Path of the Damned - Episode 1

The Lich King's plague of undeath has spread through the Capital City and into the outskirts of Lordaeron. Shocked and disheartened by the loss of their beloved king, the forces of Lordaeron were scattered by the ravenous undead warriors. Now, Lordaeron is but a shadow of its former glory, and Prince Arthas has yet to be seen...

[@stoopidyoutubehandle]

This brought back memories. I was just an elementary school kid by then. I lack interest in learning English even though I have been forced to go summer cram school since I was on third grade. In 2001, my country hasn't introduced the translated version of The Frozen Throne. I had to bring my dictionary with me when I watch cinematic and read quest description. People wouldn't believe it that a video game somehow raised interest of a young soul to study a foreign language and culture. Since then, I became a fan of western magic& sword(or D&D) fantasy. My journey continues after that then I actually become a first generation immigrant. WC3 really shaped my destiny.

[@Jos3BV]

Your destiny and ours. Please try spanish now haha

[@TheShapingSickness]

Can relate, I learned English through games like this.

[@tompeeters671]

The Frozen Throne was released in 2003 not 2001 :)

[@giovannitorres9337]

Same, I was 7 when I first played this. As I moved abroad, I needed to know English and this game I brought with me

[@gregisk123]

I think some of us in the west can understand. We look to the east for literature and cultural insights often. Japanese manga and anime for example have done the same for many of us. Good luck with your studies!

[@ostsweinen5240]

9.9/10 best warcraft related movie i've seen.

[@StevesRightJay]

watch what this channel uploaded several days ago - got even better with the video editing!

[@zsushi3316]

Not 20/10?

[@StainderFin]

wHO director that uber fail wow movie need visit this channel to learn how real DirecTOR! WoW movie was o bad and these owns it every scene by scene! Blizzard has lot to learn. If movie real should was trilogy i got bad news all Sequances are cancelled! there is no really zero point to to do follow up with uber fail script until Company has better writers!! follow up movies are atm an HOLD!

[@bluetounge]

Tales of the Past 3 would like to know your location!

[@MATCHLESS789]

There's something funny about seeing Arthas be stealthy wearing a heavy plate armor and wielding a giant shiny sword.

[@Kapteeni40]

MATCHLESS Well... That's basically what happened in the story ;D

[@Unfolded3850]

In the game he was also riding a horse...

[@sickofitall89]

Only because Warcraft 3 doesn't have Arthas deathknight model without a horse .

[@feron_ve]

He was also accompanied by 2 ghouls and an army of skeletons

[@fredrikengstrom2107]

It was a little bit weird. Not at all the way I would have imagined it. Too goofy. I would not have imagined any slayer warrior type either for that fact, but rather something of a Nazgul. Just this omnious shadowly presence that stalks by the road indiscriminately on his steed.

[@Abelhawk]

The acolytes should have been living humans, but other than that, this is an amazingly accurate piece of work! I especially admire the sound mixing. It goes really well with the lines of dialog from the game.

[@Intreductor]

Almost. In the original cutscene from WC3 there were no Acholytes, only 3 small obelisks where Arthas teleported.

[@ScornedOne1080]

IN WC3: Frozen Throne, all Scourge units count as undead, even the acolytes.

[@IhsaanS]

But they were still living humans. They were cultists.

[@ScornedOne1080]

They only looked like living humans . . . if you checked out their unit type, they counted as undead and were healed by death coil.

[@normandy3999]

You're everywhere I go, Abelhawk, and it's a little disturbing.

[@mattkingsbury9459]

Wonderful video; I really like how you have Arthas going around and being stealthy before he raises the undead from the graveyard--really captures the feeling of that first Undead level where you're still building up your army.

[@tonglui8143]

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[@darkadia6520]

I always found the undead storyline to be the most interesting, Human civilization crumbles and the undead rise to serve the Lich King. It just sounds so badass

[@Greenley013]

Then afterwards they broke free of the Lich King's rule and were outcast and forsaken by everyone they knew. I absolutely adore the Undead faction.

