The voice actors did such a terrific job in this cinematic, they conveyed the pain so beautifully. The rawness in Tyrande's Darnassian, the Winter Queen who felt abandoned and Elune who realized her mistake.
I haven't played WoW in like 10 years. I loosely keep up with the story in spite of that. I get absolute chills listening to Tyrande's Darnassian in the beginning of this video. The amazing accuracy of the pain and sorrow layered in the anger is just wow. Just pure hurt and pain and unbridled rage.
I shed some tears at the pain in Tyrande's cries, the Winter Queen's accusations, and the grief in Elune's voice as the realization of what happened to all the souls of the kaldorei hit. This level of emotion in the game hasn't touched me so deeply since the cutscenes in Wrath of the Lich King. Bravo to these folks.
When Tyrande shouted "Ash'al theradas!", my god, it gave me chills and almost moved me to tears. there's so much raw pain in that, the VA did EXCELLENT on that. i keep going back to it, it's so powerful, you can feel all of the pain in it, the sorrow, the grief I can't find a direct translation of what it means, but it seems to be a Darnassian warcry. In Thalassian, "ashal" means "justice" to give at least /some/ understanding of the cry. It's just so powerful.
Theradas, the daughter of Therazane is the creator of the Centaur race and currently, one of the only known children of the Earth Elemental Goddess Therazane. As such, invoking the name of Theredas could be, in more ways than one, her calling out in direct translation "Justice for the Earth", as we don't know what Theradas means, we can only assume it might have something to do with the land, as she is the daughter of the earth elemental goddess. Another translation could be "Justice for the Land" in response to the burning.
@@lordrevan571 yo!! that's so cool, I didn't know that, thank you so much for coming around and sharing this!!! I finally feel some closure on this haha!
Winter Q: Yo, we have a drought going, sis. Can ya pick up the phone and help the fam out for once? Elune: I got you fam. I'll send some night elf souls to ya via UPS by letting some emo chick burn down the tree Winter Q: UPS said the package got lost Elu: oh shit, my bad Night elves: WTF!?
I just love how Winter Queen is all "We tried to call you and you never answered! We needed your help! WTF!?" at first. But when Elune says she sent help, Winter Queen is just "Oh...right. I forgot. Uh...yeah, about that." lol
well; it has been one of the worst. we find out elune is a dumb ass who did not even look into what the winter queens issue was before dunking the souls right into the maw and shows little care or even tries to save them. and the choice of Tyrande was so forced and trash. like 5 minutes ago was going to get justice for her people elune said no. then she forgives the horde for the mass genocide of her people to the point that bliiz themself say there a doomed race.
Seeing Tyrande becoming Elune’s avatar for a short time, it gave me goosebumps. The best story line in all Shadowlands making Night Elves a true superior race for the Warcraft universe.
I went through severe trauma recovery while this game was being released. The vengeance or renewal line hit me so hard, I had to make that choice. I couldn't heal while I was obsessed with making my abusers pay for what they did to no avail.
I know this whole thing especially the beginning reminds me of the extremely bad LSD trip I had 9 months ago that completely changed my life. I was just like a screaming crying wreck for days after it, and during the trip I was completely fucking GONE, then it was like something grabbed me and when I finally had my brain rebooted, my addictions had been deleted, and I could look back at all my trauma with clear eyes The “you must calm yourself!” Reminds me so much of my friend trying to help me during the trip and after God it’s almost like me in the throes of addiction was me with the black night warrior eyes and then after the traumatic trip I woke up with the clear blue eyes
Man all this lead up to the nelfs storyline. I pray that in Dragonflight with the new world tree, Nelfs can finally get their immortality back from the new aspects.
It really didn't...? She couldn't have plucked all the kaldorei from the tree, she was making the best of a bad situation off of no information about where the souls were going and no reason to assume they'd go to the death toilet.
For anyone not paying close attention: Tyrande could have her vengeance, but it would also mean forever dooming her people. Given the chance for renewal, their souls can be saved. In other words, revenge is only a temporary solution to a permanent problem. Elune saw the bigger picture and sent their souls to the glade. Thus, sustaining it for longer against the corruption. A favor to her sister.
@Nick it's worth noting in that entire time Elune had merely been giving her power, she hadn't spoken to her. Hadn't told her that everything had a purpose, even tragedy. When Elune spoke to the winter queen, she listened, and also saw that even her goddess was imperfect, she had tried to aid her sister and failed, and vengeance wouldn't correct that failure, only rebirth. Also it's not that she had to give up on her vengeance, merely realise it wasn't the most important thing. You can have vengeance without the power of a goddess, but for the rebirth you do need that power.
