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Eyebrows was turned into a mind controlled banshee after arthas killed her. In a moment of weakness on arthas part, eyebrows regained her will and rallied undead humans and elves that had also regained their minds. She founded a new faction of undead that were of sound mind but undead bodies. They call themselves the forsaken since they no longer have a proper place in the world.
They joined forces with the horde later on.
tnx man
I mean... You say sound mind, but its been very clear throughout the lore both in-game and without that part of their condition of undeath is dealing with their insanity. The sanest of the undead are simply those that have coped best or been able to remain tied to their mortal life, like Calia Menethil. And no doubt having your soul split in two like Sylvanas 'Eyebrows' Windrunner here would most likely make that impossible.
Edit: Calia, not Dalia, an error that did lead to learning interesting lore about the warrior queen of Lordaeron past, Dalia Menethil. Who knew?
@@ShadeOnTheUtube Well it is less sound mind in the way people normally describe it, like being mentally balanced and well adjusted (which is kinda hard to do when you are a rotting pile of bones with some flesh still stuck to it). And more in the terms of having the capacity to understand things like actions having consequences, or making intellectual/moral choices, as opposed to how the undead under the lich king are which is 95+% mindless killing machines, most of which aren't even capable of speech.
And she did nothing wrong.
You should definitely watch the Team Fortress 2 Cinematics. They are the Meet the Team (it’s a playlist of videos which includes all the characters Heavy, Engineer, Soldier, Demoman, Scout, Spy, Sniper, Medic and Pyro), Expiration Date and Jungle Inferno.
I'm new to your channel as of yesterday, so glad you got to these! Love the content and I also love having a backlog of content to go to!
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Why would "guiding the sword" matter? is the divit inbetween the breast going to be some how weaker? Is normal armour impractical because it has gaps for mobility?
Chain mail bakini's I get why people call them impractical, but chest plates with boobs I don't get.
You may as well call roman/greek armour impractical because the have pecks, nipples and 6 packs.
The sword splits in two when someone with honor holds it, so at the end we have the confirmation that he was an honorable Orc.
Ohhhhhhh cool!!
@@HannaHsOverInvested And he finally got his honorable death.
I don't know where you're getting that from...sounds like speculation to me. Shalamayne is just two elven swords that got magically fused together and can split.
@@Nihilix89 My headcannon is that Varian's spirit was helping Varok or at the very least, the sword fullfiilled what he said:
At the end of MoP, Varian warned the Horde that, "If your horde failed to uphold honor, as Garrosh did, we will end you."
Shalamayne spliting for Varok meant that he upheld the honor of the horde and the one strike of Shalamayne ended Sylvanas's Horde, who failed to uphold that honor.
@@clownzzz4837 LONG LIVE SAURFANG!!!
8:50 "Who is she?" Me: Ooooooooo Hannahs gonna loooove Jaina.
Definitely, and her Warbringer video is soooooo incredibly emotional if one pays attention to it, the music along with the incredible visuals works so well to show her backstory in such and amazing way, while at the same time showing how powerful she is
@@Neocoolzero Sunday after next for that one.
@@HannaHsOverInvested Jaina's personal storyline has been an important part of the Warcraft saga since Warcraft III, when she was an apprentice mage of the Kirin Tor and the girlfriend to Arthas Menethil... the guy who became the Lich King. To say that Jaina Proudmoore is an important lore character is most definitely an understatement. That poor woman has had more than her share of loss and grief over the course of her life.
If you get a chance, I highly encourage you to watch her full story from Battle for Azeroth; in my opinion, it's one of the best parts of the expansion.
@@evenmoor I agree her story is the most interesting and tragic one
@@HannaHsOverInvested This could be abit long for 1 video as the more detailed videos can be around 90min+ but i highly recommend to watch videos ppl have made of Jainas full storyline in the warcraft universe. There are alot of caracters that have suffered loss and sadness but none can compare to the tragedy of Jaina´s storyline. The fact that she hasent gone completely insane with all the emotional trauma she has been forced to endure is nothing short of a miracle. It would be great to se a reaction to the full video but with them being so long a 2-3 part is probadly needed or 1 video with a summery of what u thought about it.
21:50 "I'm confused"
Saw that one coming a mile away lol
I never said I wasn't predictable 😅😅
I'm the biggest WoW nerd ever, and I was like WTF when the sky shattered. The helmet has a connection to the afterlife and breaking it I guess opened a way in. Sylvanas' goal for years in WoW is to avoid the damnation of her soul Arthas the Lich King inflicted with his weapon. It's a general theme of the Forsaken (undead with free will), their souls are basically all wounded/damned and it seems Sylvanas' is trying to avoid that fate. We killed Arthas in like 3rd WoW expansion, so the guy she fights is the 'replacement' (long story). Important part is "There must always be a Lich King" to keep the mindless undead under control. Breaking the helm is bad. I definitely recommend watching Nobbel87 Arthas biography, he's one of the most important characters in Warcraft Lore and (apparently?) is going to be a part of Shadowlands.
Think that this has missed out "Warbringers: Jaina" and "Warbringers: Azshara" - it included "Warbringers: Sylvanas" at the start of this part, but looks like it skipped over the other two. Those should be worth a watch =)
Not missed! Just not yet.
@@HannaHsOverInvested Sneaky ;P
@@HannaHsOverInvested which is fair, because the Sylvanas one ties in with all these Saurfang cinematics waaay more, and I love my 500 pound green PTSD borderline personality boi
These are two great ones, and probably more fitting as 1-off self contained stories.
warbringers jaina is my fave of the warbringers, and the girl you asked whos she, thats jaina lol super powerful mage
Short and sweet version of the lore:
1: The guy with silver hair and the sword with blue runes on it was Arthas. He's the one who killed Uther in the "Afterlives: Bastion" video you watched, and it's his soul that they dropped into the Maw. Arthas was the Prince of the main human Kingdom a long time ago, and he became obsessed with saving his people, no matter the cost, to the point that he took up the sword which corrupted him, and eventually put on the helmet, which turned him into 'The Lich King'. In the end, his obsession was turning everyone into undead, so that there would be no more war, no more sickness, and the world would be united in death, so that they could stand together to face the Burning Legion (The MAIN baddies of the Warcraft universe). Honorable goals, with obviously flawed and villainous methods. Also, anytime you see him without the helmet on, that takes place during the game Warcraft 3, and it's before he put the helmet on.
2: At the end of Bastion, when you see Arthas dying, another man by the name of Bolvar took the crown, which is what gives someone power over undead, and said that he would wear the crown, and stay there on the throne, to keep the undead from being a threat to the world. This meant that, because he was now wearing the crown, he was the new Lich King. Also, he looks like he does because he was burned by Dragon Fire, so his entire body is charred. If you want that story, you can watch the video called "The Wrathgate". Also also, it was the SWORD, called 'Frostmourne' that corrupted Arthas. So Bolvar wasn't corrupted as the Lich King, because he didn't wield the sword.
3: In the last video you watched here, Sylvanas goes and defeats Bolvar, and breaks the crown. To put it simply, this 'breaks the wall' between the 'real world', and the 'afterlife world'. It also means that now, without the crown, nobody is holding back the undead. That's actually going to be an event soon leading up to the release of the new expansion, where the players have to deal with the undead who are now rampaging all over the place.
4: In that other world, called "The Shadowlands", there is a powerful being known as "The Jailor", and he is who Sylvanas has been working for this entire time, and he's going to be a main villain of the upcoming expansion. He's the one who rules over "The Maw", AKA, the place Uther dropped Arthas into at the end of Afterlives: Bastion.
So Bolvar, the guy with the blue flames and skull hammer, is a good guy, and in the upcoming expansion, he is the one who sends us after Sylvanas, into that 'Portal in the Sky'.
"Short and sweet" Literal paragraphs, but yeeeeaaaaaah that is the short version you ain't wrong lol
Isn't Bolvar in control when he's red(flamed) and lich king when the blue flames come out? 🤔🧐
tldr: sylvanas has died before, and saw that in death, souls are used to power the gods that are served on mortal planets... in short, gods dont care who dies, they will not help you, because you will eventually serve as their fuel in death. not sure what her end game is, but it seems shes trying to draw attention to the shadowlands (the place all beings go in death) so that the cycle will somehow be stopped.
Essentially yes, she's trying to tear down the veil between life and death so they can see and attack the gods proper.
Well that's what Zoval (The Jailer) told her happens.
A good RUclipsr about armor and castles is shadiversity. He's doing a couple videos about female armor fantasy versus reality
Oh I'd love to watch those.
i was just about to go on to a rant why the boob armor thing is stupid and that you cant slice metal like its paper xD but Shadiversity's explains it better.
