Just reuploading this copy I found because I love Alarak and his videos are gone :( Don't know how to remove the watermark, sorry. Originally created by Bearalmighty.
@@sigfartsigfart7906 I feel like Aldaris is like a traditional Jedi from the prequel trilogy. Preferring to sit on the council and do nothing to stop a coming darkness despite all the red flags and warning signs. Thinking their tactics are winning the war when that couldn’t be further from the truth.
-"My rage burns brighter then a thousand suns and soon all will see my wrath unleashed!" -"Then this is something I hope to witness." This is a rare moment when Alarak responds without sarcasm or an attempt to humiliate. He shares Artanis feeling and respects it. That is a good moment.
“Peace is a lie there is only passion / Through passion we gain strength / through strength we gain power / through power we gain victory / through victory our chains are broken / The Force shall set us free”.
Alarak : "I don't think you are an idiot. I KNOW you are an idiot ; but that is not the question at this moment. You have bodies, enough to bury my enemies, whom I deem even bigger idiots than you are, and suffocate them under their mass. The question is not your intelligence ; the question is whether you are willing to spend a thousand warriors, to gain a million more."
Implores Artanis to act swiftly and help him take control of all Tal'Darim. When they arrive at Slayn, he then contemplates, slows down and asks to be patient and consider "preparations" Oh Alarak...
He’s patient and calculating in his own endeavors, but everything else is an inconvenience that must be dealt with as quickly and efficiently as possible.
He urges you to get to slayn so he can start. However preparations are needed to ensure validity of his claim to the title of highlord and that no one will challenge his rule
Alarak: "The Guardians stand watch over the shrines. Kill them slowly and painfully." Artanis: "My People will fight with Honour. Even when we are fighting for you." One of the best quotes in the game.
Alarak: Yes, your psionic power courses through me! Move forward, slaves! Kill all who aid Ma'lash! Artanis: You would do well to remember that I command these warriors, Alarak. Not you. (Alarak does not respond, obviously ignoring Artanis.) I like this one too 😄
Artanis and Alaraks dynamic is just Artanis desperately trying to assert and maintain his authority while Alarak is so confident in his own dominance that he doesn't care. Its so hilarious
Ehhh, I saw the opposite. Artanis is constantly puffing out his chest, trying to get Alarak to respect his authority and Alarak just doesn't. Alarak does not respect other protoss and refuses to speak with them. He only speaks with Vorazun and Artanis because they are leaders. He also explicitly states he thinks they are both idiots and probably just think Artanis is gullible enough to do what he wants (and he is correct). @@stankobarabata2406
18:40 Alarak just rolls his eyes. Such an Alarak thing to do. "I tire of these long-winded speeches. Ma'lash and the Tal'darim Death Fleets still lie in wait, and yet here we stand, praising an uncanny leader. These Templar have countless ways to waste time, it seems."
Alarak has always amused me greatly because he is this mysterious being that we first meet as he is glassing a sector without mercy. He's powerful as he is ruthless and at first impressions, he gives off a 'yeah I'm still alive and now I'm making it everyone problem'. Your forces are quite literally outrunning his lasers, and somehow, despite everything he throws at you, you arise victoriously. You know that he's not messing around. Then he arrives, quite literally boarding the ship on his own and singlehandedly besting the matriarch, he does so with the intention of gaining an asset in his fight against Amon. This is one of my favorite details about Alarak because he let his actions speak louder than any demands. He threw his own weight around and even broke free from his imprisonment on this ship. All that just to tell Artanis' people that he needs to be saved and I thought about it. But why does he need him? Simple, because if someone is crazy enough to stay on the planet while it is being glassed, outrunning his fleet and succeed in besting his defenses despite all the odds against him, well, what better ally to have than one that has circumvented all his expectations and overcame the powerful yet prideful Tal'darim. Maybe Alarak and Artanis have conflicting perspectives on how to deal with their people and their cultures and Amon. But Artanis, in the end, proved to be the one lucky bullet needed to help him gain his status as Highlord.
Let's take a moment to appreciate that Alarak is capable of keeping Ma'Lash, the most powerful psychic of the Tal'Darim, in a stalemate WHILE HE IS BEING BOOSTED BY AMON, A -LITERAL- GOD. Alarak is arrogant, but he's entirely justified in being that cocky. The man is a class 10 psychic by himself at least. If he had been sided with Aiur during the brood wars, Kerrigan would have had her ass handed to her ; it reflects in his unit as well. Even on Brutal, you can do his entire segment with just Alarak, only using vorazun for where blink is necessary. Seriously, try it ; it's not even hard, Alarak is just a broken fucking unit, and he would be balanced only by costing 80 supply by himself.
Pair him with Fenix in Co-Op and anything you point them at will just die, Use Arbiter to lock down a chunk of units, then Praetor to CC something for Alarak to murder and you should have time to make yourself lunch and a new "I'm in danger" meme, before the units hit with stasis un-freeze (then promptly also get murdered).
