How Arthas Felt While Purging Lordaeron - World of Warcraft

[@araposkulo]

The most epic stories are usually the most tragic ones too

[@TheRandomMuffinMan]

egw esu I'm a sucker for the fallen hero stories or seeing the villains point of view.

[@Nimbus3690]

Not usually, but necessarily.

[@MyViolador]

"Remember, Arthas, we are paladins. Vengeance cannot be a part of what we must do. If we allow our passions to turn to bloodlust, then we will become as vile as the Orcs".-Uther lightbringer. Funny thing many paladins in game have a lot of things related to vengeance.

[@samwrai]

'member when Maraad instead of escort a group to flee the city he goes to fight orcs and when he returned all the group was murdered? Pretty much same thing.

[@michlacz23]

human and dwarf paladins is this type of non-vengeance paladins

[@Falamu445]

Yes, white man, funny indeed, just like USA pretends to be "good" in its movies and TV shows, but we all know the truth of what it really does every day.

[@therealoldnosey8689]

It's the light's vengeance :)

[@Amoth_oth_ras_shash]

mhe ,its like how much of the game mechanics and the game lore been re-written by blizz tehse days. the paladins bath in what they claim not to seek ^^ blizz soaks its product in the very heaven/hell evrything always deepends on main character actions wich ther original games plot honeslty..was freshly spared from

[@kristiankristensen6563]

I like the fact that after he took Frostmourne he got cool evil armour

[@Metallicerciful]

Actually it is the same armor he wore as a paladin, but it is modified with some skulls.

[@Viridi_cen_Faba]

Kresse he’s sailor frostmourne. That’s why he changed so fast.

[@Piximae]

Peicho Ivanov holy cow, I never even realized it before now..

[@Tazdingoyahahahahaha]

Peicho Ivanov his hammer was also modified but he himself doesn’t use it

[@yoggz]

I feel like warcraft lore was only meant to last until the end of Wrath of the Lich King and they've been in oh shit mode ever since.

[@voilvelev6775]

Legion was good, too. Too bad we had to go through a time-travel clusterfuck plot to get to it.

[@abhabh6896]

Nah, it was supposed to end at the frozen throne. Everything after that went to garbage. Not only was the story after that turned to shit, they even wrote novels regarding WC3 and WCFT and even defiled that, just so they can completely kill all the joy this game brought. So yeah, you cant even enjoy the WC3 and WCFT story because they went back and ruined that too, they couldnt keep themselves away from doing it. Its all zenimax fault. Every time they get involved with a game they turn it into MMO and game becomes shit after that.

[@voilvelev6775]

@@abhabh6896 what a boring, pathetic, elitist shit take you have there. Literally nothing you said counts as a viable argument, all you did is cry '' ITS BAD CAUSE I DONT LIKE IT< WAAA"

[@cultofmalgus1310]

@@abhabh6896 I liked Legion. Idc what anyone says. As someone who likes orcs I am happy to see their lore expanded in at least one or two Fictional Universes. Usually orcs are just portrayed as bumbling buffoons. But imho my favorite Orcs are the ones created by Blizz, hands down. And I for one discovered my favorite character AFTER WOTLK in Garrosh Hellscream who I absolutely love. To each his own.

[@abhabh6896]

@@cultofmalgus1310 I am not talking about that. Blizzard humanized orcs in WC3, its not a thing done by WoW. If anything WoW undermines everything that happened in WC3 and WCFTwith new conflicts for even shittier reasons.

[@felsgamer]

Am I the only one who actually thinks that Arthas did right with cleaning Stratholme? I mean, he could not prevent his people from changing so he gave them a quick death and at the same time, we prevented the Undead to get more soldiers. It was picking the smaller evil for Arthas and imo he did choose right

[@controbot2557]

felsgamer You're not the only one there

[@SpookyMarine]

felsgamer But even so his faith in the light was practically destroyed that day.