[@toohdvaetihom7088]

Joe berdanke undead respresnts communism

[@zsushi3316]

blizzard could had make it more interesting

[@Kravenrogue]

Undead were always my Favorite "Race", and The Warcraft 3 Night Elves, not The ones From WoW, to me neither The Undead or Night Elves Should Have joined Alliance and Horde, they Should be independent, but in gameplay Balance they had to make that

[@guilhermerdgs11]

5:01 that "positive" from the undead to Arthas killed me! Great job!

[@oskardrabikowski3780]

I love atmoshere of this lorderon. Like something realny bad happend and people try to move on with that.

[@khnaing1569]

well yeah,something really bad DID happened,Their king was dead.

[@toohdvaetihom7088]

Oskar Drabikowski Arthas killed most of his citizens if I recall correctly

[@taeja8660]

Obviously the people commenting about the green spells never played Warcraft 3. This is great.

[@pannedesalle4142]

Its called death coil if im not mistaken it damages non undead units and heals undead units

[@ayoub8712]

@@pannedesalle4142 yep he actually used a strong er version of it

[@toohdvaetihom7088]

TAE JA The spell name is Death Coil

[@RUdigitized]

He’s hearthing

[@mayhem2648]

I main DK, there's the unholy specialization were al the spell colors are green (uh) or purple (shadow) or both, frost everything related to frost is blue

[@AnomalyINC]

"...yours was the firs one it claimed." "Then I'll have to make do without one." I really liked that line. I wish I could relive playing WarCraft 3 for the first time, this game defined a big part of my childhood, as pathetic as that sounds.

[@Morec0]

Hot damn, man. I just came from your RoC videos, your quality JUMPED in just three years time, and this is still really amazing to begin with.

[@axechop]

This is amazing. Your work is everything Reforged isn't. I love how you took the original scenes and added those little and not so little details - like Arthas' face reflecting in Frostmourne or the summoning ritual. Or references to famous WC3 moments such as the way the Animate Dead scene was made. Are you considering remaking this with the Reforged models, because HD models are the only thing missing here?

[@yuufinia670]

This is absolute madness !! Can't imagine how one produce this beautiful arts !

[@Salmon_tech]

I'm speechless this is so beautiful. all your videos are amazing. keep it up

[@NuttyHut]

This is outstanding! Be proud of what you have done here! This deserves thousands more views! Can't wait for episode 2!

[@thedude5641]

Even though you have gotten so much better at animating in the last few years, this video is still SO good. One of my favorites!

[@Noxims47314]

My favorite campaign, this was a masterpiece to behold. thank you!

[@DrEvil-ro9dj]

I freaking love this man. Thank you so much for creating this!

[@terrysparrow2180]

Everything about this is awesome. The choice of soundtrack in particular is perfect

[@roamer1389]

I LOVE how you showed Arthas being more powerful than he was in the beginning of the undead campaign. That's one thing that urked me when I originally played this game(yeah i know it's the beginning of the game, but at least have some kind of backstory as to how he got that way). Not to mention him getting the mount is a MUCH better rewrite than the game gave. I look forward to the rest of this!!! Never give up man!!!

[@vegavega5344]

Daaaaamn, you can't leave us hanging like this! I want to see more-- This is bloody brilliant! If you recreated all campaign cutscene-dialogues from Warcraft 3, I would be really hyped for the ride!!

[@Koryn_99]

This was so awesome. I'm a little sorry that I found it when I did. Now I have to wait for more episodes. Gonna be a long, agonizing wait. Like the entire month of December as a kid waiting for Christmas.

[@AleemKhan-to8qm]

Dude im not even kidding. NOT EVEN IN THE SLIGHTEST.... If this was a series that episode comes out regularly n on netflix or sum(optional), i would watch this whole day... Probably again n again

[@sekerasar8104]

This is freakin amazing work, man. I see you also did the story leading up to this. Out of curiosity, do you plan on making English versions of those too?

