FILMMAKER REACTS TO WORLD OF WARCRAFT WRATH OF THE LICH KING AND SHADOWLANDS CINEMATIC TRAILERS! 

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Chris: where is the dragon? Me: I killed it.....10 years ago.

To clarify some lore stuff: - In the first video, the lich king is Arthas Menthil, a human paladin that "turned to the dark side" and became the lich king, ruler of the undead wielding a extremely overpowered sword called frostmoure. Frostmourne has the ability to emprison the spirit of the fallen and turn these fallen into minions of the lich king. Sylvanas Windrunner was killed by Arthas and raised as banshee into his service before breaking free. Arthas was defeated and frostmourne was shattered, but without their master the undead would run amok and kill anything and everything, so a new guy wore the helm of dominion and is now the new lich king (The fiery former paladin Bolvar Fordragon). Bolvar was a human paladin that was almost killed during the first encounter with Arthas but then was burned by dragon fire to be purified hence his affinity to fire. - In the last video, Sylvanas is fighting Bolvar, the new lich king, which pales in comparison to the power of the former amazingly powerful Arthas Menethil. In the final scene, where the sky just shattered, Sylvanas shattered the veil between life and death and opened the way to the realm of death aka the shadowlands.

If you knew the lore of these characters, watching these trailers would give you a whole other level of sense of awesomeness to it

The whole time wow fans be like: HE DOESN"T KNOWWWW!!!

The fact that WOTLK came out 10 years ago and still looks like a masterpiece is amazing. Holy shit 1k likes wtf

"Where's the dragon." Dead a millions times over after everyone kills her for their weekly ICC Invincible runs.

Chris: Why did he go from fire to ice? Me, a Death Knight player: He switched specs from Blood to Frost...unfortunately he forgot to switch his weapon from a two-handed melee weapon to two one-handed melee weapons and that's why he got his ass kicked

Anything mildly interesting happens: Chris: *flexes arms and chest uncontrollably*

I love to see how people who never watch anything about Warcraft react like these máster piece, is too exciting your reaction

Arthas= "White Walker Sauron" That's...actually pretty accurate.

"He leveled up" Nah my man's still stuck at level 80. That's why he got bodied so hard.

Imma try to keep it simple : The one from the Lich King trailer and Shadowlands one aren't the same guy. The first got corrupted by the Sword he uses (and that's also why we get close-ups on the sword, cus it's REALLY important in the story) and he killed Sylvanas, then raised her back as an undead Banshee. The guy from the Shadowlands trailer got burned by some dragon's breathe and got captured by the Lich King (so the one in the first trailer you watched), that's why he's on fire. At the end, players killed the Lich King, but the fire guy puts on the crown, because there NEED to be a Lich King to "manage" all of the undeads armies, or they will just unleash everywhere and destroy the world. So he's like the good guy taking the bad guy place toi makes things a bit better you know. But the thing is, all of the Lich King powers come from the Crown itself. And this guy is litteraly the king of de deads. So that's why when she breaks the crown apart, the frontier between life and death breaks apart too. The "upside down" that we can see is the realm were dead people goes, and now that the king of deads no longer exists, he can't manage to keep the two worlds separated so they just open up.

"They're like undead!" Oh, my sweet, innocent, child... The Game of Thrones white walkers has nothing on the Scourge.

One thing to clearify for you is that in the first cinematic you watched with the dragon, that guy is NOT the same one you watched fighting elf chick (Sylvanas). The first guy was killed and the red flaming guy took the crown. I highly suggest you to watch the "Fall of the Litch King Ending Remastered" it will give you a little bit more context on what happened. Warcraft universe is huge and there is A LOT to cover to fully understand what is going on in those cinematics. Great video though, love the insights of the scenes you give!

Just because i also love the first cinematic to do with the Lich King, the translation from the vocals of the cinematic King..... Long live the king, May he reign...forever. May his strength fail him never. First in battle last in retreat. Even in death... Ha! Ma! Da! Ma! Raise this dragon now! May his strength fail him never May his reign last forever King.... May his strength fail him never See his power... Darken the sky... May his reign last forever Long live the king... Long live the king!

