Hiya Folks. Previous video was hit with a copyright & blocked. Hopefully this one has resolved the issue and stays up. Apologies for the reupload. Molly is always on it! Bless her heart. Previous: All BFA Cinematics (2020): ruclips.net/video/wcVYsE1yzBI/видео.html *Warlords of Draenor Cinematics (2016): ruclips.net/video/ufHHlRD1QrY/видео.html *Warcraft 3 Cinematics (2022): ruclips.net/video/hxdX2d0vZDk/видео.html *Wrath of the Lich King (2010) Cinematics: ruclips.net/video/OOL4FzjCDsw/видео.html *WoW Raid Endings (2022): ruclips.net/video/9tl_ZsJbpyg/видео.html *Burning Crusade Cinematics : ruclips.net/video/6Mz0jmGcl5M/видео.html Hiya Folks! After 2 years in the lands of death and shadow, grinding 80+ Renown levels, 4 FULL covenant stories, trudging through the Maw & Korthia dailies we finally draw this expansion to a close. This includes everything from Shadowlands Launch, Chains of Domination & Eternity's End, Sylvanas, Anduin & Jailer Raid Endings, Sylvanas' Punishment, as well as the 9.2.5 tie in to Dragonflight. Very tired. Very sleepy. Always dedicated to Molly, our inspiriation & one very tough woman, continuing to honor the Warcraft franchise through this channel even after multiple breast cancer surgeries. Additional Honors: Sire Denathrius, First of His Name, Master of Revendreth, King of the Venthyr, Commander of the Stoneborn, Fangs of the Shadowlands, Lord of the Nathrezim. This is also dedicated to the incredible amount of content, voice acting, and story design so far, put forth by the team at Blizzard, even if the ending wasn't as expected. Ah well, there's always DRAGONS CHAMPION! With much love, success & happiness - Athelarius
Well, Thank you very much for putting this together, I don't know if you believe in God but he sure gave you a gift with this. Without further or do, Allot of WoW players past and present blast Shadowlands and it's lore; for personal reasons, I didn't partake; The lore, personally felt very well in line with prior Warcraft Lore, even the Game Manual from WC1. If this is compilation is in order and complete, I felt the different influence of newer writers there, but the core and course of Warcraft the same. I heard Sylvanas's fate was wet noodle; after seeing this, as a pretty much former Nelf player (11 nelf toons) Tyranda's punishment for the Banshee Queen is quite befitting since she's practically sending her to hell to pick up every soul that's landed in there since creation >:D; Something parallel with Greek Mythology (almost.) The burned Kaldorei souls Wisping into the Seed for the new world Tree is bonified WC3, which has been missing for a long time... But blizzard missed the mark with the Gilnaenis trapped on Teldrassil; They should have been Wargen/Gilnaen NPC souls amongs the Nelf souls as well. I found that part pretty cringe. However, thanks for sharing, you saved many an exceptional amount of time and a section of Warcraft offensive to many, for various reasons. As a final tidbit If Blizzard could forgive Lich King Anduin, where was the acquital for Lich King Arthas? Both of them were pawns of Zoval, and the former had his soul shattered, and puppeteer-ed to wrong doing? Anduin isn't even sane any more; not internally: Hypocrisy! indeed... 07
Still not over how he went out. For those of us who grew up with Warcraft 3, it hurts even more to see the fate he received with that ending. It would’ve been better to have left his story end with Wrath. This is the same Arthas, story of the Lich King, every Warcraft fan has known for over 20 years and could carry his own Movie trilogy and Netflix series.
no last word of warms from jaina his love ... no warm words from Uther his old master ... just Sylvi ... for that i will never forgive blizzard ... that his last flicker was this bad
In all honesty it was at least some form of closure. Arthas' story has been over for years and I'm okay with blizzard not bringing him back in any big way. Plus watching all the Arthas fan boys cry about it is pretty nice. Yeah they brought back other characters, yeah they redeemed other characters, but if blizzard kept riding on the fact that they can do that it would just get old after a while.
@@spikememer69420 its about the two people closest to him that parted and never saw him the same way again had nothing to say seeing him disappear before their very eyes anduin has taken his place as the king of the humans there wouldnt be any good reason to bring him back but to just leave him out like this wasnt the best especially since sylvanas commited arguably worse attrocities given her circumstance she shouldnt berate whats left of him even more so that he was the only one willing to fight for eastern kingdoms and his people
I just wanted to say thank you for doing these videos. I'm a very casual player and never get to see the storylines, I'm really happy when I see them put together, thank you
A lot of characters deserved better treatment in Shadowlands. Garrosh should've returned to lead the Horde. Kael'thas should've returned to lead the Blood Elves. Arthas should've returned to kiss Jaina, Uther & Sylvanas and lead the people of Lordaeron back into the Alliance. Alexandros Mograine should've had more ASHBRINGER moments. Bolvar should've had more BOLVAR moments. THe list goes on.
