if Nyalotha really happened since hidden phase during N'zoth fight (returning to heart chamber and using tenebrous gate - the same for horrific visions - to go back to fight) was pointing towards it all happening in our heads ;)
@jordanvalencia9597 why do they have to be likeable? They are the bad guys, right? Even if... they have an arachnophobia setting dude... they wouldn't even see the "likable" narubians.
Reminds me of Arthas, Azshara, Gul’dan, Grom Hellscream, Kil'jaeden, Kael’Thas and so on: Get an offer of corruption - get strong and have someone use/manipulate you
Well, yeah, for someone to be evil, you need someone who wants power and sacrifices others for it. By that every story with an evil in it is always "the same".
Nerubian spider Egyptians I'm all for it. They somehow managed to make spiders look sympathetic that's pretty impressive. I'd only wish they weren't just the bad guys. They are more interesting and more cool than the rest of the new factions combined.
Just because you don't read what the missions tell you while you play, doesn't mean that the lore is poorly explained, it's just that because you want to advance quickly in the game, you don't pay attention to what the game is showing you.
@@alejomaster4035 If players are not interested in reading quests - it is the game's fault. People just play how they like and they are 100% correct about this.
"We will rise... we will CONQUER" Oh, I've heard that one before... Except that time it was in 3D and with giant orange men. And then we killed every last one of them 🙂
The voice of the mother (Neferiss??) sounds like actress Salome Jens, who was among many other roles the villain on Deep Space Nine... I'd recognize that voice anywhere!
Meanwhile one dude is crying because he's afraid to call the light because it might not answer. And the other dude is crying because he doesn't get to hide anymore
It’s a right shame. They watered down the alien and xenophobic writing that was the Nerubians and humanised them, just made them another generic copy paste empire in spider clothing. Why do they sound so human, why are there motivations once again so human
That's pure BS. Nerubians were already "humanized" in W3 and TFT. They had empires, spies, working societies and personal mindsets. You are relating undead Nerubians to nerubians. Which makes no sense
Azshara and N'zoth, Arthas and Ner'zhul, Grommash and Gul'dan, now Azj-Kahet and Xal'atah. Blizzard really have run this same exact story-line over and over and over again.
Yeah, seriously. Even if this power Xal'atath offers would make them more humanoid (for whatever reason), these guys seemed to be more humanoid than normal nerubians to begin with (again, for whatever reason).
Tiny lil retcon about the old gods death, but the decision to turn that into how orcs with fel and old gods blood, very smart turn and already more interesting than frienshipflight
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Little did the new queen know that power also came with her carrying and dropping epic loot, and thus the downfall of her people was assured.
hahah
For what greater doom is there, than to possess that which men desire to have
she wouldn't carry around 20 pieces of tiny clothing if she wanted to live
In all the long line of WoW villains, Arthas really was the smartest. He knew where true power lay.
Also making her people bipedal, thus allowing them to risk being an allied race
"We will rise, WE WILL CONQUER!"
*20 murderhobos hearing this half the world away*
"Did you say... loot?"
you would think they would have wised up by now...
the last words she will hear
"Did she drop it? Did she drop it?"
Murderhobo reporting for duty. o7
Murderhobos got me cracking up
Be pretty funny if she drops some Legendary pants no one can wear because it has 8 leg holes.
"_What have you done ?
_Succeeding you, mother !!!"
yep
my daughter, what are you doing?
this
same bro same
Not original but very effective though. Still better than the power of frienship from DF
Imagine thinking you're about to pop off but you're the first raid tier final boss
Im mostly interested on the bosses that will come afterward.
Raszageth bruh 💀
First raid boss is ALWAYS the coolest.
Classic main character syndrome
Im sorry, Denathrius?
-All you have to do is take my hand...
-And what Xal'atath, must we give in return?
-Everything...
Void Lord Cackles: You would reject this gift?
Exactly the same remark Gul'dan stated when he passed the cup of gunk for the horde to drink....
@@CCM1199 .... And Azshara... And Elisande... And Kael'thas... And Sylvanas... And...
@@wallhackergotdammit Mhm. *_Once again_* Blizz are *repeating themselves.*
It would seem that they *really are* out of ideas!
@@CCM1199 Hmm Almost like they were referencing that scene...
Meanwhile somewhere, Azshara is quietly enjoying retirement.
