Watch The War Within™: Threads of Destiny

I loved the video blizz, more stuff like this please.

The art was great and Xalatath looks incredible, really looking forward to seeing what you’ve done with the story in that zone, the ball is in your court blizz.

1 Like

Knifu having more personality in 1 minute than “He -Who-Must -Not -Be-Named” has in an entire expansion…

Love it :ok_hand:

3 Likes

Who’s the jaile- (Flashbacks of SL)

Oh god…
What have you done, why, WHY DID YOU SAY HIS NAME!!!

it´s about time we moved from daddy issue to mommy issue.

When is the crab version of this?

Oh nooooo I’m so sorry!!!

There, I fixed it so I would not hurt anyone else :frowning:

1 Like

Oh thank you

It was great video and scene where Xal’atath climbing out of the wall was WILD! Can’t wait for 26th to play it.

Wonder if they added a mechanic to the game that Xal’atath is talking to us, tempting (again) from the shadows.

That scene with Queen Neferess using the threads of web, awesome, so badass.

Then Xalatath looks so unhinged and malevolent. Crawling out of the wall reminded me of that horror film where the girl crawls out of the tv.

3 Likes

Yeah, whatever.

“The Ring” was the movies name I think.

Was about an undead girl that got brutally murdered and abused, drowned in a well… If I remember Wikipedia right.

1 Like
2 Likes

Oh no, please don’t give Xala’tath a call. PLEASE I BEG YOU! DON’T DO THIS!

Judging by the video it is going to be a very lazy expansion if they can’t even be bothered to do a proper animation. Hope I am wrong.

What do you mean? All those type of animated “comics” were like that.

We also got such animations in Shadowlands, Battle for Azeroth and Legion.

1 Like

The ones before Warlords were also really good

1 Like

this is pretty much what wow fans want back. real hardcore stuff

3 Likes

I enjoyed it, Terran and Co bringing home the bacon as usual :slight_smile:

BUT, as someone that doesn´t suffer from but does understand phobias in general, I have one “global” suggestion in the interest of others mental health:

Please put the warning Before /above the cinematic in the press release, not below it.

I literally didn’t even see it until I was already done watching and went back out of fullscreen mode :beers:

I don’t get all the hype. But tbh, I don’t really understand half of this movie.

The queen said “no” to the bad guy and kills him, her people get free. All of the sudden, her people are suffering!? From what? Were they cursed?

So they underline how Narubians are starving… OK… why exactly? Is there a shortage of food? What do Narubians actually eat? I can vaguely guess by their appearance that they are not vegans - so meat. Maybe. it than kinda means their queen is keeping them away from food (since her daughter is pushing her to ack, and she refuses). Well, kill her than! She would be killed a long time ago by her own people.

Its really weird.

And then daughter says “We can finally fulfill our destiny”. What is their destiny again? To eat? Its a basic need of living organisms, hardly can be “a destiny”.

I’m just really confused. This is not a good storytelling.

1/10 for the clip, it has some cool art and that’s about it.

1 Like

What they are suffering from isn’t clear, and I think that that’s intentional. I’m not convinced that they’re suffering from anything - the daughter has gone crazy from the whispers of the void, as tends to happen to most races living underground in Warcraft.

More crazy whispers from the void.

The void whispers always start out with a reasonable appeal but increasingly radicalizes you until you do something truly reckless that unleashes the darkness in full. That’s its thing.

I do hope that we’ll find out more about what the actual problem was, though.

1 Like

My take is that the “problem” was that after “freeing” her people from their bonds to the old gods, she didn´t go balls to the wall conquest-mode, but rather stayed peaceful, and the dialogue tends to support this.

However, A society like the nerubians built almost entirely on aggression and conquest will, if RL is any example, generally eventually dwindle away and die out in that situation. And her freeing her people is, assuming the defense of the Black Empire referenced is the end of BfA, almost 10 years ago in lore…if not, then it´s countless millennia ago and the effects would be even more pronounced.

If you take trained soldiers and make them sit on their thumbs for 10 years, none of them will be good at anything anymore. And if you never had the farmer, crafter and merchant “castes” to properly support them but got everything through domination, eventually everyone dies becasue nobody knows how to plant wheat and make bread OR kill, skin and cook a Boar anymore :wink:

1 Like

I wouldn’t be surprised if it´s in a novel tbh