Final Fantasy 14 Fan Reacts to World of Warcraft The War Within Cinematic 

Dude i fucking love this guy, from just the few cinematics hes seen he actually got a really good grasp of what was happening in the WoW universe. Almost all of his thoughts about the cinematics are spot on lol

The best part about the cinematic is Anduin pointing Shaylamane in the exact same way Arthas pointed Frostmourne all those years ago, because it draws important parallels between the two

Try watching these in-game cutscenes/cinematics, and some bigger ones you missed! They're all very good, and fill in some story bits you missed. -The Wrathgate -Fall of the Lich King -Siege of Orgrimmar trailer -Frostfire Ridge finale -Hellfire Citadel finale -Legion Teaser trailer -Demon Hunter cinematics(there are 2) -Harbinger series(3 short videos for Khadgar, Gul'dan and Illidan) -The Broken Shore cinematic(there are two versions, the alliance/horde have a different POV for this) -A Found Memento: Raising a King -Nighthold Finale -Tomb of Sargeras trailer -Argus cutscenes/cinematics, including the Antorus raid finale. You can't miss the Antorus finale, it explains the War Within sword. On an unrelated note, the Lich King from the Shadowlands trailer was WAY weaker than the old one. The old Lich King KILLED Sylvanas(evil elf lady) and turned her into a banshee. He also beat the hell out of her a couple other times like when she tried to steal his sword(Frostmourne), and she made several FAILED attempts to assassinate him.

This cinematic brings Anduin's story full circle up to this point in his overall storyline. A young man not ready to take over his father's throne, forced to fight two major wars and watched a lot of those he looked up to and respected murdered right in front of him. Only to be subjugated by The Jailer and forced to watch as his whole world shattered around him. It made me tear up seeing how well they depicted his PTSD from the trauma. In a way we have your FF14 community to thank for the inspiration for some of the reboot content!

Mirroring Arthas...Echoing Saurfang...chills every time.

Anduin wasn't really force to do much bad. Even the other Death Gods he attacked didn't die, nor die he kill his friends he was forced to fight off as bodyguard of the Jailer. His probelm is, that a part of him felt joy about all this power he had and since then he doesn't trust himself anymore. He had quite some struggles on his way, when he suddenly became king after his father was murdered in "Legion" by the chaos forces and many other smaller and bigger things after that, but he always believed that the cosmic force Light is with him (he's kind of a champion of it, the big ressurection scene in the Battle of Azeroth cinematic for example comes from the Light he envokes there. But after being filled by the power of Death and a part of him enjoying this power, he thinks he's unwothy and that any other temptation could make him make fall - like Arthas. To dominate him, his sword was corrupted by the Jailer with the soul of Arthas, another prince like him and also a champion of light, who had fallen to the greed for revenge and power, becoming a monster who even cut out his own heart to get rid of the last part of humanity he had left inside him. Anduin's doubt is, that he could fall like this, too, becoming a monster like him, that's why this cinematic is making him do the same posture as Arthas showed in the Wrath of the Lich King cinematic. But while Arthas posture was one of power, Anduins is trembling. It's not a motion of strength, but fear - and Thrall isn't confronting Anduin's blade, but he stabilizes it and with this also Anduin.

I think it's a testament to the art teams, the music teams, and the cinematic writing teams that people who know virtually NOTHING about WoW lore (or very, very little) can pick up on so many story beats just from their major cinematics. Truly, it is a credit to their storytelling in a cinematic that hardly longer than some major movie trailers are.

