The Lore of Teldrassil the World Tree | From Seedling to Ashes

[@Garouwerks]

Beautiful storytelling, amazingly touching art, (and your voice is amazing.).

[@salleedstrom9157]

holy sh*t this is a masterpiece. The way you told and showed it was so strong and emotional. most people just put some slowly zooming out pictures and just says what happened. But YOU on the other hand. You told it with emotion, great editing and detail. So I wouldn't be surprised if Blizzard would offer you a job. Awesome job bro, Awesome job :D

[@camimi7782]

That ending was so emotional... I shed a tear.

[@amontv1053]

This was more emotional than i expected, the voice and production quality really elevated everything! p.s this is what i love about this game -the Lore and the Community that builds upon it.

[@TheLostCodex]

Thank you SO much for letting us use your 'Final Portal' rendition! Really helped paint the horror we wanted to show from the script!

[@Jerao]

You nailed the RP on this one Jesse. Well done

[@cherryblossomgirl26]

I love this video and it's breaking my little Alliance heart by the recent events.

[@scottboyer8450]

I'm so glad Taliesin & Evitel mentioned your channel. Your production quality is outstanding!

[@Alexanderiii]

An excellent video. Alliance Forever! Never forget Teldrassil.

[@NGBH]

Lol teldrassil is just becoming more and more like the 9/11 incident ;/

[@TalladegaNight]

F

[@cheergiver]

Tears me up every time. Lovely storytelling.

[@redscarletmissing]

I cried from beginning to end. Beautifully put together. Teldrassil will forever be in our hearts. Ana'duna Thera 🌙

[@fudgetop7461]

I’m a Horde-person. Always has been, and aways will. But the ending made me shed a tear. The voice actor was amazing and so emotional!

[@carolmalone8579]

Jesse and Jeff. Beautifully sad. So many emotions.

[@8centimeter]

The way you talk, the pictures. Just truly gives me, what i want from a video. This was amazing !

[@Huskred1]

Great story here, with a moving ending. Keep up the great work, Jesse and Jeffrey.

[@garrettbaker8098]

You put so much emotion into this!! I can not believe I hadn't heard of you all until today. I am going over to your socials and pumping whatever I can. This is incredible stuff. Patreon, here I come!

[@dalaran07]

oh i'm crying beautiful art and beautiful video thanks for this masterpiece

[@malkovich8]

Your videos are by far the most entertaining and informative ways to learn about the lore of World of Warcraft. I look forward to viewing them all!

[@josu1753]

The animation!!! The commitment!!! I see it and I feel it. Nice!!!

[@Vondarkstar]

KZbin has been hiding you from me for years apparently and there is such talent here. Blizzard can only dream of having this level of production and presentation. Btw, you sound like Lawrence Fishburn. (Morpheus in The Matrix)! Great voice. 🙏🏻

[@TheLostCodex]

Johnny! Thanks so much for the comment! We've been going strong for 6 years and we still have people just finding us now. Our sub numbers have always been low, sadly, but we're always happy to have new fans and viewers! Glad you found us! Stay tuned for more episodes soon! Cheers, Jesse (Voice who sounds like Lawrence Fishburn!)

[@dylanvolckaert404]

Oh man... This gave me the shivers; Excellent production!

[@meiinherzbrennt]

Great video! Easy to understand and beautifully made!

[@astrudvergara318]

Beautiful and moving. Learned a lot from here.

[@YanyanLun]

jezz now finally know how our home got destroyed..

[@SeraphHaze]

More please! This was great! Thanks for doing one on the World Tree. It would be great to see an episode or two for the period post Third War but before Warcraft, (Theramore, etc.) or maybe even early Warcraft lore for those of us who didn't play Vanilla!

[@Gladyse13]

Love these stories of yours so much

[@vynal187theunseen3]

Amazing work as always man keep up the awesome work

[@Jaeghound]

Man I love your videos! They make me feel nostalgic for being immersed in the lore (as if I'm not, I just get a weird sense of nostalgia from this lol)

[@benitoslair]

That was such a good video and good cover of the lore. And the ending. I genuinly teared up at the emotion there. Very well done

[@salesiteisina7098]

Beautiful, stunning and magnificent video here!!! Wonderful job to the Lost codex team. In terms of indie warcraft content on lore, you guys are on the best on youtube. I do admit i am a very big fan of your Eredar/Draenei video's i must say this one if one of my favorites. Bravo!!! much love and mahalos!!

