The Story Behind Call of the Scarab [Lore] 

"Nothing good has ever come from Silithus!"

in 2006 my PC could barely handle running 5 man dungeons above 20 fps. My first blue screen ever happened because of the opening of AQ. I ran all the way from the closest flight point i had as a level 45 Human Warlock (Tanaris) and the moment i stepped foot into Silithus, my pc froze and Blue Screened. Clearly the greatest wow event in history for everyone who got to take part in it...

I remember when the gates opened on my server. I was still leveling to 60 in Silithus, a bunch of my friends were there and I asked why. They said come meet us over on the southern part of the map. I got there, and got stepped on by an Anubasath Guardian. xD

This video makes me miss the times when the dragonflights were important. :(

I ran into one of those Scarab Lords last week, in LFR Antorus, of all places. He had the title and the black battle bug. I didn't expect someone that hardcore to still play WoW, let alone run LFR, which many say killed WoW.

Jesus, they weren't kidding when they said this questline was Insane. I can't imagine anyone would be willing to do something This insane again. (...aww who am I kidding, I'm sure some guild's would kill to do it)

Whenever I see anything about the opening of AQ I always wish I could've experienced it and many other things I missed back then.

13:55 "And Falstad shatters the scepter" Isnt it Fandral? Wheres Red Shirt Guy when you need him?

My server Arthur us opened to gates about March, man was that a cool even leggy as all hell but so awesome. Sadly my guild had only started clearing bwl at the time and never made it far into aq. But the effort and drive behind it and the community is something that no game has been able to replicate since.

I think it's cool that they're looking to reward the longest playing players that have stuck with them.

I remember when the gate opened on my server and I had no idea what was going on because I hadn't hit end-game content yet. Never bothered to learn much but AQ40. Big thanks for the video.

I still remember the AQ opening event, the character who opened it on my server was called Gideon from the guild The Last Watch, back before cross servers when exceptional people and guilds made names for themselves in the community. Truly legendary event.

Nothing good has ever came out of siliths. Also god damn all of that shit just to open a gate?!

i found a book from a rare spawn in Silithus this is what was written in it. Ogmot's dream journal Ogmot was just puny boy fightin at da war camp when da Masters first blessed me wit da visions. I come to Silithus, to da great wound. seeking wonders. Make ogmot your vessel, Masters! Last night, Ogmot dreams of great battle. Two fleets bashin on ocean of blood. Shadows twistin beneath da ships. risin. Risin. Ogmot so happy watching da carnage! Then Ogmot gets waked up by skitterin sounds. Stupid bugs! Dont matter Ogmot knows dese dreams soon come true. Life comes back to dis wasted land. First da bugs come. Now da gobbies skulkin round... Dey cravin da world blood... Ogmot am sure of it! BAH! Let dem have dese drippins! Soon Ogmot gonna drink rivers of blood! Da Masters promise! Today smoke rises up from da campfire. Smoke tells Ogmot good story. Ogmot sees lady wrapped in dark swirlies. She leads herds of blind sheep. Da sheepies follow her everplace she go. Do everthin she say. Never doubt lady. She guide dem over tall cliff! SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT! Stupied sheepies! Da crows get fat eatin da sheepflesh. Da lady laughs as crows eat! Ogmot laugh too! Dat blade has shiney eye. Always watchin us. Why you no see it? Three lies. Da first one been told. Bound by that throne? No. Free. Free! Da next gonna come soon. Maybe dey see dis one. Other hammers here now. Dey talk and talk about Argus. Bout da one dat got wakened. Bout great victory dat our enemy not even notice. But only ogmot sees da visions. Other hammers not blessed by da Masters! Ogmot share his dreams wit da others, but da skinny one just laugh. Ogmot no like her. Many days pass wit no visions. Did Ogmot make da Masters angry? Me gonna make sacrifice! Please da Masters. Remember Ogmot! Da star watching Ogmot. Too shiny! Ogmot gonna hide from it! Da dagger spoke true. It been too long since Ogmot got drowned. Masters! No forsake Ogmot! Da bones got picked clean, but Ogmot still get no visions. Da others laugh. Say Ogmot not devoted. But me is da chosen one! Ogmot no lose faith! Another sacrifice? Yes! One more of them aint gonna be missed... Roused by her screams. Stirred by da whispers. A blessin comes from da Masters. Now Ogmot understand! A door. A path. Ours... Ours... Fool! Da circle awakened us all!

ah, the good old war effort. i was leveling my first character at that time. an orc warrior i still have to this day. she put forward some herbs and bandages, but i didn't have access to the other components. i also remember waking up at 4 in the AM to watch my dad participate in the opening of the gates(i was only level 45 or so at the time, so i couldn't survive the trek through ungoro, let alone silithus). fun times. i had thought initially "there are only like 8 guys coming out of the gates, is this supposed to be dangerous?" about 5 seconds later they started cleaving through the assembled horde and alliance players and i went from "thats it?" to "welp... they're screwed"

Finally managed to get the 'Veteran of the Shifting Sands' achievement on 11/30/10. At higher levels it was much easier to complete many of the quests solo, getting through BWL with the by then rare random raids, having them fall apart at the first few bosses or not winning the Elementium ore was infuriating. When I watched the video I kept thinking 'did I really go through all that?', couldn't remember half of it.