Anduin was controlled by Zovaal, a god of the cosmic force Death, who was also the one who had empowered Sylvanas, who herself wanted to abolish the eternal Tyranny of Death over mortals (not making them immortal, but giving them the freedom over their own life/death, what they didn't have at all). For that the needed someone who could reach the other Death gods and steal the key from them with which Zovaal would be able to escape the Maw (pretty much the hell section of the afterlife, where the other Death Gods had imprisoned him and used domination magic to force him to be its jailer - hence the title many give him, which was force upon him), reclaim the missing parts of his soul to become whole again and then use this and those keys to enter a sacred area of the Shadowlands that is directly linked to Azeroth to rewrite the system (kind of the administration room you could say). Zovaal betrayed Sylvanas who instantly went against him, of course unable to stop him, but thanks to Uther (former teacher of Arthas, who also died by the cursed blade of his student, then becoming some kind of guardian angel in the afterlife - what is a story on its own), Sylvanas could awake and with her knowledge about the plans of Zovaal regarding that sacred area, the heroes (players and co) were able to free Anduin from the domination magic (there is a cutscene in which Zovaal orders Anduin to sacrifice himself, but likely the cosmic force of Light gives Anduin via the sacred blade of his father - that was corrupted by Zovaal to control Andruin over it - a vision of his father and Saurfang, who had wielded the blade too against Sylvanas as you have seen in that other cinematic, to remind him of his strength and what the blade actually stood for, for justice and honor, giving Anduin the strength to break free). Together with Anduin they can reforge the Helmet of Domination (the crown of the lich king, which was once been created by Zovaal to give him a champion in the mortal world - what didn't really work out well) into a tool to repell the Domination magic the Death God has mastered meanwhile, giving them a chance to stop his plans. While this works out, Anduin is still broken in his faith, since, as he tells Sylvanas, that a part of him had enjoyed this feeling of power and that he can't trust himself anymore, leading to him wandering off and not returning to his throne on Azeroth and that for quite a some time - until he reappears there, still shaken and in doubt, though.

Thing is, Anduin has pretty severe PTSD here. He is not even 25 and lost his mother at like 3 or 4, lost his father twice (Once before Classic as he was kidnapped, and then in Legion, where he died fighting the Legion), had to rule an entire kingdom as a child, was manipulated most of the time by a black dragon in disguse in weakening the humans, got his father back who was warhungry and agressive at that point, tried his hardest to quell the war, nearly died because of it, couldnt save his allies (The tree part), couldnt stop another all out war, then got kidnapped himself into the "afterlive", was tortured for months and then dominated by the "Jailer" to murder his friends. And after he got out of it he noticed....part of him enjoyed that. Which scared him even more. The domination magic trapped himself in his own body to do all of that. This is 5 years after it and he still lashed out with a simple touch. He is THAT broken.

An important thing to know is that in the ending of Shadowlands, after he was freed from the Jailer's domination, Anduin met with Sylvanas to talk about how he was struggling - and he mentioned that he felt exhiliration while the Jailer controlled him, while he hurt his friends and allies. So he's struggling with not knowing if he enjoyed hurting them or if it was the Jailer making him feel that way. He went through a lot in the Shadowlands, I would suggest the cinematics "Shadowlands: Chains of Domination - “Kingsmourne”" and then "Anduin Finale Cinematic | Shadowlands Patch 9.2 Eternity's End" to see more about what he went through :).

You shouldn't be getting copyrighted for Old Soldier. Blizzard never restricts anybody for showing any of their content, they know it promotes their games. This is likely a bot flagging scam

What happened to Anduin was more complicated. While he was force "dominated" by the jailer, part of him felt the thrill of what happened. The other factor was the fragment of Arthus that was pushed into him during that was a factor too. Just look at the similarities of The War Within to Wrath of The Lich King. Also note on history, watch Nobbel87, lots of detail and can go over character story. Arthus was Warcraft "Vader" but without a redemption arc and when full dark side to save his kingdom, only to destroy it. Much that happened in Warcraft 3 was what led to WoW. Oh and Warlord of Draenor was set in an alternate timel8ne that was link to the current due to time shenanigans... worst expansions were Warlords, Battle for Azeroth(has some redeeming moments) and Shadowlands(only Sylvanis's and Anduin's stories matter in it)

KingdomAce is incredible, he watched 1h40 of cinematics and now the next one and captured everything easily. Many Wow players who have been playing for years don't have 50% of the knowledge they have just from watching the cinematics! He captured everything, names, history and events even out of order. You gained an easy subscriber today! Regards from Brazil!

