World of Warcraft Journey Part 6 - Legion Cinematic Reaction
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Seeing Illidan incinerate Gul Dan the same way Gul Dan did to Varian was ironic and very satisfying at the same time
Agreed 💯 😁
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Made the whole of warcraft fans cheer out loud.
Reason why I respect illidan
"The King who died for nothing" died for the Alliance. Gul'dan literally died for NOTHING!
That line from king Varian "what a king must do" and "for the alliance" before guldan killed him still giving me chills to this day
The for the alliance line definitely got to us 😢
A fun anecdote; after the cutscene with Varian's death played, there's a special graveyard for him in Stormwind City since he was their king. On many servers, even Horde players went there to kneel in front of his tombstone, even though they are the "enemy" faction. For a few days, Alliance players didn't attack the Horde players there even though they could if they wanted.
That’s a cool moment for the community ☺️
More importanly, anduins theme plays there, the best piece of music in wow
lol, depends on the server. There were quite a few where it was a warzone there for several days
lol fitting name, Bull. That's exactly what your story is beyond the graveyard part. There was tremendous animosity present at that point in time because of the two versions of the cutscene that were given showing the Horde's 'betrayal' and the reason behind it.
Reminds me of the day when Reckful died :(
Horde and Alliance went to the Chappel to pay their respects.
No one attacked each other.
Ysera's fall never, ever fails to bring tears to my eyes and pain to my soul. That being said, without that we wouldn't have the remix of Nightsong and the climax of Ardenweald and well, if you know, you know.
Legion is such an experience. Even 40 some odd minutes of cinematics doesn't begin to touch that expansion. To wield the Ashbringer is every Ret Paladin's dream come true. To stand in the Netherlight Temple as a Priest. To walk the Halls of Valor as a Warrior and be honored by Odin himself. So much in the feels.
Speaking of feels, beware the Daughter of the Sea.
Could you link the version of the song you mentioned please? :3
Ysera´s fall did hit very hard the first time i saw it. Daughter of the Sea brought back very old memorys from WC3 and those who played Frozen Throne´s bonus campaign know what i mean.
Nice little teaser there at the end with the Daughter of the Sea 😯🤔
Ysera's fall was super sad, but also heartwarming in a way since you saw Elune save her Spirit from corruption and purify the Tears of Elune afterwards.
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As always, beware spoilers in the comments. ;)
35:27 That is Alleria Windrunner, Sylvanas' eldest sister, who in this moment became the first void elf (an alliance allied race). The human dressed in gold lightforged armour at 32:51 is her husband, Turalyon, who she has a son with.
Thanks for explaining those characters to us 🙂 we were bit confused 🤗
I've moved on from this game after being a 15 year dedicated fan, but Rejection of the Gift, is the best gaming cinematic of all time.
"I am my scars", will stick with me till I die.
To me it means my imperfections, my damaged parts (physical and mental), are part of me, they make me who I am.
I’m just curious and it’ll help to gather feedback from other players. But what made you move on from the game? And what would bring you back, bring back the love for it?
I have my own project I’m working on, and I would like to make sure I’m perfecting it as I finally finish off the first step, Concept.
It’s a great line with a ton of weight and meaning behind it ☺️😎🤟🤩
@@edwardmire8134 With me it's 100% about the story. BfA really disappointed me in that regard, then Shadowlands just made me give up hope.
The next expansion will be the first I don't get. After watching the game for a few years and reading where the story goes, and not being disappointed by it, could maybe bring me back.
@@Cifer77 Oh okay well I'm 1000% sure I wouldn't have to worry about that then about my own project xD.
Anything else that would make or break the game for you?
@@eternallegacy89 A proper answer would require an essay lol. For a youtube comment, I'll just say smaller numbers are always preferable in an RPG to me. I don't want to see crits for 10,000, or 5,000,000. The number is so big it loses it's value. I'm happy living in stats with single digits, and 50 sounding like a big number.
That battle cry from Varrian as he emerges from the water and when he yells "FOR AZEROTH!" always get's me hyped!
what i like about legion is that every single class was key to defeat the burning legion: from the more pure-sided paladins ; shamans and druid to the dark power enfused warlocks and demonhunters; even the more grounded calsses like the rougue , hunters and warrior find a way to do their part at the end
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i hated the fact, that you as player become the head of your class-order. i mean, every paladin is the head of their class order.. 8000 class-order heads on each server.. players should never be in that place, always an NPC with rich story behind him. i liked it more when the player is just an adventurer that has achieved sth.. but after 15years of putting another step on top the powercreep is real and you cant just be an adventurer and his friends that brought down a dragon.
@@schippes24 as an aside, there are probably even more characters (belonging to players) than the population of the entire planet of Azeroth. Only a few percent of the world are probably supposed to be "adventurers" even.
and we Shadowpriests have the best of both worlds. Best artifact weapin above all - so cool that the persona involved is now returning to make life interesting in The War Within.
[Fun Fact: the Shadowpriest weapin Xal'atath's personality was voiced by Claudia Christian, better know as Susan Ivanova form Babylon 5]
AND we got our shadow buddies in the Ren'dorei - the VOid Elves. THe only other people who can understand us (Warlocks use fel and fire after all, no shadow)
Varian is still my favourite Alliance character in WoW. He was such a badass and a true leader to the very end.
graymane is a great character too
@@Andre-nz2xq pff Graymane is trash
He won us over in this video just in time to break our hearts 😢
Most good characters in WoW are or were Alliance from the start. Only a couple standout horde characters. Thrall, Garrosh and Sylvanas (if you can count her). Then you have a B-tier of characters that is as numerous for Horde as for Alliance. But overall, much stronger Alliance "cast".
@@MrZeuz666 Technically Sylvanas had also started out as Alliance, as the high elves were part of the original Alliance during Second War (Warcraft II). That being said she's an evil b*tch who's character had been utterly butchered by the current writing team, so who cares xD
So, one aspect with this expansion that isn't quite obvious from the cinematics is the "gimmick" of Legion: In the first cinematic, we see the armies of the Alliance and Horde get brutally defeated at the Burning Shore. They also lose their respective leaders, and both of these giant political coalitions basically go into crisis mode. They're not really fit to continue the war against the Legion. And so they kinda take a backseat.
For most of the expansion, players would instead seek out these secretive organizations focused around their respective classes. Hunters had this secret lodge high in the mountains where all the world's best hunters resided together. Paladins had a secret cathedral underneath a small church. Death Knights sought out and got the support of the new Lich King (the dude who took over Arthas was killed, if you remember), and so on and so on. These secret organizations had to come into the forefront to fight the Legion basically through special operations (it was still normal questing and gameplay, but that was sorta how it was presented narratively) because facing the Legion head-on was suicide. The class-based organizations sought out artifacts unique to each class (technically unique to each specialization within a class) and power them up by performing various things. So for the endgame of the expansion, you would run around with a single weapon instead of routinely switching from one to a more powerful one. These weapons would be used by one champion (each player was essentially presented in-universe as THE champion of their class, but obviously everyone got one) to defeat the demons.
This is why Sylvanas and Anduin were kinda in the background for this expansion, they were mostly doing damage control and trying to rebuild after the disaster of the opening cinematic, while the various class champions assumed the spotlight. Each class organization also had an NPC character who was sorta the leader of their class overall, or perhaps more accurate the mentor figure of the player character. For example Illidan was the leader for all the Demon Hunters. All the other class organizations had their own mentor figures but they were all mostly figures you would only know if you've played the game itself. They were cool, and some were big revelations that had been hidden until that time, but if I tell you their name you wouldn't know who the hell they were, lol.
Velen the Prophet is so heavily featured because he is of the same race as most of the leaders of the Burning Legion. He basically saved a small minority of Draenei who didn't want to join, and they've been hunted down ever since. This expansion basically completed his character arc, much like it did for Illidan, of course. That sigh you see Velen do at the end is the first time he could let his guard down in 10,000 years.
(As a sidenote, that dragon that first got corrupted and then basically "put down" because they couldn't save her was Ysera, the Dragon Aspect of Dreams. She was very beloved by the Night Elves, and had raised one of their main leaders as her own son, and when druids go into hibernation, they live with her in the Emerald Dream. Putting her down absolutely devastated them. But also, as she died, we see her true spirit get pulled out of the corrupted body, and put into the heavens as a constellations of stars by the Night Elven Moon Goddess Elune. Every World of Warcraft nerd cried bitter tears from that cinematic. It's super sad and very well done. It is also one of the only times we've seen Elune directly intervene.)
Thanks for explaining the dragon scene more to us. Kind of wish we got more of a build up previously because we imagine that scene was even more gut wrenching than it looked to us 😢
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames All of the questing zones in Legion (And WoD, where they started this) have a climatic final sequence. That happens to be Val'sharah's end scene. Questing through the entire zone serves as buildup, above and beyond all the times we've interacted with the Green Dragonflight over the years and expansions.
Thx bro
CRITICA LPOINT OF CLARIFICATION: Velen and the Good Eredar, later renamed Draenei, have been fleeing for 25000 years (the 10000 figure is the Legion's first arrival and sundering). The Eeedar crash landed on the planet they would call Draenor (since the Genedar ship was basically worn out after 25K) perhaps a no more than a few centuries ago. THey only fled that planet when it was clear KilJaeden had found them and there was again no other choice.. to they took the Exodar, but Kael'thas had agents aboard who wrecked the engine causing the crash landing on Azeroth's Azuremyst Isles. The Draenei have only been on Azeroth for ~20 years, and had only stopped on Draenor maybe 3 centuries ago (based on their civilzation size/growth we see).
4:35 Not just a badass... he is (or was) one of the greatest warriors the world of Azeroth has known, respected for his martial prowess even by members of the Horde, which earned him the moniker "Lo'Gosh", meaning "Ghost Wolf" in Orcish.
Ghost Wolf! Fnatastic nickname 🤩
Most shocking plot development in wow:
The draenei haven't crashed the vindicaar. Yet.
"But with our track record, it's only a matter of time."
THey didnt crash the Exodar smartass, the blood elf agents of Kael'thas aboard it Sabotaged it while in interdimensional flight - that's why it was literally shedding major sections before crashing on Azuremyst. Missing engine elements are all over Bloodmyst Isle
Yeah, Prophet Velen had a lot of character growth in Legion. To give you a bit of info, the Prophet was one of the leaders of the Draenei on Argus, their homeworld. Initially, they were named Eredar, and were led by Prophet Velen, Kil'Jaeden (big red demon guy) and Archimonde (the big guy who gets killed at the end of Warlords of Draenor). Some 25 thousand years prior, Sargeras arrived to Argus with his Legion, disguising it as a force of good while promising the three leaders power beyond their reckoning. While Kil'jaeden and Archimonde were enticed by it, Velen wasn't, and he already foresaw doom. So instead he started praying for a way to save his people, and, lo and behold, celestial beings made of pure Light named Naaru (like the one who talked to Illidan and tried to "heal" him) appeared. Most of the Eredar had already been corrupted by the Legion at that point, so Velen gathered all those he could save and with the help of the Naaru, they escaped Argus on a ship called Oshu'gun, which eventually ended up crash landing in Nagrand, on the planet that they named Draenor. They called themselves the Draenei, which in their language meant "exiled ones" and soon after discovered that Draenor was already inhabited by someone, namely, the orcs, who were natives of that planet.