[@SpookyMarine]

Yep both sides were right and wrong at the same time. Uther was right that genocide of an entire city was not right, but Arthas was right for the saftey of Lorderon

[@thanosvasilas4076]

I think that at that point they could not be certain that the entire population of the city would turn into undead. And I think that was also the main tenet of criticism from Jaina when Arthas ordered Stratholme to be purged. Still though, even if Arthas was certain that all habitants of the city would turn into undead it was an immense act of cruelty which furthered Arthas downward spiral.

[@johnrayordas]

Purging Stratholme was a right decision. His mistake was in pursuing Mal'Ganis to Northrend.

[@ToxicGamez]

Something that's also interesting that I didnt mention is that when Arthas ran into Gavinrad, Arthas offered to let him live and to not hurt him if he simply stood aside and let Arthas pass. Gavinrad refused and insulted him which angered Arthas. Arthas then responded by saying that he would kill him, raise him into undeath, strip him of his free will and make him an obedient servant. Despite saying this though, when Arthas killed Gavinrad, he did not raise him into undeath. Instead, he let him enjoy the peace of death. Unfortunately though, his soul was still trapped in frostmourne so thats why the dks see him in their frost campaign

[@glob842]

Is Arthas a goblin?

[@front1327]

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[@sleepydruid100]

Glob actually Arthas is 2 goblins on top of each other :D

[@bearlyrandom4462]

Why did you change your name?

[@thethirdsicily4802]

in the dk frost campaign, by killing the spirits, what happens? Are their souls freed or erased from existance? I ask because I hope Gavinrad is free.

[@VaeVictisXIII]

Stratholm was not a choice, Uther and Jania turned their backs on Arthas at the time where he needed their support more than ever, the fall of Arthas squarely falls at their feet. Alone, no sane man could live with the horrors of what needed to be done at Stratholm.

[@peagames2002]

Yesssss

[@johndanes2294]

It's because Arthas, like Illidan, can't explain shit to other people. Maybe if he explained what the plague does, maybe Uther would find another way to save the city. Paladins have the power of the light after all.

[@AlexAnastaso]

John Danes They betrayed arthas 2 times, that's why he killed his father, passive people do not have a right to judge xDxDxD. He tried 2 purge the scourge while the others acted like pussies, you can not beat an army that raising the dead if you don't kill them before their numbers would be increased. Ofc I would killing this failed family if I was Arthas, (don't forget the story of his sister). Sometimes people that don't undrestand want to judge (Joking but I like Arthas story) (sry for my english)

[@DivineAtheistWannabe]

Let us not forget the biggest sacrifice Arthas made to save the humans from the scourge. He gave up that sweet pussy from Jaina. Now that takes true strength

[@voilvelev6775]

He didnt even consider any other options beside purging. He wasnt thinking clearly. It was not the right choice

[@everyvillainislemons9759]

God if only they could make a movie of this (a good movie, none of that bullshit)... The most epic fictional character of all time!

[@grud.]

EveryVillainIsLemons Star Wars

[@slaughteringgg]

I heard they're planning on making movies for each major turning point or expansion in WoW :)

[@simbadas1234]

i think they'd have to make two movies to cover the reign of chaos and frozen throne story. the only way it would fit into 1 movie, is if they just had arthas's story and ignored everything else, but that would prob lead to confusion, since illadin would seem like he appeared outta nowhere.

[@eustachetraista1776]

EveryVillainIsLemons so like a zombie movie... do you think we nees this?

[@phasepanther4423]

Hell no. Please. I don't trust them with this story. They don't have the right to attempt to ruin it.

[@SNOWSOS]

Yup still my favorite Warcraft character.

[@benedekgabor.]

I just realized that Arthas's story is so familiar to Anakin's story from Star Wars.

[@Metallicerciful]

Its not just familiar it is completely copied from there. Paladis are like the jedi is Star Wars

[@leojohnc.guinid1219]

Reign of Chaos was released in 2002 and Starwars episode 3, where the parallels between Anakin and Arthas killing their own people could be drawn, was made in 2005. The tragic story of a man who descends into madness and pure evil is not uncommon, and the archetype of a warrior monk (Paladins, Jedi, etc.) is often used in pop culture. Warcraft got their concept of the Paladins from Dungeons and Dragons Paladins, not the Jedi of Starwars.

