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Sylvanas's 'husband' likeley knew a lot, since he talks about "him" (= Zovaal, one of the gods of the comics power Death) and if Sylvanas trusts him enough to keep his mouth shut about it, there was little reason not to share all the infos she got. She's overall sure that she's in the rights regarding her goals, though not trusting many others that they would do what has to be done to reach them and with the Cosmic Powers everywhere involved (especially when it comes to Life, Order and Nature, which got heavy (manipulative) ties to mortals), sharing information about the plan to change the realm of a cosmic power radically is likely not a strategical smart move.
The Warcraft Chronicles books Vol. 1-3 are great if you are wanting in-depth details and backgrounds about the Warcraft lore. Very enjoyable.
Tyrande is very old, around 14.000 years ( though Night Elves tend to sleep a lot), a chosen of Elune – a mystery of a goddess, still unrevealed what exactly she is and how she stands to the cosmic forces and so on, though she DOES seem to have a quite strong link to one of the goddesses of Death, the one linked to the Night Elves emerald dream and nature/life the most.
After Sylvanas burned down the tree of the night elves, she envoked the wrath of the Night Warrior, a ritual to infuse yourself with much more of the power of Elune than normally – what not only often leads to those who try being ripped apart by that power before they can do anything, but even if it works, they tend to… kind of go insane and get destroyed by it, still (often causing even more suffering in the process).
" Tyrande Whisperwind says: With ancient words, I invoke your most ruthless phase.
Tyrande throws a severed orc head into the Well of Purity.
Tyrande Whisperwind says: With this offering, I demand to wear your darkest face.
Tyrande Whisperwind says: Elune! Make me the instrument of your vengeance!"
So it's kind of summoning the "wrath of god" and becoming the instruments of divine destruction – while also being a dangerous ticking time bomb for everthing and everyone including yourself.
Maldraxxus are the standing army of the Shadowlands and per se should destroy any invader, but being a gigantic "nation" of soldiers existing for nothing but that, well, let's say it made it easy to manipulate them (just as in RL soldiers often follow very wrong orders and are not much more than pawns).
Shouldn't this video's title better be "Filmmaker Re-reacts: World of Warcraft Cinematics Live" because he already watched this?
Revendreth is like the Shadowland's purgatory, where sinful/evil souls land to be redeemed – with… brutal confrontation. That's at least the idea of it everyone should follow.
The reason why the light is burnign them isn't just some vampiric allergy, but a literally invasion of the cosmic force of Light into Revendreth where it pretty much nuked a part of it, making it a wasteland that is very toxic for the inhabitants (it's a bit more complex than that of course, just as explanation why the guy is getting crispy in there).
Maldraxxus represents the military might of the Shadowlands, protecting the realm of the dead from outside interference. They skirmish against each other in perpetuity, to keep their martial skills sharp.
Nathanos…not a facade. He is arrogant…and I love it! He is my favorite WOW character. So, underrated. He sincerely only cares about Sylvanas. They were close in life and became life partners in undeath. Sylvanas most certainly has feelings for him. And he loved her till the end.
54:40 anduin use shackle undead!!!
02:00:00 yea… this is what happened to the most beloved character of the Warcraft franchise…
Not sure why people are saying its not the same Arthus actor as the original, because it is. That's the exact clip that was played at the end of the raid when he died. They just took what he said already and played it again.
did he skip the n'zoth cinematics after reckoning?
sylvanas actually did have feelings for him if you read the book, but it all changed after she died and she saved him from being a mindless scourge
Shadowlands was a commercial failure, but nonetheless I had lots of fun in the expansion. Unironically more fun than the current expansion of Dragonflight, which lacks character in my opinion.
Shadowlands had many bad things going on, but it was also an incredibly emotional expansion. For me personally atleast. When it comes to the themes and characters.
So the contention with shadowlands was that there were many gameplay decisions that worked very counter to story. For example blizzard hyped this covenant system where you chose the afterlife you identified with. They called it player choice. However, in their hubris (and they admit this some time later), they made mistake of giving player POWER to each covenant, power that may be better for one class or role over another. So for example If you were a warrior you the best powers for you may be in covenant B even though you actually identified with covenant A. This put players in an upset position if NOT having player choice and having that agency they were promised robbed from them from very start because they either went Covenant B or they were wrong (because this is an MMO, you choose the one that gives most power because end game in world of warcraft is a TEAM effort. If you chose the covenant you actually wanted versus one that gave most performance, and you let your team down, so you instead had to let yourself down). They then continued to make bad decisions throughout expansion and continued to tie things that were supposed to be fun and exciting and made them chores. It wasn't until end of shadowlands basically where the devs finally conceeded and rectified many of these mistakes but it ultimately left the shadowlands one of the most contested expansions ever.