@@Athelarius Wow wow wow. These people are *dead*, mate. Garrosh should have met his father in Maldraxxus and learned how fury can become your master and how a true warrior learns to master it instead of letting it master you. Becoming a warrior whose fury is focussed and directed. He asks Thrall for forgiveness. He acted without honour. Thrall cannot forgive him. Not yet. Over the course of the story, Garrosh proves his fury is still unmatched but Thrall sees Grommash in him and by the end up it, says he believes Garrosh has finally mastered his rage. Garrosh says Thrall was always a better warchief than he and suggests he resume the mantle. Grom agrees. Cairne agrees, Vol'jin agrees. And Thrall returns as warchief. Not because he wants to, but because it's what he is. And always has been. Kael'Thas should have been released from his hunger for magic, and gained the clarity to see that he became a monster. He should have officially given Lor'Themar his blessing to guide their people in his name. He learns of Illidan's fate and says he's glad to be rid of demons finally. The physical and mental kind. He asks Lor'Themar to guard the sunwell closely. He meets Arthas later on and the two have a moment of aloof recognition. They both f'd up. The past is the past. Kael eventually learns of Kil'Jaeden's defeat and warns that the Legion is still endless and has other commanders. He finally, at the end; crown Lor'Themar King of the Blood Elves, bestowing upon him officially the blessing to govern them. Arthas should have been a broken man, a shell that knows he deserves nothing. That we help come back from the darkest pit as he is called upon to fight again. He cannot make right, but he will try, it is the only right thing to do. He avoids Jaina and Uther for a time, until they seek *him* out. Jaina hands him the locket he kept saying she knows the truth, hugs him and kisses him. She wishes he could come with her, but he can't, he's dead. He gives her back the locket and asks her to remember him as he used to be. Uther forgives Arthas as paladins do and ask him. "Can I count on you lad?" in hushed tone. There is a long pauze and Arthas eventually replies with a stern nod. During the events that follow Arthas becomes a repentant badass, a paladin once more. He is forever humbled, changed permanently by his experiences but we leave him alongside Uther, pupil once more and redeemed in the afterlife.
@@Aedrion- Meh i have a different interpretation of what things should have been like for these characters but we are all asking for to much for current Blizzard right now. makes me yearn for the days when old Blizzard was behind the helm, welcome to Activision Blizzard, i hope with Bobby Kotick leaving Blizzard, their games well actually become somewhat good once again
@@dingodyno9016 The book has closed on these old characters. Many got done dirty a sin forever. But I am willing to pretend none of it happened if TWW is actually *good*, not mediocre, good. Time will tell.
I also want to add to the list of comments that say Thank you! I played shadowlands but always skipped the cinematics in a desperate race for that higher and faster ilvl . Lol . Many thanks for your time putting this together
I loved SL. Idc what anyone says. The story was good, and we do not need to fully understand the jailer yet, is not like WOW is over, there are many more expansions to come and that lose end could be explained any min now. I played the whole thing prior to DF launch (first time ever playing). I love the characters and their stories and some moments even made me tear up a little, like when Palagos became the Arbiter, or when I helped the guy in Maldraxxus make the cure and how he was losing his mind because he couldn't save his wife. SL will always have a special place in my heart because it was my first every expansion.
I quit playing during Shadowlands (Life stuff, not because it was bad or anything) and this vid helped me catch up on the lore. Jailer seemed like a 'ends justify the means' kinda guy. He wasn't evil. I personally think he was just preparing for the ultimate 'big bad' in WoW lore that nothing and I mean NOTHING is worse than it: The Void. Really hope we get a Call of the Void xpac soon
Absolutely loved playing through shadowlands, and this video is a blessing. I was in desperate need of a refresher on everything that went down before i begin dragonflight. Still pretty peeved about how they sent off arthas though. As someone that played through warcraft 3 (Reign of Chaos and The Frozen Throne) i was expecting so much more.
after watching the video, I found how they played Arthas was very hypercritical. Anduin is technically not even sane after an expansion under Zobal's strings; Arthas had decades under the same weight. Blizzard didn't even give Arthas a last word. Meanwhile, Garrosh: LoL! another wasted another chance at "Savior of the Horde." I Can't believe Blizzard has now Squandered the Heir of Hellscream three times now. Either Blizzard hate's the voice actor and was running out his contract or Stamping out the Old WC Horde fans with a vengeance while slamming the door and dogging it down in spite. In the face of a more divided Azeroth, even the Scourge is broken into new factions.
@@Mthammere2010 Well look at what they did with WC3 and Reforged, that should tell you everything you need to know about current Blizzard. makes me yearn for the days when old Blizzard was behind the helm, welcome to Activision Blizzard, i hope with Bobby Kotick leaving Blizzard, their games well actually become somewhat good once again
Thank you for putting this together. I haven't played in a long time but I do enjoy the story. I don't really get the Dragonflight expansion, I thought we would be getting the controller of the Jailer next. And I agree with the comments below, Arthas deserved so much more than that pathetic send off.
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Incredible series, and work. Much appreciated. I played Warcraft 3, beta WOW, and WOW original till c. Dec 2006. I miss those days. However, I struggle to keep up with the lore through it all. It seems to combine many real work ancient civilisations and concepts, especially Aztec, Greek, Egyptian, Roman, and Indian etc.
Ty for this! Dont play much WoW but I played this with a friend who was leaving so I got interested in the story. Glad I found this to see how it turned out!
Don’t play dragonflight. Trust me on this. People won’t invite you to heroic raid groups unless you’ve completed the heroic raid before. Yes, you read that correctly, The requirement to get into a heroic raid is to have already completed the heroic raid. Oh you wanna try mythic plus? Good luck. You can be 10 over the ilvl that the dungeon drops and they still won’t invite you simply because you haven’t done that mythic+ level before even tho you are beyond geared enough for it. You play a class/spec that isn’t OP? Then your trash. The expansion is great.. but the community is getting worse. Save your money and stay away.
