All the lore you NEED to know for Shadowlands (+BFA Recap)

the battle for azeroth expansion can be described as many things but for the average lore consumer it can be explained as complicated while blizzard has improved their storytelling immensely over the past couple of expansions battle for azeroth was filled with dozens of story lines that can be difficult to follow it's like okay so there's a giant sword in the world but there's also this powerful resource called azerite but there's also this synthetic old god created by the pain that is is that thing oh and then we go on a cruise boat and then we follow and now sylvanas is uber powerful and ripped a hole through space and time to the shadow lands how did we get here why is sylvanas so powerful and out of all this lore what is important for you to know to understand what is going on in shadow lands well to answer those questions we are going to need to go back a couple of expansions [Music] sylvanas used to be alive but during the siege of quoth a loss she did a kick-ass power slide right in front of arthas and was turned into a banshee eventually she'd become the leader of the forsaken and it was her life's well undead life's mission to kill the lich king for what he did to her jump to wrath of the lich king and tyrion forgering and the player characters kill the lich king [Music] the problem is there must always be a witch king if the scourge are left without a leader they'll just swarm across azeroth in a frenzy so bolvar 4 dragon chooses to sacrifice himself to be the new lich king instead sylvanas was not able to see arthas fall first hand because i i guess she was stuck in traffic i guess and the banshee queen ventured to the frozen throne after just to make sure that arthas was dead he was gone so i guess he was dead and the victory was empty for sylvanas in her undead life she was depressed but driven by vengeance now she was just depressed so she threw herself off the throws and throne onto the spikes below in death sylvanas only saw darkness in the short story the edge of night it's described as there were others in the darkness things she could not recognize because nothing so terrible could exist in the world of the living claws tore her but she had no mouth with which to scream eyes looked at her but she could not look back this was to be her eternity the endless void the dark unknown realm of anguish we can assume that this horrific reality sylvanas was in was the maw a realm in the shadow lands where irredeemable souls are damned to live in anguish for all eternity within the maw sylvanas was offered a deal by nine valkyrs one in which would take her place in the ma so she could return back to the land of the living which is depicted in this totally not over sexualized art although this wasn't in the short story we know that this is when sylvanas got in contact with an ancient being called the jailer also known as lord evil is it evil action doctor even the details about sylvanas and the ruler of the maw's relationship is still unknown but what we do know is they've made a pact with each other and every soul that goes into the maw makes the jailer and sylvanas much more powerful you complete me i love you now with a hidden motive to make herself more powerful sylvanus is brought back to our reality to live once more the cataclysm expansion happens and nothing is important except for garrosh calling sylvanas a [ __ ] nothing important happens in mischief pandaria warlords of draenor happens and truly everything is pointless legion happens and demons are raging across azeroth in the battle for the broken shore the horde's warchief vol'jin is killed by a random felguard in vol'jin's final moments a mysterious whisper invaded his mind compelling him to make sylvanas warchief in his last dying breath turns out this mysterious whisper was muzala a loa of death who serves the jailer with sylvanas as warchief she has a ton of sway in the fate of azeroth but before her plans can be put into motion we need to defeat the legion the rest of the expansion involves doing just that meanwhile at some point during the end of legion the jailer broke how the shadow lands works typically souls are sent to an endless amount with pocket dimensions that suit them best but now every soul is being sent straight into the maw making the jailer and sylvanus incredibly powerful also the ruler of the burning legion sargeras stabs a giant sword in azeroth as he's being defeated now there's a new powerful resource called azerite which incentivizes the horde and the alliance to fight each other secretly sylvanas's hidden motive is to cause as much death in azeroth to make her and the jailer more powerful [Music] [Applause] sylvanas starts the fourth war off with a bang and commits mass genocide and burns down teldrassil giving her and the jailer one million souls the battle for lordaeron happens and sylvanas is using chemical warfare on the alliance and her own troops i wonder why the expansion continues and we get busy dealing with problems in zandalar and cool terrace the battle for disarro lore happens and the alliance brings the fight to the zandalari sylvanas is nowhere to be seen and king rastakhan dies the night elves want revenge for teldrassil and the battle for darkshore happens and tyrande is especially pissed the high priestess of elune performs an ancient ritual that involves sacrificing an orc head into a moon well and turns into a night warrior an avatar of elune's wrath and now she is ready to kick ass during the battle tyrande and malfurion confront two valkyrs and the thanos oh you guys don't know who nathanos is well the thanos is basically uh sylvanas's tier three subhenchman who is literally just a dead guy with a bow you would think that two demigods versus a dead guy with a bow would go something like this [Applause] but in reality the thanos puts up a fight and it ends with one of the valkyrs dying and he goes witch you shall pay dearly for that let's move and then he flies away this is literally my least favorite event that's ever happened in warcraft history the night elves win the battle and reclaim dark shore unceremoniously back on the continent of kul teras there are some naga that are trying to consume all of azeroth in a giant storm so we go kill aid your faithful servant o mighty nazar at the end of the raid a mysterious blade called zalath appears board players take it and give it to sylvanas sylvanas uses the blade to strike a deal with queen azshara who she got in contact with by calling her on the phone or teleporting there or something here's what you need to know queen azshara silvanus and the zoth are not working together it's more like they're all schemers who think they themselves benefit most from this alliance plan is the horde and the alliance fall into nashitar queen azshara will then coerce them into the eternal palace and use their hearts of azeroth to unleash n'zoth from his prison then she will drive zalath into the old god killing him and finally freeing herself from her master sylvanus benefits from this interaction by having all the horde and the alliance champions dead what sylvanas and azshara don't know is n'zoth is the old god of infinite truths and can foresee all possible futures he has been manipulating this event behind the