World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade Cinematic Trailer
4. The Black Temple Remastered (World of Warcraft Cinematic) *by IKedit*
5. Legion - Demon Hunter Cinematic #1 *by MMO-Champion*
6. Legion - Illidan Order Hall Campaign Cinematic *by MMO-Champion*
7. World of Warcraft - Fury of the Sunwell Remastered (WoW Cinematic) *by IKedit*
8. World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Cinematic Trailer
9. The Wrathgate Remastered (World of Warcraft Cinematic) *by IKedit*
10. Fall of the Lich King Remastered (World of Warcraft Cinematic) *by IKedit*
11. Fall of the Lich King Ending Remastered (World of Warcraft Cinematic) *by Pivotal*
12. World of Warcraft: Cataclysm Cinematic Trailer
13. Cataclysm: Dragon Soul Cutscenes *by LegionOfTheShadow*
14. Madness of Deathwing - Dragon Soul - End Cinematic Cataclysm Epilogue - END OF GAME *by ZoomkinsBL*
15. The Burdens of Shaohao Prelude: The Vision
16. The Burdens of Shaohao-Part 1: Doubt
17. The Burdens of Shaohao-Part 2: Despair
18. The Burdens of Shaohao-Part 3: Fear
19. The Burdens of Shaohao-Part 4: Anger
20. The Burdens of Shaohao-Part 5: The Sundering
21. World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria Cinematic Trailer
22. WoW MOP: Horde Prologue Cinematic *by FireMageAl*
23. WoW MOP: Alliance Prologue Cinematic *by FireMageAl*
24. Mists of Pandaria Ingame Cinematic: The Battle of Serpent's Heart *by drwuky*
25. WoW: Mists of Pandaria - Siege of Orgrimmar Trailer *by GameSpot*
26. Mists of Pandaria Siege of Orgrimmar Ending Cinematic! (Alliance + Horde) *by 8-Bit Tavern*
27. World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor Announcement Trailer
28. Lords of War Part One - Kargath
29. Lords of War Part Two - Grommash
30. Lords of War Part Three - Durotan
31. Lords of War Part Four - Kilrogg
32. Lords of War Part Five - Maraad
33. World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor Cinematic
34. WoW Warlords of Dreanor Cinematic: Storm the Portal (1080p) *by KolossalerKevin*
35. Warlords of Draenor - Shadowmoon Valley Finale *by Mendiola*
36. Warlords of Draenor - Frostfire Ridge Finale *by Mendiola*
37. Warlords of Draenor - Talador Finale *by Mendiola*
38. Warlords of Draenor - Nagrand Finale *by Mendiola*
39. Patch 6.1 - The Legendary Quest Continues
40. Patch 6.2 - Fury of Hellfire
41. Hellfire Citadel - Archimonde Defeat Cinematic *by MMO-Champion*
42. World of Warcraft Cinematic Teaser
43. Harbingers - Gul'dan
44. Harbingers - Illidan
45. Harbingers - Khadgar
46. World of Warcraft: Legion Cinematic Trailer
47. Battle for Broken Shore - Ending (Extended Cut Cinematic) *by Mendiola*
48. Legion - Demon Hunter Cinematic #2 *by MMO-Champion*
49. Legion - Stormheim Cinematic Sylvanas *by MMO-Champion*
50. Legion - Val'sharah Cinematic #1 *by MMO-Champion*
51. Legion - Val'sharah Cinematic #2 *by MMO-Champion*
52. Suramar Intro In-game Cinematic
53. Nighthold In-game Cinematic Finale
54. World of Warcraft: Legion - Patch 7.2 - The Tomb of Sargeras Trailer
55. Patch 7.2 In-game Cinematic - A Found Memento: Raising a King
56. Tomb of Sargeras In-game Cinematic Finale
57. Rejection of the Gift
58. The Battle for Argus Begins
59. Seat of the Pantheon - Rise of Argus Cinematic patch 7.3.2 - Antorus the Burning Throne *by Noone182*
60. Antorus Ending Cinematic *by Wowhead*
61. Defeat of the Burning Legion: Alliance Epilogue
62. Defeat of the Burning Legion: Horde Epilogue
63. Warbringers: Sylvanas
64. Warbringers: Jaina
65. Warbringers: Azshara
66. Cinematic: “Old Soldier”
67. World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth Cinematic Trailer
68. [Spoiler] The Siege of Lordaeron: Turn The Tide
69. [Spoiler] Lordaeron Throne Room Confrontation - Horde
70. [Spoiler] Arrival to Zandalar - Horde
71. [Spoiler] Arrival to Kul Tiras - Alliance
72. [Spoilers] Jaina's Nightmare
73. [Spoiler] Rastakhan's Deal with Bwonsamdi
74. [Spoiler] Realm Of Torment
75. [Spoiler] The Threat Within: Zandalar
76. [Spoiler] The Return of Hope: Kul Tiras
77. Cinematic: "Lost Honor"
78. Terror of Darkshore
79. Alliance Siege of Dazar'alor Cinematic *by Wowhead*
80. Rastakhan Dazar'alor Ending Cinematic
81. [Spoiler] An Unexpected Reunion
82. Cinematic: "Safe Haven"
83. Rise of Azshara Now Live - Cinematic (Alliance)
84. Crossroads - Cinematic (Spoiler)
85. Azshara's Eternal Palace - Raid Finale Cinematic (Spoilers)
86. The Negotiation - Cinematic (Spoiler)
87. Cinematic: “Reckoning” (Spoiler)
88. Visions of N'Zoth - Intro Cinematic
89. Ny'alotha Ending Cinematic - Visions of N'Zoth 8.3 *by Noone182*
90. World of Warcraft: Shadowlands Cinematic Trailer
91. World of Warcraft: Shadowlands Features Overview
92. Shadowlands Afterlives: Bastion
93. Shadowlands Afterlives: Maldraxxus
94. Shadowlands Afterlives: Ardenweald
95. Shadowlands Afterlives: Revendreth
This took me longer than I had planned...