For the final cinematic, she was fighting the lichking. Arthas was the original Lichking, using the helm to control the undead and his sword frostmourne to steal souls he was super strong. When we defeated him someone had to don the helm and keep the undead from just washing over the world. A paladin named Bolvar who had suffered a nasty dragon burn put it on to keep the undead at bay. That was him she defeated.
Little more story on her: she can feel no joy, only the rage and pain she felt after dying. Time has made her more and more bitter and then she started working with some unseen force from the otherside. She got stronger and stronger the more people died. She started the entire war just to get strong enough to break that helm, open up a path to the other side and well.... only the new expansion will fully explain why.
Just a notation, Ner Zhul (an orc) was the first Lich king (so far known) and the one who forged that helmet she broke (helm of dominaton) , and the icy sword that sealed her and the others souls (frostmourne). Arthas (one of the Wrath expansion) is the second Lich king, Bolvar (this shadowland scorched guy) is the 3rd lich king.
@@alarydavidnin this is true with the caveat that arthas was sharing space with ner zhul in a more of merged souls kinda thing, but its important to know your audience and focus on pertinent details for the level of knowledge they are working with.
@@alarydavidnin also ner zhul didn't forge the helm. It was forged by a smith in the shadowlands, stolen by dreadlords along with frostmourne, and brought to azeroth.
@@patricke0n thats new, may come with the newest expansion but so far in the lore kil'jaiden gave ner zhul the power to forge it, remember the shadowlands were more an unknown place mentioned few times before
@@alarydavidnin ive been playing warcraft and wow since both existed my friend. Ner zhul had his body torn to shreds by kil jaden, this soul locked in the armor. He was never even claimed to have made it. No disrespect but you are just incorrect my friend. In warcraft rts they just kinda produced the armor in ice and locked his soul in it.
Wasnt female armor just invented to please people that wanted more women involved, when women with armor in reality was close to as rare as a double rainbow.
Women wore the same armor that men wore... Only difference being if a woman had big tits they made a bigger chest plate... but it was still a chest plate not boob plates :-D
I know its only a game but im still upset about burning that damn tree... Damn you Sylvanas!
People who participated in the pre-patch quest: Who needs a tree when you can have a special mount?
2:50 Shadiversity did a good analysis on on "boobplates" and made a compelling argument that they probably don't reduce protection that much, if at all. Maybe you could be interested in it.
That being said, WoW armor suffers from typical fantasy tropes (unprotected belly, lightly armored feet etc) as well as Warcraft-specific ones (oversized pauldrons, heavy rims). Warcraft as a fantasy setting always valued appearance over efficiency, so its armor is still very impractical in general.
Shadiversity is just downright wrong though. He's not an expert, he's a LARPer and a fantasy author. Nothing wrong with that, but he's not an authority on this subject. The mere fact that we have no evidence of boobplates in history says enough. And don't get started on ancient muscle cuirasses, since those are not comparable at all to iron or steel breastplates. Muscle cuirasses were far softer than steel or even iron. They were viable in their own context, but they are a death sentence in the age of shock cavalry and powerful missile weaponry. Medieval breastplates almost always have a globose shape for a good reason. Their strength depends on deflecting impacts. Thrusts towards the armour are deflected towards the sides rather than impacting dead on. In the even that it does hit dead center and doesn't slide off, the center is much stronger and should stop the impact. If this impact is instead guided towards the center rather than deflecting, you're creating a massive weakpoint.
"Boobplates" would also have to be overly big and unpractical. There's already a hollow space in between the ribs and breastplate. If you want actual boobs on the plate, you'd either have to make the breastplate larger, which would hinder arm movement, or you'd have to decrease the space between the center of the breastplate and the ribs, which is a good way to crack your sternum.
@@joost1120 I have no way to answer in style to give your comment justice, so I'll settle on something like this:
In the age of shock cavalry and powerful missile weaponry steel plate is irrelevant anyway.
In my humble opinion.
@@andrewmelnikov292 Steel plate is incredibly important in the age of shock cavalry and powerful missile weaponry, both for defensive and offensive purposes.
The invention of the arret de cuirasse, or lance rest, multiplied the power of the lance. The arret de cuirasse is the steel hook attached to many breastplates since the late 14th century. Without the arret de lance shock cavalry would not have been effective. The lance rest supports the lance and secures it to your breastplate. This way the impact isn't absorbed by your arms like a suspension spring, but instead delivered right into the target. This sudden increase in power caused a massive evolution in armour. We went from using primarily mail to using primarily plate in just 50 years.
As for for defense, steel plate massively decreased the amount of deaths on the battlefield. Solid armour is incredibly good at deflecting. Modern testing has revealed that breastplates are very likely to prevent injuries from lances or arrows.
If the armour's benefits do not outweigh the drawbacks, it is generally not worn. We see this in later times when firearms overtake bows and crossbows. Steel armour became a lot less common because it offered little protection against the powerful firearms. But even then, helmets and breastplates stayed relevant.
@@joost1120 Pretty much yes.
I thought when you said "missiles", you were talking firearms.
In that timeframe initially cuirass retained its relevance since flintlock guns were horribly slow to reload, so melee was still a very good way to deal with enemies (and with flintlocks accuracy was... problematic).
Invention of machine guns pretty much made any non-bulletproof armor obsolete.
Still, if we're talking about Shad, he primarily argues that "boob plates" can be more or less applicable (if uncommon) in fiction, where we usually see them. Just enough plausibility to cater to our, ahem, taste for exquisite sights.
Realistically, I haven't seen enough sets of armor to say something for certain IRL.
Then again, women were uncommon on IRL Medieval battlefields in general, so I'm not sure if we have many female sets to begin with.
@@andrewmelnikov292 "Invention of machine guns pretty much made any non-bulletproof armor obsolete." The same goes for any armour. If armour does not offer protection, then it is obsolete.
Boob plates are just downright impractical. They offer no advantages and a lot of disadvantages. Even if we assume that it'll be strong enough to protect against the thrusts guided towards your heart, it's still impractical. It massively hinders your arm movement. A regular globose breastplate is already large enough to fit breasts in. Now imagine one that that size, but with breasts on them. You wouldn't even be able to touch your own elbow with your other hand. It's also heavier because of the extra material.
The only reason why someone would make or wear a boob plate is for ceremonial purposes, or just because the author of the story wants boob plates.
that shirt! love it so much
Thank youuuu!!!
The woman you were curious about is Lady Admiral Jaina Proudmoore. She is the queen of the human kingdom of Boralus who are part of the Alliance. A big part of her backstory is explained in one of the other Warbringer videos. She was among the first notable human royalty to advocate for peace between the Horde and Alliance. She's been through a lot and has seen a lot of her friends and family die over the years, turning her more and more jaded. She is a very powerful mage and is currently dating a dragon.
The man with the evil looking sword is Arthas. He was the former Lich King (You watched him unfreeze a big skeletal dragon in a cinematic). Before he was defeated he was responsible for a lot of evil in the world. We are still dealing with the repercussions of his actions many years later. Sylvanna's soul is whole because she chose to keep it whole. Because she was such a good defender of her homeland and delayed his armory's invasion, Arthas turned her spirit in a Banshee so he could keep her around as a slave. That came back to bite him, because she and a some other undead managed to break free of his control and rebelled. They now have an undead kingdom as part of the Horde, trying to forge a new "life" for themselves.
Not sure if Jaina's still dating Kalec or not. I'm still trying to get through the latest two novels but haven't seen mention of him in them, and the prior novels made it seem like he was drifting away from her because she was a bit too bloodthirsty and angry for him to want to deal with. The relationship doesn't seem to have ever been shown or seen in-game. It's even more questionable because the last time I remember seeing the two of them sort of interacting is when Kalec voted in favor of the Kirin Tor working with the Sunreavers and Jaina hated the Horde so much she abandoned her position at the top of the KT to bounce out while the universe was under threat from the Legion. Him disagreeing on such a big thing just doesn't seem healthy to their relationship, considering they were often at odds over her anger.
As always you never fail to deliver entertaining reactions. For a little info on Shadowlands Afterlifes: Maldraxxus (when you get to it), the main subject is Draka. She is the mother of Thrall (green Jesus). He is the baby that you see close to the beginning of the video. Till your next upload, stay safe my friend.
Thanks you too!!
The tree that sylvanas burned down is teldrassil, main capital and starting area for nightself players. At the launch of battle for azeroth you actually had to go in there while it was burning and evacuate as many citizens as you could, all while watching it burn down. As a nightelf player i was crying the entire time.
"That includes you, girl, nothing lasts"
No, she does not decay, she is already dead and bound like that.
Lady Sylvanas is awesome.
Sylvanas is not "turning on her people" as you say. You see when she was alive she was a human skin colored elf, a blood elf (called high elves at the time), not a purple skinned elf like the one she's talking to (a night elf).