@@Lakalddsksk that’s exactly my point. A very large majority of Raid groups will refuse to invite you if you haven’t done it before. It’s absolutely ridiculous. You wanna kill heroic raz? Good luck finding a group that will take you. It’s so beyond toxic man that it damn near makes the game unplayable
Arthas could have made a good redemption and help kill the jailer or at least made amends and just had a good character and afterlife for this, being who the guy he always he wanted to be, they guy that would “pay any price” for his people just unfortunately controlled. It would have been nice to see his amends and such just being a cool good character, even if not that that I would have loved to see him and not just a fading spark. It’s sad.
From a gameplay perspective I loved Shadowlands, the raiding and dungeons were so fun. Did it have it's problems? Of course, definitely. Was it still worth it? In my opinion, yes. If we're being honest, the lore wasn't very good and zone designing wasn't too good with Zereth Mortis but you gotta admit that the story is at least better than BfA where they couldn't keep one straight storyline. Jailer had his problems too and I would argue that N'Zoth was a better villain during BfA than the Jailer was throughout the entirety of Shadowlands. First, we were told basically nothing about him until Eternity's End (last major patch of Shadowlands) and it he didn't feel very present during the whole of it and I get that it's part of the ideal that we're basically just ants in comparison to a godlike being such as him... but even still his presence wasn't felt until after you raided Sanctum of Domination and saw the Maw surround Oribos every time you went there. On the other hand, N'Zoth's presence could be felt throughout the patch with just his ominous whispers trying to drive us to insanity.
Honestly, this seems like it should've been WoW's last expansion. So many loose ends tied up, in a completely wrong way. Shadowlands started to make me feel like this was becoming GoT season 8 , but I don't think it's that bad. Maybe I'm just extremely salty what they did to Arthas.
Bunch of awesome designs that could be used as some other worlds to explore... seriously, putting players in literal afterlife is a copout, especially if you go around erasing some guys out of existence. Anyway, gotta love how Sylvanas got to spent some vacation doing ranger stuff in hell, but Garrosh and Arthas got fucking poofed out of existence.
thanks for the hard work of putting this all together. I started playing wow a while ago especially for this storyline, but haven't manage to complete it yet.
The fact that elunes power did not even scare or overpower sylvanas is pathetic. Tyrande should have put her in her place especially what she did to her people. The writers here really messed up and it’s obvious why people are pissed and leaving the game. To bring Aretha’s back and give him this ending is just lame
I don't know if this is just me, but there appears to be a trend of division of power(not to be confused with separation of powers) in the warcraft universe. This I first noticed with the Council of Three Hammers, but it is a continuing trend, with now the Desolate Council being the newest case. Very interesting.
I have not followed so much the lore post-WOTLK (when I stopped playing), but @Athelarius wouldn't you say that (besides the gameplay which you can like or not) the lore of Shadowland is pretty good? Looks pretty slick to me!
I see a lot of negative comments toward Sylvanas, but tbh she was the only interesting character in this entire plot. The rest was blunt as hell. Also, the story was a bit too complicated, which is not a bad thing usually, but in this case it was.
Wow, they really just did Arthas THAT dirty?? No one even talks to him, he doesnt even appear, fans still want him and love him, yet they gave SYLVANAS a forced redemption arc? Did they read a fanfic from tumblr or something? ''Your legacy is at an end and you are forgotten'' - idiotic writing . Literally Uther and Sylvanas are standing there, he shattered the old Alliance, he destroyed Quel'Thalas and almost all the high/blood elves. Destroyed Lordaeron and ended a long line of kings, helped Ilidan aquire Guldans skull and become what he is, THEN LATER KILLED HIM (which they retconned), summoned the Legion on Azeroth then sabotaged the Legion in their invasion of Kalimdor. He is literally unforgetable and his actions STILL affect the present, his legacy will always be here, amazing character but no, Blizz does him dirty for some unknown reason and forces everyone to love Sylvanas and give her a redemption arc with some asspulled facts about her and her soul. They retconned so many things of the original lore in the last 8 years because they knew the crap they made up along the way would make even less sense than it does now. When i think more about it, is it just me or is blizz tryhing so hard for people to stop loving Arthas and their old expansions and forcing players to love the new ones lol
2:30:46 This conversation, I am absolutely disappointed. From side characters, protagonist, antagonist, ALL of them had absolutely poor dialogue. The writers even felt that this too needed to be rushed out. So short, with nothing explained. I am furious. I can write better stories, and this is the canon of the game? You cannot actually tell me that Sylvanas has little to tell Anduin, you cannot tell me that there is no insight Kael'thas would want to share any knowledge about arcane with others in his time here, and you could at least give Vol'jin, Bwonsamdi and Baine more lines. This expansion has been dreadful from the beginning to the end, and I pray the next expansion will be better. I don't need to talk about Arthas since I think everyone in the comments already know my thoughts on that. Thank you for putting these cutscenes together
I feel arthus was wasted. we see all these other character back and it was a blast in some way but not so with arthus. he was just a whisper and a forgotten note. could of head him be a big boss or turned into something worse than the litch king.
The things she did to Anduin while in the chamber in chains. I believe she loosened him up in time for the Jailer’s turn. We’re talking about domination magic lore of course!
