The Story of Sanctum of Domination [Lore]

We tried our best, but the jailer got his hands on all the sigils of the Eternal Ones. Only 1 key remains, the Arbiter is the final key so it is time to gather our forces and make a desperate assault upon the Sanctum of Domination. Together we climb the jailers seat of power, but will we be able to stop him?! I hope you'll enjoy ^_^
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Intro 0:00 - 0:44
The Tarragrue 0:45 - 3:10
The Eye of the Jailer 3:11 - 4:41
The Nine 4:42 - 7:29
Soulrender Dormazain 7:30 - 10:31
Remnant of Ner'zhul 10:32 - 15:30
Painsmith Raznal 15:31 - 16:51
Crown of Gorgoa 16:52 - 18:36
Guardian of the First Ones 18:37 - 20:38
Fatescribe Roh-Kalo 20:39 - 22:33
Kel'Thuzad 22:34 - 24:27
Sylvanas Windrunner & Beyond 24:28 - 34:22
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[@drowzydullahan]

Every time I see Kel'thuzad I can't help but think "How many times do we need to teach you this lesson old man?!"

[@SquareViking]

His voice sounds younger every time he dies. Perhaps we'll end up fighting him as a baby?

[@sergiovergaramontemiranda2116]

@@SquareViking i mean he its a lich he can just change his body and i wouldnt matter

[@monkeysk8er33]

To be fair, Kel'thuzad became more powerful over time. Every time we have fought him, he has been stronger than the last time. Unfortunately for him, so have we.

[@sergiovergaramontemiranda2116]

@@monkeysk8er33 to be fair we since his second death we beated A big ass armored angry dragon on old god steroids than let to a event as BIG as the sundering (persist even today) A fragmented old god through out all a continent The Fucking burning Legion (with their minions, generals and gods against us ) Full free old god in the seat of power of the Black empire. In comparason a overpower lich its not much

[@rafaelveiga91]

He is mage..so it's never gonna be enough LOL

[@2dumd2live]

Considering all Ner'zhul went through, it's a miracle he can still form coherent sentences

[@m0002856]

Hardly. I think he mostly just screams that no one escapes the jailer.

[@sergiovergaramontemiranda2116]

@@m0002856 that and his pre/post fight monologo. Still its impresive than a normal orc shaman stood the anger/torture of 2 otherworldly beings (a warlock alien buffed by the Devil and Death itself) for x amount of years and still sentient.

[@HHLucifer666]

Kil’jaeden: *imma just rip this mans skin off* Ner’zhul: *is bones* Kil’jaeden: I like him better with skin on actually... *puts Ner’zhuls skin back on* Also kil’jaeden: nah I’ll just take it off and put it back on a bunch of times till I get bored...

[@JordanWilson2209]

@@sergiovergaramontemiranda2116 literally what I thought when he started speaking 😂

[@animelytical8354]

Nobbel casually pointing out all the wasted potential in the Sanctum lore

[@NonsensicalSpudz]

wasted potential basically wow nowadays

[@horus5837]

Bfa Magni: Champion! SL Bolvar: WE WILL STOP YOU

[@jshadowhunter]

Sylv: "I will never serve." Jailor: "B1tch, you've been serving me for like 3 expansions... the joke's on you."

[@metaknight281]

yeah honestly like i dont get it. what exactly made sylvanas change her mind? she literally was working towards this goal ever since cata. Did I miss something?

[@LukeOBrien92]

@@metaknight281 it was a means to an end she thought he was going to unmake the cycle of death but he wants to completely remake reality for everything to serve him, which she is not down with

[@bastalam]

@@LukeOBrien92 still served him though man. There was no hint of any of this "co-conspirators" in game. Jailor ordered and Slyvanas followed suit. At this point you are just arguing how to pronounce potato the correct way lol

[@LukeOBrien92]

@@bastalam go back through the cinematics and tell me how many times Sylvanas says "we" or "our" she thought they were working together. Of course she follows what we think are orders, it's his plan after all

[@bastalam]

@@LukeOBrien92 so what? You can still work for someone and follow their orders and still use we/our goal "ie, real world job". We don't think its "orders" it is. Seeing as there wasn't any scene or mention of once rejecting his "orders" it's safe to assume she is following his will and "orders". On flip side we seen how jailor treats his allies/underlings. You either submit to him or be mind controlled, there is no 3rd option. Sense Slyvanas isn't being mind controlled she has submitted to him. You can go about partnership all you want but there is no proof of it in game. Slyvanas is another underlying for the jailor and many proof of that is shown in game. For god sake not once did they show how Slyvanas even believed this guy in the first place with being the type of person she is. She just went along with it based on his words? Slyvanas? Yea ok

[@greenelf444]

So hold up. No show down for kael’thas and kel’thuzad. No I’m depth explaining of kel’thuzad’s motives. No show of loyalty to Arthas, just more of the whole oh yeah jailer bro. It feels like the jailer is just a lesser sargeras.

[@Pelagion98]

When was the last time when the characters sat down and explained something in depth, instead of the cutscenes just juggling keys in front of you?

[@jozokrstanovic9040]

well they ruined everything. It makes no sense. Take Kel'Thuzad for example. He was a scourge necromancer that served Ner'zhul. Then he went and made Arthas the Lich King and became a lich. Then he served Arthas as his most faithful servant for a loong time. Then in Shadowlands he says he's serving the Jailor, but at the same time Ner'zhul failed the jailor cause Arthas became LK, but if KT made Arthas LK and Jailor didn't want Arthas to be LK then why the F did KT help Arthas become LK. IT MAKES 0 SENSE. They destroyed the lore of so many characters just to drive the game on nostalgia for those characters, when they could easly create new characters or atleast less obvious ones.

[@Groxigar]

Thrall and Jaina are on 2 very different levels when they’re fighting Sylvannas. Jaina- “Surrender please” Thrall- “Diiieeeeeeee”

[@ArlongSun]

Good cop, bad cop ;). Jaina has motive to plea for Anduin. Thrall is just done with her- he let the Wrathgate slide, he left her to destroy his Horde to grow wheat.