Good for her, honestly.
if Nyalotha really happened since hidden phase during N'zoth fight (returning to heart chamber and using tenebrous gate - the same for horrific visions - to go back to fight) was pointing towards it all happening in our heads ;)
3:51 She Arthasized her mother.
Anubarak did it first
@@karankenZ but Arthas did it with style
@@karankenZ So you could say it's a Nerubian thing...
And Azsharized her people.
its called matricide
Xal'atath climbing out of the wall was WILD!
seriously holy sh*t, i loved that, that part might just be the coolest wow animation ever
that was horror scarlet witch moment
Get off my nuts
Literally the best part in the entire video.
metzen is back baby, and its so evident. we didnt have these epic moments when he was gone
It's Azshara, but bug.
Oh the novelty, creativity... Im not buying this
Spider mommy > squid-elven mommy
@@moch.farisdzulfiqar6123 I'll take the fish!
hoping they link up and queen out honestly
TERENAS: WHAT ARE YOU DOING MY SON?
ARTHAS: SUCCEDING YOU.
Member Arthas? Member Terenas? Creatively bankrupt, total slop
ONLY THIS TIME THEY ARE FEMALES
(so we get that sweet BlackRock money)
@@Upright1337 member nobody forces you to keep playing WoW? dumb addict.
Those were characters people cared about.
@@freshtendrills5969 You WILL care about Faerin Lothar and Dreadlocks Spider, bigot!
Mother, is it over?
Yes, my daughter. No queen rules forever.
😂
*_" No, my Daughter. The Raid resets next Wednesday ... ... "_*
The should be the Achievement when you defeat her in the Raid.
'No Queen Rules Forever!'
LOOOOOOL
@@tails230 Omgosh yes!!
Nerubians... have been defeated over and over and over...
how many times we need to teach you this lesson old empire!?
If doing the same thing over and over and getting the same result, is the definition of insanity, then the old Gods must be escaped asylum patients.
Nerubians: “we love the young people”
did someone said: endangered species?
@@whirledpeaz5758I meann.. youre not wrong 😂
Maybe they never learned about the fate of theyre brothers in Ahn-Kahet(Northrend),we should bring more Vrykull în Ajh-kahet.
The way Xal'atath moves in this cinematic is SO GOOD
In this slideshow you mean.
Yesss, here she became the right amount of creepy!
@@boxtears point?
@@boxtears stop motion.
@@boxtears it's an animation style, it's a great choice, you can still see how she moves
Parent talks sense. Parent gets stabbed. Neferess is disappoint.
The creepy and mocking expressions of Xal'atah are really well done.
Gotta love how infusing themselves with the blood of the Old Gods just turn them handsome.
they have been granted the power of rizz
Void=asian game aesthetic
Insies
Unlike the naga. Wild. They gonna be so jealous.
Well, the Curse of Flesh turned Vrykul into humans with time. Makes sense.
Xal'atath be living inside our walls
She's eating the fiber glass insulation to gain power!
Xal’atath, the Insulbinger.
Consuming the fibers of reality.
Is Xal'atath in the room with us right now?...
Warframe?
Watching our every move in the walls itself.
Really nice touch lingering on those six frames of Xal'atath coming out of the portal.
So creepy and well done! : )
The Nerubians finally get the attention they’ve been owed.
“What is better - to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?”
To become evil again.
@@samwrai ITS THE CIRCLE OF LIFE MUFASA.
"What are you doing daughter?"
"succeeding you Mother"
The first queen was the right lady for the job. That's why Xal'atath did what she does best.
Okay....
*scratching neck
...do you have some more?
tyrone stop!
Runas? That you buddy?
@@Evesorator x'D
The next 2 weeks will both have one.
not sure how the void is going to help them with their food shortage but go off queen
Let them eat voidcake
@@muncherofbiscuitsAntoinette never said this btw.
void=power, with power they can invade other kingdoms and get the resource they need with force.
Why we eat food? For energy and mass
Energy is mass and vice versa
Void gives energy
Eat void, no need for food
@@bofeity "☝️🤓"-ahh moment
"You shall die mortals...."
"Yeah yeah, just drop something cool okay?"
Naowh, Gingi, and Meeres: Allow us to reintroduce ourselves...