And just to expand onto that a bit, the orcs and Draenei actually got along and worked together until the Legion found them again and corrupted the orcs by tempting them to drink the demons blood turning them into blood thirsty savages. This is also where the orcs on Azeroth get their green skin from as orcs originally had brown skin.
You also see a scene in Warlords of Draenor where the orcs refuse the demon blood offered by Gul'dan. This is the part where they originally drank it but Garrosh from our Azeroth gets sent to an alternate world Draenor where the orcs refuse the blood of the demons and he convinces them to unite into the Iron Horde and build the Dark Portal to invade into Azeroth. Hence the start of Warlords of Draenor.
Thanks so much for giving us more of a background on Velen so we could understand his point of view better 😀🤩
Well, so these trailers leave a bit open, so I will try to summarize to the best of my ability without spoiling future content.
1. First that should have some additional information is Sylvanas controlling the Val'kyr. Without spoiling too much future stuff, she did that mainly to save her own life. At this point we know, that after the fall of the Lich King, she killed herself. But was shown hell, where she would go. Which of course terrified her. So the Val'kyr that served the Lich King, who did not want to serve the new one offered her a deal, that they will serve her and keep her alive. She accepted and one of the Val'kyr went to hell in her stead. She died once more after that, this time costing three val'kyr. Out of Nine she was losing Val'kyr quite quickly, so she just wants to have more, that is why she was doing it there and Genn stopped her. (Also another reason might have been, that undead cannot procreate and Val'kyr can make more).
2. The Dragon in the cinematic is Ysera, the Dreamer. She is basically responsible for a place called The Emerald Dream. Which is a pristine copy of Azeroth, druids go there to learn and it should be a nice place. There is this thing called the Nightmare that corrupts it tho. And the Satyr guy that fires at here is Xavius, he is corrupted by the Nightmare and he makes her corrupted as well. Which is why in the next cinematic, you see her dying to Tyrande (the leader of the Night Elves), who she held very dear. But could not control herself. What happens to her in the end, at this point, we though the Goddess of the game that the Night elves pray to, Elune (symbolized as the moon) brought her to herself, because she is associated with Ysera. There is a lot more story there, that was revealed in current expansion, that sort of retcons or narrows a lot of stuff said before, so noone is really sure anymore .. (FYI I loved Ysera and it was a painful moment for a lot of people that we had to kill her.)
3. The character in front of the tower in Karazhan, his name is Moroes. He is the steward of its former master, Medivh. Pretty sure he was in Warcraft movie, just not undead yet.
4. Turalyon and the Army of the Light is a very long story, but basically these were the first cinematics showing, that the Light is not really "good". The fanatical part of it is just as bad as void, or the legion and such. They just wanted to show us that there isn't really a good guy, just what we do.
5. The elf getting blasted by the purple (void). Her name is Alleria Windrunner and she is one of the two sisters of Sylvanas. While her boyfriend (Turalyon) is busy obsessing about the light. She is trying to learn as much as possible about it's counterpart, The Void. So that is her, absorbing powers of the Void, technically turning into the first Void Elf. Which is a "allied race", techincally as sub-race now in WoW on the Alliance side.
6. The big cinematic about the giant stabbing Azeroth is a bit more difficult to explain. They all are Titans and they created basically everything on Azeroth and on many more worlds. (Currently they are not really the Gods, but they were treated like that in the lore back in the day). One of them, the flaming one, Sargeras is the leader of the Burning Legion. I am not sure if someone told you why the burning legion exists, but basically and quickly: Demons are rampaging across the universe, so Titans choose the strongest warrior from them, Sargeras, to eliminate the threat. He does so and locks the demons away. But during his work, he finds out, that there are more evil beings, the Void Lords. Which try and corrupt worlds from which Titans are born. (one of these worlds is Azeroth, yes the world players live on is a place in which a nascent Titan sleeps). And because Sargeras did not see a simple way to beat the Void Lords, they cannot even cross into our reality. He decides that the easiest way is to destroy every world in the Universe, because they could all be corrupted and they cannot cleanse the corruption (The corruption are The Old Gods, which are seeped deep inside of the worlds and cannot be really removed). That is why Sargeras is so desperately trying to destroy Azeroth. Because if she gets corrupted, she might bring the end of the universe and the Titans, because she is supposed to be the most powerful of them all.
7. The shiny rocks at the end are called Azerite .. and they are basically Azeroths blood, because she just god stabbed by a bigass sword. (The swords is still inside of the world by the way, we just sacrificed our very powerful weapons to make it not .. "poison" her. At least.)
Hope I helped a bit, the lore gets changed a lot. Blizzard created these books called "chronicles" to streamline the lore which was across many books. And to make sure they can still retcon stuff, they said, that the books are from the point of view of the Titans, therefore leaving themselves to changes, because the Titans do not know everything. Very lazy way to do something like that, they do not seem to be trying anymore much ...
Pretty good summary, I would add 3 pieces of information to it:
1st Ysera, the Dragon, it was already said before, but she was 1 of 5 Dragon aspects, we have seen her in elf form in the past, mostly in Deathwing act.
2nd Velen and Kil'Jaden 29:48 You can see the three of them, brothers, leaders of the Draenai. When offered power by the Legion, Archimonde and Kil'Jaden accepted the power, and became commanders of the demon army, we have seen Archimonde since Warcraft 3 many times, since he is a warrior type, leading the frontline himsele. Kil'Jaden was a strategist, who led Legion by scheming and corrupting creatures on other worlds. The Giant red guy is him, in Fel powered form, dying there, revealing that what he did, he did out of desperation since he did not believe Sargeras could ever be stopped.
3rd - A bit more about Titans, it was said in the past but there is no harm in a reminder :)
Titans are literally planets with souls, there are very few of them and finding more is the very reason of their existence. Titans "hatch" from the planet, turning into humanoid form once they awake. The pantheon at 36:00 consist of all remaining Titans.
As said, Sargeras wants to destroy all sleeping Titans? Why? Because he would rather purge the world than let Void Lords enter the reality, and sleeping Titans are easy to corrupt.
Azeroth (main planet) is a partialy corrupted, sleeping Titan, as well as a Titan with the most power within it, as such, it is the highest priority for Titans to protect Azeroth, while for Sargeras to destroy it.
Thanks so much for giving us all this background info. We were especially curious about the dragon as that part seemed to be the most random from an outsiders perspective watching this 😊🤩
Legion was the best expansion WoW ever had. No doubt WotLK was amazing too, but amount of things to do in Legion and it's lore makes Legion on top.
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Agree legion was the modern version of WotLK in my opinion, if that expansion didn't happen after wod the game would be dead, now we need legion 2.0 after shadowlands so that game can stay alive haha
Yet the sheer nostalgia keeps wotlk on the top for most wow players.
Sort of wrong. The fact that tbc matches with the level of how much they liked the expansion, legion is not topping wrath anytime soon, or ever
Panda was the most fun though
I love the Legion expanssion. The Legion has been known to have their fingers in many of the proverbial massive plot pies in the whole Warcraft Lore, only beaten by the machinations of the void beings. Here, we basically told them, "Hey, you've been trying to take over Azeroth for a while now. How about you come over and we'll show you just how bad of an idea that is!" While we see in the opening cinematics how badly they devastated us at the start, we manage to pick ourselves back up and finally turn things around, ending with us finally beating a major bad guy who has plagued us from the very start.
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Legion was truly the last great expansion for WoW. The story was great, the raids were amazing, and it really felt like it was the conclusion of huge part of Warcraft's story. The cutscene at 35:46 plays after you've defeated the final boss in the last raid and it really feels like the end of a chapter. The Burning Legion has been defeated once and for all and hey we all kinda worked together to do it. Maybe we can stop with all the Alliance vs Horde stuff and begin a new chapter against a new threat with a unified Azeroth...
LOL j/k the next expansion is about everybody hating each other again fighting over the glowy crystals that came out of the ground from being stabbed by a giant space sword.
Haha, we figured the feud would start back up again 😛
Man, I loved Legion so much! I still feel a hype for this expansion to this day, that I haven't felt since :(
Many people have expressed the same 🤗
Something cool that people pointed out before is that they took "blinded by faith" literally. You can see the eyes of Turalyon, the leader of the Army of the Light, the grey haired guy in the Yellow armor, turn from yellow to brown after Illidan destroyed Xe'ra. We think he was literally being controlled by the light, but it could just symbollic. It's interesting because it portrays The Light as the good guys no longer. We learn that it's just one more force vying for supremacy under the guise of saving Azeroth, among several factions, such the Old Gods and The Burning Legion, that sought to destroy the Old Gods. The Light is potentially going to be a big part of the next expansion (not Shadowlands, but the next, unannounced expansion).
correction, the Light is still good, but there is a tyrannical side to it. throughout the ages Light and Void have fought each other for domination of the universe, with Light always winning, but them seeking victory is what the citizens of Azeroth must prevent, as this time FREEDOM needs to reign supreme, not the Light, not the Void, not Death and not The Burning Legion.
@@UltimateGamerCC The light may be the fairer faction, but it definitely gives off the "if you're not with us, you're against us" feeling. Knowing what we know about the Mag'har race backstory and how they're building up the next expansion, I think the Light will definitely not be "good" anymore.
anyways i can't trust your opinion because you're biased, mr "Gaming Paladin" hahaha
@@wetnoodlex you're assuming that i'm a blind devotee like Turalyon, but in reality i am more like Illidan, just not as hot. :P
in any case you're right, but again that's the tyrannical side of the light, we have to convince them that dominance is not the answer, but balance and in order to get that through to them, we're gonna have to kick their teeth in.
@@UltimateGamerCC Well said. See you when we come home from the Shadowlands.
@@wetnoodlex i'll be playing like always, WoW is fun as long as you dont burnout on endgame and only focus on the true endgame, completion. :P
The thing with the Prophet Velen is he isn't guided by pure faith, he has faith but he also has the 'Sight' which grants him visions of potential futures and helps him avoid them. If it wasn't for Velen the entirety of the Eredar Race would have been corrupted by the Legion. Instead he managed to save a small portion and they became the Draenei that would eventually join the Alliance.
