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Hello, everybody! Welcome back to another episode of Azeroth’s Deep Dives, where I swim around the various continents in World of Warcraft. Today’s destination? The extraterrestrial world of Outland! Thank you all for your support, and I’ll see you in the next one!
All footage retrieved from Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft (2004-).
Some images retrieved from Google Images and WoWHead.
Background Music: “Outland Suite”, “Nagrand”, and “Netherstorm” from the WoW TBC OST
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Outro Music: “You’re The One Acoustic Rehearsal” by Greta Van Fleet
Jediwarlock 2023
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Today's word of the day: shatter for some reason XD
Sad to think that, lorewise, Outland is still crumbling away.
RIP Starcraft, Blizz and the fans remember you, but RTS just aint popular anymore, hence why you are lost in limbo for now. sleep well Starcraft, maybe RTS will flourish again, like Beat em Ups and Fighting games had their resurgence.
Good suff!
Sad to hear you're not going to touch retail. Pandaria has a lot of neat nooks and crannies, and it would be neat to compare WoD Draenor / Outland.
Fun fact about the Nova shrine, a month after BC's release, they added a female Blood Elf dressed as close as could be done to Nova's suit (at the time of BC anyway) and had her stealthily walk next to the shrine and kneel before it, paying her own respects to it. The Blood Elf was also named 'Nova Terra', same as Nova's name in Starcraft. So Nova's being a Ghost in both senses of the context for this little memorial.
Certain unspecified conditions made her appear, though I'm personally fairly certain it was just a timer nobody tried particularly hard to keep track of.
For some reason they removed her two to three months later. I guess someone at Blizz wanted to pay respects to what looked like a reasonably promising game for the Starcraft universe, but didn't want to keep having attention drawn to it for too long after cancellation so everyone can move on.
exploration wow content is what that community miss 🙂
Loving this series!
I'm surprised Outland looks so well designed, aesthetic wise. I fully expected to react like "guh, that hasn't aged well" but the jump between Vanilla and BC is pretty big. I think the design of Outland is very creative.
I've been years without playing WoW(since patch 4.something,just didn't digged Cata that much and Pandaria didn't catch my interest at first glance),but this nostalgic feeling is about to make me risk it for the bisquit.
Wow i never expected the Outland version of the series would have so many cool spots. Thx a lot for the video keep it up!
Okay wow… I just realized I've never flown behind the dark portal in all my years of playing hahaha
Another reason why these vids are BIS
Amazing video again. Good job
Nice! Im looking forward to Northrend!
The insta-death bottomless pits of Outland still scare me to this day. I can't quest anywhere near the edge. Thanks for flying over all of it so I don't have to!
10:03 That NPC Melgromm Highmountain is probably a reference to the Sunwell comic, where a tauren named Trag Highmountain is a major character. That tribe isn't related to the Highmountain tauren on the Broken Isles, the comic came way before Legion.
TIL exodar was part of TK 🤯
Been playing and consuming content about WoW for over a decade, and on rare ocasions found videos that can be as immersive as yours. Ty for the uploads 🙂
you should do a tour of all the zone borders next. Just walk around at the borderlines!
You missed the stealthed character representing Nova in outland.
7:45 "It really would'nt be an Azeroth Deep Dive video without at least one shipwreck." You nailed it.
Nothing brings such peace into my soul more than Jediwarlock. 🥺
Congrats on 11k my dude!
WAIT I SAID THAT HEARTED COMMENT AS A JOKE-
There is a hidden skeleton with a message on one of the side cliff's. The skuttlebutt on it is that it was placed there years ago by a disgruntled employee.
7:55 ah yes! This is what I was looking for.
As someone who rushed through Outland, i saw many things i didn't know were there. Thank you for sharing this Information 😀
One of my fave weird things in Outland are the Sand Gnomes, I remember it made me so frustrated lorewise as a kid. How are there Gnomes in Draenor? It reminded me of that you asked me what we used to theorycraft about back in the day. So I recalled some of the questions:
– Sand Gnomes, what the hell are they? (I mean, they're kind of an easter egg joke, but presuming they're more than that for the purposes of theorizing)
– The other continents of Draenor, if any survived as different chunks of Outland.
– Something I was convinced of back in the day was that the Goblins were related to the Trolls, because they look quite a lot like them. We knew Trolls descended from Dark Trolls (kinda retconned to be Zandalari, I guess?), so my assumption was that the Gobbos also shot off from that. In Legion we found the Drogbar of Highmountain, and I thought that they were the "perfect missing link" between Goblins and Trolls, kinda like a more primitive forerunner of both, or a different offshoot of a common ancestor. But then I believe Blizzard made up their mind that the Goblins were also descended from some kind of Titan construct like the Gnomes and Dwarves. Hated that, goblins just don't aesthetically fit into that group, imho.
– Remember all those fan-created expansions? I loved the ones exploring a hypothetical "South Seas" expansion, with Kul Tiras, Zandalar, Broken Isles, Undermine, Nazjatar, etc. Now those things have kinda been done, albeit very differently from how we imagined back in the day. It would have been cool to get your own boat to free-roam a giant ocean with little POIs though.