That blade is from Sargeras, the mad titan, a god of order, who fell for chaos, driven into insanity as agents of Death manipulated him and showed him a corrupted world, once like Azeroth (= kind of alive or with a living being inside), but the void had corrupted this being and if it would do the same with Azeroth, this would likely be the end of all life and reality, so Sargeras thought. Insane as this made him, he went for a crusade against ALL life (all life dead = can't be corrupted anymore) and createad the burning legion, a sheer endless army of chaos demons for that. In Legion his ambitions are stopped, gameplay wise of course with a lot of engagement of the player, but in general by the other gods of order. Sargeras was like a gigantic cloud around Azeroth, manifestating himself in the form of a planet sized giant as the other order gods pulled him back - and drawing his blade, pushing into deep into Azeroth. This led to some problems, including the plane bleeding out (not blood, but 'Azerith', what is only a source of quite some power, so there was a power struggle around it, too, what could be closed, but of course the sword itself was not really something they could get rid off - nor did anyone know why exatly Sargeras did that. The theory is, that he tried to stab Azeroth, killing 'her', but it's just a theory. Same for the voice. WoW lore is so filled with manipulating forces, that it would be dumb to just think: yeah, that's for sure Azeroth, especially because no one really know if Azeroth is actually good or bad or whatever.

Actually crazy that you're so spot on about what's going on just by watching not even all of the cinematics. There's more in-game cutscenes and dialogues that make this cinematic particularly emotional, for me anyway. It's definitely my new favorite cutscene of the franchise.

the funny thing about the troll character (the blue tusked guy) is that he was just a background character in the expansion reveal trailer, but people loved him for some reason, so they canonized him in the game and cinematics afterward, and he ended up being a really cool character

Honestly, depending how much time you have then if you play the game I recommend levelling like this; Exile’s Reach (the new player starting area), and then choose The Burning Crusade to level in from a character called Chromie in the main faction hub city (Stormwind for Alliance, Orgrimmar for Horde). I’m not sure though if the game will allow you to do that on your first character, as it tends to place you straight into Battle for Azeroth content. Basically, the best way to absorb the story is to level through The Burning Crusade, then Wrath of the Lich King, then Cataclysm, then Mists of Pandaria, etc. (basically the expansions in release order) all the way up to playing the latest expansion; Dragonflight. Unfortunately, the whole “old world” of Azeroth (Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingsoms) was revamped in the Cataclysm expansion, so you can no longer access what OGs refer to as “Vanilla” WoW (the game before any expansions were released) unless you play a version of the game called WoW Classic. It may be worth starting with WoW Classic is you want the most authentic experience, but honestly it might seem jarring to a lot of modern gamers as the way the game was designed back then makes the whole experience that much more of a grind. If you were to decide to go the expansion-by-expansion route, a lot of new players don’t realise but there’s actually an option to turn of experience gains, so you could play through the rest of the story without worrying about out-levelling it. I wish WoW would retroactively apply the “Campaign Quest” icon to older content so newer players know which ones to focus to proceed through the main story. It’s the biggest flaw of levelling through “Chromie Time” in my opinion, especially after being introduced to the concept in Exile’s Reach.

hey. great content! 3 chilling cinematics to watch about Anduin, are 1) Legion - Alliance Broken Shore Cinematic 2) A Found Memento: Raising a King and 3) Anduin Raid Finale - Cinematic. the last one in particular is about the possesed Anduin. cheers!!

The orc's name is Thrall, former Warchief of the horde and Varok Saurfang's friend and brother-in-arms (not his brother.)

Definitely interested to see you start on your WoW journey! I think you'll enjoy the lore and the class dynamics! :)

man you have a great game understanding. From just watching a few cutscenes you basically figure out how he felt and what he was doing

Ah, good to know about the copyright claim explanation behind Old Soldier missing from the other video -- was such a bizarre gap given how well it fit between the other ones that were included. These reactions have been a fun way to find your channel.

