The Story of Kael'thas Sunstrider - Full Version [Lore] 

Kael'thas: "MONSTER! You killed my..." Arthas: "Yes, yes, I killed your father. What is it with you elves anyway? I killed my father too and you don't hear me whining about it!"

Kael'thas is one of the most tragic characters in Warcraft lore. Him and Arthas... and Sylvanas... and Illidan... and Jaina... and you know what? Forget it... Warcraft is a tragedy; everybody dies. Shakespeare at it's finest.

Kael'thas story in wc3 was really interesting and then blizzard needed a raid boss

Man Kael'thas character and voice actor was so much more badass in Warcraft 3 than WoW.

Damn such a sad story :c I hate what they did to him in BC. He will forever be a blood elven hero in my mind

This needs to be updated

I completely agree! A lot of characters have been twisted into becoming villains just to turn them into bosses... I'm honestly kind of disappointed from what's been happening to the lore after WC III

About blood elves, and green eyes..never understood it completely. When I started my BElf and knew absolutely nothing about lore, all quests were about ARCANE magic consuption and overdose. Wretched became such exactly because of overuse of arcane. I never ever heard the word "fel" during my questing in Quel'thalas once. Then I researched and learnt more. Glowing green eyes and all, and everyone on the forums were talking about FEL we consume evn in Silvermoon. They constantly refer to those green crystals, which according to the very first blood elf quest were therу even BEFORE the Scourge. I as a newbie was just like a real BElf survived in the war who didnt know about Kael or anything that happened, and I litterally did not hear or read anything about fel magic until I reached Outland. When I went there I was hyped like all the pilgrims, ready to find and aid my prince only to be forced to kill dozens of my own brothers and sisters and finally Kael himself. wtf

Imagine how much of warcraft lore would have been different if Jaina and Kael'thas had a mutual interest in each other. Something tells me Kael'thas would have been treated with more respect, especially by the kul'tiras, and with the support of Jaina and Antonidas likely never even imprisoned in Dalaran or worse. This is all speculation of course, but I just feel like Jaina would still be level headed and Kael'thas wouldn't have fallen to the corruption.

kael'thas is my favorite character in the warcraft universe. still upset that they kind of butchered his character. they could have done something really cool with him. some how hope they bring him back as his former self.

i really wish they didn't make him a villain just to have a cool boss

This was so awesome! Who needs netflix when you've got Nobbel87?!

I have WOW to thank for pushing me towards learning english by myself. My mom used to bring me SNES cartridges when she went on her trips when I was very young, usually games like Mario Kart that didn't require much thinking or understand english to play. (Games didn't have portuguese translations back then, some would have a crappy spanish translation but very rarely). When I got my first PC at 10 years old she bought me Warcraft I and I had no idea what the game was about so I used to play it with a dictionary by my side, reading every - single - word out loud and their meaning so I could keep up with the story. And when I finished the first one I asked for the second one (I'd read on a gaming magazine there was a second one already) and did the same thing with WOW II. By the time WOW III was released I already had a vocabulary and basic comprehension that allowed me to just play it and understand it (kinda) without the dictionary.

Your love for lore is obvious, deep and very appreciated. I can't thank you enough for the effort you put into these. Keep up the fantastic work! :)

I love Blood Elves. They're so badass.

You know, guys...Burning Legion would be a perfect time to bring him back. KJ enjoys giving his follower's additional chances and by technicality, Kael'thas DID succeed and bring him into the world...only to be flushed back, but still. In addition, I do not really think Kael'thas betrayal in BC was a product of bad story telling. I mean, his name IS Kil'jaden the Deceiver; I imagine that KJ showed Kael'thas the exact same vision that Sargeras showed him, Archimonde and Velen: whether it be many applauding fans or many slaves basking at his feet, Kael'thas most likely saw a vision of him leading his people to glory and power, demonic or not still their birthright. After the Alliance betrays you, after Illidan betrays you and you are cut off from your home and people, what are you to do? To add on to that, keep in mind that KJ was coming for his revenge, to slaughter Illidan and anyone under him for his failure. To protect his people in Outland, he was only making what he deemed "the logic conclusion" by "switching pay masters accordingly". In any case, I believe Kael'thas just went down Arthas' past, hearing the dark whispers and heeding them. However, much like Arthas, he had good intentions and even after his resurrection I feel he had good intentions, until his final death where he cursed the world to burn for betraying him and his people. Even though not announced, I hope Kael'thas pops up again in Burning Legion, only this time we break him from his shackles of service to the Legion and he helps us and in the end he is re-instilled as King of Silvermoon as the new faction leader (no disrespect to Loth'emar, though).