It's not perfect but I hope someone will appreciate this :)
Wow. Such long list. Thank you!
Bravo!
@@HannaHsOverInvested Burdens of Shaohao are so good, hope you get there eventually.
@@HannaHsOverInvested I don't play WoW anymore, but I am still interested in the overall story and most of all, its short stories. Personally, that's the only thing I care about WoW nowadays. I would recommend you, at least, watch the short stories, like Burdens of Shaohao, Harbingers, Warbringers etc. And yes, overall when you look at everything and try to piece it together to make sense, it doesn't look too good, especially the early days of Warcraft up until now, it's basically a whole other universe. But the in-between stories are what's good about Warcraft's story.
Bump and pin, please!
As a very long time lore fan, every one of these points was major lol. But you're talking about lore that spans tens of thousands of years canonically. They been making games and books about it for 20 years, it's quite expansive. He did a good job compacting most of the big details into this, even if he did skip tons of context lol.
Each 10-20 second piece is essentially it's own book, game, or story arch within a game.
I think it was just not relevant to any of the character story arcs that I am familiar with.... ya know?
@@HannaHsOverInvested Only tiny snippets were. Imagine this video was basically a "There's prehistoric times, stone age, iron age..." of the wow universe.
Definitely skipped a lot of context and important details, but it’s understandable that context and details are better provided after you at least know the timeline and general motivations.
@@HannaHsOverInvested Yeah most of it was not related to what you've seen so far lol. he was right that the story of what takes place in World of Warcraft, didn't start till over halfway through.
25:59 "Kel Thuzad is killed almost immediately." That isnt even an exaggeration - KT was the end boss of the first raid in the Lich King expansion and the world first kill took less than 24 hours lmaooo
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“The outfit change helmet that Eyebrows broke in half” omg I’m dying of laughter! Aaaaaand subscribed!
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"...and that's the sart of World of Warcraft"
"WHAAAAAT?"
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@@HannaHsOverInvested it’s because there were three strategy games that came out before WoW did. WoW was an MMO idea to put you into a world they had been making games in for 10 years or so. That’s why the story is so huge.
@@Ouroboros90 And there was also books helping to document events that took place prior.
Someone else mentioned it but just to elaborate, World of Warcraft is the MMORPG game where you control an adventurer. It starts 4 years after Archimonde was blown up at the World tree. Warcraft 1,2,3 were Real Time Strategy games where you control entire armies. Wacraft 1 told the story of the First War and the initial fighting between the Horde and the humans of Stormwind. Wacraft 2 was about the Horde pushing north and fighting the newly formed coalition of human kingdoms (with some support from the high elves and dwarves) known as the Alliance of Lordaeron. Warcraft 2 Beyond the Dark Portal was about Ner'zhul's quest to obtain magical artifacts from Azeroth to fuel his multiple portals on Draenor and the subsequent Alliance expedition to stop him. Warcraft 3 was about Arthas, the Legion invasion and stopping them. Warcraft 3 The Frozen Throne was about Arthas leaving Lordaeron, going to Northrend and fusing with the Lich King, Sylvanas leading a rebellion and reclaiming the Plaguelands for her sentient undead, the Forsaken, and the Blood Elves (whose home had been previously destroyed by Arthas) suffering injustice at the hands of a racist Alliance leader, then joining forces with Illidan.
"That girl" which reminds you of Eyebrows is actually Eyebrows's sister. She marries the human paladin Turalyon. Their other sister marries the human mage Rhonin who is a major character in the book you're reading. What can I say, the Windrunner sisters love them some hot piece of human ass.
As to being dead and not having feelings, yeah, that's kind of accurate. It's not explained very well but basically the undead feel very little emotion. You get no pleasure from anything a living person would. Food, drink, more... carnal pleasures, none of them make you feel anything and in general all your feelings are numbed and muted. Also, physically you don't heal so say you sustained a wound to your leg, you'd be able to move without feeling pain unlike a living person but you will also never be able to regain strength in that leg.
For a long time, it was Sylvanas's mission to find a way to secure a future for the Forsaken (the non-mindless undead) because initially the Forsaken were comprised of Scourge members who broke free after the Lich King was weakened by Illidan's attack on the Frozen Throne. There was no way to raise new undead. Then Sylvanas found a way, involving the Valkyr.