[@emirfarid7308]

Arthas stealth? i never see that coming.. :D

[@crazy_acid77]

This is absolutely amazing! The animation is surburb - one of the best animations in any machinima I've seen! Very excited for Part II!

[@lordgrim1798]

6:37 *Best Scene of the vid hands down*

[@thelichking9070]

Awesome animations and showing emotions.ty for this great work

[@Hvorgandr]

This is so damn good. Instead of Blizz, this man has done a good thing. I'd rather to see such improved version of this in Netflix.

[@Ketooey]

Always wished that Arthas' DK model went without the horse. Finally get to see it! Thank you!

[@crazy_acid77]

Just one thing though - those members of the Cult of the Damned were probably Humans. The Cult of the Damned was an organization that Kel'thuzad led, and it manipulated the living to serve the Scourge where the dead could not. Undeath was considered an honorable privilege earned through service, so I *suppose* they could have been undead, but, yeah...

[@mulanszechuansauceisthemeaning]

You are right - acolytes are not undead, they are fanatic humans. They live to serve the Lich King, and ask "where shall their blood be spilled" in wc III campaign. Not even sure Kel'Thuzad was undead during the human campaign when Arthas killed him.

[@Cakenize]

Nope, it is stated in lore that acolytes drank "plague drinks" and became undead.

[@mulanszechuansauceisthemeaning]

Hm, didn't see that one, sorry

[@ВладиславШаклеин-ч7м]

Regardless, they should *appear* human if they were to blend in. Even if through illusion magic.

[@meoravec]

I just find this funny watching this video seeing them all (acolytes) being undead. Like, how the hell did you not know they were a spy?

[@horner385]

Dammit Tichondrious it's like you're whispering to Arthas Nice machinima, really love Arthas' reflexion on the Frostmourne

[@gergelyvatti4472]

This Cinematic Remake is brilliant! Better than the Warcraft movie itself, even if it lack's it's superb graphics. The athmosphere and originality of the story is absolute and I'm really looking forward to see more! I haven't been so excited and satisfied since a long time. Keep up the good work, best wishes from Hungary! Best regards: Gergely Vatti

[@RedSox8416]

Outstanding video! Brought back memories from the Warcraft 3 days.

[@xTheWolfman1991]

This needs to continue. This *needs* to become a series or... SOMETHING. Even an annual release of a new episode. This alone can save the Machinima scene, which is nearly dead at this point. PLEASE CONSIDER MOVING THIS FORWARD.

[@Gemmlarsen]

Although you get a few skeletons in wc3 when nearing the graveyard in that mission. He does say that the graves were dug recently, I think zombie models would have been a better choice. For the sake of story telling. Also, his mount Invincible was raised near the Balnir farm that bred the horse. Other than that, nice work!

[@cooltv2776]

zombie models would definitely have been better, as you get ghoul units rather than skeletal ones im pretty sure he raised his horse before this mission takes place, but it added nicely to the scene (if not 100% canon)

[@roamer1389]

@@cooltv2776 Yeah, but they never really explained it properly in the game. This is much better storytelling.

[@natanaelfernandesrodrigues4748]

Hey man, let's see some more of this amazing work. This is a piece of art, man. Extremely marvelous !!!

[@ALukes18]

These are amazing. Please do not stop making them.

[@TabalugaDragon]

amazing! I really wanna see more of this!

[@zerosuitsamus2340]

This deserve its own series man.

[@TheBlackhoof]

Its absolutely hilarious to see obviously undead cultists just chilling, living normal lives. *Its day 195 and the humans still don't know I'm not one of them* This is amazing by the way, you need to make the rest of the undead campaign! Pleaaaaase!

[@1_mo7a]

This is seriously awesome like the sound and the story very great work

[@gkopp86]

Flame effects should have been blue, but everything else was AMAZING, ty for using original voice acting and sticking to the REAL story.