[@ArlongSun]

@@elpanderohabanero2915 Thrall is allowed to retire, have wife and kids. After Green Jesus, Blizzard did the sensible thing and moved him out of the lime light. People whined about him killing Garrosh, and now are whining he came back. There is no pleasing the player base.

[@AlexPastGrey]

@@elpanderohabanero2915 If you were Thrall, would you choose golden, fresh, home grown stalks of whole wheat or a bunch of randos who are probably tired of you

[@admiraldesto2170]

Sylvanas: gets a dumb excuse for committing mass genocide and looks like she gets a redemption arc Garrosh: fuck you, I was right and you were wrong

[@gallifreyaninquisition4672]

No shit that's the entire storyline xD

[@maybeitsyou1317]

@@Saintedlight They couldn't afford a proper death animation for her . Bobby need money.

[@Abby-lx9yi]

@@Saintedlight what

[@bastalam]

@@Abby-lx9yi he is right. Wasn't it odd that all allied races leader were all females in bfa? Ever since they started this woke shit in blizz story has suffered greatly by it

[@TheControlBlue]

The only reason they made Sylvanas the Warchief was because she is female. Lor'Themar, Baine would have made great warchiefs, and would have been in theme with what the Horde is. All the events in BFA and Shadowlands could have been wrote without Sylvanas being the Warchief, the only one that needs her is the burning of Tel'Drasil and that could have been done by a lieutenant or a third faction trying escalate War (remnants of the Black dragonflight for example). But hey, whatever that story was done a long time ago..

[@Piromysl359]

Sylvanas: *Yo, Jailer. How many souls shall we deny their fair judgement today and torture into submission?* Jailer: *...serve...* Sylvanas: *>:[*

[@devonchafe2764]

I guess even banshees get PTSD, serve was a trigger word

[@mokarokas-1727]

@@devonchafe2764 - She didn't have a problem with it when forcing Anduin to "be made to serve"...

[@devonchafe2764]

@@mokarokas-1727 yeah but that wasn't directed at her, so, ya know. Pick and choose

[@cleonasedai]

@@mokarokas-1727 with all those side eyes she's giving him I am beginning to wonder if they made some plans together

[@vaquinhadaora676]

@@mokarokas-1727 Actually she had, but she tried to brush it out and ignore it, pay attention to her facial expressions in the cutscenes with Anduin. Not saying that this makes everything good writing, but she did hesitate.

[@datlobstaguygenius1792]

I think anduin dropping the compass signifies that he has literally no control over himself any more, in contrast to arthas, who still had some humanity left and still carried jaina’s locket

[@Archon3960]

Another take on that part is that Arthas willingly threw his humanity away while Anduin was forced into it.

[@mahdy101]

Kel'thusad: Naxx was merely a setback

[@nicholaskinkaid]

spelling his name like that made me think he was sad =(

[@sergiovergaramontemiranda2116]

Dragonblight was merely a setback

[@PizzaFreaak]

Andorhal was also merely a setback

[@Zach-sx8cm]

Lol “Naxx just setback”

[@Ryukai-san]

I love the look of that fractal portal design that's behind Zovaal during the cutscene, the lighter glowing top fractal layer look like a bunch of fancy clock hands you'd see on an old pocket watch :D

[@Mysticalzelda]

It was an honor raiding with you! I love your videos!

[@TheBjartulf]

actually died less than some of our raiders it seemed xD

[@Mysticalzelda]

@@TheBjartulf And was doing mechanics when people wanted to log

[@TheBjartulf]

classic!

[@morbid1.]

Sylvanas: you will all die 10 min later Sylvanas: spare them, it's a cut scene after all dude... Ladies and gentlemen - blizzard's writing team Clap

[@SwissSareth]

Writing TEAM? Writing intern, more like.

[@Reyil01]

Sylvanas after 4 years of serving the Jailor: "I WiLl NeVeR SeRvE"

[@thecommentguy9380]

@@Reyil01 Syl serving the dude who's made no attempt of hiding the fact that HE orchestrated her suffering gets triggered and betray him when he says "serve"

[@lamebubblesflysohigh]

@@SwissSareth even more likely an AI... by the looks of it they used chatbot to write this crap.

[@bookbagfox]

Does anyone else think it’s really lame that they’re retconning half of the villains in the lore to be working for the jailer? No one is ever allowed to just be doing shit because they want to in WoW.

[@Diree]

I bet in 5 expansions (if the game survives) we'll have a new big bad and it's going to be "revealed" that this one pulled all the strings all along. It's really just lazy writing, but maybe that's an MMORPG issue and that's why I quit anyway. Warcraft 3 had a good self-contained story ... after that it got messy.

[@Diree]

​@Episode Update The Shadowlands themselves are a major retcon of the original lore. And yes, they ARE changing stuff just to fit into their next narrative. To your question: Retconning means retroactively making changes to fit the current narrative. Like, Sylvanas always planned to betray the Horde even "20 years" ago, when they had no idea what they'd do with Sylvanas. So they're giving her a new backstory that sort of fits her actions in the past, but not really. I doubt they even knew why she'd be selected as warchief a few years ago. My problem with "retconning" is that it's alright if it enriches the universe, but it's shit to just "explain" stuff away that wasn't even remotely hinted at. A recent example would be a big reveal in "7 Deadly Sins", anime show, that just feels like "well, yeah, they just thought of that, instead of thinking of it from the start". And that differentiates good from mediocre stories mostly.

[@showmemoviesnow]

@Episode Update If the shadowlands are such an important part of the lore why have they never been mentioned before this xpac?

[@showmemoviesnow]

@Episode Update Myb, it seems the idea of some vague shadow-lands has been around for a while. Regardless, the fact that I have played every warcraft game starting with the original when I was a kid and didn't even really know it existed until this expansion is a problem. It's not just me, most people had not idea it was really a thing until recently. The wow lore is so bloated and full of crap even someone like myself who has been following it since the start can't even keep up with everything.

[@showmemoviesnow]

@Episode Update Like i said it's not just me a lot of people are confused with the direction of the lore. tbh I'm not sure it's entirely blizzard's fault, there's only so much you can do in an mmo story with a franchise that's almost 30 years old.

