World of Warcraft in 23 minutes Reaction 

I always laugh at Jaina's "I sure love magic" *BOOM* "I sure love killing orcs"

"Varian is desenchanted by Gul Dan" This one is really good 😂

I've been playing this game for 15 +years, and even watching this at 75% speed, it's STILL a lot of information to go over lol

this story began in 1994 and is still going, so... it was really well done.

I am so happy you watched this! I thought it was too much too fast for newbies to WoW lore but it's nice to see you enjoyed it. Nobbel87, Platinum WoW, and Athelarius are typically my favorite WoW lore channels and often do videos that center around specific stories from all the different sources. Some of them do get to be over an hour but you could break them up so we can hear more of your thoughts.

Watching that video really shows just how convoluted the storyline is after the Third War, it completely jumps the shark once you hit Warlords of Draenor.

A couple other comments mentioned the channel Platinum WoW, but more specifically I would recommend a new video of his that was uploaded just yesterday, "The Warcraft Villains Who Did NOTHING WRONG" and "The Scarlet Crusade's Rise and Embarrassing Fall" which is also quite recent. Both explain their topics very well and are super interesting and fun to watch. They also both deal with morally questionable factions, and it would be interesting to hear your perspective. On these two I can say I'm looking forward to your post-video review more than the reaction itself

“Why do you wanna join the Horde?” “To escape the consequences of my actions, mostly.” “That’s what the Horde is all about!!!” :D I’ve never played WoW. But somehow, I still find a lot of this video pretty hilarious.

Nothing faulty in the recap. LOTS of stuff left out obviously, but it hits all the major key points. It's difficult to explain a story that's been written for 20+ years at this point in a reasonable amount of time, and there's literally hundreds of thousands of little details and side things that can easily go off on a tangent as well. All in all this recap does great to bring people up to speed.

Platinum WoW has some really good entertaining lore videos on the history of WarCraft that yous would enjoy.

What an amazingly 70% accurate and 30% truth bending summary of the history of Azeroth.

Nobbel87 is amazing at telling the lore of WoW in depth. The way he narrates the history is amazing if you guys ever see this comment give him a shot he's pretty cool to listen to☺️

The Lich King + Ner'Zhul + Arthas is literally their best work. Just simply how Ner'Zhul becomes the Lich King. After escaping the planet through the Portal he is found by Kil'jaeden whom tortures him, tearing his body apart layer by layer as he begs for death & torturing his mind, finally killing him but capturing his soul then torturing his soul, pulling it to it's limits before it would shatter until he was completely obedient, then sealed him into the Helm of Domination, Frostmourne & the Armor, expanding his physic powers beyond Ner'Zhul's comprehension & sending him to Azeroth.

Love the fact you guys are so invested in WoW's lore, it's really cool!

Trolls being the original first major civilization on the planet is a pretty cool move. As is humans, dwarves and gnomes evolving from freaking robots because evil squids said so LMAO.

Happy to see more reactions! Story of each race or of characters you are interested in sounds good going forward.

The whole history of World of Warcraft! It's incredible!

I lost it at: "A walking charcoal briquette that is Bolvar".

Yeah some of this has been retconned, Shadowlands really took it to a whole another level in retcons. In the end add: AND apparently the Grim Reaper called "The Jailer" is behind a lot of what we told you so far, playing 5d chess from the realm of hell called the Maw where he was imprisoned by the pantheon of Death, and wants to change reality so all can serve him. Sylvanas was on his side until she figured out he was *shock* evil and in it for himself only. And btw the Dreadlords, including Mal'ganis(who is still alive) and Kel'thuzad(who is now in afterlife too), really served the Jailer all the time. And there is this race of Uber Gods even beyond the Titans called "The First Ones", who created the whole reality, including all afterlives, which is basically constructed in a factory dimension run by automatons, one of which The Jailer now is pursuing so he can rewrite whole reality. Needless to say this revelation has been, mildly put, controversial amongst the fans.

I only started playing WoW for real when Wrath of the Lich King came out which was the expansion that introduced the Death Knights which I totally loved and that became my main class as a Night Elf. Watching this I was only able to remember a few of the names and events that happened in the lore, I unfortunately had to stop playing before the recent expansion so I'm really missing the game after basically playing since I was a kid lol.

