FFXIV Player Reacts to WoW "Warbringers: Azshara" Cinematic
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- čas přidán 27. 06. 2024
- Thanks for tuning into Part Six of my World of Warcraft experience.
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Catch the original clip at • Warbringers: Azshara :) - Hry
Happy to see a new player excited about the lore !
To clarify a bit, what you saw there happened 10000 years ago in the old Night Elf Empire when Azeroth was still one big continent. Azshara made a deal with the Dark Titan Sargeras to be his concubine and get power for herself and her servants in exchange of summoning Sargeras to Azeroth and dooming the world. Plan backfired when the Eternity Well used for the summoning was destroyed and caused the Great Sundering which broke the world in pieces and that's why the city was being sunk.
When she found herself under the seas, the one who offer her a new deal was N'zoth, an Old God (lovecraftian deities basically) who offered to prevent her death in exchange for her service. She negociated as you saw and N'zoth transformed her and her people into Nagas who could now live under water.
But Old Gods are incredibly clever and manipulative so she didn't really win the bargain, and in the end N'zoth got himself a slave who could call herself a queen and an army to boot.
Well said, but don't forget that she was also plotting against him too!
she wasn;t the queen of night elves wtf, Azshara was the queen of highborn elves. only after they split into different type of elves.
@@dabbie2700 "Highborne elves" are night elves.
"Highborne" is a social status, it was what the nobility of the empire called themselves.
N'Zoth needed her just as much as Azshara needed N'zoth so saying that he tricked her is just plain wrong. She bargained to buy herself more time, hence why she has been plotting against him since the beginning of the "partnership". He probably knew she would try to betray him at some point but that doesn't change the fact that their relationship was pretty symbiotic.
This cinematic showcases really well how the Old Gods work. N'Zoth clearly sees that Azshara has ego issues and uses her vanity against her by letting her call herself the queen, while the Old God is completely above this. He doesn't care if she thinks she won, in the end she will do what he wants, even though she doesn't want to admit it. It's like the quote from Game of Thrones: "If you have to tell people that you're the king, you're not really the king."
"mermaid people??"
NAGA PLEEEEZ
lmao
They're essentially just mermaid people.
Win.
Ten THOUSAND years ago, the Night Elf Queen made a deal with the demons and regretted it immediately, so she made a new deal with an evil space squid and became Ursula from the Little Mermaid.
Actually, she only regretted it when she realized she wasn't going to be able to marry the Demon Titan Sargeras and be queen of the Universe. That was her plan. Only reason it wasn't completely idiotic is because she was powerful to the point where many of the demons feared her, even before her change.
The implication before and kinda clarified by the wabringers vid was that she and her people no choice, after the sundering... she did seem to kinda accept her death for a minute before n'zoth reached out like that. Would have been better for her to nobly accept her death peacefully, but yeah you're right, she cray so.... XD
you nailed it XD
@@henrywahl5633 Well Azshara was always obsessed with herself just as much as the night elf population was, even after how she betrayed her own race and the entire planet to Sargeras, I could at least respect that she would rather die than be queen and basically cucked an old god into saving her, but it was all to N'zoth's benefit. I would say Azshara was evil even before Sargeras ever contacted her. She was an absent and manipulative queen and the night elves devotion to her was unnatural.
I love the "mer...maid... people?" reaction! Female naga kinda look like how I pictured sea monkeys as a kid
Yesss! Me too!
Ok a bit of story time:
Azshara was the queen of the Night Elves, over ten thousand years ago. She was one of the most power beings in the world of Azeroth. I mean, how wouldn't she? She drank from the Well of Eternity everyday: a well of inifinite magic power. But the constant use of that magic power, drew the attention of an entitity known as Sargeras, a titan bent on ending the life in all the universe, or turning everybody to join his legion.
Queen Azshara made a deal with Sargeras in exchange for even more power (she is adicted to power as you can see here... to her, power equals beauty), the deal? She would use the Well of Eternity itself to open a portal for Sargeras and his armies of demons. But something went wrong... due to the intervention of some heroes : Tyrande, Malfurion, Illidan (all of the night elves) and an orc known as Broxxigar. The Well of Eternity exploded, fracturing the world, and splitting the land mass into the continents we have now, and that's why that that city you see there, sank into the ocean (the city formerly know as Zin-Azshari (Glory of Azhsara)). That's the deal she meant when she said "this was not the deal".
N'zoth, an old god imprisioned way before these events happened, had been seeing all of this. He then offered Azshara power, and well... pretty much the ability to not die drown... In exchange, he needed Azshara to help him ennact his plan to release himself from his prission. So she turned her and her people into what we know now as "nagas"...
Naz'jatar is THAT city you see in the video, or what is left of it. You can see the very place where Azshara tried to stop the waters in there. In this xpac (BfA) is when Queen Azhara finaly puts in action her plans. SPOILER AHEAD - She planned to releaze N'zoth, but just to kill him at the very moment she releazed him. Tho this failed and N'zoth takes her to Nyalota. where WE finish him off.