[@greyworld6242]

I have the feeling we’re going to see arthas real soon next. Kel’thu freaking zad! Lol 23:40 interesting that the last key looks like a symbol of infinity. Or something like the Ouroboros cycle symbol.

[@Xalocin]

That symbol is all over oribos so it’s not necessarily important

[@jshadowhunter]

As in INFINITY stone.

[@Pelagion98]

I hoped to see Arthas this expansion. Now I PRAY he will not be ruined like the rest.

[@itonieshi]

Kinda feel like Arthas is gonna be the one that somehow pulls Anduin out of being dominated honestly. They'll want a redemption arc.. What better redemption than saving the new version of himself?

[@ZrodyApo]

Garrosh's end remind me of Illidan when he refused to be lightbound (Rejection of the Gift cutscene, one of the best in WoW), saying a big F you to those who wanted them to submit. And that's why it works with them imo, they stayed true to their characters and their beliefs

[@Manganization]

Garrosh's end makes me sad, because now I'll never see his character again.

[@alihorda]

yeah, I fucking hated garrosh and weird he never acknowledged his sins and he even said he would do it again. however it is true to his character and died to his own honor

[@SagittariusSisyphus]

Main difference being Illidan has been a good guy all along and did things to save his people even if he had to be seen as the Bterayer (ala Batman) while Gary is stubborn as a mule and apparently just an evil warmonger as he showed us. Good riddance (but yeah he at the very least kept being consistent which is rare in this new lore).

[@jshadowhunter]

@@SagittariusSisyphus NO, Garry becoming a warmonger was a result of whiners complaining they didn't like the status-quo of the Horde changing to a guy who'd be more than willing to go to war for the sake of the Horde and not be a constant pacifist, especially because Thrall was collectively punishing his own people for the sins of the past by forcing them to live in a place where they could barely survive. Hence they hit him with a "not-see" stick in Cata-Mop transition.

[@SagittariusSisyphus]

@@jshadowhunter well even in WotLK he was a rather aggressive fellow, what changed most was his conception of honor. Blizzard was unable to write a warmongering character that still has a honor code.

[@Smokie1523]

I wish blizz loved and handled their own lore as well as you do...

[@Smokie1523]

@Episode Update Strongly disagree.

[@Smokie1523]

All im sayin is if blizz cared as much as nobbel, they wouldnt be dealing with all the disappointed fans and poor numbers.

[@Smokie1523]

@Episode Update what? People disliking story is another issue? Thats exactly what my comment was about.... i never said that was the ONLY reason, but yeah, its definitely part of the reason for plenty of people. The drought, gameplay not being very engaging, shitty narrative, fun and enjoyment just arent there for a lot of folks, myself included. Those arent all of the reasons that drove their massive engagement numbers down, but theyre some. As far as that whole 'in my head if blizz does something different than i expected its bad' i loved mop. That was essentially blizz tryin to show they could make new lore instead of relying on all the established shit from prior games like the war3 etc. And mop was much better recieved than sl. Bfa and shadowlands just dont feel that well thought out, they keep shitting on well established loved characters and it seems to be for no reason really. So, yeah, its not our fault they make poor choices and odd decisions with their lore, but it is up to us to let them know when something is wrong, otherwise you cant expect them to learn from a mistake if they dont know it was a mistake in the first place. I say this cuz its time people stop trying to defend the undefendedable. It only hurts the game to keep trying to defend the mistakes they keep, seemingly intentionally, repeatedly making. I love this game. I mean that from the bottom of my heart. Ive met a lot of great friends and great people on wow. Ive had more fun than i can even remember playing wow with those friends. I DO NOT want to see wow, or blizzard fail, and turn into a joke, a cautionary tale of what happens when you totally turn your back on your playerbase and forsake all that your game and company ever stood for.. but thats exactly what is happening, even tho theres so many people trying to help give them the information that blizzard needs to succeed. I know its nerdy, lame, and pathetic to hear some loser bitch about the good old days of a damn game, but it means something to some people. Unfortunately those people dont work at blizz or have any effect or control on the game anymore..

[@eXcaligore]

I really love the jailers transmog

[@bladestorm337]

Imagine defeating Sylvanas and now she has to stand trial in Pandaria for her crimes.

[@m0002856]

It’s okay. There we will mete out justice for all! Let’s hope there aren’t any treacherous bronze dragons with time portals despite the fact that all of the dragons lost their magical powers except we also retconned that when we decided that all the dragons still had cool magical powers anyway but sometimes they don’t I dunno we just do whatever we feel like. Ysera: “Our powers are gone” Also Ysera: “I’m still classified as a wild god tho despite supposedly being a normal regular dragon again teehee.”

[@pandaprewmaster325]

Lol imagne her getting back to her normal life form

[@BartvG88]

@@m0002856 I never saw that cutscene as 'our powers are 100% completely gone" but more "our powers are diminished, we are no longer dragon aspects, but we still are ancient motherfucking dragons.

[@BT-hn5xm]

Let me guess, Sylvanas gonna turn into super sayan and destroy the jailer at the end of expansion and visit Anduin in a bar.

[@alexashton6501]

ROFL

[@houseviking4352]

@@alexashton6501 I bet she will die liberating Anduin. This will fuel the eventual Scarlet Crusade plotline

[@bladestorm337]

No she's gonna get trial in Pandaria for her crimes against it's people.

[@alexashton6501]

@@houseviking4352 so the reason this is funny is because Kerrigan and Sylvanas's stories are very similar - a point Blizzard knows because one of Sylvanas's poke lines in Heroes of the Storm goes on about how she thought she was the only person to go through everything she went through "and then [she] met Kerrigan"

[@KingofAwesomness14]

LOL!! this is glorious!!

[@MrMoarpienao]

Garrosh’es voice actor killed it

[@FutureOverYou]

Sylvanas is 100% gonna sacrifice herself to save Anduin and go out a hero and she doesn't deserve it.