scenes and knows ashara will fail and he will be unleashed this is present future but that is just the plan what really happens is horde ventures sail towards nashitar because nagas are bad and we need to kill them and the alliance follows closely behind because nagas and horde are bad so we need to kill them both factions fall right into azshara's trap and she becomes fish moses and parts the sea she achieves this by using the tidestone of golgoneth tidestone that might ring a bell for you back in legion we use the tidestone in the tomb of sargeras i guess we just forgot about this incredibly powerful artifact and queen azshara just waltzed into the tomb of sargeras and took it look i understand this lore isn't important for you to understand shadowlands but it's also just completely batshit insane and i feel like i need to tell you about it anyways the horde and the alliance are now stranded on nazitar's ocean floor and need to learn how to survive thankfully the alliance and horde have fish people who somehow can breathe out of the water to help them also nathanos has zalath and needs to deliver it to queen azshara behind the horde's back and this happens off-screen alright everyone we need to remain united and work together as a team the risser find a safe haven so we can gather our troops blight color or blu light color where are you going i uh oh i i was just i'm i'm uh i'm going for a walk you know i need need some fresh air but we are in an extremely hostile environment those naga will surely rip you to shreds i uh um uh look azerite where the thanos delivers the blade to ashara and we go into her palace and somehow she didn't expect the horde in the alliance to work together despite us working together again and again for the past 15 years ashara is defeated but n'zoth is released from his prison and pulls ashara into the darkness while all of this is going on there's also a subplot about sylvanas raising derek proudmoore kidnapping bane bloodhoof and wanting to burn down thunderbluff this plotline culminates in the horde and the alliance forces marching to the gates of orgrimmar to stop sylvanas i'm not talking about any of this plot because it all gets resolved in bfa and uh this video is already way too complex with the story elements i am explaining what you need to know is sarfang is an old orc and he wants to die an honorable death he challenges sylvanas to a duel sylvanas is frustrated because her plan is falling apart and she says the horde is nothing you were all the thing also guess who wins the duel after this outburst sylvanas is obviously not the warchief anymore and she flies away like a cartoon villain sylvanas then hangs out in the ghost lands sulks and explains her plan my bargain with azshara will yet bear fruit the armies of azeroth will fight her master and he will line their streets with corpses in the end he too will serve death so sylvanas's plan was for enzoth to kill everyone on azeroth and then she will enslave ends off right this marks the end of the fourth war and the horde and the alliance are best friends again enzoth's grand plan after being released is corrupting two old zones no one cares about and with the help from stupid sexy wrathion we enter enzoth's home called niallotha in nayalotha we help queen azshara who is being tortured azshara says thanks by pulling zalath out of her butt and giving it to wrathion then she kind of just exits stage left and we don't hear from her again wrathion uses zelitat to open a hole in the zoth and we defeat him by shooting a giant laser beam he might not actually be dead his essence might be in zalatath but uh who knows what we do know is azeroth is now purified of all corruption and somehow i just explained all of bfa without talking about magnitude in the book shadows rising a lot of stuff happens all you need to know is the horde and the alliance are looking for sylvanas sylvanas also ordered the thanos to kill bombswandy because he's been stopping troll souls from entering the maw shut up what are you doing here man it's not your time to pass on yet and sending them to the troll afterlife which is called the other side nathanas fails in killing bobby salami like the loser he is [Music] meanwhile sylvanas is conducting phase two of her master plan but no king rules forever what the [ __ ] [ __ ] are you doing [ __ ] paying your [ __ ] movement to my brawl man you sent me a message first yeah i lived in snap it birmingham if you want the [ __ ] draw come down that's what energy okay and then bolvar gets his ass kicked with the helm of domination destroyed the barrier between the shadowlands is obliterated allowing the jailer and his minions direct influence in our plane of existence also since there's no lich king the scourge have gone in a frenzy in azeroth as a cherry on top first we need to deal with this scourge infestation and then we need to delve head first into this unknown realm [Music] so with all of bfa's story out of the way what is going on in shadow lands well there's an ancient being called the arbiter this entity judges all souls that enter the shadow lands and directs them to their appropriate afterlife if you live a selfless life where you sacrifice yourself for others you go to bastion if you live the life of a mighty warrior who values strength you go to maldraxas if you live a sinful wicked life you go to revenge wrath to repent for your sins and if you live a life with a connection to nature you go to arden wheel to help in the process of rebirth [Applause] these are just four of the limitless dimensions within the shadowlands but the issue is mysteriously the arbiter has ceased to function causing all the souls to drain directly into the maw within the maw there is a constant flowing slipstream of souls filled with the cries of ghostly agony as they are damned to feed the unsatiable hunger of the jailer totally random side tangent here back in hellfire citadel there is a boss called gorfing who gorged on so many draenei souls that he became this obese monstrosity i think shadowlands would have been much better if the jailer was just like sitting at the end of the slipstream and he was just like this giant obese job of the hutt looking dude and he was all like get in my belly since all the souls are going into the maw every other dimension in the shadow lands is starved of anima anima is the life source every being has when they die the more experiences you have in life the more anima you produce experiences like your first kiss your big promotion at your job killing a [ __ ] ton of orcs and smashing the like button on your favorite youtubers video also subscribe all of these experiences fill your soul with anima and for everything to function in shadow lands these dimensions need it but with the jailer gobbling it all up all of the other zones are in a drought and we as the player characters are there to help and that is all the lore you need to know to start your adventure in the shadowlands i'll be making more detailed videos about the lore and the expansion after it is released i hope you guys are excited as i am and i'll see you later [Applause] my ribs i want my baby back baby

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Length: 20min 10sec (1210 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 01 2020