You'd have to go back to 1995 to really understand everything in these cinematics, but others have tried to summarize it already in the comments. All of this ties into Warcraft, 2 and 3, and WoW lore.
7:30 They are disagreeing on what defines the Horde. Saurfang is saying that the Horde was forged in a misguided sense of honor, and Sylvanas just perpetuates that legacy. He doubts that the Horde can be redeemed. He's calling the good leaders of the Horde (Thrall and Vol'jin) exceptions. He's even denying that he has honor himself. Anduin (ponytail guy) is reminding him that the Alliance also had evil leaders (like Arthas, the guy with the glowing blue sword, undead army and ice dragon). And that convinces him that they can protect their homeworld together.
I'm really happy with this delivery, I think with these 4 cinematics you really rounded up the story of the war campaign which was Battle for Azeroth's main focus.
I do feel a little more in the know now. hahaha even though there is SO much more content.
hannah. please, nobody cares about armor. its about the story.
I think some people care.... for example... ME!
She doesn't hate them.
She understands that Azeroth is but a small bubble, a prison within which the races are meant to languish forever, and she wants out.
Anduin wasnt trying to take credit for setting him on the path, he was feeling guilty already knowing the outcome
Right? this darling streamer has some inherent racial prejudices she needs to work through. Poor girl. Hopefully life will be gentle with her education
I live for her calling Sylvanas a debbie downer. LOL
I love your shirt! Tha'ts so perfect.
Yes eyebrows ripped the helmet in half, destroying the barrier between their world and the after life (Shadowlands). She's been working with a chaotic force in the Shadowlands, known as the Jailer, to feed him souls. They've interrupted the natural flow of life where souls are supposed to be sorted, and are instead being used to make the Jailer stronger. That's why she started the war with the Alliance to kill as many of the Alliance and Horde as she could.
There's so much lore to talk about, and I could easily ramble on and on lol
OKay!! and thank you!
The natural flow was interupted long before sylvanas tho, caused by the Jailer and some Nathrezim, frostmourne was the main tool and is the cause of sylvanas damnation. She is not responsible in any way, she just try to escape it.
That section starting at 15:32 ALWAYS tears me up. Saurfang, welcome home.
Ting ting!
@4:02 the night elves are not her people. Sylvannas' people were the high elves. Thousands of years ago, all elves were one and the same, but many went their own way and evolved into multiple different kind of elves.
And your confused about Sylvannas being the true "heir" to being warchief is because the OG horde was actually evil. They had active demon blood in their veins.
"Thousands of years ago, all elves were one and the same, but many went their own way and evolved into multiple different kind of elves." reminds me of Tolkien's elves
Info about the Shadowlands trailer:
- Ice Crown Citadel was created by Arthas, the Lich King. (Anduin mentions him in the Negotiation when you said "I don't know who those people are". The other person he mentions, Daelin, is the blonde white-streak haired girl (Jaina)'s dad.**) Arthas was a human prince tricked into becoming the king of all the undead. His sword, Frostmourne, steals the soul of anyone it kills. That's the sword that made Devos freak out when she saw it in the Afterlives: Bastion cinematic. His helm, the Helm of Domination gave him control over all undead on the planet. You've seen him kill Saurfang's son in Old Soldier, Uther in the last video, and Sylvanas so far. Sylvanas "Eyebrows" Windrunner was turned into a Banshee by him. He did it to punish her because she nearly stopped him from gaining his full power.
- Arthas is the guy Uther threw into the Maw in the last video. Where he died and Uther and Devos claimed his soul is the same place the fight here happens- on the Frozen Throne atop Ice Crown.
- The current Lich King, Bolvar, was a human paladin who helped defeat Arthas. He was almost killed with Blight but was saved by the fiery breath of the red dragonflight. That's why he's a burny boy. After Arthas died, Bolvar put on the Helm of Domination to keep the undead Scourge from rampaging and killing everything on the planet. He's the "usurper" Sylvanas fights here. The Helm of Domination, like Frostmourne, was created in the Maw. That's why breaking it had the power to break the veil. Her breaking it also means we now have to stop the Scourge all over again, since they're no longer contained. That's the "pre-patch event" for the Shadowlands expansion.
- Ice Crown is literally "The Veil between Life and Death". That's why Arthas built it there because that's where the veil was the thinnest and he was strongest. Sylvie just shattered the veil, allowing us to go to the Shadowlands in the upcoming expansion. The Shadowlands are the infinite realms of the afterlife. That's where Uther went to become a blue angel boy, aka "Bluether". The part of it you see in the sky is in the heart of the Maw- Torghast (which literally means "ghost tower").
- The Maw is an inescapable literal hell where irredeemable souls are sent. But we learned that something in the Shadowlands broke and now ALL souls go there instead of going to the Arbiter for judgement. The Arbiter is basically a construct that works like St Peter or the sorting hat, deciding which afterlife souls go to. The more souls a realm has, the more power it has. Since all the souls now go to the Maw, it and its ruler, The Jailer™, are becoming increasingly powerful and the other realms are starving. Sylvanas works for the Jailer, and it's HIS power she uses here, and used to kill Saurfang in Reckoning. It's the black wispy smoke that comes from her, and no one living knows what kind of magic it is, or can even sense it.
**(That's a story you'll hear about if you watch Jaina's Warbringer- which is the best of the three, imo. It's a song! Jaina is one of the most powerful mages ever, and has usually been a pacifist, but got pretty upset when the Horde nuked her city and killed her boyfriend. Theramore was also the city where she let the Horde kill her father because he was a xenophobic war monger and it was the only way to preserve the peace with the Horde she was building there. Yeah, then a xenophobic hate monger leading the Horde blew it up as thanks. :/ Jaina has a pretty tragic story. Actually, if you watch Jaina's Warbringer, which happens in the ruins of her city after it was bombed, this video has the rest of her main story in BfA: ruclips.net/video/mOHqTf91WTU/видео.html)
Which boyfriend do you mean her loved one arthas was killed years ago after this we had Kalec who is alive...
Do you mean Ronin? She hated the horde specially for the murder of Kindy her apprentice
Sylv is empowered by the jailer but all abilities are hers. Even the chain arrow thing, she already used it on Arthas. And the shadow bolt she throw at saurfang is just a classic banshee's ability, delivered with the mind control and the smoky form.... Someday I wonder if the current blizzard's writters ever played their own game in the last 10y...
I can't find a comment mentioning this, but it's implied Arthas "Used" her body in front of her soul multiple times as part of her breaking and torture, one of the reasons that even though I've ALWAYS hated her, I slightly excused some of her actions. She has had HORRIBLE things done to her, things most of the faction leaders couldn't imagine.
Well that's dark.
just for context and I am sure it has been pointed out before, but I cannot not mention it whenever I see this. That tree was not just a tree, it was a city full of civilians.
It was pointed out.....when the dying night elf said "only innocents remain in the tree" lol
The white haired lady wearing the white and black dress is Jaina Proudmoore, one of the more famous warcraft characters.
There is alot of Battle of Azeroth content about Jaina that you can watch.
Here is a list of Jaina videos in order from left to right:
Warbringers: Jaina -> The Siege of Lordaeron: Turn The Tide -> Lordaeron Throne Room Confrontation - Alliance -> Jaina's Nightmare -> Arrival to Kul Tiras - Alliance -> warcraft Realm Of Torment -> The Return of Hope: Kul Tiras -> Alliance Siege of Dazar'alor Cinematic -> Rastakhan Dazar'alor Ending Cinematic -> An Unexpected Reunion -> Crossroads - Cinematic.
Outside of the Warbringer one, all of these are in the style of the second clip you watched in this video, the one that uses the ingame graphics.
Jaina is an interesting character, she starts out kinda broken in BFA after events that took place earlier in world of warcraft, her videos may also answer some of your questions about the story as these videos feature more of Sylvanas (eyebrows), Saurfang (orc), Thrall (orc with the fur) and Anduin (blondie). It will also likely raise more questions, it's alot of content.
Hope you check it out or put it on the vote thingy.
not a good choice with that tshirt to have the same color as your chair. From the thumbnail I thought you were some kind of freak with arms like that lol
I was thinking the same thing 🤣🤣. Otherwise great video
i know this isn’t the most important thing but i thought it could help differentiate the types of cinematics and what they’re used for.
in-game cinematic: in-game character models are used but they make them look a little bit fancier. they’re usually used for important raid endings or important lore lessons within the expansion.
awesome realistic cinematic: very very realistic versions of what’s in the game. they used to only be used as trailers for new expansions but battle for azeroth decided to try something new and use it to explain an important lore character and im really hoping they keep doing that in the future.
art cinematic: a painted out version of what’s in the game. they’re used to explain important characters before a new expansion drops.
