The Fantastical ✨MAGIC✨ of Warcraft

this video is sponsored by nordvpn world of warcraft is a fantasy game and you can't have fantasy without on your adventures in azeroth you'll find different forms of magic that can range from holy and righteous to pretty flowers and nature and fuzzy cute animals and even abhorrently evil and downright demonic forms of magic the origin of most of this wizardry is based off of the most fundamental aspects of the warcraft universe before there was an azeroth there was nothing but you can't have nothing without something so in the nothing there was energy that came from something the most basic forces in the universe are the light and the void these forces are the yin and yang that keep each other in check without light there is no black abyss of darkness without darkness you can't shine the brightest light and oh well bro we are getting really deep so uh okay so there's these cosmic forces they clash with each other uh that's how life is born on the universe there's some titan dudes blah blah blah blah azeroth is there and here we are now [Music] these cosmic powers can be tapped into the form of holy or shadow magic first let's talk about holy imagine if the pope actually had super powers and he could use the force that is what holy magic is for the humans at least in order to call upon the light to aid you it requires your complete willpower to harness this mysterious force in faith that what you are doing is completely morally right if you aren't completely faithful to the light and don't have the required positive vibes you'll fail the vibe check and the light will not aid you the church of the holy light is founded on three virtues to make sure that you have these positive vibes respect and noticing your place in the universe and strive to fight for its well-being the tenacity to fight in the name of the light and realizing that even the smallest actions can change the world for the better and finally a balance of compassion and consideration if your aid will transfer to a positive change in the universe sounds fine following all these rules will allow a member of the church to manifest a world of honor and justice now keep in mind light magic's morality is based on the person that is wielding it a perfect example of the light being used in a harmful way is the scarlet crusade who think the outside world is full of unclean heretics tainted by the evil stench of hey hey hey i'm focused here we're talking about critical aspects of the lore of course the outside world isn't full of plague-infested monsters but the scarlet crusade illustrates how faith can turn into devout fanaticism that makes them close-minded lunatics other races on azeroth have also accessed the powers of the light through different cultural means sunwalkers worship the sun and she which manifests into using more sun-based light attacks you also have the draenei who have direct communication with the naaru who are pure manifestations of light hell you even have the lightforged draenei who are basically super soldiers who have let their bodies become a vessel to dispense lights justice and there's even the blood elves who enslaved a naaru and sucked out its life juice what else being dicks whoa yeah no totally haven't heard that one before but what if no matter how much faith you had the light still abandoned you for the forsaken this is the harsh reality they must deal with priests suffering from undeath can still call upon the light and it can still heal them but it is just excruciatingly painful in fact channeling holy magic and being healed by it can have a side effect where an undead can regain their senses they can taste the decay in their mouths they can smell their rotting flesh and feel the maggots crawling beneath their skin so yeah it's it's not fun being undead in fact it's really depressing actually and that is why undead who are once members of the church of the holy light have transitioned to a new form of practice while holy magic focuses on the emotions of the heart like hope courage and comfort the powers of shadow incite emotions of the mind like despair doubt and panic in the light you stand together as one but in darkness you are alone fanatical in your pursuit for indescribable power [Music] shadow priests play off this characteristic of the corrupt of influence of the mind harnessing the powers of the void involves riding the fine line between immense power and utter insanity as your mind falls victim to the old gods within the forsaken the cult of forgotten shadow is where many summoners of the shadows lie but users of the void are in old god cults like the twilight hammer or even the black empire and speaking of evil corruptions the powers of fel magic are just as if not more addictive than the void the most infamous users of this corrupt of magic are the burning legion of course they are near infinite army filled with demons that call the twisting nether their home this plane of existence was created when the powers of the light and void clash together on a cosmic scale and this is where a lot of the fel and other magical energies reside every demon you find in the warcraft universe was once uncorrupted but under the command of the legion they've been tainted and twisted the obvious example are the eredar who used to be and i but accepted sargeras's gift of power and they turned uh they turned red and and mean and angry also draenei who have been affected by fell but have rejected its influence have transformed into the malformed broken fell hunters are also a great example of thel's influence this is what they look like now but this is what they used to look like these demons can also be summoned by practitioners of fel but in order to summon one a soul is needed could you help please help me now warlocks are not inherently evil per se but when your class revolves around sucking the life force out of innocence harnessing chaotic and corrupting magic and being shunned by most of society it's kind of hard not to be the bad guy using fel is sort of a get rich quick style of spell casting it takes time to learn but you can get a pretty high power level relatively quickly compared to practicing other forms of magic but the side effects of being a warlock include slowly turning into a demon having everybody hate you the sudden urge to burn down orphanages vomiting and also having