"i feel edgy" - Prince keal'thas

What a sad and lovely story. Didn't realize him and Jaina were that close.

As much as I like Kael'thas' lore and other characters backstories. When it comes to the end content of Kael this is typical Blizzard storywriting. To them it's all about the epicness and cool bosses that will all cause major destruction of the world while you are the only hero that can stop these events. They'll just bend the story to make it believable regardless if that character was actually good at heart or had other complicated issues to deal with.

I feel like Garithos is the sole reason behind the Belfs siding with the Horde instead of the Alliance. haha

59:21 YOU GOT THE MOUNT? LOL

God the ending to kael's story makes me depressed. I just think of what could have been...I will always hold him in my heart as a hero driven by vengeance and necessity. However, since they redeemed Illidan maybe there is still some small glimmer of hope.

Lortheramar seems like the last decent leader of both the Horde and Alliance. If he wasn't a BE he would probably have a much larger role in the game.

I wish there was a way to get Kael'thas back as the leader of the blood elves

Liked the idea that Kael'Thas wasn't the bad guy.

i wonder how different the story would be if Jaina picked KT instead of arthas

Thank you for pouring your time and energy into the creation of this. Loved it...Kael'thas has always been one of my favorite characters.

This channel is like a damn book and I love it!

To be fair, the initial assignment given by Garithos could have been an act of mercy. He surely knew how devastated the Elves were, and wanted to spare them of extra bloodshed by allowing them to use their knowledge of magic and engineering to set up defences instead of fighting on the front lines. That said, he proved himself to be nothing but a PoS later when he imprisoned and tried to kill the elves for not really any reason.

Kel'thuzad, Antonidas, Kael'thas, and Korialstrasz. That's quite a fucking roster they had there.

I did not realize that this video was more than an hour long until I finished watching it. I enjoyed your storytelling Nobbel. Thank you.

i reeally feel bad for him he had good intentions :( and now even his race hate him

You sir, are a Monster! Fantastic! So much work and effort given to the community. I salute you with great respect.

short version : he dun goofed

Everytime i go to bed i listen to one of his warcraft lore stories... I fall asleep instant... so calming

ARGH, you lore king

29:48-29:57 from "witch" to "my lady" in 9 seconds, when you spent all your ability points on charisma

This video is just what I needed to have my passion about WoW reignited! Currently grinding hard on a TBC server and fresh in all these events, I relate to it all so well that it makes me want to go back and play those heroics again with the renewed feeling of lore nostalgia :3 Thank you very much for your effort! :3

I have already watched each part of the keal'thas lore videos but they are so good I will watch this full version again! Gj Nobble

The more I think about it less I see Kael'thas as a villain.

His lore could have been better, a good ol' honorable death would be nicer. But I guess this goes with the theme of his life. Universe takes everything from him, puts him in shitty positions, give him impossible choices, etc. Thank you Lor'themar for the kind words.

You make such great Lore videos. I really enjoy them. Thanks!

It's stupid what blizzard did to him in WoW, he shouldn't had turn crazy & should had been the blood elf leader

Such an amazing job you did with this video.

Really like your videos and appreciate all the work that goes into them.

Holy god, this was an epic summary. Thank you 🙏

I’ve really been enjoying these lore videos. I came home from work today and was gonna play video games or watch tv but then was like, “no, u know what, I wanna finish that lore video I started yesterday!”

Just finished watching the whole video. Great story, thanks Nobbel!

I really appreciate 1 hour lore videos :) thank you

Blizzard messed his Lore up so badly... he was never a Bad Charakter even when serving illidan he was still loyal to Silvermoon...he searched a way to handle the Mana Addiction from the Bloodelves but he never were Illoyal towards the remaining Bloodelves in Silvermoon. He even send Grand Magister Rommath to deliver the Message that there is Hope. when i created a Blood Elf why could i raid Tempest Keep? While the Heroes Killed Kael, Velen or one of their Naarus cleansed the Sunwell... when it is that easy why nobody does it in the first place? they shouldve called Kael back that his Mission is complete but no they needed to kill him then came up with some twisted lore shit that revived him on magisters terrace with demonic influence...and then this change that he only used Illidan for his own purpose.. i want to beat up that scum who wrote that piece of lore shit.

You've done a great job as usual, and I'm also really impressed with Khayllys's job with Machinima. Well done!

Ashes of Al´ar dropped at 59:20 , nice

Thanks for telling the story I really enjoyed it!