Yo bro, idk if you ever do podcast/call-in formats, but it'd be hella cool to have a lore session with you where some lore buffs can explain the overarching narrative with you and maybe show you fitting cinematics/lore media. Keep up the vids, you're really entertaining to watch. I love how, compared to a lot of people who watch wow cinematics without playing the game you are mad perceptive and noticed a lot of small meaningful details!

Really like this guy. You can tell he actually pays attention to what exactly is unfolding in each cinematic and invests himself in the story. Enjoyed hearing your thoughts and analysis man, well-earned sub here.

That Stance Anduin made with the sword (pointing it at Thrall) is a very important stance. The Lich king made the stance in the Wrath of the Lich King cinematic. Sylvanas made the stance right before using the blade on Anduin to change him. And now he made the stance, symbolizing that there is some of what he did lingering inside of him. Lets say... old habit.

So cool to see your reactions to these. I'm someone that has been with the Warcraft universe since the start and it brings me immense joy to see you react. Hope you enjoy the game! I've also been a FF player for decades and played FFXIV since 2010 too.

Love the vids! This was such a beautiful cinematic. Very impressive editing. I've recently picked up FF14 too (up to about end of stormblood?) and loved the quick Hydaelyn reference. lol Looking forward to the next vids coming up

been playing wow for over 10 years now and its so cool to watch someone experience it all for the first time. Cant wait to see your wow journeys!

Man i would LOVE to deep dive into WoW with you. I LOVE this lore. I have spent hours and hours learning it!! Love your videos!!!

Been on a litle spree of watching people react to WOW cinematics since the War Within trailer and you were a favorite of mine. Glad you caught up

That sword belongs to sargeras lord of the burning legion @ kingdom ace you can watch how it got there by watching Argus the Unmaker Defeat Cinematic

Sylvanas turned anduin into a weapon for the jailer (much like a deathknight or the lichking) but later as she got parts of her soul back, she realised her wrong doings and helped them to beat the jailer. Yet they still decided she has to make amends to rehabilitate herself and decided to leave her in the maw until she freed every single souls she trapped there. Iirc there is even an cinematic of anduin and sylvanas meeting in the maw, where they make peace and find out to be quite similar.

I’m going to look crazy binging your videos and commenting on each one man 😂 for real bro watching you get hyped about wow is awesome! I would LOVE to play with you sometime man. I’ve also only ever finished ARR in ffxiv so maybe I’ll have to go back and do that when you do your wow playthrough

I’m not one for reaction videos usually, though this one hits home for me. It’s so refreshing to see a new perspective on the universe of WoW. Even if the game dies off someday, it was a big part of my childhood I’ll forever cherish.

Thrall and Varok Saurfang are not real brothers but brothers in arms. Also, Anduin's father is Varion Wren. The turning and release of Anduin happens in the Shadowlands Expansion. So you can see the cutscenes for each space separately. The sword at the end happened at the end of the Legion xpac. Also if you want to try WOW they do allow a free to play version or they used to, but it was limited to the first 10 or so levels.

HEY EVERYONE! I'm live streaming RIGHT NOW reacting to MORE WoW cutscenes and cinematics! ru-vid.comtorndbiPeUs?feature=share

I'm so happy i found your channel!

This is the start of the Worldsoul Saga, War Within is the first of the next three expansions, the others are Midnight and The Last Titan, which we are going to be getting release upto 2030. This is to close out the first twenty years of World Of Warcraft.

I have several thoughts: Firstly, FINALLY they are addressing Sargeras' Blade. Second: You gotta love that visual reference to the Lich King trailer, when Anduin holds out his sword. It'd be cool if it's muscle memory from when The Jailer possessed him. (The Jailer is the source of Domination Magic, which the Helm of Domination heavily drew from.)

@Nobble87 has a great Lore of Warcraft playlist on his RU-vid channel that covers just about everything.