God I still get chills from the WotLK soundtrack. Those first few sung notes...god yes.

*sees Bolvar as the Lich King thinking it’s still Arthas* “oooooh he leveled up” actually my friend...... he didn’t

i love how interconnected the cinematics you chose this time. the guy in 1st cinematic killed the son of the guy in 2nd cinematic and killed your favorite undead elf chick. the undead elf chick, killed the guy in the 2nd cinematic. the guy in 3rd cinematic, which replaced the guy in the 1st cinematic, beaten by the chick that was killed by guy in the 1st cinematic

If Arthas only knew to what it'll come when he turned her into the banshee.

From a storytelling perspective one of the things I really love about the Lich King cinematic is how it uses contrasting characterization to really paint the picture of how wrong things have gone with this character. Everything you hear about the character from the voice of his father is talking about how he was raised in reverence, endowed with power that he was meant to wield wisely and use with restraint, and how he was going to stir the hearts of his people to lead them well. At the same time, everything you SEE of the character is this sleeping rage about an inheritance denied, power that's being unleashed without restraint, dangerous things being unearthed, and an army of heartless mockeries he's about to lead into conquest. Two people watching this trailer, one blindfolded, the other with earplugs, will get exactly opposite messages about who this character IS, and the brilliant thing is that they're both right, because this is the story of a character who fell from grace and into darkness. The heart of the character's history is told through that contrast. You don't need the backstory, you don't need the details; the seed of what you really need to know is planted in your imagination to grow without a loredump.

“Where’s the dragon?” Immediately has flash backs of killing sindragosa rip.

So....in the "Old Soldier". Dranosh, sons of Varok Saurfang, got killed by Lich King (the first one from Wrath of the Lich King). But the worst part about fighting the Lich King is that....your dead allies will become your enemy. That's what happen to Dranosh, in which he became the Lich King's strongest Death Knight. On the battle at Icecrown (end of WotLK), Varok lead The Horde warrior to battle...only to have his own sons block his way. After the battle, he carry his son's body back to his homeland to burried him with his wife.

19:33 By breaking the Helm of Domination, she literally shattered the barrier between the world of the living and the dead - the Shadowlands. That first "king" isn't the same one as in the Shadowlands cinematic. The "new" one basically got saved from a poison cloud by red dragons through them burning it. And as they stand for life, he looks like that now.

Chris: what is that it's a dragon Me a nerd: uh actually it's a frostwyrm

you really need to watch all the wow trailers in chronical order! you will have such a grade time!!! love you videos. pls keep on make them