[@tezoro9973]

Night King? Night Walkers? No? Game of Thrones.

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

@topple The story of Vader being a Jedi who betrayed his own and turned to the Dark Side was established in 1977. But the trope of someone good falling in to evil ways because they are consumed by anger and hatred at the lose of something (friend/lover/etc.) goes back much further. Neither Star Wars nor WC3 were the first to do it, they are just two particularity famous examples of it.

[@Kalimdori]

@@tezoro9973 , U know... that Warcraft came way before Game of Thrones right? if i were to say, Game of Thrones is the one who copied WoW

[@smuffinman]

Imagine how powerful the Alliance would have been if Arthas didn't stray too far from the light. He's my favorite character in all of the lore..damn you Frostmourne!

[@thehermit8723]

The first soul that Frostmourne claims is Arthas himself, when he said that he will pay any price if he is to gain the power to kill Mal'Ganis. Arthas felt nothing he said it himself to Tichondrius wen he asked him, no pity no remorse.

[@hazzmati]

Grumpy # retcon

[@thehermit8723]

+hazzmati A pretty bad retconn.

[@ArmorFrogEntertainment]

Grumpy # He could have been lying, unwilling to show weakness to the Nathrazim.

[@thehermit8723]

+hazzmati Actually after Frostmourne was shattered his trapped soul was also released and when the Helm of Domination fell off and the connection with Ner'Zhul shattered even for a moment it was the real Arthas there at his final moments.

[@guifdcanalli]

Hazzmati it was said in the very beggining of undead campaign that arthas WERE the first soul claimed It would be illogical arthas doing everything he did if his werent being slaved by Frostmourne

[@Vanetrik]

Sylvannas wasn't a night elf, she was a high elf :)

[@kearoerick2tan256]

8:02 "the two clashed blades" Uther's hammer: Am I a joke to you?

[@arawn1061]

"We may never know, Uther... I intend to live forever" Or atleast until wow

[@kobnalux9581]

Cool video man! I've always found Arthas' story most interesting because this complex of being a human that has done anything in his power to stop this undead plague and then become the very thing he had so despised before. Arthas' story is through the book, the story in warcraft III and WOTLK are nothing but fantastic!

[@Kolt461]

Funny how Warcraft 3 Paladins have this quote "Strike with great vengeance!"

[@Aerophina]

Love these types of videos. Arthas is by far, my favorite character in all of World of Wacraft. He wasn't just "evil" to be evil. He was a complex person, who believed he was doing the right thing until he had fully succumb to corruption. His story is a dark one about a fallen hero.. A fallen hero Warcraft will never forget. Even to this day, I hold wotlk as my favorite expansion of any game I've ever been able to play. I can definitely see where Arthas felt he did what he had to do.. And in the culling of Stratholme, I really didn't see any alternative myself than to purge the city of infected. The best heroes aren't afraid to take charge when in the darkest of hours.

[@PedroHawk1]

The story of Arthas is my favorite in WoW universe. I really identified with Arthas and Jaina while playing Warcraft 3 and even more afterwards. Their lives taking tragic turns is so sad and yet so satisfying as a story...

[@TheSuperRatt]

Arthas was right to initiate the purge of Stratholme. He saw the unimaginable pain, fear and cruelty of what it meant to become undead. It is far more merciful to kill an infected while they still retain their humanity, than to force them to go through such torture.

[@nealsandy4873]

Just listened to the audio book..man it’s so sad with the amount of tragic irony...loved the video and how close Arthas came to turning back

[@Pahapukki3]

Yes, yes. Once again well done!

[@ToxicGamez]

Thanks pukki! Lookin forward to ur next video

[@Pahapukki3]

I will might have some use for you in the future if you are interested in!

[@MarkLee1]

Pukki means farts in Russian, lol.

