The Rise of Zamorak

The beginning of the story of Zamorak, who was long considered to be Runescape's bad guy.
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[@USJesusCheese]

Rs lore is simply amazing. Despite being a magical fantasy land, the gods and powerful beings behaviors are so realistic.

[@Avrah]

Yo ya'll ever get to the Cloud District?

[@ilikemybuttox]

What’s that

[@darthhideous8]

What am I saying, of course you don't.

[@Andi_Frost_XPR0PR18]

I can emphasize with Zamorak, but I feel his lack of patience with Zaros was uncalled for. Zaros went on a deep interpersonal journey, and I honestly feel that he learned a lot from it judging simply by the dialog options given in fate of the gods. Had everyone not defected, and shared azzanadra's patience, I feel we could have potentially seen a completely different, better vision for all of gielinor.

[@Avrah]

i would agree though there are some new developments with the story that might paint Zaros in a bit of a different picture.

[@AnonymousAnonposter]

Zaros never cared about the Empire and even if he really cared about fulfill his promises to Mahjarrat and the Dragon Riders he never dedicated any time to do it. Sometimes he dissappear for decades, maybe centuries, that's why the Empire had to run by itself, meanwhile, some Demons, Vampires and ofc Mahjarrat are getting impatient. Imagine, those immortal races are getting impatient, if it happened they had a good reason for it. Even tho Zamorak is seeing as "evil" and selfish, he really care about others of his own race, even the ones that hate him, he showed it over and over again by actions, while Zaros was mainly promises and empty words.

[@roldyrs3409]

100%, the RuneScape god’s lore is as good as the old god’s lore also your story telling is epic 🤘

[@IrynStyl]

I love these lore videos. RS has such deep lore, and so few videos about it. The ones that are there aren't very well produced and are many years old/behind on current lore. These vids are well produced, well narrated, well edited, and just great videos! Keep up the good work man.

[@nocturnalgaming4269]

Zammy is one of the dopest gods all ways thought so.

[@WingsofAbsurdity]

I remember doing the quest that told how it all went down, nice video to refresh my memory!

[@FireWizzrobe]

Just want to say I really appreciate you documenting Runescape's lore man. It's close to my heart.

[@BeatDropperPS3]

As a space bar warrior I enjoy your content. I don’t have the patience to read quests so I’m glad you make these 😀

[@Avrah]

I understand. I am glad I am able to condense it down for more people to appreciate.

[@flame1148]

Avrah this has CRIMINALLY few views. I really hope you continue to do these. With the recent lore drops in a night at the theater and sins of the father, I'm starting to wonder if there might be at least small eastern connections to raids 3, despite the desert locale.

[@Avrah]

thanks

[@flame1148]

@@Avrah well night at the theater specifically mentions “the stone” as known to the OSRS vampires. There also seems to be a faction (of vampires I think?) opposed to the mory vamps, investigating their power. I’m curious if one has a loyalty to zamorak and the other doesn’t, or what that opposition is. We also know that there is a nylon faction that wishes to usurp the vampires, which means vampires might be in need of a greater power. In short a lot of potentially at odds forces, while something new and powerful is being unearthed in the desert with a connection to some of them. Edit: hard to put into words but it feels like there are a lot of powerful groups and ancient connections, combined with the recent release of this info in quests, that it might be leading to something.

[@dilliondantin]

11 out of 10 loved it I've always felt that I knew more than most about RS lore, but still knew there was MUCH to be learned. And you're giving me exactly the information I have always wanted to know, but was too indifferent to research. Great videos, keep em up :)

[@Feixerer]

Love the Lore as always! If it takes this long for good content then so be it.

[@Avrah]

it shouldn't take as long lol but yah. hopefully not 3 weeks between.

[@skimmyguy]

i love this. i used to feel like i knew a lot about runescapes lore but since i stopped playing the main game so many years ago ive missed out so much lore.

[@Avrah]

i stopped playing the game in 2008 and came back to osrs then came back to rs3 quite recently so you can imagine how i felt doing quests from 13 years ago and feeling like they were still "new".

