Scholomance: The Darkest Lore in WoW? (Classic WoW Lore)

[@PlatinumWoW]

I almost passed out while recording the laugh at 3:14

[@stealthyspy1012]

Platinum WoW that would’ve been hilarious

[@DrPluton]

Tickle Time!

[@Adam-vp4oe]

Lol I would have thought you used someone else’s prerecorded laugh ... nice touch then

[@Makujah_]

Worth

[@dankone3]

FunkyPyramid Lil Pharaoh what shit is real? Harry Potter? Magic and witchcraft shit isn’t real, even if they rly were “studying” that it doesn’t mean anything because that shit doesn’t exist. I don’t see what’s so surprising about dumbass people who create a school to really study things that aren’t real. But yeah WoW does base a lot of things in the game on real life stuff from memes to old legends. Everybody does that, everything is usually based off of something else.

[@BarokaiRein]

''The two were tortured-'' Oh that's not so bad. ''..against their will.'' OH THE HORROR!

[@ryanpetula4066]

Barokai Rein 😭

[@Bidmartinlo]

Remember kids. Ask before you torture someone. Consent is important.

[@brussailpook8213]

Bro I totally love to be tortured, cock and balls tortures are my favs!

[@noctusowl]

The worst is they were ressurected to be killed again. Even Mahiev did not suffet that much.

[@pashasghost9252]

Better than being murdered against their will

[@Cruor34]

"Tortured against their will" How horrible, good thing I am only tortured with my express consent.

[@kaladhras]

If you read her dialogue there are some implied actions that are only torture if done against your will. Not the only one in the game either, Shoni Pridetusk (I think, Horde quest to find a ghost in the ogre mountain in the Burning Steppes) has some not-so-subtle notes on how ogres treat prisoners.

[@ShypaxGaming]

@James Tomlin was about to say, yeah thats called BDSM and is quite popular .

[@asdlom]

Kinky.

[@YourIQDoesntMeanShitToMe]

Years ago I wrote something like "raped against her will" while talking about some story to my friend. And she pointed out that you can only be raped if it's against your will, otherwise it isn't rape. It was a revelation to me. For some reason I will always remember that. My brain, like, literally expanded.

[@Venslor]

always have a safe word.

[@alfredashford5924]

Platinum WoW: “Scholomance has the darkest lore in W-“ Hearthstone: “Ha-hah, funny magic school go brrzzt!”

[@Nek-oski]

there's no dead there in cards mostly so its kinda like alternate universe scholomance where nothing that was in WoW happened xD

[@appleWhisky43]

@@Nek-oski It has Kel'tuzad so.....things will get 'Worse'

[@deathi]

lol

[@tonydanatop4912]

@@appleWhisky43 And there already a couple cult of the damned cards mixed ...also rattle gore

[@marlinazul7786]

Tony Danatop RATTLE GORE!!!!

[@alexstefan3250]

Romanian here, just finished my dragon riding lessons and now I have my dragon license.

[@muliczwalter7379]

Another romanian here, can confirm saw him flying over my house

[@ShadowDancerr]

Another one here, learned to control the weather so we can all boil together in this god damn heat

[@muliczwalter7379]

@@ShadowDancerr status update: we are boiling together

[@PhoenixIsTrash]

@@muliczwalter7379 Not a Romanian here, you reckon you can pop down via Australia on your dragon, I missed my bus. Its also like 35 degrees c down here in early spring so you don't even need to control the weather to boil along side me.

[@Aldoro69420]

Hi, i am romainian to

[@mlp_firewind8129]

I love the hearthstone interpretation of scholomance. It replaces the overt murder with the subtle horror of kelthuzad running a seemingly normal school with the cult hidden within it.

[@Shovelchicken]

“The legend of stalvan” is another great piece of dark lore. Basically every quest in duskwood is great.

[@LeoLeonardotheThird1]

Jonah Marx I can skip Westfall, and Redridge but I love duskwood.