The dynamic between Velen and Illidan to me is more Velen has patience and wisdom, while Illidan is impatient and demands action. And they both can temper one another a bit.
Since while Illidan did accomplish a lot, he also did alot of shitty things as well, I mean hell he flip flopped between helping his people and serving Sargeras and then back to his peoples side because of his own ambitions.
Your introduction to him in Warcraft 3 basically super simplified involves Tyrande freeing him, Illidan promising "I won't consume anymore demonic magic." And then immediately goes and consumes more demonic magic. A lot of his initial choices and goals revolved around trying to impress Tyrande and woo her despite her affections laying only with his brother Malfurion.
He may try to retcon his own past that 'Every choice was to stop the legion.' But he'd be lying his ass off.
Illidan is passionate so it makes sense love is what drove him to be who he is now. Didn’t know Velen had the sight but also, you have to have faith in your sight to follow it 😊🤗
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Aye it definitely does take faith to trust in those visions. I was just trying to illustrate how he isn't completely blinded by it, and he always has tended to listen to others input as well when coming to decisions. But he is definitely very of the 'long game' mentality.
Though he's definitely not perfect and has his faults just like Illidan.
He is not lying his ass off. Oh sure, he may have done it FOR Tyrande, to save her. But his goal is still very much to stop The Burning Legion, and I bet it's very much not just for Tyrande, because frankly - It all ends if Sargeras wins. His goal is literally to destroy and remake the universe. It's not a "sort of, maybe." It's a certified "Universal re-origination requested."
(ignoring the fact that he already killed most of the other titans, and couldn't create a new universe even if he wanted to. All that's left is their spirits and some small fraction of their power - Which they used to imprison him).
@@Nyarlathotep_Flagg He is lying his ass off, back in the war of the ancients he switched sides because of his own arrogance and ambition several times. You're attaching meta knowledge to Illidan that he hasn't always had. He didn't seriously start moving to try and destroy the burning legion until after Warcraft 3 The Frozen Throne. Before then he was still doing things based on his own impulse and ambition, trying to continue to impress Tyrande before finally realizing that will never happen.
I'm not saying he didn't eventually start putting every choice to trying to destroy the legion, just that him trying to claim literally every single choice he's ever made has been with that goal in mind is his own retcon as it simply isn't true.
dont forget the "light" tried to force its will on to illidan till he laser beamed it. also the legion is doing what its doing is because the leader of the legion is trying to stop even a bigger evil known as the void lords, and he figures if he kills everything the void cant take over.
Void Lords definitely sound like trouble 😱
I have had a really shitty day.... this long awaited notification from you made it slightly better
Sorry to hear about your day. 😢 But glad the video could help make it a little better 🤗
I didn't really have a bad day yesterday or so far today, but I can definitely relate to this comment. Feels good when you see an upload you are really looking forward to.
one interesting tidbit of lore: Illidan's phrase "the hunter is nothing without the hunt" is a callback to when he died at the end of The Burning Crusade - he said that to Maiev, who had been his warden for the 10 thousand years he was imprisoned then hunted him down after Tyrande broke him out of prison, before he died
All comes back full circle 🥲
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames since you've seen warcraft3 cinematic as well, you probably realized that he also likes the "sometimes the hand of fate must be forced" phrase as well haha
Your World of Warcraft journey continues, and I am all aboard. You guys have definitely dug deep into WoW, cinematics and lore and so forth, I love it. Of course, it means you've been neglecting Final Fantasy and Elder Scrolls, but I understand. Too many franchises, too little time. Here we go with Legion! As I think I've said before, I've never actually played World of Warcraft, just the older regular Warcraft games, not a fan of online multiplayer, but I do try to keep up with the story and lore and everything through watching cinematics and reading the tie in novels, and yes, this was an awesome expansion/part of the story. Cheers!
This month is going to be heavy on WoW so we can complete our (initial journey). We are hoping to cover one franchise in depth a month. Last month was Warhammer. This month is WoW. Final Fantasy and Elder Scrolls will have their months in the future no doubt 🤗🥳
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames I hope ESO is currently my favorite game and I can't wait for you to react to more of it's cinematics.
At 22:08 that was the first time Valen referred to Kil'jaeden as a "monster" as Valen always called him "brother"; even though Kil'Jaeden had hunted Valen across the stars for thousands of years. They were best friends before Kil'Jaeden joined the Legion.
Thanks for a little insight into their history and backstory 😀
This was a lot of fun to watch with you. This playlist was also more complete than the others, so it felt like it had more or an arc. Glad you enjoyed it!
We did. And we look forward to Warbringers next week 🥳
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Yes please try to get another good playlist with a good story of videos to it. It is much more enjoyable then taking snapshots of a couple things that happened during the expansions.
"You will be warchief"
Sylvanas: "oh no.. anyway where's my torch?"
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God, Varian’s fall always brings me to the verge of a crying mess. Which makes Gul’dans fall all the more incredible. I mean serving under Varian since 2005 and watching him die in Legion was the only cinematic that made me cry from sadness rather than how epic these cinematics are.
😢🤗 Just when he was really winning us over, he was killed 😭
invading argus was epic to play. Seeing turalion and alleria again was beyond words to describe it. Probaly wows coolest love couple with a tun of backstory....and we havent heard from them in 2 DECADES...and then puff ...there they are. When the turalion and alleria story happened most wow players werent even born yet XD And then they got seperated. He became the light, she became the shadow and now their love becomes their doom as they cant be near each other anymore...
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The Legion expansion for World of Warcraft was definitely a return-to-form for the game.
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the one with illidan and guldan is especialy funny
in warcraft 3 illidan was just a normal nightelf demonhunter, but he came across a demonic relic the skull of guldan (and no, thats not metaphorically), upon touching it illidans body reacted to the demonic magic and took on the form we see him in now, he gets defeated in burning crusade then warlord of draenor happens and the alternate time guldan comes to our azeroth and uses the crystal containing illidans corpse for his own gains and then the cinematic happens and illidan holds guldans skull once again
All comes full circle 😁
Seeing the death of Varian will never get any easier to watch as well as the Night Elf parts which hit hard for me aas a Night Elf main.
If i could put Legion as an expansion into one word, it would be "exemplary".
Quality word ☺️
Khadgar: What have you done?!
Illidan: Sometimes... the hand of fate must be forced. 😎
Xe'ra: Great, Chosen One! I'm glad you feel that way!
Illidan: Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Not MY hand of fate!
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Prophet Velen is one of the most tragic characters in WoW especially when you read the books. There you know about the hard decisions he had to do to save his people. Without him, there would be no Draenei for us to play. He is a badass character in his own way.
When you go to him and help fight off the legion invading the Exodar and it ends with him realizing the enemy is his son. I wish there had been a cinematic to go along with his dialog.
😎🤟 lot of love for Velen and we are glad to see it and learn more about him 😊
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames There are a few ingame cutscenes with him in patch 7.3 Shadows of Argus. Legion was maybe the best WoW expansion for all time.
@@decayeddivinity9916 - Very true. Great quest. Deserved a cinematic.
The moment Velen comforts his brother Kil'jaeden before he passes is just...Lovely reaction, you two !
Glad you enjoyed it! 😀
You'll get a lot more of Sylvanas in BfA so don't worry about it!
Glad you enjoyed the Legion experience though, It's by far the best expansion story wise since it completely closes the case of Warcraft's biggest villain which are the demons and Burning Legion and honestly everything after Legion is just a mess, so... sorry about that in advance lmao
I don't think you guys would realize the issues with it cause you aren't a full time lore nerd like us but... BfA expansion aside from Saurfang's story is a giant mess and in Shadowlands they retconned so much that it doesn't feel like the same world anymore so yeah...
Anyway love your reactions keep it up! ❤
Yeah we have a little ignorance is bliss going for us with these so hopefully we can enjoy BFA and Shadowlands more because of it 🤗
The green dragon was Ysera, the Aspect of the Green Dragonflight and the Ruler / Guardian of the Emerald Dream, a spiritual realm of creation.
The demon who fell Ysera was Xavious, who was responsible for the corruption of the Emerald Dream, turning it into the Emerald Nightmare.
The elf was Tyrande, the High Priestess of the Moon. The love interest for Illidan and Malfurion.
Thanks for the info and answering our questions 😀
Only 2 cinematics have ever made me cry. Varian dying was one of them.
Which one was the other? 🤔
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Not sure if someone commented on 20:58, but its such an important reference for old Warcraft 3 fans. In the night elf Warcraft 3 campaign, Illidan was looking for the skull of Gul'dan (GD originally died torn apart by demons in Tomb of Sargeras) as an artifact of great power that actually allowed him to learn the Metamorphosis ultimate power. Later he is seen with the skull of Gul'dan again in the Burning Legion cinematic, and the skull is a trinket drop from him in the Black Temple raid. The fact that he crushes the skull of the time traveling Gul'dan in this cinematic is such a great move, because he already has all the knowledge he needed by now, and the only thing that remains in him now is disdain for Gul'dan.
The answer to your question about Sylvanas without making spoilers is in the intro of when you choose an Undead-Forsaken to play in-game (which is the race she leads)... "Convinced that the primitive races of the Horde can help them achieve victory over their enemies, the Forsaken have entered an alliance of convenience. Harboring no true loyalty for their new allies, they go to any lengths to ensure their dark plans come to fruition. As one of the Forsaken, you must massacre any who pose a threat to the new order, Human, Undead, or otherwise."
As you continue to journey, it will unravel the mystery further. Sylvanas is already plotting since Wrath of the Lich King, it was reveiled there but she managed to cover it up, then again in Cataclysm when she killed Genn's son in an honorless way after her defeat to the Gilnean Liberation Front patriots that defended their city and country against her sinister invasion with prohibited biological weapons, commiting war crimes that were later "forgiven" cause of her stance against Garrosh Hellscream. At Legion, she was looking mainly for power, using the horde and she is so well written till then that actual players of the game (including top world of warcraft youtubers) followed her, made excuses for her and supported her blindly. And this is where you actually are now, anything else would be a spoiler.
Thanks for explaining more about her without giving away any spoilers. 🙂
Just a tidbit of info, in WoW there exists 6 cosmic forces that is the source of all magic.
Light = Holy Magic.
Void = Shadow Magic.
Life = Nature Magic.
Death = Necromantic Magic.
Order = Arcane Magic.
Disorder = Fel Magic.
From these forces also exists several creatures that are connected to it, like the Naaru (the Light being who tried to "heal" Illidan.)
And in many ways, the Light is very similar to our world's Christianity since they believe that their way is the only way and if you disagree you are evil and most be purged.