So the voiceover in the lich king trailer is his father talking. Lich King was Arthas before, son to a king of a human kingdom. Arthas got consumed by revenge and he started going for forbidden powers just to fight his enemies. That helmet and sword was the forbidden power, he thought he can control it but he couldnt. He slowly started to change for the worse, he could change the dead into undead with this power. He went to his kingdom and the happy father welcomed him just to be killed by his son Arthas, who was turning into the Lich King. Then he changed all his kingdom into the kingdom of undead. He was a righteous person however his greed and want for revenge made him make horrible mistakes and reach for powers that made him the Lich King. The Lich King is also the one who changed Sylvanas, the elf into the Banshee Queen - the undeady elf with red eyes. She always wanted revenge on him for it. The Lich King you see in Shadolands trailer is not the same person - it is not Arthas. Bolwar took the helmet on him after we killed Arthas in the game because "there must always be a lich king" to control the undead or they go rampage and apparently, what we didn't know, the destruction of the helmet opens a portal to the shadowlands - the realm of the dead too (the helmet was created there). That is what Sylvanas did by destroying it. All thought she would put it on at first. Bolwar took it upon him after killing arthas because he was burned in the fight and thought its the last act for good he can make and there was no sign of him until now so he did good at controlling that power but from the interactions with him in the game it did change him in some ways already - he became more cold. Sylvanas shouldnt be able to kill the old or new Lich King on her own but she made a deal with somebody from the realm of the dead and she got some insane powers from there that is why it's so easy for her in the Shadowlands trailer to defeat the new Lich King (Bolwar). We killed the old Lich King (Arthas) as a whole army of the Alliance and Horde so the Lich King is really powerful. And no, we didn't kick her ass in the game yet she opens that portal and in the next expansion we go there, she is there with the "being" she made the deal with (jailor). We don't know what will go down, we know she was making war everywhere around her to kill as many as possible so the jailor gets more souls and gets more powerful (and so she gets more powerful), so she stopped carying for the horde, for the world, all she cared about is killing as many as possible. We do not know what will go down in shadowlands, if we kill her or what happens yet. The expansion is not even out yet. We are still in The Battle for Azeroth expansion. In old soldier cinematic you see Saurfang (the orc) standing over his sons body with the necklace of the horde. The son died fighting the old Lich King (Arthas) and was raised as a knight for Lich King (Death Knight) and then killed by us because he was no longer himself, he was controlled by The Lich King. The Helmet was first destroyed now by Sylvanas but the sword that was also a huge source of power for the Lich King (Arthas) was destroyed by us when we killed the old Lich King. It had the ability to trap souls, we freed all the souls when destroying the sword. That is why Bolwar has a mace not a sword but the Helmet is what controlled the undead. Bolwar has the burned and fire appearence because he was burned in the fight with the old Lich King (I don't want to get into details how because it's another huge text haha) however the power of the helmet/Lich King makes him able to change his colors to blue. Arthas was only blue because underneath he was still himself just a little more pale, grey haired and undeady looking but he never actually died he was just changed by the helmet and sword. I wish you could make reactions to all world of warcraft trailers - classic wow, the burning crusade, cataclysm, pandaria, warlords of draenor, legion are left. There are also some in game cinematics as for example when we kill arthas and bolwar takes the helmet, but these are lower filmmaking quality of course, it's just me fangirling over the lore of the game :D but the trailers are all wonderful. Other than world of warcraft some league of legends cinematics are epic too. You can also watch The warbringers series especially the episode with Sylvanas - it shows her origin that I mentioned here. The style of these is different than those cinematics but very cool. Im sorry if its all a bit chaotic I have edited this a milion times as I watched the video and you had more questions. I hope its still understandable. Thanks for reading and have a great day! Congratulations on 100k :)

49:33 She has this deal with "The Jailor" where, every soul* she feeds to him, the more power he gives to her. And with Sylvanas burning the Elf tree (among countless other souls*) she got incredibly powerfull.

It's fascinating how blown away Chris is without knowing the slightest bit of what is actually going on there story wise.

About the Fire/Ice King's change: The King from the first cinematic isn't the same from the last, the first one was Arthas and he was killed after raising an army of undead against the world, but without a king that army would go around the world without control, so someone would need to make the sacrifice and step up to the throne to keep the undead under control, the second one is Bolvar, he choose to be the new Lich King and control the army of the undead to save the world, his fire inner and burn skin was an effect of being killed by the fire breath of the Queen of the Life, she's a dragon, so he was some kind of unique undead created by the fire of life, after using the crown he became this kind of undead of fire and ice. About the sky breaking apart: That crown is known as the Helm of Domination, it's an artifact created on the Realm of the Dead know as Shadowlands, it gives to the owner the power control the undead, so it's kind like a focused bridge between the Realm of the Living and the Realm of the Dead, the moment she broke the crown she abruptly forced a connection between the two realms, that physical abrupt bridge is represented by sky breaking apart. About here power increasing: There isn't a single entity working as a God of the Realm of the Dead, but they don't work together, so she made a bargain with one of them and started that whole war on Battle for Azeroth to be able to fastly harvest more souls to him in exchange for power. Although she's undead, she's still mortal, but her soul is not going to Shadowlands as any other soul would, her soul is going to some endless void afterlife and she's so afraid of it that she's trying to win against the circle of life and death to escape this fate.