[@andregon4366]

The Scythe of Elune is definitely my favorite, and it's connected to a small area in the north of Ashenvale, right before you enter Felwood.

[@LeoLeonardotheThird1]

Andre Gon I need to quest there more often.

[@yanwolford9773]

they are very hard too like the worgens and ghouls ho my god they very powerful in wotlk

[@n3v3r1s4]

People hate it because it's one of those run-across-the-entire continent-and-then-some quest chains, but I absolutely adored it as well. =D

[@1512125]

I suppose that the lore behind Rattlegore is just that it's a very successful attempt at making a bone golem

[@fictionalgaming912]

You could say....we had a bone to pick with him.

[@flargensnarf6500]

New lore has revealed that he is 9 mana

[@clintongriffin2077]

Rattlegore!

[@andrewlabarbara9072]

Justin L 🙃

[@johnpalo691]

"Torture against there will" Well ... yeah, that´s what torture is all about aye?

[@MyViolador]

not if you are into it,

[@Crazdor]

please don't kink shame. or do. it hurts go good!

[@crysosisback7115]

@@MyViolador Then it's not torture, but bondage and sadomasochism, so yeah the guy's point holds pretty well

[@geekishgir]

(their) sorry grammar Nazi

[@josemanuelrau8010]

Im into it ;)

[@Tea_N_Crumpets]

”Darkest lore in WoW?” I think the giant made out of women and children, the mile long highway paved with the bones of innocents, and tons of other stuff I can’t think of right now have some questions about that.

[@ChouhouinNeko]

darkest lore in classic as of now

[@MastaDRD]

Go on....?

[@Bl4ckP0150n]

@@MastaDRD Karazhan crypts?

[@Minosdu]

@@Bl4ckP0150n Stitches

[@ZombieFighter95]

The mogu and their horrible flesh experiments and brutal slavery? The Forsaken apothecaries? Illidan enslaving countless Broken? The Vrykul hunting down slaughtering their own human children? The Draenei genocide? Basically anything to do with the Scourge? WoW has some absolutely brutal lore sometimes.

[@lilpenpusher]

"There's nothing really special about Rattlegore" Me: *RATTLEGOOOOOOORE!!!!!!*

[@nihilistick]

I never had the courage to adventure anywhere near caer darrow as a kid. That place was terrifying and I loved every minute of leveling in western plaguelands. Classic wow sure has the best lore.

[@riboflavin7221]

Absolutely loving these lore videos

[@IBISMK1]

Omg ikr

[@lucho1844]

dude, wow is all cartoony and stuff but when you dig into the lore it's dark AF.... nice video and the end is gold xD

[@dababy7400]

This doesn’t look like the scholomance from the hearthstone ads at all

[@dodde216]

Because it's not the same? Since when is Kel'thuzad a Human again eh?

[@blazichaos7181]

*What the university looks like in ads compared to when you go there*

[@jimrootwannabe4585]

As a romanian I must say that I felt pretty damn good when I saw that you included something from our folklore in the video

[@michaelbread5906]

Russian women?

[@adamtakacs3912]

how to steal?

[@cieljek]

Please more in depth WoW lore vids like this! This was a great video man. One of the best put together one's I've seen.

[@gekkokkid]

2:05 "as they where tortue-" me: hmmm kinky "against their own will" Me: those monsters!! how can they do that to innocent people!!?

[@ArmandDupin]

This was one of the best dungeon in vanilla. The later part, with the quick succession of bosses, the butcher, who'd routinely one shot tanks. That was great.

[@Elias-xx5ff]

The barovs undead transition was actually really nice good job

[@cirnosaltovskaya2397]

3:45 Because Barovs are of a Russian origin, judging by their first names and last name.

[@1512125]

@@lolwhatever7307 Ironically the two non-slavic eastern European countries

[@ffarkasm]

@@lolwhatever7307 Bulgaria is slavic. But like Romania and Hungary Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia aren't slavic either. and I think neither is Moldavia. because it is kinda Romanian.