Similarly the Void also believes it's the real path but unlike the Light who only sees one path, the Void sees countless possiblities, and assumes all of them are right.
Thanks for the info on the different sources of magic! 😀 That is something that has not been covered yet for us 😊
This is one of the better expansions for the game and there is a lot of lore scattered throughout the entirety of this expansion and a lot of cinematics that help to tie everything together for the storyline. I loved the look on Gul'Dan's face when those wings opened. Illidan was an awesome character and one of my favorite redemption arcs that was displayed.
Agreed. 😁 Glad Gul’dan got what was coming to him and long overdue
There is so much in game lore for why Ysera's (The Dragon) death is so impactful not just as a narrative tool but in the impact on me. This was a VERY rough pack of expansions for me... going from Legion which had Ysera's death (She is literally my favorite Dragon in all of fiction), going into Battle For Azeroth where in the only two characters I have as tattoos on my Body are of Ursoc and Shadra (A big ol' Bear God, and the Spiritual progenitor of all Spiders), Ursoc dying in Legion as a Raid boss (also corrupted) and Shadra being killed by her own high priestess. Then going into Shadowlands, I will hold off on spoilers since to my knowledge you haven't seen the covenant cinematics yet... but everything going on in these three expansions have been wildly emotional for me as someone whose been playing at release.
Ysera is the Progenitor, Queen of the Green Dragon Flight and steward of the realm known as the Emerald Dream. She's known as the Dreamer, for when she walks in one world her eyes are closed and fixed in the other. She raised Cenarius, the Demi-God of the Forests on behalf of her friend Malorne (who was killed by Archimonde in the War of the Ancients, a war that predates the stories established in Warcraft), who is a great stag dubbed one of the "Ancients" and a God in Nature's pantheon, and Elune (The Moon Goddess, who is with in the theology of Night Elves removed from her people physically... she is thought to have made the Night Elves but really acts as their patron).
She only opened her eyes twice in the course of the story prior to her untimely fate in Legion. Once being the birth of Cenarius and the other at the killing of her oldest friend, Malorne. The intervention of the Dragonflight during the War of the Ancients was so pivotal that even though Archimonde murdered the Father of the Forest, his doing so was what led to their defeat.
She is observed having Elune intervene on her behalf, pulling her soul out of her body and creating a constellation in her image... which is one of the only in game examples of Elune directly intervening in an event in the history of World of Warcraft.
Ysera is a character, dragons are characters too as far as we are concerned 😇, we wish we could’ve known more about before seeing this. Many have said how truly heartbreaking that scene was 😢
WOO LEGION! FINALLY! Best WoW expansion by a mile!
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OH YEAH! Illidan will always be the greatest wow character ever! Can't wait for Battle for azeroth and Shadowlands cinematics.
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@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames i haven't checked yet but did you react to "the story of illidan stormrage - full version (lore)"? also i suggest watching the video "arthas did nothing wrong". these give you tons of back story on two of the warcraft universes most beloved villains/heroes. their story is sad and epic at the same time.
I really enjoyed these reactions though the dynamic between Genn Greymane and Anduin is something that many I feel overlook.
You see ever since the Worgen were Introduced Genn Greymane and his people were cursed to become what they are and with the Night elves helping them being able to control their curse they were able to join the Alliance. Yet, before this Genn Greymane had suffered greatly. He and his people have the curse, he lost his kingdom and during a fierce battle he lost his son who took an arrow, shot from Sylvanas, that was meant for him. Despite going through much hardship, however, he managed to build a strong relationship with Varien, Anduin's father, for, despite having some difficulty in the beginning, the two manage to form a strong bond for his people and the Alliancec. So in the event of Legion and after Varien sacrificed himself Genn knew that Anduin will need guidance. So when he comforted Anduin about his father heroic actions it also reflects back to when his own son sacrificed himself to save his father. They had both lost someone precious to them by Sylvanas, and he helps them get through this difficult time.
So after all of this, the relationship they build is more of a surrogate father and son, even if it doesn't show it that way. King Greymane saw in Anduin his son likeness, albeit a little younger. But he will does what he can to help him and guide him to become a true king for the Alliance. Hence at the end when Anduin was giving his speech he was looking on in some small pride that he was able to help him. An elder wolf taking in a lone cub who had lost his kin, only to raise him so that he may lead the mighty pack.
Hope you don't mind my explanation but I think it was worth mentioning the relationship between the two.
If you are interested there is a really cool video showing what happened when the sword of Sargaras was plunged into the world and the people and creatures that happened to be near by. Would highly recommended before looking into the next video cinematic.
World of Warcraft Extinction (Sargeras Sword Impact Cinematic , End of Legion)
czcams.com/video/HQ6Ue1LKb50/video.html
If you want to watch a fun fanmade video about varian's tribute there is this also this video below.
Canticle of Sacrifice [WoW Machinima]
czcams.com/video/xnXzoSIt6_k/video.html
We certainly don’t mind the explanation and appreciate you explaining the dynamic between Greymane and Anduin more clearly to us. 🙂
Also fun lore fact - the Legion is kinda ctually the good guys. Kinda...they do waht they do to spare the universe from far worse. They saw that, the void lords and their minions, the old gods, will corrupt the entire universe into endless suffering and agony and make it a living hell. And they are so powerfull its not a question of IF but only WHEN. So the legion formed to destroy the universe and euthanise it before it can be defiled to endless torment
Everyone is the hero in their own story 🙃
I've played World of Warcraft since 2005... nearly 20 years. These are more than just characters in a story for some of us. Watching Varian Wrynn go out like that... was epic... and sad at the same time.
You can also watch "World of Warcraft Extinction (Sargeras Sword Impact Cinematic , End of Legion)". A little addition to Legion final cinematic.
On our list to check out. though we won’t get to it before Tuesday for our Warbringers reaction. 🤗
the way Varian was killed destroys the soul since fel magic consumes souls so there is no chance he will return
He fights on in the Nexus, check out "Forged by Fire", a HotS cinematic.
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Oh boy, it's going to be a long story time this time.
So, in the very beginning, there were the Titans. They are... well titanic beings who go around the cosmos ordering worlds. That is part of their lifecycle, as each world that has the potential to carry life has a soul. By ordering (i. e. establishing order on) such a world, the world soul can "hatch" and a new Titan can be born to join the Pantheon.
The champion of the Pantheon, Sargeras, was out in the cosmos looking for worlds to order and he found one which horrified him: strange, blackened creatures with indescribable characteristics had taken root on the world and had corrupted the world soul beyond recognition. Sargeras, in his desperation, destroyed the world, killing the world soul and the strange creatures as well.
The rest of the Pantheon didn't take kindly to that action, though. They argued for long, but in the end, Sargeras left the Pantheon, thinking that they were too weak to do what must be done. Which is why he started the Burning Crusade, a demonic army to destroy all of creation to deprive the strange creatures (the Old Gods, manifestations of the Void Lords in our dimension) of their sustenance. The rest of the Pantheon only caught wind of this latter act though, when Sargeras returned and struck them down.
Before he did that though, the Pantheon found a promising world soul, one that could outshine even the strongest among them. The most powerful world soul of all: Azeroth. Although, to their horror, Azeroth was already infested by the Old Gods and they were slowly but surely on their way to corrupt Azeroth. The Titans did everything they could to stop that from happening, deployed all sorts of creations and machines to destroy the minions of the Old Gods. While they succeeded, they found that the Old Gods were too deeply entrenched to be destroyed, as that would also cause Azeroth to die (as they did kill one of them, but the death of Y'Shaarj almost killed the world soul by itself). So, they left behind some of their machinery and minions to oversee the ordering of the world and imprisoned the Old Gods beneath the surface of the planet. Unbeknownst to them, the Old God Yogg'Saron, as a last act of defiance, unleached a plague called the Curse of Flesh on their creations, which eventually turned almost all of them from metal and stone to flesh, making them vulnerable to the whispers of the Old Gods.
After the Pantheon was struck down by Sargeras, he went on to search for liutenants for his army of demons whom he found 15000 years ago in the form of the Eredar on Argus. The 3 Eredar leaders, Archimonde, Kil'Jaden and Velen were visited by Sargeras, offering them great knowledge and power in exchange for service. Archimonde and Kil'Jaden accepted, while Velen refused. He recieved a vision from a Naaru, a being of Light, that he should gather his followers and depart Argus. Kil'Jaden took this as a betrayal and a personal insult, so he made it his life's mission to hunt down Velen and his Draenei (which means 'exiled ones' in Eredun). Some of Velen's followers would later break off from the Draenei to form the Army of the Light to be a thorn in the side of the Burning Legion.
And so we return to Azeroth. 10000 years ago, at the height of the Nigh Elf Empire, the Highborne, their nobility, started experimenting with magic using the power of the Well of Eternity (which was put in place by the Titans to mask Azeroth's power from Sargeras). Their attempts drew the attention of the Legion though, and Sargeras promised great power to Azshara, the Empress of the Night Elves in exchange for passage onto the world. Sargeras realised that Azeroth was extremely powerful and he wanted that power for the Legion. This leads to the War of the Ancents and the Sundering (the animation of which you saw in the Suramar cinematic). The Legion is defeated and Azeroth is saved... for a time.
Sargeras wouldn't let such an insult stand, so he had hatched a plan: use the Orcs, Kil'Jaden had had corrupted on Draenor to weaken the defences of Azeroth before the actual invasion. However, the Orcs were defeated, so he resorted to use Kil'Jaden's new "pet" Ner'Zhul as his pawn. He had Ner'Zhul's soul placed into the Helm of Domination to create the Lich King and the undead Scourge. The plan worked this time, and Azeroth was deemed sufficiently weakened to start the Legion invasion. That is the story of Warcraft 3 and you already know how it ends: Archimonde is destroyed atop Mount Hyjal as he was trying to drain the World Tree to summon Sargeras to Azeroth.
Time goes by, the stories in WoW happen and we finally reach the beginning of Legion. As you've seen in the teaser last time, alt Gul'dan stole the body of Illidan Stormrage from the Vault of the Wardens and opened a giant demonic gateway on the Broken Isles. The first cinematics depict the assault on the Broken Shore by the joint Alliance-Horde expedition. It was actually going very well before the demons sprung the trap: The Horde found itself surrounded with a narrow corridor to retreat while the Alliance relied on the Horde to cower its flank. As the cinematic shows, Sylvanas had an impossible choice to make: Stand and fight dooming the Horde and the Alliance to fail or retreat and leave the Alliance to fend for themselves.