[@skimmyguy]

@@Avrah yeah ive been doing os for a couple years now. ive been thinking about going back to rs3 for lore for my gielinor campaign im making.

[@atlasglassworks9350]

Yooooo another one, yet another fantastic video from my man. Truly a unique rs/osrs content creator. 🔥🔥

[@Avrah]

aha thank youuu!

[@zaryagod2023]

I would love a video about daemonheim, floor 61, etc (: that has always been my favorite lore

[@Avrah]

That's the floor under Zammy right?

[@bobizzle91]

This is awesome! I’m going to use some of your story telling in my DND campaign!

[@TangledRS]

Ahhh I've been waiting for your video about the continuation of the Zaros/Zamorak storyline and it was awesome =D. Incredible production quality, narration and editing.

[@dominix5548]

How does this not have more views?! How do you not have more subscribers?? Dear Algorithm, please correct.

[@Avrah]

weird you said that because you found this channel due to a surge in views on my channel.

[@9Rain]

Zaros might have lost control of fate but im LOSING CONTROL every time avrah uploads :))))

[@Firrefirr]

What about YOUR uploads? :(

[@mattwylie6651]

Great video buddy

[@stretchymc5126]

seem to be mainly focused on RS3 lore atm but theres a theory in OSRS that the zarosians that fled north during the god wars, hit the north coast and travelled west by boat and went on to found zeah

[@Avrah]

i did read that. they haven't put down the evidence yet but I wouldn't be surprised if they connect it somehow.

[@goncalomarques251]

Bro, Thanks for this Amazing lore! You should have called this part 3 of the series.

[@Avrah]

glad you liked it. i wanted it to be separate from Zaros even though the story is kind of linked. i'll link a play list all together in the description maybe

[@goncalomarques251]

@@Avrah Yeah, I understand but I felt it was so linked it deserved to be in the same series per say ;)

[@Avrah]

@@goncalomarques251 sure i changed it.

[@EphYxRS]

Thank you so much

[@Avrah]

Any time

[@pk-tha-rapper]

this was incredible. well done.

[@mot795]

amazing, im so looking forward to the followup for the blackstone curse!! So excited for u next vid:)

[@Avrah]

Yea i am excited because i get to learn about it as i do it for the first time lol.

[@mot795]

Can imagine, i used to browse the wiki for hours but that was way back. the new lore makes me even more curious to know the rest of the story:p

[@Avrah]

@@mot795 since making my rs3 ironman i have played through around 15 years of quests in about a year so it is very interesting to experience the game in a very short time span. It's like watching all of game of thrones in a few weeks. Much it was content i had never done since I had quit in 2008. Doing while guthix sleeps for the first time, Ritual of the mahjarrat. It's been pretty wild and fun.

[@obsidianregaliapoppy7662]

Great videos. Subed and liked

[@Avrah]

thanks for saying that.

[@local_authority]

As always brother, a diamond in the rough

[@FlagArmadaProductions]

Hey, I loved this - and not just because I make my own reenactments of lore. I was thinking of making an explainer vid myself just like this one. I definitely think yours is more canonical than what I would have envisioned, as in my lore depictions I've taken creartive liberties admittedly, such as making Sliske and the Secret Police far more brutal than was explicitly specified in canon. I also depicted most of the Zarosian Military as being in practice loyal to Zamorak before Zaros, as factionalism runs rampant in totalitarian regimes. So I would never have thought about the Hallowland diversion. That said, I think something you missed or could have elaborated more on was Zamorak's ideological basis for betraying his master. Zamorak is at his core an anarchist, who believes that all order and peace do is hold people back from their full potential, and is thus "inefficient". It's not unreasonable to surmise he developed this belief from serving and witnessing 2000 years of this continuous inefficiency in the fascist dictatorship of Zaros. Save for maybe Saradomin, Zaros's regime was the near polar opposite of the world Zamorak envisioned. Perhaps he became so fed up with the system that the only way out he saw was to take the extreme opposite view. People have a tendency to overcorrect, and such an extreme example of overcorrecting in my opinion indicates the severity to which he was traumatized by his service to Zaros.