[@Подпрапорщик]

Not sure about first names, Alexei is a russian name for sure, but the rest are all european, and their last name is totaly Russian.

[@ffarkasm]

@@Подпрапорщик I think they are still meant to sound like Russian regardless.

[@rolandzsenyuk3415]

wat this song ?:DDDDDDDD

[@terlondre]

....as for Rattlegore, "big badass amalgamation of bones that lives in a basement" is sufficient amount of lore. Its a school of necromancy, i think we can all connect the dots here

[@nubdupre6678]

This channel is the only reason I've started playing wow again, just seeing this stiff makes me wanna experience this world again

[@yanomamo89]

That reference to the real Scholomance is actually something Blizzard could give a nod to if they would revamp the dungeon with dragons instead of undead in mind. 10:00

[@Xick]

So this has probably been retconned - I think these days they're saying that the Orcs used dragons to burn the forests of Quel'Thalas in the Tides of Darkness - but IN MY DAY it was Death and Decay they used: Caer Darrow is where Gul'dan did all of his peak Gul'danning. Doomhammer had kept Gul'dan alive to task him with producing new magical servants who could contest the arcane might of Dalaran and Silvermoon, and this he did by capturing Caer Darrow and perverting the druidic runestone there to create the Ogre Magi. Ogre Magi are OP in that game, but Gul'dan did one better and also created the Death Knights (the OG skeleman kind) to have them unleash an army of the undead against Quel'Thalas. Winter would turn to Spring before the Stormreavers would lose control of the lake, the Alliance finally rooting out the secret Orc bases and Alterac collaborators supplying them, and founding the Paladin order to fight their black magic. What I'm saying is that there was a period of months back in the day where the future site of Scholomance was a nightmarish Orcish doom fortress, surrounded by earthworks bristling with cannon and with magic eyes swarming above, where sorcerous whirlwinds attacked ships and undead haunted the snows. So I've always thought it a small missed opportunity that no one ever has a flashback or a letter from the end of the Second War being like Archmage Antonidas: The Orcs have badly despoiled these lands. It will take our order many years of study and toil to find a cure for this corruption. Archmage Kel'Thuzad: Leave it to me. 100% on it.

[@noctusowl]

They had to retcon that. How would they explain Sylvannas warbringer where she runs carefree through a field of wheat to trip and fall on Frostmourne. In war3 Arthas has trouble to get through because the forest is so dense and protected with magic.

[@riatorex8722]

Ahh yes... the Second War. Probably the most underrated chapter in Warcraft lore

[@vexdali388]

I like that you included the actual legend of scholomance irl at the end. And its not really about a place where the devil comes to teach us fly dragons and stuff, is more like a Hogwarts but more darker

[@Matthew_mcmahon20]

How am I only finding this channel now? Love the commentary and the overall images and videos used in the video

[@sevixdd2122]

I love how every bad creepy or horror has a special bond with Romania

[@levferno483]

Thank you for covering all of this lore. You make things much clearer to understand and I think the animations help.

[@cesargarcia8299]

Platinum WoW: "Scholomance, darkest lore in WoW?" The burning legion, literal destroyers and slavers of thousands of worlds: "Are we a joke to you?"

[@crysosisback7115]

Except the dread and horror in the questline of the servants of the barov family is way worse than anything related to the burning legion tho ! We know they're the fucking worst, but they aren't THAT horrible, they kill and destroy shit, mostly, rarely they torture people to THAT point, without any reason worth it behind it ^^

[@cesargarcia8299]

