The War Within's Story Explained In 20 Minutes

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I find it interesting that Thrall, Anduin and Alleria are the focus of TWW. The Corrupted Visions of Stormwind and Orgrimmar (from bfa) showed both Thrall and Alleria corrupted, and whatever happened to Stormwind Keep (and probably Anduin) was so bad even Wrathion didn't want to go look.

I think the meta narrative is always pretty good.Its the boring dialogue and characters along with scenes where bad guys show up and leave while the good guys scratch their head and have no idea what's going on that is often disappointing to me.

if they give us simple, well narrated epic histories, they will be successfull

As someone that got scared off by shadowlands, I'm willing to come back, get caught up on the lore and give Metzen's vision of the future of Warcraft a chance. They are fixing a LOT of the grief i had with this game, so ill try. Shadowlands felt pointless, but if they can right the ship and write a cool and shipshape story using the classic lore that i love, than all the better. FOR AZEROTH!!!

We better not have a return of " The Heart Of Azeroth"

I can't wait till the legendary plot twist comes that makes the jailer a good guy in the end

I’m really excited but also very sad about the World Soul Saga. I’m really excited because they have a three-expansion plan, which is amazing! The story is compelling, the theme is enticing, and I truly can’t wait to jump into the War Within. I’m sad though because this truly feels like the end of World of Warcraft as we know it. With Illidan and Arthas’ arcs over, the titans and the mysteries surrounding them, Azeroth and Elune were really all that remained from the original WoW world. With this Saga, a lot of mysteries are gonna be answered (which isn’t always a good idea, some things are more interesting when not fully understood), the titans are gonna die, we’ll meet Azeroth in some manner and therefore will probably start to uncover once and for all what Azeroth is.

The massive crystal in harrowfall also VERY MUCH looks like oshu'gun in nagrand imo

I seriously miss when the weirdest thing in the lore was orcs coming through the dark portal

Is this going to be some 'Void was good all along' story line? Despite all the slavery and murder. I hope Chris Metzen gets it back on track to the old lore.

This video will again vector me into the next 20 minutes of Lore

You can see different cosmic forces affecting and infusing the world soul with their power across previous expansions. The titans and arcane throughout the entire game, the void with the old gods, the fel with sargerase's sword, death with the machinery under icecrown, and life with amirdrassil. The only one i cant think of is light, but that may happen in midnight and then the world soul would contain some of each power.

We still have to wait another two expansions before Anduin becomes worthy to wield Mjolnir. Thrall: "I KNEW it!"

I'm glad they're doing more of a void/light thing, always wanted to see the real battle for azeroth. cant wait to see what is revealed with the upcoming expansions

Many thanks for the story retrospective!

As someone who stopped really paying attention to retail story around MoP, this feels like getting back on track. I dipped my toes back into retail lore around shadowlands, and all I could think was "what in the fuck is going on? Blizzard lost the plot." Pandaria with it's whole negative emotion nonsense, wod with all manner of time hopping shennanigans, killed the biggest bad there is in bfa, shadowlands was an entire expansion of retcon, and I have no idea what the hell is even going on in dragonflight. This at least is putting the spotlight back on the original villains of the story. Feels like the last 10 years have been a roller coaster of retcon and shoehorning.

I like the setting of The War Within, always wanted to journey to the center of azeroth. I hope there will be more zones that are even deeper that get added in patches.

Your lore videos are the best videos

I'd like to see how the tie in the archways and arcana. They were to be akin to Azerite, part of Azeroth and under ground. The plot was explored in legion then abandoned.