I have spent countless hrs watching your videos the last few months, thankyou.

finally I was able to understand this legendary quest! thanks fo the video Nobbel, very good job.

I remember when the gate opened on my server, low population yet there was still nearly a thousand people in Tanaris ready to charge in. Then the massive Anubarath fuckers came out and started tearing through the crowds. So glad I decided to watch from a distance using eagle eye.XD

I was probably a little bit optimistic when I asked for this video five days ago. That looks like a lot more work than anyone can do in five days. Good work, great video, thanks mate!

Sunken Temple was one of my favorite dungeons in game pre-cata. I really enjoyed running it. Also Zul'Farak and Maurudan.

I remember the Gates of AQ event. Most of my guild were going. We got the boat from Menethil Harbour, well we got on the boat, which dumped random players in the sea, resulting in stages of corpse swimming back to the dock, and waiting for the next ship. Now my guild was split up, but we all eventually got to Theramore. From there we ran through S.Barrens down Thousand needles and Tanaris, and arrived via Un 'Goro crater. The whole of Silithus was full of giant statues like Anubis and creatures that could one shot the players. The servers kept breaking. It was very hard to see what was happening, or work out what you were supposed to be doing in a laggy sea of players and mobs. Once you did start collecting the servers would go down again. It was chaos, it was glorious, it was the one event I know I will never forget.

I have no idea from which timezone you are, but you always post new video during the night and my morning cofee ritual is always beautiful when I start my day (or week) with your video. Keep on the good work.

20:00 NANI?!?!

Nobbel, what are your thoughts on what will happen to the order halls? Seems weird that you were the best of the best in your class and had so many respect you and follow you, to now only just go and ditch everything you built to fight for the alliance and horde again. What do you think?

i tell ya, some of the weirdest and most wonderful events were in vanilla. never forget the opening of AQ

... it’s no fucking wonder people say Vanilla was harder. Difficulty, lore, ATTUNEMENTS!!!! Jesus this is massive

I here I thought after all these years of playing WOW I had seen all of the most stupid/long/hard/insane quests but that book one sure as hell got.Holy fucking shit man.

I had no idea it was that involved. I know the joke was that you had to do a lot to get in. But this? This is INSANE. Thanks much for doing all of this research. It must have been fascinating.

You never fail to surprise me with your depth! Thank you Nob!

Hey man, I love watching or even listening to these videos! They are so informative and helpful! Keep up the awesome work man!

Sir: We need resources to breach the wall. Peon: Sir what about the dark portal opening ! Sir: we wait.

Was this fun in Vanila? Yes Would i do it again? No

Wonder how many people with the Scarab Lord title still play.

Dude like that questline was all of vanilla's pros and cons wrapped into one. Could you imagine having a quest like that now? People would lose it

Dude, I remember Kalahad! He was one of the best warriors on the server for atleast the next few expansions, or atleast from what I remember. I had the opportunity to group up with him a time or 2, but I didn't realize he was this famous within the community.

cthun:"Omae wa mou shindeiru"

All this new focus on silithus makes me wonder if they gonna rework the raid to BFA?

A TURTLE MADE IT TO THE WATER

love u nobbel

“Wars ain’t cheap” Remember that part of wrath of the lunch king where both factions on the server had to contribute goods to fund the war effort? ..... oh wait

Hello Nobbel, I love your videos. You always give so much effort to very single one of them. I think we can never say enough thanks to you, since yoi bring you joy and positive energy to al of us. Please, never change, good man. We love you. :)

You should consider saying something about the Ysera Server and this event. A single person waited until minutes before the servers shut down and rang the gong. Because of this only one person on the server ever got the mount. Supposedly that is why they never did anything like that again with a limited time frame for a mount.

Nobbel, I simply love your lore videos., Please keep up the great work!

Hoooly shit, now I understand what an insane and long grind Vanilla WoW was....on my BC server was always wondering what role those 40 man raid dragons play etc. ..very interesting and very revealing video, love all the details that u've put effort researching!