[@seabtahi]

In the Rise of the Lich King novel, Arthas also destroys Dalaran and kills Archmage Antonidas, Jainas teacher. With the help of Kel'Thuzad

[@DarkbloomTV]

Doesn't that also happen in W3? wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/The_Siege_of_Dalaran_(Warcraft_III)

[@ionutcriveanu7019]

Arthas's changewas a lot quicker than the lore updates changed, just playing up the drama. I haven't played W3 for years, but I still remember the dialogue like I heard it yesterday. "Finish it," Sylvanas sputtered, blood in her throat "I deserve a clean death." Arthas stood above the general, not in victory, merely in grim determination. "After all you've put me through, woman, the last thing I'll give you is the peace of death." He didn't rush over to Muradin after the dwarf was impaled. He was already broken. He merely looked at the fallen comrade, almost quizzically, then his attention was consumed by Frostmourne, landing right at arm's length.

[@lennic]

When arthas blamed the mercenaries and had them killed for ""settting fire to the boats" in northrend was when he truly went down a darker path, atleast a start of it, it was arthas talking and not frostmourne/ner'zhul (yet)

[@rashidabdulaev9049]

5:17 that music is so sad it just sometimes wants to make me cry especially since arthas is about to kill his father

[@bigalmou2261]

Arthas: *I have brought peace, freedom, justice and security to my new Lordaeron.* Uther: *YOUR new Lordaeron?!*

[@BarokaiRein]

You know the beginning part always confused me,couldn't they just eat while on horseback? I've done it before..it's not even hard.

[@wintax]

Barokai Rein Horses would need to rest aswell. I do agree about it being a weak plot point. But you could defend it several ways.

[@Хентаи-м1ы]

Barokai Rein they are not walking,horses are runing

[@DAXminer-g1g]

On a horse running at full speed? Sure boy! It must be the easiest thing in the world!

[@rajendrashetti2363]

The horses need to eat as well :D

[@ericx6969]

their rushing save people from dieing

[@ryanedwards7487]

Honestly, playing through Warcraft 3, I understood exactly why Arthas was purging Stratholme. Yes, he was a Paladin. He ALSO was the Crown Prince and would someday be king in Lordaeron. His kingdom was being ravaged and his citizens wiped out by the Scourge Plague...and he had to find some way to curtail that. He had tracked the tainted grain through Stratholme and realized that practically the entire city was infected and would soon fall to the plague of undeath and the Scourge. If that happened any forces he dedicated to quarantining the plague would most likely be overrun by the wall of undeath surging from Stratholme and then turned to the Scourge. As much as it pained him, he thought the best (and most likely only) course of action was the purge the city. Better his citizens die than be converted to a colossal army of Scourge.

[@TayzerLazerGames]

It upsets me so much that there are so many times that arthas thinks about everything he did and pretty much regrets it for then frostmourne to push him that one step further. To the point where there is no way back anymore no matter what he thinks

[@ariannamvar3472]

Arthas -Windrunner- "Make Azeroth great again!"

[@DanielTorres-vs9wt]

Arthas killing Uther always brings so much pain.

[@kronkrian100]

Just a little correction on your part. Arthas didn't strip Uther from him from his rank. Blind by his rage he said that he is stripping him yes, but even though he is the son of the king he didn't had the authority to do so. In my mind Uther just left the boy alone shocked and angered by what Arthas said and then Jaina followed Uther also shocked by Arthas's words.

[@purpletylenol7787]

Video: ''..turned to Jaina, expecting her to follow him'' Subtitles: ''...Returned to China, expecting her to follow him''

[@colechestnut8512]

Dont forget the fact Frostmournes main power was stealing souls, Arthas was he first soul it took once Arthas took up the blade. Thus rendering him unable to feel any emotion.

[@ssj3theoutsider228]

All these was rectoned, what about "I hope hell has a special place for you, Arthas - We will never know, Uther, I intend to live forever" we never saw these hesitation neither...but I'm not complaining, I just find it quite funny to see what changed between Warcraft 3 and WotLK x) Nice video!

[@bexa9011]

The Pic of Jaina at 1min is absolutely beautiful, that's a keeper!

[@sirgamer44]

one can dream for a movie (Warcraft 2: fall of Lordaeron)

[@afrodan7350]

this is one of the best fictional character stories together with darth vader, so tragic

[@vilkas640]

Arthas' fall from grace was the most tragic thing in all of WoW, hands down. Because of what he did as he fell, after he fell, and even the conflicting emotions within him the entire time. All he wanted, was to protect his people, and he ended up slaughtering them all after falling. And the entire time he did so, it was destroying him within. His is by far the absolute saddest and most tragic story in all of World Of Warcraft.