If you want to talk about imagery, you could react to "warbringers sylvanas" "warbringers jaina" and "warbringers azhara"

"blizzard" makes million dollar game that is filler for cinematics

Arthas' cinematic has a much MUCH bigger impact when you have played through Warcraft 3 and know his backstory already. Hearing his father speaking to him with pride, the parallel between his lines and the scenes in the video, the ominous promise of domination since Warcraft finally coming to fruition, all captured beautifully. Still my favorite cinematic even tho it's the one that lacks any form of action in all the trailers.

The Lich King has a long story and is more of a "vessel" of immense power. The Lich King was created by Kil'jaeden. Kil'jaeden was previously acting leader of the Burning Legion, an intergalactic army of demons seeking to destroy all planets with a Titan essence. The creator and actual leader of the Burning Legion is the Titan Sargeras. An awakened Titan is a colossal, planetary sized being with insane power. Sargeras being the most powerful became corrupt after once having sought to protect sleeping Titans. Instead of protecting the sleeping Titans from the Void, he decided to instead destroy sleeping Titans to prevent the Void from corrupting these Titans, which would be even more powerful than regular Titans. Sargeras therefore created the Burning Legion, an army of demons to invade and occupy sleeping Titans (once again, sleeping Titans being planets) and to proceed by destroying the planet. Of course, Sargeras has been successful every single time, until he came across Azeroth. The champions of Azeroth (the players) fought and defeated invasions after invasions of the Burning Legion with unwavering courage and will. We defeated Sargeras two generals, Archimonde the Defiler and Kil'jaeden the Deceiver and ultimately recently, with the help of other Titans, managed to imprison Sargeras himself after Sargeras having pierced Azeroth with his colossal sword which almost destroyed the planet completely. Azeroth, the planet wow takes place in, is in fact a sleeping Titan, but not like any other. It is the most powerful sleeping Titan to ever exist. If the Void corrupts Azeroth, nothing will be able to stop her. What we're trying to do as champions (the players) is to protect Azeroth and heal her to our best ability. Anyhow, that is some backstory. The Lich King was created by Kil'jaeden from an orc soul called Ner'zhul, a very powerful orc that was punished after having betrayed Kil'jaeden. The orcs came from Draenor, another planet which got invaded by the Burning Legion and was pretty much destroyed. The orcs then fled (more complex than just fled however) to Azeroth to settle in a new home. The Lich King was created to prepare for the invasion of the Burning Legion. Essentially the goal was to weaken Azeroths defenders before unleashing the Legion itself upon Azeroth. Arthas Menethil, a young and proud human Paladin of Lordaeron picked up the sword Frostmourne to fight against the undead that the Lich King created. However, Frostmourne belonged to the Lich King himself and ultimately corrupted Arthas to instead turn against humanity and all that is living and side with the undead. He went on a quest to find the Helm of Damnation, the helm which Sylvanas just tore apart. He did so and found the helm atop icecrown and once he put on the helm of damnation, he finally merged with the soul of Ner'zhul and became the Lich King. This version of the Lich King is the most powerful of the two (Arthas and Bolvar). Arthas Lich King planned to betray the Burning Legion and fight them, because he learned that he was just being used as a pawn for the Burning Legion. To fight the Legion, he wanted the most powerful army and the most powerful individuals to raise as undead to fight for him. He was much, much stronger than the combined forces of the champions of Azeroth and actually killed us when we fought him. He was just about to resurrect us as one of his greatest undead champions, but we were ultimately saved by the Light and by Tirion Fordring who literally broke Frostmourne to pieces with his legendary sword, Ashbringer. Highlord Bolvar took the burden of the helm of damnation and became the new Lich King in order to control the scourge and prevent it from potentially destroy all of the living. For there must always be a Lich King... until now. The reason why this new version of the Lich King was much weaker is due to the fact that Frostmourne was destroyed and Arthas was a much more powerful being itself. If it were Arthas against Sylvanas, it wouldn't be nearly as easy, however Sylvanas of course has become incredibly powerful over the years.