Now that we're back, I'd like to mention that Trolls are actually NOT among the very first races. They evolved from the beasts, whereas the first mortals were the titan-watcher's creations(made of stone, metal, crystal, and magic), affected by "The Curse of Flesh." Making Dwarves, Gnomes, Vrykul, Giants, and Troggs the very first humanoids. With Elves and Humans actually being the youngest races on Azeroth(though still old enough to have seemingly existed for the last 10 000 years, at least). Meanwhile, elementals are far, faaar older. Technically I suppose the Eredar/Draenei are the oldest race. Although they're recent arrivals upon Azeroth. Unless we're counting all the demons, then I suspect the Ered'ruin(like Doom Lord Kazzak), to be the oldest race. The Trolls do however have the first known wide-spanning empires. I kinda disclude the Mogul, as they were relegated to Pandaria. The trolls are however somewhat contested by the Nerubians. And obviously outclassed by the Klaxxi and N'zoth, but I am not sure it's fair to count the pre-titan administration era. And they weren't exactly even sentient back then, just tools of the old gods. Also somewhat relegated to Pandaria. I suppose the Anubisath(contstruct sentients), and Aqir/Qiraji could count... But again, originally completely mindless slaves to the old god C'thun. Though I suppose techincally they are sentient, and so technically, argueably the oldest races on Azeroth. If we disclude the premise of them being humanoid, then we have the Dragons ofc. In theory, they should be the oldest sentient race(bearing in mind that the Aqir, Qiraji, Klaxxi and others of the Black Empire weren't actually 'sentient' at the time. From my understanding). Hmm, unless we count the Old Gods themselves... If so, I'd say they were first. They are what made mortals mortal after all. They in essence ARE "The Curse of Flesh."

There’s a super good 30 minute video in more depth explaining the night elves evolution and point of view on history that I LOVE definitely a suggestion too watch as well

I was a huge Warcraft Lore fanatic up until a few years ago, read every book, etc. This is spot on lol.

Omg didnt expected another wow video reaction. So glad you are interested in wow history! Cheers :D

Maaan I remember that solid glowing purple dome being tucked in behind terranmill for YEARS before they did anything with it lol. It wasn’t even big enough to cover the real Dalaran though.

Hey! If you guys want to check out more WoW stuff I highly recommend reacting to the youtube documentary about the history of the game called: World of Warcraft - Pandora's Box. I think it's the single greatest documentary about WoW and was done by a former WoW youtuber who has been playing the game for 15 years so he knows what he is talking about. He is a very respected guy in the community and does some of the most quality WoW videos you can find on youtube. It's a pretty long video but you guys could split it into multiple parts just like with Bricky's videos so I think it's fine. There are also kind of "chapters" for the video so it will be easier to split it up into parts without losing some of the cohesion of the video. It's a really interesting and informative video not just about the lore but the game and the company itself (Blizzard) and it's evolution.

So um, yeah. That was.. a lot The warcraft universe thrives in telling separate stories, tbh, even though the full lore is pretty cool too. Mb you should check out stories focused on particular characters, so you might actually understand why people love these characters so much. For example, "Arthas The Lich King - Villains Corner (WoW Lore)" or "Kel'Thuzad - Villains Corner (WoW Lore)" These are well-paced animatic-videos 15-ish minutes each, love your reactions, hope to see more warcraft down the line

I can recommend the "Ulduar the Movie" for a raiding Experience in WoW without actually having to raid. Its fantastic

It's wrong about one thing: Thrall wasn't cheating when he killed Garrosh with magic in the Mak'gora. A mak'gora is just a duel of honor. Like, that's the literal translation. In the Warcraft movie, the first Horde has a standing no-magic rule, but there has never been such a rule in the core canon. Although contestants are allowed to set their own rules, and violating the chosen rules DOES count as cheating. Many fans also think Thrall lost his shamanic abilities because of the "cheating", but it was just his guilt and self-doubt from having ever given Garrosh leadership of the Horde in the first place. Also, the very last bit about the heroes killing themselves to go to the Shadowlands was speculation and turned out to be wrong. Bolvar used the broken helm to open a portal that we jump through, with Tyrande being the first person to jump through.

