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Xal’atath is a void entity that was trapped into a weapon that shadow priests could use. When you had it equipped, it would talk to you to try to get you to do what it wanted. People loved it so much that they called her “knifeu” (knife + wifeu). She convinced the players to break her out and then she stole the body of a dead elf. Now she is up to something but we have no idea what it is or who she really is yet.

I am here to second the "watch Platinum WoW" comment. He is the best there is at breaking down WoW lore, to the point that Blizzard hired him.

You should check more of PlatinumWoW videos. "Warcraft's New Master Manipulator" is all about the new villain of this expansion. "The BEST Written Dwarf in Warcraft History" is also very good since she will be one of the protagonists of this expansion.

I would highly recommend watching Platinum WoW's video about Xal'atath titled "Warcraft's New Master Manipulator". Platinum's video does a great job at explaining who Xal'atath is for new people who have no idea who she is. She's a really great villain. After that video, if you are interested, you should watch Bellular Warcraft's video on Xal'atath titled "The Entire Story of Xal'atath" , as it's more targeted towards people who already have some idea of who Xal'atath is, and skips over some basic, but important, details.

So, there are already few ingame cutscenes preceding the start of the War Within but I think you should wait a bit longer to watch those when the expansion starts so there will be more cutscenes 👀 for now, I recommend watching the video everyone here recommends by PlatinumWoW ✨

I highly recommend some more platinum wow videos, he does an amazing job going over the general lore of the charecters and world while keeping it funny and telling it in a way that is easy to understand. Also a great dude. Xalatath is a character with quite a long story behind her, and I highly recommend checking out Platinum wow's video about her entire story. Amazing video, and will let you know everything you need to know about her, which will be very important speaking of the upcoming 3 expansions.

That line "The drums of War, thunder once again" carrys so much weight for anyone who's been playing WoW since the beginning. The last words that were spoken in the original cinematic before the World of Warcraft actually kicked off into what it is today.

I suggest you to watch and react warcraft's new master manipulator by platinum wow for knowing the backstory of this amazing villain, our lovely knifu xalatath

The awesome dragon is a phoenix mount called Ashes of Al'ar. You get it from Kael'thas in the eye, Tempest Keep. Took me years to get the stupid thing to drop (Arthas still won't hand over his undead horsey!).

ME again!! its been a while, so Xalatah has actually been in the background of wow since the very beginning and at one point shes a weapon in legion and in Battle for azeroth we actually give her a body, so no she is very much one of the biggest antagonists we've ever had she is essentially a DnD warlock with a Void lord as her patron and shes going to destroy our world. Love you guys hope you've been well!

This expansion is looking like it’s gonna be so much freaking fun!!!!

In Legion every Class/Spec has a very unique weapons. Paladins got the legendary Ashbringer, fire mages got Kael'thas Sunstrider's sword, the Felo'melorn, etc etc. Shadow priests (I am a one) got the Blade of the Black Empire, Xal'atath. She is a void entity and had unique voice lines that was reactions for my ingame actions. If I killing the same monsters again and again, she spoke: "Boring." or "Every little death helps." :D So in Legion's end we priests lose her. After that in BfA she has emerged and we helped her to escape from the dagger and got a physical form. That form you can see now.

Xal'atath was, I kid you not, a knife that priests used in Legion. yes, she was an old god before that but that's not important, she was a knife, and that is what's important. 😁😁

We as players know very little about Xal'atath however she's been part of the WoW lore universe for quite some time and she's been pulling strings here. Think of her like Sauron from LotR, thousands of years means nothing and is willing to wait until the opportune time.

Something is different, it's called Chris metzen, a lot of the lore on Warcraft 3 came from him. He is now back with blizzard and you can tell.

The date release cinematic did the recaps from the others because it's one of the last 3 expansion of World or Warcraft. They want the nostalgia and it to be emotional.

She has been in lore forever. There are some you tubes that talk about her history.

She alone caused so many empires to crumble as a mere dagger across the millenniums… shattered the trolls, spread the influence of the void among human priests, and so much more. Her story is definitely intriguing, but more mysterious

Ive been playing WoW since i was 10 years old. I love all of your wow reactions ive seen them all so many times and im so happy to see you guys react to more. Need to make myself a whisky warbringer one of these days 😹💖

I really enjoyed Bellullar's video titled "The Entire Story of Xal'atath, From The Black Empire To War Within". It's very well edited and explained in a nice manner that's intriguing! Definitely excited for you to dig into Xal'athath's lore in general... Knifu needs more exhibition!