@@crysosisback7115 Yeah, they aren't THAT horrible, they are way worse. The aldrachi had it easy since Sargeras just chopped their planet in half, leaving them all to die in a painful but somewhat quick way, but the burning legion tortured millions of people in thousands upon thousands of worlds. Often times for information and even more so for their own twisted fun. They butchered innumerable amounts of innocents. They hunted down whoever made it out of their initial strikes. They ate people alive. They tore millions of souls away from their bodies and used them as fuel for their machines and spells whenever they weren't doing so for the lols, and often times they took their sweet time killing their victims whenever they weren't on full butchery mode. A group of humie sadists doesn't compare to the horrors that a literal army of infinite demons brought upon the cosmos for who knows how many eons. What this family went through is horrible, yes, but imagine that same thing (if not increased tenfold) happening to everyone else on the rest of the universe and you'll have a reference of what they went through before the end. The fear, the hopelessness, the desperation, and if you were lucky your soul would make it out into Shadowlands, but many ceased to exist entirely.

[@yanwolford9773]

well it happens when kel tuzad liberate a lot of demons in warcraft 3

[@snappycenter7863]

Not to mention the Burning Legion are the ones who created the Scourge as a vanguard to soften Azeroth up for demonic invasion.

[@SinerAthin]

I think the answer to this has to do with presentation. The horror of Scholomance is much more down-to-earth and intimate compared to the atrocities of the legion. Compare the fates of the servants of Barov who were tortured and mutilated in gruesome detail compared to the victims of the legion who's souls were sent to eternal torture. The latter fate might be objectively worse, but it's so abstract, way over the top and hard to connect with compared to the more 'mundane' horror of Scholomance.

[@stephaniephouotrides2435]

OG Scholo-my all time fav dungeon.

[@tarab_95]

Me and me rp buddies had a campaign that took us into Scholomance. We were a human vampyr-hunter, a void-wielding ren'dorei Oracle, a 300 year old time-traveling human mage, the mage's human hunter knight, and a rat-loving human priestess. I think it was unanimously oocly decided that Scholomance is just Gothwarts

[@dragondeeznutts]

That’s so cringey and completely lore inaccurate

[@tarab_95]

@@dragondeeznutts at least me and my friends had fun

[@MrPuretrollin]

I cant stand reading through quests, so your videos are the only way i can learn the lore efficiently. Love it, keep up the quality work!

[@sponkmyers7478]

Then why play a rpg? Lazy ass casual gamer. back in the day there was not arrow pointing you're lazy ass to the quest so you had to read the quest.

[@r.a.fgattaiguy845]

the addon Storyline is your friend

[@sponkmyers7478]

@@r.a.fgattaiguy845 he wont reply back because he knows im right. I cant stand gamers like that a hole who ruined AAA games because there lazy f$%^s and bitch and complain how hard the game is.

[@Griffden]

Another masterpiece that had me rolling and intrigued the whole time! The road to 100k continues 😎

[@nedhasler2687]

He got me as a sub on the last vid. It continues!

[@christianboustani8284]

The cheery music while the two servants are tortured to death had me

[@rickybindahoose6193]

Tickled*

[@albin8166]

I just found this channel and these lore videos are great. I used to play WoW a lot but did not know much of the lore, makes want to play again.

[@ReeceDK]

Been playing since '05 Watched god knows how many great WoW-YTers As of right now you're my favorite!

[@lenny5023]

I love these videos, ive been learning about wow lore just through your videos. Please make more!

[@nystria_]

Reminder that Caer Darrow was also the location of a High Elf rune stone and it was sacked in the second war so that rune stone's energies could be used to build Altar of Storms for Warlocks to mutate Ogres into Ogre-Magi (something Gul'Dan had promised to deliver in exchange for Orgrim Doomhammer not simply killing him.)

[@EfnysYersina]

Right dude

[@kevinjordan7282]

You make HISTORY come ALIVE! Well done!

[@LTN000]

as a romanian, hearing that thing about the origin of the scholomance thing, sent me on a google spree lol. Interesting to find out things from our folklore inspired a dungeon that i ran maybe a hundred times having no idea about that xD

[@pierrethehandsome2518]

Man, this place is so cool and spooky! Going through my very first playthrough of Warcraft and I've just spent time exploring all the locations. I can't wait to make my way over to this place. I've chosen to explore every single region in WoW to its entirety, and your videos get me excited for what is yet to come.

