The Story of Aviana [Lore]

[@rcshaggy]

Aviana made those Hapries be a thing in Warcraft. So blame her for the annoying crap in the Broken Isles. "Make it bleed!" "For the Birth Mother!" "RRRRAAAAAAHHHH!!!!"

[@CEORobbo]

FLESH AND BONE TO EARTH AND STONE!

[@eikamik1123]

rcshaggy 7 sorry to disappoint but there aren't any at the broken shore, and they worship the witch mother not the birth mother lol

[@rcshaggy]

rezki lachichi I changed it and I heard it wrong... They are still annoying.

[@do__ob]

Most annoying species in WoW. They hit you once and you fall off your mount... AND they slow you as well. Please Gul'Dan burn the fucking birds.

[@sleepydruid100]

I actually like the voiced of the harpies :(

[@CoozyBear]

Love how illidan is just sneaking away at 4:13 to 4:23

[@JesusChrist-gj8ck]

Lol, that was actually kinda funny haha.

[@gilpita]

"yeah imma just uh...go over there..."

[@msagzjr.4641]

Rules of the Druids of the Talon 1.Don't eat any worms 2.Don"t poop on anyone's mounts 3.Don't Chirp like a bird 4.Don't Steal anyone's bread 5.Don't try and lay an egg

[@chillsahoy2640]

Wowhead and Nobbel? Two of my favorite sources of information put together, this can only be a great thing!

[@matthewdeleon382]

I think this is a fine start to the year!

[@AlexanderVastros]

Always appreciate the Demigod lore. keep it up, Nobbel!

[@MineCartable]

"... From the smallest Pepe to the largest dragon." Aviana confirmed memelord?

[@doppelganger7369]

Wowhead as a Sponsor ? Thats like a dream come true

[@koldkustard]

This video was 10x more than I expected when I clicked, truly amazing work, guess I'll have to try getting the pets sometime when i return to playing, on break from it at the mo

[@riceballinc.1385]

I'm dying to see the other class order hall videos

[@aaronseet2738]

Love how you pulled a demon hunter from the "future" to play out this past story line. :)

[@cosminapostol8774]

What Aviana sounds like at the end: "Trifling mortal! My talons will be your undoing!"

[@JoKohut]

great start to the year nobel keep up the amazing work

[@geraltgrey-mane695]

love it :) Druid lore is the best lore

[@1Kapuchu100]

They retconned her origin as being a simple raven or Crow that worked as a messenger between the Wild Gods, each giving her a gift for every task accomplished, until she was their equal?

[@Nobbel87]

Yeah that's from the RPG, RPG in general is not considered canon.

[@1Kapuchu100]

Oh boooo. I liked that story more. I like a good Zero to Hero :D Or Wee Birdy to Demi God :>

[@callumlyall4931]

Could you do goldrinn?

[@QuestionableObject]

A lot of the Warcraft RPG lore was better than what we have now but w/e :P

[@swedishcabe610]

A lot of the Warcraft RPG is slowly becoming canon. The RPG is an expanded universe, as Chris Metzen himself explained years ago, it's too much information than he or any of the storywriters can go through in one go, hence why we see some things from time to time moved over from the RPG to the game. Though it should be considered non-canon, Metzen himself said that big chunks of it will eventually become canon. It's just impossible to say which parts of it isn't and whichs parts of it is and make it all canon. More than anything, it's to avoid contradicting lore, since there's some things expanded in the canon-universe that contradicts the RPG, and thus, we'll see it come along slowly.

[@luukabratzi994]

Great video nobbel :)

[@theblackgoatofthewoods]

Allways wonderd how Mannoroth were punished when he were pulled back through the portal. Harsh words? Whipped? Lost power? Or did Archimonde take full blame?

[@thehermit8723]

Well if we take Xavius punishment into account, he was brutally tortured for days for even failing to defend the portal, Manorroth's and Archimonde-s pumishment would be severe. No wonder Archie hates Malfurion with a passion in Reign of Chaos.

[@silverspear21]

Who would punish them? Not Sargeras because who knows where he is and what he is doing.