To answer your question at 47:22 of "what is he by the way?" You'll need a bit of context from the actual game, As many other people have stated the man in the shadowlands trailer isn't the same person as the one in the wrath of the lich king trailer. The man in the Shadowlands trailer is Bolvar Foredragon, A human paladin who was almost killed at the Wrathgate; A battle where the Horde and the Alliance joined forces to try and defeat the lich king, but were betrayed from within leaving most of both Horde and Alliance armies dead. After the battle the area was cleansed by a red dragon called Alextraza the lifebinder. Unkown to everyone, this saved Bolvar's life, but his body was charred black as we see it here. Bolvar was later taken from the battlefield by the lich king to be corrupted and made to serve him, but the Alliance and Horde were able to storm Icecrown citadel (The tower shown in the shadowlands trailer) and defeat the lich king before he was able to corrupt Bolvar. Shortly after the death of the lich king, Bolvar asked that he take the lich kings place; As if there is no lich king the mindless undead would run rampant throughout the world. So the lich king's helmet, the crown of domination was placed upon his head giving him the power to control the undead. The red we see in his eyes and chest in the shadowlands trailer is the remnants of the dragon's fire that saved Bolvar's life, whereas the blue that overtakes it when the battle starts is the power of the crown, which gives him command of the undead.

The fact that he is being affected this much without even knowing the story just proves blizzard master film making.

I really like your analyzing the movie parts :) the one thing I value also a big deal in such a trailer is the whole dialogue or narrative plot embracing the visual effects. I think especially in the first trailer they did an amazing fusion of what the narrator says and what the picture shows eg. "you grew into a weapon" - arthas draws the sword "stir the hearts of your people" - undead show their glow (which could mean they have no heart) "you shall be king" - we see arthas from underneath (like we kneel before a king) i find such details very important and very cool to observe :) great job keep it up

To answer your question at 47:22 "What is he by the way": He was the Leader of the Alliance until the mid of the Wrath of the Lich King Expansion (You watched the Trailer earlier). He was killed by a Gas bombardement but the Dragonfire of the Dragonqueen Alexstraza "the Lifegiver" kept him alive (The red fire in him) after she cleansed the place of the battle with it. He was captured and tortured by the Lich king until his Fall. Afterwards took up the Crown of the Lich King (the source of the blue fire) to keep the Undead in control.

Arthas, my son Makes me cry everytime 😥

It's been so many years since Lich King expansion and the song still gives me chills

Maaaaaan. The story of Arthas is such a deep drama. These words of his father, king Therenas, sounds so intense in the context of this trailer... I remember how I react that days, when I watch this trailer the first time. This is EPIC

This is actually a really cool series, the reactions are nice but the breakdown of the filmmaking techniques and effects really make it different. Keep it up man.

"It's the ice guy, he leveled up!" man if only you knew...

"Where's the dragon?" Bolvar: the raid just occured yesterday

The sky shattering is probably the coolest effect they've had in all of their cinematics, imo. I love watching crowd reaction videos of that moment.

So, Wrath of the Lich King was a 2008 Expansion. The Lich King you saw there was from a fallen Paladin, and heir to Lorederan, Arthas Menethil. His story alone is lengthy and explained in Warcraft III more. After the Wrath Expansion, we killed Arthas and replaced him with another to control the Undead Scourge, Highlord Bolvar. You see him in Shadowlands Cinematic. Bolvar's story can be told throughout the World of Warcraft game itself. I recommend you watch the other ones as well. You can see the evolution of the cinematics.

"white walker version of Saron" *Pauses vid* Hmm yeah you're actually right damn

"He looks like a White Walker version of Sauron" OMG that's very accurate actually

The "I know you" followed by the grin every time Chris notices sylvanas is wonderful xD

"He leveled up" .. Actually he didn't .. this one is weaker.

I suggest to watch Warbringers Sylvanas + Fall of the Lich king remastered to fill up the context that you are missing

I gives me so much pleasure to see someone who's not a WoW-player enjoy these cinematics, and then explaining the technique used so eloquently. So enjoyable!