@@flameknightdragon the night elves are still one of the more populous species on Azeroth. True, thousands died at the world tree, but many thousands more survived. Remember wow as a game is limited in what it can show, but the night elves have several entire cities around Kalimdor that just aren't in the game or are scaled back to a few huts. It's the same with all the species (except perhaps the Dreanai), their numbers are far higher than the game suggests. Hell consider that there aren't even close to enough homes in any of the cities we see for all the npc's, same is true with farms to feed those npc's. We see perhaps 10% of what's actually there if that. Losing souls also means nothing, every birth creates a new soul, the existing souls are except in the cases of rebirth and resurrections, basically already lost to Azeroth, existing only in the realm of the shadow lands, never able to return.
@Nick let's get tyrande a little understandable. but what are we going to do with slyvanas? It was pretty funny that slyvanas was in a position to lecture arthas even though she was on a road of no return.
Downgraded Elune so they can write some other bigger entity. The joke is on them since WoW is finally dying. And with Microsoft buying Activision it will come even sooner than we expected.
Hold up, weren't night elfs descendants of trolls a looong time ago? I can imagine their God's looking like trolls and when they reveal themselves to the elves, the elves wouldn't want to do anything with their God's anymore lol.
Nah. Idk how people get this take from this cutscene. The tree was going to burn. She ushered the souls lost to the shadowlands instead of letting them become wisps and stick around for awhile like many kaldorei souls do currently.
@@ngfshgsfhsgh She said that all the souls from the tree were her "Help", but what if the tree was never burned down? The fact that she made clear that was her will to see souls be thrown into the shadowlands just to help the Night Fae at least say that she just watched her children burn so she could help others... Talk about cutting an arm to save a leg...
idk much about the lore, but just wondering is there a lot of other thriving worlds out there except azeroth, and are they all linked to the same afterlife? if so wouldn't the night elfs that died be just a drop in the ocean and not really matter anyways?
What exactly is the Winter Queen goddess of? outside of death. Because she kind of have a dominion over night (or do her subjects call themselves night faeries for funsies?), she seems to be a deitie of nature, it's very similare to her sister Elune. kind of redundant.
This is the part that kills me. If Elune and the WQ can communicate via prayer. Why didn't WQ bother to mention that The Arbitor was indispose? That would have kept Elune from letting the NE's die and kept them from accidently going to WoW Hell.
I still don‘t unterstand the implications of this. Does it mean that Night Elf souls are going to Elune instead of the Shadowlands and she just redirected them? Or did she not intervene on purpose when the Horde burned Teldrassil so that as much people as possible would die for Anima? If the latter, absolut dick move and I would totally understand if the Night Elves turned their back on her.
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Think about it this way. She had a choice - blindly follow revenge that would destroy her or help save her people from the maw's torment by - first and foremost reforging ardenweald - their rightful place to be. What do you get from the blind revenge when you never learn about it, tortured for the eternity in the maw? (protip: eternity is a long time) Why people are failing to see that, and want to follow blind cliche revenge so much already explored in wow universe? Tyrande was proven different from Maiev who couldn't drop her path of chasing Illidan even if it no more served any greater purpose. We really don't need another rage-blinded chick that would abandon her people in her personal rage. Maiev risked Tyrande's life in the past by not saving her because she was dead set on chasing Illidan and to get better chances at catching him, she misled Malfurion that Tyrande is dead. Illidan was the one to save Tyrande. Maiev turned a traitor for her own personal rage. Tyrande is a mother and a leader who always will put her beloved subjects over her personal agenda and I think that choice totally fits her. But superficial people have only this mindset: "sylvanas sucks, tyranda go kill her" and if she doesn't kill her "wew tyranda sucks". Choosing revenge when given an option to save your people would be truly morally grey - if not evil.
She kept the powers of the night warrior. She says so afterwards, Elune and The Winter Queen stabilized her, so that the power won't consume her, because she chose renewal over vengeance.
@@meiru2453 What are you actually on? Tyrande had every justification to pursue revenge, it was neither blind or irrational; so you're telling me that Blizzard had a militant Tyrande split ways with Anduin, lay waste to Torghast, and nearly end Sylvanas's life (if it were not for Elune's inexplicable reversal) only to turn a new leaf... on a whim? It's not often you find defense of this piss-poor writing, but when you do, it's usually as poorly thought out as your post.
@@shamlotbestrhapsever7437 Revenge would not save her people though. Revenge would only serve to sate the Night Warrior power. When Tyrande was released after that, she'd still be in pain because despite getting her vengeance, the souls of her people would still be lost. It takes a stronger person to make the choice she did.
@@bloodknyte She was vengeful prior to becoming the Nightwarrior... hence why she sought its power on her own volition. What changed now that she wasn't already conscious of in her sober, non-Nightwarrior form? Your argument lacks awareness, let alone logic. So she became "stronger" after being humiliated by her Goddess amidst the opportunity to deliver justice? Danuser shills out & about folks, hide yo wives hide yo children!!!