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Sylvanas's choice left a *very* sour taste in the mouth of many in the Alliance, especially becaus King Varian Wrynn was killed on the Broken Shore. That is why you can see Genn Greymane attacking Sylvanas in Stormheim in the cinematic where Sylvanas uses a lantern to bind the Valkyrie looking lady to her. After the Broken Shore, the relationship had been tnese, to say the least, between the Alliance and the Horde, but after Stormheim, all illusion of cooperation were gone.
The cinematics show the fall and death of Ysera, the Emerald Dragon Aspect and protector of the Emerald Dream (which is basically the "blueprint" of Azeroth, as the Titans envisioned it). The villain, Xavius, uses the Corrupted Tear of Elune to bend her to his will. We are forced to put Ysera down before her rampage destroys not only our forces but the Emerald Dream as well. When she dies, Elune herself, the godess of the Night Elves intervenes and forces a solar eclipse to cleanse Ysera's soul of the corruption and take her to the afterlife (had we not recieved the atrocity that is Shadowlands, I would have said "by her side" but... we can't have all we want). Xavius is later defeated when we enter the the corrupted portion of the Emerald Dream, the Emerald Nightmare to cleanse it.
There was actually an entire patch dedicated to the lieration of Suramar and the assault on the Nighthold and it was a fun campaign to recruit the exiles and find sympathisers inside the city. Eventually we reach the top of the Nighhold where we find Gul'dan as he's trying to summon Sargeras into Illidan's body but we promptly kick his backside and Illidan finishes the job for us.
After that, we turn our attention back to the Broken Shore and assault the demon portal to cut off the Legion's reinforcements. We succeed, and even manage to chase Kil'Jaden to Argus where we finally put him down. In his final moments, Velen touches his forehead essentially forgiving him for his past misdeeds.
Khadgar teleports us back to Azeroth but we realise that Illidan forced the gateway to Argus to remain open as he wants to destroy the Legion once and for all. So we prepare an invasion of Argus. We are contacted by the Army of the Light and with their help, we establish a foothold on the world and make our final push towards Antorus, the Burning Throne. Here we find out that the Legion keeps replenishing its numbers by using the souls of the Pantheon as fuel. Argus, the world soul is their jailor. After we defeat Argus, the Pantheon start to pull Sargeras away from Azeroth, but he, as a last, desperate attempt to fulfill his mission, stabs Azeroth in the hopes that it would kill her. Obviously, he didn't succeed, but it did leave a grave wound on the world. That stuff which Anduin and Sylvanas are shown in the last cinematic is actually the blood of Azeroth.
Well... it has been a long, incredible journey, but we've reached the point where I must say that I won't be able to provide story time anymore. After Legion, the story took a nosedive in quality and it has become the habit of the writers to retcon their way out of the corners they keep writing themselves into. I'll be looking forward to your reactions to the next cinematics but I, unfortunately, won't be able to provide context for them.
Whoa! You just made our brain hurt 😂 Lot to process and such deep lore. We get why people were upset with Sylvana but at the same time, her war chief was down and she had to do what was best for the horde and their survival unfortunately. Also, why is it that in every myth, the old gods are jerks 😂
"I don't know how (Sylvanas) went from 'I'm the Warchief' to 'I'm enslaving something now' how did we get there?"
Keep in mind you're not watching a movie. You're watching the climaxes of several stories. It's fine to ask those questions, but to sense something is amiss is forgetting how much development the game's story goes through. As I've mentioned many times, if you see a character do something with someone you don't know, or you see a character you don't really know about, there's always other sources that can do the in-depth dive into said characters's lore and many of the interactions can be seen on the wikis.
In particular, the wikis tend to go into large biographies separated by separators named after things like expansion names, novel names, comics, etc. It's a great way to get context where a sudden cutscene shows it to you.
If you want the shorter answer as to what happened, Sylvanas obtained Val'kyr angels after the Lich King Arthas was slain. She lost most of them after killing herself (Due to the mentioned point of 'what happens after you get your revenge') and ending up in the deepest of Hells, and trading places there with her Val'kyrs. Here in Stormheim, she found more Val'kyrs, including live ones (Serving Odyn), and especially, the one who literally commanded them (Helya). After obtaining the lantern thing from her, she was to get immortalized or something... it gets revealed she was about to bind herself to a new master in the end, so it ended up good for everyone. Well, relatively. Not to spoil anything, but things get worse in the next two expansions.
Thanks for helping fill in the gaps for us in Sylvanas story 😀
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames I hardly grazed anything, too. This is speculation based off things that are told later in the game. Stormheim's whole story is the Alliance and Horde have a short dogfight with their airships, one of them crashes, then while there's a cooldown, the players are sent to meet a neighboring giant. The rest is all about helping said giant defeat the clan associated with the Burning Legion, all so you can defeat their leader and obtain one of the Pillars of Creation (The expansion's macguffins early on). You meet Sylvanas halfway through the story and see the cutscene. But it's not until far later when you return that it now introduces you formally to Odyn, whom you have helped, and he tells you his story, relationship with Helya, and the hell it implies.
Sorry for the wall of text!
Feel like that a fundamental problem with having a ton of lore not even in the game. I can see why that was part of the reason Pyromancer had that meltdown.
That was EPIC!!! That was just too EPIC!!!
GLORY be to Illidan!!! GLORY be to the Master!!!
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I wait the whole month for this
You won’t have to wait that long for the next one! Got a WoW triple trailer Tuesday next week 🥳🥳
This was great, even if it hurts to see the Vol'Jin death scene again. He ever was my Warchief. So sad he died so early!
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The shadowlands set you'll be watching is going to be epic
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Velen had the power to see the future for him to try and break off with illidans ways was a lot harder at first even tho he didn't have the power anymore.
I miss Legion so much so many good memories and fun expansion
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I love ur reactions. i cant wait for WARBRINGERS. *.*
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I really wish you guys have done smaller parts for this. Cause this is literally too much to explain. But I like to explain stories.
Legion is really felt like the endgame. All stories are finally connecting and makes sense.
But before breaking down cinematics....have to explain the story of Warcraft universe and Sargeras.
Birth of Universe :
In the beginning there was only Light and void, clash cause the big bang and 4 more power sources. Oder, Chaos, Life and Death.
The Pantheon :
In time, life start to born on any plants...same way first Titan was born from a planet. He's "Amanthul".
He was alone first and he searched all over cosmos for more like him. And he found 6 more and build the "Pantheon of Titans".
Quest for life :
These 7 titans have one goal. Find and help and protect unborn Titan souls. "Sargeras" was specifically task with defeat demons and void beings. He's traveling around universe imprisoning any demon he fought.
Corrupted Titans :
During his search he found a new titan world already populated with demons. When he tried to clean up the world he realises, the sleeping soul is having nightmares, negativity and hatred boiling inside him. Then a Demon told him, the Void has already corrupted the soul in oder to make a Void titan. Sargeras instantly draw his sword and destroyed the corrupted world killing the titan.
Azorath :
Sargeras return to Pantheon to inform about this void titan.. but Amanthul is furious about what he did and Banished him.
Pantheon then found another unborn Titan, Azorath, our planet. But corruption of Azorath already started.
4 void beings are fueling the soul with Nightmares. these 4 are known to be Old God's in wow history.
Amanthul instantly rips Yaksharaj from planet, but this cause a wound on planet's surface. And also Yaksharaj's blood rained over Pandaria giving life to Sha.
Pantheon then realized, best way to do is to seal remaining 3. They build artificial humans called Titan keepers to fight them on planet. (Very same plot in Eternals movie) Titan keepers create more weaker beings. And more and more beings. Eventually sealed 3 Old gods in structures.
The wound has become the "Well of Eternity", oozing blood of the titan.
Also titans gift 5 artifacts to help the war, which became the "Pillars of creation"
Fall of Pantheon :
Sargeras not having any alies, he returned to prison he created for demons and released them. And recruit them and form the "Burning Legion".
Sargeras return to Pantheon and inform about his Crusade, but Amanthul told him about Azorath. Confrontation end with Sargeras defeating 6 others and prison them.
They never told him where was Azorath, do he start spreading agents to look for them.
Argus :
While looking for Azorath, he came across another soul already being corrupted by void. That's Argus.
Argus is populated by Eredar, a race devoted to light and highly intelligent. Sargeras told the story to leaders of Eredar to recruit them.
Kiljaeden And Archimond joined the legion while prophet Velen saw the darkness and escaped to Draenor.
Instead of destroying Argus, Sargeras saw a opportunity, Argus have special power over reincarnation. Sargeras siphon this power to instantly ressurect anyone from his army. Technically use him as a battery.
Also Argus is the base of operations for Legion.
War of Ancient :
There many failed attempts to find Azorath. But eventually they found a connection.
"Well of Eternity" has evolved the races of Azorath into much intelligence races. Thus Elves born.
Elves quest for knowledge has contacted Sargeras.
Elven Queen, Ashara made a pact with Sargeras to summon his army here in exchange of knowledge. Argus story same way.
And rest of story I explained before, how Illidian and nightelves and Dragon aspects rebel against queen.
Ok to the cinematics.
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Voljin, Varian and Sylvannus you met already.
High tinker Mechatorque - leader of Gnomes who was on the robo mech suit.
Genn Greymane - leader of Wogens, (Wogens are technically warewolves, long story)
In cinematic Guldan was send to Azorath (if you remember end of Draenor ). Guldan open the gates of Tomb of Sargeras ( this is where Agewynn sealed the body of avatar of Sargeras, I explained in last wow video). And Horde and Alliance joined forces to face the invasion.
"Voljin" got stabbed to death, made horde retreat and eventually King "Varian" sacrifice himself.
(There is reason to this attempt to fail, the alliance SI7 unit tasked with tactics for this battle. But a dreadlord process 'Spymaster Shaw" to lead this trap, he was saved later.)
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Voljin die because if poison, and Sylvannus named as next leader because someone Whisper voljin to do so. It is Muezzala, the god of death actually whispered him.
Bain bloodhoof - current leader of Taurens.
Lothemar Theron - leader of bloodelves.
Gallivix - Leader of Goblins.
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During events of Legion, Sylvannus and Genn got into a side fight. They always hated each other.
While players looking for "Agis of Aggramar" on of pillars of creation, Sylvannus met with Helya, Helya is titan keeper control over hell.
Sylvannus stole a lantern from hell which allows to bind Valkyr to her will. And Valkir can bring back dead. She tried to enslave "Eir" queen of Valkyr. Which Genn destroy the lantern.
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Players looking for 2nd pillar of creation. The "Tear of elune". "Xavius" found it before us and use it on Yesara. The Dragon aspect of life (present in previous cinematics too). And enslaved her.
Xavius - key figure during war of Ancient and left hand man of Queen Ashara. He was fallen to legion portal during war and tortured for 10k years Nd became powerful demon.