On a side note: while the Nagas appear constantly ever since vanilla wow, Azshara herself has only appeard in game twice:
The 1st time, in a dungeon called Well of Eternity, where you travel to the past to the well to steal a magical device. She appears as a night elf, as the explosion of the well literaly happens after you leave the dungeon! She was also untouchable due to a magical barrier. In the dungeon they make it obvious she is way more powerful then you are at the moment and that nothing you do can even hurt her.
The 2nd time was as a magical proyection during the expansion "Legion" where she appears as a dark shadow, that looks like a Naga, but they don't show you her real form (that is only revealed in BFA) and when the character we are helping does not recognize her, she then transforms from that dark shadow to her Night Elf appearance. The spirit we are helping then attacks her, and even tho he is way more powerful then you are at the moment, he can't do nothing to her either.
Azshara is one of the very few ancient legends in the game that is still alive. Most of the original lore villains are already dead, or defeated, even Sargeras has been imprisioned...
Its a small wall of text, but yeah, that's about right.
Just to add to the end: Azshara also appears in Cataclysm at the end of the Darkshore questline. She taunts Malfurion how he wasted his time saving Darkshore when her allies (Ragnaros) were sieging Mt. Hyjal. This is usually not memorable because Azshara has a standard Naga Sea Witch model.
My main man Broxxigar. Dude's sent in the past, see a big demon and say to himself : "Yes. I'm gonna die killing that".
How could you forget to mention my boys Rhonin and Korialstrasz/Krasus
@@Kinatsuxiv Well, they were there, just the ones that were more directly involved with the Well's explosion were Illidan's group :)
War of the Ancients is one of my favorite events in WoW lore, but if i were to detail everything that happens there and every notable character, we'd be here for days lol.
"this is pretty, i dont recall going to a place like this..." *camera pans over to show huge ass tidalwave* me: "and there we have the reason why"
Ya, she's the end boss of the raid Eternal Palace in Nazjatar , she's been a character in the background story of the game since the original launch of the game 16 years ago and finally came to be seen in game with BFA. Any Naga you see anywhere in the world, essentially, are all under her command.
"I don't recall going to a place like this"
in the background huge wave
Just binged your WoW videos, thanks, need you to react to every cinematic now XP
On it!
Love your WoW reactions, keep it up!
Thank you!
That is Azshara from Nazjatar. she is probably one of the most interesting characters in wow lore. she was the queen of the Elves before the burning legion invaded, she made a deal to MARRY Sargaras, the leader of the legion, in return for access to Azeroth. That was the deal she was supposed to have made. that went bad, world flooded and broken, she then forces an old god to make a deal with her and give her power. she is. badass.
Most people didn't mention about that, and I find that really interesting:
Azshara _IS_ the most powerful Mage character from Azeroth atm... And she scaped from us claiming that: “The true throne of power beckons, and I intend to claim it.”
So ye, she is crazy evil and powerful.
But, what I found most interesting about that cinematic is that it solves one of the most curious whispers from the Puzzle Box of Yogg-Saron: "At the bottom of the ocean even light must die
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The drowned god's heart is black ice."
Night Elves born with golden eyes are destined for greatness, and Azshara was called "the light of lights" by her people because of that.
Notice how her eyes turn off at 3:59
I mean she was, she is kind of super dead now.
@@kingofheavymetal disagree big time... She was Sargeras powerlevel when she tried to summon the Legion. She only became stronger since. 10k years gathering strenght and knowledge. Obv she took a heavy hit, but she still strong AF.
@@t4lco Yeah, what I'm saying he that, she WAS super strong, but she is not anymore since she is DEAD haha.
@@kingofheavymetal She's not dead. The fuck are you talking about? Did you even go to Nyalotha? We freed her from her torture, she gave us Xal'atath, opened a Void portal and fucked off to somewhere... We will be seeing her again, probably whenever we'll have to deal with the Void Lords.
She was queen of the Night Elves before making a deal with the burning legion that allowed for the demons to invade Azeroth. When the sundering happened she made a deal with N'zoth and all those Night Elves became Naga. Also Nazjatar is where she is in BFA.
Going back and watching these, dude battle for azeroth was HYPE
Too bad it fell on its face
its very refreshing seeing someone who doesnt know the lore try and understand it, its very cool to see you on this little road of exploration, as a warcraft 3 player since 02 it was like a almost 16/17 year wait to find out how the nelfs of the war of the acients turned into the naga.
Aussie? Love this vid gona check out more of yours!
''whatever she's queen of, she didn't save it'' woah, you have no idea but that was a major burn
i have to admit, this one is one of the better vids of WoW - that mood, chilling
Since you said that you're playing through Nazjatar:
The city that you see in this cinematic *is* the city of Zin-Azshari, which is the ruined city that you see in Nazjatar.
