The Rise and Fall(?) of Azj-Kahet

[@araposkulo]

You forgot the following Councils, as per the wiki: - Abyssal Council - Ascendant Council - Auberdine Village Council - Blood Prince Council - Council o' Captains - Council of Darkshire - Council of Elders - Council of Exarchs - Council of Exarchs (Army of the Light) - Council of Seven Nations - Council of the Black Harvest - Council of the Forest - Council of Tirisfal - Council of Tribes - Council to the Triumvirate - Desolate Council - Elder Council - Excursion Council - Gorian War Council - Illidari Council - New Council of Tirisfal - Pyrewood Council - Shadow Council - Shadow Council (alternate universe) - Tidesage Council - Twilight Council - Zanchuli Council No wonder everyone needs the Adventurers to do anything on Azeroth. Too much bureaucracy!

[@drobobrandegee7731]

@@araposkulo wow, everybody needs a council

[@Nagria2112]

and you even missed some.... the dwarf are ruled be the Council of the three hammers. the whole horde is ruled by a council and so on.

[@araposkulo]

@@Nagria2112 he mentioned in them in the video so I didn't add them in

[@somerandominternetdweller]

Maybe it’s a reflection of Blizzard’s bureaucracy. Adventurers are essentially mercenaries with factions attached. Also an indirect way for people to intervene without political implications. If they want to give us true adventure status, they should let us free roam opposite faction cities or at least towns.

[@BeyondDaX]

@@somerandominternetdweller Before the whole merging of both factions of sorts, the chances of for example a non theramore human or an night elf going into orgrimmar without official business is zero to nada and an axe to the head. Just because you could do something even if given full adventure status, the racial disparities and hatreds of the factions themselves still makes your travel plans that much more limited.

[@drobobrandegee7731]

You get a council, and you get a council, EVERYBODY GETS A COUNCIL

[@tyelel7548]

i hate councils, their sappy, numerus, irritating, they get everywhere

[@Anachronos97]

I mean the Lor'themar is the leader, Rommath and Halduron are leaders of their respective orders and advisors to the regent-lord but nothing more. It's not at all a council / triumvirate.

[@zeditor2023]

The Alliance will follow suit after Anduin returns and chooses to abolish the throne.

[@drobobrandegee7731]

@@zeditor2023 worst part is you are 100% right, blizzard loves a council

[@DG_427]

Psst... Hey kid, want to form a council?

[@zetenyvarga7428]

"Trick or treat, smell my feet" is the greatest line written to WoW. Fight me.

[@aleksandarminovski9971]

Indeed

[@Extrabiglogz]

All hail the Xal'atoes

[@Voidenergy1814]

Well,Xalatath never wear any shoes and never wash her feet so it make sense for a gruesome ending by feet smelling.

[@Jyxero]

We are not prepared... For such wisdom

[@f34r0r]

She's undead so she probly has zombie toes like Brie Larson

[@BIacklce]

"Were not expendable fodder we must defect to be individuals" Immediately forms a caste system

[@stepmi]

How can you be an individual with individual differences in a society where everyone is equal?

[@BIacklce]

@stepmi Not forming a caste system is a start

[@burningbronze7555]

Given the biological morphs of the original species they might not realistically had the option.

[@NathanielWise-ks1ph]

"i cant put that there"

[@Gorgovoid173]

While mewing.

[@Alshor12]

I want to point a little tidbit of lore that I thought was really cool/sad which is the Silken Court. Based off the flavor text of an item and the small description in the dungeon journal, Blizzard actually managed to make a pretty small and tragic story with them. On the necklace, Silken Advisor's Favor, the flavor text reads "To my most trusted advisors for their loyalty, wisdom, and above all - unity" which very likely means Takazj and Anub'arash were good friends before Ansurek took over. But since there's so much division, subterfuge, and espionage going on within Ansurek's court, they're convinced the other is trying to kill their queen when in reality they both just want to protect her. But the damage had already been done, and during the fight the lore is that one is trying to secretly kill the other as well as the raid group to better serve Queen Ansurek.

[@cobalt3142]

Another important point to mention: the mechanic that makes them share health is called "Queen's Proclamation," so lore-wise if one of them kills the other, they both die.

[@sblinder1978]

Hey, being the last boss of the first raid isn't always a death sentence, sometimes you get imprisoned in a sword and put in Plot Tupperware for when you're really needed.

[@Tiltigo]

Justice for Anub'arak, man!

[@AmitCinematicUniverse]

He is better in one fanfiction I love.

[@DavinvanVelzen]

One of my favorite wow character

[@rivh4246]

So spot on with the Skitterlings. I absolutely love when they say the line “Ok bye” very quickly. By far one of the best npcs blizzard has added in the game.