Hey Chris! This was my first video I watched of yours, love your work! Just wanted to clarify the change from the Lich King going from Blue ice to Reddish/Orangish fire. They are 2 different Lich Kings, we killed the Blue Frost one in the game during that expansion. The one at the start of the Shadowlands trailer is his replacement that took over after that expansion. Keep up the great work!! Best, Ryan.

I get excited for people who have never seen these cinematics and appreciate the work that goes into them. Personally I think they should just use this animation and make full on episodes or even the next Warcraft movie. They are always sooooo good.

watch them all

love it when you call that scene a painting. It really is a beautiful piece of art

Won't lie. Love these videos purely for the reactions. Has the sort of reaction you want when you're showing someone an amazing video you've already seen. Watching them get hyped.

Saurfang is such a tragic character. Been through countless wars, never seems to be able to be felled in combat, but sees all those around him die. He was going to go out alone to fight the Alliance as a suicide, to earn his ''warriors death'' (which is why he exclaims he is going to claim what it is). He's been through a lot, being told he has given up is pretty accurate, he's done with everything. Sad that he's dead now, he's been part of Warcraft since the beginning.

"How is she so powerful?" She made a deal with a guy that's storing the souls of everyone that died recently (how recently we still don't know) and he's giving her power proportionally to how many deaths she causes. She then starts the bloodiest war in recent history so this gives her a massive power-up.

These reactions are just so pure and wholesome that I can't help but smile.

Wrath of the Lich King cinematic still gives me chills. Man what a time.

I love his reaction when he hears the lich king theme for the first time. Priceless.

Chris: how is she so powerful? Blizzard: that's my girl...

Woah I must watched this trailer hundreds of times in the 10 years it's been out and I've NEVER noticed the snow slowing down when he raised his weapon. Masterfully done

Dude thank you for doing these its really nice to see someone experienced in this media watching these for the first time! Been a long time since I truly loved someone's videos and I think these are really good!

I'm crying over here, your enthusiasm is infectious! Way to go!

this man got some awesome vibes definitely deservers more attention

Oh also, not sure if you noticed in Old Soldier, but the two hand gestures Saurfang makes on his son's chest when he takes the pendant off him, he makes the same two gestures on Zekhan's (blue troll) chest when he takes the necklace back. And I always thought in the way they did part when Z runs up to S as he is going off alone, when Zekhan starts to take off his armor, he looks to the side an up to Saurfang as a father. I was always impressed that Blizz could get that emotion in with CGI in about a second.

I love how supportive everyone is in the comments about explaining lore and what not. Good stuff!

"HOW IS SHE SO POWERFUL?!!" .. Great question... Apparently she's been making dirty deals with the new Shadowlands baddie who is super powerful, but I don't think very many people were too happy with her power spike.

Also hell yes, 100k, so deserved. Let's go for another 100k ;)

I found your channel a few days ago! I freaking love your videos! Good work mate!

It’s so nice watching people react to these who’ve never played the game. It brings me back to when to when I first watched these cinematics myself and the excitement I felt.

White Walker version of Sauron from LotR, that is a perfect description

Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty Starcraft 2: Heart of the Swarm StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void Diablo 3 Act 2 Cinematic: Imperius vs. Tyrael Diablo III Black Soulstone Cinematic Diablo III: Reaper of Souls

Now you're over 250k! Congrats and very much deserved

Dude your reactions are AWESOME :D Love it!! And your explainings!!

The narration of the first one is King Terenas Menethil, who is Arthas' Father. He was one of the first souls claimed by Arthas when he went evil. The narration and conversation he's having is a parody of the cinematic and what his son has become. Before becoming the Lich King Arthas was a Paladin of the Light. He was a good guy, and a very honorable, virtuous person. He became corrupted and turned into a Death Knight. So this cinematic's narration could have been a speech that the King gave to his son before leaving on his last mission. Telling him that he's strong, and he knows that he'll use his power wisely, and rule justly with wisdom and strength. It's a parody because of what he's turned into, which is kind of the opposite, but also kind of the same. He has strength, and is incredibly wise. He's the most powerful and feared King. The cool thing about the first cinematic is that you can actually go to that exact location in the game.

