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Warbrungers are great just don't forget to qatch the legion stuff to. I'd also recommend a war craft 3 synopsis.
You ought to watch the Harbringers cinematically it’s similar to this one but they were before legion
Oh lmao someone else just commented that
best Warbringer is Azshara, not a lot of context needed and just so well done. This one is my personal favorite but that's because of the song being so good.
For me, they are Jaina then Azshara. I love those two the most
Laura Bailey is genuinely one of my favourite voice actors ever! shes amazing!
She and Travis are national treasures
The entire Critical Role gang are. 😊
Laura Bailey is a legend. She voices since my birth which is 1995. Her first role was in Dragon Ball.
Man she has a massive resume.
Same here, it's been 5 years since the cinematic but I still get chills when I think about the delivery of the line "Is he the bomb this time?!"
Laura performed this live on stage at Blizzcon that year, despite having mentioned previously that performing live on stage was pretty far out of her comfort zone. I feel for her, watching the clip of the event, because you can see her shaking. She really went above and beyond for the fans that day.
Dang. Respect. Rising to the call.
Warbringers and Harbingers are some of the best cinematics have ever produced
So Jaina during the events of warcraft 3 was working with the horde and basically had peace, was attempting to bridge peace between the alliance and horde. Her father basically came to get her and fought the Horde that was there, they retaliated and Jaina stood aside so that justice could be done. Jaina kept her city of Theramore in contact with the Horde and was used as a place of peace councils, trade, ect. During the events of MoP, Garrosh dropped a mana bomb on the city (nuked it, also that's what the purple is, the mana bomb left volatile magics that still linger) killing tons of people including a young gnome that Jaina was training, and a good friend Ronnin (legendary mage who has traveled the timelines back to the events of warcraft 3). This permanently changed Jaina from this point onward has hate in her heart and like an entire patch in MoP, and in the ending MoP cinematic she basically coaxes Varian to dismantle the Horde (which he doesnt), she also imprisoner and slew a ton of Horde mages in Dalaran (neutral city for mages) causing high tensions with the bloodelves, because a couple mages helped Garrosh get his hands on an evil artifact called the Divine Bell. This cinematic is before the events of BFA, and has a lot of foreshadowing to her return to her homelands. Also she is called Auntie Jaina by Anduin as she has always been a motherly figure for him (seeing as his mother died while he was an infant), even giving him a hearthstone so that he could visit her at Theramore (he uses it to escape once from dire situation I cannot currently remember) EDIT: Also badass thing, Jaina is so mad after Theramore she takes the focusing Iris (the thing that made the mana bomb) and basically is gonna use it to take out Ogrimmar by herself, she basically is gonna create a great tsunami and is convinced at the last second to stop I believe by the blue dragon aspect Kellegos. She finds out later that the Alliance had a fleet out in those waters and she would have single handedly crippled the Alliance Navy killing untold amounts of people. That's how unhinged she went.
Please let me know if the lore was fun and interesting, I look forward to your continued journey down the warcraft rabbit hole.
Also during Warcraft 3 she was briefly Arthas' lover and failed to convince him to turn from the dark path he was going down.
She sacrificed practically everything for peace only to have her city magically nuked. Before her hair was completely blonde. Now it's white with a locke of blonde.
@@RyanofAndor She was his lover befor the events of W3 and they Reunite during the events of the game ...
@RyanofAndor yeah was keeping the lore mainly to this cinematic and the important things that come from the bombing of Theramore and the effects it has on Jaina. Thank you for indulging in deeper lore conversation.
Not gonna lie varian should have listened to her!
@@hulmhochberg8129 and why is that? (Curious)
I sang along while watching the reaction 😅 I love this cinematic…. And the whole story arc of Jaina, when she befriended Thrall, she never saw orcs as monsters unlike the others… and her dad fought against the horde and she “stood aside” and he died “betrayed by family”… and then Jaina went back to her homeland, trying to reconcile with her mother… and the journey both women went through… the mother going to the underworld trying to bring her daughter back after she casted her away, lost from memories… and then they found each other and the mother forgave her and… 😭😭😭😭 man I’m starting to cry again 😅 that story arc was emotional.
It's such a difficult arc. She wasn't wrong to choose peace, but she failed to understand that choosing peace also has a price, and sometimes, that price is very high. She was right- all orcs, all Horde, aren't monsters. But some of them are. And so are some Alliance.
Unfortunately, her Father was a monster as well. Just as some Horde were
@@julio4494true. It's all karmically balanced in the end. This situation I mean. Just very tragic.
@@julio4494 Her father was worse cause he saw only monsters in the horde, even when Jaina pleaded with him to see reason. She never betrayed him, he betrayed her and everyone else.
The ending....the ending always gives me chills to my core! "Beware......beware.....OF ME!" The music, the scene, the colors, I just loved this video, got me PUMPED to play BFA. One thing Warcraft does all the time no matter how good or bad the expansion may be, the Lore and the way they tell the stories through in-game quest and cinematics is always top tier content!
I've been playing WoW for 19 years and I love watching new players or new viewers experience WoW for the first time. Your videos bring me so much joy, glad to have you in the WoW Community now, we welcome you!
PS: I can't wait for you to watch all the "Old Soldier" videos from BFA, you will love them all.
This is the cinematic that convinced me to start playing WoW
It really is powerful!!! Will we play together one day?
I was convinced when I saw the funeral raid video 😊
@@PhilipHartsyou never react to wc3 cinmatics
@@Eyawork he has
@@Eyaworkhe does on stream
It just hit me, that the reason she says at the end "I'm listening now father" Is because she no longer believes in the peace brokerage of the horde after the events of MoP-Legion. And it was that belief that ultimately lead to her "Betrayal"
another layer is "I am listening now, Father." and he fades away saying nothing, she missed her chance when he was alive and it isn't going to help that she cares now.
The Daughter of the Sea is probably my favourite song from Warcraft. Including fan content. Its just so haunting yet so fitting for Kul Tiras. And then the "beware of me" there was that realization that the song that was sung by every household now in Kul Tiras, it was about her. Her homeland now sang a song saying beware of her. Chills
The sea shanty is from her people's perspective who don't know the full story of what happened. Her father was a fuckin monster who was exterminating orcs whether warrior or civilian or children. Jaina wanted peace between orcs and humans so she warned Thrall about his attack and stayed out of the battle which was the right thing to do, but her people only viewed it as her abandoning her father.
This one _always_ brings me to tears, no matter what. And yeah, it is bascially a musical lore-dump for Jaina Proudmore, who sailed to the continent of Kalimdor during Warcraft 3. Her father followed behind, and died fighting the Horde, who had relocated over there, all while she didn't join him in that battle. Jaina is a powerful, tragic figure, who carries a lot of pain and guilt from Warcraft 3 on. Such beautiful storytelling in this one, and an amazing song.