I loved this video, Thank you for making it. :)

feel bad for illidan and Karl the true bad guys are our heroes jahah

Nice video mortal.

Hahahah omg I thought he said "he asked them all to remove their *clothes*" And when he said Kael'Thas chuckled and removed his cloak I just thought, okay,this is getting really interesting...

Dude, you are amazing@ Thank you for doing this.

You do an amazing job with these videos. Even when I fully know the life, I'd rather hear it from you

like allways entertaining interesting and brethtaking Nobbel knows how to tell a story ! thanks and and keep it the good work :)

Another good video & more knowledge of the WoW Lore. Lots to learn and know

Thanks for the awesome video!

Great video. Im new to wow and wow lore and he has been one of my main encounter in wow since both of his dungeons drop mounts I want so ive seen him more then most others. Its cool to see he has such a deep lore in the wow universe. Keep up the great videos!

I read the Aveena story, it really is worthwhile, can't wait to see the video

This is soo good !

Really cool shit , i was always intersted in the lore but not sure how to get into it in an easy way , and now i find you Thnx

I do love the lore. So glad to see that someone know so much of the lore.

Thank you for the 3 part into 1 enjoyed it

The High Elves were renamed Blood Elves after the Scourge invasion of Quel'Thalas. 90% of their people were slaughtered and after this Kael’thas renamed them Blood Elves in honor of all their brethren which were slaughtered during that invasion.

I remember playing WC3 with my stepdad, when he bought the game for us at home i played through the campaign and thought the undead were the best... Then he bought the expansion, Kael'thas' campaign was such an unusual representation of elves in fantasy that he became a symbol for my favorite type of elf, evil and renegade elves. Kael'thas is sharing the number one spot with Arthas for my favourite Warcraft characters.

Perfect story telling! Gotta read that short story!

So when people are begging and crying about no high elf race. They are basically ignorant to the fact that blood elves are the remaining high elves?

If Illidong and Kael were each almost able to beat Arthas, why the hell would they fight him separately?

my gamer dad loved to play this game and named me kael' thas and i searched my name and found this

hey Novvel87, just wanted to thank you for all your full stories of the WoW lore. very interesting and helpful :D

what blows my mind is how a 20 year old human warrior / paladin trained by a dwarf could outskill a 1o ooo year old night elf in sword to sword combat...............

Such a good video Nobbel! Can't wait to see what Kael`Thas has in stall for us in the Shadowlands. Hopefully, he is redeemed, I do believe his intentions were good, but Blizz trashed him :P

My fav bedtime story channel :D

I've been playing all of your videos to educate myself while I construct a WoW themed bedroom for my husband as a surprise- I love all of the information you give out- it's handy, easy to understand, helps me understand what's going on and what has been going on as I just start playing the series myself, and even our 6 year old sits in to listen and watch as he's already showing interest in gaming like his dad. One thing is bugging me though... where there heck is your accent from!? D8

I hadn't known exactly how the blood elves and the night elves were related, but I could tell from their body structure and the nature of evolution that they had to be. Thanks for all the lore digging.

Damn interesting, glad I stumbled upon this! It's nice to finally know where the guy I farm weekly for a phoenix comes from XD

you know what i think jaina should of just went with kael and ditch arthas. just seemed to me it would of made the story a bit better :)

Arthas got cold feet lmao irony.