Also would 100% recommend playing both factions, if you don't already! So much story is missed if you just play one side or the other and so many fan favorite characters are faction exclusive.
There’s a great video by Hidden Azeroth called The (almost) Complete history of world of Warcraft. It’s 23 minutes but a great watch for you to catch up to (and us see you react to)
There is a novel series for this event! You should definitely watch it. You'll see Malfurion, Tyrande, Illidan, Cenarius and his gang of demigods along with the Dragonflight Aspects fight against the first invasion of the Burning Legion and Queen Azshara. It's a good read. For a time, the Night Elves had the thickest plot armor but got nerfed when BFA arrived.
There are a lot more of these kinds of animated shorts, they did a bunch for every expansion since MoP, you should watch them they're great.
Afterlives is for the upcoming Shadowlands expansion, Warbringers was for BFA, Harbingers for Legion, Lords of War for Warlords of Draenor, and Burdens of Shaohao for Mists of Pandaria.
I’m in love with your reaction videos🥰 YOU GO GIRL! :3 one more sub xD
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"Is she evil?" - I mean evil is kinda subjective. Does serving the interest of our tentacle overload make you evil? I would gladly serve the will of the Old Gods if given the option. Does that make me evil? Perhaps a little...
All she wanted was power, thats why she was so easily seduced by Sargeras and N'Zoth was her last chance to survive and start "new". Power-thirsty af without looking left and right
And before the old gods she had a pact with the demon from space who search to destroy everything, not the kindest queen in history.
your reaction looks real , despite tons and so many tons and loads of wow reactors : dear ... plz keep it on , your reactions are so well and charismatic and encourages us to keep watch in it all , well done
Shorter version: Queen of the Kaldorei during the War of the Ancients ten thousand years before Warcraft 1. Very vain and powerful. Made a deal with the Burning Legion and sold out her people to demons BASICALLY. Was remade along with her "Highborne" into the first naga. NOT a good guy originally, uncertain now.
More detail:
The Well of Eternity
After a massive artificial magical lake called the Well of Eternity was left on Azeroth by the Titans after their war with the Old Gods the creatures around it began to rapidly evolve. From that came the Zandalari and their lower castes evolved differently and broke off to form their own empires. One of those empires (Dark Trolls) settled on the borders of the well and evolved further into the Kaldorei (night elves). Unfortunately, over millennia the Well of Eternity drew the attention of Sargeras (Dark Titan, Lord of the Burning Legion) who could not physically traverse the universe to get to Azeroth and didn't exactly know where in the physical universe it was located anyway. The Well was used to create a portal powerful enough to first pull lower then higher ranking demons in from the Burning Legion in their first invasion of Azeroth.
Azshara
She first ACTUALLY APPEARED in the book trilogy Warcraft: War of the Ancients: The Well of Eternity by Richard Knaak (The other two being The Demon Soul and The Sundering). She was first mentioned in WoW I believe. While the War of the Ancients and a lot of events tied to that were first mentioned in Warcraft 3 I don't recall if she was mentioned by name. She was very vain to the point that when her Highborne came into contact with Sargeras and the Legion she accepted an offer to cleanse the world of the "lesser" people and races including the lower caste of her own society and basically anything not Kaldorei. She also believed he would marry her and make her a god.
The Sundering
Sargeras couldn't move through the first portal formed from the Well so more Highborne were made to channel the Well into a giant vortex that would allow his full Titan form to pass through with his true intent to destroy Azeroth. When Malfurion Stormrage and the Kaldorei resistance became aware of this Malfurion lead them to destroy the Well of Eternity. Unfortunately due to the extreme amount of spellwork and complex matrix of magics involved and how far the vortex had already formed as well as a few other circumstances they unknowingly caused the Well to implode upon itself splitting the continent of Kalimdor into the continents we have now. This event was known as the Great Sundering of Azeroth.
Immortality and Imprisonment
Before the Sundering a former sorcerer of the Moon Guard turned demon hunter Illidan Stormrage (Malfurion's twin) drew 7 magical vials of water from the Well. Three were used to create a new, smaller, less powerful Well of Eternity in Hyjal. This and his joining the Legion with the intent to betray them (unknown to his jailers) saw the Kaldorei imprisoning him for ten thousand years within the Barrow Deeps or Barrow Dens. The Red Dragon Aspect and Queen of the Dragons Alexstrazsa planted a world tree in the Well to shield it from misuse, mask it and prevent it from gaining more power called Nordrassil and blessed it and the night elves with a stronger life force. The Green Dragon Aspect Ysera blessed it so that the night elf druids could use nature's power more easily and walk the Emerald Dream easier. Finally, the Bronze Dragon Aspect Nozdormu blessed the tree to link the night elves spirits to the eternal world making them immortal. Two of the vials were tracked down by players and looted from Kael'thas Sunstrider and Lady Vashj who were raid bosses in The Burning Crusade expansion in 2007/2008. The Bronze Dragonflight has them now. One is missing...Though it is speculated Illidan may have used it to create the Reliquary of Souls in The Black Temple back when he was a raid boss in 2.1 Burning Crusade.