U have to see: fall of the lich king to understand why he´s on fire now

Dude, your reactions to all of this is exactly how I reacted! lol

Hey great video ! Basically the king in the first video raised undeads like the elf woman. He's dead now, and the burnt guy replaced him by picking up the ice helm. The undead elf wants revenge for being kept alive so she kicks his ass and breaks the limit between life and death realm.

Remember what Saurfang told Thrall: "We Don't get to Run" The conclusion of the Old Soldier Cinematic was the moment he realized that very thing.

I'm gonna need a "sick" counter.

Love these videos, my friend. The Lich King that you see in these trailers, is 2 different beings, with the idea that "someone always has to wear the crown" to keep the undead in check. When Slyvanas breaks the crown, you know stuff is about to go down! These stories and cinematics are truly breathtaking at times.

Just discovered your channel; really interesting to see the filmmaker's side of it. Loved your excitement despite not know the details of the lore behind the Warcraft story. Gonna check out the rest of your videos!

"That is like a painting" yeah, I have that as my desktop background XD

Woah that Onyx Black playbutton is siick. I was confused for a sec because I'd never seen one like that. Congrats! Welcome to the 100k club.

Massive congratulations man. Keep it up, your vids are very nice.

Chris' reactions are fun because they were similar to my own when I first saw them. Years ago for one, and not so long ago for the remaining two.

Aww mate. Watching someone so enthusiastic about storytelling watching cinematics from a game I have played and loved for almost two decades for the first time... This was so cool, thanks!

First movie explanation: There was once a promising young prince in Lordaeron, named Arthas. Great warrior and eventually follow the path and became a paladin. In his childhood he lost an horse due to his youth imbecility and made a promise to never accept injustice. As a paladin, he came to cross the Undead Scourge that was turning he people into undead. He chase the responsible for vengeance and sacrifice a lot of people for it. He got cursed by the sword Frostmourne (the one he hold in the movie), when he picked up to accomplish his vengeance, abandoning the light and becoming a death knight. He then return home to kill his father ( the voice that narrate), destroy his home kingdom, killing his mentor as a paladin, burning the high elven kingdom to raise a necromancer into a lich. After a time and fighting many he had piss off, he went to the Frozen Throne(that his where he was seated) to free the Helmet of Domination to complete the set and become the Lich King. In the movie, he awaken because he is now the one in control and nothing good remain within. Thus he went to rise that fallen dragon and spread his control over his undead army to the invade Azeroth and slay all the living. In the second movie, the guy made many massacre in his younger years under influence of daemon blood. He don’t eat pig because their cry remind him of the Draenei children he slaughter. So he got a lot of ptsd and he got nobody left as his son got killed, raised by the Lich King, kill again and thus Saufang had to bury it with his mother. So now he serve that undead chick, Sylvannas that does war crimes and he don’t want to do dishonourable thing anymore. Burning the Great Capital City Tree of Teldrassil and all those innocents weight on him. That his why during the movie at the castle battle he surrendered and you find him later in jail. The last one follow Sylvannas after she fled and she fight Bolvar, a paladin trap between life and death after contracting the undead plague and being burned by the purifying lifegiving breath of the red dragon queen, Alekstraza the Lifebinder. Later, after we defeat the original Lich King, the prince Arthas from the first video, Bolvar makes the ultimate sacrifice and wear the crown to be the jailer of the undead army so that they don’t swarm the living. For what we know now is that the Shadowy figure behind her his some sort of patron. That he offers her something and it is why she reap the veil between the world of the living and were the soul of the dead goes.

the Lich King cinematic, man, always get into me, when the song starts it makes me want to cry

I just love how the narrator of the king tells Arthas things but in a different context, but it shows us what context is actually happening. “Stirring the heart of the people” sees and army of the dead. “Not what I meant”. “You shall be king” Lich king “also not what I meant”