[@greeses5482]

man why do we have to have sexy spider-people I just want my arachnid spider people, I don't want them to have human faces

[@cabrondemente1]

Oh no, he's hot!

[@björkmou5e]

weebs

[@ComicalConqueror]

I mean, Arak'Nai IS the sexiest one.....

[@kebabloodmoon6848]

Not even the spider spiders want spider people.

[@ZakhadWOW]

Im so used the the crab and Makrura alt forms that is how I think ogf them now

[@longdashes]

Can we talk about the quality of this video for a second? The camera paths, the editing, the memes, the script. HOLY CRAP MAN YOU ARE GODSENT.

[@omedon666]

Glad to see Platinum join the sane of us on team "Threads of destiny's denied conscription moment was in BFA, not ancient black empire times!" People still insisting that "the last stand at Ny'Alotha was ancient Ny'Alotha.

[@sapremia]

I liked playing Anub'arak in Heroes of the Storm! It felt like the old WC3 days of going into a custom game and picking whatever character had the Crypt Lord model. The only punishment he got was having his voice changed since Steve Blum also voiced Abathur who had a very Anub'arak voice and both of whom were in HotS.

[@ZenFr0g]

"MY MIGHT CANNOT BE MATCHED."

[@TofuofLight]

Summons? heard Might? unmatched Frozen throne? served Living and the dead? consumed Dubitably? In Jinkies!

[@WipZedKay]

Kinky…

[@AlexRandom886]

Can we all aggree that the music of the zone is fuckin amazing?

[@BeyondDaX]

Its neat, the arathi zone is better to be honest

[@MapleUmbreon]

The focus on strings for a spider-centric zone was a brilliant idea! It's like you can feel the ominous music being plucked and strummed on silken instruments.

[@Voidenergy1814]

Agree best in all khaz'algar and top music raid in wow history.

[@HeadlessClient]

Xal'atath: "You're all just pawns in my great game of world... of WARCRAFT"

[@aster4jaden]

She said the THING!!!!! 🫵👏👏

[@gayralseitweets]

"My little morsel" 💞💞💞

[@LucaLeRatt]

Widow Arak’nai simps rise up!

[@ZakhadWOW]

Yeah... that is a POOR choice of words, sin ceit is normally applied to a delecatble item to EAT.

[@taurock96]

We're the little morsel, she's the full course meal

[@justinhammer3196]

And sooo many legs to stomp on us with.

[@Maldanil]

14:00 humanity has a very limited number of foundational narratives that we can modify slightly but it's always the same tropes. We shouldn't really expect much more than what we've already seen.

[@EmileVinesh]

Two PlatinumWoW uploads in a week?! Hell yeah! (One on the official WoW YT channel and this one)!

[@SakugaZai]

It’s so weird that they pushed the individuality thing here, where in previous lore with the aqir they were always a hive mind. Born into their life roles to support their king/queen. It’s why their bodies look so different.

[@benjaminehren7965]

“Anub’arak must be the most punished character” Ursoc.

[@Raxerm]

At least Anub'arak has lore, Ursoc's lore is _"Wild God, DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE."_

[@Feitosix]

​@@Raxermman to be fair ursoc is like a D&D Barbarian with nature power lol

[@kiznethal]

Have you heard this before? An elf ranger chasing a blood elf for vengeance because that blood elf burned ur city, moreover that blood elf happens to be serving a master that has a masterplot expanding thousands of years?

[@captainspaulding5963]

You new here? WoW ran out of fresh ideas around 15 years ago

[@BeyondDaX]

@@captainspaulding5963 Fresh ideas have been gone since the 80s

[@varlak9061]

​@@captainspaulding5963yeah I mean everyone we run into we just form a council kind of getting tired of that, for ones can't we meet a group of people who are actually fine with their society it's just that they're under attack

[@arturlutz1669]

But in the end, she will learn: No Queen Lives forever 😏😏

[@Junglewarfare]

i heckin love when all those councils in warcraft 3 counciled all over the bad guys. heckin loverino my democratic factions that are peaceful and dont craft any war.

[@HiddenEvilStudios]

Truly one of the moments in all of Warcraft history, meticulously planned eons ago by the Chuckler.

[@TheStingling]

@@HiddenEvilStudios "The chuckler" made me chuckle

[@jasonwowhero8147]

3:20 the best way to describe it "Morgan freeman started a cult of people who kill whatever name comes up in the cloth using morse code from the inconsistancies in the cloth quilter"

[@nerdbrain396]

Yo why is heroes of the storm catching strays that game is underrated

[@harrysboylan]

Heros of the storm catching strays out here

[@perlaws]

One of the only thing that can stop me from doing my job or reading my books is platinum wows videos I can this videos about wow for days and don't be tired Love your work dude

[@Adventures-vy9jz]

Its a good day when platinum wow uploads!