Great recap video that one to say it's complicated and dense as in the background lore is an understatement played the game 14 years this May and I am still picking bits of lore up I am not aware of even now. Also, a huge thing for me that filled in a lot of gaps was the series of three books on the lore itself which goes even more in-depth than that video. Warcraft/WoW is a far more complex narrative and experiment than it appears and in the 20 years or more of existence, it's got more complicated. And here is an interesting thought what if that so-called "fictional" universe exists in our reality on a different plane of existence and we have somehow been writing that universe's actual existence ourselves with no knowledge of it. Anyway, a lot to take in there.

so good to see you react to wow again! Pls do consider react "to a toast to 15yrs", its super fun! Love u guys

Wow, back to WoW, I see! The whole history, nonetheless. After going through the journey and seeing all the cinematics and cutscenes and so forth that you did, nice to get this concise summary, I suppose. Lore and story overload, go! 😁 Cheers!

This comment is for everyone reading it. If you think there is a video these two lovely people haven't watched about Warcraft, please link them in the comments with details on why it should be watched. This video specifically was recommended by another commentator on an old video some weeks ago. I provided the link to the video that the commentator recommended in hopes @Definitely Not Definitive would see it. And they did and this is the result of it. It's more content for us viewers to watch and more content for these two to react to and share their thoughts on. (Note: look over their playlists and past videos so that you don't recommend a video they have already seen.)

You should react to the hearthstone trailers. They are still set in the warcraft universe but are way more light-hearted and comedic because it's a card game. Also they all have catchy theme songs.

I am not sober and this was a hell of a ride!

There was definitely a lot of details in the video that touched up on some things, without actually giving enough info as to why that actually was. For example, when Nordrassil grew over the new well of eternity on mount hyjal, the guy says that the elves suddenly become immortal. This piece of info feels somewhat irrelevant as the reason behind their immortality wasn't mentioned. That reason being that the Dragon Aspects (or at least three of the original five) bless the tree and the elves. The Red dragon Alexstrasza blesses the tree and therefore the night elves with perfect health and vitality, the green dragon Ysera (Alexstrasza's sister) blesses the elves and the tree with a connection to nature overall and access to the Emerald Dream, so that lot of night elves who became druids can spend a lot of time protecting the Dream and learning from it, and then the most important blessing from Nozdormu grants the elves immortality for as long as the tree stays standing. Similarly, there was that one bit where it goes over Theramore being nuked, and then Jaina's hair suddenly turning white, which doesn't really correlate through that quick pass over the events. Her hair really goes white, as with most magic practicioners, because of magic. A large amount of magic / high exposure to raw magic has that effect where it turns people's hair white. Jaina's hair turned all white except for a single blonde strand on her head that remained golden blonde, and Khadgar is another individual whose body hair is just completely white due to high exposure to magic. This can be further linked to the original night elves under Azshara who ruled the empire with arcane magic. Pretty much all of those highborne who practised magic had ivory white hair, most likely due to the constant exposure and use of arcane magic.

Im glad you two are really enjoying the lore of Warcraft, you should look at getting the Chronicle books, which is basically the whole history of Warcraft in 3 volumes, they come with some amazing art and more background on the universe, particularly in the early stages. They will flesh out way more details that you seems to want. 25:00 The "prewar" stuff as you put is are the events depicted in Warcraft 1-3 the RTS games. At this point you really need to do a live stream/play through of Warcraft 3! :)

I completely forgot that there's actually a WoW video from Burning Crusade that you never reacted to. It's called "The Burning Crusade - Patch 2.3: The Gods of Zul'Aman"

6:25 Ner'zhul, not Gul'dan. It was actualy the Ner'zhul who was corrupted by Kil'jeaden and Gul'dan was his apprentice. 19:45 Its in this alternate timeline/pocket dimension that Gul'dan is the one in charge, and its this Gul'dan 2.0 who then does all the later stuff. 19:45 was the Warlords of Draenor which got sort of axed halfway trough so the story line gets quite blurry (or blurrier then it already was) Also 13:55 Garithos was a human supremacist prick 16:00 Garrosh gives of the impression that had there bean a single emo band in the world of Azeroth, none of the atrocities that would not have happened There are so many inconsistencies in Warcraft's story line and lot of revisionism but this video at least gives you a general idea of what is going on

yeeeees I'm so happy you continue with Warcraft. For more lore videos I must recommend Platinum WoW channel. His lore videos are the best. They aren't very long and even if, they are very funny and overall well made.

