The Hidden Sickness of the Wetlands | World of Warcraft 

Fun fact. Deathwing himself should be hidding in GB during vanilla. Bacause Sinestra (or by her original name Sintharia) started experiments bellow halls of GB before TBC. And was later revealed, that deep below darkest halls, deeper then Sinestra And her Troggs ever dare to descend, Deathwing himself manipulated Sinestra and events leading to creation of Twilight dragons. We can even met Sinestra during TBC at Netherwing (it was in a middle of her experiments). So, during vanilla Sinestra And DW should be already there.

Oh man, seeing the "Credit: Hayven Games" makes me a bit emotional. For a moment, through you, he was here again. Thanks for the great videos, man.

Thank you so much for the credit to Hayven Games at the 7:52 mark its been a long time and he was much beloved by the wow community i am glad he is not forgotten

Hope there is enough hidden lore for way more of these videos. Each and every one is a banger

The Warden of The Green is a direct refference to Swamp Thing, from DC Comics. He is actually like, top three most powerful beings on Earth. In his domain, he is virtually unstopable. Just fun fact.

The elekk in the room! Lmao

Seeing Hayven Games feels like a hammer blow to the chest, but I'm glad he left such a mark.

With the War Within coming out, they have said in interviews the Scardin will be appearing in the expansion. So makes you wonder what other things will come to pass in that expansion! I'm excited

Grim Batol as a location has captured my imagination for 20 years. The Wetlands is a beautiful zone and tons of fun quests! Thanks for bringing me back. 💖💖💖

I've always loved the passive world building of the Wetlands! The unmarked, ruined path leading to Grim Batol shows the zone's history.

i would love a grim batol raid in sod, since that area looks like it was supposed to be something big, plus with xal'atath(shadowy figure when you get the void shard in hillsbarad foothills) having big influence with players since phase 1 we might be sent there

Wetlands and Darkshore were such nostalgic areas back when I was a dumb seven year old during vanilla. Wetlands had a banger soundtrack as well, and Menethil harbor was cool. Not as cool as the architecture in Theramore, but unlike Theramore, there were things you can do like quests. And fewer deserters harassing everyone.

In Vanilla, I used my rogue to stealth into the Grim Batol area. I hoped to find some secret quest or maybe some chests with loot. But all I found were elite dragons.

I still think Blizzard has missed out by not having a Caverns of Time dungeons visiting old Grim Batol. Maybe we could help the Wildhammer dwarves fight Modgud.

Whatever is beneath the Eastern Kingdoms must be huge. Its whispers have been heard in Tirisfal, it seems to have corrupted that one Watcher imprisoned beneath Arathi, and at the much lower elevation of the Wetlands its presence is actually able to influence the world above albeit indirectly.

I always liked the Wetlands. Good video.

Love the attention to detail, "the Elekk in the room" made me smile.

I love the way you narrate character speech.

The PTSD zone, when you wanted to get your low level nightelf to human territory in vanilla.

Great vid and thank you for crediting Fred for his footage. He's terribly missed.

The darkness Modgud released in Grim Batol was that of Xal'atath, so the Old God connection is a given. Since Xal'atath has made appearances in Season of Discovery, it would be interesting to see some more old Wetlands stuff.

Seriously man. Every video I see from you is superb. Thanks and keep it up!

"Modgud's curse is based." - Jediwarlock, 2024.

Thank you for making these videos. I sometimes get really anxious at nighttime before bed and your videos are a great help. Please keep them going :)

Fun video! I always like to see how you bring the out the silent stories told by the quests in the region. I think the corruption that's making sickness in the Wetlands stems from its close proximity to the Twilight Highlands which will soon become a hotspot for old god activity brought close to the surface. For now, the corruption is still slowly oozing its way west through rock and earth manifesting itself in the odd occurrences on exhibit.

5:16 "the elekk in the room" LOL

Makes me wonder if Season of Discovery will uncover more of Xal'ataths influence over the Dark Irons attack on Grim Batol. As she was involved in the curse according to the artifacts lore book in Legion. We have already seen hints of Xal'atath being present in vanilla WoW through the Blackfathom Depths content in Season of Discovery. And with her being the main antagonist of the upcoming new expansion for retail, my guess Blizzard is using Season of discovery as a way of showing her influence retroactively.

They will provide us with the new content in the shape of Grim Batol lore. SUUUUURELY, 100% I would look to Twow. They're more official than retail at this point.