Jaina was a former character of the Warcraft III series and she was the partner of Arthas for as long he turned towards the forces of Undead and eventualy became the host of the Lich King as you saw in your Wrath of The Lich King cinematic reaction. She is one of the most missunderstood character in the whole warcraft saga because many of her pains and regrets were solely incorporated into the books but not in the actual game. All in all she was a bastion and protestor for peace between Horde and Alliance for so long that after losing many people for the sake of peace she went berserk and caused a mass confrontation within the Alliance and against the Horde too. Some of her demons that you saw were from many different sources.
She lost Arthas to the Lich King, then helped us kill him in Wrath of The Lich King. Arthas also killed her mentor the grand archmage Antonidas. She lost his good friend Kel'thas and her brother Derek Proudemore at that time because she wasn't able to save them. She helped us stop and kill his orc racist father who were trying to attack the Horde capital from the seaside and she did this for peace. Then she became a leading figure in the Kirin Tor which is the mage society of WoW. While she was in charge she tried to intergrate Horde and Alliance mages into one society but after some time an inner conflict broke out where many Dalaran citizen were slaughtered by Horde conspiracy lead by Garrosh Hellscream. Then as Garosh's ideology progressed within the Horde he stole the core of the Blue Dragonflight's nexus called the Focusing Iris then made a bomb from it and he straight up dropped it on top of Theramore (Jaina's city within Kalimdor) which resulted in the loss of Jaina's best friend Rhonin who sacraficed himself to stop the complete eradication of the lower part of Kalimdor. She also lost all of her apprentices in the process of this explosion. The city also got destroyed and that's what you see on the first scene or more like the remains of a once big city. What truly makes this worse is that Thrall (her good friend) and Kalecgos (her love interest that time) were the responsibles to be so careless that Garosh could do all of this in secrecy. Eventualy she got kicked out from the Kirin Tor afterwards beacause her ideology of peace shifted to a very vengeful point of view.
She is one of my favourite character in the series.
As others have said in various comments, the song in this is an in-game sea shanty. Jaina Proudmore is originally from a seafaring nation called Kul Tiras. In fact, her family is the ruling family, her father was Lord Admiral Daelin Proudmoore, and she was affectionately referred to as the Daughter of the Sea. During Warcraft III, she left her home and founded her own city, Theramore, that was a bastion of peace between the Alliance and the Horde. But her father, fearing for her safety, sailed to Theramore to take her home. When she refused, and the leaders of the Horde stood up in defense of Jaina, Daelin viewed it as an act of war. Jaina chose to step away ("Because she left his side") from the conflict, and in the end, her father was killed. Because of this, back home, they wrote a sea shanty about her, a kind of warning that Jaina was a traitor and not to be trusted. "Why this, why this, O Daughter of the Sea? Why this, did you forget your seaside days? Always the pride of our nations eyes! How could you go astray?"
At the time, back in Warcraft III, Jaina's father was under the impression that the Orcs and races of the Horde were barbaric, evil, and treacherous. He warned Jaina that they couldn't be trusted, but Jaina insisted that they could make peace with the Horde. Many years later, during Mists of Pandaria, the Horde Warchief attacked Jaina's city of Theramore, unprovoked. Jaina felt betrayed and wanted revenge, feelings that simmered until Battle for Azeroth. And now, she wants revenge on the Horde and is beginning to share her father's point of view. "I'm listening now, father."
For years, Jaina was haunted by the memory of her father. She felt that, although her father was wrong in fighting the Horde, she had betrayed him by not standing with him, and he died for it. She hated the title "Daughter of the Sea" after that moment. Which makes that last shot so powerful when she fully embraces the title, not as a badge of shame, but a badge of strength. "Beware, beware, of me."
In WoW, purple is the color of arcane magic. The ruined city she's in at the start was destroyed by an arcane bomb.
Just like fire is red, frost is blue, demon fel is green, Arcane is purple and so on.
Dark Purple is death magic. Light purple is Arcane.
@@robertalexstorm actually death magic is more blue. That is when it's not every other color of the rainbow. The purple in the video is definitely arcane.
@@robertalexstorm Wouldn't dark purple be void?
@@Evija3000 more pure jet black with a multicolour aura, going by the warlock's shadow bolt
Jaina's story is so fantastically told and heartbreaking. She, like Anduin, fought for and believed in peace. To the point where she stood against her father, who wanted to destroy all the orcs. It caused his death. When Garrosh destroyed her home of Theramore with a bomb (it was a peaceful settlement and should never have been attacked) she became so filled with rage and sorrow that she became one of the biggest advocates for war and killing all of the orcs/Horde. Her journey through the sorrow and rage and into the other side of things was actually one of the better written narratives that Blizzard did for a character.
Honestly, in my opinion, this is the BEST of the Warbringers shorts and the song is just fantastic.
And then also the burning to Teldrassil happened, which is just short of a genocidal act on top of destroying the only home the vast majority of the Night Elves ever knew.
@thorveim1174 yes but it's not part of Jaina's story. That is Sylvannas and Tyrande
Thanks for this reaction. When i first so this, i was so impressed and hoped it would get some attention. The tension between the still images and the little dynamic that comes in with this small animations is just great and fits the mood of this scene just perfect.
Jaina is haunted by the spirits of the fallen. So she is haunted, driven by the past and striving for revenge. (Also the blue Spirits shows her where to find the ship).
Brief history leading up to this: The "savage" she betrayed her father to was Thrall, from the War Within cinematic. At the time, they were her allies staying in HER city. Theramore was the only human settlement on Kalimdor at the time. But her father arrived looking for her, and his prejudice and hatred led him to turn on her and attack her allies. She sided with them against him.
Then Theramore became a graveyard when Thrall's successor, Garrosh, nuked her city with an arcane bomb in an unprovoked attack. In the aftermath of that, and because its then-leader Rhonin died at Theramore, she became the leader of the mage city of Dalaran and the Kirin Tor order of mages. Then she discovered that Horde elf mages had smuggled the device the bomb was built from through Dalaran and did a bit of a group-unaliving oopsie-whoopsie on the Blood Elves there. But eventually, she reached a second peace agreement with the Horde.
The reason she's "listening now" is because after ALL THAT, the Warbringers: Sylvanas cinematic happened and another Horde leader destroyed yet another city of innocents.
This song was one that her father used to sing to her as a girl, transformed by her nation's rage at her apparent betrayal and the loss of their leader, the Lord Admiral. He tried to warn her. After his death, she held his body and asked, "Father... why wouldn't you listen?"
This short gives me happy tears and chills every time I watch it.
EVERY Single time, it is so incredibly well done, especially for those that played the events of WC3 and what that song was about.