The Flash back scene in "Old Soldier" was actually a flash back times two. The Old Soldier (Saurfang) and young-dead one (Dranosh) while in the snow, is a father and son. The son (Dranosh) was killed by The Lich King (Arthas, the guy that raised the dragon) several [in game] years ago. And Saurfang was having *that* flash back whilst on the wall and flashing back to just a few weeks earlier when Sylvanas had murdered the Elves and Humans who resided in that big tree (Teldrassil) she burned. (Think of Teldrassil as if it were a city of thousands). I have to point out that Orcs in Warcraft (WoW) do not remove their armor before battle usually. However, at this point in his mind set, Saurfang believed that *this* fight was Honor-less. So to go find honor in battle, he was going to go face the might of the Alliance alone and without his armor. Zekan (the Troll that follows him [AKA: Zappi-boy]) wasn't about to leave him though. Zekan sees/saw Saurfang as the embodiment of Honor in the Horde. Zekan then follows Saurfang towards the Alliance war front, and Zekan's desire to cling to the Old Horde reminds Saurfang that there are those within the Horde who are worth fighting for, worth being the bastion-of-honor to. This then gives us a touch of humor at the end of the cinematic when Saurfang chides Zappi-boy about fighting without armor. If you know this, when you pay attention to the "Battle for Azeroth" cinematic, where Saurfang is on the ground fighting and Sylvanas is darting down the siege tower, his armor is only partly on. He never fully gets it all on. ----- The Shadowlands Cinematic is showing us how powerful Sylvanas has become, and how changed the new Lich king is (Bolvar Foredragon). Long story short: Bolvar should be dead totally. However, the toxin of a plague Sylvanas' man (Putruss) created, and the fires of a Dragon (Alexstrasza the Life Binder) fused into him caused him to not die. Then Arthas, the first Lich King, found him and tortured him whilst Bolvar hug in chains above the Frozen Throne (The chair/throne you talked about and that Arthas is seated in, in "The Lich King" cinematic, and later and Bolvar is seated in in the Shadowlands cinematic). All these tortures combined still did not make Bolvar loose his faith in "The Light". Besides, someone was needed to hold the Undead at bay; "There must always be a Lich King". Bolvar as the Lich King is not as powerful as Arthas was as the Lich King. Also, take note, Arthas as the Lich KIng has a Sword, Frostmourne. Bolvar the Lich King, never will. The sword was broken when Arthus was killed (by we the players -yay-). Also, so you know, the man narrating in "The Lich King" cinematic is actually Arthas' father; King Terenas Menethil of Lordaeron. Another long story short: Arthas, after getting hold of Frostmourne, returned to his father and commit patricide. Arthas then return back to Ice Crown Citadel, put on the Helm of Domination, the Plate of the Damned and sat in the Frozen Throne. ------ There is a connection between Arthas and Sylvanas. And another between Sylvanas and Lodaeron. (LOL!) wowwiki.fandom.com/wiki/Helm_of_Domination_(Lich_King)

My biggest shocking moment in this video... "he sounds a bit italian" Zappy boi.

Your reaction to the Shadowlands trailer was PRICELESS, I LOVED IT!!!

Congrats on 150k 👏

Dude, it physically hurts me seeing you watching and trying to breakdown these trailers nearly without context and only basic storyline. Makes me feel desperately to sit down and update you on that, and by the comments and reactions I guess I'm not the only one lol . If you dedicate some time to get the story, I guarantee you'll enjoy these cinematics 100 times more. Because isn't only the quality of the takes and render that leaves us in awe, they make an extra effort to mach the storyline and the universe. What you are watching here is the climax they have been building up in the game story, and sometimes they simply hit bullseye. . I just found your channel, by the time I'm making this comment, I didn't even hit the subscribe button yet. I loved your work! Congrats!

All of this holds so much weight to us WoW fans knowing all the story behind it. Like knowing the 2 Lich Kings you saw were different people and why each became it. And the Saurfang seen, knowing how his son died, I almost cried in this one.

old soldier made me cry. Incredible cinematic.