[@biohazard3554]

Bruh, i just found my new favorite WoW Lore videos! Keep up the great work!

[@randomoneniner]

Dude, this was some good stuff. I really enjoyed it!

[@tastefullynerdy1161]

I've been following you for a while now but just now I realized how utterly funny your videos are. The hardbass part killed me

[@Mithandriel]

Awesome. Just awesome work! Thanks for you vids!

[@CitizenSlammu]

Keep up the good work. Really enjoying the content

[@greensmurf221]

I smile like Platinum's avatar when I see a new video from him.

[@leumasnehpets]

Excellent work young man!

[@Zbyhonj]

"was given a russian accent, for some reason" Yaeh, since "Barov" is not at all a russian surname and two of the guys are named "Alexei" :D

[@albdamned577]

LMAO, the bright cheerful music after your warning is the same music I choose for a intro to our training videos

[@Filipns9]

This was a really intresting video, i love learning new stuff about the lore

[@alainbcdefghijk]

Isn't Drakmaster Gandling the one leading the undead forces in three way war between the Allince, Horde, and Scourge in the battle for Andorhal in Cata? I think that at least deserves to be a footnote for him.

[@jelengraphics]

I just got an ad literally at the moment, when he says "After six months, they were F..." - *Ad pops* 2:16

[@snb_horizons2877]

i love how he laughs the line after saying "tinky steamboil" 6:42

[@NeiroTxn]

3:58 just needed a replay button

[@ardeshir6982]

Hahahaha

[@nadezhdaposlednaya6526]

3:42 Well, actually, Barov, Krastinov, Sarkhoff are all russian style surnames. The connection to the russians were pretty obvious. It must be like Drakula - some dark freaks from eastern Europe gives a chills to western public.Actually it's something like Hogwarts Drakula style. :D

[@shawn576]

Still the best dungeon in WoW. I love how the doors slowly open and making a creaking sound. Very atmospheric.

[@feywinterfox9630]

Drops a bombshell like that at the end and then just ends the video...... You crafty, sexy, bastard you!

[@JasperVH]

Huh... so from mansion to hogwarts to house of horror

[@alisardar4604]

Loved the unique platinum humor in a horror story!

[@CharlesCowart-x2w]

Lol love your explantion bro. I love reading into WoW and lore with rpgs. Still wish they would allow a High Elf race in the game. But yea, Scholomance was one of my fav. dungeons. Hell, i even named my new Warlock "Skolodropout" haha (Bloodsail Buccaneers)

[@CalestoBella]

"TICKLE TIME!!!"

[@bigboo2097]

Amber S fuck ya that's hot

[@секутордекаданса]

"Gave her a Russian accent for some reason"? D-u-ude, as a person who lives in Eastern Europe, I can say that Barov is literally a slavic surname Баров. You know, we pronounce it like Barof because of our specific fonetics, but it's still Barov though.

[@madeofmeats]

Scholomance is one of the few dungeons that I love both the classic and remade versions of. There’s something so eerie and unsettling about the original version that the new version lacks, however the new version has such a fun Disney Haunted Mansion vibe to it that it’s still cute and charming. MoP Scholomance also has some of my favorite voice acting in the game in the form of Darkmaster Gandling, a standout line of his for me is “Did you forget, girl? I am the Darkmaster, I control the undead!”

[@adrianpatrascu571]

i m from romania and i ride my dragon around the scholomance everyday!

[@capitaldcolon1795]

Pog

[@kiofea]

I loved the questline added back in 10.1.5 or earlier that unlocked Old Scholomance.

[@grynn6153]

Is this supposed to be a reference to rasputin and the Romanovs?

[@capitaldcolon1795]

Probably.