[@mohammadghezelli3961]

ty for it man this amazing work tells the story better than before

[@mayhem2648]

as a DK main I loved all the unholy spells being green, I only would like to point out that some have a bit of purple as well ( shadow) if you wish to introduce in future vids, love your work

[@joshuasinclair4463]

Holy sh... That was good. Like, with all the things Blizzard can mess up in game for us, watching something like this reminds you why you play a DK. That green glowing from the ground got me good

[@MushyPepito123]

Even as an undead warrior, arthas still retains his badass Moves.

[@pa7rikgaming484]

You totally should continue making these episodes 👍 Now with your skills and the new models, it would be even more amazing.

[@zsushi3316]

Pa7rik Gaming well he’s continued with the human campaign first

[@vadimosovsky]

Hey, you got a special version of w3 reforged?

[@godcommentator]

Oh, damn. This video deserves so many more upvotes!!!!

[@Ryuhoshi7]

Increíble trabajo! Por ponerle una única pega (y he de decir que el vídeo es impresionante) me llama la atención lo de los ojos y brillos verdes para arthas, cuando siempre se han puesto azules. Anyway, como he dicho, ardo en deseos de ver la continuación. ¡Suerte!

[@giovanicomin8665]

Its the most amazing movie I ever see please do all Campaigns!!!

[@fredrikengstrom2107]

Nice video, even tho I imagined it differently. Rather than being a ninja figure here on the video, I would have portrayed Arthas as this omnious shadowly presence that stalks the land on his steed. He moves slowly but indiscriminately by the road from farm to farm as villagers either choke in fear or awe before the shadowly figure. As the acolytes sees him they lose their disguise and quietly abandons their families and homes and begins to follow the shadowly figure, as each joins it becomes an omnious march. There are soldiers who finds the courage and identify the evil presence as Arthas the kingslayer, they attack as duty calls, but are easily and gruesomely murdered, and so the others choose to flee. Great video tho

[@Medieval3d3d]

I enjoyed it, it was like as was at teh cinema!

[@undeny]

The editing and directing my god!! Amazing work :). Music is too loud tho, voices are getting drowned out.

[@Jos3BV]

easy man, i upload this video 4 years ago

[@aurriusthepure7323]

Dude holy shit this is the best quality machinama I've seen yet

[@legion4698]

Reading the chronicles of war book and just remembering art has will bring it all down

[@andralfoo]

I'm glad that this masterpiece has been made by a Chilean *.* Me alegro de que esta obra maestra haya sido hecha por un Chileno *.*

[@MrSurrealKarma]

Oh jebus, I was expecting custom voice acting. Wooh!

[@Xick]

Great idea to include the raising of Invincible here. The Scourge story lays out a lot of the lore and ultimate stakes for Reign of Chaos, but only once Kel'Thuzad gets back. Until he does, we're stuck with Arthas, who needs something new to do if we're going to still be following him around now that his antihero arc is concluded. And that's a bit of a tough sell, since right now all he wants to do is Lich King laundry, and because of magic mind control, not because of any relatable emotions or values he has. What he DOES have are new powers. Just as how in the game the player is getting to try out the Undead, Arthas gets to spend some time showing off his Death Knighting and being really cold-blooded as the Scourging of Lordaeron starts to kick into high gear. And that means, more than anything, Animate Dead. Getting that mount is a great way to emphasize his rising to heightened, but evil, power. That said, if it were me I would probably have made this bit shorter. While showing Arthas being a sneaky knight is very true to the game, a viewer doesn't get to care about positioning and micromanagement the way a player does, and it's going to get boring around here quick without a character with emotions. I say fast-track to the betrayal of Uther - it's super emotional and represents both Lordaeron's fall and Arthas's part in it extremely efficiently, and it gets us to Kel'Thuzad, the real main character of the Scourge arc. For this level, getting to the graveyard and raising the horse and a bunch of skeletons is the important bit, so just do one acolyte to drop the lines about that and Kel'Thuzad, have Arthas go to the graveyard and animate a cool army that overruns the town (maybe presented as a rapid mass night assassination, to preserve the stealth concept), and then have Arthas in the town square as the cultists emerge creepily from the alleys all around him and encircle him for the ending conversation with Tichondrius. Cut out most of the sneaking around and the individual acolyte scenes. Arthas is cruel and cold-blooded, he's raising dead, the cult is following him but he's kind of following them, bing bang boom we can get to the meat of things.