It can be confusing to grasp the different elf-cultures in the beginning but it's actually pretty easy to understand over time:
Purple Elves = Night Elves, forest-based savage protectors
Fair-skinned elves in blue armor (eyebrows in the flashback) = High Elves, the original fair skinned Elf-culture
The High Elves renamed themselves to the Blood Elves after the flashback scene you saw where Eyebrows dies, because Arthas decimated 90% of the people. Blood Elves wear now red/gold instead of blue/gold
All descended from trolls.
7:31 Blackhand was the first (official) leader of the Horde (comprised of Orcs maddened by drinking demon blood). They atempted genocide against the Draenei in the planet Draenor (the Draenei lost that war but managed to hide in some places). Then that Horde crossed the Dark Portal and tried to invade the planet Azeroth (home to humans and others). The Humans defeated them and imprisoned the Orcs.
From the imprisonment camps came an orc called Thrall who had not drank demon blood. This is the green guy you see the Orc on this cinematic, Saurfang, talk to in that other cinematic where a couple assassins pop up but beaten by the two Orcs. He also appears on this cinematic (the other orc). Thrall was the first leader of the new Horde (which also included other races).
At a given point, Thrall steps down and names Garrosh Hellscream his successor; Saurfang doesn't mention Garrosh here because that one was a baddie.
Garrosh is removed from power by the joint efforts of the Horde and the Alliance. Vol'jin becomes the new leader of the Horde. He is the first non-Orc to lead the Horde, he's a Troll.
Vol'jin dies during Legion and his last act is namin Sylvanas Windrunner (long eyebrows) his successor.
Saurfang was there from the start, since Blackhand and saw it all. Hence:
"Thrall and Vol'jin (mostly peaceful, honorable leaders) were not the true heirs of Blackhand's bloody legacy, Sylvanas Windrunner is."
"You are such a Debbie Downer!" best reaction/statement... love it!
🤣🤣🤣🤣 thank you!
There are some wow clips with the whole or almost whole story better check em for example " The (almost) Complete History of World of Warcraft " by Hidden Azeroth or "The Story of Warcraft - Full Version 2.0 [Lore]" by Nobbel87 thats one of the easy weys to get into wows lore "Short version ":D
Disclaimer: I swear, I was only going to write a single short paragraph. Things got a bit out of hand.
Some lore regarding Sylvanas aka Eyebrows. She was once a High Elf of Quel'Thalas. Her homeland was invaded by the Scourge and she was raised as an undead banshee by Arthas. Her people share common ancestry with the Night Elves but they are quite different. The High Elves (now Blood Elves) are very liberal in their use of arcane magic. The Night Elves are more of a tree hugging nature loving variety. The Night Elves are also purple/blue skinned and over 7ft tall while the Blood Elves have more human like skin tons and height. There are obvious parallels between what was done to her and what she's doing to them, but they aren't "her people".
"Why does she have magic powers?" That is THE BIG QUESTION. She is powerful but she should never have been able to do what she did in those last 2 cinematics. That purple dark magic isn't something she was previously able to do. But apparently she made a deal with The Jailer, the big baddie in the next expansion, Shadowlands. He gave her all this power and she's been working with him. But why? That's anyone's guess at this point.
The guy Eyebrows fought on top of Icecrown Citadel is Bolvar Fordragon. Once, the Lich King was the spirit of the orc Ner'zhul bound within the Frozen Throne. That was a block of ice containing the armor, the blade Frostmourne, and the Helm of Domination. He was "alive" kind of, but without a body (his body was destroyed by his Burning Legion demon masters as punishment for his past failures). These magical artifacts gave him power over the undead. He recruited and corrupted the human prince Arthas Menethil who became a death knight and his primary agent. At the end of the Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne game, set several years before even the beginning of World of Warcraft, and released in 2003, Arthas broke the ice cube that contained the armor and the helm and put them on, fusing his consciousness with the Lich King and becoming... well... the new Lich King.
After we defeated Arthas years later, we found out that without a Lich King to control the endless hordes of undead, they would go on a mindless rampage and pretty much destroy the world. It was at that point that the former Alliance commander Bolvar Fordragon stepped up and donned the Helm of Domination, choosing to become the Jailer of the Damned. He had previously been pretty badly burned by dragon fire which is why he looks like he's made out of charcoal.
As it turns out, these artifacts that gave the Lich King power actually come from the Shadowlands. It's the afterlife, where all mortal souls go after they pass from the mortal plane. It's an infinite amount of heavens, hells, and everything in between. You die, you go to The Arbiter, a being from before time, and she judges where you should go. Basically Saint Peter. There are 5 notable areas of the Shadowlands which we will visit in the game. Bastion, where the Kyrian train the purest of souls to ascend and join their ranks. Their job is to ferry the souls after death and to The Arbiter (so what Uther and Devos did is very much a breach of their duties). Maldraxxus, where the strong join the Necrolords, the military might of the Shadowlands. Ardenweald, where the Night Fae prepare souls destined for reincarnation back into the world of the living. And Revendreth, where the Venthyr torture prideful and vain souls for their sins... but somehow that's a good thing because torture allegedly makes you see the error of your ways and become good again.
Lastly, you have The Maw, the place where completely irredeemable souls are sent, where the Jailer rules. He is the big bad, and a being as ancient as The Arbiter. His goals, much like Sylvanas's are a complete mystery at this point. All we know is that for some reason the souls of every being that dies in the entire universe are currently being sent to the Maw, which isn't how it's supposed to go. And Sylvanas tore up a portal in the sky that leads straight up to the land of the dead. Which can't be good for Azeroth.
Sylvanas didn't hate her own people at this point of Cinematic. Her body and soul were now owned by Arthas and he ordered her to kill her people against her own will,while she was aware of what she's doing
That is horrible.
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Arthas (White long hair man with a sword,Darth Vader basically) later after that became the Second Lich King
The last Cinematic you just watched is about her taking down the person who was the Third Lich King,but not Arthas.
She took him down for 2 reasons:
She had a deal with the afterlife God of Death that included opening a portal and destroy the crown
and she also wanted some vengeance for Lich King.
Now there's a rumor that she's going into the Afterlife world (Shadowlands) to beat Arthas's ass in Hell
@@almas4663 Personally I think it's exactly the opposite. She killed herself (her second death BTW) right after the Fall of the Lich King way back in 2010. In a short story she heard Arthas being tormented and couldn't really grasp where her soul was. (We're now pretty sure that was the Maw in the Shadowlands). I THINK Blizzard hasn't told us this yet but her pact with the Jailer in the Maw is actually something Arthas told her to do. She probably found out his actions as the Lich King weren't really his and I'd like to think she intends to betray the Jailer. There's also reason to believe by breaking the cycle of life and death there's going to be some sort of cosmic reset at the end of the next expansion. So whatever happens after Shadowlands is going to be crazy. Warcraft 4 or World of Warcraft 2 maybe? Who knows.
When eyebrows shattered the sky that face at the end was like: "Wait... So that means no more friends?"
Sylvanas Windrunner was turned into an undead banshee against her will and forced to serve the Lich King, Arthas. Rape analogy is rape analogy and every, good WoW character is a tragic character. :P
The Eyebrows doesn't hate her own people. In life Sylvanas was a high elf, the ones she burnt are the night elves. There're different.
You didn't get Saurfangs story about the Horde. It was founded because the demons (who corrupted the orcs) wanted to destroy Azeroth. The first warchief of the Horde was Blackhand. He was pretty awful guy. Then there were good and peacful warchief Thrall and Vol'jin (Saurfang mentioned them, btw you see Thrall talking to Saurfang in the Reckining). So Saurfang meant that Sylvanas inherited Blackhand's bloody leagacy.
BTW the lady Anduin spoke to in Negotiantions is Jaina. She has her own Warbringer cinematic and it is great. You need to watch it along side with Azshara.
In the last one the Eyebrows opend the way to the realm of death, the Shadowlands. If I say more, then you'll be probably even more confused.
Your shirt is great.
Wearing armor is merely a decoration part and related to the character's lore in a world of great physical strength, speed, agility and magic. It has more to do with rank than neccessity. Unless we're talking about armor with special significance like the Helm of Domination, which she broke in this video. It contains a very powerful spirit, created or inserted specifically to possess and give the wearer great power and the control over undead.
Besides, most male orcs wear no armor nor clothes on their upper body, like many other horde races. Females actually wear more clothing and armor than males.. but I guess that doesn't fit the narrative you're going with.
This comment makes me feel like you don't understand how gravity works... Or breasts... Or breathing.
She is Lady Jaina Proudmoore, current Lord-Admiral of Kul Tiras and and suuuuper powerful mage
She also has a super cool even tragic ... well mostly tragic story and background but it would be super giga long post, so lets just answer who she is
Haha thanks.
@@HannaHsOverInvested she has tons of cinematics dedicated to her, you should check those out if you like her :) she really has a very emotional background
I think she's a Archmage like Antonidas was and Khadgar is.