Others have given you context to who/what Xal'atath is, a void entity initially trapped in a dagger that Shadow Priests used during the Legion expansion (all classes and specs got their own lore-heavy weapon for that expansion). But i just want to say that I think Xal'atath has the potential to be what Blizzard so utterly failed to do with The Jailer during the Shadowlands expansion. They propped The Jailer up as this masterfull 4d chess expert that has been playing people and factions for millennia to get what he wanted. All the bad things we had in our world was no longer because of the evil people we vanquished but it was all just puppeteered by the Jailer. Before the start of Shadowlands, no one had heard of The Jailer. Everything retroactively being ascribed to him, because reasons. Xal'atath on the other hand, was introduced to the broader audience with Legion, which released back in 2016. Players took a liking to the weapon and all the sassy whispers it told the wielder. Talking about "upstart godsesses" and how the Burning Legion with all its demons was just a nusaince, indicating that she (or her faction) was very powerful. She made a cameo in Battle for Azeroth when we released her from the dagger and gave her a body, the elven body she has now. We don't really hear about her during Shadowlands, but in the cinematic at the end of Dragonflight's Megadungeon we see the Primal Incarnate Iridikron walk through a void portal and for a fraction of a second we see the shadow or silhouette of an elven lady on the other side. Can't remember if the backstory of the dagger was revealed through the tomes each class had explaining the lore of their weapons or if there are old questlines in the game hinting towards the existence of Xal'atath's dagger, but even if we really did first meet her in Legion that was 8 years ago, with most expansions at least having brief mentions or indications that she's doing stuff in the background. The Jailer was "Tell, don't show" and Xal'atath is "Show, don't tell". Her brief appearances has shown us that even if we don't know what her plan is or exactly what she's up to, she has been doing things. If this was the first time we heard about her I have a strong feeling that the reception would be a bit lukewarm considering how they handled The Jailer, but because it is a character that we've known about for years, brief appearances, always been mysterious yet clearly having a plan or an agenda. This is a well established character that they have slowly developed and now see an opportunity to develop her further! Will be interesting to see if they can keep that storytelling going!

The combination of all the expansion cinematics was an emotional blow to most of the oldtime players😅 and makes us think how this expansion is going to affect the story forward

Yay, I've been waiting for this one! Xal'atath has been in game since Legion. Every player that played as a Shadow Priest was infatuated with her because she whispered to you (actual audio) so you had a lot of time with her. She was also super sassy. Also the last cinematic has bits of the others because WoW will be 20 yrs old this November and this xpac is the culmination of the last 20 yrs of story, as per Chris Metzen who is once again in charge of the story narrative.

GREETINGS OLD FREINDS! Ive missed keeping up with you, but there is so much stuff to do on the interwebs now, and Im spending a great deal of time on Twtich food streams and also helping train newer players for WOW changes and also Diablo Immortal as a veteran of that since Day 1 or so - its a very veyr different flavor and environment form D3 and D4.

If you want to know more about her, Bellular has a great Video from her "The Entire Story of Xal'atath, From The Black Empire To War Within" - Ofc you can watch it off Stream for Knowledge if ya want to :)

and after a few months from Launch of TWW, we get whatever 20th anniversary of WOW madness they have planned.

I've been playing WoW since the very beginning and even I have no idea who she is. LoL but, I do agree. She's a breath of fresh air after Zovaal and The Primalists. One of the old devs is back to sort of lead the way on this one. It feels like an ending. T_T

She gonna summon a monster that can eat the soul/the whole our planet. She is like 1000% level dangerous, cosmic level.

There will be one more full cinematic at release

do we know who the void elf boss lady is ? i dont reconize her at all?

Plus the reason i am hyped up is Chris Metzen!

The kniffu!

The War Withing will be a chapter which does not end good... hence the next expansion called Midnight, so Xal'atath will bring the Shadow!

Yhal should check out at dead of night

Finally! :D :3

WHAT happened to Sylvanas? Sylvanas, to me, is the real bad ass.

Xal'atath has been a long time coming and I cannot wait. I REALLY hope Blizzard don't have us kill her in the War Within because she could be such a great long term baddie which we are lacking right now after taking out so many over the years.

She is new villain

An awesome video! But Xal'atath the Harbinger has a critical ally in how she obtained that artifact you see in the trailers! I would recommend the videos concerning the story of DF where it seems you left off in this order, and you'll learn about this ally!: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ux7ZIHWUl0g.html Vault of the Incarnates Finale ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7SWbDErdor8.html Vault of the Incarnates Post Raid Cutscene ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YwEE85vd42c.htmlsi=HAcVZccmNc1ezqEj Secrets of the Reach (artifact's first appearance) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vhdgBFCEtls.html Opening the Way ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rHPBCy-etdc.html A Matter of Time ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iDNBEtlcFGY.html Dawn of the Infinite Interlude ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KrlLDkWEFyA.html Dawn of the Infinite Finale ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-O0URBe0JWIk.htmlsi=JSq1SQiAyN0lSwLN Fury Incarnate Cinematic ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mUUrimxvkVI.html Fury Incarnate In-Game Cutscene 1 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mUUrimxvkVI.html Fury Incarnate In-Game Cutscene 2 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-83bc-086rPU.html A Crown of Flame Cinematic ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MpvvfD0Iz8U.html Iridikron and Vyranoth Parlay Cinematic

Recipe for drink?

You just had to react to WoW. There goes my next hour. I'm off to the discord with visual aids.

Xalatath, 5th Old God and Voidlords are coming. Let's brace it!

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Typically I would agree that using bits from the old cinematics was a cheat but in this case Xal'atath has been watching over every event throughout Azeroth's history possibly even before the days of the Black Empire (a time before elves and ordered dragons existed aka well over 10k years). I thought it was a really creative way to demonstrate Xal'atath's viewpoint and how even after all this time we've been playing it is nothing but a blink to her. There's also word that Azshara may be making a return so I'm excited to have these two long-lived ladies bringing Azeroth some much needed decent villainy.

oh trust me she has a ton of substance she is an old god lol

That's as much as anyone has ever seen of her.. I hate to say this but so far... I'm not that excited by this trailer. I'm sticking to classic vanilla and classic wrath.