I got to get back on my feet, but I want to play again, and join the guild. Just taking longer than expected.
Purely from a rating point of view, I thiiiiink showing an on-screen beheading (Tyrande vs Nathanos) might have slightly tipped it out of the 12 range.. 😛
Dragonflight has a cool animatic series like this too, except it's more episodic putting two dragon characters in focus. Nozdormu and Emberthal.
There's SOOOO many good cinematics in Shadowlands. The original quest zones all have one culminating their respective stories that tie into the main plot. Each content patch has a few, and each raid has one or two, plus a lot of good Sylvanas and Anduin cinematics through the Torghast questlines. VERY good expansion for lore and narrative based cinematics.
Honestly Uther is one of the first characters from WOW i really liked and that entire scene when he scream and overall that cinematic make me really sad he deserved better
Well, like some of the guys pointed out, the glaves are a night elf iconic weapon. You can see the ones that had the end of the blades pointed in the opposite direction, like the ones used by Tyrande. You have the ones with the blades pointing inward like the ones that's used by Illidan and the illidari. And then you have the ones pointing outwardly like the ones used by the night elf riders and the Wardens like Maiev.
I appreciate that you are one of handful of people almost single handedly redeeming Shadowlands' story
@1:35:09 they are vampires!
Is he watching the videos in at least 1080p? It comes across like he's watching at a lower quality.
to put it simple "Anima" is the power of a soul, the essence of one who lived a life and accumilated experience of living, no mader the experience, good or bad it al serves as anima, and eatch afterlife feeds of this once the soul enters the respective afterlife it naturaly expells this source or is harvested, but the premise of the shadowlands is that al the souls going in to the "selection process seams to… dissapear somewhere eles.
to bad… you skip "Terror of Darkshore" 🙁
Denathrius was hands down the best character in the Shadowlands
warbringers were more personal stories. afterlives is trying to help you get some kind of clue about how the shadowlands functions. so that is likely why warbringers sticks out to you more
Yeah the 4 areas in shadowlands were very fun in essence. Each one had almost its own life to it. SOme days i really did not want to go running around revendreth and would just farm in ardenweald or bastion. But every single area had its own bonus objectives and themes. I managed to down sire denathrius week one with a rag tag guild of people who had never raided before and it was very rough. But im not a fan of the pacing changes and timegating that followed through the last 3rd of the xpansion. You havent seen korthia or the extended maw zones. Torghast was a huge let down from what it was intended to be. Endlessly escalating difficulty to farm out your weekly stuff.
I'll never not cry at the Ardenweald cinematic. Ursoc's story and ending kill me.
I love Nathanos. He is such an unapologetic pos
Very few expansions were as hype as this one leading into it. If it had been executed properly it would've been incredible. That said, we might get some redemption in the last titan depending on what secrets are revealed.
Now I know why Youtube recommended Philip to me, because I also watch Marco's videos 😄
Same chill and welcoming vibes with very in depth and interesting analysis'!
Cheers to you both 😊
44:40 The Shadowlands is like a different dimension. Not normally visible or accessible by the living. The reason Sylvanas chose to stage her fight with the Lich King here, and why that tower is upside down above Icecrown Citadel is all very deliberate, and there are good reasons why it happened that way that I can't really divulge without ruining some interesting lore later on. Once you're done with all the Shadowlands cinematics I can tell you. But when this cinematic was released, everyone was in the dark as to what exactly was going on. Further details are only revealed later. 56:50 Sally Whitemane <3 1:03:50 Lol. List of things Genn could've done memes incoming. 1:24:20 Ehhh… Kinda. I think he just reminds her about a normal life she could've had, had her life not taken a couple of very unfortunate turns.
Shadowlands started off strong but fell off toward the end. People only tend to remember the end and it colors the entire perception of the expansion.
Music in Shadowlands was probably on the top of my wow expansion music. Ardenweald being my favorite with Pride and Penance from Revendreth being a close second.
Big Daddy Denathrius is probably the one single good thing we got out of Shadowland's story.
You get it right on propaganda, Sire Denathrius was turned out a douchebag and a bad boy in the end.