Hello everyone! Last week I did a Q&A about Legion and I talked about possible followers that might
show up in the expansion and while I stated that I don’t see faction leaders show up as followers,
I still suggested Muradin Bronzebeard as a follower. Mistakes were definitely made so it’s time
to take a look at the story of Muradin Bronzebeard, chosen to be fighting within the Nexus while
having an awesome story in Warcraft itself. From his time at Lordaeron all the way to
becoming a ruler of the dwarven clans, ladies and gentleman....I hope you’ll enjoy!
Muradin: "We Bronzebeards are known across the whole of Azeroth.
Me eldest brother Magni was King of Ironforge, wise and fair a ruler as ever been
And Brann, well, he's a renowned explorer, always finding secrets, bein' written about in Explorers' League Geographic.
With brothers like that, I'd feel a wee bit overshadowed...
if I didn't kick so much arse!
Alright, lads, line up! It's hammer time!
As you can tell from the trailer, Muradin is of the Bronzebeard clan and his family
has played some huge rolls within the storyline, but he himself is no push over. The first
time that Muradin shows up in the story line is during the first orcish horde invasion of
Azeroth. By the time that he makes an appearance, the orcs have already conquered a fair bit of the planet, but the
alliance of lordaeron they're pushing them back and they're pushing them hard. They managed to break the Horde at the
siege of Lordaeron forcing them to retreat all the way to the blackrock mountains and
along the way, the alliance decides to help out Ironforge. The massive city of the dwarves
is under constant assault by some of the orcish troops that were left in the area, they're pinned
down and this allows the horde to make full use of the resources in the land. As the Horde
keeps bashing on the gigantic doors of Ironforge, the Alliance flanked them from behind and
this was the moment the dwarves had been waiting for. The doors of Ironforge open up, they poor out and
together with the Alliance, they’re able to kick some serious orc butt and force them
out of their lands. Muradin and his brother Brann Bronzebeard thanked the Alliance for helping them
and they decide to join them to defeat the Horde once and for all. Together they’re able to save
the day, to save the planet, they close the dark portal and afterwards Muradin decides to become an ambasador for
the dwarves and join the alliance of Lordaeron at their capital city. He offered his advice,
he said what was on his mind outright and didn’t worry about whom it might offend.
The dwarf knew that some of the Alliance rulers found that combination distressing, but he
also knew that people like Terenas and Trollbane found it refreshing. One day as Muradin made
his way to the breakfast table, he lost his way again since the palace simply had too
many twists and turns and he couldn't remember the way. In one of the corridors he found young prince Arthas at the age of
12, with a wooden sword pointed at the throat of a suit of armor. Arthas was pretending
to fight a vile orc which refused to leave their Alliance lands and as Muradin watched, he
noticed how bad the prince was at fighting. His form was all wrong, swings too uncontrolled,
who in the world had been teaching this boy? As Arthas lost his grip on his weapon, he
noticed that the ambasador was watching and Muradin was as ambarassed for the boy as Arthas
was for himself. Muradin coughed and asked Arthas directions to his father, anxious to
leave the scene as he left the prince behind embarrassed and ashamed.
As the nobles tried to deal with the after math of the first horde invasion, the second
one was about to begin. Muradin offered his advice here and there, but he also decided
that Arthas’s training had been put off for far too long. After discussing it with Arthas's father,
king Terenas the second, Muradin told Arthas that he would become his teacher. He would teach Arthas
all that he knew, but if at any time Muradin would feel like he was wasting his time, like Arthas
was doing his best, the training was over. Arthas couldn’t believe that he would be
trained by a dwarf, and not just any dwarf, someone like Muradin. He was very exited, but learning
how to fight did not come easy. Arthas left the first dozen or so sessions bruised, bloodied,
and limping. He had stubbornly refused any offers of healing, insisting that the pain
was part of the process. Muradin had approved, and he had shown it by pressing Arthas all
the harder. Never did Arthas complain, not even when he wanted to, not even when Muradin scolded
him or pressed the attack long after Arthas was too exhausted to even hold up a shield.
And for that stubborn refusal to whine or to quit, he was rewarded twofold: he learned
and learned well, and he won the respect of Murdarin Bronzebeard. At the age of 14, Arthas
finished his training with Muradin, finally able to overcome his teacher. Though a strict
taskmaster, Muradin was someone of whom Arthas had grown terribly fond and Muradin was very proud of his student.
The next time that we see Muradin in the story line, a lot of things connected to Arthas happened.
A plague spread across the lands of Lordaeron turning its citizens into the undead.
Arthas made the decision to purge Stratholme, Malganys taunted the young prince to follow him to
the cold lands of Northrend. Arthas accepted the challenge, took some ships and he set
out to find the dreadlord and get his revenge.
Instead of finding the dreadlord though, in the cold heart of Northrend, he found his friend and mentor fighting against the undead...
Arthas was very happy to see his old friend again and he asked what Muradin was doing
all the way up in Northrend. Muradin explained that his people had always been interested
in rare items and Arthas recalled hearing something about Muradin helping to form the
Explorer’s league. The Explorer's league is an organisation dedicated to researching the origin of the Dwarves and
finding rare artifacts. The dwarves had been Northrend many times before, it’s an
oddly compelling land and doesn’t give up it’s secrets easily...which it makes it
so intriguing. Muradin explained that there’s some force growing in Northrend which he believes will not
be satisfied with just sitting in the cold land, he has a feeling that this power is also behind the
undead forces so they’re trying to discover what exactly is going on. Arthas explains
to Muradin what has happened back home, his people turning into the undead, the choices
he had to make but he didn’t tell Muradin about the details of what happened at Stratholme.
He wasn’t certain if Muradin would understand the awful necessity of what Arthas had been
forced to do. The dwarf explains that they’re searching for a runeblade called Frostmourne
and hearing the name makes Arthas certain that finding this blade and getting his revenge
is his destiny. It was no mere chance that he met Muradin in Northrend. He’ll help out the league to find Frostmourne and then the League in return can help him
against Mal’ganis. They worked on setting up a base, but back home King Terenas found out what his son had done and he did not agree with Arthas's choices.
Arthas betrayed his own men, betrayed the mercenaries that fought for him and naturally Muradin can’t
believe his eyes. This is not the same Arthas that he trained, that joined the order of
the silver hand, the future prince of Lordaeron. Was vengeance all that important to Arthas?
Frostmourne had been released from its prison and through it, Ner’zhul the Lich Kingwhispered to Arthas.
The Light had failed the prince, repeatedly, and Frostmourne was the only path to his revenge.
Muradin was simply a casualty of this awful war as Arthas took the blade and left his old friend and mentor behind.
And that’s where the story of Muradin ends...atleast for this week since next week we’ll continieu
the storyline and figure out how Muradin went from being left for dead by arthas in the
cave where he picked up Frostmourne, to rule over the Bronzebeard clan within the council of 3 hammers. For the moment,
thank you very much for watching everyone, I hope you enjoy the story so far. Subscribe
if you like my videos and until next time guys....see ya!