As to the dragon aspects: They were dragons empowered by Titan powers to safeguard an aspect of Azeroth. There were 5: Magic, Nature, Time, Life, and Earth. Having these powers also empowered all other dragons of those types with some of those powers to a lesser extent. For example, bronze dragons have some power over the flow of time but nowhere near the level of Nozdormu, the aspect. Naltharion the Earth Warder was the Earth aspect. Guess what's embedded deep in the earth. The prisons of the Old Gods. Over the course of thousands of years they whispered to him and drove him insane until he snapped and became Deathwing.
The Warlords of Draenor trailer is indeed in the other timeline. That's why why Garrosh takes off the hood and reveals himself, saying "Times change", it's such an ULTRA badass moment. Also, in the original timeline Grommash is the first to drink the blood and get corrupted and many years later he fights and kills Mannoroth. Mannoroth explodes in a ball of fire that also kills Grommash, in an iconic shot where you see Grom's silhouette engulfed in the fire. The trailer does fan service in the best possible way by giving us that same shot but this time you have Garrosh, his son, there to save him.
When you say its the begining of the game, you have to know that there 3 games before World of Warcraft. They are Warcraft, Warcraft 2 and Warcraft 3. In the video they are referred as the First War, Second War and Third War.
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I was going to say that, but you beat me to it.
@@HannaHsOverInvested And the reason that the current game is called World of Warcraft is because the previous 3 games were linear story games while World of Warcraft was them taking the setting and making an MMO out of it that picked up after the 3rd Warcraft and has been coming out with massive new story and gameplay expansions every 2 years or so since 2004. The string of cinematics you originally reacted to were the trailers for each of these new expansions
The look on your face when he says "a race of sentient chandeliers shows up" is pure gold!
Haven't watched the whole thing yet but i'm placing my bet on more confused by the end of the video. Will edit to see if i was right lol.
Edit: i was kinda right LOL. I was really impressed that you remembered some of the events like the iron horde and the WoD cutscene being a pocket dimension. Don't feel too bad for being confused this is literally 15 years of lore crammed into like 20+ mins. You did really well with remembering some things though, i'm super impressed.
I look forward to your final thoughts hahaha
isn't it more like almost 25 years of lore if you counting warcraft 1,2 and 3 too
Yes. It's more like 25 years of lore, plus additions to old lore all the way through.
when she says "the book is about time travel? accidental time travel" i was like YES!! she knows! lol i love her reaction to this lore
17:40 By "talking to rocks" he means that literally. Thrall was a Shaman and Shaman in this universe literally talk to the elements or spirits of the elements and "ask" them for their power. So talking to the earth, water, fire and air.
30:17 When he said that Gul'dan was plugged into the Dark Portal like a 9 volt battery... he's not exaggerating. He's shoved down underneath it like a battery.
Best part of this video is the puzzled expressions on your face as you try to understand why all the crazy stuff is happening! It's awesome that the video you are watching is super sarcastic about all the history so it makes it fun to watch along with you! Welcome to the very dense lore of Azeroth!
It’s a lot to take in, don’t give up! I think it’s really cool that you are trying to understand it. Also please watch the Overwatch video of Sigma’s origins.
I keep meaning to go back to origins! I will get to it for sure. It just might take a while.
Yes, the Warlords of Draenor trailer is the alternative timeline, that why the "times change" line is in there, because he was the one who traveled in time to make that change.
"Sylvanas attempted to defend her homeland. After fighting and losing at every turn to his forces, Arthas killed her. In revenge for her stubbornness, he severed her soul from her body, forcing her to serve him and aid him in the destruction of her beloved city."
So thats why eyebrows is kinda pissed at the world lol She is undead since she was killed then was raised as the Banshee queen.
People talk about her like she has no hope for redemption. Which makes no sense if she has feelings... I dont get it.
@@uuamenator Unfortunately for your theory, Sylvanas and Jailor are actually the villains of this expansion, not heroes. So no redemption for her (as if you could redeem yourself from ordering genocide...)
@@HannaHsOverInvested Sylvanas (Eyebrows) is a very polarizing character. Originally she was definitely meant to be more of an Anti-Hero who would do anything to secure a future for her people (the Forsaken). There are those who love her cold, calculating characterization while there are those who hate her for what she's done after becoming undead. Both are kind of right.
Recently, the writers have begun to make her a lot more villainous which has been a big point of contention. Fans of her are reasonably upset that took their beloved character in a direction they didn't want while those who hate her are upset that she takes up so much screen time and presence in the story.
When people talk about redemption for her, it's mostly those who were fans of her character before and cling to the hope that the writers will salvage her character to preserve what she was before the writers began to change things about her. But realistically, there's no way to redeem someone who's commited genocide, which is why many people contest the idea.
kubka4 you can, if you bring all the dead back
@@HannaHsOverInvested Eyebrows/Sylvanas has feelings and emotions but considering she's undead- and technically just a banshee inhabiting her own corpse from my understanding- I assume, from what I've read and heard, that her negative emotions are amplified and tend to be what she, and other undead, would feel the strongest. While the positive ones are dampened and tend to be fleeting. But it can it varies from character to character.