[@Zinzoo13]

Incredibly well made, thank you!

[@IronCow8]

This deserves so much more attention, amazing video guys really i loved it

[@thinhvo3893]

Your lore video are so top notch quality.

[@stephanrogers8947]

That was excellent.

[@Mjauven]

Great job at the stellar narration!

[@Spikeheslter]

Can blizzard please shout these guys out ?? There's so much love for the more Here!

[@CowGoesMeow]

they did already actually. I found them due to their front page video on the battle.net app on the history of Suramar before the raid came out :p

[@changwufeinataku]

Great Job through and through!

[@Larodar]

Excellent video, thank you for making it and sharing with us.

[@Eventwow]

Thanks for the touching story of our home that was lost. From your voice I believe you are also a night elf.

[@kimaclaret]

Beautiful, you guys!

[@ShiniesandLuckydos]

amazing video, we will definitely never forget Teldrassil

[@sanatius]

Please Keepers of the Sanctum , never leave us!

[@gurraglad]

Great video!

[@adammark6233]

Only 7k views!!!??? This is amazing man! Well done.

[@briljin]

Another great video!

[@JesusBarrancoEscribe]

Awesome one.

[@zoonisha4387]

I know I'm very late but just recently discovered your channel. This is just amazing storytelling combined with great imagery. I hope you will make it far. I really love your videos.

[@TheLostCodex]

William! Thank you for watching our videos, mate. Glad you're enjoying them! We're a small team so our production time is a little wonky but we're keeping on! Thaks for watching!

[@zoonisha4387]

@@TheLostCodex don't worry, we will wait for you! :) Might be the strangest thing to ask but, is there anything a common guy can help you with? We're sitting in a lockdown and would be great if I could use my time somewhat efficiently or in a way that makes me feel good 😄 If not, just don't reply and it's fine

[@TheLostCodex]

​@@zoonisha4387 Sorry for the delay! Alas, not really! Ideally with more hours in the day or more animators/artists on hand, our episode production would go by faster. Our Editor/Producer is a one man magic show and thus each episode is broken down into stages. Writing and screen directions and most narration goes to me which isn't the most time consuming part, so alas not much to be done! We do have a Patreon for anyone who wishes to support us but there is never any patreon-exclusive videos there so don't feel you need to! I DO encourage you to join our discord community! Huge community there that is quite active!

[@madginger3634]

Good video, great animation!

[@BorgWolf359]

Blizzard needs to hire you dude, this was awesome!

[@LiLThEmBi123]

As a Kal'dorei Rp'er, initially I was pissed at the burning of Tel'drassil. Now that I watched this video, I shed a tear for my characters home. Shaha lor'ma Jesse Elune Adore lost citizens of Tel'drassil

[@wesleyvl8572]

Keep up your video's dude

[@glencoco472]

This is amazing!! :D Keep it up ;)

[@H.Iversen]

This is by far the best wow lore channel there is. Nobbel is great, but he doesn't even come close.

[@BlueGuitarMusic]

Oh no Im totally about to watch your entire discography. This is awesome I can't believe I'm just discovering The Lost Codex.

[@TheLostCodex]

Welcome a board! A Wizard is never late nor early - they arrive precisely when they mean to! Glad you enjoyed this video and the Argus one. I personally loved doing the raid videos as 'Battle Overviews' with the idea that the audience was the raid team about to charge in. We only did those for Legion raids but maybe one day we'll dive back into that theme!

[@BlueGuitarMusic]

@@TheLostCodex You are so creative with this, it's amazing. I have really enjoyed watching your videos and sharing them with my guildies and friends (who hadn't already seen them). Thank you for sharing your awesome take on the lore, I don't think I've gotten this excited about lore in quite awhile and it's really gotten me juiced. Alright then, keep your secrets!