[@tyrayentali7041]

And no one besides Danuser and the other Sylvanas simps will ever think so. Especially because they pump her with too much plot armor and plot holes to fit the narrative. She has become a genuinely annoying character.

[@Kozuu7]

I think she takes the Jailer's old job instead.

[@wmzer0mw]

no, blizz wouldnt toss out slyv; shes going to be redeemed and come back 3 expans later as a hero again or some corny crap

[@Rpground]

If you heard the leaks, they were planning on making Sylvanna the new Arbiter...

[@tyrayentali7041]

@@Rpground Imagine Sylvanas gets to judge other souls. 🤣

[@alpacalord]

Blizzard really needs new writers

[@pandaprewmaster325]

True

[@Ar1AnX1x]

I mean these are new writers they're just bad at hiring the most talented and Blizzard doesn't attract the best anymore considering for example how they tell their employers that being able to work at Blizzard is part of their pay and they get paid less money because of the prestige real artists just don't stand for that kind of Corporate shit as far as I know if you tell a great talented writer that "they're lucky working at Blizzard" there's no way they'd want to work at such a creepy place

[@Kozuu7]

New writers are kind of the issue here, they haven't been there from the start and miss a lot of Lore details from Warcraft games/old books/old cutscenes etc.

[@chrisaustin9949]

I thought it was a good story. Apparently there are hundreds of thousands happy enough to keep playing the game.

[@alpacalord]

@@chrisaustin9949 there are also literally millions that left because of it lmao

[@fellipemelo9287]

It's SO GOOD to look at a screen with no addons. So clean.

[@dornfist3913]

Awesome video! I love how Garrosh is unapologetic to the end lol.

[@netherlord.mondian]

Thank You Nobbel something to watch before going to bed ♥️

[@Zach-sx8cm]

Nobbel holy sh*t dude…. “5 keys to lead the way, 5 torches to light our path”

[@Dantarn]

Can we delete Sylvanas and have Denathrius as our villain again

[@I__--]

I think it's safe to say that this expansion unfortunately is a complete miss

[@andreware2039]

This raid is fun, so far. However, when our guild was in there it ended up turning into a roast session of Bolvar. We couldn't even help it. It was too much to pass up 😅

[@Xalocin]

Dude has taken more Ls than anyone in Warcraft history.

[@Rougesteelproject]

He's already been roasted by the flame of life. Leave the poor guy be.

[@JkaBG]

early bird get the lore

[@PhoenixIsTrash]

Alternate reality, we save the soul of Garrosh and turn him against Sylvanus. The actual well written warchief gets a redemption arc despite the warcrimes he committed and Azeroth lives happily ever after without the 17 new Sylvanus books, 3 spinoff games, 9 visual novels, 12 new Funkopops, 7614 Sylvanus t-shirt designs, Sylvanus mount, Sylvanus cape, 4 more Sylvanus expansions plus an additional 3 hearthstone expansions, and finally the statue of liberty sized Sylvanus statue currently under construction at Blizzard HQ.

[@rontrezbeaugard8212]

Cooking chicken tacos and listening to lore

[@Spyrit2011]

I hope they don't bring back Varian, because Varian's soul was destroyed by fel magic, Anduin's mother however....

[@animelytical8354]

Confirmed his actual soul was destroyed there?

[@aomcastor2]

Remember that Anduin saw his father when he recovered Shalamayne. So he might come back.

[@Spyrit2011]

@@aomcastor2 The soul is destroyed, you know those soul shards locks have?

[@aomcastor2]

@@Spyrit2011 Oh shit, you are right.

[@MaryJane-wk1ni]

@@Spyrit2011 HIS MOTHER DOEEEEEEE

[@TheHorreK2]

This writing is so over the place... i mean it feels like the writers themselfs dont know what to do with sylvanas

[@TheHorreK2]

@@thecommentguy9380 yup they are long gone and honestly the writing went downhill already a long time ago. Best examples on top of my head: - Grommash at the end of WoD cheering with the people he previously genocided like they forgave all his crimes. - Garrosh doing a whole 180 on his princibles. - Arthas supposedly murdering Ner`Zhul and his "good" side in his mind to take control over the Helm of Domination while the game itself contradicts this multiple times. - The horde being completly fine with starting yet another War in BfA - Blizz saying we are stuck in the Shadowlands lorewise and dont go out till its over, yet there is a quest with reacting NPCs to create portals towards Maincitys and characters from azeroth frequently visit us. I dont know what goes wrong inside blizzard but it honestly feels like the writers dont even talk to each other, they write their scripts, turn it in and dont care at all what the rest of the team does. It so strange how totally all over the place the lore and writing became all the way since the end of Wrath.

[@dylanrigby-crawley7908]

"Every soul can be redeemed if it wants to be" quoted by the accuser in a random voice line when interacting, hence why garrosh was sent to the maw he is too prideful, having no regrets when he should

[@bigdanbilzan]

im pretty sure he was in revendreth first

[@dylanrigby-crawley7908]

@@bigdanbilzan yea obviously lol, but he didn't atone so he's in the maw

[@DsiakMondala]

I wouldn't have regrets if I was right either.

[@Keira_Blackstone]

@@DsiakMondala I can never tell if the 'Garrosh did nothing wrong' crowd are all massive trolls just trying to get a rise out of people, or if they genuinely think that one of the most vile shitheads in a game full of vile shitheads was really a good guy.

[@TheRealCeeJai]

14:15 "What an opportunity there was to use Shadowlands to retcon part of and add more to Ner'zhul's story that didn't need to be clarified or there in the first place just to fit the new narrative of THE JAILER."

[@thepurplebox380]

Did they change Bolvar's voice actor? I miss his voice from the WotLK ending cinematic.

[@seanh1321]

According to Wowpedia its the same VA.

[@mokarokas-1727]

They change the effects on his voice every patch it seems, same as the Lich King.

[@emiliooberg2156]

i had a similar reaction to Sylvanas some time ago. Same actors tho, I like when the ''enhance'' the voice's eg Bolvar for sh trailer, but it feel stupid to downgrade it after w.e.