[@jethprimero7565]

Furry he was warned honestly

[@thehermit8723]

+Ronan Primero He did not now the nature of the curse, the promise the sword made was that he will be cursed but he will save his people, sadly that was the LK trap and poor Arthas did not realized that after he sold his soul to Frostmourne, the living were no longer his people.

[@ahumblemerchant241]

High elves* not night elves. high elves 9:30

[@hypehuman]

Kassadin Right, the Night Elves were in Kalimdor. These were the High Elves of Quel'Thalas, who would later become the Blood Elves under the leadership of Kael'Thas Sunstrider.

[@zenweeb8506]

I was a little triggered when I heard him say night eleven tbh.

[@Corvus_Eclipse]

Do you know anything about the Guardian whom Arthas fought before embracing Frostmourn? Is there any information regarding the last character who tried to protect Arthas from the cursed blade?

[@rockun7929]

Actually, muradin tried to save arthas from the blade after he defeated the guardian. But he died.

[@mikedresel731]

Why has the Guardian even existet in the first place , I thougt the lichking sendet the blade into Northrend for the porpes, of beeing found by Arthas ?

[@BattlestarGaming]

+Piotr Kasznia Muradin didn't die, just fyi.

[@RX-NoName]

the guardian probably wasn't planned. maybe he was a former death knight.

[@peagames2002]

I highly believe that "guardian" was a scheme for frostmourne to test out his future holder and "champion", which is Arthas.

[@harz632]

It's not that the light refuses to help Arthas, it's that Arthas started doubting his own actions and that is why the light left him, Arthas was in conflict if what he is doing was right, if he was truly convinced that that was the only way to help the citizens the Light would have stood at his side to aid him, but deep down Arthas knew that he wasn't doing the right thing and that doubt led to the light abandoning him.

[@glob842]

He felt empty, because he had a craving for gold, which a goblin heart could fill. Papa bless.

[@piotrwawreniuk3249]

Everyone asks why purged Lordaeron. Nobody asks about his feelings.

[@kristijan8518]

I've always wanted to see a movie about Warcraft 3, but after hearing how Arthas felt it would be such a good movie, with emotions and character development, something the first movie lacked. If they take the time and make more than one movie for WC3 and if they pick the right actors.

[@alaskaball188]

One sentence to describe arthas: You have become the very thing you once swore to destroy!

[@lincken5885]

Arthas is my absolute favourite villian! Awesome video!

[@shoganflamemasta3975]

Arthas never had a choice, he was born to become the Lich King, his destiny was decided a long time ago

[@xxlCortez]

I hardly believe Arthas felt anything after picking up Frostmourne. Tichondrius explained his emptiness by the sword taking his soul, so the moment he picked it up, he effectively became a psychopath.

[@Rohnon]

I know how I felt during this mission, because due to a bug I couldn't purge and the last save was from hours ago

[@Kakio]

Pure joy

[@shrill_2165]

Kakio I love you plz tell me you love me too

[@thinhvo3893]

One of the most complex character blizzard ever deliver. Like seriously his story was done so well. You see him descends from holy to madness in such a perfect balance. When he become a Death Knight, he was just a pure badass villain with no remorse. He saw, he come, he conquered. His arrogant even make him even cooler. And When he become lich king, god he even more meancing with his deep tone, and how he taunted the player throughout wrath and let them fall into his trap. It this kind of story telling blizzard need to focus on. Singular chatacter instead of the big overreaching story. Blizzard can't never deliver this good of a story line again. You see this with the current legion story line. Wow right now only care about crafting the universe, creating a meta plot line with big bad villain that has no depth. They dont dived into character dynamics anymore like warcraft 3 did. Even Mist of pandaria have way better story line than even the current legion right now due to the political dynamics and how it effect the character like jania, vojin, thrall, garrosh, varian and anduin. Now it just world building and big threat that is meaningless. No matter how disconnects and ridiculous the horde and alliance storyline at stormheim, it was at least interesting and intriguing. Legion threat however is just typical bad guy with the same one liner "this world will burn" like yeah we heard you guys like billion time.