[@joshuagant35]

How Did I miss this!!!!!!!!!!!

[@AsdrianSebastian]

great video, fvorite lore chanel for sure...i'm so sad this happened, so many innocents died ... i hope Malfurion and Tyrande give the final blow to Sylvanas... what a shame alliance doesn't like to torture hence won't torture her, it would be the icing on the cake.

[@voidwalker6581]

Nice 😎

[@Ower8x]

Daam this was excellent, great emotional acting I felt I was really listening to an NE The only thing I would say was missing is an allusion or rumor about the ending of Elegy and the mercy of Elune bestowed on the dying.

[@TheLostCodex]

I debated on showing that but I wanted to sort of emulate a gentle-version of Delaryn in the hatred, emotion and fear. I didn't want to end on a happy note, even if Elune did interfere. I wanted to emulate from the perspective of someone who would've had no idea Elune granted that and just exude pure raw heartbreak. Also, thanks for saying that! I was SO nervous about the voice acting as it wasn't my usual comfortable 'Draenei voice' I can pull off. Glad people love it so much.

[@sephsuph]

I wonder whether the remaining Night Elves will rename themselves, akin to High Elf --> Blood elf Felo'dorei?

[@Chappell5252]

Wow, as if I didn't need more incentive to hate the banshee witch and "her" horde even more...

[@user36003]

some legends say the alliance still pouring water to this day to save the tree

[@twentytwoedits2442]

my very first character ever was a night elf rogue and i used to hang out in darnassus when it was more crowded.

[@hamadalketbi6521]

I really don’t want to sound negative coz I’m really not and I always support you and always leave nice comments I really enjoy the way you tell stories like in the suramar video or the helya and odin. This one felt very roll playesh. It didn’t feel like the lost codex, it felt like a nightelf is crying and telling me his story. If this is the direction you want I respect you and your work.

[@TheLostCodex]

Not negative at all! I appreciate the civility in your feedback! And you’re right- this wasn’t done in the traditional Lost Codex narrator style. We’ve, on occasion, added another level of immersion to our videos with “guest narrators”. For our Eredar episodes, we had the lore narrated by an Eredar and I thought It would be cool to have a Night Elf tell this story. I really wanted to exude the emotion a Kaldorei would feel when telling the story of his home and the quivering raw emotion as he tries to recount the story of the Burning!

[@dantoraomfg]

I'm a tauren druid and i shed a tear. May the Earth Mother help all my night elf friends and may our paths cross again as we overthrow the bansee queen.

[@DrGameLord]

Very good video! Still think they could have done so much more with Xavius and the Emerald Nightmare in Legion though :/

[@matthewbrune5490]

If and when we get to shove a raid’s worth of rage in Sylvanas’s face, imma say “For Teldrassil, you Psycho Bitch-Queen”

[@sebastians528]

Did you start producing this after pre-patch? If so, your productivity is out of this world.

[@TheLostCodex]

Let’s just say that this video was one of the fastest videos we have ever pulled off...ever!

[@XPK15]

At them my sisters! For Kalimdor!

[@ovnirosarino]

So well made! i'm deeply touched by it. Congratulations on your excellent work

[@SpaydtheOmega]

I'm left to wonder if they are going to attempt another world tree some time in the future. Either later in this expansion or in one of the next.

[@truemanv3428]

RIP 🌳..

[@Nneoh1]

Any chance someone could pass me the name of the OST played at the end?

[@TheLostCodex]

Sorry for the delay - the OST comes from the War of Thorns pre-patch music, found here kzbin.info/www/bejne/nXq1q32Krramesk Track in particular starts at 13:26 in the soundtrack and that plays for the last two and a half minutes of our video. Very haunting and very fitting, we found

[@Roseles89]

Because as a druid main I wasn't already upset with the Banshee Queen..

[@LovelyHick]

I was there with popcorn ^^

[@boricns]

so where do Night Elves live now?

[@TheLostCodex]

Some in Stormwind but as of recent events, they've taken to living under/near Nordrassil

[@Ankhakaru]

...wonder what will happen to the night elves now...