This reaction brought me to your channel...like to see what other people think of cinematics from wow, and now ive subbed and look forward to new videos. With no background in film making you have enabled me to see the videos in a new way..... Plus if you can put a sea shanty in anything it kicks ass
Okay, lore time about what is happening in the cinematic:
In Warcraft 3 Thrall started establishing the new Horde, the one which will not be corrupted by the demons. The prophet(it was actually Medivh, but it doesn't matter here) told Thrall in order to save the Horde and the world, he has to sail west to the continent called Kalimdor. Medivh also said the same thing to the kingdoms of the Alliance, but they didn't want to listen. The one who did listen was Jaina. Thrall started building the base for the horde in Kalimdor, specifically in Durotar. Jaina didn't know Thrall yet, but she met him in Kalimdor. Since humans and orcs were still enemies, she didn't trust him, but Medivh explained to them they have to work together to defeat the Burning legion. She established a base in Theramore, which is pretty close to the orcs base in Durotar(now called Orgrimmar). Her father followed her there and saw her with the orcs. He still thought of the orcs as bloodthirtsy savages and decided to kill them. Jaina tried to explain that they need to work together and that the orcs are no longer corrupted maniacs, but her father of course didn't listen. Thrall explained to her that him and a half-orc named Rexxar have to deal with her father in order to ensure their safety and she agreed(it was the right decision). They killed her father. Later on in cataclysm, Thrall being the strongest shaman in the world had to step aside from being a warchief to help heal the world. He put in charge Garrosh Hellscream, the son of Grommash(the guy who killed Mannoroth in the Warcraft 3 cinematic). His line of thinking was the Horde needs a strong leader and he overlooked that Garrosh is a maniac. Garrosh started terrorizing everyone and used the blood elfs in Dalaran(a magical city which is shared by Horde and Alliance mages) to steal a very powerful magical artifact called Divine bell. Jaina got very angry at the Horde of course, and started exterminating all the horde blood elfs in Dalaran. Garrosh also bombed and destroyed all of Theramore with a mana bomb. Jaina now thought she never should have trusted and allied with the Horde, not even the first time with Thrall to defeat the Burning legion(in reality, if she didn't, they would have destroyed all of Azeroth). She went to Durotar and wanted to sink all of Orgrimmar with another powerful artifact, but Thrall shows up and talks her out of it. Basically, this is why she feels guilty in this cinematic, because after what Garrosh did she thinks she should have listened to her father and never allied with the Horde. In Mists of Pandaria the Horde and the Alliance together invade Orgrimmar and kill Garrosh, but of course, she was still very mad.
Also, they don't actually kill Garrosh, they imprison him, and during his trial a bronze dragon(bronze dragons control timelines) called Kairoz teleports him in alternate reality in the native planet of the orcs called Draenor(but 35 years earlier, as you saw in the Warlords of Draenor cinematic). He did that so Garrosh could make an army in the alternate universe which will help them fight the Burning legion in the normal universe. Of course, Garrosh being Garrosh, doesn't care about that plan and kills Kairoz as soon as they get in alternate Draenor. He finds his father Grommash, doesn't tell him he is his son, but convinces him that he shouldn't drink the blood of Mannoroth. He also tells him about the technology the goblins made for the Horde in the normal universe which you can see them using against Mannoroth in WoD cinematic(the exploding wheel). That is why in Wod cinematic Grommash didn't drink the blood and why he didn't die. Compare the fight with Mannoroth in Warcraft 3 and in WoD cinematics and you can see it ends the same, but Garrosh ends up saving his father in WoD.
It’s insane how this still gives me chills and brings a tear to my eye. There’s SO much talent in the art and story team I can’t wait for more of that to come to light in the future expansions.
I love watching fresh reactions people have to these cinematics….your channel is my current favorite thing and I patiently wait for more uploads.
The song is about her story in Warcraft 3, Jaina Proudmoore is the daughter of Daelin Proudmoore, Daelin was the Lord Admiral (basically king) of Kul Tiras an island nation and human kingdom which was part of the Alliance when the orcs invaded Azeroth.
Lots of stuff happened during the war but basically the Horde (orcs) fractured and the playable faction side of the Horde went to do their own thing, leaving the Eastern Kingdoms for the other main continent of the world Kalimdor while the rest were basically wiped out. Jaina sought to make peace between the Alliance and this new Horde, but Daelin sought to wipe them out as vengeance for their atrocities during the Second War. Jaina had earned Thrall's trust but Daelin wouldn't listen to her and during the Orcs campaign in Warcraft 3 you eventually kill Daelin as Jaina stands aside and lets it happen instead of standing with her father. As Kul Tiras has now effectively exiled her she remained in Theramoore for most of the game, showing up in Dalaran sometimes to help out with mage related things.
Many years later in Mists of Pandaria Garrosh in his bid to control all of Kalimdor used a mana bomb (basically a nuke) to blow up Theramoore leaving it as nothing but a crater, this transforms Jaina from a peacekeeper into a warmonger, she goes to Dalaran and kills all the Horde members there (even though it is supposed to be a neutral city as it is run by the mages) this is also why in the cut scene at the end of the Siege of Orgrimmar raid she is trying to get Varian to kill off the remaining Horde leaders where in the past she was always the one pleading for peace. She is missing for all of the Legion expansion and returns in this one, then we see her in the Siege of Lordaeron cinematic or I guess its called "Turn the Tides" which is basically a direct sequel to this Warbringers.
Well the watch order would be Jaina Warbringers -> Old Soldier -> Battle For Azeroth Cinematic -> Siege of Lordaeron: Turn the Tides. Still before all of those you gotta watch the Legion Broken Shore cinematics (Alliance before Horde)
Kinda late to the party, but watching this now is so nostalgic. I've played Warcraft 3 a lot in my childhood (never played WoW tho), and I remember watching this trailer so so many times years ago. The analysis is also very refreshing. Thanks man!
been a long time since i watched this animation and sure enough, i was tearing up again.
when it came out, one of the most impactful comments i read was along the lines of: "imagine your betrayal being considered so bad that your own people write a dirge, cursing you."
it doesnt even mention the name of the girl they considered the nations pride once.
all for choosing the path she believed in, the path of peace.
also you pointing it out made me aware of something, after all these years. the imagery of 5:35 vs the one at 12:15
its both situations where she failed her people. but in the first shot its dark and gloomy, "the dead" are at the bottom and front of the screen, whereas the 2nd shot its bright and the dead are in the clouds above and behind her.
the former is the result of her own island-nation being recently destroyed by a bomb in the war that is going on, the latter is the dead from a bloody conflict her father initiated, many years ago, which could've been won by her people, if jaina chose their side, but she didnt, because the conflict spawned from pure hatred.
she took the side of thrall and his new horde.... the new horde that would later drop the bomb on her nation.
its hard to put into words the difference, but i would say her own subjects (1st shot) dont "look down" on her, in the quite literal sense, believing in what she did and being eradicated by something that couldnt really be prevented, vs her fathers/former nations subjects (2nd shot) looking down on her, because she chose to betray her father, betray them, causing a large amount of bloodshed and grief from their PoV.
thats at least my interpretation, now that you made me aware of it.
you could even go further and say that in the last shot, shes alone, she cast all of her grief and what haunts her off and follows her own path once more. to war, on the very ship that her father went to war on too.
been waiting for this one :)
ohhh I love thi cinematic so much. Thank you for this vid!