Arthas is dead as you saw in the beginning. Anduin looks like Arthas but it’s not him nor is he Arthas son. The other guy took Arthas place after his death to ensure that no one like Arthas would try to claim the Lichs power again.
@@MrMusicopath My understanding was that when he took Frostmourne, it started consuming his soul, he walked into the wastes in Northrend, where this process completed. When he returned to Lordaeron he no longer had a soul, it was inside Frostmourne. I always understood this as that he was not dead in the traditional sense, just souless. Once he became the Lich King, he became the dominant power inside the helm of domination, suppressing both his remaining past self (Matthias Lehner) and Ner'zhul. Arthas was able to permanently remove Matthias from himself by carving out his heart. Through all of this he was definitely considered undead, but still not actually dead. Only once he was killed on top icecrown did he actually seem to die, and because Frostmourne was broken. Arthas soul was returned, only to be claimed by Uther and Devos. So from my perspective, he did not die until his death at the end of Icecrown Citadel. Which you saw at the beginning.
I'm glad I didn't play through the expansion passed the first raid. After watching this to catch up, the storyline is an absolute -mess- and wasn't worth paying for!
Why does Blizzard write idiots? Both Arthas and Kel'thas were MC'd. Neither are at fault for any of it. Every character that doesn't understand this is as sub-sentient as an Orc.
I cant help it.. Why is weirdly reskined Ana Amari my maw tour-guide? Also.. when it comes to Arthas... I think basic acceptence of his "deletion" is just off character.. I mean, I get it, Jaina has moved on... but come on... Would you be able to just basically shoot a person who made up a major part of your life into the head? Let us say, that your best friend is gravely hurt, the pain is unbelievable... Do you A: say your goodbyes and instantly mercy kill him or Do you B: try anything.. anything at all before he begs enough for you to see there is nothing to be done? I think they didnt write a realistic end to it.
That being said. When you finish shadowmourne and get jaina’s locket, she mourns his death and realized there was some of ‘him’ left too. Shit is just sad of an excuse for incompetent writing.
@@joysonmartinez7945 I mean I keep up only through cinematics.. but if thats true... then I guess blizzard made a final symbolic gesture.. just like they are murdering most of their games as of late.. By murdering their greatest character without in such ingrandious manner they showed us: We are no longer the ones who made your childhooods.
What is this, I thought we killee him, freed his soul. There was this other Paladin figure that took the healm afterwards: "There always had to be a Lich King". Did they retconed this just so that a super female has to tear one in sky? :))
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Hiya Folks. Previous video was hit with a copyright & blocked. Hopefully this one has resolved the issue and stays up. Apologies for the reupload. Molly is always on it! Bless her heart.
Previous: All BFA Cinematics (2020): ruclips.net/video/wcVYsE1yzBI/видео.html
*Warlords of Draenor Cinematics (2016): ruclips.net/video/ufHHlRD1QrY/видео.html
*Warcraft 3 Cinematics (2022): ruclips.net/video/hxdX2d0vZDk/видео.html
*Wrath of the Lich King (2010) Cinematics: ruclips.net/video/OOL4FzjCDsw/видео.html
*WoW Raid Endings (2022): ruclips.net/video/9tl_ZsJbpyg/видео.html
*Burning Crusade Cinematics : ruclips.net/video/6Mz0jmGcl5M/видео.html
Hiya Folks! After 2 years in the lands of death and shadow, grinding 80+ Renown levels, 4 FULL covenant stories, trudging through the Maw & Korthia dailies we finally draw this expansion to a close. This includes everything from Shadowlands Launch, Chains of Domination & Eternity's End, Sylvanas, Anduin & Jailer Raid Endings, Sylvanas' Punishment, as well as the 9.2.5 tie in to Dragonflight. Very tired. Very sleepy. Always dedicated to Molly, our inspiriation & one very tough woman, continuing to honor the Warcraft franchise through this channel even after multiple breast cancer surgeries.
Additional Honors: Sire Denathrius, First of His Name, Master of Revendreth, King of the Venthyr, Commander of the Stoneborn, Fangs of the Shadowlands, Lord of the Nathrezim. This is also dedicated to the incredible amount of content, voice acting, and story design so far, put forth by the team at Blizzard, even if the ending wasn't as expected. Ah well, there's always DRAGONS CHAMPION!
With much love, success & happiness - Athelarius
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Well, Thank you very much for putting this together, I don't know if you believe in God but he sure gave you a gift with this. Without further or do, Allot of WoW players past and present blast Shadowlands and it's lore; for personal reasons, I didn't partake; The lore, personally felt very well in line with prior Warcraft Lore, even the Game Manual from WC1. If this is compilation is in order and complete, I felt the different influence of newer writers there, but the core and course of Warcraft the same. I heard Sylvanas's fate was wet noodle; after seeing this, as a pretty much former Nelf player (11 nelf toons) Tyranda's punishment for the Banshee Queen is quite befitting since she's practically sending her to hell to pick up every soul that's landed in there since creation >:D; Something parallel with Greek Mythology (almost.)
The burned Kaldorei souls Wisping into the Seed for the new world Tree is bonified WC3, which has been missing for a long time... But blizzard missed the mark with the Gilnaenis trapped on Teldrassil; They should have been Wargen/Gilnaen NPC souls amongs the Nelf souls as well. I found that part pretty cringe. However, thanks for sharing, you saved many an exceptional amount of time and a section of Warcraft offensive to many, for various reasons.