[@theblackgoatofthewoods]

Sargeras physical body was destroyed when he was passing through asharas portal while the stormragebrothers closed it, so hes out. Kil'Jaden took over the mantel of supream commander and his good friend Archimonde took the role of overlord of the whole legion. I think KJ and Arch blamed and puniched Mannoroth for the failure. Im thinking of how he acts in warcraft 3. Very hungry for revenge and personal pride. And Archimonde say "You are mine Mannoroth", this could imply a warning that if he fails again or do things outside his orders his pain and humilliation will be legendary in the legion.

[@theblackgoatofthewoods]

Grumpy # The books mess up everything. They need a book during RoC where the Night Elfs meets the Orcs and say "Hey, we've seen your kind before!" and Hellscream say "Huh????? I've never seen elfs like you before!" Just wait til Disney buys Blizzard! lol

[@thehermit8723]

+The black goat of the woods In theory the Reign of Chaos is no longer cannon, in the Pre-Cataclysm novel Tyrande remembers Brox so the outcome of the war would be different but as usual Blizzard left a plot hole.

[@xX1Mankrik3Xx]

@Nobbel87 Do you happen to remember the transmog gear you used at 12:25? This is so spot on to her model!

[@IPfreely333]

i dont know why anyone would even give your videos a thumbs down, just a bunch of haters. love the first new lore vid of the year, keep up the good work man. see ya

[@bononoz2948]

To the smallest of pepes to the largest dragons, a great closing statement

[@c.d.dailey8013]

Wow. Aviana is cool. I am looking at harpies in a different light. I wonder if I did the Mt. Hyjal Avaianna quests. It has been a long time, and I forgot a lot. I do remember flying around in a volcano and fighting other flyers. I did that daily quest multiple times. I got an extra vulture pet out of it.

[@dythkid6857]

They need to stop removing questline in wow that destroy it's adventure atmosphere. I soo missed that old questline that allows you to earn flight form, totems, warrior stance etc. is one of the best things to do in wow. You actually feel like a true adventurer, adventuring through the world earning your strengths and power. Now everything just pops in the spell book..... so dead.

[@aurielspellplade1084]

i agree with that but doing quest chains as warlock was a pure nightmare, expecialy for dreadsteed, and every new class it would just FORCE you to buy race change to avoid doing the class chains over and over. but they could make class trainers usable again

[@TheOnlyValken]

I just feel like they should have found a way to do whatever quality of life improvements they thought they were making while leaving the quests in place for the people that want them. These quest chains are so long and arduous and a wonderful aspiration for any die hard players that really want a lengthy quest line. It makes that mount or pet that much more special.

[@Robin...222]

@@TheOnlyValken yeah like you get the normal looking mount if you dont do the chain. And that you will get a awsome skin of the mount when you do the quest chain.

[@krel7160]

@@TheOnlyValken Many months later, but the simple solution for quality of life would be to make new players have to complete the chain at least once on their account, but after that all future characters of that class will have access to the spells in question. Et voila?

[@julianor1671]

That Ursoc card though

[@SaikaVa]

If u use the toy with a goblin glider, u can basically fly, also usable in travelform, so u can have a friend with u

[@TaeynWolf]

That is amazing!!! Great Lore Video!!

[@jordantoms4367]

I don't understand why Aviana and Cenarius look like Night Elves.. they say for Cenarius at least that Elune is his mother, meaning she appears to be a Elf herself. The problem with that is, Elves came from Trolls... so?

[@Xgamerwoo]

Jordan Toms yeah trolls bathed in the well of eternity and became night elves

[@chrisillaoi6135]

Basically the titans blood transforms life forms to look more like them humanoid which is why elfs are humans with pointy troll ears. aviana and cenarius were transformed via titan magic I believe elune is a protector maybe a naaru or defense system installed by the titans helping to protect azeroth as she matures which is why it hasn't been destroyed by the legion or old gods yet

[@jordantoms4367]

Alex Wood but Elves evolved from Trolls due to the arcane energies of the well of eternity. So they are direct descendants. I think Elune must have come into play long after Elves evolved but before they developed civilization.. for instance how an animal spirit can become a loas and be so powerful, so too would I assume the spirit of a humanoid if not more related to light rather than the emerald dream.