(in first moment I couldn't understand what with the song, but then I'd remembered that I listen all the time version in different language. Hellawes and the men's choir so good there. But of course original with Laura Bailey is amazing too :3)
I'm so in love with wow's artstyle in their cinematics. It's a real treat for the eyes every time.
I always look forward to your breakdowns of WoW related cinematics. I hope you do all the ones involving Battle for Azeroth. Especially the Saurfang vs Sylvanas cinematic.
Man I can't WAIT until you watch Sylvanas and Azshara!! They are such dark, brutal and beautiful MASTERPIECES
Your content is great, make sure u will get the next one in the right order. It tells so much more about the story, than the last cinematics.
I was so hype when this first came out. Jaina went full "I will kick the Horde's ass and will kill anyone who gets in my way", and I was all for it
Oh hell yeah this is literally my favorite cinematic. That last line was so cold.
Jaina was a major proponent of peace, and there was a truce between the alliance and the horde, and also she was leader of a city near the horde capital. This shanty is pretty much propaganda made to sanctify her father after his death back in his own country. He was trying to use her as an excuse to restart the war and exterminate the horde. She refused to let him, or to go with him; though she did try to desperately convince him to just stop.
After her city was destroyed by Garrosh, she was extremely traumatized and began to believe that her father was right all along and every bad thing was her fault because she tried to promote peace.
u ride the horse backwards. correct would be, her father wanted to destroy the horde as anyone back in his time cuz they were for long at war with em (demon blood made most orcs mad). and when he started an attack at the capital, his daughter who lived far from home in the city of mages, went there to make him stop, but he didnt want to listen so she HELPED thrall fighting and KILLED HER OWN FAHTER cuz she believed in peace so much. because of the patricide, she was seen as a monster by the people in her homeland and they rewrote this common shanty to be about her. like the story of the bad wolf, to make children behave. but after garrosh (again one of the mad orcs) years later became warchief and bombed her harbour city on the (mostly) horde continent, peace wasnt anything she wanted, she was only craving vengeance
Every time I watch this video, I cry. Never fails, the music gets me every time.
Jaina's and Saurfangs Storylines throughout BfA were genuinely amazing. Gameplaywise BfA wasn't much beloved (rightfully so) but the story team? They delivered and then some!
2:28 - She's being haunted by the trauma and ghosts of her past. Those including a lover lost three times to her (once alive, twice undead), killing or by in-action allowing her father to be killed to preserve a fragile peace, the bombing of Theramore Isle destroying her city, and the condemnation of her by her family for the role in her father's death.
I remember when seeing this for the first time, it brought a tear to my eye.
Fun fact her father was an Admiral of the alliance and the horde made it a POINT to kill this man because he was laying pipe and taking names when he encountered the horde and they wanted him dead asap and his daughter Jaina was a pacifist at the time more than a fighter but once she got to this point in the story she lost everything
THE CHILLS! Every single time!
The ending so much chills
The song Daughter of The Sea, was made by the people of Kul Tiras as a warning not to trust her after she let her father die just to try and keep the peace. here are the lyrics for it,
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Beware, Beware the daughter of the sea
Beware, I heard him cry
His words carried upon the ocean breeze
As he sank beneath the tide
Those blood-soaked shores of Kalimdor,
where sailors fought and died
The Admiral fell at Theramore
Because she left his side
Choir:
Why this? Why this, oh daughter of the sea?
Why this? Did you forget your seaside days?
Always the pride of our nation's eyes
How could she go astray?
When she did flee across the ocean deep
The Admiral followed west
What else but sail to save a daughter's life,
And pray she still drew breath?
But there he found upon those distant shores
Enemies 'pon the rise!
But when he faced those savage foes,
His daughter stood aside!
And buried deep beneath the waves
Betrayed by family
To his nation with his last breath, cried
"Beware the daughter of the sea!"
I heard, I heard across a moonlit sea
The old voice warning me
Beware, beware the daughter of the sea
Beware... Beware... of me.
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sad thing is her dad had a small little song he would sing to her and here are the lyrics I found for it.
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"Ahoy, ahoy, sweet daughter of the Seas.
Ahoy this child be mine.
The Admirals girl, his whole entire world...
For as long,
As stars do shine."
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knowing both songs and the lore makes it hit alot harder.
The song is about her betrayal and what her people say about her, her final betrayal before she left her people
Oh...Chills. Every time.
The necklace at the beginning bears the symbol of the Proudmoore Admiralty. Jaina's father was the Lord Admiral of Kul Tiras-a title that is the nation's equivalent of a king. Jaina was essentially the nation's beloved princess, the "daughter of the sea" who was going to marry the prince of Lordaeron, Arthas.
Naturally, that didn't work out, and in the wake of the destruction caused by Arthas' fall, Jaina decided to heed the words of a prophet named Medivh who before the plague had tried warning all the human kings to leave their homes and move their people to the continent of Kalimdor. Jaina gathered a bunch of refugees and set out across the sea.
Medivh worked hard to get Thrall's horde and Jaina's expedition to see past their history of conflict and work together to save the world from the Burning Legion. After winning the fight against the demons, Jaina settled her people on an island outpost named Theramore. Her experience showed her that peace with the orcs was possible, but her father had arrived in Theramore and tried to assault Jaina's new allies. She begged him to stop and told her people to stand down, and her last words to her father were to ask why he didn't listen. When Kul Tiras caught wind of this, they left the Alliance because the other kingdoms wouldn't bring Jaina to justice for this betrayal.
Jaina long brokered for peace between the Alliance and the Horde in the years to follow, even helping Varian start to see past his hate for them, but when Garrosh committed a series of atrocities that culminated in nuking her city, she got a bit upset. She calmed down after a while, but it took a lot.
When the Legion invaded again, Varian died because the Horde retreated and left him in the heart of the Broken Shore. This was the straw that broke the camel's back-Jaina refused to work alongside the Horde if they couldn't be trusted not to stab them in the back. She left to go do some soul-searching, and at some point chose to find the wreck of her father's ship and raise it from the sea. She would then return to Anduin and propose they try and bring Kul Tiras back into the Alliance-facing the judgment of her people finally for leaving her father's side.
I would recommend watching all the in-game cinematics for Legion. It truly was some of WoW's best storytelling. I know there are some great compilations out there, check them out!
It also had some of the best NPCs. Tehd and Marius, for example
The ending of that always gives me chills and goosebumps. "Beware, beware.... of ME!"
