The Calling - Warcraft Short Story Audiobook

[@justinmartin845]

Christie Golden, I swear her books always bring me to tears, this and tides of war. She has always been so great at giving such emotional depth to her stories. Fantastic short story. It’s a real shame blizzard let her go.

[@gaylewilson1734]

I came here to say exactly this!

[@upperdecker9992]

her star wars books are excellent too

[@jestervaleska1806]

I just listened to this thinking man, this is some of the best warcraft stories ive heard in recent times, to find out the writer has been let go. What a sad sad evening it is.

[@TE-eq1dc]

Anduins not the only one suffering from PTSD from shadowlands. I still wake up screaming in a cold sweat from time to time

[@grinebrud]

the word Thorgast till reminds me of the endless weekends spent getting oneshot by kamikazi valkyri in the coldheart one. ( i think it was)

[@Subject_Keter]

I have PTSD from BfA and i didnt even play it! I think the CIA uses Blizzard to produce weaponized cringe.

[@rvds2040]

@SouthernClover wait do real life panda's traumatize you too, or just the fake digital ones made of 1's and 0's like a child ?

[@gregthomson2299]

MoP was the xpac which introduced pandas, not BFA. If you’re trying to be edgy, at least don’t show so much ignorance as well. Mind you, to hate watch and comment on something is a telling indication of the type of bitter individual you are. Find a hobby or interest instead of insulting other peoples. It might help you become a a less hateful person. Good lucky with that.

[@charlayned]

This....... I read it first. Hearing you read it was hard too. My brother, a former Marine, has PTSD. I saw Anduin's eyes in the cinematic and knew, without a word spoken, what was in his head. I've seen that same stare in my little brother's eyes. I know some of what he saw, but he's been really quiet about it. I know he talked with our older brother before he passed a couple years ago (stupid cancer...) and it seemed to help both of them. Christie did a hell of a job on that story, to reach into me and squeeze my heart. Thanks, Nobbel, for reading it so well.

[@RegiDD]

Your brothers sound like good people.

[@llandrin9205]

Thank you for reading this. My eyesight makes it hard for me to read these days and I love the stories of WOW. I was not happy with the route the lore was taking in Shadowlands and Dragonflight. It is good to hear it taking a turn back the way I like it. Through the years of playing WOW, I have felt many different things for Anduin. - sympathy for the little boy I first saw standing in the throne room of Stormwind Keep who had lost his mother and didn't know where his father was - irritation with the adolescent Anduin who was lost on the Isle of Pandaria as he recklessly sought his own path - grieving with him on the loss of his father on the Broken Shore - fear for him as he was caught in the snare of the jailer in The Maw and anguish when he did the Jailer's bidding, stealing the sigil and and fighting against Thrall and Jaina - and now I feel respect with this Anduin who is struggling with the knowledge that there is a part of him that took pleasure in doing Zovaal's bidding. My hope is that by the end of The War Within that he will be able to forgive himself and gain some of his power back.

[@Spiarmf]

Anduin's personal story is among some of the best personal story development in WoW. Along with Saurfang too. Did you ever get a chance to watch the Old Soldier cinematics? If not, you should definitely give them a watch! Blizzard combined them into one video now: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHXdgZ6KerJ1ncU

[@mk_gamíng0609]

I still will say that Anduin is the best written character His story is consistent in my opinion While some characters have greater highs when it come to writing, they also have some greater lows Anduins writing has always been pretty consistent, I think its because he's been built up from Vanilla . his burdens and personality have not just been spewed out in a single expansion but developed over many

[@dawgatemybrain]

I love how *normal* this story is.

[@Voidb3rg]

Folks, how can we crowdfund Nobbel audiobook reads for all other WoW books? Someone please get on that!

[@tiltedguild1797]

Flying Buttress (also on KZbin) has done some adaptions for older Warcraft novels which I have personally really enjoyed. Some of those I have read myself as well, but I to enjoy hearing the stories, especially with a bit of additional flare. Its nice to take in the lore from such folk like Flying Buttress and Nobbel and others, as well as the original authors.

[@SchubertAloysius]

@@tiltedguild1797you think Blizzard is just gonna allow it ?

[@Bigjohn2121]

​@tiltedguild1797 Yes, his are a summary.

[@addisonhunter9760]

Thanks for the reading… I did not expect the tears to come so easily. Anduin’s struggle is unfortunately something many can relate to. Very well written, as can be expected by Golden.

[@DEML91]

This might be one of the best short stories WoW has ever made.

[@Acidyouth1]

Loving all these short stories. Just wanna also say that anduin rerolled class from a pally to a hunter and i cant blame him.