Most protoss leaders, except Vorazun maybe, are class 10 psychics, since Vorazun uses her psi to be all assassin like instead of almighty power. Remember, Artanis literally held an entire swarm by himself for a few minutes, and while people think of him as a Zealot type, in truth he's probably the most powerful Templar the Khalai have. Literally the only person Alarak respects among his kind, probably seeing him as an equal. If you click on him during his first visit on the Spear of Adun, he just tells Vorazun she's not worth his time, and pretty much treats everyone else with disdain and minimal interest. Yet, somehow, he's quite interested in Artanis. I will admit, I didn't like Arty much even as a protoss fan, but after LoTV he became one of my all time favorites. Is he cliche? Yes. But he's a well made cliche. Dude practically carried a whole galaxy on his shoulders at one point. Not sure about Kerrigan, though. She's a class *12* psionic during her Queen of Blades phase. Who knows how stronger she got post-Zerus. Alarak would surely struggle a lot trying to put her down. Remember when she almost lost to a Hybrid? Turns out she'd been fighting them FOR DAYS without rest. Most protoss would collapse from exhaustion at that point.
@@stankobarabata2406 "Alarak would surely struggle a lot trying to put her down" But he would still probably win. Kerrigan has a bad case of Mary Sue syndrome. She's the chosen one because the director said so. She's good now (am reminded of Sylvanas) because the writers said so. She wins....well, you get the idea. Heart of the Swarm, IMHO, was the weakest expac of SC2 in regards to story because it revolved around this fake, badly written redemption arc. Alarak gives precisely ZERO fucks about any of that, and his attitude is "Chosen one or not. Anything can die if you try hard enough... and I've always been one hell of a trier"
Thank you so much for reuploading this! I was also bummed to find out recently that Bearalmighty had deleted their channel - no one else has videos as thorough or a catalogue as comprehensive as they did. But at least this has been preserved, so thank you again!
Listen, Q is simply dressing up and playing this part to make sure Humanity survives in this universe. First the Borg, now Amon. The things he does for his favored species.
John de Lancie was the perfect voice for this. Ever since I saw him in Star Trek as Q, in my head he has a proprietary ability to play a powerful and smug yet relatable character
24:54 can't lie Karax is like that one sensible and normal friend but when it comes to work. He does a lot of questionable thing that we wouldn't expect
2:18 Smart not to attack. That was Alarak with counter-strike ready to completely disintegrate her. Although I don't think he would have followed through as he wouldn't wanna remove her from the universe.
If you were ever curious to how powerful that attack is, reach 190 sadism in heroes of the storm, and watch a tank lose half his HP from 1 attack alone
This guy just is gold, so every line comes out that way. Even when he’s the bad guy: ”For creatures with such short lifespans, you Terrans are always so eager to die…” Like seriously, LOTV doesn’t pretend like the Tal’Darim are good guys. They’re just like ’You know these guys are gonna be a huge problem after we beat Amon?’ ’Yeah maybe.’ And surprise, they’re a big ass problem, with Alarak declaring war on the Terran Dominion because they wouldn’t let him slaughter innocents in a scorched earth campaign against the Defenders of man. Like make no mistake, Alarak is BAD, like he is probably fucking evil by whatever metric, he just had the sense to gang up on a universe ending threat.
@@kamingleung3792 Alarak openly massacred Dominion civilians and engaged their military in direct armed warfare. And once defeated did not declare any intention of backing off, on the contrary made further threats. In fact he still would oppose the Dominion directly harboring former Defenders of Man. There absolutely is a purpose to Alarak's throne in continued conflict with the Dominion, which is the fact that he now considers them his enemy, having vowed to exterminate the Defenders for the insult of attacking the Tal'Darim and fleeing their retaliation. If he's willing to slaughter civilians to get to them, he's certainly capable of holding a grudge against the Dominion for harboring them and destroying the Tal'Darim Death Fleet.
@@kamingleung3792 A giant armed military conflict between two opposing armies that does not resolve the open military hostility between your states? If that's not a war, then I guess you can have the semantics argument.
I wouldn’t say it’s because he “had the sense to gang up on a universe-ending threat.” He was fully on board with everything Amon wanted to do right up until he learned that Amon never planned to ascend his people into powerful hybrids. Then he went “Well, fuck you, then!” and joined up with the enemy to take over his people and kill him out of revenge.
"You think us fools?" "Yes, but that is irrelevant." You know, Alarak is pretty Honest for a bad guy. Is he a bad guy? I don't know. I DO know that he's a dictator but in some few, rare occasions in history, some dictators were concluded as heroes. Maybe Alarak might be one of them?
Alarak: Both the zerg and the power structure will trouble us no more. Contact the others, and tell them of the victory I have brought you. Vorazun: Rohana, Alarak and I have destroyed the power structure. Alert the next team that they may begin.
So, Alarak doesn't care if Artanis retreats or stays... And then spends his forces on trying to prevent Artanis from getting the artifact. Amazing writing.
His interactions with Alarak made Artanis really shine in this campaign. We get to see the side of Artanis that dares someone to fuck around and find out. "You speak as Amon does. For the sake of YOUR LIFE, that will CHANGE."
Artanis: We are in orbit over a hostile world with an imposing fleet, and you speak of preparation??? Alarak: I have altered the deal, pray I do not alter it any further!
i like alarak, hes got alot of charisma in his voice, the actor did very well giving life to the character. hes arrogant but hes got skill to back it up.
The video missed one line from Alarak. It happens before he kills Ma’lash. This is how it goes. Ma’lash: The master has already won, Alarak. You will lead our people to their doom Alarak: You are right about one thing, Ma’lash. I will lead them! This is another reason why Alarak is my favorite Protoss Leader.
the Tal'darim are both efficient, and ineffective all in a measure... they could be greater if they would stop killing each other, but they also wouldn't be themselves...