Amazing video!!! Keep it up :) (althought it was a bit non-pause xD)

Really should watch the in game cutscenes of Warcraft 3, they really do help explain the story through out & what happen during those events from Arthas fall to Illidan sacrifice & so such more.

There is a lot of entertainment in the lore series of WoW. One branch I want to mention is all the WoW machinima. A few small companies formed like Madcow, and a lot of creative individuals have spent a lot of time. Most of the vids are inside jokes that only a player would understand, but funny nonetheless. Nyhm's parody songs are some of my favorites. Some pvp vids like druidboy. Some talk about specific events like the rogue who trolled both factions when they were opening AQ. Not all of WoW history was made by Blizzard.

Great video 👍👍

i really like you guys, funny and Great at reacting, and btw apex just droped the stories from out lands, launch trailer, meet the legend, and gameplay trailer, i think it would be cool to react to all of them in one video❤️❤️

Ah World of Warcraft game with such complicated history.

You should watch some of Nobbel's videos as he goes into more detail about the bigger characters/events and talks slower 😂

I am pretty sure the Titans could kill the Old Gods, they just knew that they shouldn't. It's like the demons respawning. All the Old Gods in Warcraft are literally different body parts. The eyes, the heart, the mouth, the mind. Clearly these separated Old Gods are just parts to one big one. That's why the Titans wouldn't kill them, destroy them all and they'll return as the one being.

Just to say it, i belive the reason why the titans can't kill the old gods without hurting/killing Azeroth, is because they corrupt and putting tentacles under ground. Think as it's under your skin/flesh. When aman'thul grab the old god Y'Shaarj, and pull it up from Azeroth, it was a permanent harm that created a big hole ( later will be as know Well of Eternity, enormous lake the titans created an filled with arcane energy, known as the Well of Eternity, at the center of the great landmass of Kalimdor. ) Unless Blizz has change that too from the old lore, i don't know. They doing so much confusing stuff.. Oh Also, Since old god did get splated by the strengh/power, it's part got all over Pandaria. (The one Garrosh will use later) Also parts creating the Sha.

Watching this while smelting ores in Warcraft hahaha

Another awesome reaction

I always enjoy watching the lore slowly go absolutely batshit twords the end.

The thing about the Titans can't kill Old Gods but players can .... it's just not true. The Titans DID kill an Old God but the magical backlash nearly killed Azeroth's world soul. That's why the imprissoned the other Old Gods. The players kill tiny avatars of the Old Gods every single time it's shown to happen in game. Even the latest one, N'Zoth is still simply severely weakened and banished back to his prison, he certainly too more damage than any of the others but he isn't dead. The reason an Old God dying is so dangerous to Azeroth herself is that the Old Gods had thousands of years to burrow into the world before the titans found Azeroth and cleaned up the place so now they are metaphysically (and possibly physically) close enough to the world soul they can affect it directly with something as big and their dying spasms. At least this is how it worked last time I dug into the lore - I wouldn't put it past Blizz to have retconed parts or all of this twice over by now.

We can't nor did kill the old gods.

Hey again DfD! If you want, I've got a totally done and up to date list of all the major World of Warcraft cinematics in chronological order With some annotations to denote the gaps in time or to make why they are in that order more apparent...been meaning to make it into a playlist.

What a day! Warframe AND Warcraft!

Thank you it was great , there is long version of this over an hour i believe also Platinum wow videos about wow are so amazing and fun to watch and react you can pick one of his videos next .

I wish I remember to respond and add some info you were missing about all this tomorrow. When I am not so tired I can't even keep a lucid thought for more than a few seconds at a time.