15:38 That's Alleria, the oldest of the Windrunner Sisters, and Sylvanas's (a.k.a. Eyebrows) older sister; the youngest sister is Vereesa, FYSA.
Eyebrows I think is a better name for Sylvanas. In my head cannon someone called her eyebrows and now it just sticks. Lol
I thought you did a remarkable job at keeping up and recognising stuff. I suggest just carrying on watching cinematics because theyre fun and you'll pick more up along the way.
Thank youuuuuu
looool. Don't feel bad, this is like 20 years of lore crammed into 20 min, it's no wonder you have brain melt. I'm loving your stuff btw!
22:33 Everything up to that point was in either the RTS games--Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness, and Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos--or the books associated with the pre-World of Warcraft timeline. It all lays the foundation for what the situation is when you started Vanilla World of Warcraft.
27:45 "Talking to rocks?" Yes! This kind of gets glossed over in the video, but there are other kinds of magic besides just arcane "wizardy" magic. There's fel magic, that the demons use, and death magic that makes undead and things. The Light, used by paladins and priests and which requires great willpower and faith (IE when King Anduin healed all his soldiers in the Battle for Azeroth cinematic.) Etc.
One form of magic is elemental magic, the magic of the five elements: Earth, Wind, Fire, Water, and Spirit (and sometimes Decay, but that's kind of delving into death magic.) Thrall is one of these people, called Shaman, who can commune with the natural world and the elemental spirits and harness their power. Deathwing, before he became evil, was called Neltharion the Earthwarder, and he was the Aspect of the Earth, and so he was vaguely a shaman of sorts in his own way. (His connection to the earth, tragically, is probably what made him a good target for the old gods' corruption, as they are buried deep beneath the earth and sea.) And so Thrall, as the most powerful Shaman in the world at the time, was seen as the best possible "stand-in" for Neltharion to use the Dragon Soul. (Zappy Boi, in the Battle for Azeroth cinematic, is also a Shaman. That's how he can shoot lightning, rip open the earth, make lava, etc. If you've ever seen Avatar the Last Airbender, Shaman in Warcraft are all kinda like little Avatars.)
Though, in recent times, Thrall seems to have lost his shamanic ability. He is plagued by doubt and guilt after putting Garrosh in power, and then having to kill him. Whether or not Thrall will regain his connection to the spirits of the natural world remains to be seen, but since he has come back (the cinematic you saw at Thrall's house with Saurfang and the undead ninja ladies), he has only really fought as a normal warrior.
Yes, “Zappy Boi” is a Troll from the Darkspear tribe, one of the offshoots of the original Zandalari Troll empire. Idk if he was planned to be an actual character before he became a fan favorite from the first cinematic, but he also appears in the game and the latest novel with the name Zekhan.
@Zankku Zann re-read the comment
Before the World of warcraft game, there were the Warcraft games, Warcraft 1, 2 and 3, in which most of the stuff before World of Warcraft happened :)
I am learning this!
Watching all of this SERIOUSLY makes me miss playing WoW... love the lore even if it's so so confusing :)
Warcraft Lore is one of those things where you can pretty much pick up the books with the characters or factions you find more interesting an enjoy that little pocket. Great job giving it a shot!
I love how she was becoming more and more confused from the moment where WoW started.
I'm actually VERY impressed at how many links you were able to make with the little information you had. You're great at this XD
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When you experience the games expansions year after year( 13 years playing now myself) its way easier to understand as you interact with the characters much more in depth. When you become familiar with the lore it becomes second nature
Oh there's actually a small lore point that the video misses out on, which is the fact that the Titans did kill /one/ Old God by ripping it out of the planet (they kind of embed themselves deep into the crust) which created the Well of Eternity in the first place (aka a big magical wound in spacetime), so they decided trying to do the same to the others wasn't really worth it and would just cause irreparable harm. The players were able to kill the old gods because we were small enough to go in and stab them in their respective brains.
Also this video was adorable, haha.
That's right/wrong, IDK with lore retconns but originaly, there were 4 Old gods: N'zoth, C'thun, Yogg'saron and Y'shaarj.
When titan armies started fighting them, they feared that Y'Shaarj who was the strongest would win so Aman'thul(leader of the titans) ripped him from Azeroths surface creating a big wound. Then they saw that Old gods dying would deal massive damage to the planet, so they locked them up. They had no trouble locking up Nzoth and cthun but Yogg saron almost won the fight on its own, but they managed to seal him in Ulduar. Then every time players fight old gods (Except Nzoth) players just push them back into their prison, so what we fight ingame in Ahnqiraj and Ulduar are just small portions of both Yogg and Cthun that we push back into their prisons. We never kill them, cause they have many brains and many heads and stuff, so you can't really kill their main brain.
Nzoth is different cause he was completely free when we fought him in Nyalotha.
Now they may have retconned the lore so that the players do kill them, but this was the original one
When it comes to books i think the war of the ancients trillogie is a bad place to start.