[@DracoDatura]

I really liked the bustling life of the City of Threads and our little conspiracy. I wish it was not just a rushed first patch storyline. I'll miss hanging out with the spiders. 🕷️🕸️

[@C4Hertz]

Hey man, Anub'arak is great in HoTS, WoTLK on the other hand, yea he got the short end of the stick for sure. Considering he kept his knowledge in undeath, the fact that the scourge didn't invade Azj-Kahet (blocked tunnels aside), is rather noble of him. And let's not pretend the scourge COULDN'T dig through those tunnels, they mined so much saronite, like, a whole fortress worth of the stuff.

[@BerchGularte]

thanks for all the stories & lore, you keep me in contact with the game and lore even if I'm not playing, and with a smile :), your magic stories keep the flame lit

[@alician1066]

Can I note that the inn at the weavers lair has some of the best music I’ve heard in wow yet. Idk what other inns play the same music but I love it. The whole zone has amazing music. When I’m doing stuff in AK I have the music loud af

[@MapleUmbreon]

Your thumbnail game has been on point lately. Love your videos!

[@IcecreamRandomness]

Holy shit you did Dalaran DIRTY in the end there. Haven't laughed this hard for years!

[@AtillaDaPun]

I been watching/listening for years it feels like, and gotta say I love how these vids keep improving! There's so many things to praise, especially in this video!! Cheers!

[@RecoveringLoLAddict]

I hate how they humanized the bug people, like not just on a moral level but specifically how their faces look like.

[@amaliafilip2886]

The Scarab from Adventure Time Fiona and Cake looks a lot better than the ascended. He has a humanoid form that still resembles elements of a scarab insect. All to be presentable because he's an auditor but you don't want to see his combat form when he's angry. Dude has a flexible chitin mask and trust me if these puny ascended would see his face reveled they would piss themselves. 😂

[@dragonicelv]

Thank you for covering us non-players

[@Cryotron93]

8:07 I thought it was Ursoc that is the most punished character in Warcraft? 😂

[@Ω3103ζ]

ursoc isnt in hots

[@BeyondDaX]

@@Ω3103ζ No, but you can have him as a hat in Wow

[@MapleUmbreon]

My mans died 3 times and even had his final death in an out of game cinematic for basically no payoff. It's truly tragic.

[@Nalhirrim]

I havent play wow in years but War Within honoestly has some cool lore

[@BeyondDaX]

Some of it is good yeah, curious about the Arathi empire still out there and what the goblins are planning now

[@commanderblackheart5856]

Please... November JUST started... You can't doo me like this, Platinum!

[@bunnieskitties293]

He showed Xal'atath feet pics, pretty low odds there's many soldiers surviving now.

[@nelson2801]

Since they made the nerubians more humanoid, I can see them becoming a character option by next expansion

[@stepmi]

Btw, why the Old God's blood made them humanoid? Aren't humanoid-shaped creatures are the titans' thing? All Old Gods are missshapen octopuses with teeth, and their creations are all arthropods-like.

[@0hvist]

The Severed Threads Storyline also retreads the Storyline for the Mechagnomes and the Arakkoan Outcasts too.

[@HiddenEvilStudios]

...And the Klaxxi.

[@0hvist]

@@HiddenEvilStudios nah, the Klaxxi were an established countermeasure against a Mantid Queen that betrays their culture, in-essence they are judge, jury, and executioner of the Mantid Empire instead of a faction of rebels made up of the downtrodden in their society.

[@HiddenEvilStudios]

@@0hvist We're still joining a rebel faction to overthrow an evil leader type of character.

[@0hvist]

@HiddenEvilStudios the Klaxxi aren't rebelling, they are loyal to Klaxxi culture and aren't going to change it up anytime soon. They make their stance known to us when we reach Exalted and inform us that they worship the Old agods and that our allegiance is simply one born out of convenience and shared goals, and when the threat posed by the Mantid Queen and the Sha corruption plating the land has been dealt with, it's business as usual again, and that they will kill us. The other factions were willing to throw their everything in with having us help them viewing us as their best chance to turn the tide and were open and on-board with the notion of a continuous partnership afterwards which resulted in the Alliance and Horde having powerful allies backing them up when the time came for the final patch of an Expansion: the Arakkoa Outcasts reformed into The Order of Awakened to work with the Alliance and Horde in the battle of Hellfire Citadel to kick out the Legion, the Nightfallen would journey with us to Argus to defeat the Legion once and for all, the Rustbolt Resistance would align themselves with the Alliance and b3come a Playable Race in the final patch of BfA, the Venthyr would work together with the other Covenants to enter Zereth Mortis to finally defeat Zovaal the Jailer. The Klaxxi simply made their stance known that they were going to side with Garrosh due to him having the Heart of Y'Shaarj in his possession regardless of the alliance they had with the Players who opposed the Mantid Queen alongside them in the recent past.