One person already mentioned the videos that would give context for the huge sword, but if you check out a bunch of cinematics for Shadowlands, especially the final raid cinematics, they'll give you some context for what happened to Anduin as well.

Yoo the Nachtflugel at 8:08! Nice.

The genuine interest this guy is showing in the story reminds me of when I fell in love with it ( The War of the Ancients Trilogy). I threw the sub. Great videos, King.

Thrall, or his birthname, Go'El, is one of the BEST characters in this entire series. His story is powerful and amazing. A genuine good dude, with a powerful will.

How the hell did I play every expansion and this guy gets a better grasp of the story then I did by just watching some of the cinematics? Dude is amazing.

Someone needs to give him an entire video of ALL the INGAME cinematics, just to give context cuz the intros cinematic dont give context at all (unless you played the game) he doesnt even know what that sword is or why is there and THAT cinematic was FIRE also there is a bunch of them

Highly recommend the Warbringers, Harbingers and Lords of War cinematics, they are top notch! And as you liked our panda Chen Stormstout, maybe look up the mini-series about emperor Shao Shao!

I think a lot of the WoW lore people underestimate the power of the domination magic the jailer used. It seems Anduin is so messed up by his actions while under its influence because hes not just being controlled like a puppet. It changes your nature, your sovereign will is twisted to something you were not, but now are.

I haven't played FF14 much (I was in the middle of Shadowbringers) but when I heard the voice saying "Hear me", I thought the same as you :D I suggest "For Azeroth - 25 Years of Warcraft" which was part of a series of celebration videos some years ago, I haven't play WoW for some time now, and I'm not a veteran of 20 years like others but, that cinematic gives me chills, it's epic

If you watch the "wrath of the lich king" trailer and this one side by side youll notice Anduin and Arthas strike the same sword pose. :)

God. Watching this, knowing what he has been through and then hearing anduins theme. Makes me tear up everytime. Manduin is all grown up 😢

important context. Azeroth, the planet is essentially an egg incubating a titan.

To give context. Thrall is the most powerful shaman and was leader for the hore from the begining. Is not brother with Sourfang. He left the horde to leave in peace since he did too much and want to res his child.

I would recommend watching the almost complete history of WoW video by hidden azeroth.

For context with the sword look up end cinematic for antorus the burning throne

As a long-time WoW player, this is so cool to see.

It's easy to say, that wasn't you, he didn't do anything actually that bad, or as Thrall says he is not his past. However, if you take a moment to think about it and possess the capacity to try and empathize with the situation, it is a pretty dark and definitely traumatic situation. He was dominated, and it "wasn't him" doing things, but he was still aware and present for all of it and helpless to stop it. Just try to imagine seeing life through your eyes, and witness yourself attempt to kill people, betray the community you were raised to lead and protect, and assist in the attempted destruction of the entire planet and every living thing on it. You have to sit by helpless to stop, screaming within your own mind to stop, but you can't. At times feeling joy, other times complete, hopelessness, and despair. Freed from the prison of your mind and given control of your body again only temporarily while kept within a prison of a cell, still unable to do anything. The idea of losing my autonomy, while being forced to witness what is done not only to me but by my body as if I am doing it myself after that autonomy had been ripped from me against my will and consent is horrific to me. I can completely understand why Anduin is a bit unhinged and traumatized. It is easy as a spectator viewing things from the outside to dismiss someone's experiences. It is easy to think we would not be affected at all by something if it happened to us. That we would be okay and "just get over it." The truth, though, is something far more difficult to admit, and that truth is that you would also most likely be destroyed as well. None of us actually know how we would react, and we all want to think we are the main character protag. However, more often than not, we are not as "tough" or "badass" as we would like to believe. Sorry for the long rant and I'm not saying you are doing anything I'm bringing up. It's just that I have seen some ridiculous takes on Anduin and this cinematic, and I felt like ranting while bored at work, lol.

Yooo bet, ill def watch your wow streams! Platinum wow does great lore videos

Varok and Go'el (Thrall) are not actual brothers but they been sword brothers for decades before Varoks death. Some messed up context Thrall is Go'els slave name since he used to be a gladiator slave in orc concentration camp back in the days.