Consequences and the High Elves
So the Highborne were split into a few groups. Azshara and her Highborne are basically why arcane magic was banned in night elf society by Malfurion and Tyrande for ten thousand years. Most struggles and tragic events in Warcraft's history are the result of mortals playing with arcane or fel magic. So they exiled any Highborne found for their reckless abuse of the arcane who then sailed east to find whatever fate awaited them in the new oceans filling most of the world. They happened upon Tirisfal Glades in what would later become the Eastern Kingdoms mainly the area that would be the human Kingdom of Lordaeron much later. Their leader at this time Dath'Remar Sunstrider had stolen one of the vials from the Well of Eternity which he used at a ley line nexus (a certain spot where currents of magic flowing through a planet converge) to create the Sunwell. They renamed themselves to Quel'dorei or high elves and founded the city of Silvermoon and the Kingdom of Quel'thalas.
Naga, Shendra'lar, and Nightborne
The Highborne closest and most loyal to Azshara and other Kaldorei who sank to the depths with her were transformed into the naga by N'zoth. Another group known as the Shen'dralar went into hiding in an area called Eldre'Thalas (Dire Maul) on the western remnant of the continent still called Kalimdor. Here they secretly battled leftover Legion forces that weren't pulled back into the Well of Eternity when it imploded (most Legion forces were). The last group was written in with the expansion Legion in 2016 and created their Nightwell on another ley line nexus in the remains of a Kaldorei city Suramar which is also where Tyrande Whisperwind is originally from. The Nightwell changed them further into the Shal'dorei or Nightborne.
In Game
In 2010 the Cataclysm expansion introduced new race/class combinations and lore to support some of them. For night elf mages (which people who didn't know their story hated but was totally fine since they were the FIRST mortal arcane users on Azeroth) the Shen'dralar offered their aid to the night elves of Teldrassil and their Alliance and were welcomed back into night elf society to call Darnassus their home. BOOM we got mages that can Shadowmeld. OP if you like being a sneaky mage. :D Also she has only been a raid boss 10-30 player in Battle for Azeroth. Other versions of her used other models where she had brief cameos. One even used the model of a different naga boss who was once her handmaiden named Lady Vashj.
Retcons!!!
Azshara was originally an irredeemable bitch but with Blizzard rewrites these days who knows. In the original telling of the Sundering from the War of the Ancients books she totally calls out for anything to please save her and begs Sargeras to help her as she sinks (he's gone at this point) and THEN the Old Gods answer, not one but all. The scene isn't as in depth though so that and the fact that most people haven't read the novels and don't pay attention to lore or are new is probably why they made this Warbringer for her which I do LOVE (those drums amirite?). Also pretty sure originally the Zandalari and other trolls evolved from the Dark Trolls and then one of those sub races evolved into night elves. Certain lore like this used to be kept purposely more muddy so there was more mystery of origins on some things but nowadays they like to shine a big blinding light into every mysterious dark corner of the lore. Some disagree with this as some chunks of more primordial cosmic lore and origins being more muddy let them keep spinning new things from the unknown so to speak. This is more of a write in than a retcon but when we last saw her she claims she planned on betraying N'zoth all along and gives us the dagger Xal'atath which he is vulnerable to. I think people just want to redeem her because "Yas queen!" which is fine I guess but I liked her being a genuinely despicable villain like Gul'dan. Far too many of the villains in Warcraft are "once noble, fallen to corruption" or get a slight redemption of some kind. I guess everyone has their motive though?
Quirky Bits
I see a lot of reactors give the same take when they hear "tasted your essnce" I don't think he means what most people think he means. He's touched her mind. He can see through time and reality to some extent and read minds. In that sense he's tasted her ambitions and knows what kind of soul she is, useful. Also, they do this "Hah she got em'!" thing but if you know the Old Ones from H.P. Lovecraft's writings you know that everyone is technically eventually playing into their hands and since the Old Gods are inspired from that a bit, well I guess he got what he wanted out of her really. Some of this stuff you might not find out because most of the current raids are about to be obsolete but hey. You can always go back and solo them 10 levels higher with gear from the next expansion! (TRANSMOGGGG!)
Pretty sure she's still a villain... She left us with a "I'm going to seize the true seat of power". Not very "friendly"...
@@gerardlacroix6015 Yeah I hope so. I like the few genuinely despicable villains Warcraft and WoW have. I like the tragic ones too but there is a bit of overflow in the "unfortunate, corrupted or misunderstood villains" category.