Jaina Proudmoore is one of the more interesting characters in Warcraft lore. She has had massive victories, and just as massive losses. She stood aside and watched her father die to the orcs, because he was a homicidal maniac. She saw her whole kingdom basically get nuked with magic, the people's corpses crumbled in her hands to dust. She was on the knife edge of destroying an entire kingdom, but managed to wrest herself back before she did that. She strode through Dalaran, killing and capturing any blood elf she could find. Finally, she did find a bit of peace due to her mother's intervention, but not before that same mother had denounced her a traitor to her home. I've known her since Warcraft 3. So a little over 21 years.
She is extremely well-fleshed out. As is Sylvanas (To a point.), Illidan, Arthas, Varian, Anduin, and Khadgar. I've been playing wow since late November 2004. I've taken breaks, of course, but I always came back. It has been my home for 19 years and has helped me through some of the darkest moments of my life. I won't ever completely give up on it. I don't think I can.
You like this one, you got to check out Shadowlands Afterlives: Bastion. To say Shadowlands wasn't well executed from a story perspective would be an understatement, but Afterlives: Bastion is a fantastic cinematic.
For context for this cinematic if you're interested Jaina Proudmoore, was the daughter of the Admiral which was the highest ranking person in Kul Tiras. In her early days she wished to broker peace between the Horde and the Alliance and arranged a meeting between them, but things went south, and her father refused to back down, and she refused to get involved. Later she was leading the defense of one of her peoples cities, when Hellscream now leading the horde at the start of Mists attacked it. They quickly got overwhelmed and Jaina had no choice but to use her magic to retreat leaving everyone else to die. That event caused her to lose all faith she had left in the Horde and swear revenge against them, which eventually leading up to this moment when she decides to return to her homeland to bring her people back into the fold to fight the Horde.
Admiral Proudmore "father of the sea" was the father of Jaina Proudmore "daughter of the sea". She left to Kalimdor during the war, and her father set sail after her. He couldn't find her when he got to Kalimdor, instead all he found were orcs. She blames herself for his death - Jaina is one of the most powerful wizards WoW. She could have easily helped him escape or possibly killed all the orcs (she was trying to pursue a peaceful route with the orcs).
Watch the other Warbringer cinematics, I think you'll see why the Alliance were pissed in BfA (meaning Jaina since she's part of the Alliance). And don't forget about Saurfang's "This Old Soldier" and "Mak'Gora" those are in the cinematic style of an actual trailer. BfA is loaded with great cinematics.
In a very summed up version: Jaina's father was super anti-horde due to the old days. Jaina knew that this wasn't the same horde and believed that peace between Alliance and Horde was possible, sadly her father didn't listen and she tried to avoid more death by destroying some of his ships. The Horde took control of that place (Theramore) and tried to reason with Jaina's father he didn't care and went to fight, losing. Jaina felt responsible but also wished her father had listened to her. Later down the road we had all the issues with Mists of Pandaria where Garrosh bombed Theramore and pushed Jaina over the edge becoming more like her father, anti-horde. Btw, speaking of Pandaria, if you liked this and you like Asian culture I think you will love the Burdens of Shaohao that explain the amazing history of Pandaria.
The warbringers videos are amazing and I sometimes forget about them in the shadow of Varok Saurfang's Mak'gora
Jaina was Arthas' fiancee and lover, but she fled west across the sea with her people after Arthas began radicalizing and turning to evil during his fight against the scourge. She was a major spokesperson for peace and tried her best to find the non-violent solution to all problems. She ended up on Kalimdor where she formed an alliance with Thrall and his new horde, in addition to the elves. They fought against the burning legion and saved the world. Jaina settled there with her people, which is why her father sailed west - to find her.
Daelin, her father, was a veteran of the previous wars against the orcs and saw them as nothing but savages and monsters. When he arrived on Kalimdor, he began a crusade against the (now innocent) orcs. Jaina tried to stop him, but he was dead-set on causing genocide. In the end she stood aside as the orcs killed her father because he refused to see them as anything but animals. This act, as shown in the trailer, haunts her deeply, as she loves her father. She was eventually betrayed by the orcs, and for a period, she began feeling regret and hate when Garrosh wiped out her colony. She began to doubt whether her father was right about the orcs. That's somewhat where Legion picks up.
The purple haze is from the mana bomb that Garrosh lead the Horde to destroy her city, Theramore. It was one of the first times that we on the Horde side realized that Garrosh was going too far from what the Horde was really supposed to be, but that's beside the point of the video. Jaina had a bad time after the destruction of Theramore, and she had disappeared during Legion. Almost on a journey to find herself, and this is the first time we see her coming back. She does come back in game during the Seige of Lorderon which is the opening cutscenes and questline of Battle for Azeroth.
Garosh droped nuke on her city of Theramor. Prior to this moment she tried to keep peace between Alliance and Horde. Even stepped against her father Daelin.
Honestly, Jaina was the MPV of BfA cinematics, from this one to the "Is he the bomb this time" cut scene.. chills, every time.
man this definitely hit home during the BoD raid.
If I recall right ships name is scavenger how the ghost Said in the song before she got to the location of it
I’m reading comments and they are giving bits and pieces. So I will try to tie it all together and not make this too long.
First Jaina-she is the daughter of Admiral Proudmoore of the Kul Tirin nation. The song was originally a happy song about her as a child and how she was the pride of the nation. After events on WC3 that led to the death of her father the song was changed to what is heard in the Warbringers story. (The lyrics give a lot of back story honestly)
The city that she is in is Theramore-this was her city. The purple that is on the ground is remnants of an arcane mana bomb which killed many that she cared about. She feels guilt about not being able to protect her people. The necklace that she picks up is the emblem of Kul Tiris. She pays the ferryman with the necklace-bringing to mind Charon and the river Styx.
As she is being transported to her destination (the large ship) she is being haunted by the souls of the men that died alongside her father. Jaina came to Kalimdore and was a voice of peace. Her father, only knowing of the savagery of the Horde followed her and only saw them as the enemy. He chose to fight them, and Jaina refused to join him. The Kul Tirin nation now despises her because they feel that she is a traitor for not fighting along side her father.
Once Jaina has reached her destination, she raises the flagship of the fleet-her father’s ship. She has reached a place of resolve and has chosen her path. The seas calm and she tells her father’s ghost that she understands. She says this because it was the Horde that destroyed her city and now she is resolved to seek revenge. “Beware, beware of me”
This cinematic and song is awesome. Sadly she never ends up living up to how cool this short made it seem like she was going to be.
This song makes me cry every time
One thing I feel that's missed is that this song was made because Jaina was seen as a traitor. She wanted peace between Horde and Alliance so she didn't join her father on a mission to attack the Horde which then lead to his death because he was captured and she walked away instead of helping him. Jaina is the Daughter of the Sea that her own people sing and warn about.
Also, you can tell CC is on when there's a red line under the icon. Ya didn't have it on lol
Even as a die hard Horde player in WoW...this is my favorite Warbringers short. What makes this all the more meaningful is the story behind the sea shanty...Jaina's father was killed in an ill-fated mission to Theramore, where Jaina chose to support Thrall instead of her father... for which her nation blamed her, leading to the events of the Alliance questline of Battle for Azeroth. Like you said....powerful stuff.