Good video, thx. Grim Batol would even fit well for an intro or exploratory sidequest in retail wow. We had a dragonexpac. We are getting a dwarven/earthly down below expac. And the void is involved. Since there will be a nerubian focus i dont think Grim Batol will be an entrypoint for the new zones or something similar, but id love to see a sidequestchain uncovering something in grim batol which could help us in the fight up ahead. It just fits well imo.

Now that you covered the Wetlands im curious about this another Excavation site found in the Barrens, Bael Modan, its said thata there's some mysterious stuff happening there

I know you mostly cover classic era wow stuff, but Modgud is one of the ones who had the blade Xal'atath which was introduced in legion... and may be making an appearance in SoD, but that's unconfirmed atm

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The Demon soul was hidden in the wetlands and presumably within grimbatol, and Deathwing manipulates the orcs from the dragonmaw clan to find it and they used it to imprison Alextrasza within grim batol, who is eventually freed by Rhonin and Krasus the red dragon. The demon soul more than likely corrupted the land around it

Incredible video! I'm so glad to be subscribed to the channel.

That's really interesting, it would be neat if the old gods turned out to be involved with Wetlands and it would answer a few old questions. Personally I doubt the murlocs are involved with that, since murlocs were a recurring unimportant low level mob especially in the human starting areas, so it's hard to tell what's real lore and what's a more recent retcon. I mean I guess murlocs and naga were working together since way back in Warcraft III when some murlocs were serving Zar'jira, and I do remember fighting some old gods and their minions in the Frozen Throne undead campaign, so it's within the realm of possibility, but I'm not sure if there was ever much evidence of murlocs and old gods being directly connected. So I don't wanna jump to conclusions, but it certainly is interesting to think about.

"Number 15: Burger king foot lettuce" ahh intonation

There's a Grim Batol content incoming at Turtle Wow!

I seem to remember that Dark Iron dwarf leader that died there used Xal'atath the shadow priest weapon from legion, but the weapon left her side when she was about to die, that could be the link for the corruption in Wetlands.

I tried to subscribe partway through the video but it turns out i'm already subscribed. Keep up the great videos!

The Wetlands always felt of to me during classic, something just didn't feel right about the zone.

Modgud wielded Xalateth which helped curse Grim Batol. Good chance for new lore concerning GB and wetlands in War Within.

I think most players forget that the flesh and blood gnomes and dwarves awakened from their hibernation inside their Titan facilities. This means that the underground cities of gnomeregan, ironforge, grim batol etc where originally Titanic facilities. It's not unusual that wetlands would have some additional Titanic remnants, with the zone's proximity to these cities

Man, I miss Hayven Games, R.I.P. 😢

Regarding the connection of the troggs and the dwarfs, I think it was in uldaman in classic where it's mentioned how the dwarfs and troggs were formed originally from the irdenes. Might have been somewhere else, but it's been confirmed a long time ago that they are related.

Good video, As someone who knows alot of Lore, Some of these things are new to me!

Impecable work as always

Let’s go! Hype! ❤️

10/10 video. Love the lore and further speculation Also I recently just discovered All Things Nerd thanks to the RU-vid algorithm. It's a good channel

YES ! I love these videos, man! Keep it up!

Hi Jedi! Could you imagine if Grim Batol was a full-fledged zone with secret dark caverns in the lowest depths?

Seems like such a shame they didn't replace the troggs with the Skardyn models now that they are here and Grim Batol is M+ :S

Where is the shot at 9:15 taken from? I want to go check out the spooky help request camp.

Blizzard hire this man

lovely as always!

1:23 middle of top half of the right gnoll tent

Good job as always 😊

I love these videos! Keep it up!

Skardyn have shown up in TWW!

hehehe "elekk in the room"

This is the kind of thing SoD needs to capitalize on

It all makes sence, thanks for the video, idk how could i know that playing the game modern way, with questie or dungeon grind, even AI voiceover addon would be not enough to explain what's going on in the zone. Always been curious what happend in grim batol, this dwarf towers emerging from the mountains is major part of classic wow charm

wonder if it'll be in war within?

Your NPC voice sounds like WoWCrendor’s old machinimas

Bro how do you keep finding these little threads to pull at???

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Omg...Hayven Games ❤️🥹🫶

Beautiful. Goes nicely with season of discovery.

i just wanted to say, i love these videos. i started playing wow with my dad when i was 8 and wrath was up. im 23 now, and i still play all the time! getting to see someone pick apart the zones and characters i've come to know so well is just so entertaining to me. thank you jedi! edit: THE ELLEK IN THE ROOM. my dad is going to love that joke omg