As a final tidbit
If Blizzard could forgive Lich King Anduin, where was the acquital for Lich King Arthas? Both of them were pawns of Zoval, and the former had his soul shattered, and puppeteer-ed to wrong doing? Anduin isn't even sane any more; not internally: Hypocrisy! indeed... 07
The chapter timestamps are a bit messed up towards the half-way point of the video.
Oh Arthas. You deserved so much more in your final moments.
Still not over how he went out. For those of us who grew up with Warcraft 3, it hurts even more to see the fate he received with that ending. It would’ve been better to have left his story end with Wrath. This is the same Arthas, story of the Lich King, every Warcraft fan has known for over 20 years and could carry his own Movie trilogy and Netflix series.
no last word of warms from jaina his love ... no warm words from Uther his old master ... just Sylvi ... for that i will never forgive blizzard ... that his last flicker was this bad
In all honesty it was at least some form of closure. Arthas' story has been over for years and I'm okay with blizzard not bringing him back in any big way. Plus watching all the Arthas fan boys cry about it is pretty nice. Yeah they brought back other characters, yeah they redeemed other characters, but if blizzard kept riding on the fact that they can do that it would just get old after a while.
@@spikememer69420 its about the two people closest to him that parted and never saw him the same way again had nothing to say seeing him disappear before their very eyes anduin has taken his place as the king of the humans there wouldnt be any good reason to bring him back but to just leave him out like this wasnt the best especially since sylvanas commited arguably worse attrocities given her circumstance she shouldnt berate whats left of him even more so that he was the only one willing to fight for eastern kingdoms and his people
@@Dareos3 there was a whole questline tied to some drops that got you like a tabard or something. That's good enough. They had their closure already.
Thank you for putting this together. It would've taken so much time and effort. This was an absolute joy to watch!
I just wanted to say thank you for doing these videos. I'm a very casual player and never get to see the storylines, I'm really happy when I see them put together, thank you
They should've brought Arthas back. And I'm not talking as an Ember. I'm talking about Arthas as a soul. Like, Garrosh.
A lot of characters deserved better treatment in Shadowlands. Garrosh should've returned to lead the Horde. Kael'thas should've returned to lead the Blood Elves. Arthas should've returned to kiss Jaina, Uther & Sylvanas and lead the people of Lordaeron back into the Alliance. Alexandros Mograine should've had more ASHBRINGER moments. Bolvar should've had more BOLVAR moments. THe list goes on.
@@Athelarius Wow wow wow. These people are *dead*, mate.
Garrosh should have met his father in Maldraxxus and learned how fury can become your master and how a true warrior learns to master it instead of letting it master you. Becoming a warrior whose fury is focussed and directed. He asks Thrall for forgiveness. He acted without honour. Thrall cannot forgive him. Not yet. Over the course of the story, Garrosh proves his fury is still unmatched but Thrall sees Grommash in him and by the end up it, says he believes Garrosh has finally mastered his rage. Garrosh says Thrall was always a better warchief than he and suggests he resume the mantle. Grom agrees. Cairne agrees, Vol'jin agrees. And Thrall returns as warchief. Not because he wants to, but because it's what he is. And always has been.
Kael'Thas should have been released from his hunger for magic, and gained the clarity to see that he became a monster. He should have officially given Lor'Themar his blessing to guide their people in his name. He learns of Illidan's fate and says he's glad to be rid of demons finally. The physical and mental kind. He asks Lor'Themar to guard the sunwell closely. He meets Arthas later on and the two have a moment of aloof recognition. They both f'd up. The past is the past. Kael eventually learns of Kil'Jaeden's defeat and warns that the Legion is still endless and has other commanders. He finally, at the end; crown Lor'Themar King of the Blood Elves, bestowing upon him officially the blessing to govern them.
Arthas should have been a broken man, a shell that knows he deserves nothing. That we help come back from the darkest pit as he is called upon to fight again. He cannot make right, but he will try, it is the only right thing to do. He avoids Jaina and Uther for a time, until they seek *him* out. Jaina hands him the locket he kept saying she knows the truth, hugs him and kisses him. She wishes he could come with her, but he can't, he's dead. He gives her back the locket and asks her to remember him as he used to be. Uther forgives Arthas as paladins do and ask him. "Can I count on you lad?" in hushed tone. There is a long pauze and Arthas eventually replies with a stern nod. During the events that follow Arthas becomes a repentant badass, a paladin once more. He is forever humbled, changed permanently by his experiences but we leave him alongside Uther, pupil once more and redeemed in the afterlife.
@@Aedrion- Meh i have a different interpretation of what things should have been like for these characters but we are all asking for to much for current Blizzard right now. makes me yearn for the days when old Blizzard was behind the helm, welcome to Activision Blizzard, i hope with Bobby Kotick leaving Blizzard, their games well actually become somewhat good once again
@@dingodyno9016 The book has closed on these old characters. Many got done dirty a sin forever. But I am willing to pretend none of it happened if TWW is actually *good*, not mediocre, good. Time will tell.
@@Aedrion- This is world of crazy bats like modern Tirande who acts befrore thinking and screaming and blaming are arguments.
You're doing the lords work mr youtuber.
When Sylvanas comments on the dregs of Arthas's soul, it's like a rogue writer decided to tell the audience how badly the character was bastardized.