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Yesara is defeated and Tear of Elune acquired.
Tyrande also present in cinematic.
Tyrande - leader of nightelves, former love interest of Illidian. Wife of Illidian's brother Malfurion.
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Suramar story is self-explanatory.
One thing is that power they use to form the shield is one of Piller of creations called "eye of Amanthul". For 10000 years Suramar thought outside world is destroyed by legion.
Thier change from Nightelves to Nightborn.
First Arcanist Thalysra - the person giving monologue. She will become leader of Nightborn.
Queen Ashara also can be seen in cinematic.
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Another Side event, "Moroes' help legion to take over towers of Karazan, hoping it will give him his master back. So Kadghar have to clean up again.
Moroes - personal servant of Medive. He loved Medive as a parent. When Medive battle Kadghar, Medive absorb Moroes lifeforce killing him.
Later Moroes return as a undead.
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In Karazan, Kadghar find a message left by "Turalyon", who was missing for years.
Message was embedded to a heart of dead Narru.
Turalyon - one of first Paladins, the hero of the 2nd war of humans Vs orcs. Best friend of Kadghar. Member of Sons of lothar. A faction create to protect Azorath from orcs.
Turalyon and his elven love "Aleria windrunner" disappeared years ago hunting legion.
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Meanwhile Guldan's attempt to make Illidian into Puppet ruined by players and Illidian returns.
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You can see all 12 class leaders...and that too much to explain.
The red demon is Kiljaeden. And he's referring about events of Argus.
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Meanwhile "Anduin", prince of alliance go retrieve his father's sword.
Genn and Velen are also present in cinematic.
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Tomb of Sargeras fight end when we Finally confront Kiljaeden in Argus.
Kiljaeden defeated, Illidian use the "Sargarite keystone" to make a gateway to Azorath from Argus.
Velen show the future to Kiljaeden before he explodes.
And later they found, Illidian had created permanent portal between planets.
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So we ventured to Argus, take the fight to them.
There we meet Army of the light, a faction did not escape Argus but stayed and fought pledge Thier ultimate loyalty to light. And been fighting for more than 1000 years
"Turalyon" now act as general of army of the light.
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Army of the light use the heart of Narru to ressurect her again. Xiera, the prime Narru of army of light.
She had a prophecy that Illidian will be greated lightforge warrior.
You can see "Turalyon" there now forged by light too.
"Aleria" is also present In the cinematic.
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Another side story. The Lura, the Narru who was on ship now consumed by void..Aleria tried to save Lura but instead all powers transferred to Aleria.
This is cool cause her Husband is lightforge and she's now void forged.
Alleria windrunner - elder sister of Sylvannus windrunner.
(Missing Cinematic) - we saved the prisoned souls of Pantheon. And they broke the final seal to release the Argus' soul. But his soul is too broken and he need to killed.
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After Argus dead, Pantheon use his energy to summon Sargeras back to Pantheon.
Illidian stays to finish his deals with Sargeras.
Just when we know, Sargeras was already here watching over Azorath secretly.
He tried to kill Azorath just before he got pulled back.
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The war is over, "Anduin" finally people at Varian's funeral.
"Spymaster Shaw" bringing news about Azerite.
The wound cause by Sargeras sword causing life blood of titan to flow. A powerful mineral.
Spymaster Shaw here is not possed one, he was saved.
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On Horde side, "Bain bloodhoof", "Sarufang" are celebrating the victory while "Gallivix" showing Sylvannus about Azerite.
Nathanos brightcaller is also present in this cinematic. (Red eyes human)
He's Sylvannus love interest and known as greatest simp of Warcraft.
So why was Sylvanas essentially chosen by the god of death to be the next warchief? Because it seems she leads them down a much darker path from what we’ve heard (and seen a bit already for our reaction next week Warbringers 🤗)
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Well it really play part In Shadowlands story, BFA is only teasing Sylvannus true goals.
But as many players. I will also say, Story in Shadowlands is kind of not well written.
For now I'll say,
The one who whispered is Muezzala, Not Bhonsambdi which you will meet soon.
He's actually not a god, Loa of dead. Loa is name give to gods worship by Trolls and Nightelves.
Loa is someone blessed or empowered beings, by power entities like Titans..... I'll explain when Rezan or Bhonsambdi showup in a cinematic.
There are many Loas,
So they are not specifically good or evil.
(Similar to Hindu gods)
Loas did play big role in stories but mostly side characters until Battle for Azorath.
Wohoooooooo was waiting for this for a long time ! amazing amazing reaction for both of you ! :D
cant wait for part 7 - battle for Azeroth !
Next week is part 7 Warbringers 😁
No matter how many times I see Ysera's death, it always brings tears to my eyes.
Many have said the same 😢
Darn it, I was writing a comment towards the end of the video and CZcams jumped to another video, not saving what I'd written. AARGGHH!
But yeah. As disjointed as this must still be for you, it's still possible to follow this story through to the end, and it honestly is only the second (perhaps third) time in the history of WoW that it feels like an ending to something. And yes. It's so epic!
And obviously it's even more deep when you know all the underlying lore. Legion was so huge, and lots of it connects back up to 20 years of story. All of these clips make me emotional in some way! The fact that Legion is sad is part of why it's so good. It continously feels like there are things at stake for real! Characters are actually killed off etc. It's good writing!
There's more "pretty decent" stuff to come for you (BfA has great cinematics at least), but I'd just say that unless WoW and Blizzard turns the boat around and gets the glory of WoW back. I'll just consider the end of Legion my headcannon ending of WoW. Will be interesting to hear what you think of the direction of the story going forward considering your desire to understand Sylvanas better. Outside perspective and all that.
Love this though! Peace
We appreciate you rewriting this for us 😀 We got most of the story through these scenes but obviously there were still characters who we had no clue who they were and didn’t really comprehend the significance of the dragon dying. We just hated seeing that even without knowing. And yes, the fact that this expansion can make us go through a rollercoaster of emotions is why it stands out so far to us 🤩
I never played legion, but i heard from several people that its the best expansiom after the burning crusade
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There were a few cutscenes missing. The ones about Illidan's youth explain his motivations and the ones about Velen explain who Kil'jaeden, Archimonde and Sargeras are. The ones about Agrammar, Eonar and Argus would have also explained who the Titans are.
There are some good videos out there it seems they go deeper into Illidans story that we want to check out after all this. 🙂
Awesome sauce that you are actually watching the patch cinematics for a chance to understand the world a little bit more 💯💯👍👍👍
We can’t get them all in right now but it helps give us a little bit more context for this. After our initial journey we plan to watch the 23 minute timeline recap 😇
I LOVED Suramar when they released it, and as the xpack progressed you slowly liberated it from the legion and blizzard dropped the ball because Suramar City would have been awesome as a capitol city. When i played wow, i was horde, But i always respected Varian Wrynn, He was an honorable man. Also i noticed you guys liked his sword, Its called the Shalamane, its the result of 2 night elf weapons being magically fused. Shalla'tor and Ellemane.
Also, idk if i mentioned this or not, but i love you guys! i always look forward to your videos!
Sadly, it's as an Alliance main one of my grip with Alliance. Varian was honorable and respectable, but wouldn't shy away from violent actions and things like that. And while I love Anduin as a character, like the golden boy, etc... I do think it would have been a better narrative to have a bad Alliance leader, rather than a saint, after Varian.
In short, I love Anduin, but I think another character would have been better for the overall story of the game.
His sword was amazing! 🤩 he could use it as one or break it into two it looked like. 😀
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames Yep, and one other thing about breaking the weapon in two. Only one with true honor could split the weapon into it's two individual halves. Hence why in Battle For Azteroth when Anduin gives that weapon to Saurfang to face Sylvanas in the Mak'gorah Saurfang was able to split the weapon into it's two halves, because he was an orc that had true honor within him,
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@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames yeah, i always loved that about his sword! i wish more video games had swords the player could use that are like that.
all cinematic of legion... is so insane!
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35:14 and THIS is why Illidan is the biggest bad ass in WoW.
He basicaly told the "Angel" of ligth to go fuck themselfs.
Agreed. Best moment 😎🤟🤩
Agreed. Best moment 😎🤟😈
A lot of the scenes in Legion make little sense without playing the Legion campaign itself as they are the final climax of each individual zone. Going forward, this is a typical move from Blizz to reward the players for completing a zone's main questline and while it's awesome, it's not really conducive for a cinematic watchthrough.
So with that said, lets boil down a couple things we see here, hopefully it'll help put things more into perspective.
First up, the scene of Sylvanas vs Genn Greymane. This is a crossroads of several storylines, one beginning in the Worgen starting zone of Gilneas, another beginning at the events of Wrathgate from Wrath of the Lich King, and the third storyline beginning in Stormheim, one of the zones of the Legion expansion. In short, Sylvanas is attempting to mind control the precursor of the Val'kyr, a species capable of crossing the border between life and death, for a purpose you'll learn more of in future expansions. Genn Greymane of course has an unending hatred of Sylvanas for killing his son in Gilneas years ago (this event is part of a questline, not a cutscene, so you wont know this without playing it yourself as a Worgen starting character.) Well you see how it goes. Genn survives, if you're worried about his wound. First thing we're told after the cutscene as Alliance is that his poisoned wound is not lethal.
Second thing we have here is the Satyr throwing the red gemstone at the green dragon and the following scene where she dies. This dragon is Ysera, one of the four remaining Dragon Aspects of Azeroth, who as you may recall lost all her powers at the end of the Cataclysm expansion after killing their wayward brother Deathwing. The Dragon Aspects have never had a good run in Warcraft. Alexstrasza the red dragon aspect was enslaved by the Orcs in Warcraft 2, Neltharion the black dragon aspect became Deathwing during the War of the Ancients 10,000 years ago, Nozdormu the bronze dragon aspect becomes Muruzond the "infinite" dragon aspect and attempts to kill himself from a point in the future to change the timeline (We end up killing him at some point, but Nozdormu is still around until that moment when he becomes Muruzond, so he's both dead and not. A curious case.) Malygos the Blue dragon aspect lost most of his dragons during the War of the Ancient and the loss drove him mad. In Wrath of the Lich King, we need to kill him or he would have turned all magic on Azeroth against the inhabitants of Azeroth, as Malygos was the "Aspect of Magic" and believes no mortal should possess magical power.
And finally, Ysera of the Green dragonflight, the little sister of Alexstrasza. She bears an intrinsic connection to the Night Elves and the Emerald Dream, a mirror world of Azeroth where the world remains untouched by thinking lifeforms, so nature has grown wild and free. The Satyr, Xenagos, uses the corrupted Tear of Elune in an attempt to dominate her like the orcs did to her sister before, and the Night Elves are forced to slay her before she annihilates the Emerald Dream. At the end there, you can see Elune, the Moon Goddess of the Night Elves, reach down and bring her spirit to the stars. It's all in all very sad, very emotional and beautiful. A tragic loss. And yes, we kill Xenagos, he gets his comeuppance for this.