You need to see the "Old Soldier" cinematic, as it's ending is the beggining of the Battle For Azeroth cinematic
oh man ok, I got so much to say on Jaina.
Starting off, Jaina was essentially the princess of a maritime kingdom called Kul Tiras. Jaina was childhood friends with Arthas, the prince of Lordaeron (and later the Lich King), but she couldn't bear seeing what his quest was doing to him. She tried to stop him, and ultimately left him because she couldn't be part of what he was doing anymore.
Jaina took as many of Arthas' people as would listen and sailed across the sea to Kalimdor, to found her own city-state called Theramore. Shortly after, Arthas returned to Lordaeron and wiped out everyone who was left in the name of the Burning Legion.
On Kalimdor, Jaina found the Orcs lead by Thrall, who had also fled to Kalimdor to escape the Legion. The humans and orcs each assumed the other had followed them, and immediately began fighting. Ultimately, they had to put aside their differences and band together with the Night elves, Kalimdor natives, to repel the Burning Legion when it pushed across the sea after them.
This Alliance between Jaina and Thrall was important to both of them, and the two became genuine friends. Then, her father came looking for her. He sailed with the Kul Tiras navy, having heard she had fled west, and when he discovered orcs he immediately ordered an attack. Thrall sent messengers to try and figure out why the humans were attacking, and when they reached Jaina said she had no control over it, her father wasn't listening to reason and had assumed command of her settlement. Jaina said she wouldn't stop him from defending his people, and basically removed herself from the conflict, asking only that he try to spare as many of her people as he could.
The horde drove Kul Tiras out of Theramore, and killed Jaina's father. That was how important her people and the peace she had brokered with the horde was to her.
In the ensuing peace, Jaina became kind of mentor figure to Anduin. He literally calls her aunt. She was one of the formative voices in his life and helped shape his peaceful views. Also, through her Anduin got to meet Thrall and other horde leaders, and he learned from them and came to respect them.
Then, Garrosh became Warchief of the Horde. He hated humans, and honestly wasn't really a fan of the non-orc races within the horde either. He believed the other races should be subservient to orcs or be wiped out, and did his best to make that a reality. Theramore, being a fortified human city-state on an island quite close to the horde capital, was a problem in his eyes. His greatest escalation was when he essentially dropped a magic nuke on Theramore, wiping out Jaina's people, her nation, and kinda pushing her over the edge.
She became one of the fiercest voices calling for war against Garrosh, and pushed for his execution after the war was over.
In this video, we see Jaina reckoning with her betrayal of her father and the nation of her birth, now that everything she made that sacrifice to build is gone. She knows she will be returning to Kul Tiras and have to face her people again. She returns to the ruins of Theramore and then to the site of the naval battle where her father's flagship was sunk, and she raises it from the seabed to serve as her own in the coming war between alliance and horde. It's a beautiful character moment for her and really contextualizes a lot of her more warlike actions in the previous few expansions.
idk if anyone's even gonna read this but once I started I couldn't stop XD
_Laura Bailey_ is a legend. She voices since my birth which is 1995. Her first role was in Dragon Ball.
Man, she has a massive resume. One of the best female voice actors out there in the industry. Her Jaina Proudmores from WoW and Kaines roles from Nier are just spot on. 👏
P.s. Would love to hear her voice in _Genshin Impact_ one day. Maybe Murata or Tsaritsa? 😀
Daughter of the Sea is actually on Spotify and Apple Play
THIS is what I love about WoW. The game has been around in various guises to know all about this story... some people even played through the history represented in this song. Stuff like this makes the fictional history live!
Fun fact, the Warbribgers cinematics have been translated in multiple languages. And all of them have amazing translated song/lyrics. I especially love the Russian one, they have invited a folk-rock singer to sing the Jainas’ part.
The Warbringers trilogy was a great, background recap to the that expansion.
Can't wait for you to see Azshara. Maybe my overall favorite piece of Warcraft media.
The problem is that that one relies heavily on either knowledge of WoW lore or of H.P Lovecraft universe. So for example Nyalotha and specifically the drums is something talked a lot about in those books. Without it there is no context to who Azshara is, who she was or even what Nzoth is supposed to be. Hell the very essence of what the old gods are/were is missing if the person watching isnt familiar with either. Now obviously you can still appreciate the art work and cinematography but why these pieces stick so much with the playerbase is because they have that connection and knowledge of these characters.
@@pepparmostheelder You are obviously right. But at the same time I enjoy the fact that Philip isn't super familiar with all the lore yet. It's fun watching him pick up the cues from the art.
Edit: Also I'd be VERY surprised to find out that Philip isn't familiar with Lovecraft.
The ship is her father's sunken ship. She's pulling up the relic of her own hatred of her enemies who killed her resolve to always do the right thing, but she eventually uses it for right, is forgiven by her harshest critics, and forgives herself. It's not just a sea shanty, it is a cry of pain from someone who is not ready to forgive herself and has internalised all the ways her own people who she loves have demonized her.
See also: the Return of Hope/siege of boralus cinematic 😁
Jaina's story is pretty interesting. She was the daughter of the rulers of one of the human nations, Kul'Tiras, the most marine of them all, but she left for the continent to study magic. She was promised with Arthas, that was the prince of another kingdom that was close were s he was studying (Lordaeron) and everything seemed heading towards a very good future. But that happened, Arthas got corrupted, became the Lich King, killed his father and destroyed his kingdom with an army of undead. Jaina couldn't stop him and lead the refugees to another continent, where she found her own kingdom with the refugees, called Theramore.
But Thrall and the orcs also just arrived feeling from the undead too, and also founded another kingdom, and they clashed because orcs vs humans. Thrall and Jaina lead peace leaning factions but other people wanted war. That's when Jaina's dad arrived from her home kingdom of Kul'Tiras and tried to get in charge and attack the orcs... He told her that she could never have long peace with the orcs but Jaina didn't listen to him and stood aside. So the orcs killed him and destroyed her dad's navy, in exchange for peace. She kept ruling Theramore for years but was forever deemed back as a traitor in her home nation.
Years later another war broke between horde and alliance and the orcs launched some kind of magic nuke over Theramore and killed everyone, save for Jaina and few others. Her father was right.
In the video, we are again some years forward. Another war just started and the alliance asked her to try to ask for aid to Kul'Tiras, who was neutral until then, and where she is still viewed as a traitor, she's not been in her home country since she left to study. In the video Jaina is back in the ruins of Theramore, that's been desolated for years now, and the ship she rises from the sea with magic is the old flagship of her dad's navy.
It's a long thread but Warcraft has been going on for years and Jaina is one of the main characters in the setting.
Sooooo... long story short: the Alliance was founded by 7 Human kindoms; one of them was Kul Tiras; whos king was Daelin Proudmore; and her daugther, was princess Jaina Proudmore; the 'Daugther of the Sea'
During the 2nd War between Alliance and the Horde; Daelin was Admirall of all Alliance fleet; and fougth very hard againt the orcs, becoming a respected hero.