I also want to add to the list of comments that say Thank you! I played shadowlands but always skipped the cinematics in a desperate race for that higher and faster ilvl . Lol . Many thanks for your time putting this together
As shallow The Jailor was as Enemy, Sire Denatrius is one of the greatest WoW Villan ever ^^
I loved this expansion. Opinions differ, and I can respect that some people disliked it, but personally I enjoyed it immensely.
I loved SL. Idc what anyone says. The story was good, and we do not need to fully understand the jailer yet, is not like WOW is over, there are many more expansions to come and that lose end could be explained any min now. I played the whole thing prior to DF launch (first time ever playing). I love the characters and their stories and some moments even made me tear up a little, like when Palagos became the Arbiter, or when I helped the guy in Maldraxxus make the cure and how he was losing his mind because he couldn't save his wife. SL will always have a special place in my heart because it was my first every expansion.
I quit playing during Shadowlands (Life stuff, not because it was bad or anything) and this vid helped me catch up on the lore. Jailer seemed like a 'ends justify the means' kinda guy. He wasn't evil. I personally think he was just preparing for the ultimate 'big bad' in WoW lore that nothing and I mean NOTHING is worse than it: The Void. Really hope we get a Call of the Void xpac soon
@@lespretend like every other villain so far.....
All Arthas has ever known is Darkness.
Absolutely loved playing through shadowlands, and this video is a blessing. I was in desperate need of a refresher on everything that went down before i begin dragonflight. Still pretty peeved about how they sent off arthas though. As someone that played through warcraft 3 (Reign of Chaos and The Frozen Throne) i was expecting so much more.
I was just excited to get back into DK rping ahaha
after watching the video, I found how they played Arthas was very hypercritical. Anduin is technically not even sane after an expansion under Zobal's strings; Arthas had decades under the same weight. Blizzard didn't even give Arthas a last word. Meanwhile, Garrosh: LoL! another wasted another chance at "Savior of the Horde." I Can't believe Blizzard has now Squandered the Heir of Hellscream three times now. Either Blizzard hate's the voice actor and was running out his contract or Stamping out the Old WC Horde fans with a vengeance while slamming the door and dogging it down in spite. In the face of a more divided Azeroth, even the Scourge is broken into new factions.
@@Mthammere2010 Well look at what they did with WC3 and Reforged, that should tell you everything you need to know about current Blizzard. makes me yearn for the days when old Blizzard was behind the helm, welcome to Activision Blizzard, i hope with Bobby Kotick leaving Blizzard, their games well actually become somewhat good once again
they trying to end Arthas legacy so hard
And failed miserable at it also. just like Reforged
Thank you for putting this together. I haven't played in a long time but I do enjoy the story. I don't really get the Dragonflight expansion, I thought we would be getting the controller of the Jailer next. And I agree with the comments below, Arthas deserved so much more than that pathetic send off.
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Every lore character came out looking stupider then when they went into Shadowlands.
the cinematics and art/music teams never disappoint with Blizzard, the gameplay and end game systems however....
Incredible series, and work. Much appreciated. I played Warcraft 3, beta WOW, and WOW original till c. Dec 2006. I miss those days. However, I struggle to keep up with the lore through it all. It seems to combine many real work ancient civilisations and concepts, especially Aztec, Greek, Egyptian, Roman, and Indian etc.
Ty for this! Dont play much WoW but I played this with a friend who was leaving so I got interested in the story. Glad I found this to see how it turned out!
it is a movie that went for years, and still continues it's legacy, until we meet again.
Who's here instead of paying subscription?
You shuold really play dragonfligth
Don’t play dragonflight. Trust me on this. People won’t invite you to heroic raid groups unless you’ve completed the heroic raid before. Yes, you read that correctly, The requirement to get into a heroic raid is to have already completed the heroic raid. Oh you wanna try mythic plus? Good luck. You can be 10 over the ilvl that the dungeon drops and they still won’t invite you simply because you haven’t done that mythic+ level before even tho you are beyond geared enough for it. You play a class/spec that isn’t OP? Then your trash. The expansion is great.. but the community is getting worse. Save your money and stay away.
@@robbierey9792 you Needed to have to complete a heroic raid to do a heroic raid??
How are you even able to do one?
@@Lakalddsksk that’s exactly my point. A very large majority of Raid groups will refuse to invite you if you haven’t done it before. It’s absolutely ridiculous. You wanna kill heroic raz? Good luck finding a group that will take you. It’s so beyond toxic man that it damn near makes the game unplayable
@@robbierey9792just dont be dogshit lmao
Blizzard you did so many, many and I mean MANY characters and lore events in WoW *dirty* in this expansion.
I like that when Renathal yells Denathrius the auto sub is Daenerys
There's nothing like your story King.
Rreally nice vid. Enjoyed every second of this 3 hrs masterpiece. And it didn't even feel that long. That's how good it was 👍👍👌👌👍👍
Thank you very much for the compilation. ^_^
This is great. Folks need to remember that fanon isnt canon. Stories arent trash just because you like a character and think they "deserve better".
"And in the end, as the darkness takes me... I am nothing. Now I know how you felt, my friend." -Darth Revan
Arthas could have made a good redemption and help kill the jailer or at least made amends and just had a good character and afterlife for this, being who the guy he always he wanted to be, they guy that would “pay any price” for his people just unfortunately controlled. It would have been nice to see his amends and such just being a cool good character, even if not that that I would have loved to see him and not just a fading spark. It’s sad.