[@TheDragonshadow1231]

XD true and in the end it all come back to him again cough cough new lore to old lore to add existence end of fall of lich king he saw "The darkness before me" to his father is Bastion Uther split light and Devos defiance kyrian to Bastion Archon system law and now he in the "Maw" good link to new lore I think I hope "Shadowlands" will be way better than legion, WOD, BFA, Catac in terms for storyline I wonder where they want to go? Since it a new lore add to old lore to revamp it. It is so good it links and yet again for 20years++ it all goes back to him lols.

[@paolomaniti4836]

Look at the clouds at 4:43. It resembles the Helm of Damnation as Arthas pics up Frostmourne.

[@BrianJNelson]

Really liking your explanation videos. You have a subscriber. Keep up the good work, these are great.

[@Rin0Kaka]

Arthas and Sylvannas needs their one movie. Such an amazing stories have these two.

[@Forcystus85]

Regretting killing Sylvanas doesn't come across in the WC3 campaign though. He basically says that after all the trouble she caused him, the last thing he'll give her is the peace of death. But then again, WC3 never really gives us an insight into what the characters think.

[@BLOrtega]

Still don't know why people blamed Arthas for this, it was logical hell even Arthas regretted what he did to his people. Uther and Jaina could've just stayed with Arthas and persuaded him even if it took force to do it, but for some fucking reason they instead left him because "they couldn't stand it" or some plot bullshit

[@Smashtacular01]

Jaina's Locket.

[@guifdcanalli]

Arthas "died" when te took frostmourne At this moment his heart was still beating but his soul was no longer with him Evwrything he did after this has no difference with any other character slaved by the scourge

[@mathenis]

His soul remained in the sword as a little boy we see in WOTLK.

[@Melodeath00]

Except that both the game and all lore makes it clear that Arthas still had his free and own thoughts will when he was a DK. Frostmourne claimed his soul, and made him stop caring about everything he used to love and removed his ability to feel any kind of emotions except for anger and frustration, but it never mindcontrolled him. Arthas after picking up Frostmourne, was a willing champion of the LK, not a slave forced to obey through necromancy.

[@Ayenam55]

@@mathenis When the Lich King awake, it was the moment the entity of the Lich king became dominant, as the arthas child(which was the light part) and ner'zhul were absorbed by the frostmourne. the only one who remained, was the Lich king, not arthas, not ner'zhul. The time he spent asleep, it was actually this internal battle.

[@kratal122]

Sylvanas wanted to give her enemy fair warning..... How noble of her.

[@sajdatass]

Arthas and Illidan are my favourite characters

[@Flynn01979]

Arthas is without doubt one of my all time favorite villains.

[@mtggeeksgaming5064]

9:30 High Elves not Night Elves. Know you know that but caught the typo great vid tho, love these.

[@freddelarsson4434]

Arthas story is one of my favourites when it comes to games and almost in general aswell. It was what made Wotlk the best expansion to me.

[@placeholdername3818]

I wonder what would have happened if Arthas took the sword but remained living instead of wandering off into the cold to die.

[@almas4663]

He did not die. He died only methaporically, but devs stated a long time ago that he never died

[@samirgomeznovelo746]

the frostmourne activation by muradins death is the thing blizzard changed in wow that i hate the most, it makes no fucking sense that a cursed weapon that consumes the souls of its victims couldn't tell the fucking difference between a death muradin and an unconcious muradin, that is just plain stupid, the fucking sword unlocked without a real sacrifice then? a sacrifice the same muradin actually read before being impaled by the ice shard? this is not the only case of wow fucking with WC3 story, but it is certainly the one that boils my blood the most.

[@thehermit8723]

+Mike4 Plays Exactly, that is the reason that Arthas wiped out the very kingdom he tried to save, just like the undeads he was using as thralls, he was a slave to the will of the Lich King unable to feel pity or guilt.