I would advice the Book "Rise of the Horde", its good for people new to the Lore because is doesn't rely on well known characters from the games (unlike War of the Ancients).
Warcraft Chronicles is supposed to be the best place to start from what I hear, but I never read it myself
@@TheShadowSythe chronicles has a lot of interesting facts, but its more like a history book. I dont know how much fun it is to read if you dont have a conection to the warcraft universe.
Actually I would suggest Dawn of the Aspects first.
rise of the horde is listed as book 4 on audible
@@HannaHsOverInvested I was always confused why the war of the ancients trillogie was on the first 3 spots. Yes the story takes place mostly during the war of the ancients, which is about 10.000 Years before Rise of the Horde, but Krasus, Rhonin and Brox are all from a much later point in time (Krasus and Rhonin from war of the ancients actually got introduced in the book on place 8, Day of the Dragon and knowing that book already gives so much more context to big parts of war of the ancients). And in my opinion the story makes much more sense once you are more familiar with the world and know more about the Demons and the Nightelves and of course Tyrande, Malfurion and Illidan, (our three nightelf protagonists who play a vital point a lot later in the wow storyline since elves don't age, they were also introduced in the game warcraft 3, long before the books came out)
Rise of the Horde is set about 35 to 40 Years before the current events in WoW, it focuses on the Orcs and why they became what they became. It also has to establish almost all its characters from scratch, because prior to the book most of them were only known as namedrops.
Me - nodding/shaking head to your questions throughout the video :p.
I have to admit I am impressed with how much you recognised, and ability to process so much info.
I enjoyed the video, thanks for sharing! ^_^
Since you like the pandas you might enjoy "The Burdens of Shaohao". It's a animated short similar to the Warbringers trailers that tells the backstory of the Pandaren.
I loved your video, your reactions are just adorable and I admire you for being able to follow this in some form. I think most of Wow Players got exposed to all of this over a significantly longer time in bits and pieces (not to mention we saw some of those things unfold, while we participated as our Player Characters, which imo makes it easier to grasp who is who X0 ).
Thank you for making this, looking forward to more Wow content (and Witcher of course XD) and probably some other unexpected things! :D
Thank you so much!! Yes more to come for sure.
Bless your heart for trying.
The 1st game was the first war "WarCraft", the 2nd game was the 2nd war "WarCraft 2 Tides of War", 3rd game = 3rd war "WarCraft3 Reign of Chaos"...
Then World of Warcraft the 4th game (the MMO)
13:50 correct, none of the cinematics you've watched deal with the first war. The last few minutes have been about the part of the lore that the movie is about.
23:00 Yes that was the start of the game called World of Warcraft. Everything before that was from Books and The earlier games Warcraft 1-3.
27:00 Deathwing was originally the Aspect of Earth so has dominion of rocks. Thrall is a Shaman so he's good at talking to Earth Elementals which are basically big animated rocks.
Noted. Thanks!
You have now officially ingested more of the lore than a large percentage of the player base and for that you should feel proud. In my experience it took a long time playing the game to inspire me to really learn the story and I'm sure I speak for thousands if not millions of other players. There is tons of good(and some bad) writing in Warcraft and it's genuinely worth exploring for any fantasy nerd.
Thank you for taking us on your journey with you.
You are most welcome.
oh no, I can hear the ol' noggin gears grinding already xD
yeah, warcraft is a bit much, but it has a lot of very cool and interesting stories and settings
Yes for sure.
I saw this video and even I had trouble understanding it and I've played Warcraft since game 1. Love your videos Hannah!
Thank you!!
If you have any questions i guess you can just put some in the comments, there are a bunch of people including me that will be more than happy to answer them.
Also it's perfectly normal you're so confused, you're pretty much taking in decades worth of lore in a few minutes lmao.
The girl you noticed at 15:40 is Alleria Windrunner, Sylvanas Windrunners (aka. Eyebrows) sister. That's why they look similar.
Got it! Thanks!
I have played WoW when I was 6 years so I have years of knowledge (with certain gaps) I got most of it but even I was confused by some of the info.😂 This is a funny “simplified” version but it’s still very fast and complicated. I recognize most names so that helped, glad you even tried lol. Would go too fast for me if I didn’t have the knowledge I have.
But we are basically waiting for the next expansion Shadowlands which talks about Sylvanas going mad, the afterlives world (watch the new cinematic, 4 “worlds” so of course 4 cinematics called Afterlives: ... ) and the (important) characters who died. So you got all the history until up to this moment.
This is way cooler than I expected! Sseeing someone try to understand Warcraft is fascinating since I grew up with the universe so kinda knew by default lol.
Glad you had fun!!
OMG are you reading the War of the Ancients trilogy?? :O *-* I LOVE YOU!!! :DDD It's aMAAAzing :DDDD I hope you'll enjoy it! :D I just finished them and I'm more in love with Warcraft (and some characters lolz x) ) since then (although I didn't know that could happen xDD) wow... I got excited and commented right after that line xD sooo I'll watch the whole video but I'm 100000% sure that it's cool :D I'm so happy right now! :DDD Thank you :D really :D
Hahahah *trying to read
You're most welcome.