I strongly suggest that you also watch the in-game cutscenes as future will reference events from that *and* it allows you te see how the disparity between the Alliance and Horde is coming to be.
If you would like, I could create a playlist for you~
the deal she made was with Sargeras the master of the demons and that break the world and the destuction of her capital city (and most of her empire) by sea. such a nice queen
Warbringers: Azshara is my f a v o r i t e of the Warbringers. The moving stills style seemed to fit the elegance and dramatism of her story very well.
I loved your reaction!!!
Yes! I feel it made it feel more intense. Especially with the music.
@@GalaxyAUS those drums and vocals hold so much power over me 😩😂
Azshara is shown pretty briefly throughout WoW, but she's seen a lot more in Legion and even more in Battle for Azeroth. To confirm what you asked about Nazjatar, she is the main evil lady there :)
The leveling system is a lot better for new players now, you can follow one expansion until the end. I'm glad you're having fun! Though I've heard you get randomly teleported out at lvl 50 which is a bit odd, I hope they change that, 'cause then you may not see the full story :(
Yes that was the evil lady from Nazjatar
Next you should watch Battle for Azeroth "Safe Haven" followed by "Reckoning". These will lead you up to Shadowlands cinematic and the four Afterlives videos. I'm really looking forward to more of your reactions. And yes she is from Nazjatar.
After a Old God was rippt out of Azeroth by a Titan there was a wound where the essenz of the world soul was bleeding out. This was pure arcane energy and the wound was named well of eternity and the beeings arround the well startet to get powerfull. Azshara was (is) one of the most powerfull mages in the world of warcraft lore. She used the power of the well and declared it to the privilege of the Night Elf empire (Zin´Azshari = Heart of Azshara). Night Elfs didnt like each other (the poor and the rich thing just with power) but all loved Azshara. They used the well and over time it waves of power stardet to reach Sargeras (former Titan of the Pantheon now leader of the burning Legion) and he wanted to destroy Azeroth, becaus it was infected with old gods (minions of the Void Lords, beeings so powerfull nothing can kill them but they can destroy everything). But because Titans are beeings bigger than planets he couldnt get there fast so he gave a servant of Azshara (Xavius) a vision, he told her that they would get more power than they could ever imagine and all the lesser creatures would be wipet ou so the Night Elfs would be the only species. Azshara liked that thought and made the well into a portal to get the burning Legion and Sargeras to Azeroth. After the Demons (burning Legion) started to attack all living things (incloding lesser Night Elfs) a few of the Night Elf started a offens against the Legion and Azshara.
The following things would be far to complicated to explain because the War of the Ancients itself is three books long, but the Legion was pusht back and the whole continent was rippt apart (thats why the tsunami was there in the beginning).
Im sorry for my bad english but if you want to know the lore of WoW just watch some vidios from Nobbel87 he explains everything.
This is my second favorite cinematic ingame, off to check your account if my favorite is there :D
edit: aww you havent. Its the Rejection of Gift.
Azshara reminds me of an old school Disney villain. The women in these games are so damn compelling and interesting it's really one of my favorite aspects of Warcraft lore.
2:15 close your eyes and let your imagination run wild
A new Warcraft Reacter!
Hello, and you're cool and sweet!
Have seen other Warcraft reaction from you! and it's cool to see soneone so happy.
But, to understand the Warcraft Lore and so on. I prefer to react to Warcraft from beginning in Warcraft 3, and then you work you up to World of Warcraft through all expansions with plenty of Cinematics, trailers and Lores
It's cool to se you starting on BFA, you doing the right way.
Here is the list I made in Orde for BFA, you find all this on youtube. You have seen some of the first ones, and then the next is Turn the Tide, comes after BFA trailer.
Warbringer Sylvanas
Warbringer Jaina
Old Soldier
Battle For Azeroth Trailer
Turn the Tide
Lordaeron Throne Room Confrontation - Horde
Lordaeron Throne Room Confrontation - Alliance
Lost Honor
Jaina's Nightmare
Arrival to Kul Tiras - Alliance
Realm Of Torment
The Return of Hope: Kul Tiras
Arrival to Zandalar - Horde
Rastakhan's Deal with Bwonsamdi
The Threat Within: Zandalar
Battle of Dazar'alor Intro Cinematic
Battle of Dazar'alor Ending Cinematic
Tyrande and Anduin ingame Discussion
Tyrande's The Night Warrior Cutscene
Terror of Darkshore
An Unexpected Reunion
Warbringer Queen Azshara
Rise of Azshara
Azshara's Eternal Palace Ending
Safe Haven
Crossroads
The Negotiation
Reckoning
Visions of N'Zoth intro Cinematic
Ny'alotha Ending Cinematic
Blood War Epilogue Horde
Blood War Epilogue Alliance
Everytime I hear N'Zoth say "I am a God" I think of Dinaplays and how she literally broke into tears. Blizz can make good stuff when they think competently.