4:00 interesting that they choose to show the new Queenie with the backdrop of the stairs to the sacrificial altar right behind her
N'zoth with Azshara, now Xal'atath with Ansurek.
rly boring
Also reminds me of Elisande & Nightborne with Sargeras. Its kinda the same story isn't it.
and in the end we will beat them anyway ^.^
Same history, truly bad.
@@stumie1699 Also gul'dan and feeding the blood of mannoroth to the orcs
She says her people are now un-bound, if only she knew she was re-forging the chains that would enslave her people to the void yet again.
Unburdened by what has been… 😂
No worries, players will slaughter all of them of them long before that could happen, mercy yo
They were the very creation of the Old Gods, so they went back to their masters.
the void that is the endless death of her people every week to get that sweet sweet loot!
After the sethrak and this...i want egyptian like armor 🫠👌🏻
*points to maldraxus cloth set*
Blizz is teasing us 🤕
Im very certain from Ahn Qiraj, scrapping from the old lore.
I've been wanting this for yeeeaaaarsssss.
Don't forget the Tol'vir.
Anub'arak: Not my turn to return again? Noooooooooo!!!
Anub'arak deserves more screentime.
He didn't even appear in Shadowlands even though he was the second right hand to Arthas.
@@lisboahThat would mean he was arthas's left hand
@@1musamune Right was Kel'Thuzad
@@lionart5230 Right about what? ;)
So they used to be creatures made by old gods and now they're regular people who have problems with over taxing the civilians?
Or both
So that's why they look different from traditional Nerubians.
Yeah, they gotta make them more kissable for the new expansion fan art.
Forced Evolution, and possible ingestion of Old God Blood, in the same way the blood of Mannoroth made orcs Green.
There are two types of people 👆🏼
@@TankTaur or make them somewhat likeable for those with Arachnophobia.
@jordanvalencia9597 why do they have to be likeable? They are the bad guys, right? Even if... they have an arachnophobia setting dude... they wouldn't even see the "likable" narubians.
That's a pretty ruthless Crab Queen
Spider queen
@@rossmary17 /whoooosh
@@yolulu 😐
@@yolulu
😐😐
@@rossmary17it’s a joke about the crab filter option 😐😐
Xal'atath Literally being Eris from Sinbad
she also make me remember Aaravos from Dragon prince
@@rafaelsantos-nl9jd Ye thats what ive been thinking, and also sinbad haha
So basically just being Eris from Greek mythology.
Some of my favorite shows, movies, and games in one comment section. Love it. Lol
Plot twist: Xal'Atath is the new Blizzard employee whose job is to trick NPC to become loot pinata for the players 😂
Gotta love how Blizzard would do anything other than bring some lore love to the old nerubian race and their lore. Or to poor old Anub'arak.
Reminds me of Arthas, Azshara, Gul’dan, Grom Hellscream, Kil'jaeden, Kael’Thas and so on:
Get an offer of corruption - get strong and have someone use/manipulate you
and in return you just have to drop some nice epics.
Well, TO BE FAIR the queen has been quite reasonable in her offer. And the daughter had actual motivation besides "muh more powah"
Yup, so many new ideas on display. Don’t worry, we will need to defeat this great threat, … to face what is to come. 😂
Well, yeah, for someone to be evil, you need someone who wants power and sacrifices others for it. By that every story with an evil in it is always "the same".
This was the one bonus of Shadowlands. We had no idea. We just knew Sylvanas was up to no good lol.
So her mother rules since the time the dark empire falls? This IS more then 20 000 years this is by all means very Impressiv.
I'm unsure if it is indeed back in the ancient days of the black empire. Or if it's during BFA, after N'zoth broke out.
the envoy was BFA
These Nerubians were split from the greater empire during the War of the Spider so 30 ish years ago in game time.
Another stretching of the lifespan. We've had enough with elves, dragons, and draenei. Why does everyone seem to be so long long lived?
The envoy was likely from the time of BfA.
Music makes me feel like im about to enter chambers of secrets with weasley and lockaert
Enemies of the heir…beware!
Time to cut that heir down 🤭
Shadow Priests, make sure you transmog your Legion Weapon on. Maybe there's hidden dialogues
You don't always have dagger waifu mogged?!
@@aFoolsMartyr Dude, she hasa name. It's Knaifu.
That animation when Xalatath came outta the portal was on point, not gonna lie.
This should have been the real cinematic for the xpac but fully animated.