I dont need to explain the Suramar scene, it's pretty straightforward. The "second coming of the Legion" is concurrent with everything else happening in the Legion expansion, Suramar was shielded until the first content patch opened the zone and it is a GIANT city, it's one of the best zones ever made by Blizz in my opinion.
The scene with the odd undead guy: That is Moros, the Majordomo of Kharazhan. Kharazhan is the ancient tower of Medivh, the Guardian. Khadgar now owns it being his apprentice and rightful heir to the title of Guardian, but as you recall from the Harbinger short, Khadgar refuses that temptation. Kharazhan however is a tower of many magical secrets and the Legion wants them, so they invade. The cutscene was there to introduce the patch that involved the events of that tower where we rush around to stop the Legion from taking control of the place. It's quite unique, the magics of that place are wild and you end up shrinking down to the size of ants at some point and fighting regular house spiders as these massive enemies and a small mana wyrm is a bossfight.
The glowing yellow crystal is the "Heart of Xera" and bears a message from Turalyon. Khadgar, Turalyon and the elf chick that turns inky black later on (named Alleria) were part of a band of warriors called the Sons of Lothar during the events of Warcraft 2, and they pushed an assault through the Dark Portal to end the Orc threat once and for all. Things went wrong, Ner'zhul panicked and enacted a ritual that tore his planet apart. The Sons of Lothar stayed behind on Draenor to shut down the portal on their side and prevent the chaotic energies ripping Draenor apart from channeling through the Dark Portal and ripping Azeroth apart as well. Turalyon and Alleria got sent through time and space and ended up with the Army of the Light while Khadgar was left behind on Draenor until the Legion attacked during the Burning Crusade expansion (wow's 1st expansion). So Khadgar knows Turalyon's voice and visage, hence his vow to help his old friend.
Gul'dan getting killed by Illidan is awesome. This is the culmination of our campaign in Suramar, and we liberate the city from the Legion. With this, we've also collected the five artifacts we need to end the Legion's assault, which leads us to the next scene and Kil'jaeden (big red dude) having none of that and unleashing a full scale assault on us. This is the dawn of the next big content patch where we have to assault the Tomb of Sargeras where the Legion is staging its attacks from.
The scene with Anduin finding his father's place of death is part of an optional minor quest that begins with you, the player, finding the locket that Varian lost in the ocean when the airship crashed, leading to you bringing the locket to Anduin, then Anduin goes running off to the island all this unfolds at and this cutscene happens. Notice how the sword glows with holy light when Anduin wields it, vs the primal red energy that came from Varian holding it. In the Legion expansion, "Legendary weapons" was the main shtick to lure in players and keep them interested, with every single class and subclass having their own unique weapon(s), carrying some of the most legendary weapons like Ashbringer, Doomhammer and the Scythe of Elune. Of course, Varian died right in front of the entrance to the afforementioned Tomb, so you can sort of make that out in the background.
Illidan, Velen and Khadgar on Kil'jaeden's ship above Argus is actually the final section of the Tomb of Sargeras raid, the scene plays after the final bossfight (which is, surprising noone, Kil'jaeden himself.) As you see, Illidan forces the barrier between Azeroth and Argus open and now we're forced to attack Argus itself or Argus' hordes of demons will pour onto Azeroth uncontested. But we've just killed Argus' last leader, Kil'jaeden, leaving only Sargeras the Fallen Titan and he rarely shows his ugly mug.
The next scenes are part of the assault on Argus, and mostly are character building for Illidan and Velen who are the main two characters you follow as you assault Argus. Velen used to live there and Illidan is the first Demon Hunter, so they both have their reasons to go there but their characters are wildly different and rub off on each other in different ways. Illidan may seem like an undisputed badass, but even he has his own things to contend with and Velen is nothing if not wise, which leads to the two bonding and befriending during this war. And obviously you can tell Illidans influence on Velen during the cutscenes.
As for Xera... she's proof that The Light is not synonomous with Good. The Light opposes The Void, the two forces are like matter and antimatter, they're highly unfriendly towards one another. Having said that, The Void and its subservient force, Shadow, can be wielded in any myriad of different ways and in fact, Priests (the playable class in WoW) are capable of wielding Light and/or Shadow magic depending on which of their three subclasses you choose. Light and Shadow are two sides of the same coin, that being existence itself. Anyway, The Light is not Good and Holy, it's purely pragmatic and instill in its followers bravery and fervor, turning them into zealots. Illidan will have none of that and Xera is annihilated. Luckily for us players Naaru can never truly die, as they are just solid light. So her fragments are used to further empower Azeroth's champions to end the threat from Argus.
Illidan remains to fight Sargeras. Those big people there are Sargeras' brothers and sisters, the Titans. The Titans are said to have been the ones bringing Order to the vast cosmos, and in fact are the beings who gave life to Azeroth by attacking and sealing away the Old Gods that corrupted the planet. Dwarves, Gnomes, Dragons, Humans and even Orcs owe their lives to the actions of the Titans, though how and why that is can be an essay for another time. Illidan's quote "The hunter is nothing without the hunt" is a repeat of what he said when he died in The Burning Crusade expansion when we kill him atop the Black Temple, and Maiev Shadowsong, the Warden who was hunting him, admits that Illidan was right. She felt empty without having her prey anymore. In this scenario however, Illidan is the hunter chasing down Sargeras.
Sargeras' sword impales Azeroth. The sword is massive, someone calculated it to be around 4 kilometers long. That strange crystal they find? None of the cutscenes reveal what it truly is, only that its name is Azerite. It is the blood of Azeroth.
See, Azeroth is a Titan like Sargeras and the guys who jail him for Illidan to fight. Possibly the strongest Titan in existence, but she is still not born. Azeroth is her egg or cocoon. Sargeras wanted to kill her before she is infected by the Void Lords' creations, the Old Gods, which are even now corrupting her from the inside like tumors (you'll see more of those soon). The Legion has always been his attempt at this, and it has failed at LEAST five separate times.
Sorry for the essay and hope it was educational.
Thanks so much for giving us some more context for these. 🙂 Some of the scenes we were losses in for sure but others like Gul’dan getting wing smashed were quite satisfying even without all the proper context 😁
The crystal they found at the end is cal Azerite, is crystalized blood that comes from the titan that is being cradle inside the planet (like the Celestials in the MCU) that started pouring out after Sargeras stabbed the planet.
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Love it, cant wait for you to check out all the Battle for Azeroth cinematics, hopefully youll watch ALL of them. like, the cutscenes, the CGI Cinematics AND the Warbringers animations, Jaina, Azshara and Sylvannas. It's some of the best cinematics in WoW IMO
Also, Illidan is one of my top fav chars in WoW and The Gift cutscene (where he blasts the hell out of Xe'ra) is amazing
Warbringers is next week. 😎🤟🥳
Illidan is by far my favorite warcraft character since warcraft 3, his story is amazing. I know you guys would love it, theres kinda a mash up video explaining it all.
We plan to explore his story more for sure 🤩
The legion content in WoW was so good.
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Illidan is my absolute favorite character through out the wow (world of warcraft) series. Ever since I started playing and witnessing the stories and getting to know his background just tugs at the heart strings.
We want to dive more into his story for sure as he was one of the standouts for us 🙂
I do wish somebody made a sort of a description to read in between the cinematics so as to explain what happened in each one or what led to the cinematic as some things just don't connect, such as when you saw Eyir being subjugated by Sylvanas and then right after we get Ysera being corrupted by Xavius, a complete set of different characters / story within the expansion, and right after Ysera's death without any info on what happened between her corruption and her untimely demise
Actually a short little run down inbetween cinematics to recap what we missed or need to know would be super helpful. Maybe there are videos out there like that 🤔
The big guys towards the end are the Titans who allegedly created everything. They're like gods. Sargeras (the sword guy) is one of them who gone rouge, and in charge of the whole legion.
Whenever I've played through Legion content I'm always inconsolable after having to kill Ysera. I'm so glad that's she's quietly the wild seed at the focus of the Ardenweald story. And in Dragonflight she briefly returns to mortal plane to bolster her daughter Mirithra to take her role as Green Dragon Aspect. Ysera wasn't supposed to go Ardenweald, but Elune passed her sister the Winter Queen.
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thanks for making me cry guys, i forgot how sad legion was...
We didn’t realize how sad it was 😢😢
glad you enjoyed it, i would love to answer all your questions but the youtube character limit on comments would prevent from doing so properly, suffice to say the lore of the WoW universe is vast, and complex, as well as being an utter dumpster fire of hot garbage due to the number of times they have tried to rewrite certain things, or alter how stuff that happened in the past works now, changing entire storylines in the lore so that the gameplay actually makes sense, in all honesty, it's a mess, and would take a massive amount of time to explain fully in detail each individual aspect of the lore as it pertains to this series of cinematics.
The different timelines make it confusing as well 😂 But we are trying our best and there is so much out there for WoW that we aren’t in danger of running out of content to check out 😊
Awsome , enjoyed it as allways have a good rest of the week :)
Thanks! You too. ☺️🤗🥳
you embody the reactions i had as a player so well. legion was an amazing exspation and so utherly heartbreaking. when ysera got corrupted and killed i cried so hard.
😢🤗 this expansion was so incredibly sad
Shadowlands waiting room …😂
Haha, gonna be a bit as it’s the last one, but it’ll be this month (December) as we are doing one WoW video a week 🥳🥳
I really love how kil'jaeden literally hangout on sargeras :D 23:24
varians death still makes me tear up
It was a super powerful moment and got to us more than we expected 😢
RIP Varian Wrynn, he was a good man and an excellent king. Legion was a great expansion, possibly the best, Class Halls, Class and Spec based Artifact Weapons that grew in power the more you played, Demon Hunters were playable and then we got to kick ass alongside Illidan.
We would love to play alongside Illidan 🤩
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames well you kinda get to in Legion, he gives you some tasks to do at least. XD
In the Game Prophet Velen has a sad moment in legion invasion on draenei City. In the end when we kill the last Boss is the Velen son and he have a conversation Remember the vision he had with that place long ago. I recommend Illidan Lore for react he have a separate history u can see every detail of him life.
Yeah we plan on doing a separate Illidan video or journey to explore him more in a deep dive 🥳
Oh man this was the best xpac. Resolved storylines ten plus years in the making. I miss it.