[@zenobios_]

I know for sure they changed the voice actor for kael'thas sunstrider in patch 9.1, the new one is not as good but blizz have their reasons for it.

[@adamhunter9053]

Thanks for the video baldie, appreciate it x

[@asuuron]

What happend to Genn Graymane, I thought that he also wants revenge on Sylvanas for killing his son 🤔

[@twelvezeros]

He didn't come to the shadowlands

[@akachi6331]

Blizzard story team kinda forgot about him...and most of the storylines. :D

[@ArlongSun]

Some leaders had to stay behind to run things on Azeroth. Turelyon is holding the throne in Anduin's absence. Genn has decide to go of on his own to help Andiun he ever he can on Azeroth. I wonder if Genn is going to track down the new Scarlett Crusader threat that proclaims Anduin as traitor and seek to install a Menethil on the throne.

[@bastalam]

He stayed behind but you can bet some heard him yell Slyvanas' name when she yeeted away every time.

[@joeykillick5618]

@@ArlongSun can’t be much going on in Azeroth anymore. BC gone, old gods gone (or so we think) horde and alliance not currently at war, undead basically stuck in northrend. It seems with every wow expansion they use a set of “hero” npcs and then drop them for the next expansion. Saying that Jaina played absolutely no part in BFA apart from two minutes at the start of Naj.

[@acphantom6437]

Sylvanas is one thing but looking back this was really cool

[@bloodmight8490]

One of my biggest gripes with the current lore is them retconning stuff that they don't need to. They don't need kel'thuzad to be aware of everything. They don't need the jailor to be the one behind everything. They don't need so much. What they need is to establish their own new characters that don't ride on the backs of past lore in order to justify their own existence. It makes things messy and cheapens the hole timeline imo

[@Xalocin]

That’s the problem. Blizzard writers are completely incapable of creating new interesting characters which is why they milk the shit out of already established ones.

[@aomcastor2]

It's like Disney writers, they cannot leave a stone unturned. Look at Cruella for example, they ended up explaining why she says what she says, how she acts, etc. Basically leaving her without a character but a blank sheet that copied from others.

[@peterxu4999]

Soooo true

[@peterxu4999]

@@Xalocin Exactly. Kinda sad that they have to retcon stuff to create new characters and stories that are not boring

[@H240909]

No, a retcon would be like going back and out right pretending something didn’t happen or happened in a way completely different to how we saw it. This is not a retcon, this is just adding new lore. Everything that happened previously still happened exactly the same as before.

[@carrastealth]

Nobbel's sarcasm during all this as he pokes holes in how many retcons the developers have done just to try to tell this 'story' is amazing XD Pretty much "oooh given all this lore.. what a perfect opportunity to delve into this...BUUUUT they didn't! so here we are."

[@cainabel6356]

Everytime I see the ending of the raid, I always think that the writers are the most incompetent morons ever. We all know that the Sylvanas hated being a slave when she was enslaved by Arthas. You would think that she would have been able to figure out it was the Jailer that was the one behind it all. Beside that, the writing is horrible. Zovaal won. All he needs to do is just push the right buttons and that is all.

[@dinosmore8845]

Awesome video man!

[@imtoogoodatpvp1252]

Thankfully I enjoy fanfiction and this is going in all the directions I want. I'm so happy for Ner'zhul and Garrosh

[@WitherDJ]

god dammit... they seriously gonna give Sylvanas a redemption.

[@Nimezid]

it is funny that Baine just chills on lower floor during the encounter

[@pandaprewmaster325]

Useless guy unlike his father

[@fumarc4501]

The fact Sylvanas didn’t realize that the Jailer was the one who broke the cycle of life and death to begin with is rather… inane.

[@timroach8830]

As usual masterful story telling thank you

[@birb7866]

So I'm confused about the lich king stuff. Kil'jaeden made Ner'zhul the lich king and gave him the helm and sword but the jailer made the helm and the sword? Were the burning legion and the jailer working together?

[@Sorrow993]

Buddy... don't even try to find any logical thinking within WOW lore since Legion. You'll end up in huge disappointment.

[@birb7866]

@@Sorrow993 I thought the lore in Bfa was alright but they've I feel like they've retconned so many things for shadowlands that nothing makes sense anymore

[@allhailderpfestor4839]

@@birb7866 tbh whole BFA is a mess from the start because any1 with more than 2 brain cell would realize Slyvanas's plan to do a faction war right after both faction lost insane amount of people and resource to Legion is absolutely shitty idea. So entire Horde agreeing to mobilize on a war is already bullshit. The actual zone story of Zandalar and Kul Treas were okay and I would consider them as only redeeming part of BFA story. Then they butcher Naga and N'zoth,two of biggest and most anticipated threat left in Azeroth, into single patch chores. Meanwhile Slyvanas is being impatient bitch and ultimately fail her goal by placing herself on a position where she can't no longer be leader of the horde and keep the war going. I personally think BFA lore is worse than WoD lore which is saying a lot considering like half of WoD lore was cut out on final game.

[@corbin_4738]

@Triple A That still makes no sense. For several reasons, of which I'll condense into the two most important ones in my opinion. 1) If the Dreadlords were servants of the Jailer when they told Nerzhul of the Helm of Domination and Frostmourne, then where did they get that info? The Jailer? I ask this because the Jailer had to torture the Runecarver to get that information *during this expansion.* That entire torture cutscene is null and void then. 2) Dreadlords are cunning and devious. Everything they do is deception. I'm guessing they don't really trust anyone. Would they really have worked with the Jailer to give him ultimate power over everything and not expect a doublecross? Theu should realize that him having all that power merely puts their existence at risk. --- 3) [for shits'n'gigs] Dreadlords are Nathrezim who exist in the Twisting Nether. It has been explained that the beings who exist in the Nether cannot physically die. Their body goes back to the Nether is all. Is why they have an endless army. So how is Sire Denathrius in the land of the dead? He can't kill himself to get there. Did he open a portal that Sargeras was never aware of? That none of the Titans were ever aware of? That no other being except the Nathrezim knew about? That seems a little far-fetched, because even in the Shadowlands they should have been asking who the hell Denathrius was and what was he doing there when he first got there.