[@AnAB6261]

I forgot where I read it from but it's as the two before me have said: Arthas just thought that it was Muradin who was sacrificed. In reality, it was the former's soul that was taken as a sacrifice.

[@samirgomeznovelo746]

Mike4 Plays yes that is what blizzard told you after what you saw in WC3, it is just how they justify the plot hole to bring back muradin for WoW, can't you see this? they also changed how sylvanas was transformed into a banshee, i think in a book or in WoW they tell you that it took a very complicated ritual to bring her back as a banshee, when in game it was fast and satisfying, right when she was expecting a fast death. this is the same with Illidan, they revived him twice already, you can argue that you don't actually see him dead in the WC3 expansion ending but he clearly dies when you fight him in dark temple, even saying to maiev that she is nothing without him, without a prey, now they say he was inprissoned instead of dead, are you seriously telling me that you cannot see the difference? this is just lore adecuation to fit the new raids and dungeons, to give WoW the nostalgia factor it needs to be alive, didn't you heard the actual explanation for the warlords of draenor stupid arch? they literally said they did it because it was "cool" and then they thought how to justify it. edit: i think the new extra shit from sylvanas transformation was in the sunwell graphic novel trilogy.

[@thinhvo3893]

The thing was, Arthas sacrificed his soul not Muradin even in warcraft 3, it never stated that he sacrficed Muradin. Ticondruis even said this in the undead campaign IN WARCRAFT 3 NOT WOW "Your was the first one it claimed" when talking to Arthas about how Frostmorune can take living soul so obviously it didn't take Muradin soul. It just the Ice Block hit Muradin so hard that he thought Muradin was dead.

[@samirgomeznovelo746]

Thinh Vo i think that was a metaphor, in WC3 they never say it can take the souls of the living, why didn't they mention that muradin was alive? to bring him back as a plot twist? it was just a lazy justification for WotLK, and it would even worse if that was actually intended plot since no one was amazed or happy with that dumb part of the story. and there is a quest in WoW where he get rids of his humanity and all that shit, it was terrible too, but in that quest line its implied that he still had a fucking soul, even in this video is mentioned how he still had some humanity, a person without a souls is like sylvanas, even when she has her own will the bitch actually don't have a soul and she only cares about her goals, killing arthas and now that he is dead, she wants the undead to procreate.

[@souldancersbyjennifer]

I really loved the soundtrack, Black Rock And Roll. It really reflects the mixed emotions of the campaign, the courage, the desolation, and deception. Especially the ending, reflected the betrayal, when I had to march those brave men to certain death, and by their own Prince himself... So much emotions...

[@Eftwow]

Awesome video !

[@rhythmic2560]

At 6:33 That accent was just perfect imo !

[@haroutmarashlian7831]

Really liked the part where varian has affect to the story

[@Michaentus]

Blizzard retcon, so not really.

[@jordanbadov4702]

Though I already knew the story I enjoyed the video, great job!

[@guymkguy9656]

even after becoming the lich king he still has tendencies to stir the hearts of his people

[@dansal3286]

arthas didint feel anything. frostmourne consumed his soul.

[@christopherhall2886]

I'm glad that there is still things I don't know about the WoW lore :) Not whole lot but enough!

[@mal4797]

God, i really love the story, i hope there will be a GOOD movie about warcraft lore, its so good

[@GearShotgun]

The light responds to faith, not morals. It left Arthas at Stratholm because he himself was losing faith in that what he was doing was right, even though it was the only way. Meaning he truly did have a conscious.

[@alesiakikino4903]

Hell yea another Arthas vid!!✨✨✨✨✨✨✨Keep up the great work.✨✨

[@afroredman7893]

dude I fucking love watching ur vids

[@slavkoostojic2514]

Ty for a nother arthas video! :)))

[@Kristers_K]

A mere prince who merged with the most powerful being on Azeroth(considering Old Gods are locked away with hardly any influence), a demigod of death,. It is said that both, Arthas and ner'zhul held back from unleashing the Scourge's might because of the unstoppable force that it is, though, its a pity, if any of em did, Azeroth would have already fallen long before Wrath expansion time period. So as cool as Arthas was, he kept the Lich King entity from its true potential, because the lore states his true power is immesurable in essence, and also because it grows/expands infinitely, a trait no other bad guy possesses, not even Kil'jaeden, hence why he wanted his creation dead, as the LK was becoming a threat.