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Legion was the last time I truly felt an emotional connection with the game. Amazing expansion on every level. I still play today but it's not the same and I am definitely not emotionally connected to the game anymore. Its more about socializing with friends in dungeons and raids (which were far better in Legion).
😎🤟☺️ have heard more WoW players are gravitating towards Final Fantasy 14 now 🤔
Absolutely agreed, so many good memories with this expansion
This expansion was the final good one. After this, it's all pretty much downhill, although the bits involving the Fourth War in BfA were good. It just didn't last and halfway through THAT expansion it got pretty dumb. Shadowlands is just a mess :P
All my opinion of course, but for one who has been playing these forever and knows how to write good fantasy... Blizz has dropped the ball after Legion.
The coolest part about Legion was the artifact weapons, so you could find and wield legendary arms from the history of Warcraft, like the Doomhammer, or the Ashbringer, and power it up to enhance your character. That and the demon invasions were cool.
Also: Varian Wrynn will always be my King. FOR THE ALLIANCE!! That Alliance Broken Shore cinematic is where men cry :(
Check out the Forged in Fire cinematic for Heroes of the Storm after this, it's a very nice tribute to this heroic man, who still fights on in the Nexus :D
After the Broken Shore bits:
#1: in Stormheim, which is a viking themed zone where the Titan Keepers there are modeled after the Norse gods, Sylvanas makes a deal with Helya to gain a special spirit lantern, that will allow her to bind Eyir, the patron of the val'kyr (basically valkyries, Sylvanas has a few undead ones that serve her) to gain new val'kyr to keep the Forsaken from dying out as a people. Genn Greymane, the wolf boi, is the King of Gilneas, a kingdom that borders Sylvanas' lands, and in a prior expansion she had invaded and ended up killing Genn's son to buy time for her escape, so he has ALWAYS held the BIGGEST grudge against her. That line at the end, taking away her future, was very much poetic justice.
#2/3: in Val'Sharah, land of the druids and untamed nature, the evil satyr Xavius is corrupting the land from the World Tree Shaladrassil, and turning the Emerald Dream into the Emerald Nightmare. He ends up obtaining the Tear of Elune, the Night Elves moon goddess, and corrupts it with his Nightmare power, using it to pierce Ysera, Aspect of the Green Dragonflight and defender of the Emerald Dream, and corrupting her as well. The players end up having to fight her and kill her, but as she dies, her spirit is redeemed by Elune and set in the stars as a constellation.
#4: the Nightborne are an offshoot of the Night Elf race, called the shal'dorei, who have been... altered by their reliance on the Nightwell to sustain their immortality. They are infused with arcane power, but the drawback is that without a constant renewal of power within them, they quickly wither into mindless zombie-like beings (the sin'dorei, the Blood Elves, know this pain very well, as they experienced it when their Sunwell was destroyed by Arthas). In Legion, the leader of Suramar, Grand Magistrix Elisande, sold out her people to the Legion in return for 'safety', but when you make deals with devils, things don't go well for you, especially when they're literal devils. The lady telling the story is Arcanist Thalyssra, whom you meet in the course of the story and aid her in fomenting a rebellion in Suramar to drive out the Legion and their collaborators amongst the shal'dorei.
Suramar is also the home city of Tyrande Whisperwind, and Malfurion and Illidan Stormrage. They grew up there and faced the first invasion of the Legion there.
#5: the Return to Karazhan was a revamped version of an old raid dungeon with lots of cool changes to fit the new story. Karazhan is the tower of the former Guardian, Medivh, who summoned the Orcs to Azeroth in the First War when he was corrupted by the soul of Sargeras, master of the Legion. As the home of an archmagus, the tower is full of all kinds of crazy magical topographies, traps, and puzzles, in addition to a grand opera hall where plays are held and banquets laid out. There's an MC Escher type portion to get through in there too, as well as a Battle Chess fight like from Harry Potter 2. The dead guy speaking is Moroes, Medivh's former chamberlain who oversees the running of the household, and still does in undeath :P
#6: the quest for Light's Heart, that big crystal doodad, gave us a message from the General of the Army of the Light, Turalyon. He was a Paladin, one of the first, who served under Uther the Lightbringer in the Second War, and journeyed with Khadgar to Draenor to close the Dark Portal, but he and the others stayed behind to hold off the Horde and were trapped there. Turalyon and Alleria Windrunner (Sylvanas' older sister) had disappeared by the time we returned to Outland in the 1st expansion, but here we find they joined the Army of the Light, an interstellar force that fights the Burning Legion however it can. Xe'ra, the Prime Naaru, shot her heart (hence Light's Heart) to Azeroth to join everyone together to fight the Legion. This was a HUGE moment for players as the last we'd heard of Turalyon was hints in TBC 12 years before, and what we knew from Warcraft 2.
#7: Gul'dan is confronted in the Nighthold of Suramar, a big raid where players had to confront both the Grand Magistrix and him, and yes, he does die once and for all here. Illidan made QUITE sure of that.
#8: The Tomb of Sargeras: So we as players had assembled all the Pillars of Creation, which would allows us to close the portal at the Tomb of Sargeras where the demons were pouring through, but Kil'jaeden, one of Sargeras' top lieutenants and once a great friend of Velen's, initiates a large invasion, and we ended up having to battle our way up to his ship to face him. The burning green flame with the deep voice is Sargeras himself, a fallen Titan who was tasked with jailing the demons he found, until he saw a Titan world-soul corrupted by the Void Lords, and instead freed the demons and created the Legion to fight them, reasoning that if he killed all life, there'd be nothing for the Void Lords to corrupt. Not exactly sane, but the Void Lords are no fucking joke either, so... it's tough to really blame him. It's like looking on the true face of Yog-Sothoth or something and knowing that you're going mad, but there's nothing you can do to stop it. Of course WE don't like him cause he's trying to kill US, but in the big picture... what plan do WE have to stop the Void? :P
#9: pretty self-explanatory, the moment where Anduin becomes MANduin :D
#10: Illidan used a powerful Legion artifact called the Sargerite Keystone to open a portal to Azeroth, and ended up bring the whole damn planet of Argus with him. Argus was made the Legion capitol world after Kil'Jaeden and Archimonde sold out the eredar to Sargeras, and is where their seat of power lies. Illidan reasoned it'd be a whole helluva lot easier to take the fight to the Legion if they were in orbit instead of halfway across the galaxy :P It is important to note that Argus is the original homeworld of the draenei as well, as they were once eredar (draenei means Exiled Ones), and that 'going home' is very bittersweet.
#11: the Draenei have advanced crystal technology that combines tech with magic, and since the Exodar had crash-landed on Azeroth, they have been building a new ship: the Vindicaar. This is how we get to Argus to face the Legion on their home turf. Illidan is VERY much an 'ends justify the means' kind of guy, and is disdainful of anyone else who isn't willing to sacrifice everything to fight the Legion as he has. He endured untold suffering and constantly fights the demon inside of him that grants him his Demon Hunter powers in order to fight fire with fire, and everything he has done, questionable or not, has always been with the Legion's end in mind.
#12: The "Rejection of the Gift" cinematic is also very powerful, and foreshadows the authoritarian side of the Light, which is part of a scenario in BfA where Exarch Yrel (from Warlords) started forcibly converting everyone on that alternate Draenor into the ranks of the Lightbound, a fanatical zealot army under the command of the Naaru known as the Light Mother (Xe'ra). Religion tends to ruin everything no matter what world you're on :P Hearing Illidan shout "I *AM* my scars!" was so powerful. He's not looking for redemption, and he's not looking to be made into a tool. Everything he's done, good and bad, has made him who he is, and he's willing to bear that burden to the end, on HIS terms. That's badass right there.
#13: Alleria Windrunner, wife of Turalyon and older sister of Sylvanas, attempts to stop the darkened Naaru L'ura from calling more void monsters to Argus by absorbing its power, which she has done before in smaller amounts with her growing mastery of shadow magic, but the dark Naaru's heart is more powerful than she realizes and it.... changes her. First of the Void Elves, the ren'dorei, she uses her power to aid the others in stopping the Legion, though they are wary of the effect it has on her (as the Void is analogous to Lovecraftian style shit).
#14: this is the Seat of the Pantheon, the place where the Titans (those big dudes) ordered the Universe and searched for other Titan world-souls (Titans are born from planets.) Argus was actually a Titan as well, although tortured and twisted by the Legion (we had to fight him in another big raid). Long ago, the Titans were killed by Sargeras, but their spirits were saved by one of their own, Norgannon, who tried to infuse them in the Keepers of Azeroth that they'd built. It didn't work very well, but well enough to keep them... existent. Sargeras discovered they were still living when he arrived and took their spirits to Argus to torture and corrupt them (which he ended up doing to Aggramar). Eventually though, we freed the Pantheon from captivity and enabled them to reincarnate at the Seat, where their combined power sealed Sargeras within, effectively ending the Burning Crusade, and giving Illidan the final battle he so desperately craved. Argus and the Seat were sent far away, leaving only a red star in the sky to mark their departure.
Whoa 🤩🤩 Thanks so much for sharing this wealth of knowledge and helping explain the story we watched even more 😀
Also Anduin to Manduin gave us a good laugh 🤣
@@DefinitelyNotDefinitiveGames I went trough the comments for about 30m ago some good Warcraft loremaster to compliment everything that was left between the scenes. I'm so satisfied with our game community willing to explain to you more and more about this brilliant, exciting and beautiful story that Blizzard has made. I love your reactions guys and i hope you've enjoyed this whole adventure as much as i've done with you.
I love your reactions, especially the World of Warcraft videos! Thank you for making them!
Our pleasure! Have even more coming this next month 🥳🥳
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Yup teared like a man when Ysera (dragon) died. Loved your reaction to Legion though. Ysera was a huge deal in the World of Warcraft Lore as being an aspect of the Dream. She was loved by all the Night Elves. Yeah i cried hahaha
We only saw the dragon and got misty eyed. Can only imagine the feels it brings on knowing more about Ysera 😢
The corrupted green dragon was Ysera, which could also be seen as one of the dragon aspects in the Cataclysm cutscenes. The Night elf that killed her was Tyrande, a powerful priestess which in her past was Illidan's love subject (Until he was banished for using Fel magic, i.e. becoming what he is now). Tyrande was also Ysera's friend.
Easily my favorite expansion! So many incredible story moments and beautiful cinematics! Really glad you two are enjoying your Warcraft journey!
We are! And it continues next week with Warbringers 🥳🥳
Blizzard makes the best cinematics AND their music is just... *chef's kiss* in game and in their cinematics, the music is just breathtaking.
Also hands down the best line in the game is Illidan's: "I am my scars!"
The Journey Continues....
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Still my fav reaction and best expansion
ysera cinematic always gets me
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