[@Mavelleana]

plz make more of these this piece of art is so beautiful make more until the night elf campaign

[@SirDemonLord]

Awesomely done!

[@professionalcommentstealer5271]

RIP that one acolyte

[@echoesofoblivion]

Wow, this was so well done! Thank you for this :)

[@Sunreavers]

This is a really good machinema and it reminds me when i played the undead campaign the first time in wc3. its awesome.

[@juliusresuello5218]

Make more of these!! Even the orc and the night elves campain pls

[@TheACDCrulez]

Great video! The only thing apart from the undead acolytes is that Invincible wasn't buried at Brill cemetary but in a lone grave in the eastern part of Tirisfal.

[@alexmag342]

@JoseBV Are you planning on continuing this after you finish reign of chaos?

[@Jos3BV]

Obviously... Cant wait to get there

[@nStinct42]

Amazing, keep on the good work my friend

[@vanlalzahawma]

I'm a simple man. I see a Warcraft machinima I click "Like"

[@joesonaguirre3606]

I love all your videos they are so damn amazing!

[@romanbauer3551]

Super Geil!!! Good working pls make more of them!!! And more of Lordaeron pls!!! Thanks!!

[@PedroHawk1]

This campaign is so nostalgic to me...

[@akeyrtainment8507]

This video "predicted" Reforged, even though it's not happened really.

[@danielhess1082]

Please do the complete series!

[@adrianblania5565]

Mate ! Amazing piece of work ! When you gonna do the next part???

[@Jos3BV]

After I finish the human's campaign rework

[@adrianblania5565]

Evrything best in your life. hope its gonna be soon :D

[@TheArcNgeL]

this is amazing

[@anaisgrace4358]

''These graves were dug recently, (Sees an army of skeletons decomposed till there was nothing but bones left)''

[@mulanszechuansauceisthemeaning]

Just please dial the volume of the music down in the next episodes. Awesome work btw!

[@danielroberts2421]

I can't wait for chapter 2 :D

[@realUlfricStormcloak]

You earned a sub. I look forward to more...

[@MegaChickenfish]

It must be harder to do satisfying expressions with the lower polygon faces, but it fits well enough considering the cold emotionlessness of undeath.

[@iriya3227]

Well done man! Truly amazing! Would be nice if Close Captions were also enabled tho.

[@saddas665]

Amazing. Really cool, cant wait for more.

[@LordMax1991]

Really awesome work dude! I hope u finish the series :)

[@eliteninja23]

Dude, i am loving this. Yo quiero mas!

[@ayoub8712]

ALL STARTS BECAME ANIMATED HOLY SHIT THIS REFORGE brought us our virginity back

[@Tube_Chaser]

I never understood what happens in this cutscene. Do they teleport in Arthas from somewhere, or do they revive him?

[@kendrickkoo81]

The Acolytes look like ninjas and they look so cool

[@Nin13666]

Great stuff. Lol just a little weird to see the undead model being used for the acolytes before they transform into the cult of the damned garb.

[@Kirbz42]

Simply amazing!

[@Immagonko]

Lich King himself was hiding in the bushes xD

[@Erik1495]

Esta increíble... Pienso que estaría bien ajustar el volumen de la música porque a veces interfiere con la voz

[@Liskenstein]

Love the green eyes, that pale tealish green looks way better on undead than blue (ofcourse i know its the original)

[@veermudambi5795]

He’s surprisingly stealthy for a guy in full armor.

[@sebastianignaciocuevasgonz5872]

Waaau grande compañero, cuando sigue, me encanta esta historia

[@demetardementru7159]

This is what should be the movie of warcraft looked like

[@hellfire6372]

Frostmourne hunger!!!

[@arbuz135]

wow this is amazing, thank you