HerpimusDerp well yep she was she even lead the kirin tor for a while and then she got angry because khadgar invited horde to dalaran during legion return and council supported him and she just left
For a second I thought she had really buff arms but it was just the chair
I totally thought that u had a massive upper body in the thumbnail.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 my yellow shirt/chair combo tricked you!
Yes had to double take! Nice video.
So for context and maybe someone else said it. The Sylvanas Warbringer cinematic up here goes right before the first one with Saurfang where he says “there was no honor in this” and he starts seeing her for what she truly is. As for cinematic looking different there are different art departments and they don’t have the resources and time to do the massive ones all the time plus it’s nice to see all these different styles being used by different artists.
So when she said "nothing last" and you said, "you too girl"...well just an fyi, she has died 3 times and have come back to life. Killed by Arthas the lich king and turned into a banshee (which is what she is now). Killed her self after the lich king finally was defeated by jumping off and falling into Saronite (rock) spike. Shot in the head by godfrey (a human she raised undead). So I think it's safe to say, that she WILL LAST.
Granted, she's wanted death since the very beginning but she has been undead for a very long time if it wasn't obvious. So she's lasted for a very long time :P She also commands Valkyrs that can now serve her and resurrect her if she dies.
Not entirely true - she only has 3 Valkyr left to resurrect herself with. Once they're gone, she's dead.
5:30 She died. That's part of what the sword does: it turns its victims into undead slaves. Sylvanas died, and yes, part of her soul is destroyed by Frostmourne (that's the name of the sword). She spent a whole bunch of time having to do what Arthas told her, but then through plot shenanigans she and a bunch of others regained their free will.
This is not true, part of her soul was not "destroyed." As the lore goes, Frostmourne consumes souls, but it doesn't destroy them. Otherwise she wouldn't have been raised into an undead with a mind of her own.
@@randomarknight8064 ok.
@@TimdeVisser86 good to be educated imo!
I wonder how you're going to handle Necromunda Underhive Wars trailers
Ok, Why does a sword traveling to the center of the chest matter? Armor was designed in a way that it was a lot thicker in the "Center" and had Curvature for Deflection. So, if say a Sword, Hit dead center, the armor would be strong enough to stop the sword. If the sword hit from the side, it would catch the Angle of the side, and be deflected off. Same with an arrow. Actually, some arrows caught the curvature and deflected up into the under helm and Damaged some Knights which, prompted smiths to later add a Shelf over the collar bone to deflect the deflected arrow away from getting under the Knights helm.
The real issue with Sylvanas's Armor is its mostly leather and most of her torso is exposed. Given that she has the power to phase through solid Mass and Fly in her universe, its not a super big deal but, in the real world, that little protection would be a problem, One sword thrust or solid slash, One arrow, One axe head, one Hammer blow, She would be toast. Pierced heath, broken ribs, Serious internal damage. Recently I learned slipped collar bone can be deadly.
Those are not Sylvanas's people. Technically, they are Distant Ancestors and enemies for a while now.
Frostmourne did several things but, Most of that continuity has been retconned. Frostmourne all ways wounded the soul however Where Sylvanas's trauma comes in was Ether She was forced to lead the attack on her home city or she was forced to by the Lich King. For doing so, ether by her own will or forced to do so, was rewarded by being returned to life (undeath technically) However, her body had not been preserved and was partially decayed which, pissed Sylvanas off.
She is Lady Jaina Proudmore. She is an important lore character. A lot of the lore comes from playing the game which, Isn't really a great game. I mean it never really was people like to pretend Activision ruined blizzard but, blizzard was ruined from day 1. It would take a long time to explain what is happening with all this. I recommend finding lore videos on characters that you are interested in. like Lilian Voss, Sylvanas Windrunner, The Lich king, Illidan Stormrage, Thrall, Jaina Proudmore, Varian Wrynn. There is actually a Sword that has some pretty cool lore called Ashbringer.
So, during Battle for Azeroth they updated Sylvanas's armor to Mostly plate with some leather. Her torso is still really unprotected though. (Seriously, a sheet of leather isn't going to stop a roided out super bow from sending an arrow ripping through her guts. Fantasy plate doesn't stop arrows in this universe. lol
Technically the Shadowlands is The Afterlife.
Fun watch, hope you go back to Legion and finish those in game videos one day, as well as go back to WOW's hey day of Burning Crusade (1se expansion) and Litch King (2nd expansion) when Wow had like 15 to 16 MIL active players. @Hannah as always fun to see these thru your eyes Madam.
Breastplates arent practicle, cuz' she and the others females ARE HEROES! :D Heroes with supernatural powers, they are no need to wear practical armor when she can turn into shadow-smoke and can shoot shadow chains from her hands :'D thats it' :v
So, I know others have given explanations, but here's a tl;dr. Sylvanas was made undead by Arthas (Lich King, dude with cool sword). She's been bitter toward the living in some sense ever since. She eventually becomes warchief of the Horde. She attacks Teldrasil, tree and home capital of Night Elves (alliance faction, part ofpretty boy with cool sword's group). She decides to burn the tree with noncombatants still inside. In short, genocide.
Saurfang (orc that died) doesn't like Sylvanas' wanton bloodshed and underhanded tactics, and in cinematic challenged her to on-on-one combat for the right to lead the Horde (Mak-gorah or however it's spelled, what he called at the gates). Reveals through it that she doesn't actually care about the people she's leading, and she dips.
Finally, Shadowlands tl;dr. Arthas (Lich King) was previously defeated by the time of Battle for Azeroth. But without a Lich King acting as a kind of restrainer, the undead would have no tether and run wild. "There must always be a Lich King." Hence fire and ice boy on Frozen Throne. Sylvanas breaks the helm, removing the role of the Lich King entirely, revealing there was more to the role of a lich king than just leading the main group of undead, and opening a path to what is that world's version of the afterlife(?). Last part's a bit fuzzy, but there you go.
First you have to understand that Sylvanas and the Lich King have a complicated background. Arthas killed her when she was trying to defend her lands and stop his undead army. But he raised her as a banshee under his control. At one point the Lich King's control faltered and she and some other undead broke free and regained their free will. She became leader of these undead that call themselves Forsaken. They all hated the Lich King and sought his end. Finally he was defeated and the story closed on Sylvanas and Arthas's story. But Sylvanas didn't know what to do after that, the only thing she had been 'living" for was accomplished. So she tried to commit suicide, tossing herself off the top of Icecrown Citadel and landing on the metal spikes. But she saw something in those moments that terrified her, then a valkyr (angel like beings that can raise the dead) saved Sylvanas by taking her place while her sisters revived Sylvanas. The remaining valkyr have been loyal to Sylvanas since, raising more undead for the Forsaken for her, which became Sylvanas's new purpose: the survival of her "people" the Forsaken. But she was still always seemed troubled, haunted by whatever she saw when she died that now made her terrified of dying (but at the same time hating being undead. "What joy is there in this curse.")
Okay that was a lot... but to the important part. For years people have theorized that Sylvanas would one day take the Helm and become the Lich Queen. So when we got this cinematic for Shadowlands, I was at Blizzcon when it was announced, people went nuts, especially for those few seconds she held the Helm in front of her like she was about to put it on. But then she freaking BROKE IT. Which was completely unexpected, something that never occurred to anyone could happen. After all "There must always be a Lich King." So yes, for the geeks and nerds, the Shadowlands cinematic blew everyone's minds.
Shadowlands is the land of the afterlife the world beyond here and to there and the guy in the armor with the now broken crown helm is Blovar Fordragon aka the lich king now deposed LONG LIVE THE DARK LADY
its so fascinating to see the perception of the Female Social Justice Warrior. You notice the Impracticality of the Armor the Elf wears, but not the Danger of the living dead that are approaching.
I think how Myopic you are is best summed up at 3:07 when you inquire "are they Dead'?
I'll try to explain a few things to give you better context.
Sylvanas (eyebrows) was a High Elf (now called Blood Elves) who had her soul ripped out by the Lich King (Arthas) and turned into a banshee who worked for him. Eventually she was able to break free from his control and reclaim her body, but now she is undead. Sylvanas then became the Queen of the Forsaken (undead who have broken away from the Scourge (the Scourge is the endless undead army controlled by the Lich King). The Forsaken joined the Horde and eventually Sylvanas becomes Warchief of the Horde prior to all the Battle for Azeroth stuff.
The other woman in the first cinematic is a Night Elf, which are different to the High/Blood Elves. Their home is the world tree Teldressil, which Sylvanas burns in order to start a war between the Horde and the Alliance.
