FFXIV Player Reacts to WoW Shadowlands Cinematic Trailer



Thanks for tuning into Part Nine of my World of Warcraft experience. Getting ready to delve into Shadowlands, preparing for launch in November!
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23 thoughts on “FFXIV Player Reacts to WoW Shadowlands Cinematic Trailer”

  1. Helmet controls the undead from rampaging. It's the helm of domination. The helmet essentially gives the lich king his power and when it broke it essentially released the power to travel to the afterlife. The red guy is bolvar. He took on the crown to stop the scourge from rampaging after the lich king who killed sylvanas died. He got burned by dragon fire prior.

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  2. So there's a lot to unpack here. The broad strokes are that the Lich King that we all love to hate was Arthas Menethil (murderer of Sylvanas Windrunner among countless others) who was the final boss of the ultimate raid from Wrath of the Lich King, Icecrown Citadel. Upon his death Bolvar Fordragon, who was previously thought dead after the events at the Wrathgate ( https://youtu.be/Ch4rc5W4dKY ), volunteered to wear the crown and become the Lich King we saw here since there must always be a Lich King. Otherwise the scourge would be an uncontrolled threat (see the prepatch event). As for Sylvanas's crazy death powers throughout this expansion and her motivation to open the Shadowlands, the current state of the lore suggests that she first learned of the Shadowlands and the Jailer after, having achieved her goal of revenge on Arthas, killing herself by falling from the top of Icecrown Citadel and briefly seeing the afterlife. All of her antics since then have apparently been towards whatever end she has planned with the Jailer in Shadowlands.

    As for where to start for watching other videos I would highly recommend watching at least all of the trailers in order, and there are also several large compilations floating around for all cutscenes in a given expansion. There's also a 23 minute video called "The (almost) Complete History of World of Warcraft" ( https://youtu.be/EmhO1LldIQw ) which would give you a very basic but broad understanding of everything from the earliest Warcraft lore up to current events leading into Shadowlands.

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  3. The Lich King's and Sylvanas have a long history, it is probably the best story told in Warcraft going all the way to Warcraft 3. If I were you to better understand Sylvanas, it's best to watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtRMkhfs-z8&t=4021s so you get a full understanding of the Lich King, Sylvanas, and Proudmoore. When you have seen that video then its the Wrath of the Lich King Cinematic, followed by the Wrathgate cinematics, the fall of the Lich King Cinematics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4BCLP_sojs and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MUc-rQD8j0.

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  4. Your reaction videos are awesome!!

    OK. A lot to unpack here.
    The Lich King is a title not a name. The "helm of domination" is the source of the king's power. It was made by the big baddie from this expansion The Jailer as a control mechanism over the dead on Azeroth (and probably other planets). Without it, the mindless undead would just do what zombies do: bring about the apocalypse So the helm (worn by someone to wield it – a lich king) was the only thing holding back the undead from just rampaging.

    Icecrown Citidel (SO MUCH FUN TO RAID!!1!! sorry, i digress) was constructed by the Jailer as a gateway like thing and a baser of operations on Azeroth for him overseen by his Lich King wielding the sword Frostmourne to enslave souls of the living that he killed with it and the Helm of Domination which gave him the power to do it.

    The former Lich King, before the "usurper" was a former Prince of Lordaeron, Arthas Menethil. (Calia's brother) WAAAY back in Warcraft 3 was "tricked" into taking up the sword Frostmourne (well his vanity and ego was used against him, really) which slowly twisted his mind with the whispers of who we now know is the Jailer and led to the summit of Icecrown where he donned the helm, merged with the spirit of the helm (basically let the Jailer move in his mind with him) and became the titular Lich King.

    He then killed Syvannas and with Frostmourne turned her into an undead banshee and his slave. You saw that story in Warbringers: Sylvannas. So once free from his control, she wanted revenge.. And man did she go big. As Sylvannas does. She ended up freeing all the former humans of Lordaeron who had been killed and raised just like her and the became "The Forsaken"

    In the Lich King expansion, we kill the Arthas Lich King. Bolvar Fordragon, another noble from Lordaeron who assists the raid in killing Arthas had just been burned by dragonfire (long story) so he's all burned and fiery looking. Even though everyone back home thinks Bolvar died, in reality he was Infused with the magic of dragon fire. So as we all stand over Arthas's body, he volunteers himself to take the Helm of Domination and sit for eternity alone on top of that spire being a good guy and keeping the Scourge (undead army) from rampaging across the planet and forces everyone present to take a vow to NEVER tell anyone, not even his family, about what Bolvar did. He speaks those famous lines "There must always be… a Lich King."

    Sylvannas with her nemesis gone and no other reason to carry on throws herself off the citadel presumably to splatter herself on the stone below like the drama queen she is. Obvie, that didn't go as planned. The Jailer's hand-picked servant, Arthas had failed and been replaced by a… wait for it… usurper. So.. right from the very moment Bolvar took on the helm, BEFORE Sylvannas even had a chance to try and kill her undead self the Jailer already had a plan to fix it. So he unbeknownst to us at the time, saved Sylvannas as she was falling by some of his Valkyr struck a deal with her and set about the plan to… (deep breath)

    Kill Vol'jin, the Troll and quite popular and beloved warchief of the Horde.
    Install her as the new warchief
    Start a war between the Horde and Alliance by committing genocide of the Night Elves so that all the souls go to the Jailer, (her boss)
    Defeat his biggest competitor for universal power, the Old Gods (Void)
    and when the time was right:
    take the helm from Bolvar and rip open the veil and deliver Azeroth and it's Titan worldsoul to the Jailer to devour.

    That's where we're at! <3

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  5. If you want Legion to make sense you have to see all of them hahah I'm so sorry this game is literally so long and there is so much lore. For any of it to make sense you have to watch all of them. Bolvar is not the original Lich King, and there must always be a Lich King in order to control the balance of life and death on Azeroth. Bolvar was a paladin who sacrificed his life to control the scourge, being that he was such a great paladin and very in tune with the light he was able to keep control of the armor and the position of LK. By breaking the helm, she essentially killed the power of the Lich King, and therefore allowed the realm of life and death to converge. We all expected her to put it on. We were all in awe when she instead broke it.

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  6. "And I will set us all… Free."
    Still gives me goosebumps even after seeing it who knows how many times.
    Team Sylvanas for life. And beyond.

    Anyway, there's Shadowlands cinematics called "Afterlives" which are similar in style to the Warbringers ones.

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  7. As my fellow commentors suggest, all the cinematics are worth watching. The lore of world of warcraft is old and long, if you feel like you have some catching up to do i highly suggest the lore aficionado Nobbel87. He has basically all the relevant videos on every major and minor characters, storyline and timeline you will ever need. Definitely worth a check out.
    Also i like your reaction vids, keep up the great work.

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  8. I do recommend watching the Wrathgate in game cinematic and the Fall of the Lich King in game Cinematic. They are pretty dated and some of the first in game cinematics, but somebody did a remaster on them both and they are great.

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  9. As a former FFXIV player (and FF VI fan) FF story is linear and you will find amost all on game. WoW have books, games (Warcraft trilogy) and even a Movie (Warcraft movie its the setup of Warlords of Draenor visuals). Every ''new'' expansion have a lot of lore videos, a book and some small stories to setup everything. Sure, we dont have the (in)famous ''please take your time to watch 30+ minutes of cinematics'' but we have books, lol.

    BfA was the first expansion with heavy cinematic content and we hope Shadowlands will follow the recipe.

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