I love your videos. Gets me thru the slow times at work

I love the amount of crying about people getting a mount for putting in effort years ago. "They exploited the system!!!" So what? You farm rep and old instances nowadays to get mounts, is that exploitation as well? "Most of them aren't even playing anymore!" Okay, but the rest of them have been playing since pre-Cata, which is quite some time. Like half the forums on patch day of 7.3.5 were posts of kids whining about a mount they could've never obtained because they've only played for a month.

finally you did a video on this awesome Questline :D

Dear god, the memories. The Alliance needing to gather Linen cloth and the Horde needing to gather Wool cloth was hell. Back then the Horde had a great way to farm it in Ragefire Chasm and the Alliance had a great way to farm it in Deadmines. So it lead to both sides needing to try and run each other's dungeons and encourage people not to attack them when they came into hostile territory.

What i really started to wonder is why are the sky in Ahn'qiraj suddenly a dark space as that of caverns of time? It makes it look so odd, like its a simulation or twisted universe dislocated from azeroth

I completed that quest on 3 toons, during TBC tho, was so much fun

This is my favorite video of yours. Just a dreamlike story and love the scarab/insectoid world

I personally believe that they should allow 1 new scarab lord per server per event every year moving forward. It stays limited but it makes it to where it isn't completely unobtainable. Scarab lords are so rare now.

I started playing wow when this opening the door event was going on. I was so confused lol. I was like why do these dudes need my bandages? Ah well, guess I can make a bunch. I was totally new to MMOs so I didnt even know what a raid was lol. Wow was different then, good times. Still miss those days. Which is why AQ has a special place in my heart.

good times... goooood times. I could listen to you tell Warcraft lore all day!

I tend to avoid Slithus because it is too ugly. For high level zones I go with Un Goro Crater and WInterspring. I am amazed by the cool story in Silithus. There is even an old god. It is an example of don't judge a book by its cover. That questline is really complicated. It makes modern questlines look like a cakewalk.

Dethecus server the Guild called Saga opened our Scarab Wall. I was too focused on the Plaguelands at the time.

i hope, and hope with all my heart that this, all of this is available on the classic servers when they are live.

I was lucky enough to finish the scepter before the cataclysm happened. It was a great fun quest line.

Thanks for the video Nobbel!

that "small group" should be rewarded. most of the scarab lords were the most dedicated players of the best guilds of their servers in 2006.

well mounts are limited to event but hopefuling the rare silithids become tamable though, only red one is i really want the green one in new silithus revamped by sargeras big long sword!

Moral of the story: Vanilla was tedious if nothing else...

I sooo wish they would add more questlines and temporary things like this into the game :)

I thought of commenting this to Nobbel's newest video to up my chances of getting an answer. I want to know Anduin Lothar's story but Nobbel hasn't made a video on him. But I'm sure he is bound to appear in other characters' stories so I want to know: Which video or videos of Nobbel should I check to get some story on Anduin Lothar?

it will be interesting to relive this thing on Classic Realms

So, anyone else found that rare elite named Ogmot that drops a journal about the old gods? Ogmot's Dream Journal: Ogmot was just a puny boy fighting at da war camp when da Masters first blessed me wit da visions. I come to Silithus, to da great wound, seeking wonders. Make Ogmot your vessel, Masters! Last night, Ogmot dreams of great battle. Two fleets bashin on ocean of blood. Shadows twistin beneath da ships, risin. Risin. Ogmot so happy watchin da carnage! Then Ogmot gets waked up by skitterin sounds. Stupid bugs! Dont matter. Ogmot knows dese dreams soon come true. Life comes back to dis wasted land. First da bugs come. Now da gobbies skulkin round... Dey cravin da world blood... Ogmot am sure of it! BAH! Let dem have dese drippins! Soon Ogmot gonna drink rivers of blood! Da Masters promise! Today smoke rises up from da campfire. Smoke tells Ogmot good story. Ogmot sees lady wrapped in dark swirlies. She leads herd of blind sheep. Da sheepies follow her everplace she go. Do everthin she say. Never doubt lady. She guide dem over tall cliff! SPLAT SPLAT SPLAT! Stupid sheepies! Da crows get fat eatin da sheepflesh. Da lady laugh as crows eat! Ogmot laugh too! Dat blade has shiny eye. Always watchin us. Why you no see it? Three lies. Da first one been told. Bound by dat throne? No. Free. Free! Da next gonna come soon. Maybe dey see dis one. Other hammers here now. Dey talk and talk about Argus. Bout da one dat got wakened. Bout great victory dat our enemy not even notice. But only Ogmot sees da visions. Other hammers not blessed by da Masters! Ogmot share his dreams wit da others, but da skinny one just laugh. Ogmot not like her. Many days pass wit no visions. Did Ogmot make da Masters angry? Me gonna make sacrifice! Please da Masters. Remember Ogmot! Da star watchin Ogmot. Too shiny! Ogmot gonna hide from it! Da dagger spoke true. It been too long since Ogmot got drowned. Masters! No forsake Ogmot! Da bones got picked clean, but Ogmot still get no visions. Da others laugh. Say Ogmot not devoted. But me is da chosen one! Ogmot no lose faith! Another sacrifice? Yes! One more of dem aint gonna be missed... Roused by her screams. Stirred by da whispers. A blessin comes from da Masters. Now Ogmot understands! A door. A path. Ours... Ours... Fool! Da circle awakened us all!