@@HannaHsOverInvested I just thought about something. :D I mean, I know that books are better, because you can imagine the characters as you want, but in case of Warcraft I think it might help you if you checked those characters or you can even ask for pictures of them from the players (and they can upload them to discord and that would be fun :D we could show you that world :DDD).
There's so many characters in that trilogy, and you might think that "okay... but they won't live long enough" ('cuz... yeah it's 10.000 years before WoW) so you don't have to know them.... But the thing is, that most of them are or become immortal (which... changes later but... that's another story ^^") and they ARE important :D
So if it helps you then it's cool :D
Also I think you should check out the WoW Chronicle Volumes. :D
Other people have answered your lore questions better than I could, so I'll just answer your last one, "Was this fun to watch?" Hell yes! Thank you for doing this for our entertainment. :D This is just a suggestion, but would you consider streaming a leveling series in the game? Or perhaps not streaming, because people can be dicks sometimes, intentionally or unintentionally, and get in the way, even when they're trying to help, if they know you're online. Maybe a video Let's Play series that lets you explore your own way in your own time? We could still answer your questions in the comments as you go. Maybe just something to think about anyway. I'll keep watching you regardless because you're really fun. Good luck with the new book!
I haven't seen anyone talk about this yet so I will- The Dragon Aspects- Alexstraza (red), Ysera(green), Nozdormu(yellow/bronze), Malygos(blue), Deathwing(black). So long before there were people on Azeroth (we're talking like 20,000 years) there were a form of dragon that were one step down the evolutionary chain called proto-drakes and they all inhabited the planet peacefully except one- Galakrond got much larger than the others and started eating everyone. 5 small proto-drakes came up with a plan to kill him and were successful- the titans acknowledged this and deemed them the protectors of Azeroth and gave them each an aspect of Azeroth to protect (hence the name- The Dragon Aspects.) Alexstraza is called the Lifebinder and is in charge of life, Ysera is in charge of nature and is strongly connected to the druids, Nozdormu is in charge of time, Malygos is in charge of magic, and Deathwing is in charge of Earth.
That was a hilarious reaction! XD
If I hadn't been following the storyline for 25 years, I would probably have reacted similarly.
That was more than 150,000 years of storyline in less than 25 minutes. Thank you for trying to understand all of this. ^^
You're most welcome.
The trilogy wasn't very well-written, in my opinion. Learning the lores from the game or from youtubers is better.
You are the first person to say this and I really agree.
Agreed, those are not the best written books. Also keep in mind that the books are written as game tie-ins, expecting you to have experienced all the in game story related to the story being written. In-game the stories are very simple and straightforward, it's the 'trans-media' content as they call it that fleshes everything out and ties in frankly disconnected game lore. They even had to issue a large illustrated 3 volume World of Warcraft Chronicles books to organize and explain the MASSIVE amounts of crazy lore.
"Dominion Required" ?!
Weyoun would be so proud !
So just FYI there is an entire Lorerun of the game a certain streamer/RUclipsr did. It’s many videos and many hours long, but I very much enjoy it. If you are curious, he’s called “The Lorerunner”. If you want to check it out, just search “Wow Lorerun” on RUclips. Also I personally recommend the Illidan Book, Arthas Book, and Lord of the Clans book.
It's awesome watching all the disparate bits of your lore knowledge click into place as you watch the video! Context is everything!
Yea it is for sure.
The First, Second, and Third Wars were shown in the original Warcraft games. Everything before that was shown in books and comics. Anduin Wrynn, the boy-king, becoming leader of the alliance is the start of World of Warcraft which is the 4th game in the franchise.
Thank you for making this video! As an equally intrigued, non-gamer myself, I'm thrilled to have someone to relate to XD I also agree I felt more confused after watching the Hidden Azeroth video. Definitely ended up with more questions than answers
You should check out ruclips.net/user/Nobbel87 for more detailed videos focusing on one thing at a time rather than cramming 25 years of lore in to 23 minutes if you're intrigued by the lore.
He actually doesn't love when people react to his stuff :(
I absolutely love that you are doing this. The book you are reading is def 10,000 years before the trailers you watched even happened. I would absolutely love to watch you react to Nobel's videos. Just remember we have about 20 years of this crammed in our head. We played through the game for 20 years and are literally in the lore, so we will all understand if you can't just "Pick it up". It's a great story, but there is A LOT to comprehend.
It's fun to watch someone with little pre-existing knowledge about Warcraft trying to get a grasp on this! Honestly - I play WoW, and I lost track ages ago. So well done for even trying!
Hahahah thank you.
So this video is like a "eat a 72oz steak in one sitting" challenge, while Nobbel's videos are a multiple course meal in a fine restaurant with mood music playing in the background. You're meant to feel rushed and overwhelmed and the test is whether you can keep up, not whether you actually learn and get informed by this video.
That aside, you are adorkable and I've subscribed.
You've done really well comprehending even any of this and to be honest it would break anyone's brain coming in cold. It's insanely convoluted.