[@MlokLik]

arthas's paladin part of himself kept the scourge back.

[@Kristers_K]

Its stated that even Nerzhul never dared to unleash the full might of the Scourge, because by doing so, it would be like an unstoppable swarm of death, destroying everytihng in their path. For that reason it must always be contained, otherwise all of Azeroth is doomed. Imagine insect swarms in real life,they destroy vast areas of crops and kill countless animals, and its practically impossible to stop em because of the rate they devour everything and reproduce, you kill a part of em, 5 times more will spawn and take their place.

[@MlokLik]

Kristers Krūka thats what the lore says.. i like to think it was arthas's paladin part. xd

[@lloydaurion-gaming46]

this is why we need to point the undead at the burning legion..... The BL is almost limitless and the undead are too.

[@mistersinister2043]

Kil'jaeden probably created the Lich King as a way to absorb power from the Old Gods, but it backfired.

[@Gismo359]

they didnt meet at stratholme, but before that at hearthglen - uther arrived to the rescue

[@williamericsson2998]

amazing video, thanks

[@martinbengiev4526]

nice vid man

[@firetracks2581]

Why is the horse named invincible if I can see it

[@FrekieOfficial]

Theres a difference between invisible and invincible.

[@HehxDD]

The joke ===============> Your head -> (o_O)

[@FrekieOfficial]

If that was supposed to be a joke then he's awarded for the worst joke of 2017.

[@HehxDD]

its an old wow joke :p "If Arthas' horse is called invincible how come I can see it?"

[@dontlookbackinanger1650]

Firetracks invincible=unkillable invisible=unseeable -.-

[@crissoto8777]

We get it krucial, you love Arthas.

[@نونيم-ي4ح]

Best and most well written antagonist in any game

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

To be fair, he didn't really betray his own people until he burned the ships. The people of Stratholme were done, the options were give them a quick death, or let them unwillingly become mindless troops for the undead. Anyone with a shred of logic would of chose the latter.

[@rustyblade9366]

The hardest choises requires the strongest wills.

[@solky1s]

Arthas doesn't have any more interesting or conflicting thoughts in his mind until he becomes the Lich King or even afterward ? a video about his continuing thoughts would be very cool

[@AFKAY-jm4hv]

ahhh arthas... nolstalgic, THIS MUSIC OMG THIS MUSIC ....

[@ShadebloomQR]

i still can't get used to your new name XD, nice video as always. ( what's the first song in the video, forgot the friggin' name 0:00-0:40 ish )

[@Chasconrq]

I find that struggle in Arthas mind is very important in the lore, as well as the evil thoughts and actions of Nerzhul who betrayed kiljaeden himself ... it's like everybody have some evil and good inside and they are also influenced by Greater forces, but in he end the desicion is on the characthers. That's why there is Free Will in WoW and you can see bad guys like the Defias who have nothing related with the Felmagic-BurningLegion or the OldGods-TwilightHammer-Shadowmagic. And so we can say that Arthas was proclive to evil and he choosed that way so he deserved what he got ..... but then rises another question; When he died he said that he was seeing "only darkness" and Terenas ghost said "no king rules forever" ... I think both sentences are from Yogg-Saron ... in wich case He was the real master of puppets and therefore there are no Free Will in WoW... Nice videos as always, greetings.

[@TheTSense]

How he felt? He didn't.

[@bigmanbossman]

I knew it...Jaina x Arthas is fucking canon... *cries*

[@nicklewis7291]

in some of the artwork, Arthas looks like Dave Mustane from Megadeath.

[@cp-oz5ui]

If I might add, the reason why Arthas killed all of these people was because the wheat they were using to make bread was poisoned to make them into undead. He was trying to mercifully kill them before they ended up turning into the undead.

[@marcioa1811]

Great video.

[@Lordknight13]

Evil can sprout from good intentions too...

[@BigZyba]

These video feels like a remake of a previous one.