I agree with other people suggesting Platinum WoW. Lore content is almost all he does, and theyre very funny. Since yall are about done with nearly all the lore of the main blizzard games, I suggest yall check out the Heroes of the Storm trailers and cinematics. HotS is Blizzards take on the MOBA genre (League of Legends) but they use their own IP as the characters. So things like Kerrigan fighting Jaina or Diablo fighting Raynor.

I just have to recommend Nobbel's "The Story of the Lich King", it's like 3h long (I know.. too long, but worth it)

Told ya to watch the longer one first! :3 Well at least you're gonna do it. And yeah. Anything backstory in WoW usually starts with "ten thousand years ago", "Elves", "Trolls", or "Titans".

If you gonna watch more deadbattle Watch: Goku black vs reverse flash Ghost rider vs lobo Doctor strange vs Doctor fate

There is a reason the titans couldn't kill the old gods, it's cause the titans are so big and powerful there's an absurd amount of collateral damage. The most powerful old god was picked off the planet like a tick and squished by a titan, but that created the well of eternity, which the reason the well was filled with magic and made the trolls then night elves, is because the well is literally the planets blood. Which acts differently than azerite which is also the planets blood that didn't appear until flaming fel titan sword was plunged in. Honestly like even in this video you can see such a narrative decline as soon as time travel got involved lol. Legion may of been a top tier expansion gameplay wise, but after WoD who even knows what's going on at this point. Shadowlands entrance quest, literally the first quest you had to do to start the expansion, introduces a rock that you find out was made by "the first ones" who they are apparently above titans. And the titan Freya made the emerald dream, a druid thingy, based on Ardenweald in the shadowlands which is ruled by the winter queen, sister of elune who are not titans or first ones, and in the upcoming raid we see the lords of the shadowlands are all apparently robots. That is not a joke. Shit got wild.

Good video as always, guys! Just my recommendation but you guys should watch all God of War 1 bosses next maybe?

I'm bummed out that he mentioned the Troll Wars in which Arathor humans and the newly arrived Kalimdor-exiles/High Elves were fighting against the native Amani trolls, which ultimately caused the Amani trolls to join the Horde in the First War at the same time as the Elves joined the Alliance. Green Amani forest trolls were part of the Horde in the First and Second War and then were somehow turned into a hostile to everyone faction when Blizzard decided to have Thrall's Horde only include the Darkspear trolls (blue skinned, jungle trolls) and instead have Blood Elves (previously High Elves) join his Horde, which made absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Definitely agree that the video is a bit too fast, it goes at a speed that someone who is familiar with Warcraft can appreciate and reminisce about but is way too fast for everyone else.

*Pay close attention to this educational clip, there WILL be a quiz at the end of it...* 😱

Just in case you dont know, RU-vid has the option to slow down the videos by 25% up to a total of 100% slower.

Nobbel87 is the best channel for Warcraft lore.

Longest ~25 minutes of my life but worth it

23 minutes is really too short to summarize and to tell this universe and incredible story that is wow

about the killing the world soul part. somehow I doubt he was trying to kill Azeroth when he clearly had more than enough time to do it prior to being dragged away from the planet. like he could've easily just cleaved Azeroth in half if he wanted to kill her.

You should read books too. Specially Chronicle 1, 2 and 3 You only know 0.01 of the story now😁

This was highly accurate. Lmao

Oh boi :D I think you've got this suggestion a milion times already, but please consider watching PlatinumWoW's videos... they touch on specific events, are quite short AND are full of jokes... I think it's the best way to understand, at least somewhat, what is going on!

If you are interested in more "WoW history in a nutshell" videos you should watch Platinum WoW. The guy is pretty good at it.

Ok ok but... really? How perfect a description is "Sentient Chandelier"?

Another thing I think you guys will love after your wow journey is the Blizzard World of Warcraft documentary "World of Warcraft Looking For Group Documentary" (on utube 1.01:46 long 7 years ago 4.7M views). Has lots of the Blizzard team who created Warcraft and famous players talking about epic moments in the games history, how the game became such a world wide success sending shockwaves through the gaming community and why the game means so much to so many people all around the world. Definitely worth checking out after your wow journey and if you could react to it (even if you have to break it up with it being an hour long) then would be awesome to see your guys reaction to it :)

You guys should do a reaction to the warcraft movie, i'd watch that :)

I would sincerely recommend you the story of Guild Wars 2. This game is known for its great history and rich world. The best summary of all story I know is from Laranity, it's approximately 25min too.