There's a lot of context with this clip that I don't think I can do any justice in just a comment. If you really wanna understand Anduin you've gotta watch the Shadowlands in game cinematics. For context, you watched Sylvannas' inner mind hate what she had done since she was turned. In a way she too had no choice but to obey, yet the deeds were done. Anduin was commanded to do what he did but he says that each time he is forced he feels himself slipping away... as if his own choices didn't matter anymore. That giant sword was stuck into Azeroth by a Titan (basically a god of the universe). There is a world soul (Titan to be) in Azeroth and what he wanted to do was kill it. There are those who would also try to corrupt it before its born. Thus making a dark titan.

The Worldsoul Saga is comprised of the next three expansion: The War Within, Midnight, and the Last Titan.

Argus the Unmaker Defeat Cinematic is the video that shows how that sword ended up there.

Hi again! Finally got them, sorry it took so long, i even made another bonus playlist for just like old/new events and the season launch trailers if you want more Overwatch :) Hero Gameplay; ru-vid.com/group/PL4S7kCDalOLj3aHzPtP-uphOB_26bVMLx&si=PcLS0a5KRjuIGwZI Overwatch Event/season trailers; ru-vid.com/group/PL4S7kCDalOLhdWAIZmkMvRwcUhaPQlsCC&si=z98r8YySY2vmA_0-

Anduin is one of the very few people to have successfully mind controlled someone, and since other players dont count, hes the only person to ever really do that to us too.

i think maybe the best bet for catching all the cinimatics in order, including the ones you missed, would be to find a playlist, rather then a compilation

The CGI is outstanding!😮

3:40 just a little clarification, Thrall and Varok Saurfang are not "brothers" in a sense of being blood related, Saurfang is even a generation older than Thrall. They refered to each other as brothers because they fought alongside one another for a long time and lead the Horde. Thrall as a warchief (top dog) and Saurfang as High Overlord (almost the top dog) and comander of Thrall's personal guard. They are not even of the same clan. Thrall is a Frostwolf and Saurfang is of Blackrock clan, but "hordes" were gathered from different orcish clans and the current horde (the one that players can play as) extends to even different races. Also Thrall is not named "Thrall", his actual name is Go'el, but he learned that much later in his life. He was separated from his parents and raised as a gladiator-slave by human lord, who refered to him simply as "thrall". He adopted it as his name as a simbol of defiance

for context of the WorldSoul Saga; the chief storyteller for Blizzard lays out the details at the most recent Blizzcon Opening Ceremony WoW segment here: watch?v=F1pkwARaVAY at about 19 minutes into the segment

If there is one thing Blizzard always knew how to do and still miraculously retained is their cinematics. Stuff they do is Pixar level crisp. Their art team in games also holds the whole thing together, through thick and thin. It's too bad the other parts of Blizzard are simply not on par anymore.

Now you gotta see the last in game cinematic to legion to understand that sword.

Big Blue Tusk guy is known as Zappyboi in the WoW community

You’re definitely on to something when you mentioned Hydaelyn. While we don’t know the full extent of where the story is going for WoW just yet it does seem like Azeroth(the voice they were hearing) may play a similar role to Hydaelyn in 14.

2 best in-game cutscenes are "Rejection of the Gift" and Sargeras impaling Azeroth.

That sword can be scene hitting thr planet in the legion ending cut scene. I suggest watching the cut scenes and patch trailers they are great story fillers

I’m just catching up but I love this vid arc!!

Love the WoW vids so far! I think if you’re thinking about getting into WoW what you’re doing right now is exactly the way to start. I recommend keep doing what you’re doing in terms of looking into the lore. The Warcraft Universe is insanely rich with lore and understanding the character interactions and nuances will help bring clarity to what you’re doing as a player when actually playing WoW. That being said once you feel comfortable with a good understanding of the lore behind it, streaming WoW gameplay with the community will help with overcoming some of the hurdles wow presents to new players. The community will gladly help direct you in terms of keybinds, addons, etc. Best of luck to you with your channel and hope to see you in Azeroth! Lok’tar Ogar

dude you have to watch this - Shadowlands Afterlives: Bastion, its so so good, u can feel the emotions.