[@pandaprewmaster325]

Man the whole jailer is piece of sheeet get me back the idea of the lich king in the control and no jailer

[@ThallanarRabidtooth]

It sucks they didn't keep the voice of Kel'Thuzad from Hearthstone. I think it sounds too whiny in this version.

[@petterituovinem8412]

Yeah it's not the original voice

[@dantoki6371]

I think it's the original voice actor, they just simply wrote KT as a parody of himself and that's why he comes across as a different person.

[@m0002856]

I think it’s the same guy actually. They directed him differently and used a different effect. He had a different voice actor in Wrath than he did in Vanilla (the Vanilla one was the same as WC3 and Hearthstone). They probably changed him specifically in Wrath because he not only has always been the voice actor for Uther (seriously check it if you don’t believe me: it’s the same guy) they ALSO had him voice the Lich King in Wrath and later. I guess they didn’t feel like using the same guy for everything. They had a weird clickey echo effect on his voice in Wrath, however, and it seems they decided to use the same effect again but with the original voice actor. He’s also portrayed much more cowardly than in the past, though that could be because he knows he’s going to die since his phylactery was destroyed.

[@pandaprewmaster325]

He sounds kinda cartonish now

[@bearok89]

@@m0002856 the dude who voiced vanilla KT and Lich King also voiced Deathwing, he really seems to be their pick everytime they need this badass voice

[@BanzaiBenzai]

Blizz saw Thanos in the Avengers, changed the reality stones with sigils, and called it a day.

[@DsiakMondala]

BfA was with game of thrones. You are correct and it's not funny.

[@HikingFeral]

The weather is turning, stay sharp!

[@lolosh99]

Shadowlands, the expansion of missed opportunities.

[@DoftheLin]

That's been the story since Cata 😂

[@kaikideishuu536]

How? It's been amazing so far

[@MintyCoffee]

@@DoftheLin Not really.

[@MintyCoffee]

@@kaikideishuu536 Amazing if you don't think of it as Warcraft. Sylvanas has been shit, Baine has been forgotten, and Zovaal is a terrible villain.

[@kaikideishuu536]

@@MintyCoffee Sylvie just doesn't want to spend an eternity in hell because of an unjust afterlife system, Baine has never been an interesting character to begin with literally who cares about Baine xD, Zovaal is awesome so far we literally don't know enough about him to judge him yet other than that all the covenant leaders are morons who banished him because they wanted to rule the shadowlands themselves instead of having a just system which is what he presumably wanted initially and not to mention Denathrius is awesome too we get to learn what the dreadlords are and that he has been planning so many things in the background for ages it's literally still wow people are just nostalgia driven and if it isn't muh azeroth or outland they don't consider it good shadowlands have been mentioned in lore for many years and that we finally get to see what it really is is awesome and it'll only get better as they reveal more about the overall plot because shadowlands in the cosmology map is a very small insignificant part of it

[@McLean757]

The Jailer "killed" the Arbiter and yet we still don't know what broke her in the first place

[@Connoisseur7184]

a powerful soul. This was known since the very beginning... Dunno how you missed that.

[@Seler213]

"a powerful soul". Might as well say "something deadly". Doesn't sound like an in-depth explanation to me.

[@aureliodeprimus8018]

@@Seler213 Judging by the color my personal theory is this was the soul of Argus, the Unmaker. But even if it proves to be true, it doesn`t really matter anymore. WC3 custom campaigns have more coherent storylines than WoW at this point. Even the joke/parody ones.

@@aureliodeprimus8018 I've downloaded a Final Fantasy RPG custom map for WC3 which had a new story made by 2 people... better than this by miles.

[@acphantom6437]

The Jailer worked with Denathrius and Denathrius launched an anima missile at the arbiter

[@DefaultDanielS]

Man I really love these videos

[@teodorpetrov4242]

yeah - let us take all the characters we know and love , who already had fleshed out motivations and good or goodish stories and just slap a "HEY THEY WERE THE JAILER"S ALL ALONG" and honestly that thing can never command what the Lich King did. It is just a tool to play on your knowledge and tug on nostalgia - "see you remember this one right - well actually...."

[@gneoz7238]

I still don't know how they are gonna fix Sylvanas. All of this are so bad. THINK SYLVANAS! THINK!

[@SagittariusSisyphus]

It's pretty clear, she wasn't whole, she kept only the empty and vengeful side of her while all compassion, empathy and good will was sealed away in the crystal, now she has changed and is good again.

[@bastalam]

@@SagittariusSisyphus than why the constant shit face when she looks at anduin? Why care what happens next? Come on dude stop drinking jailor coolaid wake up.... It's just horrible writing.

[@SagittariusSisyphus]

@@bastalam Ithi k the sarcastic tone is t easy to translate in writing. Anyway my wasn’t a justification, it was just what Blizzard is going to say in order to give her the redemption they want. It’s bad writing but they will do it anyway.

[@bastalam]

@@SagittariusSisyphus Yea which sucks cause the lore was never this bad nor the story.

[@SagittariusSisyphus]

@@bastalam the whole raid lore is trash tier. Nothing new on Ner’zhul, no answers and destruction of previous set lore.

[@kikiohearts]

Man. That Garrosh. Hes such a good character. My Tauren used to look up to him as a young one still in Nagrand

[@DsiakMondala]

Garrosh be based af ngl

[@greyngreyer5]

Loved that "magic" remark lmao, cuz I said a similar thing right as I read Jaina's totally-not-contrived-explanation-of-a-plot-point.

[@marioelias4267]

Why Bolvar change voices like 3 times in the raid?

[@zenovkayos5811]

So that was not Garrosh, just his rage

[@BleachRush]

Garrosh: FUCK YOU! I AM RAGE!

[@shootnado]

Just the video I needed. Too lazy to grind through the raid :D

[@doug_b330]

Nobbel, will we see Varian again in the Shadowlands as a means of breaking Anduin from The Jailer? Also... where is Baine during this raid? He was one of the few to join us into The Maw originally, and has not done anything since his rescue.