[@tripleh327]

In Azeroth when 3 or more people meet, given enough time and drama they will inevitably form a council Law of lazy writing

[@JimWorsham]

the fine print part cracked me up

[@JJJ42069]

The repeating lore tropes are explained in game with "fractals"

[@christophermoody8672]

the rise and fall of nerubian princess

[@Pajavoukcz]

"Trick or treat, smell my feet"... very Halloweeny xD

[@Majvfb]

I don't know how you do it but man every single video of yours is a banger.

[@Forlyn0]

Can we get a Platinum WoW video on Xal's feet? Like serious why does Blizz take every opportunity to show them feets...

[@captainspaulding5963]

Quentin Tarantino is an investor, apparently 😂

[@björkmou5e]

again, DeviantArt weebs. Their staff is drowning in them.

[@BIacklce]

There's a lot of sickos working at that company now

[@varlak9061]

At this point with that ow tweet some there in a high position got a foot fetish

[@ZakhadWOW]

Claudia Christian had it put in as a rider in her contract for voicing Xal :P

[@Altraice]

Any day a Platinum WoW video is released is a good day.

[@ProtossTempest]

I miss Hots... Had a good solid thousand some hours in that game. And the Anub'arak rework + buffs. Good lords, my man was a spell tanking beast!

[@Picar70]

0:57 Noooo, don't hurt my beloved "At max 10 polygons" Kobold, I love them dearly.

[@Yzerbruh]

Insanely stupid plot idea: Anub'Arak gets resurrected yet again, but this time by the Mad Queen and they try to take over the now leaderless Azj-Kahet.

[@commandervulkan]

Ascended are an abomination to a race that should be playable.

[@corycheeks2752]

I hang out chilling with the weaver almost every day

[@Xivix427]

Hey! Heroes of the Storm was a great game!

[@jovee6155]

Blizzard will never escape the power of friendship allegations

[@Spooky_Spookerson]

Bro you didn't have to do HotS that dirty :(

[@mehdinuruzade1743]

HEROES OF THE STORM MENTIONED 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣

[@nightdog007]

My Council decided to leave a Big LIKE on this video and a short comment.

[@davidgatward4395]

man I love you platinum wow you make the best videos

[@themonolougist]

Anub'Arak was a pretty great tank in heroes of the storm

[@creativekaiju7572]

Wonder what will happen to the Ascended once X'altath is defeated and the Void Lords and Old Gods presence is expelled from Azeroth for good. We see that many empowered that had turned into Hulks were lost to the Unseeming, hinting that either they perished mining for Void goop for Xal'tath, and perished to madness or were consumed by the void powers of that region. Makes me hope that they can get on good terms with the other people of Azeroth and leave the shadows behind. If Void Goo is polluting your tunnels, that's a good sign to make tracks and bail out. Also, I think that the decline that the Nerubians were facing may have in fact been a result of more than one front. First, the Cataclysm, Deathwing caused a huge shift in the techtonics of Azeroth and possibly even caused many tunnel/cavern collapses. The shift in techtonics could have cut off or destroyed some of the hunting grounds or resources the Nerubians had come to rely on and forced them into conflict with the Arathi. Then we have Sargeras gouging the planet with his planet sized broadsword. That caused more quakes and cave ins, plus caused void sludge to start oozing about the underground, possibly because his sword obliterated the remains of C'thun, but didn't destroy the essence entirely. The slime oozing into the various caves obviously has a negative affect on all life, void-based, titan-based and otherwise, so it's safe to say, the Nerubians could have been facing food shortages due to the void slime mutating creatures and possibly themselves into dangerous abominations, driving scouts and hunters mad, or any other ill fate that led them to be on the back foot and vulnerable to the machinations of the Void.

[@HagalSkrymir999]

The living nerubians should have drastically increased in numbers in all those years since WotLK. I mean the insectoid races lay huge amounts of eggs and i thought they had hidden a large amount mentioned in a quest. Maybe we will see more of them in TLT.

[@Trig2790]

If I had a copper for every time a queen made a deal with a void being only for her to become the end boss of a raid in wow, I'd have 2 copper. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice.