Thank you for shorts Blizz! Cinematic and art departments never fail.
Well, except for the main official cinematic. This is fire, but that one's easily their worst.
That's true. The art is fantastic.
@@TeronRedoran The Anduin one? That's one of the best cinematics are you high?
@@sayeshi1 No he means the one that was released recently, with the troll dancing etc.
That's why we need an animated series.
Nerubian spider Egyptians I'm all for it. They somehow managed to make spiders look sympathetic that's pretty impressive. I'd only wish they weren't just the bad guys. They are more interesting and more cool than the rest of the new factions combined.
Since you sometimes fail to explain the lore mid-game, those cinematics are always welcome, keep posting it up.
Just because you don't read what the missions tell you while you play, doesn't mean that the lore is poorly explained, it's just that because you want to advance quickly in the game, you don't pay attention to what the game is showing you.
@@alejomaster4035 If players are not interested in reading quests - it is the game's fault. People just play how they like and they are 100% correct about this.
@@korneyivanovic Even if you did read the quests, you barely get any actual lore out of it.
"We will rise... we will CONQUER"
Oh, I've heard that one before... Except that time it was in 3D and with giant orange men. And then we killed every last one of them 🙂
The voice of the mother (Neferiss??) sounds like actress Salome Jens, who was among many other roles the villain on Deep Space Nine... I'd recognize that voice anywhere!
She was not Gul Dukat.
@@Richforce1 She's the leader of the Founders/changelings that launched the war against the Federation. Duh.
dont worry guys the next expansion will fix everything!
Close enough.
Welcome back, Zagara.
Now go back to the lowest quality expansion in Starcraft history.
who?
Chris Metzen comes back and we are back recycling old stories under different names lol.
@@masterexploder9668 still better than power of friendship dragoncucks
Same voice actress? 😎
EMOTIONS. FEELINGS.
4:35 Domain Expansion: Malevolent Shrine
Love this cinematic style! Thanks for bringing it back
Xal‘atath climbing out of the wall has some Scarlet Witch vibes from „Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness“ 😍😄
well hopefully she is going to be better than that marvelslop
@@revolversnake126 Excuse me? Scarlet Witch is amazing.
@@revolversnake126 Knowing WoW, it will be worse than marvelslop lol
@@revolversnake126wow is fantasy marvelslop lil bro
"Stop trying to control me, mother".
Meanwhile one dude is crying because he's afraid to call the light because it might not answer. And the other dude is crying because he doesn't get to hide anymore
To be fair both guys life werent sunshine & roses either
you do realize they were being held prisoner in Torghast and forced to play BfA over and over again?
@@lukas8708oh god that’s despicable
that grin from xal reminds me of the architect from solo leveling the way her facial movements and that grin so many similarities
Ansurek is the Arthas x Azshara collab we never knew we needed
With that Camero Carfight hairdo
2:53 new allied race incoming
yea.. .like the mogu from pandaria...
That's the Earthen.
With 3 faces and 5 skin colors that all look the same.
Better than the fg dragons
2:10 Chat is this real?
The skibidi gyat on those spiders is lit fr fr no cap.
I'm killing myself (on god fr)
WoW brainrot before GTA 6 is unreal...
These warlords of draenor style cinematics are great.
"The Spiderians, though weak and woman-like on the battlefield, are masters of the textile arts. Taste like king crab, by the way." -Zapp Brannigan
And that is why you don't tell your heir that they are dumb, but instead teach them to be better.
More humanizing the spider race; Cheaper than actually making them more monstrous.
It’s a right shame.
They watered down the alien and xenophobic writing that was the Nerubians and humanised them, just made them another generic copy paste empire in spider clothing.
Why do they sound so human, why are there motivations once again so human
ikr ? That's not what we expected, and it's not something we wanted.
Psssh, be quiet, the word "alien" is considered offensive now.
oh lord... :(
well, idk if you know this, but humanlike behavior is more relatable for us, also humans
That's pure BS. Nerubians were already "humanized" in W3 and TFT. They had empires, spies, working societies and personal mindsets. You are relating undead Nerubians to nerubians. Which makes no sense
Now go over there and get 8 silk spinners and 3 boar livers. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Mostly just the same.
EPIC NERUBIAN BOAR!
Azshara and N'zoth, Arthas and Ner'zhul, Grommash and Gul'dan, now Azj-Kahet and Xal'atah.