[@thinhvo3893]

You should have said “our world tree were safe UNTIL THE HORDE NATION ATTACK”

[@Breakfst4dinner]

You guys should do a series on each race and their culture! so I can finally goddamn pick a main...

[@Hussarpride]

What a beautiful end 😭 elune be with you

[@johannesgulker8597]

#StillMyWarchief Nethertheless still amazing video ;)

[@DaggersEdge]

WHO CUT THE ONIONS?

[@Mymloch]

I can almost make myself think that Jonathan Frakes (Cmdr. Riker - Star Trek TNG) is narrating this... I hear a similar voice. :)

[@Dreyden-]

Sad, they had to destroy Teldrassil. It was like one of the 7 wonders of Azeroth. Why couldn't it have been Azuremyst Isle.

[@MyViolador]

Tree burns, Umm druids can you conjure a storm with the shamans or something the put off the flames? we are not here for the moment please trylater

[@TLaytis]

MyViolador kinda hard when Shaman are empowering the flames.

[@xxDrain]

But, where is it? All we see ingame is a stump with the elves living atop. Who cut it down?

[@kimaclaret]

Oooh what's this?!

[@DeathbyPixels]

For the Alliance.

[@greyworld6242]

No more trees.

[@KageNoTenshi]

Such an unthinkable act, I mean who burns a city in wars? They nuked Hiroshima but that’s ok, burning it? No one should even think about it except every conquered in history ever

[@psychoactive94]

Maybe Ysera deserves her own video? Just sayin'... 👀

[@nozari28]

Will never forgive blizzard for this, they betrayed both alliance and horde

[@TalladegaNight]

Elf-thing tree burn-burns! Must kill-slay all elf-things!

[@jamesevarts3]

SDF

[@cloudouterman]

Somwtimes I don't unserstand your voice because I'm not a native English speaker, but nice video

[@klaudius3118]

It was the night elfs selfishness that made the tree in the first place they thought they would be immortal again...i wonder why no one thought making the capital city on a big freaking tree wasn't a bad idea.Still i have to admit it was a cool bonefire..i'm wondering if Nomi came up with new recipes for night elf barbeque after Teldrassil burned 🙂 For the horde !!!

[@TheLostCodex]

It was the Selfishness of a group of Night Elves- not all of them! And that arrogance doesn’t justify the death of the mostly children and civilian population that burned alive there. No amount of arrogance should be responded in kind like that.

[@norsenthor3113]

I am horde, and am thurroughly offended by this “We” .... The tree deserved it Kappa ... good video tho :)

[@_Nsath]

Bunch of Alliance propaganda if you ask me

[@lucynsol]

First.

[@TheLostCodex]

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[@crystopsus]

Good video, but the alliance bias is real. Here, horde are presented as nothing but conquest-hungry savages, starting the war for no real reason. The truth, however, is that the war had already begun as a race for the monopoly over azerite (closest thing to nuclear weapon IRL), started by the alliance attacking goblin miners (well, they did mine azerite without telling the alliance). The occupation of northern Kalimdor and, more particularly, the occupation of Teldrassil, was a logical (though not necessary) decision considering that Teldrassil was used as a safe harbor to funnel azerite from Kalimdor to the Eastern Kingdoms. The only horrible part, from the point of view of someone not caring about the tree, was the decision to burn it as only innocents remained inside.

[@TheLostCodex]

The bias is intentional. The story was narrated by a Kaldorei citizen who survived the burning, a historian directly affected by the War of the Thorns. From their perspective, after the Legion war JUST ended, the Horde marches on Ashenvale, slaughters the entirety of the region and flattens Darkshore before lining up their armies on the shoreline and razing a tree filled with innocents. Even with the details of the story, the Horde is primarily the aggressors in this conflict unfortunately and I really wanted to hit the nail on the head as a directly affected citizen of Teldrassil.

[@marcosguedes8885]

If you read Elegy, it shows clearly that is the Horde who attacks first, because the Explorer's League arrives first to study the damage that Sargeras did to Azeroth in Silithus, along with the Sentinels. After that, the goblins massacre them, to start to mine the Azerite, and that's why Shaw sends the champion to Silithus.