[@OmerSaidtr]

He is still sitting down there and trying to shake off the terrors of the Maw.

[@SagittariusSisyphus]

In Fetal position, eyes closed, singing to himself about rainbows and unicorns.

[@ArlongSun]

In fairness, he was the only one of the 4 captured that the Jailer tortured so much, he was on the verge of perma death like Ursoc.

[@pandaprewmaster325]

Useless baine

[@TheDawnCrusader]

Speaking of Baine, when we gonna see Cairne?? Probably one of my favorite Tauren NPC's

[@jaratt85]

I still don't get how Garrosh got off calling Thrall a coward. Is it purely because he used the elements in their fight? Or is it because he didn't take command in Northrend or left the Horde to do the Earthen Ring thing against Deathwing? There's no sense to calling Thrall a coward. The biggest let down of Shadowlands is definitely the fact that we didn't get the huge amounts of random dead characters that we were expecting to see.. Everyone expects to see Arthas in the Maw, he's nowhere to be found. Everyone hoped to see Broxigar somewhere.. he's nowhere. Everyone hoped to see the Gul'dans together, no go. Some wanted to see Varian, he's not there.. Every Horde hoped to see Cairn and Varok again.. they're nowhere to be found.. And Vol'jin... well I think his story is going to be brought back right before the next expansion and he's going to be the main focus of expansion #7/ 8.0-8.2 or whatever it becomes.

[@NoirRaven]

Thrall is a coward though; he tried hiding in outlands instead of coming to the aid of the horde when they needed him. He ignored Jaina's desperate cries for help for weeks but came at Vol'jin's call. He turned down the mantle of warchief and gave it to a troll just so he didn't have to. He hasn't been good at being an orc since he got married and has been trying to live the human fantasy of a white picket fence life. He also abandoned Garrosh to a pack of old-timers who didn't approve of him and ultimately, sabotaged his efforts at being a good warchief. Then to top it all off, not only did thrall resort to using the elements in their mak'gora, but he then denounced taking any responsibility for the misery that followed his departure from the horde. Garrosh wasn't wrong; none of it would've happened had Thrall not left the horde entirely. It was supposed to be just until Deathwing was taken care of, but Thrall ran and never came back.

[@jaratt85]

@@NoirRaven most of that Garrosh wouldn't know about so it's a non-issue. What happened after Garrosh was killed, doesn't matter, what happened with Jaina doesn't matter, letting Vol'jin take over.. possibly because he would've seen it but really was it a cowardly act? To me no but to Garrosh.. I think Garrosh has a really warped view, especially for someone that was sitting around bitching and moaning and unwilling to act in Outlands during TBC. The only reason he was pulled out of his funk was because of Thrall and Varok. I truly think that it's purely because he stepped aside and made Garrosh Warchief (should've been Saurfang honestly) and used the elements in their fight. Beyond that there's really no reason. Thrall hoped that Garrosh's time with Varok in Northrend would've taught him to be decent but instead he just ended up being a crybaby that would use any power to try to make sure no more orcs died, no matter how corrupting it was... In so many ways Garrosh was far worse than Gul'dan ever was.

[@ciram9082]

@@jaratt85 Garrosh blamed Thrall for everything that happened to him, and called him a coward for giving him the mantle and just running off, leaving the Horde to be a dad.

[@ciram9082]

@@jaratt85 also... Why would you expect and then get disappointed by things they never even mentioned would be included? That's more of a you problem if your falsely inflated expectations aren't met by reality.

[@jaratt85]

@@ciram9082 they literally said during the Blizzcon panels that we'd get to see a lot of characters that we knew that'd either be enemies or show up as random rares out in the environment or be part of the story.. So far I haven't heard of a single rare popping up that's a familiar face.. I think it's another case of Blizz promising things and then never implementing them.

[@jackolantern147]

Honestly, Nerzhul is probably my favorite boss here. If ever there was one that deserved to be within this place, it would be him. The very first Lich king and the one that turned Arthas into what he is.

[@sneaksies8931]

nah guardian kt fatescribe painsmith nine all better fights, nerzhul is alright i guess

[@reddeathop5030]

I feel bad for nerzul he been through so much and he was tricked to become a weapon for two evil masters and now even hell he is only thinks of his wife

[@TheHoboWithAShotgun]

9:24 so what /taunting garrosh dopesnt affect the encouter direftly just gives u an achiervrment if succeed? doersnt trigger a mehcanic?

[@bobbobington3895]

Does anybody ask if Uther is alive again when he gets the rest of his soul back?

[@thedair8999]

So when u die in draenor (wod) do u go to a diff shadowlands

[@Zinazshari32]

Thanks for this.

[@autotwilo]

you know it's going pretty well over here on tbc classic, we know what we're getting so we don't get disappointed

[@xikirito_6809]

Y'all get disappointed every time there is something new added to the story or elaborated on, and then act as if you could write a better story/be a writer for blizzard when the best story you ever wrote was in fifth grade and that was even subpar.

[@showmemoviesnow]

@@xikirito_6809 You don't need to be a master-chef to know shit on a plate when you see it.

[@Curt-ze6hl]

I would pay for a remastered Nobbel catalogue on audio book. lol

[@Korraganitar]

Blizz really needs to have one of the Alliance leaders be the villain for once.

[@thephlegmmaster78]

@Nobbel: could it be that they are referring to The Sepulcher from Silverpine Forest? Do you know (have you checked) if there is someone famous buried there? Or if that place was once some famous place of some sort?

[@Shadowzdota]

Despite our best efforts *hides wild hunt's sigil in the first place anyone would look and literally brings Necrolord sigil to Torghast* Yep... our best efforts

[@DsiakMondala]

BIG BRAIN MOVES

[@FantasyPiano317]

I just did black morass yesterday in bcc after watching the new Shadowlands cinematic. And I was thinking to myself that the portals in the instance are kind of similar to the one Zovaal used to escape. 😅 wonder if that’s just me or if there’s more to it!

[@BartvG88]

time travel portals? is he going back 10.000 years ago and reboot the whole world of warcraft? :P

[@DsiakMondala]

@@BartvG88 He already did, it is already too late.