From a gameplay perspective I loved Shadowlands, the raiding and dungeons were so fun. Did it have it's problems? Of course, definitely. Was it still worth it? In my opinion, yes. If we're being honest, the lore wasn't very good and zone designing wasn't too good with Zereth Mortis but you gotta admit that the story is at least better than BfA where they couldn't keep one straight storyline.
Jailer had his problems too and I would argue that N'Zoth was a better villain during BfA than the Jailer was throughout the entirety of Shadowlands. First, we were told basically nothing about him until Eternity's End (last major patch of Shadowlands) and it he didn't feel very present during the whole of it and I get that it's part of the ideal that we're basically just ants in comparison to a godlike being such as him... but even still his presence wasn't felt until after you raided Sanctum of Domination and saw the Maw surround Oribos every time you went there. On the other hand, N'Zoth's presence could be felt throughout the patch with just his ominous whispers trying to drive us to insanity.
Thanks for the work, this video has been a blast, i played Shadowlands and still missed a lot
I never played shadowlands but after watching this i need to... i dont get why everyone hated it so much
ole Sylvy used to be the begin all, end all for me. I was on her side even through the whole bonfire incident. then i met Draka. Draka is THE ONE!!!
Honestly, this seems like it should've been WoW's last expansion. So many loose ends tied up, in a completely wrong way. Shadowlands started to make me feel like this was becoming GoT season 8 , but I don't think it's that bad. Maybe I'm just extremely salty what they did to Arthas.
I'll never get over what they did to Arthas, he's the only reason I played their game to begin with.
Thanks for this, i bet this took a lot of effort. Appreciate my man! Like watching a movie.
Bunch of awesome designs that could be used as some other worlds to explore... seriously, putting players in literal afterlife is a copout, especially if you go around erasing some guys out of existence. Anyway, gotta love how Sylvanas got to spent some vacation doing ranger stuff in hell, but Garrosh and Arthas got fucking poofed out of existence.
thanks for the hard work of putting this all together.
I started playing wow a while ago especially for this storyline, but haven't manage to complete it yet.
Hm, how very fascinating, i wonder what else is in store for this World of Warcraft.
What a train wreck of a story. Thanks for the compilation tho, good work!
The fact that elunes power did not even scare or overpower sylvanas is pathetic. Tyrande should have put her in her place especially what she did to her people. The writers here really messed up and it’s obvious why people are pissed and leaving the game. To bring Aretha’s back and give him this ending is just lame
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for making this.
When u didn’t do the content but the cutscenes be fire
I don't know if this is just me, but there appears to be a trend of division of power(not to be confused with separation of powers) in the warcraft universe.
This I first noticed with the Council of Three Hammers, but it is a continuing trend, with now the Desolate Council being the newest case. Very interesting.
Great video!
Do you have a link for your char mog?
bro in the thumbnail look like high asf
shadowlands towards the end looks fun. but im not to upset about walking away from WoW. Might give War Within a try.
Perfect!
The crown of domination will be reforged in some way at some point but without the extra evilness in it.
You go girl.
I hope they will rise again by making compaign mode again
(1:25:22) Fun fact: There's an alternate voice-line here if you stand to the side and choose not to fight Sylvanas.
1:50:07 Protoss is that you? xD
Zoval vs Kiljaden, who would win?
Poor Ursoc.
shadowlands left more questions than answers
I have not followed so much the lore post-WOTLK (when I stopped playing), but @Athelarius wouldn't you say that (besides the gameplay which you can like or not) the lore of Shadowland is pretty good? Looks pretty slick to me!
1:47:29 - Christened? That's weird Blizzard, I didn't know WoW had connections IRL. Anointed? Designated? A thesaurus perhaps?
I see a lot of negative comments toward Sylvanas, but tbh she was the only interesting character in this entire plot. The rest was blunt as hell.
Also, the story was a bit too complicated, which is not a bad thing usually, but in this case it was.
Wow, they really just did Arthas THAT dirty?? No one even talks to him, he doesnt even appear, fans still want him and love him, yet they gave SYLVANAS a forced redemption arc? Did they read a fanfic from tumblr or something?
''Your legacy is at an end and you are forgotten'' - idiotic writing . Literally Uther and Sylvanas are standing there, he shattered the old Alliance, he destroyed Quel'Thalas and almost all the high/blood elves. Destroyed Lordaeron and ended a long line of kings, helped Ilidan aquire Guldans skull and become what he is, THEN LATER KILLED HIM (which they retconned), summoned the Legion on Azeroth then sabotaged the Legion in their invasion of Kalimdor. He is literally unforgetable and his actions STILL affect the present, his legacy will always be here, amazing character but no, Blizz does him dirty for some unknown reason and forces everyone to love Sylvanas and give her a redemption arc with some asspulled facts about her and her soul.
They retconned so many things of the original lore in the last 8 years because they knew the crap they made up along the way would make even less sense than it does now.
When i think more about it, is it just me or is blizz tryhing so hard for people to stop loving Arthas and their old expansions and forcing players to love the new ones lol
Thumbnail timer ?