Azeroth is just one of the many million worlds that Meteion saw.

Watched the first video. Nice seeing someone else's perspective on a game I've played since 2004. I was also wondering where The Wrath Gate cinematic was. Not your fault, though.

anduin looks like Steven Amell maybe possible casting for future movies?

Andiun is only 25 here technically, while Thrall is about 10 years older

You should see the chris metzen announcement on this! Dude is the hype man for blizzard for sure (and the VOICE of thrall)

In wow lore the light is some sort of power that answers to strong will and normally is the power that paladins and priests use, Anduim lost the light after bring controlled so he feels powerless and corrupted

Anduin was Dominated by the Jailer, his actions were controlled, but he could see and was fully conscious of everything. At the end of ShadowLands he lamented that while he was being Dominated, the power he felt and the actions he did gave him a "thrill", and was terrified of potentially liking the power and the things he did.

you should try exploring a lot of the more famous fan made machinima from back in the days. old blizzcon winning pieces

I'd love to see you try WoW. I got notifications on so I look forward to seein' it in my feed

Have to say, I never seen it until you highlighted it, Xenoblade 3, love that series also, I mean waiting for what happens next, the wait is almost killing me.

8:54 Min.: I have some words for you: "JUST DO IT!" ;) You know how the quote gos :D Follow it! TY! :3

Retail WoW is really easy to get into, while most ppl are playing atm WoW Classic season of discovery and ofc you can also play WoW Hardcore

To understand the context of the sword you have to watch the end cinematic from the Legion expansion.

Hello fellow adventurer. There is so much more to see. I have been playing Warcraft for a very long time. It was one of the four "lifetime" game series for me. If you are looking for some input I would happily help you. I cannot be totally unbiased, but I can do my best to be honest. There are many great things about this game and despite its flaws I still play. My love of the lore, despite the revamps etc. is just one reason I play. I have had many ups and downs in WoW. There is just too much to write here. My best suggestion is to play how you want to play if you decide to play and don't rush. As the Pandarians say, "Slow Down." There is also a lot of "fan art" in all its forms to see, including music parodies and fan made machinima. Cheers! Besheke

Man, I loved this cinematic but I fear how many people coming from 14 are seeing the World Soul's voice as a Hydaelyn rip off. It was pretty prevalent that first few days after this cinematic came out- when the entire concept of the spirit of the world talking to heros is a REALLY old fantasy trope; and the world soul itself was first referenced back in 2016 with the first Chronicals book.

the orc is thrall - the original warchief of the horde at the start of wow , and one of the champions u play in warcraft 3 orc campaign Anduin felt more like a mockery of arthas , rather then a rehash of sylvanas to me if i'm being honest. But maybe you should look up arthas's story on youtube. It's probably one of the best villain story in wow.

U have to watch Antorus finale to understand this where this sword come from :)

If you wanna jump in Season of Discovery is very popular right now. Might be too crowded for a beginner but who knows you might love it like everyone else seems too.

So once again, from the video where you watched all cinematics, the scene at the end of Legion was left out. In it Sargerus plunged his blade into the planet. This is picking up from there.

Coming from a WoW fan who’s played FFXIV, I know how central and important the storyline is to a player like you so I highly recommend watching a general explanation or multiple WoW lore videos just to get a gist of important factors like the gods (titans) and what not so the story going forward makes sense to you, and then just hop right in! The story is very well told throughout the levelling experience and its very forgiving to new players so don’t worry about not understanding there’s hours and days and weeks worth of WoW content to follow up on and catch up on, welcome to Azeroth!

@Nobbel87 should stream with this dude and go through the lore.

You will understand everything if you are watching all cinematic from warcraft 3

Love the content