[@wvguy7238]

Yeah but he rolled survival. Can't blame him for going down the road, looking for a class change token somewhere.

[@makcraft]

Anduin is a confirmed priest though not a paly 😅

[@Monster3Games]

​@makcraft the first paladins where priset with combat training. And some warrior with priset training Si he can easy be a paladin. And even in Legion, u make a priest into a paladin in the order hall

[@54032Zepol]

Hunters are the best

[@FirstNullLast]

@@Monster3Games a lot of people know but he was considered a priest none the less.

[@sodasaintcommentaries4054]

Hearing this story honestly makes me sad. Anduin is hurting and broken on the inside... an experience that I think makes him more like his father than he realizes. But I think when he finally does come out of this long, dark tunnel... even if he always bares some of the scars, he will be so much stronger than he ever was. It's just sad to see him so hurt and broken. The boy who once had eyes so full of joy and hope no longer exists, not as he was. The loss of that innocence is very sad to see. :(

[@Chloraflora]

Oh man I hope that family gets some representation in Stormsong Valley, I wanna go pet Fox 😭

[@goldenwoofer4757]

YES! imagine we could go there and buy Vera's stew that rodrick loved so much. It would be amazing.

[@EviLcRatz]

I truly hope these character come back in the game. Anduin needs so much love and support.

[@GazingTrandoshan]

Anduins becoming the giga chad meme slowly but surely lol

[@stormstrider1990]

You're a pretty amazing story teller, Nobbel. I almost shed a tear listening to this. Anduin's PTSD sounds very real, and reminds me a bit of Thorfin's arc in Vinland Saga. My human warrior; Eriza Redshield, is very close friends with Anduin, and was rather shaken by his ordeal herself. Eriza went on a journey of reflection of her own during the timeskip. She cut her crimson hair short, put on her old suit of armor with the addition of a hooded cloak, grabbed her first sword "Redfang"- which her late father had forget for her when she was just a little girl- , mounted her horse Maximus- who was a gift from Jaina after the Fourth War-, and rode away late at night. She traveled across Azeroth, working mostly as a mercenary under the name "Victoria", her middle name. Eriza returned to Stormwind three years later, by that time her hair had grown back to its normal length. She reunited with her friends in the Alliance, and set sail for the Dragon Isles, stronger and more determined than ever.

[@JBish0]

Thank you, I was just about to read this but now I now I have your amazing audio version to listen to instead ^^

[@wiskeeamazingdancer4964]

Thanks for the reading. Great story, as someone who was traumatized by working in a covid ICU, I can so relate to his struggles. Beautiful story.

[@loth_one]

This one made me emotional I'm not gonna lie. It's a very beautiful story, and I hope to see more of this storytelling going into War Within and the Worldsoul Saga.

[@kasesmith261]

Thank you so much for reading this! I'm really excited to see what they do with his story. I'm heatiantly excited for the future story of WoW

[@madDjakni]

god I would love for Blizzard to make a short animation of this story!

[@preacherjosh777]

Nobbel87 I have followed your Lore videos for decades it seems but these audible short stories have been your best work yet! I have problems outright reading something but listening to it while reading is absolutely addictive and I want more. Please make more of these ASAP. Keep up the amazing work as this one almost got me crying!!! Please keep all War Within content coming too!!!

[@aka_Ingmar]

This was really good I like the fact that it's a short story that doesn't have too much story significance in a novel or book reading that comes before the expansion but dude this was awesome you did a great job

[@OmarKarlSigurdsson]

Great story by Christie Golden. But great read by you Nobble thank you.

[@PewPewUSmash]

I am in love with how this story isn't about battle, magic, or politics. So so good and a healthy change from other warcraft novels

[@Quilnas]

Thank you so much for reading this, Nobbel! I'm not much of a reader so it's nice to simply be able to listen! This was Great!

[@aster4jaden]

We can all sympathise with Anduin, the scars of Shadowlands still haven't faded to this day.

[@alialotbi4217]

This is super emotional. I love this story and your reading of it. I teared up a couple times.

[@DeaddMax]

Great job Nobbel. Loved your ready and hope you'll continue doing these...and maybe even some of the older ones. :)

[@Bea_triceP]

Such a beautiful short story. Thanks for reading it for us, I really enjoyed it.

[@Nishinga.]

This is absolutely incredible Nobbel, thank you for this reading!

[@The04Damian]

Thanks so much for narrating and reading this. Beautifully done.

[@doroutdor]

Thank you for that, iv'e seen war with my own eyes and it's amazing how much heart and truth is brought to this story

[@eclipsedbadger]

21:57 ...so, you are telling me that Anduin became the Little Prince? 😂

[@ZombieSlayerTakashi]

I hope Blizzard puts Rodrick's Family in the game.