– Something I've always kinda thought was fun, but frustrating, was to think about how to update old expansion worldspaces to reflect the current state. Like, what would Outland or Pandaria or Quel'Thalas look like during Dragonflight? They obviously did this for everywhere during Cataclysm, but that was more because they needed to revamp the entire game to implement new mechanics. They've also updated a few zones to follow the storyline, like Arathi Highlands and Darkshore. I do think it would make an interesting video to just try to speculate how things are going in overlooked regions though. How's Duskwood doing? How are the Mag'har orcs in Nagrand nowadays? Any update from Undermine? Any news on resettling Gilneas? What's up the Azuremyst Isles now that the Exodar is operational? Is it hovering like Dalaran? That would be kinda cool. It doesn't have to introduce new villains, honestly, sometimes it would just be cool to come to the conclusion that "Yeah, Westfall is actuall fine now. We fixed it." Neat. (or whatever.)
– Oh, and it's been implied that the world map in Azeroth only covers one half, or possibly only one quarter. Is Pandaria close to the south pole, or just the equator? Are there any more continents "behind" Eastern Kingdoms or Kalimdor? Who knows!
Kinda sad that there are this little details around outlands. But I mean it makes sense. Thank you for the blue shrine explenation. Always wonderd what this is about.
I love all these videos. Please keep it up!
Blade's Edge Mountains are pretty interesting. I don't know who came up with the idea of making the sky look "normal" and fiery-looking, and then, right in the middle, a circle where you can see outher space above you (or the void, or nether or whatever that is lol). It's like the game's telling you: "don't relax too much, remember you're still in an alien land"
please check this out i'm not sure if i've seen it anywhere else, but when going between netherstorm and hellfire somewhere near the blades edge area all the way to the bottom of the twisting nether part there's this piece of model that looks like an archway wall from old hyjal-winterspring border, i don't know why it's there, with the tools i had i could only see a silhouette
Oshu'gun is a crashed naaru spaceship, in case anyone didn't know! Very cool spot
And all the portals and dark portal replicas – those are left over from the old horde when they tried to open more portals to invade through, which ripped Daenor (Outland) apart
We need an expac that focuses on the old gods in ulduar, silithus etc, reawakening and running rampant with the Hives, scourge, nerubians, get this shit back to warcraft
really miss TBC blizzard should extend this land and more Armour updated
story and more
You did it…. cheaply but you did it
many outland place build not for any quest but to give life into the zone , make you wonder what story behind it
TBC was the expansion that killed exploring, nothing fun to find thats "out of bounds"
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Unexpecting comment – I'm subscrabing because your speech is definite and slow * __ * Plus certainly I'm love WoW. Perfect for traning my English! =)
The Blades Edge Mountains have an impaled dragon in one part of them though. 🙂 I think it is near the entrance to Dire Maul,not sure though.
And this teaches us,kids,that drinking and drivi…sorry,i mean drinking and flying is not a good compination. 🙂
I never knew about the star craft reference.
The Black Temple has always sort of fascinated me because of how some or maybe even most of it seemingly sticks out into the nether and I always wanted to see those parts of it when I was playing during BC. To see what it looks like in WoD was a real treat for me because of that.
Thank you for this tour! It's gonna be a while before my little Blood Elf rogue sees Outland.
Does anyone else thinks this guy sounds like Hamsterwheel?
how did i miss this one?!
1:37
Is Terokkar ecosystem in danger? The waterfall releases water into outer space. This means that water does not return to the ecosystem in the form of rains. Soon Terokkar will lose all water.
Hello to everyone… I have watched some of your videos… You doing well job, although I would advise you to sneak on Old Gods Deeds on Curving the Lands and the History of the Aerial and Zones – Not only the reference of Our ( Earth 🌍)Real world… I can tell you that Old Gods,Dragons,Titans and etc. have a finger in shaping the lands in Azerot – Quests too and NPCs…. In 1 of your videos – I think it was about a Rare Shaman Tauren – you didn't have an Information about NPC – what I can tell you is that NPC is from a Quest…
I am playing WOW since the begging – Blizz and Privet like servers … I have read most of the Books I achieve to put hand on and I can tell that I know some stuff about the topic… Ofc I have watched many creators about the Lore of WOW…
I am playing games since 1996 so far… I have played most of the Popular games in the World History of Gaming – From Quake and Unreal Tournament to all the Serial of Need For Speed… Heroes…Aion,Blade and Soul,Lineage … Mass Effect Trilogy+ Andromeda … Guild Wars,Skyrim Online and Vanilla + Oblivion, Disciples,Half Life and CS and so and so…. I have a Sense about many things in gaming and Music World ( and Not Only ) and Blizzard is my Top 1 place for all times about gaming – ofc I have played all the Blizzard Games and still playing them – Diablo especially PALADIN ….🙂😏 Guess what is my Character in WOW 😅… …
So… My point is – you can put a little more effort to Reach the Information about the topics you touch.. like it you gonna have more and more Followers – as you put some " Mystery Notes" in the videos…
A little Marketing advice too – Use the in Game Mysteries to work for you by Exploiting Human Curiosity…. …
Thank you and Keep the good Work 👍🤞🙏
TBC has the best zones, dungeons and raids in my opinion.
But WOTLK has the best gameplay and talents, so I usually stick to wotlk
The shrine for Nova is pretty cool.
Otherwise it´s a bit sad that there isnt more.
On the other hand, there is much cool stuff to see on the mainland.