[@cr103]

Considering the jailers armour has a huge hole ripped in it where the 5th key seemed to float into i'd say it was the jailers key originally and it was taken from him by force.

[@DsiakMondala]

You are correct, the jailer used to be the arbiter.

[@IgnavisInFlames]

Imagine being so convinced that the guy named THE JAILOR gives a shit about freedom that you stake the entire universe on it. This whole Sylvanas arc has just been so... poorly executed. Maybe I am crazy for thinking that, it's easy to say something like that when you don't see the whole picture, but the instant Sylvanas gets what her character has been building to for at least 3 expansions (since Vol'jin made her Warchief) she changes her mind? She literally committed genocide, she subjected countless souls to torture so severe they were obliterated. Everything was staked on one thing: the Jailor's stand-up-guy-ness? This is like when Tom Haverford said "Well hindsight is 20/20" and Leslie Knope responded "I feel like normal sight should have caught that."

[@rahee9482]

I don't really mind blizzards story if they just told it properly, their story telling is absolutely abysmal. They give you a tiny bit every half of a year. Like doing the whole games story is probably only like 30hours of playtime at most. They rely on cliffhangers so much that it sets people up for disappointment because they shouldn't be cliffhangers. They are not that interesting of plot points. Like the motivation of the jailer not being revealed just makes him less of a character to be able to sympathize with, or not telling us what happened to the arbeitr just makes that plot point that she broke completely pointless

[@cosmicguldan6242]

its weird how guardian of the first ones said aberrations are trying to access the sepulcher , could the void be after the sepulcher like zovaal is ?

[@piqueniquetheblooddk8692]

It probably called the jailor’s servents aberrations and not referring to old god aberrations

[@Ayanamist_Q904]

Skipped to the very end (and skipped back to see Garrosh). So I guess it's the "Shadowlands is free!" thing? and Sylvanas has been the hero of justice all along? How rude of us to have mistaken her!

[@zenovkayos5811]

No special events for archeology profession?

[@Jart988]

The only good thing out of this expansion, was Sylvanas facial expressions. Even Garrosh did a "F* this S*"

[@SigmaTheWhiteFlame]

So Sylvannas is working with the same person Kel'thuzad is working for... yeah that makes a lot of sense.

[@tyrayentali7041]

Sylvanas' character stopped making sense for a while.

[@IchCharacter]

Sylvanas.exe stopped working around the end of WotLK. What, was she snorting powdered saronite all day every day since then or something? Never mind, shitty writing is shitty.

[@zh4835]

So it's Infinity War. So creative Blizz.

[@lamebubblesflysohigh]

Coherent and good storytelling in WoW died with the Lich King in 2010.

[@TheyHateShiki]

I bet by the end of the expansion the way to solve the “who controls the scourge on Azeroth” will be having the primus make a new helm of domination and anduin will end up taking the throne.

[@DsiakMondala]

ay lmao

[@thejameslock1]

Great video

[@ArakkoaChronicles]

They really missed a chance when they didn't call the area with the Nine Val'kyr "the Edge of Night".

[@Akomarongg]

i'm telling ye, zovaal used to have the arbiters gig but then had some kind of socratic philosophical issue where like the forsworn he decided it wasn't fair. that was his heresy so they chained him up. hence arbiter is like a robot. also i reckon the eternal ones are more like titan keepers than titans.

[@yousseffandary2833]

If the primus was the one who made the mourneblade and the helmet of damntion, how did leave the maw or the afterlife and end up between the legion hands then azeorth?

[@Zidana123]

They retconned the Nathrezim to be creations of Sire Denathrius and he sent them to infiltrate the Legion And apparently the Nathrezim can portal between any of the realms at will so they gave the Helm to KJ and KJ gave it to Ner'zhul Though I don't think they've thought through their own retcons because now previous plot points are recontextualized into making no sense For example in WC3, Arthas, who is an asset of the Jailer, goes behind the back of Tichondrius, who is an asset of the Jailer, so he can tip off Illidan about the Skull of Gul'dan, so he can kill Tichondrius...? Or in Vanilla WoW in Stratholme, Balnazzar, an asset of the Jailer, is building the Scarlet Crusade as his personal army, and using it to fight against Baron Rivendare, who works for Arthas, who is an asset of the Jailer...?

[@darklordlightgod9348]

I was just wondering if you could make a series of half hour is videos summarizing the lore of entire categories ultra condenced like “lore of heroes (summary)” and “lore of main enemies/creatures (summary)”

[@DustyMiles]

I can't remember if we did or not but Did we ever find out what the red thing was that caused the arbiter to fail? Like a concrete answer and not just speculation?

[@henrikg785]

I hope at the end they craft a new reality where nothing after wotlk has happend 😂

[@tanks608]

for real just hit the freaking reset button.

[@MMiniprize]

final fantasy did it.. kind of ^^

[@sneaksies8931]

mop and legion were banger expansions tho

[@MomsterGirl]

And this is why I thank god that WoW fanboys don't write the lore or design the game 😂😂😂

[@tanks608]

@@MomsterGirl do you think the writing is at peak levels right now? Or do you agree that it is in a pretty bad spot.

[@Ulaidhirish]

You are my favrouite noble i play warcaft a lot i enjoy you telling the stoires of arthas and worgens and i play allilance 🦁

[@TheFlyWahine]

I think it was anduin that got a bit of control from the jailor and threw out the compass.

[@warllockmasterasd9142]

So, Blizzard's excuse for Sylvanas Windrunner to not get that the Guy who is the source of the Lk's Power, planted the Lk upon Azeroth.. Is the LK just bigger and more powerful? is that she's unbelievable ..dumb?

[@pandaprewmaster325]

Yeah dumb blizzard you see the jailer idea is stupid tho

[@BartvG88]

She knew all that, but her end goal was for her not to end up in hell, so she helped the jailer break the system. She knew he was bad, but their alliance was an end to her means.

[@Lucky-yr2ju]

As Sabaton sing: ATTERO! DOMINATUS! Berlin is burning!