the need to help your friends by summoning them and giving them cookies so they aren't that evil hooray while fell represents chaos its counterpart is arcane magic a form of magic that requires order and knowledge think of arcane magic kind of like the science of warcraft in order to hone such magic it requires years and years of study in places like dalaran stormwind's mage quarter or zuna or really any other school [Music] one of the reasons why it takes so much studying is because how diverse the magic really is you can shoot pure arcane magic or you can manifest it into fire or frost there's abduration configuration transmutation annihilation evisceration mutation but really there's a lot of stuff you can do with arcane from making muffins to teleporting around the world and by the way um according to this book in the game apparently it is possible for inexperienced mages to blink into walls furniture or even other people and they suffocate and they die which is horrifying a lot of the magic focused places on azeroth are built on top of ley lines think of these kind of like azeroth's blood vessels except they're filled with magic the only problem is the burning legion loves finding these high doses of magic and corrupting it so users of arcane need to find a way to mask the high arcane dense locations they can do this by setting up runestones around their city you could make your city float in the sky but those are not foolproof ways to make sure that you are protected oh no no the mages have kept something powerful locked beneath dalaran to protect them and that's 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platinum wow at checkout thank you nordvpn for making this video possible back to the video the ad is now over but really some mages of dalaran like kel'thuzad are frustrated with the whole concept of morality getting in the way of their studies and that is why many mages have fallen into the dark arts known as necromancy necromancers practice the art of raising the dead and honing the craft of necrotic magic over time their bodies will slowly decay causing them to wither into the very creatures they raise into unliving some of the most powerful necromancers are liches of course these high-ranking necromancers have had their souls linked to a container called a phylactery in order to kill lich for good you must destroy their phylactery the most famous lich is kilthuzad and in classic we didn't destroy his flactery and gave it to some random guy that's why in wrath of the lich king he returned and then we defeated him again and apparently he's in the shadow lands now where we'll probably defeat him again all that i am anger cruelty vengeance i bestow upon you my chosen night i have granted you immortality so that you may herald in a new dark age for the scourge death knights are another example of powerful wielders of death magic these warriors were raised by the lich king himself imbued with magic and trained to be the ultimate killing machines to serve as a weapon to force all of azeroth into one death many of the death knights defected during the battle of light's hope chapel and despite them being free from the lich king's grasp they are still machines of death all death knights struggle with an urge called eternal hunger which is an unstoppable urge to inflict pain and suffering on the living on a regular basis if death knights don't scratch this itch they'll fall into madness and go on an unstoppable murder frenzy which is the most badass and edgy thing i've ever heard in the warcraft universe and i'd love to talk about it more but we have more magic to talk about druidism is the total opposite of necromancy being a druid is all about hugging trees the beauty of the living world and probably never taking a shower the first druid ever was malfurion who learned the ways of nature from cenarius knowledge and the way druids have such an intense connection to the world is their ability to access the emerald dream the emerald dream is a magical realm created by the titan freyja to represent a blueprint of how azeroth should be formed it's a version of azeroth not affected by intelligent beings that altered the lands so the dream flourishes with natural life in the plane of existence we live in druids take a long slumber while in the dream and during the slumber they gain an incredibly deep connection with nature which translates to harnessing its powers i'm awake i'm awake there are tons of different branches of druidism one can explore there are druids of the claw talon fang grove antler scythe raccoon ant muskrat monkey because just like nature druidism is incredibly diverse but druidism is just one aspect of nature that deals with living things but the other side of nature is more primal and deals with the elements that are the building blocks of azeroth since the world's very creation the elements of water fire air and earth have been in a battle for supremacy the shamans are mediators who keep the elements of our world in check making sure one is never stronger than the other and harnesses these raging elemental forces to strike down their enemies the relationship between the shaman and the elements they wield is like a partnership a shaman must be in good standing with the elements and work in their favor in order to harness their power and then there are goblets this is one of the most goofiest race and class combos in the game goblins are greedy little monsters all about making as much money as possible with the smallest amount of effort they don't really care about the world at all [Music] the elements are business partners who have been convinced to sign a contract which seems reasonable but in the fine print it states that the goblins can harness the powers of the elements for their own personal gain i feel like this is kind of a bit of a stretch to make this connection but at the end of the day who cares at this point wow class and race restrictions are kind of just arbitrary lines in the sand [Laughter] and that is all the magic we'll be talking about today there are other subcategories but maybe we can talk about those in another video so yeah i'll see you guys later magic away keys into my eyes and witness your doom [Music] [Applause] you

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Length: 17min 34sec (1054 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 01 2020