In the third cinematic (Reckoning) Saurfang is leading a combined army of Alliance and members of the Horde who are loyal to him against Sylvanas and the rest of Horde who continue to follow her. The are going to do battle at the Gates of Orgimmar (capital city of the Orcs, as well as the Horde), but Saurfang does not want to shed more blood, particularly against fellow members of the Horde, which is why he challenges Sylvanas to Mak'gora (the orc "duel of honor"). Also just fyi when Andiun says, "I put you on this path", he's not trying to make it about him. He realizes that Saurfang will most likely die fighting her, and is feeling guilty.
Ok so for the final cinematic, this takes place right after Reckoning. So as far as we know Sylvanas disapparates from Orgimmar and then shows up at Ice Crown. Ice Crown Citadel is the home of the Lich King and the Scourge. This is where you as the player defeat Arthas, previous Lich King. Afterwards the spirit of Arthas' father, proclaims that there must always be a Lich King. Basically if no one is wearing the Helmet, there will be no one to control the Scourge and keep them in check.
Jumping back to when the attack on Ice Crown first begins a rogue Forsaken faction attack everyone (Alliance, Horde, and Scourge) with a gas attack. It kills Bolvar and many others who were at the Wrathgate and then some Red Dragonflight come and burn all the plague gas. Bolvar dies and his body becomes warped by the dragon fire, but he is brought back to life by the Lich King and then tortured.
So jumping back to after the Lich King's defeat, Tirion Fordring is going to put the Helm of Domination on when Bolvar shows up and tells Tirion Fordring to place it on his head instead. Basically he has nothing left to live for so he volunteers to sit on the frozen throne.
So that brings us the the Shadowlands cinematic where Sylvanas fights the current Lich King (Bolvar) and takes the helmet ("The veil between life and death"), and instead of putting in on herself and becoming the Lich Queen, she rips it in half which breaks the barrier between Azeroth (life) and the Shadowlands (death). And basically that's where we are at in the current story. Shadowlands in the next expansion set to come out, and we will learn about Sylvanas' motivations for everything she's done, etc.
Ranger General Sylvanas Windrunner (eyebrows) died defending the kingdom of Quel'Thalas from the Scourge invasion, led by future Lich King Arthas Menethil. Crown prince of Lordaeron and former lover of Jaina Proudmore.
As a way to further humiliate Sylvanas for her resistance against him, Arthas turned her soul into a banshee.
It wouldn't be until much later that she would recover her body and become Queen of the Forsaken, the undead humans of Lordaeron, who Arthas and his Scourge army killed.
Sylvanas Windrunner was a High Elf and the other one is a Night Elf. She died when Lich King stabbed her. Her soul was trapped in Frostmourne. He raised her as a banshee but over time she managed to escape his control. After the Lich King was killed she considered her task finished and killed herself bu jumping off Icecrwon Citadel. It would be too long to explain but in the Afterlife whe met the Valkyr and made a pact with them. Their leader took her place in the Maw so she could "live" again. She died one more time and more Valkyr sacrificed themselves so she could live again. She is an undead. Arthas Menethil was the Lich King and Daelin Proudmoore was Jaina's fathe, the woman you were asking about.
To really understand the Shadowlands cinematic you need to watch the Wrathgate (where Dranosh Saurfag, Varok Saurfang's died) and Fall Of The Lich King cinematics. They both tie in to the Afterlives cinematics. In order to control the undead hordes there must always be a Lich King. When Arthas Menethil died Bolvar Fordragon, a Paladin who had been badly burned by dragon fire (that's why he was red before turning blue) took up the burden and put on the Helm of Domination. But since he was a Paladin serving the Light, he was not the real Lich King and that's why she called him a usurper. When she destroyed the Helm of Domination she tore open the fabric of reality and open the way to the Shadowlands where souls go when they die.
Also, you missed 2 of the Warbringers cinematics, Jaina and Azshara.
You want to know the story of Lady Sylvanas Windrunner? Here you go:
ruclips.net/video/9z-Et1N8bv4/видео.html
Also, here's a vid to help you understand what you don't understand in the first vid, Warbringer:
ruclips.net/video/NBRTUel0J3w/видео.html
Sylvanas doesn't want to be friends instead :I
😭😭😭 because she's broken! She needs help.
BFA was the low point of the game that has not been seen since WoD.
WoD was bad because of its short run-cycle and therefore rushed story and the lack of content (their idea was to make future wow expansion be on year release and as such the rest of the game suffered, like basically being stuck in a box and never leaving it for 2 years)
BFA was bad because of the botched premise and repeat of MoP, badly I might add, and a grindfest (they tried to convince us that it was a "morally grey" conflict but it was clear that Horde was basically the bad guy; more so Sylvannas but the rest of the Horde just went along without questioning, the half-arsed ending and now they're forcing the faction to basically become lite Alliance; on top of forcing people to grind if their armor was to be useful at all).
Around 11:50 you say the moment isn't about Anduin. You've probably found out by now, but there's a cinematic called Lost Honour where Anduin frees Saurfang so he can go back to the Horde and start leading a rebellion. By saying 'I set you on this path', Anduin is referring to the fact that rather than just killing Saurfang at Lordaeron when he had the chance, or keeping him locked up in a cell, Anduin freed him and it ultimately led to Saurfang risking his life in the duel versus Sylvanas. So yeah, the moment is very much about Anduin, in combination with Thrall (black-haired Orc) who has known Saurfang for a long time, and Zekhan (guy with long tusks, named Zappy Boi by fans) who sees Saurfang as a mentor and sort of father figure.
Ah you're missing so much context from what is going on. Everything that happens in these videos, every reference spans over 20 years of real world, game history. Starting with the original Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, and reaching a crescendo in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, which immediately preceded World of Warcraft. I mean there is a ton ton you are missing, so I can understand why you'd be confused. The Warcraft universe and lore is larger and more involved than Game of Thrones and Lord of the Rings combined.
Eyebrows (or Sylvanas) was murdered by Arthas who has come up in a few other videos. She was turned into a banshee, and actually after becoming a banshee on the battlefield and seeing the destruction and what she’s become, she let out a scream so loud it made her people’s ears bleed and killed some of them actually. Her body was locked away in a chest to keep her separate. In Arthas’ moment of weakness her and her banshees broke free of his will, and actually almost assassinated Arthas but he was saved. She found her body, hence why she doesn’t look like a banshee, she looks like an undead elf, and took the undead and her banshees that had broken free of the Lich King to form the Forsaken, who joined the Horde. Please note I’m not an expert on Warcraft 3 by any mea am but this is my understanding of the lore.
‘The Negotiation’ doesn’t look as good as the others because it’s an in-game cinematic, made with the game models, not actual actors. In this cinematic, they talk about assaulting Orgrimmar, the capital city of the Horde where eyebrows is hiding. Saurfang talks about how he realises that ‘his Horde’, the one she said fought for honor above all else, was founded on a great lie and bloody legacy, and he says that it’s been responsible for too many villains. Anduin bites back the the Alliance holds just as much blame as the horde for atrocities.
He mentions Arthas, the Lich King, who was formerly the Prince of Lordearon that used to be the heart of the Human Kingdom, he went on to decimate millions and become the most iconic and well-written villain in Warcraft history. He also mentions Daelin. He was the Lord Admiral and Ruler of Kul’tiras, a Kingdom that was once part of the Alliance (it’s back in the Alliance as of BFA but for a long while it wasn’t). He was Grnad Admiral of the Alliance, so he was supreme commander of the Alliance’s naval forces. This was all during the second war, which was Alliance vs Orcs that we’re invading Azeroth. During this time, a New Horde rose up, one that didn’t want to take over Azeroth, rather make a peaceful life here without so much fighting. Daelin, however, absolutely hated the Orcs and believed they could never change, and would be glad to see them all dead. Eventually he was so consumed by rage and devoted to vengeance that his own daughter, in an effort to bring peace, had to step aside and allow the New Horde to kill him. The daughter is actually Jaina Proudmoore, the new leader of Kul’Tiras and the one who answers Anduin when he asks where her home is
Saurfang yells that there could never be peace between the Alliance and the Horde no matter what, and that they would always go back to war eventually. They eventually come to the conclusion that even if peace could never Happen they needed to keep fighting Sylvanas because she is trying to destroy Azeroth, and though they would never get along, it is all of their homes.
A Mak’gora is an old Orcish tradition, where they fight to the death for control. The contestants aren’t allowed to use their own Weapons in case they’re enchanted or laced with poison or something that would give an unfair advantage. Anduin giving Saurfang his sword (the sword’s name is Shalamayne) is a massive deal because as you’ve seen Shalamayne was his father, Varian’s sword, that he recovers on the Broken Shore. Additionally, I think that actually the swords were always separate, like Varian was, until the two sides of Varian were combined again (that’s a whole other story).