[@tommyc9014]

From reading this short story and comparing to alleria's i cant help but feel like anduins thoughts are framed in the same way the voids whispers effect alleria, except the voice is his and the trust issue is within himself not a choice between power or morals but an internal conflict which can be just as powerful and destructive as the void or light. In the absence of the light Anduin is finally finding himself and becoming more like his father, a protector of family, a leader and the King we all want him to become. This story shows how powerful his heart is, his true strength is the love and care he has, not the light and not death or shadow but HIM. After all these years and everything thats happened he still has hope, care and love but now he is gunna realise its not that he needs the light, the light needs him.

[@vproject2564]

Sad that CG isn't in Blizzard anymore.

[@charlayned]

Agreed. She's a good author.

[@ZombieSlayerTakashi]

Clearly doesn't mean she can't write anymore amazing Warcraft Stories. I'll take what I can get.

[@HaloEchoe419]

​@ZombieSlayerTakashi I'm assuming this was written before she was laid off. Not sure she can write blizzard stories if she's no longer employed by them.

[@xsvrrx]

god this relates to me so much after leaving the military

[@harrisric128]

Love this... Anyone else getting Thorfin and Vinland saga vibes?

[@jayw9879]

This is EPIC. Thankyou. I think I have gone through every book on audibible, however tides of darkness is hard to find...

[@koryk5740]

That was something friend. Well read, well done. My thanks.

[@otakuju]

His homie Wrathion gotta pull up on him too. Wrathion knows about coming from a place or parentage of darkness and making his own choice to be better and happy.

[@Ilive_420]

Tho it's kind of odd, considering his (Wrathion's) story up until DF. Up until then he didn't really try to make "his own" but to follow in his footsteps. Nor to be better, his shtick was BEING in a place or parentage of darkness and proud of it, "the Black Prince" lol. Really just after the raid he seemed to change his mind.

[@Domdrok]

Great story, thanks for reading it, Nobbel!

[@tangerinesky1293]

what an amazing story! great job reading it to us!

[@MonicaPlays26]

Thank you Nobbel, great work!

[@Xanten7]

Great story and great reading of it too.

[@pyrypuolakka4784]

This was awesome story and your so great at tellin these :3

[@JordanAndTrazyn]

Beautifully read. Thank you!

[@Astolotl]

i hope they continue to contract her for books even if she isn't a full time writer there

[@JBlack2991]

This is one of Christie Golden best written stories. Sad it was her last for WoW

[@AhNeeMay]

Love these Nobbel, thanks!

[@Puppach1no]

Anduin followed the timeless tradition of all hunters by naming their pet by their default species name: 🦊

[@ian6053]

neat idea would be if they could implement these short stories into solo scenario dungeons for pre-patch events

[@kingocoffee6354]

I wonder if Anduin will ever return to Chi-ji to work through some of his trauma, considering how much his teachings seemed to have an impact on him

[@rmjspammy5900]

Well done sir, thank you.

[@profplum7793]

I've seen a couple of characters in WoW with my name (Jerek), spelled differently, of course, but never in real life. It's nice seeing/hearing it, even if it's just an alias.

[@Subject_Keter]

I think they should of animated this. It damn good as just words... imagine if it was animated like Jaina warbringers.

[@IOSARBX]

Nobbel87, I really liked this video! I subscribed too!

[@FranciscoSilva84]

This was another great video thanks

[@TheFlyWahine]

I enjoyed this story.

[@Thrice1337]

Pretty good short. Wishing Christie all the best.

[@TheMorninGlory23]

Nobel I wasnt tryin to cry this morning D: Ahhh

[@alusteratrocious5936]

Gosh if only there was someone in all of Azeroth that knew exactly what he's going through. Like maybe a group of them. A group thats been pretty damn well ignored and forgotten after their initial expansion... You know. Having your will subjugated and forced to watch yourself commit atrocities. Enjoying it. Maybe they also had blue glowing swords... or someone who had their fathers blade corrupted.... The Ebon Blade. I'm talking about the Ebon Blade.

[@baky8856]

Loved it !

[@dannyroovers6426]

Missed opportunity for a light hunter hero talent between survival hunter and ret paladin😢

[@ThetaTuner]

Anduin rerolling a Hunter next expac? Fox Pet confirmed?!

[@OmniMon94]

Even if older lore might make any lore videos longer by the hours At least the lore is cool Plus this timeskip is kinda cool because we get to see an almost balder anduin. Hehe bald anduin

[@KenSachenbacher]

Anyone know what "The child, borne by a queen, brought to a priestess, the last survivor-" references?