i really love this whole story and i think they shouldnt bring back the ability to get the mount

1 thing annoys me so much, they always speak of the person with the scepter, the scarab lord, the one...... 35-40 man was needed to do the raids, 20+ were helping grind the silithid carapace fragments, all those 39ish people don't get nothing but repair bills, no mount or title but they also put in the same time as the scarab lord

I can't help but wonder if the new qiraji mount is to separate those who earned it back in vanilla, and those who will earn it on classic servers. You get both if you already have it, but only get the old one if you earn it on classic, or something like that.

What the fuck was wrong with Classic. That quest line sounds absolutely insane! I do not have that type of patience in me

I dont understand WHY the wall needed to come down. Can someone explain?

I can't fucking wait for classic holy shit

I don't mind that I'll never have the mount, even if I did I don't see myself using it at all. What's important to remember is that it's not a small number of players receiving the updated model, it's more like 0. How many people actually rang the gong, and how many people STILL PLAY? 1 person? I'd have a hard time believing 2 people still have the mount and play. Vanilla was such a massively different game that many of the players who were around at the start don't like the current game and left years ago.

oh my god that questline... it sounds incredible

I think bringing back the original event once a year would be fine, still super rare but do able.

Anyone else notice that the Doctor Weavil character is a reference to Weavil from theYugioh tv show? Weavil throws the cards and the doctor throws the pages from a book

It would make sense to update the mounts if the Vanilla Server uses the new Models because people might get the chance to earn them again.

Hellscream told this story first, but your take is good too.

i know they're supposed to be big, and scary, but everytime i see an old god, i keep thinking of lemon slices, and cocktail sauce lol.

Any chance we can get an old gods lore in the future?

About the updated black quiraji mount: What if with WoW Classic there will be a feature to carry over now unobtainable items to the main game such as mounts, pets and transmogs.

Don't know why the old gods don't use the bugs more, They seem to be just as dangerous as the scourge with how fast they populate.

Nobbel87 could yo make a video about Uldaman? At first glance from all the titans construction Uldaman seems to be the most trivial. Is that so?

Hate to have a red shirt guy moment but a wildhammer dwarf didn't shatter the sceptre (13:56) great video as always though dude

Quick unralated question... I'm playing a character in the eastern plagueis for after a long long time and I just made some quests in Zul'Mashar... What about that city and its inhabitants? They are mostly alive but up to something and their leader is called "Betrayer" by the troll now who joins you in the caravan... What's up there? It's not explained during the quests...

Soon you might have the chance at the Scarab mount again!

Hmm when you said they updated the mount for the gong ringing. i bet when they open vanilla wow they will have the event again.

today we have world quests

still raging to this day that someone on my server rang the gong at like 1am and I missed it completely even though we all agreed to wait to ring it maybe.. maybe they'll let me ring it during this event? one can dream?

How did Vaala Dawnstrike get that recording?

Didn't they retcon the player on Medivh realm? I seen an official trailer for the realm Magtheridon.

13:56 Fandral, not Falstad.

Nobbel ! There's this draenei child companion thing that has a story behind her , it's like a riddle , i didn't want to spoil it for myself as you might make a video about it probably and hearing from you is best , are you planning on giving it a go ?

Didn’t they also have the shu’halo cow people with them in the first war against the silithid?

Wasnt arygos the One in legendary staff Quest? He who fled or was called aragos?

Rolling the "R" harder than anyone can.

Anyone else hoping for a resurgence of the Insects? A true Nerubian attack to retake their underground empire from the weakened Undead, the Mantid with their new Queen harassing the Pandarians, and the Aquir infused with Demonic fel energies?

Wish they'd make some kind of current event with unobtainables so i could brag about them to newbies... i was way too young to care about complicated events in vanilla and it makes me so irritated seeing all of these exclusives. i basically missed out on all of them all because of age, not because of being a casual player which im not. :(

Ahh... Weekly Nobbel is the best way to face upcoming monday.