[@Avrah]

very well thought out comment. It's hard to say if i agree Zamorak was an anarchist as the Zarosian empire was in decline and Zaros himself was absent from it's leadership. To me there is a lot of similarities between the fall of Senntisten and the fall of Rome. Apathetic leadership and corruption. I hate to say it but i don't remember everything i talked about in this video as it's a year old.

[@AnonymousAnonposter]

In recent developments, some players that never supported Zamorak loved or at least understand his action, he chose freedom.

[@MrKyuuren]

Poor Renard, bro was just trying some merching and got scammed big time

[@Avrah]

LOL

[@TheWinRar]

POGGERS a new lore vid

[@videocrowsnest5251]

Lore thought - Considering Jas has shown the ability to overpower any "God's are unable to teleport ya unless you want it" blocks Guthix gave you - Do you reckon once the Elder God Wars continue to escalate the Elder Gods might decide to personally try to exterminate The World Guardian to stop them from interfering any more as they grow more desperate...if so that might be an interesting quest: Having to figure out a way to not just get snatched up and atomized by them when they decide you've been a big enough thorn for long enough. Cause if they grow desperate enough, and it's within their ability to do...why would they let you continue running around all willy nilly? Makes sense for them to eventually take a stab at eliminating the World Guardian if Senntisten continues to withstand their assault.

[@Avrah]

As i recently did both Desperate times and desperate measures they talk about how you are imbued with shadow anima as that was part of the gift Guthix gave you to withstand the power of the gods. I suspect jagex will use this as a way to keep the Elder Gods from being able to just squash you as you are potentially very dangerous to them, like a poison. Perhaps they are unsure how to deal with you. if i had to guess though we will kind of "lose" to the elder gods before the final elder god (6th elder god) reveals himself and potentially destroys them. but hey xD that's just a wild thought.

[@videocrowsnest5251]

@@Avrah Even if shadow anima is quite dangerous to the Elder Gods you still need a lot of it to pose a threat. Unless, the batch the World Guardian is imbued with by Guthix is an incredibly concentrated and potent form of it. It will be interesting to see how this particular plot point gets addressed because there has to be some explanation for why they don't just beam us up and atomize us. Then again I am pretty sure you are correct in the Elder Gods being unsure of how to act exactly because this kind of defiance has never happened before, and they exist in an Ouroboros sort of loop with cycles of the universe and all. So unexpected and new challenges probably are to them quite shocking, especially when they can't just fix it by Deus ex machinaing the problem away, such as with their eggs being taken as hostages. I mean, it says a lot when Jas, the most powerful known one of their number, basically just threw a bunch of enslaved Dragonkin to the fold with a bound but still risky to use due to his past antics Kerapac.

[@0freddif0]

Love this series!

[@horrorcult1322]

So I finally found the VatiVidya of Runescape.

[@Avrah]

lol funny how many times I have heard that.

[@Rin-le5ud]

love this

[@tbrcio]

yes yes yes yesssssssss

[@christianbarrett3040]

When did zaros kill a hydra god? is this an osrs bit of lore?

[@Avrah]

nope its main game lore. its in my zaros vids

[@christianbarrett3040]

@@Avrah Must have missed/forgot about it

[@Avrah]

@@christianbarrett3040 that area where the Tolna dungeon is located is where he was killed about.

[@christianbarrett3040]

@@Avrah ok thank you for the info. Where do you gather the lore from? Just the wiki?

[@Avrah]

@@christianbarrett3040 not solely. I get the lore from the game aha. I have to read dialogue and read lore books, notes, etc. I don't trust the wiki solely and use it more as a secondary source.

[@dreaming_cthulhu]

Nice videos. But please use a thesaurus to find words other than “empire”. You say it a lot

[@Avrah]

lol yea