Between wars, her daugther Jaina went to the kingdom-citty of Dalaran to became a mage, and met and fell in love with prince Arthas of Lordaeron; the heir to the main human kingdom... they broke up cause they where young and weren't preppared to marry, but this is another story.
Their love almost rekindled in the Thir War, when both investigated the Plague... but long tory short, Arthas fell into darkness, became the Litch King and put Lordaeron to the flame; and Jaina took the refugees from both Lordaeron and Dalaran and ship with them to Kalimdor, another continent. There he met the Warchief of the Orcs, Thrall (the one in the cinematic with Anduin)
Despite their story, Thrall and Jaina made an uneasy alliance; and both Alliance and Horde fougth the demons of the Burning Legion, ending the Third War and saving the world. In the aftermatch, both leaders begun a frindship and both Alliance and Horde begun a new live in Kalimdor; Thrall founded the nation of Durotar and Jaina the citty state of Theramore...
...but Daelin Proudmore; unaware of he daugthers fate, sent a huge Kul Tiran fleet to look for her; found Theramore, and angry of her daugthers friendship with the orcs; took the citty as base to launch an invasion to wipe Durotar and the Horde once and for all. Jaina tried to convince her father, but uncapable to do it, helped Thrall to invade the island nation, an free he people. The Horde re-took the citty, and Admiral Proudmore and thousands of kul tirans died on the battle.
Kul Tiras labelled Jaina as a traitor, left the Alliance and this sea shantie was born, a remmeberance of Jainas betrayal. In the years after this, Stormwind became the new capital of the Alliance; and king Varian (father to Anduin) became the leader, and Jaina as ruler of Theramore and one of the leaders of Dalaran, became one of the most powerfull leaders of the Alliance; been the best friend of Thrall and managing truces with the Horde; the greates one as when both sides united to kill Arthas
...but when the dragon Deathwing arose, Thrall steped down from the tittle of Warchief to figth the dragon, and appointed Garrosh Hellscream as new Warchief... but Garrosh, was a cunt; an orc supremacist that believed not in peace with the Alliance, and destroyed Theramore to the ground.
This video occurs after Legion. Alliance and Horde joined to dethrown Garrosh, and to figth the Demons in their final invasion... but by this time, Jaina has lost faith in a possibillity of peace between the factions. After the death of king Varian; the Alliance is led by young Anduin; but the Horde is led by the undead elf Silvanas Windrunner; who is not mutch better than Garrosh; and a new war between the two has started at a great scale.
Jaina here, is tormented by her past. She allowed Thrall to attack her father, in the hopes that peace was achievable an Theramore was the future of the Alliance... but she lost her father, her nation... and in the end the Horde destoryed the new world she had built. Deepelly depressed, she goes back to the ruins of Theramore, to the ship cementery in witch the kul tiran armada was sunk; she faces their unrested souls; and recongisesd to her father: 'you where rigth. Orcs cannot be trusted'; and she uses her magic to summon her father's flagship to use it in the war against the Horde; accepting the insult her people gave to her: The Daugther of the Sea
They never really tell you why each is a Warbringer. Jaina was in charge of a city named Theramore. Garrosh dropped a giant mana bomb on top of Theramore killing a lot of people. Jaina by herself rode up to the gates of Ogrimmar by herself looking to destroy the city. Ogrimmar is basically the main capital city of the Horde.
No one would have been able to stop her. She was talked down. She has a very tragic life to this point but this tragedy specifically made her mad enough to bring war to the enemy.
That and the assasination of several of her allies in Dalaran, which got the horde banished from the city.
Laura Bailey is one of the best voice actresses in the business, and her work as Jaina Proudmoore is phenomenal, including this song which she sang as well.
It is also especially chilling to hear that final line from her in this: "Beware, beware.... of _ME_ " if you know her story.
Jaina is the daughter of Grand Admiral Daelin Proudmoore, the ruler of the island nation of Kul Tiras. Having shown magical aptitude when younger, she was sent to study with the mages of Dalaran, where she met young Prince Arthas. The two eventually kindled a relationship that eventually led to a proposal, but afterwards, Arthas got cold feet and backed out of the wedding, leaving Jaina heartbroken. They eventually reconciled as friends, but then the events of Warcraft 3 happened: The Third War and the destruction of Lordaeron by the Undead Scourge, where Jaina watched as Arthas' obsession with defending his people by defeating the Dreadlord Mal'Ganis led to him committing heinous acts and eventually losing his soul to the runeblade Frostmourne, becoming the first of the Lich King's Death Knights.
Jaina fled to Kalimdor with a group of like-minded humans, both from Dalaran and Kul Tiras, and founded the city-state of Theramore on the shores of the Dustwallow Marsh. She was the leader of this city, and when she met Thrall and the new Horde that he led, she befriended him, seeing how honorable and forthright he was. Soon after, however, her father came looking for her with a fighting force of his own, and upon seeing orcs near to his daughter's holding, he swore to destroy them, as he was a veteran of the Second War and was very prejudiced when it came to the Horde. She begged him not to attack them, that they were different from the old Horde he had known, but he was unswayed, and so reluctantly, she informed Thrall of her father's attack plans, which led to a wholesale slaughter as the Kul Tiras marines would not abandon their attack until only a few survivors were left, who fled back to Kul Tiras with tidings of how the Admiral had fallen in battle, betrayed by his own daughter. Jaina sacrificed her own family to give this new Horde a chance to prove that they weren't bloodthirsty, conquering savages.
Then... then the Cataclysm happened, and Thrall left young Garrosh Hellscream as Warchief in his stead. Garrosh had grown up with the stigma of having Grom as his father, the orc who had bound his people to the demons' blood curse, and when Thrall came to Outland and told him of how his father heroically sacrificed himself to save his people, he vowed to live up to his name. He chose to do this by putting his people first, and unfortunately became something of an orc supremacist in the Horde, and chose to display the Horde's strength as a nation by taking what they needed rather than using diplomacy and negotiation with the Alliance. He also vowed to claim ALL of Kalimdor for the Horde, and with the help of the Sunreavers (a faction of Blood Elf mages in the Kirin Tor), developed a mana bomb, a magical thermonuclear warhead, that he dropped on Theramore.
The Archmage of the Kirin Tor, Ronin, sacrificed himself to push Jaina through a portal just as they saw the bomb drop, and she returned to find the entire city destroyed, and all the people, including her lovable yet absent-minded Gnomish apprentice Kinndy Sparkshine, turned into statues formed of arcane dust, that would crumble at a touch.