You should try Flying Buttress' channel to get the full story of Arthas he does like funny audiobooks

If you'll be reacting to PlatinumWoW, is there any chance of letting us know when would that be uploaded? I'm a bit hyped, been wanting to see how enjoyable his videos are for non wow players for a while and haven't found any reaction nor I have english speaking friends that don't play wow to recommend him to them.

Oh, you brave, brave souls... lmao I'm a particular fan of 6:10 "In a stunning display of nepotism..." and *evil baby noises* lmao. The use of the cutscenes help a lot because you have all the visual context to connect things. Ohhhhh yeah there is a LOT of stuff that happens in the Warcraft series. There was definitely a lot of confusion with the origin of Frostmourne and The Helm of Domination (Arthas' fancy helmet and sword). When this video was made, it was said that Kil'Jaeden created those pieces out of Ner'zhul and placed them in Northrend. It's been retconned (basically a change in writing by the creators) during the Shadowlands expansion that these items were stolen artifacts by the Legion from the Shadowlands, not Kil'Jaeden's punishment of Ner'zhul for being a bad boy (10:06). Later in the expansion, we are able to have a final battle with the "Remnants of Ner'zhul", encased in metal and and damned to suffer and serve within a raid in the Maw where Handsome Squidward resides. Anyway, I'll hop on the Nobbel bandwagon. He (imo) has the best video guides on WoW lore you can find. Also, I just really like his voice and how he pronounces thing hehe. Thank you for this nice treat! You've blessed my insomnia.

If you ask the guy who made the video he actually recommends to play it at slower speed ;)

lol i just saw this earlier today : )

Ooooh very good choice for video!

yeah theres so much detail in the lore which is why when they came out with the warcraft movie, it felt so rushed! i feel like a witcher-type show/series would do warcraft justice over a movie

I watched this at 75% speed 😂

If you want a massive investment in time but probably the deepest history lesson you can get(Even an hour long "history of WoW" that adds in much more context to this kind of thing, Look up Nobbel. He does stories on the game(In game and via the books all brought in) and he does stories based on the characters to learn of their stories. Some are broken up into parts as well so you don't have to blast through hours of content in one go. I DEFINITELY recommend his stuff if you genuinely want to learn more of the stories in the game vs just the overarching story. Also I know I mentioned it but he has an entire hour long video on the history of WoW up to I believe the start of BFA, so one expansion behind, that goes into more depth than this video did with the entire history. And he also talks much slower.

It was much cooler when you got to play with your friends!...it was an era of fun I will always Cherrish!

I love warcraft lore

Highly recommend "Warcraft 3 Reforged All Cutscenes & Cinematics" by Noone182

Good day, Got my brew ready. lets watch some warcraft together:)

Now you gotta watch “Garrosh did nothing wrong” lol

React to “DBZ budokai 3 all ultimates and fusions” swear to god your gonna love it

And that's the history of WoW.. So far. More coming 😂

bless your souls lol this is a lot

I'd love to see you guys react to all the in game cutscenes of warcraft 3 human campaign, also, I'd like to recommend you guys watch all the ultimate attacks for kimetsu no yaiba hinokami chronicles for a future fight night friday, much love!

That ending is exactly what I expect from Shadowlands. "HEROES! The AFTERLIFE is attacking Azeroth! We've all got to KILL OURSELVES so we can go FIGHT THE AFTERLIFE! LET'S GO!" -STAB- Heroes: "YEAAAAAHHHH!" -mass suicide commences- Time to fight the plot device who retroactively is responsible for everything that ever happened ever, thus robbing all characters of all agency and making the entire series and all of its lore absolutely meaningless!

If you want more lore on certain people or events and stuff, I'd suggest the channel Nobbel87. He goes through all the lore and recaps of basically everything ever in WoW.