Blood elf heritage quest line and lore

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Today I finished a blood elf heritage armor quest line and it was good to see old locations again, but few thing I found, say, confusing.

Why is Arthas using some king of frost magic, while fighting on the Dead scar? Found it weird, since I remember the missions in W3 when he was DEATH knight with spell like Death coil and Death bargain.

This weird usage of some kind of frost magic happens again when you fly to Quel danas and you see him creating a bridge from ice.

Also, in the cinematic Windrunner cinematic, all of the Undead including Arthas have BLUE eyes. I thought they all had hollow eyes, since they were undead. I remember cinematic at the end of Frozen Throne, when Arthas got blue eyes after becoming one with the Lich King (and getting all of the frosty things). And also, first time we see undead with blue eyes is in the WotLK cinematic, after he becames Lich King, which he was obviously not in the events of this particular storyline.

Perhaps the last thing I found odd. Nerubians attacking the High Elves? Stitched monstrosities? But hey, nerubians? Did he even knew nerubians existed at that time?

Did some these things strike you odd as well? Let me know, maybe I am alone in this, haha.

And sorry, if some text doesnt makes sense, Im not used to write in English.

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Arthas was limited in WC3 to the Death Knight skillset. His frost magic is part of the DK package and was first discussed in the novel Arthas: Rise of the Lich King. It’s nothing new.

Undead having blue eyes has been a thing since WC3 also. Notably Kel’Thuzad (and the rest of the liches). https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/wowwiki/images/5/5e/Kel%27thuzad_face.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20081205225851

Nerubians were recruited in the WC3 campaign at the start of the quel’thalas assault (to deal with the dragonhawk riders). This is in keeping with the WC3 storyline that we’ve seen.

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Arthas is using frost magic because like most death knights they can utilize the “chill of death” theres literally a whole spec dedicated to that. And the Dead Scar was the trail formed from the Scourge blight/plague as they made their way through Quel’thalas.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s accomplishing feats like this when he has the most powerful runeblade at the time, Frostmourne. You know the weapon thats got frost in its name.
And the undead have always had blue eyes in general, its just to symbolize their “undeath” state if you get my meaning.

And of course he would know about Nerubians. He’s in the Lich King’s army. Sure he didn’t see their leader Anub’arak until he return to Northrend but he still would of had Nerubian forces at his side during the Invasion.

EDIT: Seems Elenthas has beat me to it on Scourge lore explainations :cry:

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It’s more that Blizzard have fleshed out the entire event (including the Scourge and Quel’Thalas) since Warcraft 3. The heritage quest is pretty much a very quick run-down on the Arthas novel and Blood of the Highborne.

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You shall not reveal the intelligence of scourge nelox, that’s why

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I did wonder about that, and I have a headcanon theory (I have no proof for this, but it would make sense)

The Undead we see in the Sylvanas cinematic were all what I’d class as ‘Forsaken-like’ rather than say, Ghouls. They also close to Arthas, perhaps the glowing blue is a sign that they are under his absolute domination. In mean in some instances those Scourge would -become- the first Forsaken, whose eyes glow yellow, perhaps those who broke free of his mind control reverted to their ‘default’ colour. This is somewhat backed up by the fact that Death Knights, who were made in his Image, have blue eyes also, perhaps it is a sign of how ‘Scourge’ they were.

Or, it could just be that they thought it was a cool thematic look to have them mirroring Arthas. Some of the things were done for rule of cool, for example we can see the irises of Sylvanas and the other Elves, there is no blue glow as there probably should have been.

I -think-, if I remember rightly from WCIII he had already recruited the Nerubians before you invade Quel’thalas in his quest campaign.
As Elenthas remarks, it seems they were brought in to counter the Dragonhawk Riders, and it seems to have worked, in canon lore there was a mass aerial strike at Deatholme, but the Riders took hideous losses, as nobody could understand the sheer size of his Army.

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Actually it’s hinted at that the Arthas that attacked Quel’thalas is not actually the same that we fight once we go after the Lich King, but rather it’s an agent send by the Legion from another timeline in an attempt to confuse us.

You can tell because his nose is slightly off to the right.

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Some wonder about death/frost magic, and me, the nerd, being tilted that it was Sylvanas’ ghost, who coined out the word “sin’dorei”, it being now retconned the third time for some cringy attempt to show how important their dear departed Ranger-General is. The same that was not long ago jokingly asking to raise Lor’themar’s forces in SoO and, actually, did so in the BoL.

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It wasn’t, the Lament of the Highborne (with the term Sin’dorei) originated during the Troll Wars.

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Ok yeah, it wasnt coined out by Sylvanas , but it just shows that it was essentially used by her to describe her people, because after Chronicles 2 (that showed high elves deciding themselves as blood elves even before Kael’thas came up with the idea) it was uncertain for what reason they all decided to be called as sin’dorei. Mby there was someone else, who used the term during the Invasion, but so far it has only been her.

Idk if Blizzard played a long game and wanted that to be done exactly this way when they published Chronicles, but it just looks like a very cheap way to make current characters important, with sly attempts to eclipse past lore figures. No bueno

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Hey, thank you for clearing these things up for me! Looks like I am not up to date with the lore (only read War Crimes) and a bit rusty with my memory of W3, haha. Totally forgot about the part with the dragonhawks!

In regards to the blue eyes, Kel’Thuzad actually came to mind, but I always assumend that it was because of the magic, since ghouls and skeletons had hollow eyes, but it really is just a cosmetic change.

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