Laenthis
described it pretty well, but to add to that, basically she was power hungry and didn't care who got hurt in the process of her getting more power.
And you see her in the introduction to Nazjatar and you also see the ruins of this city in that zone.
This exchange occurred well over 10000 years ago in the Warcraft mythos. Azshara (the elf here) is known best for three things: Being one of the most (if not the most) powerful mortal magi in history, being incredibly beautiful and being incredibly vainglorious.
Azshara was queen of the night elves back when their civilization was at their absolute peak and can be attributed with being the sole reason the Burning Legion ever set its eye on Azeroth and for shattering the once pangea-like continent of Kalimdor into the modern landmasses.
She was the queen of the Night Elves for a 1000 years before an old god woke up and destroyed her kingdom by bringing down the wrath of water on the city. He wanted to enslave her and rebuild his empire. But she is not just any queen, she is the queen of Night Elves and she knows how to use her powers. So she struck a deal that, She will build an army with her people and conquer lands with him,but as a queen not as a slave. The old god agreed to the deal and since now her entire city is under water and now her people have to live underwater, he made them aquaticly capable to live underwater.
With the WoW reactions, you really really really need to see Reckoning. When Saurfang calls out Sylvanas. It's basically the starting point for heading into Shadowlands. Then after that you need to watch the Shadowlands Cinematic Trailer. See just how badass Sylvanas is and why Shadowlands is where we all go.
This might help to show how powerful Queen Azshara was. In her D&D incarnation, she had to cast a bunch of spells every day to avoid taking constitution damage because she had SO much magical power. Like Imagine if Vivi was so powerful that NOT casting spells would kill him
Wait there’s WoW characters in D&D? 😳
(I’m also not a D&D player hahahaha)
@@GalaxyAUS they made warcraft books for a d20 system, they are awesome. The Titans and all the Ancients have stat blocks
It´s really intresting that such a powerful name as Azshara is so well known really if u think about it. Azshara have always been a total mystery, we have some small bits here and there but apart from this cinematic there is very little confirmed lore about her, Her name have shown up in various places over the course of wow history but thats all there ever was, just a name. over the last 10,000 years there are very few feats to her and even if there are rumors they are just that wide speculative rumors, Yet still her name has survived over the course of history as among the most powerful mages on Azeroth.
The lore is knitted like an endless carpet. That's why Wow is so powerful ... many individual characters with a backstory. You are practically playing a book.....even WoW veterans don't know everything.
It's always good to seen new people coming to the game even now that its passing for rough time, but the only thing that I recommned you, that is a normal rookie mistake, Its just play with one faction since as the achievement for play in both factions says there is "two side to every tale". Personally I love completly the Horde but there is stuff you only get one side of the picture if you dont play the other faction.
Especially now on BfA they tried to make more people to play alliance so they divided the info in three half one side of the info on the perspective of the alliance, other from the Horde Sylvanas Loyalist and other from the Horde Saurfang Supporters.
That one Lady you meant is Vashj.
and Azshara was not necessarily evil, but in the face of the circumstances, she ended up doing
I don't know, I'd consider someone who takes a positive view towards wiping out the "lesser" races and even the "lesser" members of their own race in order to advance the "worthy" members of their own to be pretty evil... Vashj and Azshara were two peas in a very evil pod, both vain and in possession of an insatiable thirst for power.
Haha. This was unexpectedly deep. In this cinematic, specifically, they let us the impression that her deal saved her own people. But yes, each one of the WoW characters who has been pursuing even more power had a similar outcome (raid bosses), within the scope of corruption consequences.
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Check out the book War of the Ancients to find out about the original deal she made with Sargeras
"Is she Evil?" XD
Are you still streaming ? Or did you just play in your own time ? Loved your leveling streams.
I’ve been playing in my own time! I have taken a bit of a break on streaming the past couple weeks. Hoping to get back into it this week!
Oh lord... Warcraft has an IMMENSE history and storyline. There's way too much to answer Azsharas own storyline in just a youtube comment. If you are a gamer I highly recommend buying Warcraft 3 and playing through in story mode (easiest difficulty mainly to just experience the story). You will get a lot of the characters backstory or just help you understand the universe a whole lot more.
They probably should have said that this happened 10,000 years ago like they did in the Warlords Of Draenor cinematic
Basically an elf queen made a deal with demons that went South and had to make a deal with Cthulu in order to save her people
I always loved this one. Seeing two very manipulative minds battling each other with words. But still aszhara was a fool to think she could manipulate the god of manipulation. N'zoth still got what he wanted. During the illusion the attempt to kill her was just a way to change her mind and make a deal. If he truly wanted her dead after saying no, then could have just let her drown.