Why was that a big deal? To put it simply, Varian is also known by the name Lo’Gosh. Lo’Gosh is, in the Tauren’s language, the name of Goldrinn. Goldrinn is a Wild God who takes the form is a massive white wolf. The Night Elves worship him as an ancient guardian, the Trolls, goblins, and Dwarves all have their own versions of him, and after the orcs arrived on Azeroth and were told about him by the Tauren they adopted him as their hero. Long story short, Lo’gosh is a pretty big deal.
Lo’gosh died in the War of the Ancients, which was the Night Elves against the Burning Legion, but it’s said that his spirit lived on and watched those that he favoured. It is said that one of the soul he favoured was in fact Varian, and that he admired Varian’s ferocity, and also his ability to tame it which was something Lo’gosh couldn’t do. Long story short, being admired by Lo’gosh is a pretty big deal.
By being able to split Shalamayne into the two swords (Shala’tor and Ellemayne) he is showing that his soul is almost as worthy as Varian’s. The reason I think this is because they were Two swords until they were combined into one along with Varian, hinting that maybe Varian is the only one who could split and merge them at Will? Long story short, being able to split Shalamayne is a pretty big deal.
And finally we’re at Shadowlands 🥳 we begin seeing eyebrows at Icecrown Citadel, which is basically the Lich King’s castle in a way. Sylvanas actually threw herself off of Icecrown and committed suicide, seeking peace in the afterlives after being denied it once before and turned Ito a banshee. Instead she was cast into the Maw and saw such horrors that she wanted out. She made a deal with the Jailer, the entity that rules the Maw, that she would cause as many deaths as possible. The Jailer would then steal those souls, depriving the other realms of the Shadowlands of souls and making himself more powerful. He would, in turn, pass some of his power on to her.
She calls Icecrown the Veil between life and Death because… well… it is? The Helm of Domination, the Helmet the Lich King wears, allows the Lich King a glimpse into the Shadowlands, basically putting them between the two realms. Not quite alive, not quite dead. She makes reference to a ‘usurper’ that sits upon a Frozen Throne.
The Frozen Throne is the Throne of the Lich King, and the Usurper stop said throne is called Bolvar Fordragon, who wasn’t necessarily meant to be Lich King. After Arthas died, a paladin by the name of Tirion Fordring was ready to take up the burden, as there must always be a Lich King, but instead Bolvar, who was badly injured by the Blight that a rebel undead had poured on them, and the flames of the red dragonflight that had neutralised the blight and were the only thing keeping him alive, said that he would instead. He said to Tirion to say only that the Lich King is dead, and that Bolvar Fordragon died with him. As a result very few people knew that there was a Lich King or that Bolvar was alive, not even his own daughter knew. He is significantly weaker because the majority of the Scourge (the undead forces under his control) was killed along with Arthas, and considering all the power that eyebrows has gained from the Jailer, she manages to defeat him pretty quickly.
When Bolvar goes from red to blue, it shows he is finally assuming control over the remaining Scourge. He then goes down to fight her. He even uses the iconic ability any Frost Desth Knight will recognise, Remorseless Winter. We see how he could take multiple arrows before being wounded, but when she uses her new powers to chain him down, not even he could escape, showing just how powerful she is. She steals the helm of Domination, the Veil between like and Death, and just when we think she’s going to put on and become the Lich King, she does the unthinkable and splits it in half, subsequently breaking the world’s veil between the Shadowlands.
Regarding your question of why it looks not as good as the other ones.
Blizzard makes three kinds of cinematics for Warcraft:
1. CGI cinematic trailers = Most of the time these are the expansion trailers (the excpetion being this expansion where they released two more like the one you saw at the end)
2. Cinematics using the in-game graphics, like the one you saw in "Negotiations"
3. Those comic-like animations used before an expansion releases for hype and to help newcomers or those that don't know the lore understand it better - which is also why they have so much exposition in them. (Started in Mists of Pandaria with the "Emperor's Burdens series")
So three types of cinematics with three different art-styles.
There is also the in-game cinematics that are used for the story in-game but I don't really count them because its just putting a cinema view to the character animation+voice acting (so a bit fo trickery form Blizzard to make it feel like a movie)
You were asking all the right questions HannaH. How does she have all that power indeed, in the lore she's just a slightly more powerful than regular Banshee, which are powerful beings alright, but technically can't resist the power of the Helm of the Lich King.
So that is essentially the fundamental question of the Storylines of Shadowlands expansion. Us who are keeping up with the Lore know, but officially it hasn't actually been fully explained.
Saurfang achieved martyrdom level and the city falls without a siege. Eyebrows destroyed the Lich King's Helmet rupturing the barrier. Think Greek mythology, she just defeated Cerberus and opened the gates to the Underworld. She said "this world is a prison" now everyone living and dead may move freely about the various planes. What could possible go wrong?
So the last one: the burning man (the guy in the trailer not the convention) was placed as king of zombies so that they wouldn't go full evil and destroy everything. She has evil darkness powers for reasons we don't totally understand (presumably we'll learn about that in a later reveal). Initially we're meant to think Eyebrows wants to use the crown to become queen of zombies, but instead she breaks it making that whole "veil between life and death" thing more literal than before. She breaks a massive hole in the sky and the weird dark reflection we see is supposed to be the world of the dead. When first watching it you're not really supposed to know what it is, it's supposed to be a massive =O moment, as everything seemed like it was leading towards her becoming zombie queen and instead all this happens.
There's also some weird inconsistencies here that they had to fix with some awkward retcons. Don't worry if this clashes with your understanding of other wow story stuff, just defer to your previous understanding for the most part.
I agree that a boobplate is unpractical, but all weapons and armors in WOW are unpractical. Why a dude would want to wear those masive shoulders? it's just for the sake of making models that look cool, it's just the stethic of WOW and they did it right in that sense, it's an stethic that's recognizable.
So the deal with boobie armor isn't that it can direct blows into the chest, because that's not really an issue with full armor. That WOULD be an issue if it was some half ass armor like we keep seeing where the top of the chest is completely exposed, though. If a woman was in pull head to toe plate and the armor was shaped more formed to fit the figure of a woman it wouldn't have any more or less practicality to it than men in the same type of armor. A sword or spear isn't going through plate armor anyway. Those are thrusting and slashing weapons which would be next to useless. I know way too much about IRL armor so sorry if this comes of as know it all-ish. To your main point, though, most armor in games is pretty damn unpractical. The main unpractical part of armor in games are things like size and gaps. Size for men would be things like massively over sized shoulder pieces that were never really in historical armor at all and come from a more modern style that puts value on large shoulders making them look big and strong. Back in the day, as strange is it sounds, men liked to have tiny waisted plate armor because that was the style. The issue with women's armor in games tends to be gaps. It can happen with men too but the men tend to have plate almost everywhere. Women? Christ, it's hit or miss. A strip or two of metal on your chest isn't going to prevent a damn thing, obviously. Some games try to say it's "enchanted" but we all know that's said with a wink and a nod. Gaps in armor was a serious issue IRL in history because while plate was very strong you could still hit someone where you can't put plate, or not put it easily. Armpits (there's an artery there), the groin (artery there), the neck (a couple ones there), and some other places depending on the type of armor. So if men wearing armor were at risk for those small gaps just imagine what a woman wearing two titty strips would be at risk for.
But no, that whole boob armor deflecting blows inward towards the chest doesn't really have any bearing on realistic or real life based armor. Making space for women's boobs in plate wouldn't be an issue IRL, even if it was heavily stylized, as long as everything was covered properly and it didn't deflect blows into gaps like the armpits or neck.
The undead (Forsaken) were denied as a "race" by the living even if they fought against the same enemies in life. Sylvanas is "mean" because she doesn't care about the living. When she died the 2nd time (after the Lich King was defeated) she found only suffering in the afterlife and she came back (resurrected) and swore to protect her people. They will kill anyone who stands against them (horde or alliance). Most of the undead don't know what happens in the afterlife and they don't understand Sylvanas's actions. We don't either, but we will see in this next expansion ;)
Look the another 2 warbringers too please. There are another amazing characters: the first is Jaina, who is a powerful mage ruclips.net/video/Fo7XPvwRgG8/видео.html and the another is Azshara, queen badass crazy bi@#$_ XD but she is amazing ruclips.net/video/hndyTy3uiZM/видео.html
She can't go to the therapy :D Basically she became "Banshee", because that guy with that sword wanted to make her suffer, and won't grant her "sweet" death, also want her to serve him. Then she freed herself from his will and found her body. She became undead, later known as forsaken. Gathered more like her and came back to alliance, her people. But as human nature is, they refused them cause now, they were dead - monsters. She is hot and stuff in those cinematic videos :D but they rot, have maggots in their body etc. They can't reproduce or regenerate obviously, so they have to repair themselves (she can get resurrected by Valkyrs, what happened few times, but Valkyr have to sacrifice itself while doing so). And they can't feel anything, only pain, anger, basically only bad emotions. If they try to heal, they'll come to sense, feel a lot of physical pain, smell their own rotten meat etc. and they'll go crazy and die. So they don't to that. Its told that when she speaks, you can see and hear skin around her mouth crack. It seems like its not possible to live around those forsaken. Even if you would like to. If someone is truly in love with an undead, they have to become one. Plus every undead or forsaken have urges to make the others feel like they feel what makes them sadistic :D they have to do it from time to time to feed their hunger for death.