[@jordantoms4367]

to me it seems more logical Elune became a powerful spirit revered as a deity before the rise of Elven civilization.. explaining her appearance, and if Cenarius is indeed her son, his too.. along with his father Malorne.

[@chrisillaoi6135]

Yes and the loas were transformed by the titan magic into the guardians we see today much as the night elfs were by the well of eternity. I believe either elune is the night elfs name of the titan azeroth or a naaru protecting her. cenarius is a mutated stag loa. 'son of elune' could just mean he has loyalty to elune.

[@holyflygon]

hey nobble can u explain how pit lords are always the big guys that come from portals and are the 2nd in command. Its either a pitlord without a name or someone like mannaroth. Is there a story on there race and why they are always held to high rankings in the legion.

[@trymsolsvik4348]

any lore on hakkar the soulflayer? i wish there was more story on him

[@greyworld6242]

Damn aviana is not to be fucked with...I love it!

[@johnnyboy_jb]

great video as usual ty!

[@DarckArchon]

Holy shit that Dark Souls reference/Easter egg.... I mean i know Blizzard done it before on so many occasions, but this is a rather unique one. (For those who don't understand in Dark Souls you can join special factions called Covenants, most revolve around Player vs Player activity in different circumstances and it seams they borrowed that idea for that Aviana faction)

[@paricth4968]

You said that you got the toy in WLoD by doing the quest... man i got it from a loot drop i so wish i did the quest I may go back and do the quest because i never know about it... Thank you Nobble lore vids like this gives me things to go back and do that i missed

[@seirahime]

All this content that I didn't even know about that I want to do. :o Oh and great video :3

[@thehermit8723]

Don't you think that Blizzard is making the whole invasion thing shory too easy? They promote kingdoms will burn, races will be extinquished, this is the biggest invasion ever and.... not even one major city steamrolled by the brutal onslaught of the Legion and we even repelled them and are pushing them back to the Tomb of Sargeras. Compared to what happened in Warcraft 3, Legion looks more like a skipmish than an invasion...

[@BeyondDaX]

Grumpy # The players already push them out during the invasion pre-expansion events. Granted they could do more with the top levels. But it would otherwise be a nightmare for the low ones if they started to take over zones. So its a,matter of convenience over immersion

[@thehermit8723]

+BeyondDaX I do agree from game mechanics perspective it would be a Nightmare, however when Blizzard promotes that thos invasion will be far worse than the most catastrophic war the Azerothians had to face so far (WotA), then you are expecting certain things, you are expecting various of our known Npc's to die horribly, classes to be butchered and entire races be pushed to extinction. The Third War was less destructive than the War of the Ancients and yet entire kingdoms were destroyed like moths in the fire.

[@vbm4780]

Grumpy I agree with you. The biggest invasion so far, and acutally there are not many demons around... We should had elite demons all around the broken isles killing us, and some strong demons invasion to Orgrimmar and Stormwind at least. These demons are too soft!

[@thehermit8723]

Indeed, although i would not count neither Illidan or Gromm as sacrificres. Gromm had no idea about Mannoroth exploding on death so it does not count as one and Illidan is known for sacrificing OTHERS never himself, he was overjoyed in selling hiself in exchange for demon power by consuming the skull, that is not a sacrifice......

[@krim7]

Persistant worlds make it difficult to really nuke anything outside of Legion zones

[@vladudrea9747]

Hey Nobbel. Love your videos, man. Keep it up =) Who is the character that is gonna take several videos? I'm curious :p

[@thenerdbeast7375]

Have you thought about making a video like this about Goldrinn?

[@kamaara6622]

could you do a video on kazakus if you can

[@filsdemorte]

nobble, since cata a lot of things have changed. do you think you could do a story on the forsaken, including their conquest in silverpine and hillsbarad.