Azshara made a deal with Sargeras to cleanse the world of all the lesser races, but he tricked her to "open the door" to Azeroth for the Burning Legion. The legions arrival is the start of "the War of the Ancients" (big story). All this happened 10'000 years ago. The wave you see at the start of this one, is the effect of an event called "the Sundering" (end of War of Ancients). And the "dude" she making a deal with in this one, is N'zoth, one of the Old Gods.
And the "Mermaids" are The Naga, Azharas people. Nazjatar is the empire she creates after the deal with N'zoth.
So what was it called before the sundering? I assumed it was always called nazjatar, even then.
@@darth-imperius Well, the maelstrom is where the Well of Eternity was. As it exloded, it created the Rift, and in its center the Maelstrom. Where Suramar and the city actually were placed pre sundering (now the Broken Isles) even Blizzard don't seem to know. As the Well's explosion is supposed to have dragged Suramar into the maelstrom. But the Naga built their capital Nazjatar on the seafloor under the maelstrom (or slighty east).
@@BerishStarr it would make sense for that city she ruled to have always been called nazjatar, cause she was in the city when the waves drowned everything around her (the city in the cinematic) and that is where she and all the other elves, now naga, still are, except ofc it is all a ruin as a result of that event and all the time that has gone by. Suramar must have been far enoght away from that point since it is still intact, having been protected by a powerful forcefield in the meantime for a few thousand years, and they made the nightwell as a replacement, which again drew the attention of the legion. And elisande was going to sell them out just like azshara did with the people of najzatar back then.
She made a deal to summon a powerful demon army in exchange for limitless power. It didn't work out, and she accidentally broke the world in to continents, ended her empire, split her people, and generally things went south.
if you like this style of cinematic, you should watch the harbingers series from legion, they are quite good too. and obviously all the different expansion cinematics.
"Is this my fault?" YES, Yes it is.
New subscriber here. You are the cutest thing ever, haha. Lore nooblet! :) Love your videos!
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"Is she evil..." yeah no yeah, she is like 2000^2000% evil
She´s just extremely narcissistic queen with god complex that would sacrifice every single one of her citizen... Idk where I was going with this
@@josefplacek4200 Yeah she probably evil :)
As someone who has played a shadow priest since BC, I love the old gods and my classes connection to the old gods and the void, as well as how the void is understood in the world of Warcraft universe. Void is definitely my choice and this video is one of my top favorites by far. As it was the birth of the Naga. And Azshara is definitely evil, but not in the typical sense, she is just like your stereotypical ruler who is selfish and uses people to further her own ends and of course is self centered and greedy. She sacrificed her own people for power, that should tell anyone all they need to know about her.
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These are great Videos. However I am surprised that no one in the comments had pointed you to a youtuber named Nobble87 , who is the CZcams WoW Lore Master anything and everything you want to know about Lore will be found there. Dont stop making these Videos But for your full understanding without taking years to learn it in bit and pieces Nobble87 is the Lore Master you are looking for .
What's the deleted video in the playlist about?
Azshara was queen of the kaldorei or night elves she was part of the quel'dorei or highborne sect as at the time status was judged by your magical powers azshara was the most magically gifted and most powerful magic user among the night elves, due to the destruction arcane magic caused the remaining quel'dorei were banished by the night elves they eventually became the high elves who in turn split in to many other elf groups over time, to put it simply the night elves are the original elves who evolved from the dark trolls all other elves and elven sub species like satyr come from them or are a sub group of a sub group.
she is technically the queen of all elves
It is hard to know what's happening in this video without deep knowledge on the lore, most people probably don't know what it is about.
A bit of history on the world of Azeroth:
*-Ancient times:* the world was ruled by the Black Empire. 4 Old Gods ruled the world with their forces of the void. Old Gods are heavily inspired in Lovecraft mythos.
*-Not so ancient times:* Titans came from the space while ordering planets and removing void infestations from them. They arrived to Azeroth and removed the Old Gods from power, their forces were maimed and they imprisoned three of them (C'Thun, Yogg Saron, N'Zoth), and literally killed another one (Y'shaarj). That fish in the video is N'Zoth.
*-Ancient times but with sentient people already:* the Kaldorei empire of the Night Elves rose to power and controlled all of Azeroth. Using hidden power from the Well of Eternity, Azshara was raised as queen and the most powerful mage ever to inhabit the world. Due to their use of magic Azshara attracted the power of the demons and the world explode, sunking all the center under water (before Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor were the same continent). And what happens in the video happened, when the Kaldorei Empire capital, Zin Azshari, was sunking together with Azshara; N'Zoth offered her that deal and transformed all the Night Elves who sank into Naga and became bound to him.
By the way, the surviving Night Elves retired to Kalimdor and under the leadership of Tyrande and Malfurion abandoned and banned the use of arcane magic forever, since then they use the powers of nature and life. Tyrande that was already the High Priestess of Elune at those times (more than 1000 years ago, Night Elves were immortal), and was at odds with Azshara.