Wow. Awesome. I love the blood elves. They are freaking awesome. They are second only to night elves for my favorite WOW race. It is a close second at that. This really gets into the history of the blood elve. I especially like the part where it shows the beginning of the game for a blood elf. There is an arial view of Eversong Woods with a voice over giving a history summary. Wow. That just gets me in the feels, and I am filled with nostalgia. I actually started playing WOW during BC. Blood elves is one of the first races I played. It is the first Horde race for me. I have just as much nostalgia for Eversong Woods and Azuremist Isle as I do for the vanilla starting zones. There is an interesting part of history that the Sunwell blew up to take down invading forces, and the blood elves had to pay a huge price. I like to play male blood elves because they are so hot. I get used to thier emotes. One flirt emote said "Your eyes shine like the Sunwell before the explosion that doomed us all of course." This flirt refers to this event. One major part of the blood elves is the addiction to magic. There are two amusing silly emotes for this. One is where the male blood elf talks about having the patch for arcane magic. Another is where he tries to recite the Serenity Prayer. Then he gets frustrated. He said that someone should give him some magic before he kills somebody. I did learn something interesting about the blood elves in this video. They are associated with phoenixes. It makes sense once the video explains it. I wonder if that is why blood elves have large flightless birds as their mounts. This video is specifically about Kaelthas Sunstrider. It is interesting to see what his life is like. He is basically the blood elf that teamed up with Illiden during BC. I like playing male blood elves, because they are hot. It is nifty to have one as a prominant character in the lore. I knew how the drenai were related to the BC from the beginning. They lived in Outland for a while. Then they escaped on the Exodar from the Burning Crusade. They crashed in Azurmist Isle in Azeroth. The blood elves are a bit tricky to link, even if the came in the same expansion. The lore in the starting zones, Eversong Woods and Ghostlands, talk about how the blood elves fought against the Scourge. It is very similar to the lore of the Forsaken zones nearby. This would fit in vanilla really easily. Now in recent times, I learned of the connection. There was a group of blood elves going into outland to seek magic from demons. It was a way to sate thier thirst of magic. So blood elves do fit in BC. Quelthas was the blood elf that lead this group. I think of him as a blood elf version of Illiden. I guess it fits that he was a major servent of Illiden in BC. Quelthas got upset because he lost in a love triangle. He struggled to fight against the evil forces. Then he eventually joined the Burning Legion. When I watch this video, I see how desperate Quelthas was. That would make for a very interesting character. Love triangles with elf guys can get odd. Jackson added one to his film adaptation of the Hobbit. I was oh so baffled by this. Why on Middle Earth would Tauriel be lovey dovey with Kili when Legolas is right the heck there. It makes no freaking sense. Legolas is really hot. He is hotter than any dwarf. That is for darn sure. My love of elves applies to fantasy in gereral, not just WOW. WOW has a similar situation. Jaina goes for Arthas when Quelthas is right there. This is a bit easier to justify. Both guys were hot at the time. Jaina is a human, like Arthas. Maybe it would have worked if Arthas hadn't become the Lich King. The Stratholm incident would be enough to push him over moral event horizon. Iguess the love triangle that makes the most sense is the one with Night Elves. Tyrande had to pick between two super hot night elf brothers. This could really go either way. Tyrande picked Malfurian, and this is due to Malfurian's great druid ability. It works well enough. Looking back I do get more attatched to Illiden. Maybe he wouldn't have turned to evil if he got love an cuddles. If Tyrande won't take Illidin, I would. He used to be real hot. Unfortunatly he got creepy later on as he looked like a demon. I feel the same way about Kaelthas. If Jaina won't have him, I will. Maybe love and cuddles would help him stay away from evil. He is even hot thoughout almost all the video. He only gets creepy at the last minute in Keldanas. Arthas was mean to Kaelthas. Garithos was even worse, the racist prick. It ticks me off as an elf lover. I see how the blood elves turned to the Horde and the Burning Legion. They were nicer to them. There is a great part when Quelthas fights Arthas with swords. Arthas speaks biting words and bullies Kaelthas. Then Kealthas has a great comeback. He said that Jaina hated Arthas too. Ha! Take that, Arthas.

Hi Nobbel, Thank you for this video. It is and will always be amazing the story of Karl'thas! I was also wondering midway through the video, you should really be apart of the blizzard team, and work along side, Chris Metzen on the storyline of WoW. :D

A guestion about lore whats the economy system of the horde In the lore like how they handle taxation etc. Love your vids! Keep up the good work.

Kael was not a bad guy. illidan was not a bad guy. Vashj was not a bad guy. In The Burning Crusade, WE were the bad guys.

Hello! First of all, Great Videos! Thanks for making 'em. Those cutscenes that you have in here, could you make a link list of those. Like the conversation between jaina, arthas, and kael. and the marching of the high elves fighting the undead.

Make Story of LotherMar Theron please! BTW job well done, and I agree it was sad that they made Kael villain, same for Malygos, or other notable wow characters...

wish they could done more with Kael'thas story :/

And now you will have to do another part of this history :)

i really like kaelthas im sad hes bad, i would like for him to make a return and with the sunwell returned hed realize his mistakes and try to make it right

Really good story and video.

YOU ARE AWESOME!

HE IS BACK BABY

I am thrilled to hear his story has another chapter in Shadow Lands.

I love listening when im rep farming it gives me something to pay attention to

i'm hyped to play the new version in december

Love your videos. Any thoughts on the Sylvanas story expanding?

Could you do the story of Chen Stormstout next? A lot of people stopped playing WoW because of Pandaria, thinking it came out of nowhere. But I learned that Chen was in Warcraft, and I'd like to know his full story.