To be fair for context it's about 25 years of story that's been built-on and retconned to all-hell while being told over 3 real-time strategy games, World of Warcraft itself which has been around for 16 years, about 30 novels, 10-ish manga, about 20-30 comic issues and a whole bunch of those mini-movies released on RUclips that you've been watching. To Hidden Azeroth's credit they pretty much covered... Like... Everything.
Blizzard basically just take everything from Tolkien to Game of Thrones to Lovecraft to Star Wars to Kung Fu Panda and throw it in a blender. It's kind of nuts.
The book you're reading is about the first few minutes, It's the first demon invasion of Azeroth. Azshara is helping Burning Legion while a small faction of rebels (lead by Blackrook, Tyrande and Malfurion) defend the world with the help of time travelling party of Krasus (red dragon), Brox (orc warrior) and Rhonin (Krasus' human friend). The entire trilogy ends with the defeat of Burning Legion, Sundering happening and Illidans recreation of the Well of Eternity.
I can admire your will to understand all of that. Ive played first 'Warcraft' games (all 3), then i played 'World of Warcraft' for several years and im still confused most of the time when i want to dweel deeper into the lore.
Btw. because of you ive returned to WoW recently and ive had a blast :P
"And how much, Viu'wehr, of this is relevant?"
[lifts warlock hood] Everything.
For your question about Death Knights, Undeads, and Eyebrows, in more details :
Usually, when someone is raised from the dead, there is a cost to pay. With Necromancy, it dampens your positive emotions, while steering your negative one, mostly hate, anger, sorrow, and envy for the living. Even freed from the influence of the Lich King, these emotions won't really change, all you can do is like Eyebrow or the Death Knight of the Ebon Blade : Channel it to whatever goal you try to reach ( like protecting your loved ones, or genociding Azeroth for... Some reason ? ).
hannah every 2 minutes: "THATS IN MY BOOK! i don't know any more about this"
Your confused face at the end of the vid was the best haha!
10 out of 10 for style and 8 of 10 for knowledge... took me 8 years to get the lore down, great job!
It is definitely a lot, and he goes through it very quickly so there's little time to process it all! I did love your reaction. You're hilarious! I loved it!
Thank you! I'm glad you had fun watching!
This was entertaining as hell. The video also did a really good job of "explaining" the lore behind a 30 year old series, and like 10000+ years of lore. I honestly don't know where to go next for WoW lore, other than more indepth break downs of characters. Thrall, Jaina, Arthas, Varian (his whole story is wacky) and the Night Elves are just good stories for the most part.
30:00 it is in the other timeline, but all those characters did also exist in the main timeline, and the history explored happened in both timelines, the part where garosh comes in and then the players kill all those orcs is like a fun pocket dimension fan fic.
When he says it's the start of World of Warcraft (WoW) at 22:30 he means it's the start of the MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) in 2004.
The first game was an RTS (Real Time Strategy game) called Warcraft: Orcs & Humans and it was released in 1994. It contains the story when the Orcs came trough the Dark Portal and fought against Stormwind. In the video at 12:30 The First War.
The second game was also an RTS and was released in 1995 called Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness. It contains the story from 13:10 in the video called the Second War
The third game also an RTS called Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos released in 2002. It story starts in your video at 17:05. It s different than the first two. In the first two game you can choose who you want to play with. Humans or Orcs, Alliance or Horde. So the ending of the games was different depends who you chosen. They had trouble with these because then non of the endings was canon. In the third game you play a linear story where you play all the factions when the story shift to them. Humans -> Undead -> Horde -> Night Elf.
When in 2004 WoW was released lots of fans were pissed because they wanted Warcraft 4 an RTS game not an MMORPG. Some of them still don't touched the franchise since i think. But the new game get more fans and more money of course it was a huge success so they released new expansion packs every 2 years.
Lots of the backstory you see here before 12:30 revealed in WoW as you play it. Quests, time travel, archeologist sites, books or meeting old Characters or their avatars
Fun Fact: There was also a Warcraft game called Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans but Blizzard cancelled it in 1998 because it's quality wasn't good enough for them. It was supposed to be a Point and Click adventure game. Later in 2010 someone from Russia released a gameplay video about it but it was buggy and missing lots of contents. More and more content released about it (like cutscenes) and russian programmers finished the whole game in 2016. You can see the complete gameplay and story on youtube (even download it but i don't know how legal is that). This is not the official story tough. The game story was rewritten and released as a novel in 2001 which got the backstory for Warcraft III
One thing about the pocket dimension. After playing in a world where the Grom drank to blood, and everything that came after, seeing that trailer was mindblowing to see him NOT do it.
interesting
It was probably the first book in the War of the Ancient trilogy, which I suggested a while ago on the Jaina/Azshara video.
The whole story is about the war between the Night Elves and the Legion, so Azshara isn't a major player, but she's definitely the cause.