[@Nobbel87]

Mia greymane carrying over the last surviving child of burning of teldrassil. They called her finel

[@KenSachenbacher]

@@Nobbel87 Ah! Thanks for the reply!

[@aelfynnalochoir8249]

Masterful

[@olliewithane6933]

Ah yes the long awaited sequel to "Le petit prince".

[@tunajenkins4]

love you, say it back

[@NovaG0]

Damm this hit hard a bit

[@SchubertAloysius]

Is he a priest, paladin or a DK?

[@Nobbel87]

Priest..well...battle priest i guess

[@mikelsweeten6465]

So…how long until we can get the fox in game? 😂

[@kaelbeuk1]

Wtf are those comments :0 Anyway, loving the attention on my boy Anduin

[@hawktondog]

That fact that Anduin can vist his dead friend in the Shadowlands slightly lessens the story

[@GioFan201051]

The portals to the Shadowlands are closed now as per the lore. I mean sure, the writers can come up with an excuse to open them again but it's not like Anduin can pop back to Oribos right now.

[@XakorXD]

Yet another tasty midnight nibbler 😂

[@timar6868]

so..where is the kultiran fleet ffs? they just let raiders ships go everywhere? its a great story but man the fleet is made to be a joke. and where are the tide sages? also i wish Anduin when he left told them who he was.

[@VexingLive]

Bliss read this and said “nah we should fire Christine golden” wtf man

[@joshuagarner1654]

Is it just me, or does Anduin look like The arrow actor

[@autumnleaf2263]

This story made me like Anduin less. I'm all for him having PTSD, that part is done extremely well. What I hate is how much of a coward this story makes him. He let the guy die just because he was afraid of getting rejected by the light and even admits as much. Just disgustingly cowardly. Then he bails on the only promise he made to look after his family the second he gets a vision he doesn't even understand. And then we know from the trailer he didn't want to face the vision either so why abondon them and his promise. It's cowardly. Then there is also the fact that this family just lost their father and Anduin was stepping into the role, as someone who works with children in psychology that is going to mess those kids up as much as their father's death since it's another huge blow to their recovery and stability. It's all so irresponsible and cowardly. So I like Anduin much less after this story.

[@AkyBeWaky]

My poor boy grew up too fast

[@MysteriousPear802]

i’m just kind of curious what he feels trauma over? he barely hurt a single person. the only bad thing we saw him do was take the blue angel lady sigil, but she wasn’t really hurt by that.

[@wowgek7]

in the game you only saw hiim for a few moments its verry likely he did way more we never saw on an battle field thousends of people are there fighting and doing stuff verry little of what happens is ever shown

[@Hot_Hard_Cowboy]

He was dominated and destroyed lives because of it, and felt joy while doing it, but doesn't understand why he liked it so much, because he is a man of the light. He has PTSD, same as soldiers who have to kill children with bombs strapped to their chest before they blow up and kill their whole squad and them as well. It's no different

[@amackdaddy34]

They shoulda have shown him being controlled and running amok in game a lil bit more . But I'd say that in his raid fight he prolly killed adventures trying to free him from control. And when he went to Ardenwealed he prolly took some defenders down.

[@DaWoWzer]

blizzard just wanted an excuse to emasculate him.

[@monkeysk8er33]

He was magically Dominated. If you were mind controlled for several months of your life, after being imprisoned in literal Hell for months prior to that, you'd have a fuck ton of PTSD too. Have some goddamn sense. 🤦

[@HawkknightXC88]

Overtime Anduin is becoming more like a Awesome Chad with beard and haircut that matches his character development. He's like Turalyon and Varian but minus wolf the part of Varian.

[@barefootcoolboy_3264]

Anduin, honey, at this point you need a therapist. You've been trying to fix by yourself for too long now.

[@razvann91]

No fox given

[@ReaderdarkOriginal]

i still hate the new look of anduin.

[@Ilive_420]

He looks inbred in this art lol, I get he has ptsd, but it doesn't make your jaw look like Habsburg jaw

[@Leon-mk1wn]

I hate that artstyle And it looks like AI generated too

[@Ilive_420]

I don't think it looks AI generated, but he literally looks inbred lol. He looks like he has a case of Habsburg jaw, ptsd doesn't make your bone structure all weird

[@Spanakopitaa]

why do you sound like a robot

[@chasegetson1125]

gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood

[@chris-hz1pc]

We all have PTSD from shadowlands! The things we have seen!!!

[@EviIM0nk3y]

I MISS VARIAN

[@Hot_Hard_Cowboy]

Wow, well done Nobbel. That was a spectacular journey in my mind listening along with your words.. Thank you for this