[@Gravesmasher23]

nice one! Now wowhead have something i want to see! :D

[@Legomshi]

love it that if you start with subtitles and your intro rols in in says pam pam pam pam parapam pam pam

[@Ancalim]

Probably not the best vid to ask in but its lastest, hopes You can answer it Nobbel, it confuses me a little bit so here i go: When we play Maiev in W3 TFT and she lands on Broken Isles pursuing Illidan, shes like "i remember this place, it was once a great city of Suramar", and now she has private prison on Broken Isles, did i miss something somewhere while playing Legion, that explains it? Obviously it would take longer to build such huge place than those few years Maiev had after capturing Illidan in TBC, and theres also this prisoners, Ash'golm, he seems unaware about banishing of Ragnaros since hes like "where is my master", which means hes been imprisoned for quite some time.

[@Nobbel87]

In the past it was Gul'dan who raised the broken isles and the tomb of sargeras from the bottom of the sea. With Legion, they wanted us to party on the broken isles, but that didn't offer much room to play with if all of it had been beneath the waves for so long. That's why they decided to retcon it a bit and now only the tomb was raised while the isles have always been there.

[@thehulk86]

where did you get that Ursoc card graphic? unless i'm mistaken, that isnt a card in hearthstone....yet

[@aaronseet2738]

Btw you need to collect the roc feather kite parts in HM to make a glider kit toy that synergises with this toy.

[@rablablook1720]

Hell hath no fury for a woman scorned... Give that woman wings and razor sharp talons that can cut demons and steel like butter, and you get Aviana. May the gods have mercy if one were to be her den mate and pisses her off.

[@XxXxXxX-k9v]

Love Aviana. I was able to get the name reserved on 8 different servers lol

[@Alikaakui808]

wonder if we'll ever get harpy as a playable race?

[@darcassan]

Thank goodness, something not about Hearthstone...

[@RileyRivalle2]

+Steven Bringhurst There's an ordinary lore video every Monday, what's the problem?

[@rytisvenckevicius6306]

Nicely done ^.^ Could you make a video about Auchindoun? :D

[@birb7866]

0:04 subtitles say "duh duh duh duh, pam pam pam paramp" xD

[@aleksivach5769]

0:37 they had a shadowlands reference that early in the game or what?

[@FuzzyFruits]

I was about to go to bed.. but I can stay up another 20 minutes!

[@jclark4279]

Its an epic tale, yet scattered and incomplete lore twists and turns. Blizzard is slowly, EVER so slowly, filling in the blanks of history, while at the same time creating a brand new playable universe, and a bankable title. GG Blizz GL ; P

[@GeekyGirls92]

would love to know more about Goldrinn (unless there's a video) and Jarod Shadowsong (again unless there's a video)

[@emeraldfinch]

I wanna know Krasus's story.

[@JesusChrist-gj8ck]

Google is your friend then.

[@kby234]

Do you have a video on the Infinite Dragonflight? Ive been wondering bout them!

[@Nobbel87]

Here you go! kzbin.info/www/bejne/iJqooYuAgt13kNU

[@00yiggdrasill00]

I have to complement your ability to tell a story, I was more then happy to listen to you talk.

[@JesusChrist-gj8ck]

You did a video on Aviana in the past, but I can't find it. Did you delete it or something?

[@bindair_dundat]

Destromath. That would have been a fitting nickname for my high school math teacher...

[@bindair_dundat]

"I will substrack your souls from the sum of your bodies!"

[@李玉醴]

May I ask in which server you are in @nobbel87, you are in EU right, as I remember you are Dutch....

[@Clarrigore]

some times i have a feeling that Nobbel reuploads old videos (example ... there is a old video like this tho its 16-18 min long about aviana... and this one is about her aswell but its 21min long)

[@warlock984]

Was this also the video for the lore of the G'hanir artifact?

[@drow_Lilith9940]

hey nobbel i look but did not see anything so do you have any views on book Traveler: World of Warcraft

[@osirisgem]

Happy new year.

[@XDarkAllNightX]

"dum dum dum dum, pam param pam paam" I did not expect that.