[@Matt.Ice06]

Awesome work! Captivating lore/story telling

[@ВолодимирМайко-п7р]

oh man, that vdeo is great! really love you videos. Keep doing them!

[@KiyokaMakibi]

Really interesting. Your mix of visuals, machinima, and story telling kept me hooked! 🤓

[@miikkamk3149]

Great content, really nice to see modern content with nice humour

[@CalaVdarivdavd]

Cool! I'm from Romania and had no idea about our Scholomance :)

[@scoob1551]

Isn't Caer Darrow pronounced "care" darrow?

[@Adam202]

Yep. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caer

[@alphapolimeris]

@@Adam202 "Hey! I didn't ride my Golden Chacabo, all the way from nibbleheem, just to get a lesson in pronounciation, alright?!"

[@cbuster7]

Keep up the awesome work bro love your videos!!

[@mansuper5014]

4:01 what song is this ?

[@Frank_144]

Search "Russian Hardbass" it's prob the first video

[@loljeff9892]

These are one of the best lore vidoes I've seen in a min, kinda got me back to playing wow lol

[@jasondotg]

That was cool! Awesome video.

[@davenonnenberg]

Thank you for adding the rl area at the end. It is a little known part of Dracula's lore.

[@TiaguinhoMu]

Maybe the book Keepsake of a Remembrance is the Ras Frostwhisper phylactery itself ???

[@noahperkins4716]

What a bright and cheery place!

[@rwade4387]

1:35 that “once royal home” still had an evil face on it before the evil face was made bigger & plastered onto the brick entrance wall.

[@peterdixon7673]

It's exactly the sort of chic artwork the nobles would be thrilled to have.

[@7bootzy]

4:08 Making him run like that; I'm dyin over here! Sides hurtin

[@jantube358]

Love the classic WoW undead zones and dungeons. Shadowfang Keep, Scholo, Strat, Naxx, ... I need a game like this again.

[@opaldragon009]

"But adventurers who are brave enough to summon the herald... may be able to put his evil to rest--RENEW THE LOVE FOR YOUR SKIN WITH DOVE"

[@RandomLastStand]

Lore and comedy!? You get 11/10 toasts my friend 🍞

[@Ferino44]

This was perfect! Thanks!

[@Ryan_hey]

Wow, this was a damn good video. I was thoroughly entertained...awesome job!

[@factbeaglesarebest]

As they were "tortured AGAINST their will"... ah it's so often people are willingly tortured

[@roro-fx6oy]

Sick work bro very cool videos

[@Crazdor]

At some point he became a... tutor, did you mean? or was it Tudorer, like he joined the House of Tudor? I guess that would make sense, I have to imagine that the Cult of the Damned would have been quite keen on dismantling the monasteries!

[@camzill]

"saer darrow"

[@PlatinumWoW]

If you came to this channel for proper pronouncing of words boy do I have some news for you.

[@camzill]

@@PlatinumWoW daddy noticed me

[@ProtoNeoVintage]

@@PlatinumWoW , true but is pronounced "kair"

[@crysosisback7115]

@@PlatinumWoW And if you thought we would come to this channel NOT to correct your spelling, well boy do i have some news for you :D

[@jnrs9512]

Can't take 5 seconds to look up proper pronunciation.

[@Lordyung89]

Bravo bravo, amazing storytelling!

[@josimarcoto1715]

The face at 8:55 got me so bad LOL!!!

[@キョコ]

Living in Transylvania all my life. I can confirm the last part.

[@squallphin]

This is one or my favorite lore/zones in the game along with the chain quest sven revenge

[@jippy33]

What he said "A place filled with heroing tales". What I heard: "A place filled with heroine tables".

[@jamesmessinger805]

*harrowing

[@pixxiv6205]

4:00 like what the actual fuck.. oh how I love these videos

[@stefansile6790]

Wow, had no idea about the Solomonariu Sick :D

[@fernandocharchar3300]

They're kidding, of course.