And she saw it first right here.
goooooooooooooooooooooooood
2:30:46 This conversation, I am absolutely disappointed. From side characters, protagonist, antagonist, ALL of them had absolutely poor dialogue. The writers even felt that this too needed to be rushed out. So short, with nothing explained. I am furious. I can write better stories, and this is the canon of the game? You cannot actually tell me that Sylvanas has little to tell Anduin, you cannot tell me that there is no insight Kael'thas would want to share any knowledge about arcane with others in his time here, and you could at least give Vol'jin, Bwonsamdi and Baine more lines. This expansion has been dreadful from the beginning to the end, and I pray the next expansion will be better. I don't need to talk about Arthas since I think everyone in the comments already know my thoughts on that. Thank you for putting these cutscenes together
Name of the character at 11:10? Ty :D
I feel arthus was wasted. we see all these other character back and it was a blast in some way but not so with arthus. he was just a whisper and a forgotten note. could of head him be a big boss or turned into something worse than the litch king.
Why only scenes with Arthas and that damn music made my tears...
Someone please ask Blizzard @ BlizzCon, why all - LITERALLY ALL - characters talk like a slowed down Christopher Walken in WoW-Cutscenes?
yo is the rock in this?? JASON!?!?!? hello!
???
You are not prepared
Anduin x Sylvanas whennnnnn
The things she did to Anduin while in the chamber in chains. I believe she loosened him up in time for the Jailer’s turn. We’re talking about domination magic lore of course!
34:55 Bro thats ANA from OW
And it came to past.
Scary dreamt talked to me Again!🤣👇🔪🤣
After frozen throne?
why arthas is good now? why there's other guy as the lich king? sorry but the last game that i played was w3 frozen throne 😬
Arthas is dead as you saw in the beginning. Anduin looks like Arthas but it’s not him nor is he Arthas son. The other guy took Arthas place after his death to ensure that no one like Arthas would try to claim the Lichs power again.
@@Sapphic288 how the hell arthas died if he was an undead? 🤣
@@MrMusicopath My understanding was that when he took Frostmourne, it started consuming his soul, he walked into the wastes in Northrend, where this process completed. When he returned to Lordaeron he no longer had a soul, it was inside Frostmourne. I always understood this as that he was not dead in the traditional sense, just souless.
Once he became the Lich King, he became the dominant power inside the helm of domination, suppressing both his remaining past self (Matthias Lehner) and Ner'zhul. Arthas was able to permanently remove Matthias from himself by carving out his heart.
Through all of this he was definitely considered undead, but still not actually dead. Only once he was killed on top icecrown did he actually seem to die, and because Frostmourne was broken. Arthas soul was returned, only to be claimed by Uther and Devos.
So from my perspective, he did not die until his death at the end of Icecrown Citadel. Which you saw at the beginning.
@@Sapphic288 oh thanks for the big explication
You know i kinda wish they would make a movie on sylvanas from her turning to shadowlands, she nailed that line roasting bolvar
Wow they really borked the ending there. I mean this is like Game of Thrones season 8 levels of writing here. Sad, very sad.
But arthas killed illidan too.. i guess he didnt have a soul because he was a demon? Hmm
story line got so convoluted. Reboot?
God i hate Sylvanas and the endless plot armor she has. she should have died years ago
I'm glad I didn't play through the expansion passed the first raid. After watching this to catch up, the storyline is an absolute -mess- and wasn't worth paying for!
Why does Blizzard write idiots?
Both Arthas and Kel'thas were MC'd. Neither are at fault for any of it. Every character that doesn't understand this is as sub-sentient as an Orc.
parang si kurapika lang vs Uvo ng hunter x hunter
1:47:21
Unbless!🔪🔪🥳🔪
I cant help it.. Why is weirdly reskined Ana Amari my maw tour-guide?
Also.. when it comes to Arthas... I think basic acceptence of his "deletion" is just off character.. I mean, I get it, Jaina has moved on... but come on... Would you be able to just basically shoot a person who made up a major part of your life into the head?
Let us say, that your best friend is gravely hurt, the pain is unbelievable... Do you
A: say your goodbyes and instantly mercy kill him
or Do you
B: try anything.. anything at all before he begs enough for you to see there is nothing to be done?
I think they didnt write a realistic end to it.
That being said. When you finish shadowmourne and get jaina’s locket, she mourns his death and realized there was some of ‘him’ left too. Shit is just sad of an excuse for incompetent writing.
@@joysonmartinez7945 I mean I keep up only through cinematics.. but if thats true... then I guess blizzard made a final symbolic gesture..
just like they are murdering most of their games as of late.. By murdering their greatest character without in such ingrandious manner they showed us: We are no longer the ones who made your childhooods.
UNDo The Cursed!🔪🔪🔪🔪🥳🥳🥳🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪
Sad what they did to us Horde again. and, to Sylvannas.
Sad what they did to our Blizzard again.
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the lore in shadowlands is such a shit show
BWho is she
Really confusing storyline... And Uther looks like he has a chicks body ....
Merci avec cette vignette de merde pour le spoil alors que je demandais rien a personne
Hindi plese
Who the hell gives a shit about Teldrassil? It was just as much a military target as Camp T.
f the alliance
Sylvanas sucks
shadowland lore makes absolutely no sense, please just delete this expansion
Lmaoo
What is this, I thought we killee him, freed his soul. There was this other Paladin figure that took the healm afterwards: "There always had to be a Lich King". Did they retconed this just so that a super female has to tear one in sky? :))