Jaina's is a cold fury, and she stole a magical artifact from the Blue Dragonflight in order to enact her plan for revenge: The Focusing Iris, which she used to summon hundreds of water elementals and fuse them into a vast living tidal wave that she directed towards Orgrimmar, the Horde capitol. Thrall and the blue dragon Kalecgos (masquerading as a human mage for a while) found her and managed to talk her down, reminding her that she is better than Garrosh and was not really willing to drown all of the innocents in Orgrimmar that had nothing to do with Garrosh's attack plans. For a moment, she almost proved them wrong, but backed down and let the wave dissipate, but her hatred of the Horde remained blazing in her heart ever after.
She even counseled Varian after they had successfully raided Orgrimmar to capture Garrosh that the Horde could not be trusted ever again (as the one she trusted was Thrall, and he was no longer Warchief), pushing him to slaughter the gathered Horde leadership right then, and was VERY put out with him when he did not, to the point where she refused to speak with him for a long time, and only young Anduin would visit her clandestinely.
The final straws for her were when the Horde seemingly abandoned their position at the Broken Shore during the Legion's invasion and left Varian to sacrifice himself to give his men a chance to escape, and when Sylvanas invaded Darkshore and set the world tree Teldrassil on fire with thousands of innocent Night Elf civilians still in the city atop its boughs.
And now you know why that final line is so chilling, so menacing, and so frightening. Her one-time advocacy for the Horde has led to almost all of the heartbreak and loss that she has suffered in her life. Nothing is going to stop her now.
I feel like you missed out Legions Harbringers and cinematics.
You just watched WoD’s lords of war. Then the legion teaser cinematic and then the expansion cinematic but then stopped there
He watched this before he started going back through chronologically. He said he'll do harbingers and also Legion in game cutscenes when he gets back from his trip
You need to see the in-game cutscene where she uses that ship.
Lore wise. Jaina essentially “betrayed” her people by siding up with Thrall and the Horde - which ended up with her father - Leader of the Kul Tirans - being killed. so she’s got some really REAL regrets.
The huge ship she’s resurrecting is her fathers warship. The mightiest in the Kul Tiran fleet.
Jaina is easily one of the best characters. Her story arc is tragic, absolutely heart wrenching. I suggest diving a bit into her back story then watching the Battle for Azeroth ingame cutscenes with her. They're all incredible, even with a much more simplistic animation style.
Each force of magic in the world has it's own color scheme too
Undeath magic and necromancy has a generally icy-bluish color
Fel magic is that sickly greenish-yellow
Arcane magic is typically purple/violet
Holy magic is typically golden/white
Shadow/void magic is blackish indigo
Nature magic is a more lush green
Can't wait for you to watch "Varok Saurfangs Mak'gora" after the Battle for Azeroth expansion trailer! Going to be such a great video!!!
(Not so)Fun fact: The "purple haze" mentioned might as well be her comrades indeed, because the ruins she is in is most likely Theramore, which was destroyed and all the people there got turned into purple dust, including some of her friends.
I don't know if anyone else brought it up but you definitely need to see the Broken Shore cinematics before moving to Battle for Azeroth.
Can't wait to see Philip's reaction to Azshara's cinematic.
It's in his wow playlist
We don't get singing much in WoW as much as it's always had great music so this was a real treat.
One of my favorite things about this song is that it is diagetic; it exists in-universe created by the sailors of Kul Tiras after Jaina betrayed her father (who was the admiral of the Kul Tiran fleets). The game has a tremendous lack of foreground lyrical tracks in general, let alone ones that actually exist in-universe, making this one unique and all the more powerful for it.
A little back story. There was a bonus Orc campaign in the Warcraft 3 expansion where you didn't build bases but you simply followed heroes around. It was the story of the founding of the Orc homeland of Durotar. As part of the campaign Jaina's father shows up and won't listen to reason. The humans who followed Jaina from the Eastern Kingdoms to Kalimdor had made piece with the Horde after they banded together to fight off the demons of the Burning Legion at the end of WC3. Her father wouldn't listen to reason and attacked the Horde and they were forced to defend themselves and they killed her father who she refused to help due to the fact that her and Thrall had a good relationship and had allied. Later when Thrall was no longer Warchief the Horde attacked her city on Kalimdor called Theramore and completely leveled it with a magical bomb killing everyone that was there. After that she no longer had peace with the Horde and understood why her father wouldn't listen to her because he was saying they couldn't be trusted no matter what. Her father was the leader of the human Kingdom of Kul Tiras which was one of the seven human Kingdoms that made up the original Alliance of Lordaeron along with the High Elves(who are now called Blood Elves and are Horde) and the Dwarves of Ironforge. Kul Tiras is one of the worlds primary naval powers. He had witnessed the savagery of the original Horde on a level that Jaina hadn't seen herself until they destroyed her city.
She brings that ship she raises to the battlefield. It's pretty epic.
Her story of a pacifist turned warmonger and then finding forgiveness in her heart (most importantly forgiving herself) to forgive the horde for their atrocities, is one of Blizzard's best. Jaina has been one of my favorite characters since Warcraft 3 and her storyline in BFA was solid as hell. Love the character, love the VA (Laura Bailey), just awesomeness all around.
Can't wait until you see the Gul'dan one!
Jaina flies that ship into the Siege of Lordaeron, blasting a magical broadside!
You have to review all the BfA cinematics now, since they lead to Saurfang’s final mak’gora.
for a quick rundown of Jaina's story, you can look up another video WoW posted, called Realm of Torment. It can spoil a fair portion of the games if you plan on playing through the warcraft series, but otherwise it can give you a quick synopsis of what she feels guilt about.
None's pointed out the simple fact of this - this shanty is clearly sung by the remnants of her people and she knows it by heart.
This style of cinematics started during Mists or Pandaria. For some reason they didn't do it for Dragonflight.
Cinematic Storyboard
arcane magic in wow is represented by purple. The far that I know the town (graveyerd in the begining) was blown up by arcane bomb thrown by the horde. For this moment forward Jaina hate the horde before that she actually simpataze the idea of peace between the alliance and the horde.
I cannot wait for you to see warbringers Azshara!
You have to do the Sylvanas one
This one is extremely hard to understand without knowing the lore. Basically it's a sea shanty because it's the backstory of The Nation of Kul Tiras. The Human Nation with the most powerful Navy. During the Second War their King Admiral pretty much won the entire war himself. While there are other heroes and factors, Stormwind wouldn't exist if Kul Tiras didn't defend them over the Naval Fights and Fight the Orcish Horde for the entire Second War. Her Father is not just the greatest hero Kul Tiras ever had, but one of the greatest heroes the Alliance ever had. I like how they depict the Second War as a sea of Orcs because the Second War originally started because the Orcs built boats to continue their War on Humanity.
I did withhold answers in the event you ever wanted to experience more of the story somehow. This gives you an idea that there is more to these videos because all of the Warbringers series assumes you played through the RTS Warcraft games.
I will say whoever has been doing the video design for Blizzard is probably the best for the past 25 years or so. Their videos stand the test of time since WC3 and even some of the old Diablo cinematics are very well done.