That's... a lot of lore. Comparing all those big epic events to my WoW experience, which was more like "bring me 10 bear pelts, bears spawn over there, drop rate is 5%, have fun killing bears all day"...
i recently got into the game and i’ve felt the same way haha, it’s pretty confusing to take in all at once, i still don’t fully understand but piecing it all together little by little is so satisfying. the lore goes deeper each time and it never ceases to amaze me. i’m happy i ran into your content and i enjoy the fact that you’re genuinely putting in the effort to understand the lore. :D
The stories and events in the first major portion of the video are covered in video games and media but there is a distinction. Warcraft began as an RTS type game, and those are where the first chunks of lore are laid out. First War, Second War, and Third War are analogous to Warcraft 1, 2, and 3 when they are brought up. World of Warcraft is the MMO game which shifted the genre of the IP to a new space which it still inhabits today and the lore has since been ongoing.
as a WoW fan, I applaud your interest on this REALLY confusing video. I mean, it is the short version, but it jumps A TON of important things, so it is clear it can be confusing
Im glad that youre digging deep into the lore. This video has a lot going on and its amazing that you just got into this lol. Well Of Eternity is a great book and talks about the High Elves!
This entire video can be summed up by the Captain America "I understood that reference" meme, and I love it!
I am sad , I just found this cause this is gold and your reactions are priceless and as someone who has played WoW for 16yrs ,I cant even imagine your confusion ,I also could see the smoke as your brain fried trying to take this all in. Great vid.
I had a great time hahaha
This was highly entertaining. Seeing the look on your face trying to process the buttload of information was priceless, but I think you did pretty good!
As others have said, Nobbel is a good source. But I also recommend the flying buttress, his videos are bite sized and entertaining and amusingly animated (kind of like the video you just watched). But I will warn you, there are alot of them lol.
23:11 - Everything before the "Beginning" of World of Warcraft was the first three games (warcraft 1, 2, 3) and the lore they expanded upon with other media as well as later instalments of World of Warcraft itself.
This video is just hannah looking confused and shouting "OH" if she thinks that she's recognizing a name.
10/10
Hahahah that's exactly right.
I love watching people learn about the Warcraft universe...I love your videos and your energy...You're a Queen.
Thank youuuuu💁🏽♀️👸🏽
I like to compare the Nobbel videos to the bonus features that Game of Thrones had on the DVDs: Deep dive into lore, sometimes he does voices with others, sometimes history told from certain perspectives. It's a lot of commitment, but if you're really having fun learning (and oh jeez are you learning, you got SO MUCH right), and the community is treating you nice (in vibes and money, because your time is valuable), then I think you'll LOVE the Nobbel videos.
11:50 of your video (the first war) is about where the start of the Warcraft movie takes place, if you ever are interested in watching it. It takes place before the World of Warcraft story begins but also does throw in easter eggs from the game.
And no worries, I've played WoW and there are so many names and story lines to follow it does get overwhelming.
I'm really impressed that you managed to connect a lot of dots from the videos you've already watched ! Good job! :) Because yeah, as everyone is saying, it's a lot. I see a lot of people giving you good and accurate answers, so I'll just say this. Yeah it's very condensed, yeah the guy did a phenomenal job with this video, the War of the Ancients trilogy might not be the best novel to start on Warcraft lore but I'm sure you'll make it through (just know there's easier novels out there, like "Arthas" and "Rise of the Horde"), the video is the condensed main lines from bits and parts of a history we've been collecting through games, novels, comics, audio plays, for the last 20something YEARS, and if you want to apply logic to the story of Warcraft think that the guys who have been putting all this together are huge comic book nerds and so comic book logic applies here too.
Thanks! And yes. I have so much to catch up on.
21:35 "When you're dead, do you not have feelings?"
When someone comes back from Death in the Warcraft universe, they come back with very few, and if not, only one true emotion - either postive or negative. One character, Darion Mograine, came back with true sorrow.
While Sylvanas (Eyebrows) seems to have returned with true rage.
It explains why she is so careless and hellbent on sowing destruction. She was even in love with a human ranger named Nathanos before dying, and ever since she was reunited with him in death, she's never been able to truly love him as she did before. And true love does exist among the undead.
There are a few Forsaken who have retained that emotion and have formed bonds in undeath. A few sought to reunite with their loved, living ones before Battle For Azeroth, but were killed on Sylvanas' orders.
it is ok to be confused because the lore is dauntingly insane but kudos for trying to get it all
great accomplishment by your side.
i'm playing warcraft since almost 20 years, and even i had difficulties following this ^^
Remember we’ve had years to absorb and understand this stuff. You were just feed it at hyper-speed. Also, @ 14 mins where you suddenly get to the start of WoW. Remember before WoW there were Warcraft I, II, & III RTS (Real Time Strategy) games they contain a lot of the earlier stuff.
The really early stuff is just lore we have learned through the years.
As someone who is familiar with I'd say 95 % of this story prior to watching this it was hilarious to watch your reactions as I was fed this story over the course of the last 16 years instead of about 20 minutes
So it's probably been said so I am sorry if it has. Sylvanas (eye brows) hates all living, because she discovered that after she truly broke free of the Lich Kings control, nothing awaited her after truedeath except misery. It tore her apart mentally, first she tried to find purpose in saving the forsaken, but her descent into madness just continues deeper.