Blizzard really have run this same exact story-line over and over and over again.
And you’re still here
@@teej143 Yes. Waiting to see the end, or having hope one day it can be better. Still waiting and watching
@@teej143 I'm really not. Stopped playing after Shadowlands.
@@Cheap_Coffee still here
Ah yes. Another "good guy turned evil" for the Warcraft catalogue.
Nice touch that after accepting old gods you become more humanoid-looking. Curse of flash.
Curse of bling. 😎
Wait... does that mean the Void is the next part of _evolution?_ 8/
The line "Greatness is fleeting, what we must do now is endure". Masterpiece.
lol masterpiece? That is the most generic line out there
@@voidox yeah leave it to voidox to write the next Hamlet!
remind me of COVID-19
Destiny, strength, sacrifice, greatness, power, suffering, shadow... WoW 2.5D video bingo card.
So Ansurek is evil because she wants to "make the Nerubians great again?"
...subtle Blizzard, subtle.
Soooo good finally able to see how sinister xal can be
Nothing like some good old patricide to bring back wow
Matricide.
Matricide. Unless you meant killing the Queen and taking over specifically, in which case, regicide.
@@axvle You're right! Could also argue regicide
@@The_Purple_Sunwhy not both?
Kinda bummed Nerubians now look like Protoss + driders (Or just straight up protoss in some cases) instead of horrifying spider/beetle creatures
Yeah, seriously. Even if this power Xal'atath offers would make them more humanoid (for whatever reason), these guys seemed to be more humanoid than normal nerubians to begin with (again, for whatever reason).
It's to appeal to the new Warcraft audience. Very few vanilla veterans on retail.
Ah, yes, the spectacular Blizzard writing of:
"What if *spider people* were secretly wholesome."
How refreshing.
Tiny lil retcon about the old gods death, but the decision to turn that into how orcs with fel and old gods blood, very smart turn and already more interesting than frienshipflight
Art & Sound department is doing it again
Can't say the same about the story department.
@@cameronmcewen9666 we shall see ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Destroying Warcraft's art direction?
So happy to see some focus on the nerubians in this expansion.
The World of Mommy IssuesCraft.
The Jailer's plan looking different wow
Remember when Warcraft was not boring?
the seal is CRACKED
This reminds me of the orcs claiming their “destiny” through the blood of Mannoroth. Except this time it’s purple instead of green.
No Queen rules forever.
Amazing cinematic. Is this not Azshara all over again, though?
And grom and arthas and the mantids and guldan...
it's so nice to see characters who aren't corrupted so easily, and even better to see them fall for being so good
Nerubian look like spider elf now....
Gotta make them human, writers cant think outside of the soap opera paradigm
@@86Corvus And copy pasting the same models from 20 years ago is "thinking outside the box" how exactly...?
Love they are bringing these back to the TWW
They have had them for every expansion since MoP.
Mop didn't have them.@@SuzakuX
@@heroicxidiot mop Had the burdens of shao hao Just came mid expansion
Reminds me of the Horde drinking the blood of Mannoroth.
Xal'atath's almost ever-present smirk is fantastic.
... why make the nerubians prettier, let monsters be monsters. But I'm still hooked.
Make Azj-Kahet Great Again!
with great results of course :)
Bravo to the animation and art team! Beautiful, colorful frames of the Nerubians there.
Why is this literally queen azshara but spiders instead of sea serpents?
More like Arthas joining the lich king and killing his father imo
Because nuBlizzard can only respond to backlash over their own ideas being awful by copying ancient texts, and ruining those too.
@@MasonDixonAutistic How would you write the story?
Looks good! The architecture reminds of of Menzoberranzan. Drow.
This is just the Azshara cinematic but with Xal'atah playing N'zoth.
She made Nerubians great again... and we know how that ends..
Nerubians: We will rebuild our empire.
The Drakkari, Zandalari, Mogu, Amani, Gurubashi, and Quiraji: another one to the club.
Pest control
Orcs burning cities down because their lives matter?
Orcs burning cities down?
Orcs burning former civilizations?
So, orcs taking the demon blood 2.0 sweet love rehashed stories in my new content.
That was good! Xal'atath looks awesome!
love that these short stories are back :)
another one for the "son/daughter commits regicide" tally
Again this shorts, thank you!
2:21 is super freakin amazing and creepy!!!