[@AmitCinematicUniverse]

Krivax prevented it without knowing about it.

[@TehPwnographer]

Company Man references are tight!

[@jahaerystargaryen4527]

I would create a Council in charge of building STATUES of our lord PlatinumWoW troughout the world, to worship his divinity

[@biologicallyawptimized]

a hulk in time saves nine

[@G.A.N.]

The way you word how we don't know what they gonna do with Remaining ascended, blood and who will lead now, really sounds like the easiest speculation would be "Hey lets find out how to use this black blood for Our own Safe purpouse and make queen ascended with it, but in good friendly way so she thanks the heroes and give Blizzard new spider race to play in next expansion" because nothing simillar happend yet riiiiight

[@danielantonioginartemilane1658]

Azeroth is getting rid of the monarchy :D

[@Kjertinge]

50 Shades of Council

[@joshuamacdonald2313]

"...Had...Had a Council of Six."

[@DesertRat1997]

Wake up babe, new Platinum WoW just dropped!

[@LeiKultur]

>defects from the old gods >moves deep into the earth huh?

[@deterdetz]

My dude straight cooked in this video! Hilarious 😂

[@NEBUL4]

12:55 Oni-chaaan!! same feeling as FMA

[@deanoh4395]

On one side, I think it's a nice pattern to see how "corruption" or "enhancement" makes creatures look more humanoid. It has a few implications which I think makes them interesting. On the other hand, I don't think they actually planned that. For whatever reason, A.C.Blizzy thinks players prefer humanoid-looking monsters. Knaifu obvi needs to be marketable, but why the spider-people?

[@efaristi9737]

the Nerubian queen experimented on her own mother ? That's so messed up.

[@markusnavergard2387]

the new nerubians looks like the fallen from destiny

[@Bkn_zv]

Horde having a council is the most idiotic thing ever xD

[@hunter564321]

You can't tell me that the those bug people "ascended" were not planned to be new bug playable characters, but got scraped for some reason or another.

[@silver4831]

And we got more Dwarves...

[@unnistevens9595]

I know this guy!!!

[@TheCalebVID]

I loved Anub in heroes of the storm. He handled mages so well, and he had a lovebug skin

[@damianrodriguez7165]

16:12 That's just a damn Wizard 101 circle, it even has the circles.

[@franciscoadasilvajr4514]

11:06 one could even assume that, from that, Thrall and the orcs could've a good role as the ones to empathize and reach the nerubians offering aid Hey, Blizz, can we get some Horde content? Just a little bit?

[@jasonwowhero8147]

Big reveal during prepatch of next expansion. Khadgar isnt dead cuz xalatath was also brought into that big purple orb it wasnt just him. But what we saw was portal magic, if you paid attention to portal animation in the warcraft movie very similar particle effect of teleportation when you walk through. But then the portal after reaching critical mass imploded after he was brought to xalataths love dungeon. Because all shadowpriests are just BDSM enjoyers in disguise. Thank nixxiom for this theory.

[@gangstagaby3655]

The Nerubian council will probably consist of The General, The Weaver, and The Vizier

[@That_kind_of_orc]

My favorite zone in TWW it's so beautiful and feels like an actual city

[@Executordee]

...Council of 6 got me good...

[@HowToInvesst]

I could listen to this guy read a dictionary and stay interested

[@raven_fpv]

Great video as always but I want to know where you found the guy on your thumb nail. The one one the right that you added the eyes to. I have seen that guy as a meme on other channels but can never get anyone to answer me when I ask where it is from.

[@Pandarian300]

man too many councils in this game

[@pandaprewmaster325]

World of councilcraft the council within. Dude these humanoid spiders look so strange.

[@Tue_]

Yes, they turned into soulless beings willing to kill their recently best friends - not to mention be controlled by salad´dish. So I fully agree on the images used at the start.

[@FearDaReaper9779]

I was hoping the Nerubians would become a playable race I just really want a monstrous-looking race to be playable

[@froschkenig]

Would love to play a Nerubian. They are awesome.

[@Atlasbr001]

they should bring the mad queen back, seems like a nice lady

[@yogsoggoth]

I guess maybe the Vizier will take over Azj-Kahet? He is very open with the rest of the nerubians and renowned amongst them. The General literally fucking dies in his questline and the Weaver would probably like to remain in the shadows pulling her strings for the good of the kingdom. And the Vizier, that guy already has his share of experience needed to rule. I sure as shit am tired of councils. Even most of the raids have a fucking council-type boss.

[@dylanpatterson5995]

Don't forget all the council fights