[@josiahdoddema3265]

can you do a video on the San'alyn

[@everbane3775]

Plz do Renounce Darkness and all the characters who renounced Darkness and their fates

[@silverdarkhawk2539]

just wondering while Aviana is a Demigod resembling a Harpy, why isn't there a Friendly Harpy across Azeroth?

[@TheWyrmMage]

Because all her children turned to darkness? Thats the reason G'hanir was kept hidden for so long. Because as far as we know, all harpies have forsaken aviana after her death and went into dark magics.

[@silverdarkhawk2539]

She was originally in Raven form as a messenger from Elune to the Wild Gods like Cenarius and Malorne, and then she was transformed to Humanoid (Harpy) Form when she made G'Hanir her home and was called the Mistress of the Mother Tree. While Harpies are originally cursed Women Night Elves during the War of the Ancients, and take the same form as Aviana, does it mean regardless of form they are both in different Faction?

[@aster4jaden]

Hello Nobbel!

[@umberonxd]

W8 wasnt xaviis working for the old gods?

[@shadow5273]

emerald winds is amazing if you can slow fall speed like as a mage

[@tex1337]

or if you combine it with the skyhorn parachu

[@Flirga]

Gotta love druid lore.

[@junderlandgames1186]

can you do some lore on bright wing from hots

[@JesusChrist-gj8ck]

Pretty sure he's done that, I think. He has a couple of videos on the Hots characters, I think Brithwing was in one.

[@junderlandgames1186]

Jesus Christ you're right

[@junderlandgames1186]

omg that sentence

[@simonjs8075]

funny how you say omg to it xD

[@junderlandgames1186]

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[@MagGunDO17]

FLAPPING POWER!!!

[@Pranav-ig9vv]

What does the black Empire rule over exactly ?

[@richardm.garciajr.9930]

There is so much lore

[@mattthewbruce844]

Druid lore is my favorite...god i love world of Warcraft lol

[@DiegoHernandez-vv3iv]

The history of the Great Stonetusk Boar

[@gk4578]

Do next Patches

[@TheAwesomeGorlomi]

Still waiting for lore vids 'bout da zones. I like me some Duskwood.

[@shadisammak1750]

please do the story of zul'jin

[@mojointhedojo938]

waarom heb je nog geen een over neptulon gemaakt

[@Philosmountain]

Nobbel, I still want to sleep...

[@lordmcdude595]

Destromath destroys anyone who hasn't completed their Math homework.

[@elinethewitch8962]

So why do avianna have two models in legion?

[@thehermit8723]

When she attaks she takes a predator's form.

[@kclegolasgreenlaf]

I didn't know that she's so cool

[@guerinbalkovec1946]

i feel like if you published the scripts you use in a play format where you are the narrarator you could find much success.

[@BenBenTSM]

potential new HotS hero?

[@RN_Dreemurr]

FINALLY HER

[@CallMeNoa]

My winged children fill the skies!

[@svetoslavmarinov8038]

great story telling if it was only understandable for people that dont know the lore :(

[@EJsGameplay]

Wowhead so full of ads they're spilling over into GOOD WoW content producers.

[@vladimirseven777]

So by not playing game and not destroying falcosaurs I actually do a good thing to Aviana. Good to know.

[@ConnorNotyerbidness]

Fun fact lyessa is voiced by the one, the only Jennifer Hale of mass effect and swtor fame

[@WinterShrinkage]

Nobbel, Aldor Peacekeeper

[@simonpauwels7853]

Perfect fucking timing

[@LyraGluten]

DADDY NOBBELL IS HOME

[@memedankerson4507]

one question what would happen if like a human and an orc fall in love and shit does a romeo and Juliet happen or ._.

[@markdabluepanda7930]

I wish she had some relevance to moonkin, is there even a moonkin wild god?

[@riotangel4701]

I miss that toy.

[@sumerian88]

I like Nobbel but I dont understand why he likes to pause in the following way ''Members of the Green Dragonflight, they discovered a gift''. Why can't he say''The members of the Green Dragonflight discovered a gift.''

[@ConnorNotyerbidness]

The ermald winds toy is much better on a mage using slow fall. U can go MUCH farther