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She is!
i get the idea of a blind reaction but i think a follow up video would also be awesome. either after reading comments or wiki-ing some of the characters stories. see what you got right/wrong, maybe clear up confusion you may have had.
Azshara: Take my people...
Streamer: Is she evil?
-_-... its moments like this i can find comfort in the fact i am not as stupid as people assume i am.
Not saying you are stupid...I am sure there are things you would catch that i would be whoafully unable to see... but i'm just glad there are times where i can catch things others might not.
I love Azshara haha. She is “evil” yes Nazjatar is the sunken Kaldorei ruins of Zin-Ashari. The old Nightelven empire. She essentially caused the collapse of Azeroth when it was one continent. She was loved and worshipped, but vain and power hungry. She set off events that shaped the foundation of all of Azeroth. There is a trilogy of books that describes these in more detail: the war of the ancients series.
can always check out "The complete history of WoW" for a quick update on the history :D
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She's the reason why Tyrande doesn't want the Night Elves to call her queen despite being the leader of her race. She doesn't want to follow the same path Azshara did.
6:35 Honey... its the same thing.
you should have a co presenter for videos like this, so the can answer your questions in real time.
love to see the reactions of a new player. If you wanna learn more about the lore you should really check Nobbel87 videos.
Hi Galaxy
First i love your reactions!
Maybe for your next reactions you can watch Reckoning and the shadowlands trailer for more Sylvanas action #Sylvanas #GodSaveTheQueen
your nails and hair are perfection. i came here for the warcraft stuff but cool
Once you complete the BFA cinematics, you should check out 'All the lore you NEED to know for Shadowlands (+BFA Recap)',
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Azshara is definitely the most vain character in all the lore lol
ask toki about it he will tell you if she evil or not
@Galaxy ok, before I write a 10 pages letter about the lore, 2 things, Nobbel87 is a chanel you should check out if you are really interested in the lore of the game, he has EVERYTHING, its lore and its in the game/books/comics? he has it explained on his chenel damn outright amazing, 2nd I could give you a quick rundown about generall question for basic understanding on what has been going on, if you don´t mind discord or any other voice, but I would still recomend Nobbel87.
Hello again and very good video again :) but the story of Azshara, N'Zoth, .... very long story ! Azshara (the queen) was the queen of the night elves (the elves who became later night elves like everyone knows, nightborne, ... long story) she rule Azeroth (more or less again long story) when Azeroth was only one pangea-like continent (in the middle you have the Well of Eternity a lake and big source of power where the night elves live) during maaaaaaaaany years and because she want more power she made a deal with the burning legion: Tyrande, Malfurion, the dragons (protector of azeroth), ... to stop her they fight against her and the legion -> Tyrande, The dragons, ...they win but because of that war the continent falling apart (the well explode ^^) to form the continents, island, ... you know (that why the big wave) and like we see she don't want to die and N'zoth (an old gods but the old gods VERRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYY LOOOOOOOOOOOONG STORY but basically they are planetary parasites send by the void lords because Azeroth is a very powerful conscience... long story ^^) need her because he was imprisoned by the titans (interstellar people who can modify and destroy an entire world... again long story ^^) so he made a deal with her this is why she became the queen of the mermaids (AKA nagas ^^) again sorry for my english and again thanks a lot I felt bad this week then I discovered your channel you change my mind :)
Read the Books! They are good! I think it's was the "Warcraft: War of the Ancients"
We basically ROFL-stomped her in game.
Alot of these comments re incorrect. If you really want to know about the lore check out Nobbel and Platinum WoWs videos.
She's not a night elf she's the queen of the highborn. Night elves are druidic elves highborn are magicians that use arcane power. She became the queen of the naga after making a deal with an old god. She was the most powerful mage in azeroth at the time all she did she did for her ppl and herself. She's evil but not selfish.
Not so much evil she the Ultimate in selfishness . she also the LAST high elf queen .
The god...OF NOTHING!
She has adamantium balls xD
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If you enjoy the lore I would recommend nobbel
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she is evil AND strong and powerful
Is she evil? Yes. Unbelievably so. She was one of the most powerful mages in existence at a point where magic was at its peak. She let the demons into azeroth on the condition that the ruler of all the demons marry her (because he was the first thing that seemed to match her power). Then an underling betrayed her and the world blew up - she cut a deal with another unbelievably evil thing to save her empire.
It's still not certain if there's a mage more powerful than her. Plus as a social climber, she's planning on betraying the god who enslaved her people and installing herself as a new god.
She did seem to have a brief affair with illidan though, but it didn't last too long.
hehehe...mermaid people...yipeeee
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If you want to know more about the lore search for Nobbel87 he has really good videos about the Warcraft lore. If you want u can even do a reaction vid on it. Peace miss
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