The difference between Uther's soul being split and Sylvanas being "corrupted" shall we say, is a difference in the action taken by the Lich King once he had killed them.
In Uther's case, Arthas was going to steal his soul for it to be sealed inside his sword, Frostmourne. There, Uther's soul would suffuse through the sword, and his soul would be tormented by taking part in its atrocities. His soul was only split by Frostmourne attempting to seal his soul within the blade, and Uther's prayer to the light to save his soul, attempting to send him to the shadowlands.
Sylvanas however was turned into a banshee, and forced to do the Lich King's bidding by compulsion of the blade (essentially she was turned into the version of a zombie her race takes.)
She doesn't hate and want to kill the Night Elves because the sword made her a jerk. Her motivation is control, because she will literally be sent to hell if she dies, and thus has made a deal with the actual devil.
You're correct about the "female" brestplate armor. It's impractical and pointless. A woman could just wear the same thing as a man and still be protected and "comfortable."
You stated in your other video about Jaina and Azshara that you don't want us telling you about the characters. So you should read up on Sylvanas Windrunner's history who she was while alive and who she became after being raised into undeath.
The thing is, from those trailers and videos alone, no one will ever get the full story. Even from what is told in the game itself, there is so much lore missing. That is why there are over 20 Books and Novellas, many short storys on Blizzards Website, comics, audio dramas and there is still more to come with every years.
World of Warcraft is now 15 years old with Shadowlands being the eight expansion. And pretty much every book that has come out, has so much going on in it, that it could fill another expansion with content.
As story goes, the man Sylvanas fought in the last cinematic is named Bolvar Fordragon, who is actually a good guy. The lore of Warcraft is super expansive and hard to even fathom grasping in the form of these cinematic shorts. Basically, the prior Lich King, Arthas, was a paladin prince who was tempted towards darkness by the original Lich King, which was a spirit trapped within a suit of armor and a crown. Eventually Arthas put the armor on himself and became one with it, ruling over an army of undead known as the scourge. Years later when we defeat Arthas in game it becomes apparent that without someone to control the scourge they would go wild and wreak havoc on the world.
Bolvar, who was taken captive by Arthas and tortured via dragon fire (hence his burnt appearance) offers to wear the crown and take control of the scourge himself as he feels the mortal world will no longer welcome or comfort him. Essentially sacrificing himself in order to keep the scourge at bay. Sylvanas taking the crown and ripping it in half essentially destroyed the Lich King outright, and she is doing it as part of a bargain she made with a very powerful entity on another plain of existence. But, that would mean catching up to the current story and, risking spoilers.
fun fact; that tree eyebrows burnt down is actually LITERAL MILES away from the shore that those catapults are on. the tree is just really big so it looks close.
they knew what they wanted to have happen but weren't clever enough to write it out happening in a way that makes sense.
another fun fact; mak'gorah is a challenge for leadership where you are allowed one weapon and no magic... a mok'gorah has been
seen in the game 3 times and once in the movie, and in all 4 occasions someone has cheated.
I think btw that your confusion about characters etc is mainly because you started watching wow cinematics from the last expansion, jumping all the lore from the first wow and warcraft 3... I started watching all cinematics and it's more than 6 hours of video 😅
Not only impractical, but also very dangerous to wear armor. It is possible to make armor that look awesome but that is also practical and realistic. I prefer realistic and practical, but that's just my opinion.
At the end where you see the sky open up what happens is Sylvanas destroys the Lich King's crown (a very powerful artifact created by Legion with the soul of Ner'zhul an orc shaman and chieftain of ancient times).
And because the lich kings crown was imbued with control of possibly millions of undead creatures roaming the plaguelands and northrend continent and along with them their souls what happened is the veil between death and life got destroyed and entrance to Shadowlands appeared the land of where souls go after death.
What you are very missing in terms of story is Legions story as its the most crucial antagonist of all world of warcraft of all times since warcraft 1 game pretty much everything bad that happened can be attributed to Burning legion
I would recommend you watch warcraft 3 reforged cinematics before watching legions cinematics to know the backstory and to also watch the ingame cinematics of legion
You are absolutely right about the Armour. Especially Female fantasy armour is designed to look good ( mostly intended for teenage boys).
Rarely are they practical. Even the male armour is usually to big, flashy and often times just ridiculous.
There is a good reason we never had such kinds of armour in real life. Real life armour needs to be practical but usually also cheap.
And we have seen in history many times over that too much armour can be a huge disadvantage.
fyi, swords dont cut through plate armour. people in plate got killed by being knocked over, and having knives shoved in the joints mainly. You can try as hard as you want to put a sword through a metal breastplate, boob cup or not, its not going to go through.
I don't think Sylvanas (eyebrows) ever planned to be hit by attacks in the first place, so armor is kind of pointless for her, as is it for many of the other female characters that you've noticed. Some characters use robes for example, and robes don't work at all, so it's an inconsistent thing to only point out boobie plates despite how much I agree with you that a tunic or something would be better for the ladies anyways. That aside, a lot of the men barely wear armor as well.
What's interesting is that all those undead corpse-like people with the broken mask banner worshiped their awesome eyebrow queen like almost a goddess. But since she and her followers joined the Horde they of course gained Horde pride alongside undead eyebrow pride, especially when their queen became the leader (called Warchief) of the whole Horde. So when she spits on her own Horde it is really interesting to see that they understand that she fucked up and join the Horde against her. Still, their eternal queen abandoning them so must have deeply hurt. They literally had religions and cults with her image as the central figure.
Undeath... Is not fun. She's a banshee; numb to the comforts of life, unable to sleep, unable to live and troubled by the memories of her death. She's been consumed by her pain and rage for her failure to save her people, and even revenge against the Lich King who killed and resurrected her wasn't enough to sate it. For her, hope is an insult, all life ends. So now she's lashing out at the things she so desperately wants but can't have anymore. She burned down a tree full of night elves civilians and children to prove a point. Nothing is so sacred that it can't be burned down in front of your eyes.
A month late, but regarding the breast plate thing, its in fact completely wrong, you're guiding the sword to the best place to hit you, the thickest, most defended part of the armor, away from exposed joints and weakpoints, boobie armor is in fact better at protecting the wearer than regular armor, ad regular armor deflects right into those exposed armpits.
Arthas, previous lich king, slaughtered thousands over thousands and commands the dead to kill more than that, the players ended up killing him getting Bolvar a good guy (basically) to be the next lich king and Daelin was a second war Admiral who had a deep seated hatred for orcs and would kill them just because they were orcs, killing many even innocents of the horde. His sister gained the trust of the horde but then he went off to pillage and raid orc settlements all over the country without mercy
Just going to point out, "breast" plate could of been a real thing if more women actually went to war back then, it might funnel a sword, but a sword can't really penetrate steel either way... It's still hardened steel, even the plates the men wore had a bulge which funnel the weapons to the waist, which were layered and weaker than other places of the plate, but it's still hardened steel, a sword don't really do much at all against plate, you use blunt weapons against heavy armor, or daggers to hit the lesser protected areas such as neck or arm pits, "breast" plate would of been quite fine, now the two bulges might not of been what history would of made, but instead just lifted the bulge that were on armors so it would be on the chest rather than the tummy.
To answer your question about why the art was lower quality, it just came down to them not having enough time. Also, using in game graphics for scenes the players were actually involved with made it less jarring when one could talk to them afterwards and they looked exactly the same.
I know you have your own opinion but just out of history nerdiness that we seem to share, check out this one too for female armor specifically:
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A strike from a sword or any other weapon would never penetrate a real breast plate boob armour is fine. It is very common for armour to have decorative features and armour already had male fashion trends integrated into them. henry the 8ths armour is a classic example. I suspect if they actually made armour for women historically they may have eventuated the breasts much like medieval dresses did.
For people that have not played WOW, the challenge is that there are so many years of story to go through. The videos in general are great , but there is so much gap between the videos. If there are key videos and in game content that is important, it would be warcraft 3, that is the main story to watch to give background.
As to your point about Armour. It really depends on who is wearing it. Trained archers (like how Sylvanas started out as) tend to think the best defense is to not get hit in the first place, so they go for form fitting light Armour they can move quickly in.
I agree with your point if they are bulky warriors that tend to like their combat up close and take a lot of hits.